Fascism eliminates trans people because trans existence reveals the falsity of gender essentialism. Without gender essentialism, there's no nuclear family and therefore no capitalism. Fighting for trans people isn't simply a good in itself; it is necessary for the liberation of all.

I am always early for things because my anxiety about being late overrides my ADHD. There are people who are chronically late simply due to being inconsiderate people, but the vast majority of people with ADHD, the frustration and shame they feel about constant lateness is a heavy weight.

There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.

The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?

It's incredible how quickly people's rational thinking goes out the windows once a trans person is involved. Suddenly, a coordinated national smear campaign targeting a single trans instructor needs a "well, ackshually."

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

i want to mention for anyone who doesn't know yet that the instructor in this case is trans

It's so great to see colleges pay the government millions of dollars for the privilege of unilaterally instituting Zionist, anti-trans policies, all while claiming to uphold academic freedom.

It’s not about being on a high horse it’s about using these moments of frustration and crisis and rupture to help people understand how the system works so they get out of their delusional frame of mind

In addition to MLB's FanDuel partnership, I think that the exploitative nature of MLB's Dominican academies played a role here. Would Dominican players be less desperate to make money if they weren't told from childhood that their communities depended on them doing so?

It's a little odd that this article doesn't discuss Benicio Del Toro's character, but I do ultimately agree that the film fell into some of the same patterns, re: portrayals of Black women, that it was attempting to critique.

Wasn’t able to watch WS live but apparently the Jonas Bros did some of a song at some point? I cannot express this urgently enough: NO. Baseball is not meant to be associated with entertainment. The beauty of baseball is its uninterrupted agony. The outside world must be barred from the stadiums.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Mamdani invoking the memory of Sylvia Rivera, a staunch anti-imperialist who very much framed trans liberation as part of the liberation of all oppressed peoples throughout the world, just days after calling Cuba a dictatorship really is something.

“I asked chatgpt” well i asked your wife. She’s leaving you, Steve; for being such a massive loser

The best thing about my book is that it's only 133 pages long!

AOC earned a 4.0 at the Barack Obama School of Scolding Your Constituents

happy labor day

Hani Mahmoud reporting from Gaza city: what Israel is doing in Gaza city is what they did in Rafah, scorched earth, destroying everything, depopulating the city by making it unliveable.

My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members. If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.

Since the Balfour Declaration, Western Civilization has tied itself to the settler colonial project that is Israel. Palestinian liberation will bring the West (and therefore liberalism) to its knees, so long as we continue crafting a coherent theory of socialism to capitalize on this moment.

Solidarity! No gains for the working class have been won by capitulating to the capitalist-owned government.

You can't just "wish ill" upon someone. That's not allowed. You have to use your vast fortune and influence to shape public opinion and law against the millions of people upon whom you wish ill.

Hey, Google, I hate this!

baseball is the greatest sport ever invented

Sure, have yet another celebrity run for president to further expose the deep unseriousness at the heart of this country's constitutional order and media apparatus. The path to freedom lies not in the office of the presidency.

Legalized same-sex marriage gave a lot of people access to a lot of important resources, but it was also a mistake to make it the end of the queer rights movement. Doing so tied queer people to the liberal state that is dependent on the subjugation of queer people. We've gotta think bigger.

Marginalized people in the West will scream, with their whole chest, that they had no choice but to join the imperialism machine! They were impoverished, marginalized, subject to so much pain, and they took a lifeline out for money! Plus they didn't kill anyone, just did logistics! Good for you.

Yes Israel won't let "international journalists" into Gaza because that'd make their crimes more visible. But also because their crimes include…killing journalists! It's easier to dehumanize & smear Palestinian reporters in order to justify killing them, than a Western reporter.

One study concluded 70% of increased electric cost across US due to AI data centers. apnews.com/article/elec...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Support for a two-state solution is support for the continued genocide of Palestinians.

The Israeli army just murdered Anas Al-Sharif a Palestinian journalist who covered Israel’s war crimes in hopes of one day ending the killings. His last post was from about a half hour ago reporting on the intensified bombings in Gaza City.

Buck Martinez when asked if he should root for the Astros or the Yankees: “Don’t root for the Yankees. I don’t care what the situation is”

It would be great if we could all stop sharing New York Times articles, even to dunk on them.

Genuine allyship is impossible for those who have bought into liberalism; they will never sacrifice their material comfort for anyone. Thus, the ruling class is free to commit genocide on the people who most threaten the liberal order.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

With every atom of my being I hate rfk and all who have enabled his war on the public health. may he know hard days, and may those who have enabled him share in his suffering

Excited about this independent study I'm doing in the fall on why queer liberation is an essential part of the anti-colonial struggle.

the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it

Something that people really need to understand about LLMs is that it's not "robots doing the work." It's exploited laborers in the global south creating/training these algorithms at immense human cost. There is no commodity in the world that does not rely on human labor for its production.

I don't even think Tim Cook would enjoy watching an Apple TV+ MLB broadcast.

Just got the final page proofs for this baby. We're almost at the finish line.

one of the many things I hate about AI is the defeatism it brings out in people: "well, it's not going anywhere, so I guess I should learn to use it." No! We have the power to determine the shape of our society! If enough of us fight hard enough, we can get rid of generative AI!

I earnestly do not for a single second believe this. I'm sorry

The New York Times clarifies that a starving child in Gaza also needs medical care: defector.com/the-new-york...