So regularly destroyed is trans stuff that it's an obscure fact that 2 words beginning with trans (transfeminate and transection) were in English dictionaries to describe someone who 'changed sex' from the mid 1600s until well into the 20th century.

It really cannot be overstated how this type of traditionalist propaganda has worked its way into liberal and radical spaces through transphobic feminism. It's the same rhetorical trick--not accepting 'womanhood' (defined as reproductive capacity, naturalized as neutral) is 'misogyny.'

SRK babygirl please just put this little blue pill on your tongue I'm begging you if you want to be a girl you can just be a girl i promise

Their story continues in this thread.

Hey friends and comrades, I want to explain something about Gaza for my friend Alaa. If you could listen I'd appreciate it.

One of the works i wish people knew more about is the 600 pg book Crisis of Britain and the British Empire by Rajani Palme Dutt. After WW2, the UK, afte, wanted to use Nigeria for food surplus until they realised colonialism had ravaged them, so there was massive food defecit for just the locals.

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NYT: “.. When he woke on Friday morning, his favorite TV channel, Fox News, was broadcasting wall-to-wall imagery .. Mr. Trump could not resist claiming some credit for himself.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Btw, the way this happens is someone sends you a comms memo with sample tweets that you are supposed to tweak a little and then post. (Source: me, I've written these memos for campaigns before) So they are all getting the same comms memo here, and I'm very curious who is sending the memo

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I think ppl in general, and many trans ppl by extension, do not ascribe enough importance to sex/gender autonomy. It's conceived of as silly and frivolous--no, *my* desires are surely grounded in something more *real* than some kind of 'whim.' Let me tell you a story about my access to HRT 🧵

🧵: Something we often see from a certain subtype of abusers is the excuse that their abusive behavior is caused by their mental illness, neurodivergence or trauma.

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Seeing a growing cohort of "marxists" complaining that transfeminists "only do identity politics" is really fucking depressing. Is this the 1970s/80s all over again? Feminist politics without class analysis is not worth any sort of attention, but class analysis without feminism isn't much better.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: *This thread is about the NYT AS A WHOLE* Feb 2, 2024: The NYT publishes a 4,500-word exercise in literary vomit by Pamela Paul titled “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.” By Feb 6, this embarrassment is cited in a conservative legal brief in Idaho.

It is actively damaging that the wide range of organizing tactics gets reduced to "the most hollow electoralism ever" or "immediately burn something down." Mostly this is stereotyping by liberals colliding with the collapse of their worldview and its (intentionally) limited ideas of action...

I think the male loneliness take is ultimately that incels are not, like, common! They are scary outliers! The large demographic shift to the right isn’t driven by sad, wet nerds desperate for hugs, but by the would-be patriarchs of the world. blog.waldrn.com/p/american-b...

This restates several tiresome arguments you see around a lot, but the ending one -- the specter of women retroactively revoking consent -- is particularly prevalent, and always interestingly nonspecific

reminder that the scaffolding for this already exists with mental health and addiction courts and drug treatment facilities that are glorified prison labor

i have ten pages left but the whole thing is basically like this, lmao. "we're exiling trans women from society for being men and we're exiling trans men from society for being trans." you guys i found where 4chan migrated to

The closest it ever got to not being this was dual systems theory and every time they choked at the point where the people benefitting from patriarchy - men! - get described as an enemy to be actively organised against.

Ex-Biden State Department official says even the Israeli military expected the US to only let them bomb Gaza for weeks, rather than unconditionally for a year and a half:

The shape of transmisogyny, a case study: We start at an article about women in sex work that looks at both cis and trans women and how they differ. Cool, right? Right? phys.org/news/2025-04...

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

they have to tell this lie about harris running too far left because they're not allowed to say "look, we will not run on the left regardless of electoral performance because our rich donors pay us not to"

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

Fun fact: universal basic income was once such a broadly popular idea that *Richard Nixon* sponsored a bill in the 70s. It took a long time to die, and only for the stupidest reason possible.

The Supreme Court case tomorrow is fundamentally not about gender affirming care, it's about whether or not trans people have any protections under the 14th amendment. A loss in this case would greenlight a torrent of explicitly discriminatory legislation without much, if any judicial recourse.

I'm starting to think that Serano might have been cooking