Truly, what is wrong with people.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

I wasn't allowed to watch the Simpsons growing up because my parents were worried Bart Simpson would be a bad influence on me.

They really should have realized I was always much more of a Lisa!

What a weird, wild, and wholly unexpected intersection between my degrees in political science and religious studies.

Given there’s a good jobs report this month that will almost certainly be revised down significantly I would like to remind people I am actively looking for work and am available to help your organization TOMORROW.

it looks from the outside like the NYT adopted an advocacy position on the anti-trans side. anti-trans people rarely have issue getting a byline or a story-defining quote in the Times when no trans person is ever given that chance?

I don't want advocacy from the NYT, I want fairness.

over and over again, outright paid anti-trans activists are quoted in the Times as "concerned parents" or "concerned doctors". these are people who are paid to advocate against trans rights, and they are constantly white-washed by NYT news reporters.

Olympic ban on transgender women stems from fear and feelings, not facts | Opinion The International Olympic Committee has refused to make public the science that led to its ban of transgender women athletes.

Imagine telling an 11-year-old girl she can’t compete b/c she has a condition called DSD. Or making accepting discrimination the price all women must pay to compete.

When people say transphobia hurts all women, this is what is meant. And the IOC did it willingly.

But now it's crept into "any woman who fails a DNA test is actually a man." They're not protecting women's sports. They're policing womanhood itself.

Anyone who claims to be a feminist must call the IOC trans exclusion/mandatory sex-testing policy out for what it is: a massive blow to fairness in women’s sports.

It is literally harder for women compared to men today than it was yesterday. That's textbook gender discrimination, baby!!

I wish cis people understood how it feels to see Harry Potter every-fucking-where constantly.

me when the son of a retired NFL/NBA player shows up in college sports: my time has passed, my flesh is decaying, googling coffin prices

me when they show a former NFL/NBA player supporting their daughter at a college hoops/volleyball game: HELL YEAH! LET'S GO NFL/NBA PLAYER'S DAUGHTER

Oh my god my book is on here 😭😭😭

what do you do when your desired outcome (banning gender-affirming care) goes against the medical consensus? easy: simply exclude 97% of the relevant medical studies from your review...

If they had DEI they’d know it was Targét not Tarzhay

Very much not the point but listing sex at birth on a document meant to identify you right now is utterly useless from a security standpoint. but of course this is about cruelty and forced outing of queer private lives.

I hate this genuinely brought a giant sigh of relief for me today.

love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

Editors, if you would like someone to help plan your Los Angeles 2028 Olympic coverage from the actual sports to the massive political implications they have, I’m your woman. So much is going on NOW that matters.

The NYT message is:

"If they just stop identifying as transgender, then they won't face any persecution at all! So, in a way, it's really trans identified individuals making a choice to suffer needlessly by persisting in their delusion."

I think it's fair to say, but at this point in my life I'm pretty sure I've moshed my last pit and I'm okay with that.

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the problem with giving in on things that don't poll well is that as soon as the right wins on the the things that don't poll well, they move on and start lying about more popular things to manipulate public opinion, starting the cycle again.

democratic party cheerleaders are really doing their best to make it seem like the nominee for president in 2028 is gavin newsom already huh

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

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The only trans people mentioned in the epstein files are victims.

Hundreds of known anti-trans people are in them, though, either rubbing shoulders with the rape-cult, an active part of the clique, or trying to gain access.

Are you getting it yet?