New from me: LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy this week. The company says it's underlying rules have not changed but advocates say it's part of a trend to loosen rules meant to protect vulnerable users.
When I called the police because I thought my ex was going to kill me, I was the one put in the squad car to make my report. This is while the male officer talked to my now ex & said “don’t hit her, just divorce her.”
Tweet from the FBI: “Help the FBI protect children. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care. Report tips of any hospitals, clinics, or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children at 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov.”
This is really bad.
I recorded a Meditation and it’s only 9 minutes youtu.be/KsHz0iQNdZU?...
Just so you know, the whole concept of "tragedy of the commons" was made up by a white supremacist, and has been thoroughly debunked aeon.co/essays/the-t...
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it
I think I speak for us all when I say: OH FUCK OFF, NICK CLEGG… Jesus Christ - I don’t know how they dare. They’d be first to sue us if we besmirched their IP
Fun that Wall Street thinks is an intentional shock to global trade, plus massive tax cuts for the rich that will skyrocket the cost of borrowing, and the largest theft of the poor in history, can only work out well.
"America has the freedom of inquiry…that is attractive to talented students from all over the world and it’s a mystery to me why the administration would want to take on such a successful aspect of the American economy and American culture." Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on @cnn.com
You probably know about the Reichstag fire and how Hitler used the suspension of fundamental rights to seize full power.
But have you ever heard of Plan Zeta in Chile?
The suspension of habeas corpus can lead to a crisis that lasts more than a decade. We must defend this right that dictators hate.
> @newyorker.com
With US out, WHO director says it’s running on budget of a local hospital arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
This might sound paranoid, and it’s still hypothetical. It’s a truism someone is always watching on the internet, but the worst thing that comes of it for many people is some unwanted targeted ads. Right now in the US, though, we’re watching the impending collision of two alarming trends. In one, tech executives are encouraging people to reveal ever more intimate details to AI tools, soliciting things users wouldn’t put on social media and may not even tell their closest friends. In the other, the government is obsessed with obtaining a nearly unprecedented level of surveillance and control over residents’ minds: their gender identities, their possible neurodivergence, their opinions on racism and genocide.
Exactly this. www.theverge.com/policy/66568...
As the child of a contractor, I have STRONG EMOTIONS about concrete, and this is HUGE. This has been a mystery for centuries.
www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-k...
The Episcopal Church is ending its refugee resettlement partnership with the federal government over the Trump administration’s “preferential treatment” of white South Africans.
Black Star forever 🙏🏾
It has occurred to me that y'all might not know who Mayor Ras Baraka is. So I'm going to take a moment out of grading to do my duty as a Jersey girl and teach you a thing. Mayor Baraka is the 40th mayor of the Newark, NJ, the city that will forever be Jersey's heartbeat.
The man checked out 50 books on topics that included Jewish history, African-American history and LGBTQ education.
Then burned them.
www.cleveland.com/community/20...
So many ppl don't get this. They think that trans ppl have never done anything for them, but
1) only in the sense that people in Jasper, Wyoming have never done anything for me, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have rights,
and
2) It is the ones with the least to lose that fight the hardest.
Netflix announced this in early 2024. Prescient given Trump's attempts to undo the civil service reforms which were a direct result of Garfield's assassination.
This month, at Xtra: Now that we've all decided fascism is necessary because it's "masculine" (???) (!!!!) I decided to talk to some trans feminists about what they think "masculinity" is, and how men's gender insecurity gets manipulated toward fascist ends: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
"All of this is terrifying and difficult to fathom. One thing is clear: the bipartisan project to increase jailing, fortify policing, and ramp up surveillance poses, as it always has and now only more, an immense danger to all of us...even the “innocent citizens.”
open.substack.com/pub/sheriffs...
How is this making America great?
"He is sitting, standing, and lying down at the same time"
Neither the Court nor the parties question the Executive Branch's authority and responsibility to enforce federal laws and, along with local law enforcement agencies, to protect 1 / 36 Case 1:25-cv-00072 Document 58 Filed on 05/01/25 in TXSD Page 2 of 36 the nation's population. Neither the Court nor the parties question that the Executive Branch can direct the detention and removal of aliens who engage in criminal activity in the United States. The Executive Branch has and will continue to rely on the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove aliens found to represent a danger to the country. The question that this lawsuit presents is whether the President can utilize a specific statute, the AEA, to detain and remove Venezuelan aliens who are members of TdA. As to that question, the historical record renders clear that the President's invocation of the AEA through the Proclamation exceeds the scope of the statute and is contrary to the plain, ordinary meaning of the statute's terms. As a result, the Court concludes that as a matter of law, the Executive Branch cannot rely on the AEA, based on the Proclamation, to detain the Named Petitioners and the certified class, or to remove them from the country.'
Case 1:25-cv-00072 Document 59 Filed on 05/01/25 in TXSD Page 1 of 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BROWNSVILLE DIVISION ENTERED May 01, 2025 Nathan Ochsner, Clerk J.A.V., et al., Petitioners, son con con VS. CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:25-CV-072 DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Respondents. FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION In accordance with the Court's Order and Opinion granting class certification (Doc. 57) and its Order and Opinion granting summary judgment (Doc. 58), the Court enters final judgment in favor of Petitioners J.A.V., J.G.G., W.G.H., and the members of the certified class. Accordingly, it is: ORDERED that the Class Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Doc. 1) is GRANTED; and ORDERED that Respondents are permanently enjoined from detaining, transferring, or removing J.A.V., J.G.G., W.G.H., and the members of the certified class, under the Alien Enemies Act, 50 U.S.C. § 21, and based on the Presidential Proclamation, "Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua," 90 Fed. Reg. 13033. This permanent injunction does not prohibit Respondents from proceeding with removal proceedings or otherwise acting against J.A.V., J.G.G., W.G.H., and the members of the certified class, based on the Immigration and Nationality Act, including under any final order of removal. This Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction does not enjoin Respondent Donald Trump in his official duties as President of the United States. See Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788, 802 (1992). Signed on May 1, 2025. 1/1 Femendo Rodiguez, Ja. Fernando Rodriguez, Jr. United States District Judge
BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump exceeded his authority in his Alien Enemies Act proclamation addressing alleged members of Tren de Aragua, issuing a permanent injunction barring AEA proclamation-based removals from the Southern District of Texas.
It’s always been the risk and the employers are never punished for hiring people illegally. We need reform.
Brexit is killing us.
New study: Brexit has led to 1,485 extra deaths/year in 🏴
Study’s lead investigator:
"Brexit has had real life-or-death consequences for patients in our hospitals... (as the loss of staff) led to a measurable decline in care quality.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
spending the morning working on my essay for my Open University Classics MA on gender in the Roman Empire.
the reason "classics" is coded as only for upper-class British men is that when you actually read the ancient Greeks & Romans, they explode our conventional ideas about gender, class and sex
To come back to
