Why, after years of scrutiny, isn’t there any evidence that large numbers of children were given irreversible treatments without assessment? “The journals are corrupt! And the doctors are corrupt! And the debate was suppressed! And the data is coming out any time now!” Like listen to yourselves

I don’t choose that word lightly. The idea that an entire field of medicine, as well as numerous academic journals, systematically suppressed evidence that gender-affirming care doesn’t work is a conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, none of these people can provide a shred of evidence for their core claim

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

At some point, maybe in the late 2000s or early 2010s, the Californian Ideology fully merged with fascism

I think I can honestly say that this panel from Uncanny X-Men #134 altered the trajectory of my life

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

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relatedly, this "frisson of transgression" thing convinces me that if Trump had gone to prison MAGA would have abandoned him wholesale

This, to me, is the root of it: the left is always going to be more stuffy, constrained and dogmatic because *the left believes that oppression exists and matters.* This is a turnoff to a certain sort of person who does not wish to believe this. But reality wins eventually.

The other side of this is, in some ways, actually the more interesting one: that conservative men have increasingly completely given up on even paying *lip service* to the idea being constrained by defined social roles, even when there are women who are amenable to that

If some Verso intellectual wants to write A History of Dubai: The Dystopian Global City as Late Capital Hyperobject (1966-2026) I promise to buy it and read the heck out of it

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Manipulation of prediction and stock markets is a hallmark of the Content Ward

A third sovereignty concern: your contractor is your ideological enemy, deeply embedded in government, with more resources than many nation states, and willing to use his power to undermine your policy goals. I don't think Dems have thought through if and how they would dislodge such contractors.

I find it bizarre that it's essentially impossible to find out what is actually happening in the ME right now, all we get are second-order effects like oil price spikes or media perceptions of perceptions like "image of US tomahawk missile massacring children might spell trouble for GOP in midterms"

Whatever happens, even miraculous Venezuela-like stability in Iran and/or Cuba, the end of US diplomacy as we knew it weakens the US. Diplomacy is a tool of power, we had the best, and we blew it up deliberately. These waters are plenty charted, and they are full of icebergs. 15/15

Americans have slowly forgotten that they owe their hegemonic status to a post-WWII military order that was restructured into a financial order in the 1990s, a hybrid of the two in the 2000s, and finally, totally wrecked by Trump in the 2020s

y'all ever wonder what itd be like if adam curtis were a 27 year old bronze age pervert fan

I read this in a Warren Zevon voice

*on antiques roadshow* I’m sorry…what?

It's forgotten history but in 1941 neutral Iran was invaded from the North by the USSR and from the south by Britain and the Shah was forced to abdicate, in order to create a secure supply line to support the Soviets against Nazi Germany /1

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

This is what intrusive thoughts sound like

An interesting counterfactual is "what if the Shah's White Revolution reforms succeed instead of blowing up in his face" but I think the answer is Iran either becomes a giant version of the other Gulf states (fuel concessions/parking lots for global capital) or is first carved up by Iraq & the USSR

I get the feeling Trump (if still alive) will be the lamest of lame ducks by the end of this year

Veterans of the Content Wars

The deep irony of course is that the US just moved the early warning radar from Asia to the Gulf, so if China wanted to, they could utterly crush the legacy of "Chiang/Chang" right now forever

I wish people would come to understand transphobia as systemic, structural, and pervasive so we could stop treating transphobia as explicitly limited to people saying "I hate trans people" and accept the way our society conditions us all to dismiss, diminish, and dehumanize trans people.

SpecOps Cmdnr Breighlynn-Kace lumbers ashore at Bandar Abbas, his Helmet Cam streaming the invasion for his billion followers; as he kneels in the footprints of Zoroaster and Umar to ask the blessing of Christ the Sicario for allowing this Blessed Apocalypse he's vaporized by a HESA Shahed 136

The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today

This might seem like a relatively obscure ruling but believe me when I say this has ramifications for all the AI co's, who each had "scrap/reform outdated 'copyright' laws" as a slide in their investor pitch decks

It's worth keeping in mind that the relatively short-lived energy crises of the 1970s were such a shock to the US that they permanently altered the trajectory of our politics and culture; Iran is threatening 100x that & it might be permanent

literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

US media right now is like “the Mohammedan curs are nearly brought to heel” and everywhere else it’s “shit’s fucked, buy gas now”

Noble of the US and Israel to create a war to, apparently, liberate the people of the Gulf states from their brutal authoritarian ruling regimes

If you pay attention to these prediction /sports markets you’ll notice they do everything possible to not pay out, especially on big wins. Just like a real casino

To everyone wondering why ships are holding up outside the Strait of #Hormuz right now, the reason is WAR RISK INSURANCE! Right now, every major Protection and Indemnity (P&I) Club is notifying their clients of the need for additional protection (AP).

You see, the shipping companies are not worried about incurring damage from the Iranians. They are worried about incurring damage that is not INSURED! The ships will sail once they garner the additional protection or they will seek out another port to load.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

Not a trivial thing to point out that Gaza, the Caribbean, Venezuela, and Mexico were early phases of the Content Wars, our new 20-year forever war

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Every single outlet that uncritically recites Israel's self-designation of "preemptive strikes" should be permanently shut down for good. Straight up. Definitionally no such thing as a "preemptive" attack when the country being attacked had no plan nor indication of planning to attack first.

What Hegseth doesn't know but Scouting America does is that a large portion of SA's membership is genderqueer and they don't advertise this fact b/c of idiots like him

Funny that the standard “AI will transform everything!!” mantra somehow isn’t supposed to apply to Our Glorious US Military and Its Authority Over All

PDFs are notoriously difficult for machines to parse, in part, because they were never meant to be read by them

🚨 AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture — and as a scientist, I worry about the long-term resilience of our research ecosystem. Our new piece in @commspsychol.nature.com with @profsanderlinden.bsky.social and Jon Roozenbeek: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

What this technology is going to do is not end higher education, but it is going to undo so much of the baseline work on accessibility by pushing overworked professors to take things back to offline modalities, in person timed exams, keeping tech out of the classroom, etc.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

think that "epistemic pessimism" is a major and untheorized political ideology issue. many of us subscribe to largely implicit notion of US electorate and media as being beyond redemption

Andrew Hickey's History of Rock Music in 500 Songs podcast is like the Mahabharata of pop culture, a huge cast of characters and their descendants from various families and regions, constantly allying with and turning on each other, with the session players as a kind of Greek chorus