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The trans community has become a political punching bag for the right wing, but they’re also the most vulnerable community out there, with the highest rates of depression, of homelessness, of suicide. The trans kids I know just want to fit in, whether it’s by playing sports or anything else.

The Endangered Species Act is US law. They've convened a group of people to determine when to break the law.

I’m no lawyer but I find it interesting that Christian conversion therapy practitioners have the right to tell kids they aren’t trans but those kids’ teachers apparently don’t have the right to say they are trans and people on the internet may not have the right to affirm them being trans either

This is *exactly* why social media becoming the primary news feed for individuals, but also forcing a character limit, is creating a toxic environment of "TLDR" responses. Journalism cannot viably exist in an environment where context is deliberately segregated into soundbites.

People only become aware of global supply chains when they break, so it's helpful to consider the alternative. Localism is a supply chain that breaks all the time and has no backup when it does. Pulling from the whole world smooths supply as much as it can be smoothed.

NEWS: We’re releasing new research today on who is leaving California, where they go, and what happens to their finances after they move. capolicylab.org/priced-out-r... 🧵(1/9)

Perhaps now more European news media journalists can openly acknowledge that the President of the United States is no longer sane

Here's the new electric vehicle you can buy for $8k in the USA

Insane. Under Bondi, the DOJ declined cases at a historic rate - dropping investigations into terrorism, white collar crime, union corruption, drugs, and more. All to focus on immigration enforcement. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Every accusation is a confession lmao

they try to explain it, but idk how the state can regulate talk therapy at all under this standard

i’m glad the Supreme Court said what we’ve all been thinking: lawyers should be in charge of medicine

The Court today says banning gay conversion therapy is viewpoint based as applied to licensed counselors. In Casey and other cases the Court upheld viewpoint based restrictions on medical personnel in the abortion context. Values not law.

Normal people, especially those not that interested in politics and who therefore may be actually be persuadable, don’t want to take 15 minute or longer message testing surveys

My gas and groceries are up 40%, my health insurance is up 50%, and the president is covering up an elite pedophilia ring. But at least there won't be trans athletes competing in a 2028 Olympic sport that I won't be watching.

I cannot understate what a terrible, hateful, harmful idea this is. We all knew the thin veneer of “open markets! Capitalism!” for the GOP was gone, but now they’re not even pretending. This is a direct shot at small businesses, the lifeblood of the economy, for no legitimate reason.

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

okay so this what I'm talking about when I question Platner's dedication to his current progressive talking points.

A very sobering and worrying piece.

Wherein I write about the step beyond Google Zero and imagine the AI information ecosystem collapse: mattdpearce.substack.com/p/who-really...

If you’re looking to donate just a little to a political candidate, Peltola is easily the best value per $ in the country

Managing visitation at national parks through capacity controls is absolutely critical to protecting them for future generations.

A record-setting marine heat wave has formed off Southern California, and the next few weeks may determine whether it fades or deepens into summer.

More bad news for climate monitoring. Much like the fiasco with satellite derived sea ice info last summer, the very short notice of termination of a product that’s been available for decades has real world consequences. #Arctic #SeaIce

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

How marginal taxes work

You need to pay for news

I think we are going to see a surge in road violence as baby boomers age out of driving but refuse to stop driving because if you can't drive in North America you have no independence and if you listen to them, they'll tell you that they didn't work hard as adults just to retire to a gilded prison.

We need a vehicle weight tax. If you can justify buying an $80k, 3,000 kg Wagoneer to haul one bag of groceries, taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing your pavement wear and tear plus the added danger to our streets. If you can afford the payments, you can afford to stop asking society to subsidize it.

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

clear eyes full hearts no kings

San Diego just gave us the best reveal of No Kings Day. #NoKings

This is especially important now that we're dealing with Medicaid paperwork requirements because it's so difficult to document gig work (which is disproportionately performed by Black and Hispanic workers, who are in turn more vulnerable to falling through the cracks and losing health coverage).

we focus a lot on how these are galvanizing events for the good guys but don’t sleep on how demoralizing they are for the bad guys, too

Really is telling just how much normies engaging in political action with others—outside & public—makes so much of the "shitposting = politics" online left just irrationally angry

Great job GOP

In other words, the internal assessment of the U.S. government is that we are losing.

Corporate ownership of single family house rental Discourse makes me insane because none of the neo-Brandeisians are willing to come out and say "I think that lower middle class SFH renters should be evicted and forced to live in apartments so that upper middle class families can buy those houses."

Manufacturing-related construction spending is down -15.0% from a year ago.

well. I guess we Made Iran Great Again after all

It gets a lot easier to have no sympathy SBF’s parents when you remember they were active participants in their son’s crimes

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

this is not true and the Attorney General of all people should not be saying it