This weekend, pseudoscience pushers, including Trump’s HHS report author, will be teaching doctors from around the US anti-trans pseudoscience.
Now, anti trans activists say as a result of our story, 2k emails have been sent to get them to cancel.
They are pointing followers to an email address.
I think this is pretty spot on and gets at what stopped working in social justice work without blaming the underlying ideas or values of that work.
Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
This is by far the most serious international law analysis the Trump Administration has offered for the Iran War. Its most significant flaws: (i) the lack of explanation for the necessity of the war ... [1]
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“MeToo, famously, had not much in the way of a legislative agenda. But this isn't a knock against it. Cultural change can be enormously impactful. Just look at the queer rights movement. Its most important successes were not in law or policy, but culture.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...
They try to make it sound like a huge amount of money, as if SPLC was effectively subsidizing extremist groups to some significant degree. An average of $300,000 a year on paid informants is a trivial drop in the bucket, and only some small portion of that then went back into the targeted orgs.
Kash Patel as Lego with big weird eyes and lots of beers
I know we’re not supposed to like the Iranian social media teen meme army seeing us for what we’ve told them we are on the Internet but I like to think this kind of thing is really just them reaching out and saying we don’t like this either and know you’ll appreciate the hilarity
If you want to get a sense of how thin the GOP's national security bench is, the 29-year-old CT official at DHS who was suspended for seeking sugar daddies was their first pick.
The myth that all the Putins and Orbans and billionaires in the world need you to believe is that “the people” aren’t really a thing, just the small handful of dudes who want all the power matter.
The people are a thing. And the thing with power, when they remember how to use it.
"Hey, now that we annexed you, you need to stop speaking French as an official language, Pierre, in America we speak English." My MAGA friend, last time somebody pushed that point there were bombs and dead politicians in car trunks. Move. The Fuck. Along.
Alberta should absolutely separate and join the US, enjoying the experience, after losing millions of people who'd bail and also the seizure of all Canadian federal property, the experience of no longer being a powerful province but weirder North Dakota, and everybody loses their health insurance.
I have made this point before -- every fantasy that Trump has of annexing Canada does not take into account my beloved Quebec, which wakes up every morning and tells a country *that bends over backwards to make it happy* to "Go fuck yourselves, tête carrée".
You muppets, you can't convince Quebec to give back the apostrophe S's they stripped off every store in the 70's that they've got stored in a secret warehouse in Ville St. Laurent, they're certainly not going to give up a ban on US liquor because it hurt your fucking Yankee feelings.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
100% there will be a war fought over which Jesus LLM gets to decide who gets to play on a Little League soccer team or what kind of muffins get sold at a PTA fundraiser or something. It will last 30+ years, kill thousands of people, and gestate a new strain of flu.
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I’m sure if Jill Stein wasn’t in her non-election year hypersleep pod she’d have a lot to say about the war.
I should probably go to bed. But Henry speaks to me.
man ever since i saw that company handbook someone leaked it was like "how long before this shows up in a lawsuit"
Despite all the criticism, the Jeff Bezos-led Washington Post is still tackling the big issues…
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in my experience this is a widely held view
We gotta get these fucking people out of power if for no other reason than to put an end to these dipshits saying shit like this in public without any shane at all
Israel kills journalists with such frequency, the article features a photo of Amal Khalil at a sit-in, holding a portrait of photographer Hussein Hammoud, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on March 25.
Jay Bhattacharya falsely accused people of “censoring” him for years — including Stanford Internet Observatory. He has his job because of pretend censorship — he parlayed being a fake victim into a government appointment.
Here he is suppressing a paper because he doesn’t like its conclusions.
The fact that Trump had appointed a totally unqualified donor to be Secretary of the Navy leading into what turned into the biggest crisis for the US Navy since World War 2 could be covered like the media covered Michael "Brownie" Brown during Hurricane Katrina.
They choose not to do this!
I mean. They’d be innocent even if they WERE related, because that’s not how guilt works.
Kaja Kallas: Excluding Israel from Eurovision would be "mistaken" & "punish the Israeli people" -- but the EU will cut funding to the Venice Biennale because Russia's participation is "morally wrong" while it "bombs museums, destroys churches and seeks to erase Ukrainian culture"
Traditionally speaking Israel is actually the beneficiary of the double standard
Since I don't remember if I shared it, here's my talk "Fascist Bullshit: How ‘Generative AI’ Enacts & Enables Authoritarianism and Eugenics" at the symposium "Virtual Power: AI, Ableism, Racism, and Fascism," at the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 conference, from January of this year:
