Absolutely this. It's fascism when they want to force trans people off of hormones. It's fascism when they want to force cis people on to hormones. These two are not contradictory position for them. It's all just fascism.

From Matt Yglesias. Political scientist here, and I'm speechless. Like, a guy who sat through one lecture on the spatial model of voting and called that good enough for a pundit career?

Fresh off of making the worst Orwell adaptation imaginable, now he comes out with this nonsense. I don't think I'll be watching this crap, either. Fuck this guy.

We fucking warned you assholes, but cis people were more interested in seeing trans people hurt than considering where to the Right would obviously go next. I'll be fascinated to see the reaction from the Democrats who masked their anti-trans bigotry in "legitimate concerns" about women's sports

Good morning, my friends. I am happy to share this beautiful story by Fawaz Al-Matrouk with you. I was lucky enough last year to be in the right place at the right time to hear him read this story. And I knew I had to share it with you, dear readers. Enjoy! reactormag.com/alien-boy-fa...

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can EVADE the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

Maybe Prof Jacobs should have gone public about that at the time?

Ana Kasparian reads this awful tweet from Ryan Grim and says "I agree with him."

Ana Kasparian: I am concerned that trans women because of feminism. Also Ana Kasparian:

the fuck

"In the 1985 book No Sense of Place, the media theorist Joshua Meyrowitz observed that [with] TV and other electronic media.. Voters began to focus on 'dating criteria' instead of 'résumé criteria'. He predicted that [decline of print media] would ultimately push people toward populist leaders." 1/

In her "Parable" books, Octavia E. Butler predicted a decline in literacy and that political candidates would be chosen based on how they look.

as a palate cleanser, here's a few weird @alyankovic.bsky.social pics I shot last night

This hands across the aisle shit needs to fucking die. You are reaching out to monsters and murderers. You need to be shitcanned. We are fighting for our lives and you’re calling it a fucking disagreement you absolute ghouls.

I have accepted my role in society

*blowing cigarette smoke right in the face of everyone who just woke up to the news* "We already did all the jokes"

<taps mic> <all together now> <John Facenda voice>

With these sorts of cries of 'fascists are secretly gay', read Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies (vol. 2, p. 339) for a far more interesting interpretation: fascists replace sexual freedom and dismantling of social norms with the psychosexual compulsion to must do what is forbidden, but also obey

just going to reiterate that Platner was never going to win. He was a terrible candidate and there were probably even more ugly revelations that would have come out in a general election campaign. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ds-finally...

Here's a suggestion for your Sunday: Historian Margaret MacMillan on Trump, Putin, and the End of the Liberal World Order youtu.be/93CxFtM3VlQ

lotta folks are going to get extremely & very uncreatively homophobic about lindsey graham being dead & i think it’s important to remember you can simply celebrate the fact a warmongering bigot is dead without being shitty. drink some champagne! go for a nice walk! fuck your loved ones about it!

Weekend Update, starts with the notable and strategically important Ukrainian campaign to stop all Russian shipping in the Sea of Azov. This is not receiving the coverage it deserves. Also, Trump did not help Ukraine, he gave Putin time. And Ukraine attack Omsk-wow. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Lindsey Graham has passed away after a brief illness, his office told me tonight. The longtime senator and staunch Trump ally had just returned from Ukraine. Will have more in a story soon.

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

A “Bernie endorses, AOC does not” scenario is a pretty big sign to go hey, wait a second, let’s hold our horses, why is this happening? They have almost exactly the same policy inclinations, but also one has a very proven track record of unbelievably bad character judgements and the other Does Not.

It's fascinating that the NYT can find racist cranks to write about babies but can't find a single trans person to talk to

By now it’s a certainty that any company or piece of tech named after something in Tolkien is going to be some awful large-scale technological offense against either nature or human dignity. Surely a fitting legacy for a man who hated technology and its offenses against nature and human dignity.

I believe he has been consistently alleged to be like this for decades.

Pretty sure this guy was calling LGBTQ people "groomers"

For those who don't know (other white ppl?), this is more administrative racism; pseudofolliculitis mostly affects Black men and other people of color, so ending permanent shaving wavers will make the armed forces more white

I do think we should stop using the term "unitary executive" in public discourse and simply call it what it is: dictatorship

I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)

Curtea Constituțională a stabilit limitele autonomiei regiunii găgăuze, blocând astfel mecanisme care permiteau grupării Șor să-și consolideze influența la Comrat.

Viorel Pașca, a fost protejat de Ilie Bolojan și de fostul șef-adjunct SRI Florian Coldea și a vândut organele celor care au murit în azilele sale, potrivit unei teorii a conspirației promovate de Cozmin Gușă.

If any women out there happen to know this fine upstanding gentleman, I suggest keeping a very close eye on your drinks in his presence. We need to get back to a world where putting your name on something like this gets you run out of town.

Directing Graham Platner’s campaign

Holy cats. “Eurostar has ordered trains that can operate in 55C heat as it prepares for the prospect of Saudi-style summers in the UK and parts of Europe by the middle of the century.”

We are SO close to our next stretch goal - doubling the size of the anthology! Help make this book happen and launch a new annual series for SF and fantasy. Thank you all so much! Locusmag.com/anthology (link in bio) sharing helps tremendously :) #backthebook #SFF #booksky

The "genius" behind Platner appears to be an absolute and complete dirtbag. This is my surprised face. No one involved in this race should ever get to work in Dem politics again.

Oh, huh. This tool says that there are "dogfights in spacecraft" in Radiant Star. There are none. It also says that "Requiem for Murder" by me, a book that does not exist, contains explicit sex and lots of swears. & gender fuckery. I'll give them the gender stuff. But that was a gimme anyway.

The compromise I'm willing to make here is calling them Strasserites: but that requires understanding that this is a disease specific *to* the left: hating liberals more than fascists, obsessed with defeating liberalism, while believing an alliance with "working-class" fascist fans is possible.

They saw Bernie's (mistaken) belief that economic reductionism could seduce resentful guys from the right into a broader left movement, and used that as justification to *align* themselves with basically all of the reactionary views and troll tactics of the right (minus billionaire worship).

I will be signing at The ARC festival this Sunday from 1-2pm at the @goshcomics.bsky.social table. @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social is an exciting, new, free comics festival in London on the 11th and 12th of July. Come along! www.arc-london.uk

So much this. If, after #MeToo, what Epstein's victims suffered, and what E. Jean Carroll has endured in a very very public way, you are still asking why victims of sexual crimes don't always come forward, you're part of the problem. Educate yourself or just STFU.

“Americans are neither materially nor psychologically ready for this future,” Kagan warned. Powerful excerpt below from this morning's Letters from an American by @hcrichardson.bsky.social.

Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.