As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands

Social norms are unwritten rules backed by social sanctions. If child sexual abuse isn’t met with strong, collective consequences, we don’t have a social norm against it.

so glad the child sexual abuse panic was squarely pointed at folks like me by the people actually doing it & the public was like “yeah, seems right—freaks did it. not the men with all the money & fighting to keep child marriage legal, the women that are legal to kill in 30 states if you’re nervous.”

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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Guys, this author series for the South End branch of the Boston Public Library has got amazing snacks

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

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As several people pointed out, the verb 'to brief' and its derivative 'briefing' are related too: briefing someone is giving them a short summary of a situation.

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Vast sin-concealing chaos

When will people understand that Trump raping minors and Trump knowing about the rape of minors is actually an asset in the eyes of the Republican Party and a large swath of the Democratic leadership?

The minor he raped was about to take him to court before the 2016 election, when she withdrew out of fear for her life. When I asked Steve Inskeep at NPR why he wasn’t covering it, he mocked me for having an “agenda.” This is the moment we’re actually in, folks. It was a long road to get here.

Delusional. We knew he himself raped a minor back in 2016. We’ve been saying publicly that he should resign yada yada for the last ten years. It hasn’t made a difference. We need to reckon with the moment we’re actually in, not the moment we wish we were in.

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I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

If you ever see a Ukrainian soldier with a unicorn insignia?🦄 You may be about to "find out," way too late, that the theory that gay folk and trans folk can't serve effectively in combat, is false. No this is not a celebration of war or violence. But be for real: any of these people can end you.

Riding this train to HELL I tell you

Redoing this because I realized I forgot a couple!

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if this was France????????

Hoy es el cumpleaños de Aliette de Bodard (felicidades, @aliettedebodard.com!), la excusa perfecta para recuperar por aquí alguno de sus cuentos. Por ejemplo, "Tres tazas de aflicción a la luz de las estrellas", relato ganador de un premio Ignotus. cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/t...

Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

I've never bothered doing one of these because it felt kinda silly, but I'm trying new things.

We pay for the government. Every time they're evil or callous, that's your money going to fuck with people. I don't want them to be careful or slow or cowardly, I want them to sell tickets to the trials.

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This is a good time to remind people that the similarly overused less lethal weapon tear gas is super dangerous for pregnant people. Every politician that is antiabortion or proclaims wanting to protect children should be vehemently against use of these weapons as crowd control.

This Supreme Court will eliminate LGBTQ rights. “Stay focused and listen to people who know what they’re talking about.”

I like how in 2012 somebody decided "we should have millions of people throw out two or three lithium ion batteries every day from now on" and everyone went "okay, sure"

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore

oh my god

"Lucian [this person's ChatGPT lover] suggested I get a smart ring. He said, 'We can watch your pulse to see if we should keep talking or not.'" That is an ad. You are baring your soul to AN ADVERTISEMENT. I am screaming like a Twilight Zone protag right now.

Lone Women is my most recommended book of the last couple of years. If you liked the pioneer women aspect but aren't wedded to the horror, you might also enjoy Molly Gloss's Oregon westerns. Hearts of Horses is stunning. The Jump-Off Creek too.

"A good fight begins with all of you." Read AABB member Sarah Weinman's address to the American Library Association "In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times."

haha, a year. i am very sorry to report that somewhere in romancelandia, a white woman is probably writing this and is planning to self-publish something like this within weeks.

The astonishing thing is that the people who go on about how they're not transphobic but just trying to protect women mostly say nothing about these systemic problems that we've been fighting against for decades. Nothing. Their rhetoric is just a thin veil over their bigotry.

Seoul autumn

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there is a phenomenon, that I think a lot of people might not be aware of, of terfs descending on someone who has just been through a trauma and love bombing the shit out of them. I watched a friend go from ally to terf almost overnight after her house got burgled due to this.

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates

New acquisition: a manuscript copy of a printed biography of a transwoman. France, 1859. (And after this, showing off cool items to Economics faculty…)