One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

Linguistic usage has always been political. Here is an excellent example of politicians fighting over the usage of linguistic gender. In an attempt to legislate preferred gender pronoun and title usage, Republicans accidentally tried to ban their own preferred pronouns and titles. Er...what? 🤔

This graphic (and concept) is ridiculously wrong.

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This is the level of understanding of pronoun use among GOP legislators. No joke.

People who are willing to compromise the bodily autonomy of one group will do it for all other groups until it doesn’t exist at all and they won’t care because they never actually believed in it in the first place

I think Ezra Klein is trying to find a government sanction niche for himself within fascism that can create the facade of political opposition while accepting the Party line

Let’s be real. If the student debating Kirk had been shot and killed, MAGA would be celebrating the assassin and rallying to pay his legal fees with Trump leading the way by using dehumanizing language to describe the victim. And media conglomerates would have been just fine with this.

Agreeing to this would mean these are no longer “press credentials” but rather “partisan credentials.”

GOP: We are putting forward a proposal to ban the use of all pronouns. Dems: Um…we all use pronouns. GOP: Oh. Withdrawn.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Trump’s second election was the death knell for neoliberalism. The only way to save our country from fascist populism is for a socialist populist alternative

I have long been a critic of BICS and CALP but is probably the worst depiction of it I have seen. The biggest problem is the assumption that art is less cognitively demanding than science. But even if you buy that “calling someone on the phone” could be to talk to them about a science experiment.

It should also be noted that the first lady had a H-1B visa for several years. I feel like she should have to retroactively pay for that now.

This is bad but also is not a problem AI as invented. Doctors routinely dismiss the severity of symptoms among female patients and display less empathy toward Black and Asian ones. AI simply reflects the biases of the society that created it.

What used to be called “cancel culture” was being trolled by random eggs on twitter. What is now happening is that the government has now become that random egg

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If only Chuck Schumer were in a position to do something about it. Oh wait…

Stephen Colbert: "Nexstar has a major merger coming up before the Trump administration. A company apparently capitulating to the whims of the president in order to ensure their merger goes through? Has that ever happened before? I'm being told not to answer that question."

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“Left did cancel culture and now right is doing it.” No, right framed and named cancel culture (fighting against the monopolisation of speech by the repressively powerful) and have now appropriated it for the purpose of actively repressing the powerless and silencing dissent *against the powerful*.

Who could have ever predicted that the Jesuits, who were once prominent leaders in the Marxist inspired liberation theology movement, would eventually make the case that unions violate their religious beliefs

It’s interesting how the same people who have been trying to convince us that college students heckling conservative speakers invited to their campuses were somehow violating their free speech are suddenly cool with the Trump administration literally criminalizing the speech of its political critics

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"...a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." FDR 1938

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

I don’t have Hulu or Disney+ but I highly encourage anybody who does to cancel them. We have to show these companies that caving to fascism is bad for business

College students: We do not believe fascists should have a platform to express unchallenged opinions on our campus. MAGA: OMG. Cancel culture is destroying free speech. Trump administration: Anybody who opposes us will be fired from their jobs and possibly arrested. MAGA: Sounds good.

ABC just suspended Jimmy Kimmel after Trump’s FCC chair threatened affiliates. This isn’t about “offensive comments.” It’s the state deciding who can joke, who can speak. Once rulers censor comedians, the collapse of free speech isn’t a forecast - it’s here.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

As someone who identifies racist & ableist dehumanizing approaches to policy for a living, this is breathtaking. Like an actual breath of fresh air.

The right: We must condemn all political violence! Also the right: Indiscriminately murdering people we suspect are undocumented immigrants is just fine.

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In all the talk about Charlie Kirk, there’s not been nearly enough discussion about murders and suicides of LGBTQIA+ people—especially youth. Kirk and his allies targeted that community, stoking hate, misunderstanding, and radicalization.

I have never been a proponent of criminalizing hate speech precisely because of the ways that such efforts could easily been coopted by fascists as a way of criminalizing political dissent.

The Trump administration demanding that UCLA screen international students for their political opinions and deny the existence of trans people is a fascist move plain and simple

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We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

Those who have recently been condemning political violence who are fine with federal agents being able to murder somebody with impunity solely because he is Mexican are actually just fine with political violence as long as it is not directed at white men

This AI-fication of government feels like an episode of Black Mirror

Agreed and while nihilism has always been core to a particularly ugly white populism in the US, I think we are seeing a new reconfiguration that is emerging within the context of the collapse of the neoliberal political order and the reemergence of global fascism alongside the rise of social media.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Do it, California! "Supporters of the proposal said it would effectively create a state version of the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, two of the nation’s largest institutional funders of scientific and public health research."

Hmmm…I wonder who “our” is referring to here and why they think a US citizen being murdered by the police is something that is not theirs 🤔

Anybody who thinks American campuses lack disagreement and debate has clearly never been to a faculty meeting where people will debate literally everything