I'm seeing a lot of hurt and fear from my trans friends on here, so let me just say: @distributeaid.org and I have your back. We're not afraid to materially support trans folks, especially in the south where most of our work happens.

the function of the state is to protect the oppressors from the oppressed

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

They are starting out with the politically cheapest targets (i.e. all the topics and users that Karen wants to ban) just to make sure the censorship is feasible. In the not-so-distant future, people will wake up to an Internet that spouts nothing but war propaganda, and they will have no idea why.

Die Faschischierung schreitet Schritt für Schritt voran. Jeden Tag. Auf alle Ebenen. Fight Back!

I love everyone saying the dems should use this soundbite, as if 75% of the dem party doesn’t think this exact same thing

CBO estimate on Golden Dome: "A national missile defense system possessing capabilities broadly consistent with those outlined in the executive order would cost about $1.2 trillion to develop, deploy, and operate for 20 years" www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Which is obviously horse shit and just them hiding their transphobia because we KNOW the damage blocking access for children does, but so much of the national discussion is just outright bigotry and hatred towards trans folks and GOP folks in NJ know they can't get away with it. That's nice to see

One thing that I also think is worth noting is that the political climate in NJ--while not perfect--is so different from the national discussions on trans rights that even the Republicans quoted have to go "I fully support trans rights and trans people existing...I just worry about the children"

Headline sucks but yeah, glad to be in NJ like usual. This essentially takes a bunch of stuff Phil Murphy did to ensure protections for trans patients and providers in an executive order and makes it the law of the land, once it clears two more steps that seem pretty certain to happen.

It's surprising how quickly Sanders has been taken the existential risk bait. It took less than a year for him to start doing events with Hinton and Tegmark. He should perhaps pause to consider how groups like FLI are so well-resourced, and what political function x-risk narratives serve.

Eigentümlich.

Wer kennt sie nicht, die Geschichten von Bürgergeldbeziehenden, Obdachlosen, Asylsuchenden, prekär Beschäftigten und Saisonarbeiter:innen. Die deutschen Leitmedien sind überfüllt damit, während Selbstständige, Unternehmer und die kollektivsingularische Wirtschaft nur per Samisdat kommunizieren kann.

genuinely i think so much of the bastardization of the word "fascism" comes down to the fact that ppl misusing it are libs who cannot come to terms with how violent and unjust liberalism is

Bees?

Do you not know Alex, who called the police on 2 of her constituents when they asked her about her voting on Palestine, her membership of the LFI and on Gaza generally?

One day medical misogyny is going to cause a superspreader event, if it hasn't already. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Despite certain quislings, patriarchy and transness are incompatible; our existence debunks and invalidates the patriarchal account of sex and gender. We can only be punished, marginalized, exterminated - we cannot be recuperated. We are a thorn patriarchy cannot swallow, lest it be torn apart.

Last week, the Trump administration explicitly stated its intention to "neutralize" - its word, not mine - US trans people. Since then I can count on one hand the number of cis people who have even mentioned it. A whole bunch of cis people have talked about trans people demanding too much though.

it’s hilarious to me that even something that could be spun as left wing like nationalizing a company, starmer chooses a completely right wing framing around the strong nation as messaging

as someone who worked on bg3, I fully agree - it's so utterly hypocritical how these platforms treat sex and eroticism - they want to make bank off big releases (and payment processors conveniently look the other way when this happens!) but strangle entire swathes of content from indies

Grand Theft Cow: Brandenburg

Increase a band Radiohead, -schoulder, -knees and -toes

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

“I provide a lot of money to […]blue collar workers” is the funniest shit to say. we really need to make the capital class afraid again.

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Someone accused me of using AI to write my books because I expressed an interest in an OCR thing, a technology that's been around for decades.

gerne weiterverbreiten. illan pappe hat nie solche sachen gesagt. wird aber als unseriös abgekanzelt während morris angeblich ausgewogen, seriös, genozidal,... ist

dieses Zitat von ihrem eigenen Helden Benny Morris fand das "münchner linke Bündnis gegen Antisemitismus" blockwürdig:

I'm going to Lisbon next month! Would really appreciate recommendations from the Portuguese and well-travelled among you of places to eat or dishes to order that don't contain anything that will kill me (finned fish, crustaceans, molluscs). Appreciate the fish allergy is a pain in Portugual lol

The walls in Pompeii are frequently covered with inscriptions: these are electoral propaganda messages that urge the citizens to vote for candidates. They are written in red or in black and mostly in capital letters. There are around 3000 electoral inscriptions in Pompeii. #EpigraphyTuesday

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as a tribute to douglas adams, however, the UK elected a vogon as their prime minister.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

#Hanta #Eigenverantwortung #self-isolation #home-isolation Didn't work Doesn't work Will never work That's why quarantine was invented in the first place - cause there is always the one "rear part" of a human being that believes rules are for all others The proof is in the pudding

www.oxfordstudent.com/2018/10/26/t... Henry Wimbush, documented here, sorry longer than 5 years

Some of these people are key parts of Wes Streeting's approach to trans youth healthcare by the way if anyone was on the fence about him

5th and 6th July the anti trans conversion therapy group SEGM under its front "CAN-SG" will be running a conference on "rethinking Youth Gender Medicine" featuring NHS clinicians alongside Stephen Levine (the quack used by the Trump administration to run many anti trans healthcare bills) as well as

naja bei sozialpolitik wollen sie ja auch politik von vorgestern

this is, btw, the way most american storytelling works, and is instructive about how americans do actually see the world. non-americans don’t really matter except as NPCs in a character building arc for american soldiers or tourists etc

In essence ME is just not interested in the type of social questions you want to raise while playing it because it's not sociological sci-fi, and barely psychological sci-fi, it's vibes sci-fi.

I think the writers didn't really give much of a shit about the politics of asking a species you have been genociding for a millenium to join you in a war against exterminism. The genophage is framed as a harsh but good lesson that opens a redemption arc for both Krogan and Salarians, that's all.

It's not a contradiction but Mass Effect's writing mostly felt apathetic to me, and it left me apathetic. The Krogan genocide is a good example in the sense that, you're told about it, and you can react to the fact that it's bad, but you're only ever shown mean and bad Krogan, so who cares really.

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

it's something which has always been true and everyone has known but there's something really grotesque about politicians just openly telling everyone this is really just about their own self-actualisation

Cereal yields in Ghana have increased much faster over the past decade— Crop yields across Africa have lagged far behind the rest of the world — the regional average is around 2.5 times lower than the global average.

I have no clue what else to say . I can’t work, waiting on disability and losing my car will make things 100 times more difficult.My disabled son won’t be able to go to his therapies,I have to figure out how to get my kids to school ,I can’t help my elderly dad and I have to figure out so much more

German Israel discourse in a nutshell: Central Council for Jews in Germany awards a prize to a racist, reactionary comedian and this comment section is full of shocked and outraged Germans who are ideologically incapable of accepting that Israel is a right-wing project with right-wing supporters.

For instance, it is true to say that conversion practices are banned in France, HOWEVER 1. the law has an exception for people "recommending patience on transition", which is not defined and could concern therapists effectively trying to induce desistance, and 2. the law is often not applied.

Remember that ILGA's report is only based off of nominal rights, and not applied legislation. This matters for cases like Finland, where on paper trans rights are very accepted, but the realities of trans care are very bad.