It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

Yes! Whenever they say they want to "cure autism," what they are really saying is that they want to create a society without autistic people by any means necessary.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

the way electoral politics works is that you actually don't get to put in zero effort to present an attractive value proposition to voters and then demand their loyalty by default because the other guy sucks. politics isn't a team sport. voters can choose not to support either of two bad options.

3) when did the bar to earn our votes become "not quite as bad as the literal worst option"? were dems entitled to votes simply by virtue of not being quite as terrible as the other guys? or should they maybe have had to earn those votes by being actively good rather than just not actively as bad?

Really interested in reading further on this because arson is a time-honored tool of the landlord class and we should talk about it!

Have not received any sales or donations. Still hoping to make my goal. In serious need of some medical supplies as well.

Getting REALLY close to my deadline and I have A LOT of bills coming in. $1250 is still needed ASAP. Can anyone chip in today?

I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

Prominent Egyptian Blogger and Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah Released from Prison

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Now deleted, it doesn't change that someone thought it was suitable to publish in the first place.

Now here is an OER worth saying "Wow" made by an MA student at University College Cork https://ucclibrary.pressbooks.pub/weaving-data/ "Weaving Data is a beginner-friendly guide to transforming datasets into physical, woven artefacts. Combining 3D printing, textile tools and artistic data […]

hello, i made this bot. i am a trans autistic anti-fascist. you are following a work of trans autistic anti-fascist art. that is why it is screaming

"chasing a #cure became a #FullTimeJob ..that offered no guarantees & constantly reminded me of my failures when my body didn’t respond the way I wanted it to..I began to lose touch with the life I was living in the meantime.": buff.ly/S0sVpZJ by MarysChronicLife #spoonie #ChronicIllness #NEisVoid

🚨Tonight, Moldovan President Maia Sandu warned of “grave and immediate danger” after police smashed a Kremlin-backed plot. NATO, citing drone swarms and airspace violations, warns Europe faces mounting risk of conflict with Russia. (no paywall) theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/moldova-st...

Did you know you can write to The Economist to let them know what you think of this at [email protected]? It's easy and fun to do.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊

Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter openletter.earth/open-letter-...

why do people who scream “prove me wrong” never take the time to prove themselves right in the first place? like why is the onus on everyone else? lazy mofo.

It is hard to explain how much people who want us to believe they are very intelligent think like this: this one guy was super nice to me, a person with a lot of power. Obviously, there stands a good and moral individual!

One amazing thinks about @ichotiner.bsky.social is that he makes use of civility dynamics. People in power tend to think that their authority and the respect they command mean that as long as someone talks to them civilly, they can make an ass of themselves and their foibles will get cleaned up.

Also, Tylenol is pretty much the only reliever you can take while pregnant. They just want people to suffer.

Key bit of info here that seems to slip past people in the discourse atm: the target audience of European exhortations towards European strategic autonomy isnt Americans, it is Europeans.

An actual good way to disperse your excess cash instead of buying me weird saddles is to help out my friend and brother Mohamed, who is trying to keep his family alive in Al Mawasi camp in Gaza. If you've got a couple dollars to share with with him I'd be grateful. chuffed.org/project/help...

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

A little light relief: youtu.be/06qPNk38msg

By age 65, most will experience either a temporary or permanent disability. That’s not a statistic to fear — it’s a reminder that disability is simply part of the human experience. When we advocate for accessibility, now we're also building a better world for our future selves. #YesAccess

Adria Jawort, Indigenous trans woman, journalist and activist, files civil rights complaint against Trump's 'Antifa' Executive Order adriajawort.substack.com/p/mont-journ...

Can people stop quoting that 60,000 people murdered by Israel number? That same number has been quoted for at least ONE YEAR. We're sadly way past it now. Way past.

🚨 Applications Open! We are seeking 3 journalists from the #GlobalSouth to report on fascist & fundamentalist movements. 💡 Pitch your story & bring it to life. 📌 Apply: wearenoor.org/feminist-jou... #JournalismAsResistance @globalvoices.org @untoldmag.org @jamhoor.org @designaction.bsky.social

In a corporate owned care home, charging £1,800 a week. Residents face neglect/cruelty. Left in urine-soaked clothes, wet bedsheets, calls for help ignored, not showered for weeks, excrement in corridors, staff shortages. Cruelty is the norm when profits come before people.

There was 'technically' an equal amount of LGBTQIA+ trans inclusive organisations, as there were anti-trans respondents, but balancing the numbers isn’t everything: It’s a trap the BBC often falls into and creates a false sense of balance, when views don't match up with facts Let's take a look 🧵

Osama has a very large family he is raising for including many children ❤️ his fundraising account is almost 2 years old so most that he has raised has already been spent on surviving in Gaza

This is an amazing thread. Please read.

It’s always cis people with no skin in the game who sit on the sidelines and say, “you should debate politely with people who are actively calling for violence against you, and your extermination; who call you pedophiles and rapists and encourage their supporters to attack you.”

Reform are trying to sell the myth that deporting people and removing the rights of migrants will solve all the country's problems. It won't. Know what would help solve the country's problems? Taxing the super-rich properly and closing the inequality gap.

Aaaaaalso, the way ICE and CBP are demanding to see foreign visitors' social media deets on entering the USA is a harbinger of things to come: foreigners today, US citizens tomorrow, and into the ICE gulag with the thought criminals. Who include John, based on his writing. Probably before 2027.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

"don't even take my word for it, as a politician, listen to British doctors, British scientists" says Wes Streeting about paracetamol. Never heard him say that once about trans healthcare.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

FINISH YOUR SONGS AND RELEASE THEM - SOMEONE NEEDS THEM.

More shit news for Cøvid Kidneys ☠️☠️ Community-Acquired Acute Kidney Injury and Late Kidney Dysfunction in Survivors of COVID-19 Hospitalization - Kidney International Reports www.kireports.org/article/S246...

What happens in the US unfortunately does not stay in the US. Most of Europe is seeing their antivaxxers galvanised by RFKjr's nonsense. Everything he claims about vaccines has been debunked before and now one has to debunk them again. RFKjr is destroying public health internationally.

What's your favorite dinosaur, and why isn't it spinosaurus?

Grateful to @equalaccesspublicmedia.org for letting me write on this immense problem of the mainstream media's credulity regarding transphobic nonsense itself ... and the way forward I do see (as a very exhausted trans journalist). Thanks to editor @stacykess.bsky.social ...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_... The mostly forgotten Russian woman who understood autism better than Kanner or Asperger and published before they did

Israel abducted 7 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank today. More than 11,000 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli jails. 77 people have been killed in Israeli captivity in 23 months.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity