The university compact being offered to universities requires colleges to eliminate the recognition of trans people and ban them from bathrooms, locker rooms, and gender segregated dorms. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Been learning to make sourdough. It is teaching me patience.

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach. If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

It’s funny how the people who are “to blame for everything” turn out to be people who: - you’re unlikely to have met - you’re unlikely to have spoken to - you’re very likely to misunderstand It’s almost like it’s more important that they fulfil those criteria than that they’re the problem.

Boycott the journals that do this. It's extortion. Even more egregious than the usual extortion.

Richard Dawkins, friend of Jeffrey Epstein, has contributed to a new book compiled by Lawrence Krauss, friend of Jeffrey Epstein who publicly supported him after his conviction for soliciting child prostitution, in which he argues that recognition of trans people are a threat to women’s rights

And this is why there are so many open positions at academic institutes in the American South. I have been told to cast a wide net to find a postdoc position, but I'm not willing to fish in poison waters.

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As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer: 1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors! 2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy 3) Language learning via Mango 💙📚 And:

CBS, ABC and Disney should get the full treatment Target got. They are anti-FreeSpeech & openly pro-Fascist. Boycott them. Destroy their bottom line. See how long they can survive just MAGA viewership. Time to put your money where your love of the Constitution is. Do. Not. Support. Them.

Just announced: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is hosting two "roundtable discussions" about Long COVID tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET. @thesicktimes.org will be covering the event and reactions from the Long COVID community. (Reach out if you'd like to send us comments during or after!)

Left-NIMBYs and right-NIMBYs in the most suburban district of SF teamed up to recall a city supervisor because he supported housing and pedestrian friendly streets. Just extremely cursed stuff. NIMBYs must be crushed.

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This is a fair point.

but we need people to go one further and stop thinking that places like MSNBC are the 'left' outlets. They aren't. NYT isn't. They use the language of the left to launder the ideas of the right and people should be more disgusted by it

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

Today, I tried to get my COVID vaccine and was denied. Even after showing the pharmacist @govwesmoore.bsky.social 's statement that Maryland law says all Marylanders should have access to the COVID vaccine, I was still denied. They said they had to follow the box. This is RFK's fault. RFK must go.

I'm gonna put that cat in a box. And then I'll put that box in another box!

this paragraph here is the perfect summary of why we don't see safety in this smarmy jagoff…just a different, more insidious kind of danger

Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.

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There are four days left, and we're fast approaching 41,000 participants! Any shares outside of the white-Tumblr-USA-under30s bubble is really helpful. This year the USA/UK/Canada proportion is lower than last year, so your efforts are working! survey.gendercensus.com #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

they’re kidnapping trans women and forcing them to choose between male detention centers, where theyll be tortured, sexually abused and forcibly detransitioned, and leaving her whole life behind via self-deportation. but please go on with your “reasonable concerns” about trans rights

Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

We knew this was coming. It's still horrifying.

Federal employee health plans barred from covering gender affirming care “regardless of age” www.opm.gov/healthcare-i...

6 months later, with armored humvees and (as of tomorrow) military personnel carrying weapons of war through the capitol, with a concentration camp built in the florida everglades, with SCOTUS and circuit courts enabling this every step of the way, i think this framing has been entirely vindicated

Not only would this be immoral cowardice if UCLA caved, it would be unconstitutional under the California constitution which explicitly protects gender identity.

Absolutely incredible construction to claim that the countries we've invaded have actually been freeloaders using up our super crime-fighting military resources while Americans at home are deprived of that wonderful phenomenon

Kim Davis going from "my religious beliefs demand that I don't facilitate a same-sex marriages" to "my religious beliefs demand that there are NO same-sex marriages anywhere" *should* make Democrats realize there is no "sincere" compromise with bigots on trans issues.

Via @acvollers.bsky.social and @stateline.org: Conservative majorities in the courts, in state legislatures and at the federal level have opened the door for Republican lawmakers and conservative Christian groups to reinstate conversion therapy, roundly discredited by the medical community.

🧵 We've had a decade of marriage equality—and that may be all we get. Just like I warned about Roe for years, I'm warning you now: Obergefell is absolutely on the chopping block. The same "history and tradition" test that killed abortion rights? That's their blueprint for same-sex marriage.

Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position. But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time. If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.

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Genocidal intent:

The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving. We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share! www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...

Of the albums I loved from my youth, very few have withstood the test of time as well as Hellbilly Deluxe. If it's been a while since you put that one on, I recommend revisiting it. It's just as good now as it was in 1998. It slapped then, and it slaps just as hard now.

We really are just going full speed Third Reich v2.0 aren’t we

if a year ago you had tried to come up a marker for when you could say definitively "any semblance of democracy is over, we live in an authoritarian state now," you could do a lot worse than "makeshift concentration camp that includes some lawful permanent residents where detainees are tortured"

The actual public service chatgpt provides is in demonstrating the effect of never hearing the word no on the human psyche, it has made billionaire brain pudding a condition accessible to everyone irrespective of net worth

The defunding of public media, the gutting of the Washington Post and LA Times, and the cancelation of Stephen Colbert by Paramount is all connected. It's part of a hostile takeover of our entire information space by the oligarchs. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

Wild how exploitative academia is, and how the expectation that you'll just work for free is so normalized there's no shame around even saying it. You're just supposed to be grateful you're allowed to donate your labor to the university and remember to thank them for the opportunity to be exploited.

Reminded, yet again, that blind box purchases are a super bad idea and that's why I typically don't do them. Made an exception. Got burned. Remember that fire is hot.

It never stops with sports. He's already repeating SEGM talking points about the brain not being developed until 26. Pretty soon he'll be calling for bathroom bans and other restrictions.

Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?

The Blackbird of Annoyance has replaced the Bluebird of Happiness in my life