The problem mostly is in the fact that trans people are such a small portion of the population (1%) that many cis people know of them, but don't know them. Not well.

The idea that trans women are men or that trans men are women falls apart pretty quickly when they're your actual close friends. When you know them.

Fascinating that these party movements meant to keep people dumb and pliable continue to use slogans that assert their support of being dumb and pliable.
amazing that they declare themselves against being woke. That their followers hear this and say, "yes! Being woke is bad!"
Dumb. Pliable. Asleep.

In a sea of streaming services, this is why I love Dropout, and recommend it. Shows I love. Company I believe in.

What happened to the Green brothers to make them be like this?!?!

Martin Luther King wrote:
"...the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice"

Read the whole Letter From A Birmingham Jail.

Justice stands, blindfolded, with scales in one hand and a sword in the other.

I saw the killer of the CEO.

Here is a rendering. I strongly encourage all law enforcement to pursue her and close the case.

I grew up with Kaiser in Northern California, and it was great care.
I think the "not as nice" part is the South.
They genuinely don't regulate their healthcare providers well.
Even then, it's the best healthcare available, that isn't ala carte, in Georgia.

My kids have United. My mom has Kaiser. I experience both through them. The care through Kaiser is ridiculously average, and it still sorta sucks. The care through UHC is terrible.

He was a legal serial killer. Nothing he did was against the law. But it should have been.

Graph showing 2024 medical insurance claim denials. Top is United Healthcare at 33%, bottom is Kaiser Permanente at 6%. Average is around 16%.

Leaving this here for no particular reason.

This. It *screams* "please me, well enough, and I will reward you with my attention.
Kat is smarter than this, and already fulfilled enough, for this to not work on her.

When Musk was going to be forced to buy twitter I immediately deleted my account.
The pure freaking stupid smug joy this gives me years later when it has become what I knew it would, and people have now mass exited it, is really incalculable, and points to me being a pretty terrible person.

You should also know that most history says that James himself chose to learn French cooking while he was in France with Jefferson. And that yes, he was specifically a Hemings of that line.

It starts with Black people. As do many things that we think of as uniquely American.

There's a lot of really good history about mac&cheese in the US. You should read it.
But know that it starts with James Hemings, who was a slave of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had him taught French technique, where he learned bechemel, and brought it back to create mac&cheese at the White House.

Throw. Jesus Christ.

I don't think you're stupid. I think you're overwhelmed. And I think that's reasonable.

I mean, it's not that hard to through a mini- con.

Oh! The answer is almost nothing.

If you have a stock account over a million dollars, you can take out loans from it, and have the interest pay off the loans. You never touch your capital. The loans aren't taxable.

This is how the rich live.

This is what radicalized me over a decade ago. Thank goodness.

History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme?

Dude. This is some Dr. Seuss level rhyming where it's just the word fish over and over.

Me: I know basically what Cabaret is about, but I've never watched it.
Me later: well. It seems really portentious that this got big again recently. And fucking yet.
Me yet later: the weird tiktok micro trend right now are sequined shorts?!

bell hooks. Famous author.

No. It's saying that everybody needs to practice more introspection, and question their own biases.
When you come to the table with more privilege you do in fact have to question yourself more. It doesn't discredit you. It should just raise internal flags.
We all have to do the work.

When I fully embraced my queerness, I started then to feel whole.

Almost always people with privilege experience challenge to that privilege or loss of that privilege as abuse.
This is true in interpersonal dynamics and larger societal ones.

If you find yourself uncomfortable, sit with it.

Ask yourself where you feel threatened.

I'm not kidding.

Oh, and read some bell hooks about it. It'll help. 💚

Like, I suggest you meditate on it. Really.

Yes. Almost always people with privilege experience challenge to that privilege or loss of that privilege as abuse
It isn't. It's being confronted with disparity. Your own bias. As someone who sits at both the intersections of both marginalization and allyship, my job is to sit with that discomfort