The collapse isnt Mad Max style dystopia. It is high riches and advanced tech sitting right to penury and a panopticon. And it is everywhere: no country is safe. If any, other places are at a bigger risk.
Just that: out here, we didn’t swing from hope to despair this rapidly and for so little.
I have much sympathy for Americans who’ve grown up believing that their system will generate civil, rule-based outcomes, or that many of their fellow citizens won’t rejoice in people being tortured or killed.
Easier for me to give up on the American system; don’t have an emotional investment
Da fuq? Adult content for the Wikipedia link?! 😁
Read it in English, but I’m told the Spanish original is a lot more complex and interesting: lots of Gaucho talk, and words from languages of Native peoples such as Guarani. And of course, original lines from the poem suitably subverted.
It’s fascinating. I liked it a lot.
Just finished: The Adventures of China Iron.
The gaucho lore, specifically the Argentinian epic poem, El Gaucho Martín Fierro is queered by considering the hero’s Martín Fierro’s nameless wife and her epic adventures with Scottish woman and a AMAB named Rosa.
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The absurd level of hubris it takes to come in to an issue he knows nothing about and begin telling people being persecuted, "well, have you tried this?" after those people have already tried it. It's consultant brained thinking you'd get from some 23 year old McKinsey associate.
Because they're petrified of trans people who've transitioned early and are 'undetectable". They want to make transition—if allowed at all—as arduous, painful, stigmatizing, and protracted as possible.
To their petty thinking, trans people represent an existential threat to patriarchal 'norms'.
Today I leaned that The Atlantic will platform a cis man who believes in autogynephilia to spread lies about trans people, but they won't actually publish a real trans person.
When I was on the Gender Reveal podcast earlier this month, I referred to the United States as post-Constitutional
The America we once knew is dead. For better or worse, the institutions that once existed no longer function
The regime is implementing their vision, we must resist and build our own
Add this to the other ICE homicides. This time they released a Burmese blind man in Buffalo in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere. His corpse was discovered several hours later. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
The nyt is run by anti-trans activists. Singal’s propagandistic piece was hooked to no news, but it was conveniently timed to set up Trump’s anti-trans screed.
The piece didn’t bubble up from earnest discussions bw expert editors and reporters. It was tired disinformation.
ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do
They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do
They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do.
Then they *lost* him.
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NYT headline: With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans: In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.
"It seemed Republicans only wanted to deny health care and segregate children based on eugenics, yet in a shocking turn it seems they want to wipe out the entire population?" Imagine writing about anyone like this, let alone one of the most persecuted communities today. Sickening.
Her posts, flagged by an automated review system, alarmed employees at OpenAI. Internally, about a dozen staffers debated whether to take action on Van Rootselaar’s posts. Some employees interpreted Van Rootselaar’s writings as an indication of potential real-world violence, and urged leaders to alert Canadian law enforcement about her behavior, the people familiar with the matter said.
Oh my god.
I wonder if they didn't turn her in because chatgpt was helping her plan a shooting and they didn't want the scrutiny.
Humiliated in the media, denied healthcare, attacked by the human rights watchdog, shut out by the Supreme Court, bullied by social services and the police, disadvantaged in the jobs market, death figures covered up by the State, harassment de facto legalised, and attackers deified by Ministers.
I’m so very sorry. This is so heartbreaking. Solidarity in being trans from somewhere else on this planet. 🫶🏽🏳️⚧️
These people never grapple with the reality that the right not only outspends trans people 20:1 but they also control social media algorithms and many legacy media institutions.
They never ask the questions why public opinion changed and why certain issues are so central to the debate.
What a scary thread. All the old dangers of being online, but fuelled by an algo trained to be persistent and emotionally pleasing to the user.
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published Feb. 2025)
One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
This: youtu.be/sWXw4DD7P8Q?...
i will never accept this excuse out of a society that demands you take on 5 to 6 figures of debt to commit to a degree for a career at age 18
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"
Direct quote.
I’m still in tech. But I also write these days. I write a lot. Make of that what you will🙂
I worked in tech for 20-odd years and have degrees in computers, math and analytics.
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer. 2:53 PM · Feb 13, 2026 · 1.5M Views
INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.
Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality." • • I| 0:14 12:31 pm • 12 Feb 2026 • 174K Views
The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!
Wrote a piece that’s 10k words long. Multilingual, but primarily in an Indian language. Accepted for publication.
One early reader called it a text that expertly navigates cultures with a data-scientist’s scientific precision, but also with a poet’s love for language.
Not on Kobo? 😢 Would rather not use Kindle.