Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!

I finished Heated Rivalry. What am I supposed to do with all these feelings today (and until next season)?

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

I'm so appreciative that Jacob Tierney took the time to chat with me a few days before the #HeatedRivalry finale about finding the right cottage, those new end credits, his broad ideas for Season 2, and more:

If y'all have never watched Home for Christmas on Netflix I highly recommend it's a Norwegian TV series and each season is soooooo cute (especially this most recent one)

1) merry christmas!!!!! 2) it’ll pass

NEWS: D.C.'s CFO comes bearing gifts today. He's told the D.C. Council that there's $51 million in additional money from the last fiscal year (which ended Sept. 30), and that it will be used to pay for programs and items on the council's contingency list.

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PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW OPEN on prohibiting gender affirming care for young people. Flood 'em with comments! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

The DOJ lawyer who cleared the way for this abortion ban is Josh Craddock, a fetal personhood devotee who believes the 14th Amendment requires states to ban abortion. He also wants to revive the Comstock Act: ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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This is mob shit and they could try to use it on any other kind of medical care they don’t like. Abortion, birth control, childhood vaccines

The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a new set of rules attempting to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth nationwide. Take action and tell HHS: No bans on gender-affirming care.

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.

for no reason whatsoever, feels like a good day to promote this stellar, independent, local media

What does “fetal personhood” mean and how does it expand state power over pregnant people? In this recent #podcast, Karen Thompson at @pregnancyjust.bsky.social and Garin Marschall at @patientforward.bsky.social talk with us about viability, state involvement in pregnancies, and criminalization.

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Y'all, I love an aboriton victory as much as the next person, but please look at the facts, and realize that the very, very few abortion funds who are working with almost no resources and generally on volunteer labor are not helped by this false narrative that abortion is Europe is now sorted.

And if you are feeling generous this holiday season, please give (any amount, any currency) to your local abortion fund. @supportabort.bsky.social or www.supportingabortions.eu is a good start.

❌ Provide legal protection for people who self manage abortion with pills rather than travel to reach clinics Also there's a massive belly on this person, when we know more than 90% of all abortions take place prior to week 12, when most people aren't yet showing. #EndPreggoBelly

❌ Cover costs of travel and accommodation for people forced to travel within or outside their countries ❌ Make more countries provide abortion beyond the first trimester. Currently in Europe, there are SIX of those countries, and one is England, not part of the EU so not part of this fund.

But what the fund CAN'T do is: ❌ Make more doctors provide abortions (refusing care is the main obstacle to abortion in Europe) ❌ Make abortion legal or more accessible in ANY country (other than by possibly paying for abortions for whoever meets the criteris of whatever fund is created)

Miller isn’t even the first CPC director to serve in the Ohio State Legislature. Are there CPC directors in your state legislature? Reach out! I’d like to know.

The Netflix reality star has defeated the evil

Here's the Senators cosponsoring new S.3546 to FULLY REPEAL SECTION 230 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... @durbin.senate.gov (D-IL) Grassley (R-IA) @whitehouse.senate.gov (D-RI) Hawley (R-MO) @klobuchar.senate.gov Blackburn (R-TN) @blumenthal.senate.gov (D-CT) Moody (R-FL) @welch.senate.gov (D-VT)

This is no different than calling people warning that Roe v Wade was about to fall "hysterical"

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this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Really excited for the scrappy underdog Crimson Tide to take on the Indiana Hoosier powerhouse in the granddaddy of them all

you live in a world that feminists fought for, against brutal and overwhelming opposition, with blood, tears, and centuries of labor.

I haven’t seen Alabama come out flat like this since THE LAST GAME THEY PLAYED WHICH FOR SOME REASON THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF COMMITTEE PRETENDED DID NOT HAPPEN

Goodness gracious

The devil works hard but Jonathan Mitchell works harder: “A Waco justice of the peace who refused to marry same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit Friday that asks the courts to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges…Hensley is represented by Jonathan Mitchell.”

it is really hard to see this every day.

this is fucking terrible

everything we find out about this is worse and worse and worse

Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.

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🚨TAKE ACTION🚨 Yesterday, HHS announced TWO proposed rules that aim to severely restrict access to best-practice health care for trans youth. Starting today, the public has 60 DAYS to comment on the rules. Take action now: hrc.im/comment

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honk if you hate transphobes

They don’t want to win