One of the least surprising things I have read: Megan McArdle using AI extensively to do all those pesky tasks that she prefers to skip, like “fact checking” and “understanding what she reads.”

NEWS: You may have seen a lot of reporting in recent weeks about the American Medical Association allegedly pulling back from its support for gender-affirming care for trans kids. It has not. www.advocate.com/health/trans...

"trans ideology is a sickness." [reads the news] "people's personal affairs are none of our business and we should talk about immigration"

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

yeah i think that this is the big thing that the court decision misses, which is that it treats "talk therapy" as simply a form of discussion or debate between a patient and a doctor, rather than as a specific practice that has material outcomes for the patient's wellbeing.

“States can’t ban conversion therapy but they can ban trans healthcare. They can’t regulate ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ but they can ban abortion. The plain text of the Constitution just happens to align with the GOP political platform. Do not dare suggest we’re doing politics.” —The Supreme Court

Fuck

Hey, have you done anything about NYU Langone or Mt Sinai? Have you established trans youth care at NYC city health clinics and hospitals? We don't want social media platitudes, we want action.

Straight people DO NOT want to admit that’s what their anti social media bills are really about: keeping queers isolated.

It begins again, I was watching basketball and a GOP candidate for Governor is running an entire ad about trans kids playing sports. Why are they all obsessed with children's genitals? #GrossOldPerverts

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

The bluesky address is @attie.ai and it really needs to be in the top five accounts blocked on this platform. This is honestly some of the most tonedeaf shit I’ve seen from BS and thats saying something

As the parent of transgender child, I can testify that the standard of care was EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE even before the recent moral panic. I cannot stress this enough. EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE. Anyone who says otherwise is completely uninformed or blatantly lying. Period.

The nyt is engaging in a political ops campaign targeting its foes: trans ppl, the medical science behind our care and the laws that protect our civil rights. It fraudulently presents these press releases, produced by its corporate flacks, as “fact checks” They are nothing of the sort 🧵

Is it the stance of the New York Times that the Chair of the AMA Board is using official AMA communication channels to lie about the AMA's position on this topic?

My criticism of the NYT press release isn't about supporting the AMA version of events - it's that we have to speculate about the AMA version and what it means because the NYT is putting out belligerent press releases instead of reporting on it. This an absolutely wild thing for a newspaper to do.

Everything Mamdani is doing in NYC is wildly popular and even winning grudging approval from those who voted against him: Competence, compassion and delivery on things that make lives better—without compromising ideals. That “coastal” strategy would work in the Midwest and everywhere else, Elissa.

Let’s see, what were people talking about 54 years ago in Ann Arbor? Oh. #A2Council

I think this happened: 1. NYT and other anti-trans ppl circulated a lie that AMA supports bottom surgery on children 2. AMA stated that they've always done bottom surgery for adults 3. NYT claimed that AMA did a retraction despite the "bottom surgery for children" lie being false to begin with

This is just bizarre, like they don't understand how English works. The statement from the AMA's Chief Communications Officer said "surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood." That is not "endorses restrictions" (NYT headline) or "backed limitations" (NYT lede).

NEW: A newsletter from the Board of the American Medical Association states the group has requested a public correction after the paper characterized a statement about trans youth care as having "endorsed restrictions" on such care. h/t @lyolyon.bsky.social www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

@mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social’s campaign finance co-chair, Kelly Neumann, posted this on Veterans Day 2024. Her grandfather fought in WW1 and WW2… for the Germans… then escaped to Brasil.

from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

I mean, @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social is PAYING Lis Smith who GLEEFULLY took credit for smearing the women who came forward with allegations against Andrew Cuomo. But she wants to talk about harmful, hateful people in her opponents orbit.

I have many thoughts on this documents. First, the language - it is written like a transphobe's wet dream. It makes up a definition of "biological sex", which excludes all intersex people. It then suggests this cannot be changed (lol). So, not written by anyone with any understanding of science. /1

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

It's after midnight and my husband is in the basement listening to The Head on the Door. Should I go check on him or let him wallow?

At the AAPS school safety meeting: final speaker is from AAPD and begins by explaining school-to-prison pipeline and stating he is NOT advocating for SROs. I'm pleasantly surprised. #a2schools

Is the Ann Arbor area ready for this?

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

the government is saying “underage girls are testing positive for pregnancy at ICE detention centers” instead of saying “ICE agents are raping & impregnating underage girls.”

My kid was exposed to fucking measles at her college class, she's fully vaxxed but the county health dept recommends monitoring for symptoms for 21 days. I hate it here. #vaccinate

For the record, the Nazis are spreading terms like “zio” and “zog” into leftist spaces intentionally as an on-ramp to fascism. This is what cryptofascism means. They explicitly talk about doing this on their forums and telegram channels. You’re being played.

based on how much our societal standards have collapsed since the last time we were all asked to ignore the individualism this system bred into us and each make some sacrifices for the greater good, I fully expect to see people openly burning barrels of gasoline on their lawns.

Is it possible to add "Don't turn the Del Rio/Grizzly Peak into a Honky Tonk" to the CLUP? #a2council

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Think we could get Trump to stop bombing Iran if we remind him that John McCain thought of it first? www.npr.org/2007/04/20/9...

What a great demonstration of how billionaires have obscene amounts of excess cash laying around that they use to try to subvert democracy and the only solution is for governments to take away that excess cash.

I would rather my kid be on crack than whatever hell this is.

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire." Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut." Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

The cost of fresh vegetables is up a stunning FORTY EIGHT PERCENT from February 2025: www.bls.gov/news.release...

I did like one specific part of the clewp vote, when Lisa Disch looked straight at the camera and referenced this oldie but goodie #a2council