hillary cass uses the term "socially transition" to hide that she's advocating for policing children's clothing, haircuts, and name. the only way to stop social transition is by bullying a child until they give up.

sure, gavin newsom didn't get to vote on anti-trans laws in red states, but neither did jerry brown!! newsom helped turn trans rights into a podcast topic, when they had been so indisputable his predecessor straight up limited government travel to north carolina when they passed a bathroom ban.

a fundamental problem we need to tackle is that, aside from a few exceptional moments, america is not a country that cares about democracy. it should be obviously ludicrous for people like jd vance to claim the heritage of our founding.

I don't think "white supremacist" is sufficient to explain trumpian authoritarianism. they absolutely believe in the superiority of the white race and exalt everything associated with it, but it has become a heritage that a much larger group of people can claim.

on frederick douglass' birthday, we should feel a great national shame for being so careless with the liberty he dedicated his life to obtaining for every person in america. he fought so that no one again would have to suffer exactly what we are inflicting on our neighbors.

in the talented tenth, du bois mentions that while the other ivies began graduating Black students in the 1870s, princeton still refused to admit any. he wrote that in 1903. princeton wouldn't have a Black graduate for another 44 YEARS.

IT TOOK ME FOREVER BUT LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL LITTLE SYSTEM‼️‼️ as far as I can tell, I think I am the first person to achieve maximum throughput in noor's house factory which is pretty neat.

honestly insane that tyler is *proud* it took him over a year to write this article. every one of his accusations against mellon is based on these insane logical leaps. like do you have any evidence for this? did the foundation have, say, founding documents that explained its intentions?

funnily enough, there's a human exceptionalism to the belief that consciousness is downstream of cognition. AI will likely surpass human intellectual performance in most tasks in the next few years, but it won't be any closer to consciousness. contrarily, my cat is conscious, and he's a dumbass.

@kyleschmitz.bsky.social hello!!! I have a question that is the absolute most important thing in the world to me right now: is it possible to hit max throughput on the factory in noor's house? I am on my third real-life day trying to make this happen.

you know how dogshit amazon's search recommendations are? jeff bezos wants to let those algorithms determine what the washington post covers

There is nothing separating Trump's camps from the early stages of the Holocaust. Most American journalists would find the comparison absurd, but only because they accept "illegal immigrants" as valid targets for this treatment.

The only reason Bad Bunny has anything to do with the "nation's immigration divide" is because he's Puerto Rican and Trump supporters don't think non-white people have any right to be American. It's mass-scale racial profiling, and WaPo thinks they have a point worth considering.

people give the dust bowl a bad rep, but it actually extended americans' life expectancy and also everyone's waist was snatched

It's easy to accept a US President could spend all day looking at the same memes as a 4channer-turned-mass-shooter. It's much harder to accept that he could publicly post those memes without consequence. How did we get from ensuring the entire country learned about covfefe to here?

I got FFS last week and treated that shit like it was a haircut a little off the top? whatever you say doc. you're the professional.

Woke2 must redouble efforts in the areas Woke was rebuked. All white people *are* racist, but not in some mealy mouthed implicit bias way. Half of America was an apartheid state when the Beatles were performing. Are we supposed to believe that the Beatles left the more significant cultural legacy?

In the midst of Trump, I am honestly sickened by how easily my life keeps going on. Our country is building an industrialized system to round up people of color, brutalize them, and ship them to concentration camps all over the world. And I go to work and to the movies and maybe hit the gym.

My hottest take is that I think it's good Nintendo charges $80 for Switch 2 games. The $60 sticker price from the Xbox 360 days clearly isn't sustainable, and most other AAA studios are compensating with increasingly predatory behavior towards their customers and employees.

These kinds of consequences are not the result of policy. They come from the perceived social contract that we and our institutions must abide be. #MeToo and Trump's reelection were referendums on whether "protecting women from sexual violence" should be part of Americas contract. We voted "No."

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

It is remarkable how ICE manages to make American police look organized and restrained. STLPD was just as giddy to tear gas us during the George Floyd protests, but formed lines and kettled us first. It seemed like they had discussed the concept of "crowd control" at some point beforehand.

Trump appears to be delivering this announcement in front of a display of ties (?) Live from the Oval Closet