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Thinking about how we had this whole kerfuffle where the word “cisgender” was banned on multiple platforms despite being a statement of fact, but Ohio can just redefine the word “respectful” and the matter is settled. Gaslighting as policy. www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

Strange as it sounds, I think many people find a perverse comfort in the idea that the worst possible climate change outcome is not only possible but inevitable. If you believe we’re past the point where any action matters, you don’t have to actually do anything about it. apnews.com/article/clim...

Oh look, another reason to drop Spotify. BoycottSpotify.com

“The most dramatic rollback of human rights for trans people in a generation will be covered by a mainstream corporate press that has purged queer journalists from its ranks in a stunningly transparent series of politicized moves over the past month.”

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

Cool, so Mike Johnson has already indicated the promised ACA vote is probably not going to happen anyway. Maybe if we get them to pinky promise next time?

Here's one of the main reasons why I'm 100% sure AI is in a bubble, regardless of any potential "success" it has in the next 6-12 months. Right now the majority of AI "success" at scale has been found in AI coding tools for software engineers. (thread)

This whole thread but especially this. Layoffs at tech companies are out of control, and have been rising since the start of the bubble. In an uncertain political climate with less regulation, tech jobs will keep shrinking. This is before even going into electricity costs, etc.

Few things have made more more mad over recent months than the attention given to this while the Supreme Court is actually taking step after step to make life more difficult for trans and nonbinary people. Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Interesting choice of words when “hormone therapy” was right there.

“Footage shows a federal officer in a black vehicle launch the irritant out of their window and into the car of Rafael Veraza, 25, and Evelin Herrera, 24, striking Veraza and their 1-year-old daughter, Arianna Sofia.” They deployed it from inside the safety of their own vehicle into the other car.

Woke up thinking about how everything made so much more sense once I learned that representative democracy was chosen over direct democracy during the framing of the constitution out of a fear that the interests of the poor might actually too strongly dictate policy.

We can't vote Schumer out until 2028 but we can make him being the senate majority leader a litmus test for 2026 candidates. Every single Dem senate candidate should be forced to go on the record and state they will not vote for him as majority leader.

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

From the Kim Davis petition for cert wherein her attorneys call substantive due process a “legal fiction” www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

So foul that this is absolutely what happened. They didn’t even flinch when it came to SNAP, but this threatened to possibly inconvenience them in a couple of weeks.

Figures that the first significant blow to the Democrats since Tuesday would be dealt by Chuck Schumer.

There is no hell hot enough for the administration demanding clawbacks from SNAP recipients. This is shockingly evil, especially only a few weeks away from a “holiday” where people who have the means will brag about eating so much they have to take off their belts and sleep by 4pm.

Okay after using it for a full day I can say: the app is better, the audio quality is phenom, it has albums the other service didn’t, the switch was seamless, and it’s not trying to force AI into everything. Also, I don’t feel a clawing guilt every time I open it so that’s great too. 10/10

I’m morbidly fascinated by the sentiment analysis on the CNN stock futures page. It’s just a horoscope for the dead inside but as a metaphor it’s unbeatable.

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

I finally had a chance to read the Ohio case prohibiting schools from enforcing anti-bullying policies protecting trans kids. This is a shining example of the two-faced nature of ostensible “free speech” legal groups who never seem to feel the same compulsion to actually sue on behalf of trans kids.

I think people believe the phenomenon is far more rare than it is, too. If you work with kids in any capacity, you see how hard it is for brains native to the internet to differentiate between a chatbot and a human. Brains are very bad at discerning truth when fiction is presented authoritatively.

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

It’s small in the ocean of things to do but this week Spotify stock is in the toilet and this is why. Just like everything the administration does, these ads are absolutely disgusting, with lines like “millions of dangerous illegals are rampaging the streets” and “dangerous illegals walk free”

Same. Also, it’s really easy to transfer playlists, albums, and artists from Spotify tidal.com/transfer-music

Turns out Tidal is only a few dollars more a month for a family plan than Spotify and they have a cool feature where they’re not running ads to recruit for the gestapo.

Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

Democrats saw a groundswell of anti-authoritarian sentiment and a massive sweep of electoral victories and really said, "Now is the time for bipartisanship"

If I just had mine handed to me the way the GOP did on Tuesday, I would not respond by immediately doing the least popular thing I could think of.

They’re literally suing to avoid putting food on the table. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

I almost died of whooping cough (despite being vaccinated) as a child. I'm don't remember a lot of it, because I was young and because once I developed secondary pneumonia, I was pretty much out of it for a while. A peer caught in the same outbreak died - unsure of his vaccination status but we were

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

It’s a disease characterized by coughing so violent that patients have fractured their ribs before, just from the force of the cough alone.

This may not sound like a lot compared to Texas but WV is roughly 5-6% the size of TX. This is a big deal. www.hancockcountyhealthdepartment.com/news/health-...

If they hadn’t purchased most of it already, OpenAI would be dragged before Congress for this.

It’s wild that press officers can just make up whatever narrative is most convenient at the moment and face no consequences whatsoever— and no one even bothers bringing up the idea of consequences for spokespeople lying because we’ve literally waged wars over claims like this and nothing happened.

"why can't you get a job, missy?" The largest newspaper in America this morning:

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

Not a single dime to should go to bailing out these OpenAI hucksters. Even if we did, it wouldn’t be enough— the energy requirements are too high. Trump boasted about building a “Manhattan-sized” data center yesterday. If that’s where we are now, we’ll need a spare planet by the end of 2030. Thread👇

DHS literally posted a video with the K-slur like 3 weeks ago. There’s plenty of actual antisemitism to fight. Zohran isn’t a threat to me as a Jewish person, but his loudest critics sure are.

i feel confident saying that zohran mamdani has likely never said or done anything as remotely antisemitic in his life as the horrifyingly islamophobic things being said and done right now by people in positions of power and authority in the jewish community in reaction to him

SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants. This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

As much as I and am personally thrilled about Mamdani, I have no illusions about what voting in this country means: picking your adversary. Voting in the US is about choosing the person against whom you will be struggling for a better world, not the person who will build it of their own volition.

It’s great that SCOTUS appears to be on track to curb tariffs, but realistically the only meaning we can reasonably derive from such a decision would be that when tariffs tanked the market in April, those justices lost a lot of money. Amazing how having a material stake can change one’s perspective.

Pertussis cases in Texas are 10x higher than all of 2023, and 2x as high as last year — 4x for the same period. The official count is higher by a 1k than it has been in more than a decade. Last time it was over 2k was 2014 with 2,576. It’s past 3,500 for 2025. www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.