Federal Court Rules In Favor of Forcibly Detransitioning Transgender Inmates In Florida Incarcerated transgender people were a major topic of debate in the 2024 elections. Now, a judge ruling on a Florida policy shows how cruel abandoning trans people in prison can be.

A federal court has ruled that Florida can detransition inmates.

Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy.

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The real Adrian Dittmann The account appears to be, in fact, Adrian Dittmann, a German Musk fan living in Fiji, according to a Spectator analysis of his posts

while everyone else was busy writing slop articles about how adrian dittmann sounds like elon musk i decided to actually find him. investigation with @jsweetli.bsky.social and @ryan.staticnoi.se

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I haven't been able to post more about it, I've been dealing with loss and I've sort of been out of it. But i haven't been able to raise enough to pay for the bill and groceries. 😢
Thank you everyone for your kind wishes about the loss of the kitten.

It's impossible not to know what's going on in Gaza | Opinion ***

It’s impossible not to know what’s happening in Gaza. Article by two prominent Israeli economists Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

TONIGHT BABYEEEEEEEE

Chat! I have groceries left for a few days, and my electric bill is about to come!
can if you can engage, donate, or talk about it. I'd greatly appreciate it!
Thank you so much chat, i was able to get capture card due to ya'll! ♥️

it is crazy that we went from zero to mild levels of class consciousness in one day. this shit is so fragile. keep the energy please and thank you

We, the Online left, have received numerous complaints from Mainstream Media for glorifying and memeing the death of a CEO.
I would like to state, we've investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.
You can move on and demonize the dead now like you do when cops or the IDF use that trick.

No offense to any of you but "block list manager" feels like the volunteer cop version of being an online moderator so it is not a surprise to me that the ounce of power it gives is being abused

a man in a suit and tie is pointing his finger at his eye Alt: a man in a suit and tie is pointing his finger at his eye

I cant wait for millenials to blame gen z for the next ten years without any realization that theyre doing exactly what gen x did

I see you bitch lmao

It's so funny and strange that the country which touts around the globe as the enforcer of justice, and human right is the only one veto-ing against a cease fire in gaza. It should tell you what a sham all of this is.

In honor of TDOR I’ve compiled a list of all known trans peoples names and ages who were lost to anti trans violence over the last 10 years in America. May they rest in peace. This list is not complete because it is often under reported. Today we remember the names of those we know of.

Chat we're still doing this and things are looking bad. We've only raised $80 out of the $250.
please donate and/or share.
i won't even have groceries by the end of the month :((

all timer

"bluesky is cooking it's really taking off" i have not yet seen a teenager posting stuff like 'you dont miss your dead dog you miss uncritical affection from someone who can't challenge you' so no i do not agree

At the same time, you don’t want to let TikTok off the hook. One exercise that I think would be useful for understanding the effect of TikTok on the electorate would be to step back and think less about the type of content that you see there and think more about the type of person that TikTok shapes its users into being. I don’t think that Trump won “because of” TikTok in any new sense beyond the now-obvious fact that social media is a necessary condition to his success. But I suspect that social media, as it transforms and matures, shapes voters in ways it will take a long time to pick up on. Who is the “TikTok electorate”? How do its users relate to the world, and how does that shape their politics?

To be clear, I’m not sure that everyone outraged about P’Nut was viewing the situation through the same lens, but the episode was a good reminder that (1) influencers are, at bottom, small-business owners, and (2) small-business owners love Trump. He’s going to lower your taxes and limit the worker and consumer protections that hold you back (a genuine concern for medium-sized streamers and influencers!). If you’re a TikToker or a YouTuber you may even have a vested financial interest in the “anti-woke” culture-war aspects of a Trump presidency, which help protect you from content moderation and de-monetization. Americans tend to love “small-business owners” as a concept, but as a class they’re among the traditional strongholds for fascist and reactionary politics: fearful of change from below (getting canceled by your followers), jealous of their relative social position (follower count), resentful of the larger and wealthier companies and people they see as threatening their livelihoods (real celebrities), eager to vote for a strong leader whose dictatorial authority they can identify with (fellow influencer Donald J. Trump). The petite bourgeoisie are uniquely exposed to market forces in a way that is not crazy to analogize to an influencer’s exposure to a given platform; it seems worth noting, too, in the age of trad-influencer mania, that Wilhelm Reich famously located the core of petite bourgeois reaction in the structure of the patriarchal family, which both mirrors and is coterminous with the small business itself.

