Nothing quite like a famous, influential, award-winning author calling you a poopy-Kleenex-head

SHARE, so that mothers everywhere know that there are babies here fighting for their lives in incubators that have been turned off—because of the blockade So that grandparents everywhere know that there are older people here dying while waiting for the medicines Washington won’t allow So that.. /2

Translated for truth: “We’re doing ethnic cleansing. We don’t give a fuck about the law or the US Constitution.”

This is totally non-standard for any publication. Every pub everywhere pretty much cleans up uhms, uhm, and vocal tics like that, which EVERYONE DOES. This is extremely intentional. If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”

when the government wants to do something bad they always present it as time sensitive and something that must be rushed through as fast as possible this social media ban is a prime example they obviously don't want to give organisations, charities, and support groups time to look at it closely

Your party has directly caused an increase in child suicides and now you want to strip the victims of even their voices bsky.app/profile/wear...

"What would it have looked like in 2024 when we're in the thick of the campaigns, if we stopped being so defensive on immigration and we went on the offensive? Had we done that, Silverio, Alex, Renee, would be alive." - @ramirez.house.gov

ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.

Oh Lord. Probably not a coincidence that Minnesota, Maine and Illinois have some of the highest rates of Covid, given continued action by ICE there, and people harbouring indoors (sometimes moving from neighbour to neighbour) for safety. And of course the super cold weather. :(

The billionaire class, either because it's forgotten why it invented the middle class or because it has judged that they no longer pose a threat to it (or both) has decided that this broad distribution of wealth is too much of an imposition, and wish to return to gilded aristocracy.

The Department of Homeland Security argues sending money to family members in Palestine is against the law in the case of 33-year-old activist Leqaa Kordia, who has lost over 200 family members to the genocide in Gaza.

This from the author of an op. ed. saying that statutory rape is an outdated concept (LA Times 05/07/1996).

How old again?

AI will be used in situations where it isn’t best practice for the same reason university admins continually destroy their schools and for the same reason everything good bought by private equity gets worse and for the same reason this criminal regime is stripping government down to spare parts.

Yall: “OH MY GOD..2026 is the worst america that’s ever existed…,” History: Lie detector shows…..

Cass is clearly a 'gender-critical' transphobe. She parrots talking points that have been used by the GCIM bigots. She ignores scientific evidence to fuel this pseudoscience. The UK goverment have purposefully platformed this bigot to advance their genocide of trans folk medium.com/@geekonaleas...

One of the things language like this does is conveys the way that leftism is seen as feminized in america. Leftists are called “hysterical,” told we “throw tantrums,” and “are shrill and unreasonable.” This is the language of cultural misogyny, used to denigrate and silence women.

"Make sure your investments are ethical", trills an older family member in my general direction, whilst ordering her umpteenth Amazon delivery this week via their Starlink connection 🙄

Good thread.

And - ding! - sleepy dog process complete

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis

Getting ready for my talk this Friday...

A thing that annoys me about the Axios newsletter is that the tone is consistently “I am one of the top experts on this thing I learned about five minutes ago.” Also that they have 280 sources in the White House but their only source on the left is Rep. Capitulate Middle (D).

I hate to link to the guardian but this is an important piece R*p* is effectively decriminalised in the uk, violence against women is skyrocketing and this We are a sick culture where those who should act want to push anti trans legislation instead

The DfE's new draft guidance about keeping children safe in education misinterprets the literature in some critical ways specifically when talking about trans and non-binary children and young people. We followed the evidence. @whatthetrans.com - when we recorded, we immediately thought of you.

We've been repeatedly promised a full ban on conversion practices in the UK by successive governments and yet we've seen more momentum behind banning youth from social media, a thing that conversion therapists have been actively advocating for.

Having brought up this exact point to Cass she did concede privately that refusing social transition is also an active intervention but that doesn't actually matter given she'll never say that publicly.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

It's because the lobbyists want internet ID for everyone, and "think of the children" came up on the excuses Rolodex. They throw out the bath water because they *want" to throw the baby out, the baby being liberty and human rights. #r4today

Zonal carve-outs; Freeports, SEZs, AI Growth Zones, impacts everything you buy, including your weekly shop. Algorithmic price discrimination threatens to return us to a pre-modern system where every transaction changes from customer to customer. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-zonal-...

By signing this action, you are adding your voice to a growing call for a loch restoration project and asking decision-makers to stop delaying and start delivering ✏️ greens.scot/linlithgowloch

"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug

The only thing that gets these terrible emotionally atrophoed people excited, that gets them out of bed, is the prospect of depriving people of things: types of health care, support, & recognition, civil liberties, forms of communication & entertainment

There's a word for the specific form of psychological abuse in which transphobia is disingenuously portrayed as concern, caution, or scientifically rigourous evidence: Casslighting.

For people interested in how maid and other such programmes impact disabled people, this new documentary comes recommended & free to watch on demand this week

Exactly why we here in the USA need to be careful about "who" the "blue" we elect is. Lesser evilism only works so long, and then you get a nominally liberal government railing against the marginalized and ushering in mass surveillance. #3E

It's amazing how governments can essentially discriminate against young people. If the government was talking about a social media ban for over 65s, owing to the risk of radicalisation and scams (arguably bigger harms)...well, it never would. Surely its legally questionable?

I was halfway through this and thinking this guy sounds a bit of a grifter when suddenly it drops in that he has guests on his medical podcast who are experts in things like "manifesting" Deffo sounds like someone we should trust our kids' health to www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It was already a worker's rights crisis. This isn't just about toilets and changing rooms. Most worker's rights for trans people have effectively been reversed. e.g. equal pay protections don't apply anymore because if a trans woman says "I'm being paid less than men" the counter is "she is a man".

Trans people facing ‘workers’ rights crisis’ as court rules employers can ban trans women from using female toilets www.the-independent.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The new Archbishop of Canterbury struck me as being an anodyne do-nothing typical Starmer pick and Mullally didn't disappoint. I caught mention last week of the Church of England dismantling its LGBT and women's equality initiative. The Welby excuse of dividing the church was used.

The wellness to eugenics to fascism pipeline is well documented. It’s why disabled people beg you to stop treating us as expendable. Health supremacy devalues other human beings. It leads to deciding some lives are “worth” more than others. It paves the way for atrocities.

Incredibly fragile fascists

good morning, it is day 3 of strikes at the University of Essex to save 400 jobs across all depts & stop the closure of our Southend Campus and our Foundation Year programme. The campus cat Pebbles is in solidarity 💕

Shamaan Freeman-Powell: "For black women the stats are particularly stark. They're more likely to have serious complications, they're more likely to lose a baby, more likely themselves to die during or after pregnancy"

It's another February Monday and we're starting to see more daylight at both ends of the day now. Today #BookyMcBookface is away north on the ferry to the beautiful #Orkney island of Stronsay. 📚❤️

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHER A list of the government's shameful LGBT+ record – especially when it comes to attacking trans people. Updated for the second time in two months because there have been six or seven things to add since January alone.