This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

This is an enraging, heartbreaking story.

the goal is to make people beg them for care. if you are their people, you get care. if not you are "fraud" and you disappear or die. And yes of course it is unspeakably cruel.

Remember, john roberts' logic for weakening the medicaid expansion was that it was "too coercive" to give the states money to pay for medicaid. bsky.app/profile/apne...

I'm glad to see accountability for academia's bad apples. But I also hope that resignations like this one won't be the end of the story. Because we still need to reckon with how the structures and cultures in "elite" academia have created ripe conditions for rot. 1/🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Trump's "joke" at the expense of the US women's hockey team makes it abundantly clear that his (and others') attacks on trans athletes have absolutely nothing to do with "protecting women in sports." www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/s...

Breaking news: The Pentagon’s top general has cautioned President Trump from an attack on Iran, saying that shortfalls in critical munitions and a lack of support from allies will add significant risk to the operation and to U.S. personnel.

Trump: "I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that?" U.S. Women's Hockey Team: “We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal–winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement."

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

In LUPE v. Abbott, a federal appeals panel of three Republican judges insisted that voter fraud is a huge problem that states have every right to solve by punishing voters and the people who assist them citation is...very much needed ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Chicago just named a snowplow "Abolish ICE" — here are the other winners: blockclubchi.co/4b6zwaQ

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

sacrificing teeth bc of toxic masculinity (aka the men won’t wear full masks bc that’s for girls) 🤌🏼

So the women’s team only inspires the next generation of girls to play hockey but the men’s team inspires all Americans, got it got it got it.

Republican politicians killed this man.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO

Exhibit A of what @zingherpolisci.bsky.social is talking about. Here is the @nytimes.com today: Not a single word in the headlines (or in some of these articles) about how extraordinarily unhinged that press conf was. It’s not just sanewashing. It’s straight up lying to the American people.

The most chilling, because plausible, paragraph in today's papers. (From WSJ www.wsj.com/politics/nat... ) Saving face and soothing his always-wounded ego, by launching a war—with zero Congressional approval or public explanation or support.

here's my summary of the six land use, housing, and zoning reforms that Governor Pritzker and six legislators introduced on Wednesday. www.stevencanplan.com/2026/02/okay...

All the people failing to understand that the tariff ruling is a win for corporations and that win just happened to give Trump a bad day are going to make me despair. You don't need to cheer on the architects of another win for corporations just because Trump got mad about it for a couple hours.

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

"The architect of the current Court — the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo — was behind the litigation that undid the tariffs. That tells you all you need to know."

She's baaaaaaack !!! We're a little over an hour away from the return of Angel Reese to Rose BC and @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social 🌹🌹 #Unrivaled

NEW: The Utah Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed GOP lawmakers appeal of a trial court’s ruling that they had unconstitutionally repealed anti-gerrymandering reforms enacted by voters in 2018. campaignlegal.org/sites/defaul...

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

🚨 BREAKING: In a decisive victory for voters, the Utah Supreme Court upheld a fairer congressional map for the 2026 elections — dismissing the GOP Legislature’s appeal and securing a district where Democratic voters can meaningfully compete.

Here is the entire syllabus 1/2

'The mandate implicates state education funds are for common schools and for nothing else,' the justice wrote." KY voters rejected vouchers in 2024. The Supreme Court reaffirms that using taxpayer dollars for schools that evade public oversight are unconstitutional.

If you, like me, have Peacock for a limited time so you can watch the Olympics and Paralympics, give yourself the gift of watching We Are Lady Parts as many times as possible before you cancel your subscription. We Are Lady Parts. Just over and over again. Your life will improve.

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

Hey if you're excited about women's sports, may I remind you that the Professional Women's Baseball League launches this summer! #WPBL

lesbians > desbiens imo

I’m so happy for the U.S. women and so crushed for the a Canadian women. What a great game. EVERYONE WATCH THE PWHL NOW AND YOU CAN KEEP WATCHING ALL THESE PLAYERS GO AT IT!

THE USA PLAYED IT LIKE A GOLD MEDALIST 🥇 Congratulations to the 16 PWHL players who will be bringing home the gold with Team USA!

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A large banner of Donald Trump was hung outside of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, emphasizing the White House’s control over the nation’s top law enforcement branch that once pursued criminal prosecutions against the president. https://cnn.it/4cBCqW7

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

Trump v. United States is an illegitimate decision.

The rise of the far right is not a problem unique to the US. Our elite impunity problem, however, seems to be on an order of magnitude worse than a lot of our peers.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Just like the narratives around trans rights and racial justice, this framing constructs "activists" as unreasonable, radical and holding all the power. "Do you know how mean fat activists are if you lose weight?" Do you know how mean everyone else is if you don't?!

🚨New publication alert!🚨 Jails are a prominent piece of the US carceral state, yet we often lump them in with prisons and (falsely) assume that they follow similar trends for mass incarceration. In this piece, we unpack what we lose when we conflate jails and prisons and trace jails' unique role.

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

Two decades after a small Duke breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive — a rare outcome for metastatic disease. When researchers looked closer, they found the women’s immune systems still carried “memory” cells that recognised the cancer. buff.ly/MNeRhJh #ShareGoodNewsToo

it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric