Lol she ignored trans people completely, leading voters to think she was hiding something. The consultant class Dems currently use is just rancid at politics.

This is what happens when you hire a bunch of conservatives as editors and writers.

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

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Why would anyone take DC seriously after this? Clearly, none of their agreements are worth the paper they're printed on unles you're a typical cis industry creep.

everyone who says trump attacking the media is just like communism owes me whatever the price of a regular mcdonalds is now. like seventy dollars probably

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a man who made a living shouting his hateful rhetoric on college campuses was killed by a single shot fired by an assassin on a rooftop. but that was in 1967.

Absolutely nuts that, in the current environment, people are like "well did you NOT expect to be on the Gestapo volunteer auxiliary's enemy list when you were snippy to a weenie Picrew avatar on Twitter?" Permanent 2015 fandom brain. We cannot help these people.

Worth noting that the highest profile and most successful Democratic elected official currently in those states is Laura Kelly, the Governor of Kansas, who seems to not believe in Ezra Klein’s theory of politics!

The "Epstein files" stuff has solidly become a thought-terminating cliche and a form of dead-end "one weird trick" belief for liberals a la the "emoluments clause" stuff in the first term. Which is absolutely wild, but what's the endgame there?

They're counting switching between ID'ing as "binary" trans and ID'ing as nonbinary as "desistance" here lmao There is no methodological trick that transphobes will not indulge in, no low they won't stoop to, to manufacture evidence against trans people's health care

His friends literally just made the thing about his neck stopping bullet up

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buddy we got that already

I made a weird discovery today: bible-gateway.com, which is the first hit for most bible verses, is now geo-blocking the EU and UK. I'm just baffled at the idea that we're at a point where a bible reference site is blocked by international law

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Anyone saying this isn't a straightforward Nazi rally - "beautiful lineages of white warriors vs degenerate unhumans" - is lying to your face. Miller has been waiting his whole life to make this speech beneath banners of red and black.

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Trump at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service: “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry.” Again, this is a memorial service.

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I’m listening to a podcast, and one of the hosts pronounces “mannerism” as “maneurysm,” like an aneurysm specifically for men, and I sort of love it.

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

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i had a teacher at a school i used to work at who would get mad when you'd say "the romans killed jesus", so to make him even madder we started saying "the italians killed jesus"

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love when someone is fed up at some new thing that happend and it's like "quick hand them the Kendzior Matryoshka Doll so they can get caught up that none of this is new" and you can only hope they open up the links and notice it goes 2024 > 2023 > 2019 >2017 > 2016 > 2014 because it's all the same

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

i also want to note that "i don't want children to have to undergo genital inspections" is an extremely easy argument to make and the fact that elected liberals cannot manage it is because they are either incompetent or complicit and i do not give a shit which

lol

It really does feel tasteless to even imagine how the right wing media (and everyone else) would still be going off if three months ago the memorials for Melissa and Mark Hortman had been turned into a crass and unapologetically divisive partisan rally like this.

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who can say? its just one of those eternal mysteries that will never be solved

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

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The fact that in 1 year democrats went from correctly pointing out that right wingers are creepy weirdos to saying we should expand our tent to have thoughtful discussions & negotiations with the creepy weirdos tells you exactly what kind of ppl they are; plastic fakers w/ no convictions to speak of

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