🇭🇷⚖️🇪🇺 This is also a momentous victory of Advocate-General Tamara Ćapeta, the Croatian maverick of EU values, whose opinion in this case formed the backbone of CJEU's argumentation. Watch out for other cases where she wrote the opinion (esp. the European judicial orgs. vs EU case regarding Poland).

I miss the old homepage!!! I don’t like the undifferentiated feed :(

We need a matriarchy run by lesbians with clipboards and earpieces who do not take any shit.

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This piece is incredibly important. Read the whole thing.

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

This news comes almost eight years to the day after the Sandy Hook families first filed their defamation lawsuit against Infowars. If the situation is as I believe it to be, the deal still has to be approved by a judge. More soon -

I'll simply say again that for Shlaes to resurface in The Economist at this moment is an indicator of an ambient concern that Rooseveltian policies and politics are increasingly likely. The thing about the New Deal is, it was *immensely popular.* That's terrifying to certain people

Here’s a list of the allegations that Patel claims are false and defamatory:

talkin bout gender makes everyone feel better, too bad they are trying to outlaw talkin bout gender. If we can't get men into therapy, atleast get them "talkin bout gender"

"Talkin bout Gender" should be an am radio call-in show that runs 8 hours a day, I am deadly serious.

this for me is one of the basic questions about "sports fairness!!" that its proponents do not want to answer: we know that there are many congenital or genetic advantages in different sports, height and basketball being a very obvious case. when is a genetic advantage fair? when is it unfair?

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

I always loved that she was like, “if you’re a scholar, you probably need a lot of books and that’s fine!” it’s so much more about actually focusing on what you like and need and use. it made me buy so much less stuff.

I've been thinking about the backlash Marie Kondo got and I think part of it was not just that she was saying "buy less shit" she was explicitly say "only buy what actually makes you happy" and in a nation of conspicuous consumption it pissed people off.

a fact sheet given out by an org with suggested terms, or whatever, is really not a binding law where we put you in pronoun jail for ignoring it. if only! these are, at most, suggestions and polite requests!

when, in reality, we are just trying to 1) describe ourselves 2) find each other and 3) get our needs met

we are not cackling in our ivory towers demanding that every single doctor always say “birthing person” - and also that’s a perfectly fine thing to say. behind all this is always the idea that progressives (trans and/or Black people especially) are this powerful, evil language police

a fact sheet given out by an org with suggested terms, or whatever, is really not a binding law where we put you in pronoun jail for ignoring it. if only! these are, at most, suggestions and polite requests!

when, in reality, we are just trying to 1) describe ourselves 2) find each other and 3) get our needs met

we are not cackling in our ivory towers demanding that every single doctor always say “birthing person” - and also that’s a perfectly fine thing to say. behind all this is always the idea that progressives (trans and/or Black people especially) are this powerful, evil language police

right.

and, as someone who has worked in advocacy for over a decade now, specifically in the realm of telling stories and explaining and messaging and convincing people; we just want you to acknowledge that we exist.

Conservatives' brains are so broken. Thomas is one of the most powerful people in the country and he lives like a billionaire, vacationing on private yachts and private ranches.

But he is still filled with resentment over "liberals" making his life miserable back when he was a baby in 1948? Wut?

we already know where this leads: to kids who are ignored or rejected when they are human beings instead of a customized PC or couch www.wired.com/story/your-n...

The fact of the matter is that your racist uncle who hates Woke Studies ever since he heard about it on the drive back from the supermarket and the governing board that oversees your research institution are converging, and the results are exactly as monstrous and as stupid as you would have guessed

"She was looking to help people directly, rather than in a laboratory. She was not politically active, didn’t know anyone with AIDS and wasn’t even sure she had ever met anyone who was gay."

cant think of any groups legacy media editors hate more than immigrants and transsexual women, so it doesnt surprise me theyd start foaming at the mouth at undocumented transsexual immigrant women receiving medical care, but it doesnt make it any less horrifying to see

It’s funny that every school is convinced that dumping area studies and student organizations for Black students is the path to “regaining trust”