The A-Team

Since the IOC has created a rule for trans athletes to compete in 2003, over 81,000 people have become Olympians. Out of those 81,000 Olympians a total of 2 have been trans women & one came dead last the other came 37th out of 42. youtu.be/B8CzqxhZk7I?... www.transresearch.org.au/post/trans-w...

In the event of an emergency, your liver can be used as a flotation device

I just donated to Trans Lifeline. The Trans community has been under attack for years now, it keeps getting worse, and they need help.

i think some pro-AI people are also taken aback by what feels like the sudden implication that they’re not cool when they’ve been told the last couple of years how they’re on the cutting edge and anyone who didn’t get on board would end up looking like a loser when maybe it’s the other way around

One of the oddest side effects of recent Google updates is that article stubs have started using comments in summaries instead of the lede. And this is very, very bad.

When I first started using DuckDuckGo a few years ago it was not as good as Google search. It’s now far better than Google search. Unfortunately this is mostly because Google search has gotten way, way worse, not because DuckDuckGo has gotten so much better.

You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

Trans people: we're about to be genocided by the US government GOP: Awesome, can't wait Centrists: Thoughts and prayers Liberals: It's your fault because you are a wedge issue and support Palestine Leftists: It's not a real genocide like Palestine is

This is just awful. We have to have each other's backs in the face of this kind of hate. If you're able, please consider chipping in to help with Jey's expenses. If you're not in a position to do that, please signal boost.

That's right, Hegseth, they're completely irrelevant. You absolute moronic sot.

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

To be clear. Donald Trump has no intentions of leaving the presidency. He wants a ballroom that is 100% bullet proof and is paying his criminal gangs so they will be at the ready on Election Day. This is going to get physical and ugly. It’s predictable like everything else.

Sarah is such a light in these times and deserves your support if you're able. Her knowledge, incredible writing, and humor are just what more people need to read.

Not to mention the heritage foundations statement back in 2017 that they were going to try and use trans issues as a wedge to crack open gaps in human rights activism.

I was going to say this is crazy but it’s not. There is a book by a medical sociologist called Dying of Whiteness about the supremacist politics some voters choose over their own lives (literally) & now we have a government that is using the same logic to make national policy.

I would love to know why people are willing to go along with the idea that it's fine for a president to keep his tax returns secret because it might destroy him if they're revealed.

Eugene Vindman, Virginia Democrat who praised LGBTQ+ inclusion is now helping Republicans out trans kids www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

This is truly horrific to me.

intolerance in the land of the free

jfc, I was 95% convinced that political trump I was a 'postmortem" Andy Kaufman/Tony Clifton bit, but I eventually gave up the ghost because I also knew what an absolute dunderheaded shit trump has always been.

As a linguist, this has been me almost every day since they changed it in like 2014 We could have had the greatest linguistic corpus tool at our fingertips at all times But instead we just have a quasi-broken marketing-spyware echo chamber

As if he supported the trans community before lol He's always been the kind of guy who will do the PR stuff but not step up on trans issues where it matters

This is like trying to drill for oil through the ruins of Pompeii. Chaco canyon is one of the most significant native archeological sites in the United States. Absolutely disgusting to even propose it

BREAKING: RJ Reynolds, one of the largest U.S. tobacco companies and maker of Camel and Newport cigarettes, donated $5 million to Trump. Days later, company executives reportedly met with him at Mar-a-Lago to push for looser flavored vape regulations, after which the FDA changed policy, per NYT

Stephen Colbert aired his final show last night after Paramount fired him to appease Trump. The Ellisons are now eyeing Warner Bros — and Trump is eager to give it to them. His takeover of the media is happening in broad daylight. Here's what we can do about it.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

It’s not a powerful position when it no longer has any independence. Warsh will do whatever Trump wants, no matter how dumb or corrupt. That’s not power. That’s subservience.

"Sanctuary cities" hosting the World Cup this summer: New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

Wyoming: U.S. attorney nominee confirmed despite anti-LGBTQ history, no trial experience www.washingtonblade.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

new levels of despicableness

"I first want to extend my support and understanding to trans people" followed in the same thread by "those that wish to exclude trans men and women from their spaces also need to know how to do so without breaching individual rights to privacy." Labour all over. Genociding while saying #ally

1. Trump gets us mired in an illegal and costly war 2. Trump uses this as a pretext to roll back common sense climate rules Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

totally on-brand

AMERICA CAN'T AFFORD TO HELP HOMELESS VETERANS, BUT THEY CAN AFFORD TO PAY VIOLENT CRYBABIES WHO BEAT COPS?

@erininthemorning.com did a great piece on those sites. www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check...

A profoundly untalented woman skateboarder who routinely scored lower 8 year old girls in large competitions made herself a C-list right wing celebrity after getting second place to a trans woman in a three woman field at a small contest that Red Bull sponsored in the Midwest. They’re all like this.

Another thing that gets missed is that between Nixon and Trump, every major party candidate released his tax returns when running for office *and* every sitting president and vice president had their taxes audited by the IRS with the results released. I wrote about this nearly a decade ago:

As the UK works on a trans bathroom ban, a reminder that such policies are hate-based, not evidence-based: open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...

The future of energy is being decided now. "The US is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. We're going to go down with the fossil fuel ship, and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate." [kottke.org]

*This*… is what we're putting every single resource on the planet into? Breaking things that used to work very well thankyou?

This juxtaposition of headlines perfectly captures how MAGA oligarchic fascism really works. Trump loots our country to enrich himself, while persuading his paramilitary street thug wing that his corruption and self-dealing are in their interests, because they get a cut of the spoils.

The bubble will burst, and both Republicans and Democrats will demand that we, the people, bail out these sociopaths.

h/t to Ken Freedman at #wfmu Mildred Bailey | "When That Man is Dead and Gone" (1941) We've got a date To celebrate The day we catch up with that one man spreading hate His account is overdrawn And his chances are in pawn Some fine day the news will flash

Finally got around to watching Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965), the prescient low-budget sleaze #noir cult favorite. There's been ample discussion of it on bsky (I did a search) and numerous comparisons to Peeping Tom, Psycho, Taxi Driver, et al. I'll posit that Blast of Silence (1961) is another...

Of course the idiots in charge haven't thought this through at all. If Cuba goes the way of Haiti, it will not only cause regional instability, but also one of the largest humanitarian disasters in the Americas in modern times. So many innocent people are going to suffer.

And this is the problem. There is a gigantic gap between the top of the Democratic Party, where the big donor money is, and the base, where the thermonuclear outrage is. Democrats elites are nearly always ready to compromise. They don't want a media infrastructure that makes compromise problematic.