TikTok, like all social media, is a similarly volatile space. Your FYP algorithm is supersensitive; “vibes” are constantly “shifting” for occult and obscure reasons; everything is temporary; and your chief means of expressing preference is to either click or keep scrolling. For this reason I suspect that the experience of electoral volatility is both more familiar to and less uncomfortable for people who spend a lot of time on social media. You can’t blame coalitional instability (or large electoral swings) purely on TikTok, of course. But it seems to me that, by intermediating social and cultural life with a capricious quasi-market structure from which participants can sometimes wildly benefit, TikTok and other social platforms cultivate an appetite for volatility and risk, which can easily be seen in the rise of legal or semi-legal gambling (on sports and politics), retail investing, and crypto speculation, as well as outsider and anti-establishment political candidates, various kinds of fringe politics, and the “it’s so over/we’re so back” meme.

In other words, it’s not “speculators” that TikTok and its peers produce so much as an endless population of suckers, self-regarding dummies making themselves available at any moment for a WallStreetBets pump-and-dump or a crypto scam or a wellness supplement or a moronic parlay bet, their money sliding easily into the pockets of the people running each category’s casino-equivalent. Who would you expect these guys to vote for? You might even add “the Republican Party” to Weatherby and Recht’s list of industries parasitically feeding off the marks developed by TikTok and YouTube. It wouldn’t exactly be new territory for the G.O.P. So what is there to take away from this? (Besides “feels bad.”) I think social media’s most important effect on voters the easy accessibility or smooth distribution of certain kinds of propaganda--a lot of which is meeting a demand as much as if not more than creating one--but that its incentives and structures teach people to be a type of person who is not naturally friendly to social-democratic, let alone democratic socialist, politics. I don’t begrudge anyone who sees a calling in creating their own left-wing versions of right-wing influencers or streamers. But I suspect the real work has to be done off of TikTok.

the tiktok electorate maxread.substack.com/p/the-tiktok...

Senior allies to Harris pushed the campaign and the DNC to have a Palestinian speaker onstage at the August convention, trying to further the goodwill Harris had earned from the Arab and Muslim communities furious over Gaza, but they were denied. One person said it was at the behest of the national security team.

How fucking insulting is this? (From a Guardian excerpt of a NOTUS report—ignore the “earned goodwill” nonsense)

the wildest thing about this election are all the liberals who saw Hitler 2 beat Girlboss Hitler with a third of the ad budget targeted towards killing trannies, and they thought to themselves "maybe WE should advocate for killing trannies too" instead of "maybe we should Not Run Any Hitler At All".

it’s so funny bc biden literally has carte blanche he can do whatever he wants the supreme court said so and he absolutely won’t because the democratic party is deathly allergic to being useful in any way

it's impossible to know for certain what would've happened if she ran a more progressive campaign. i have my theories, you have yours. but quite a bit of this loss are due to years of democratic party politics that precede the campaign.

Being Latin-American means worrying about another country’s election to the point of a anxiety attack because they might finance the worst people on the country or worse, do another coup d’état, again.

i think your og post is deleted, but i remember you saying something about needing more than left wing policy. and i agree. it will be a huge endeavour to counter-message against the right wing media ecosystem.

i have been thinking about it more, & listening to more people, i can't discount your opinion. race & gender might have been a significant factor when coupled with other things. but i do think she could have cancelled it out with better policy & messaging. it is possible.

i don't think it wasn't a factor at all, but there is no evidence to suggest it was a key factor, enough to make a difference. if we do get that data, i will concede. until then, this is the best data we have, & it is valid to rely on it. also progressive woc like tlaib & omar won comfortably

that, coupled with the fact that the US voted a black man for president for two terms, should be enough evidence that her race and gender were not the key factor