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A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21. (Unlocked article below)

Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha hahahaha. Ha ha. [becomes The Joker] www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Ok. That's it. We deserve whatever this causes. If Reuters is too stupid that it thinks it can interview an app, we are too stupid to survive this.

We just want to protect women and children, honest. That’s why we gave an award to a pedophile rapist who shares our values.

This whole thread.... 🔥 Compact magazine is a joke, whose only purpose at this point seems to be to troll those of us with a brain. But read the thread first, cuz.... 😬😷

The wonderful @reditlhabi.bsky.social makes an excellent case avoiding “pragmatic” silence which, for fascists, works as well as total compliance. Let’s keep things risky: www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

if you do this you are going to Hell and I'm not sure I even believe in Hell but you're definitely going there

i think this is exactly right. she was hired to be a regime censor but that requires a bit of real skill and finesse to pull of successfully and she has neither.

“I have no freakin idea what research is but I also have no problem calling other people stupid”

(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮 scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)

Very cool!

You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.

BREAKING: SBWU baristas have set up a #CampContract! If Starbucks won't listen at the bargaining table or on the picket line, we’ll be pretty hard to ignore on their front steps! #NoContractNoCoffee

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

I've always been grateful for the fact-checking skills I learned at @joursouhist.bsky.social but now more than ever! 😬 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

More "intellectual diversity" nonsense from Jacques Berlinerblau, claiming it is a lack of "rigor" on tenure committees that results in fewer tenured conservatives. Surely it is most "rigorous" to retain the top scholars in their fields, whatever their politics? www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

I know some people may have thought the purpose of scholarship was to create and refine better understandings of the world while winnowing and weeding out incorrect and obsolete ideas, but what if we just gave all the ideas equal time all the time instead of discarding the dumb and immoral ones?

By insisting that gravity exists, physicists are excluding those who think it doesn't exist — and reducing the number of ideas by half. I am a professional political commentator.

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

Battlefield Linguistics is finally out there in the world! We packed this volume with cutting-edge scholarship on language and gender/sexuality across diverse linguistic contexts. Together, our authors meet the reactionary transantagonistic moment with inspiring & brilliant resistance!

A reminder for everyone getting Christmas presents… stay away from the HP merch!!! uk.news.yahoo.com/j-k-rowling-...?

The fact that the entire US elite class clutched onto this book as a source of deep insight tells you all you need to know about the people running this shitshow.

TIL that this asshole is still teaching. Still “mentoring” students. But then again, so many like him are. We should hardly be surprised.

Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society! We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology. Thread below 🧵

this is literally never not accurate

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

"South Africa in 1994 [was an] exclusive club, composed of only white people. Since 1994, the club has taken on new, black members. But it remains an exclusive club because many cannot gain admission – and most of the new members lack the same powers and privileges enjoyed by the old ones."

He made a fool of himself just to be fired anyway. How many times are institutions going to do this?

This, the fruit of a week’s abject institutional submission to horseshit hagiography, is about ten times the number of specific anecdotes of Republicans being purged from academia that TPUSA fans have ever mustered

CUNY friends, we're getting organized! The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed! cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

The brilliant Zukiswa Wanner is fundraising for a project that translates books written in African languages into English. The first book will be an isiZulu book; each one needs $5,000 to pay for the process. They've raised $1,300 and need your support! ko-fi.com/post/Announc...

.001 milliseconds after it dawns on me that I’ve been ignoring/supporting a genocide: most important thing now is no scolding about this

Tom Lehrer - Send The Marines

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

Support trans journalists, because ain't no way the cis corporate media are going to tell our stories.

Philip K Dick knew a thing or two about the USA when he wrote Man in the High Castle…

Huge LOL at this basket of deplorables arguing the Elgin marbles should stay put — a motley crew of cunty English lords and ladies plus Sargon of bloody Akkad 😂😂😂

Elon put Grok on timeout 😆

"The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting” is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. People criticized your work, therefore it was good?

His name, @nytimes.com is Jordan Lasker, and you probably know him since he was at the Eugenics Conference you and every other mainstream outlet provided fawning coverage over

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language. Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

anyone who's gonna go "it sucks but you gotta win over people first, slowly build the case for rights" for trans people should tell me, without looking it up, when they think interracial marriage reached majority approval in america

Congratulations! This volume is eagerly awaited 😄

The Guardian, yet again, failing to understand the first thing about right-wing metapolitics www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...