if you could detect transness in the womb couldn't you simply assign the baby the correct gender once it's born

Good Law Project warns draft schools guidance could encourage unlawful discrimination Good Law Project has responded to a consultation on new draft statutory guidance, concerning the inclusion of trans kids in schools

We've written a detailed response to the proposed schools guidance – which we are concerned may encourage schools to unlawfully discriminate against trans kids.

You can read our full response here 👇

Republicans have pulled their dangerous, egregious bill gutting the Endangered Species Act (ESA) from the House Floor 🎉

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.

70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.

30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.

7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

it will never not be funny how they thought bsky was going to be a google campus and instead they got tumblr and they absolutely h a t e it

A painting depicting the fall of Constantinople in 1459

The walls of productivity, guarded by the last stand of adhd medication, falls under the barrage of invading weed gummy (1453)

do you think if they’re having breakfast, and the waffles are too hot, he dips them in the pool?

MSG Security Allegedly Tracked a Trans Woman’s Movements, Including Bathroom Breaks, Down to the Second A bomshell report in Wired details an extensive use of the venue’s facial recognition system.

www.them.us/story/jim-do...

My first thought is bots, unless someone else working on the project shared the link to some folks?

me when I'm paid to be a technical advisor on a platform with millions of active users

The image is a screenshot of a social media post featuring a comment and an embedded map from "Hedgeye." The comment, by "Clarence Thomas the Tan...," states: "If you notice you're paying more for electricity this is why." Below this, the "Hedgeeye" post displays a map of the United States, marked with bright white and blue dots representing data centers. These dots are densely clustered in the Midwest and East Coast regions. The map has a dark background, and important regions are labeled, including "United States," "Cuba," and "The Bahamas." Alt-text: Map showing numerous data centers across the United States indicated by bright dots. Transcribed Text: "Clarence Thomas the Tan... · 23h If you notice you're paying more for electricity this is why. Hedgeye @Hedgeye · 1d 🚨 Datacenters are now 7% of total U.S. power demand"

When the UK crashed out of the EU due to Brexit we lost an entire layer of governance and legal protections.

The UK is now the most right wing govt in Western Europe. It may not be as openly bad as Orban but has that whiff about it and some policies certainly place it on the far right spectrum.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Incredibly proud of James, for winning this award and even moreso for his relentless reporting AND volunteering at the border, helping to tell the stories of and provide aid too the most desperate people on earth

The peak of fear mongering. The author claims Ohio HB 249 will jail women for going braless in a T-shirt. HB 249 is about shielding kids from adult performances & imagery —not policing whether women wear bras, bikinis, or T-shirts. Twisting it into "women could be jailed for going braless" isn't just wrong —it's a deliberate misrepresentation. It's common sense to shield kids' innocence from adult performances & imaginary. Nothing but perversion - twisting a bill that aims to protect the innocence of children into something it's not. Do better.

Here's the thing:

If legislators didn't intend for HB 249 to be used against women wearing leggings and low-rise jeans, if they didn't mean for it to be used against trans people existing... THEY COULD FIX THE LANGUAGE.

They drafted it that way for a reason. It's naive to think they won't use it.

The list of newspapers owned by McClatchy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClatc...

it is legitimately unfathomable how the US squandered its significant EV early lead primarily through entirely backwards short-sighted policy decisions in support of the oil industry which likely has already set the stages of the US auto industry's demise. a death in slow motion.

Canadian doctors obeying a U.S. executive order that doesn’t even apply to Canada is deeply offensive to both trans people and to Canadian legal sovereignty.

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

Plus we’re dealing with widespread enshittification in our devices and appliances and software; we just want to do our stuff and THEY KEEP FUCKING IT UP

Infowars’ endless afterlife The Onion may finally boot Alex Jones from his studio, but years of damage have already been done.

NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Onion news is very funny etc but I think it's worth spending a little time looking at the reality of what's happened: the families have not seen their settlement, and Lenny and his former wife Veronique have not even had their long-awaited day in court. This has been brutal and it's not over.

From a different social media platform:

Stonewall quietly changed its definition of transphobia last year to help allow the government to pursue its Wraparound Conversion Therapy policy.

The reason Dugdale has been appointed is to launder its *faux* Conversion Therapy ban.

Quislings…?

I think it's also a sign that he is losing support amongst his evangelical base.

They've tolerated worse from him up to this point, so this being too far seems like more of a reflection of their disconntent with his administration.

I'd say there are 2 perspectives on it.

1.) Anti Trump folks saw it as a sign that he is trying to position himself as a figure akin to Jesus amongst his followers (like a cult leader).

2.) Trump supporters tend to be very religious & saw it as sacrilegious.

We, as a community and as individuals, are running on fumes.

Someone was taken near 20th & Central tonight at 10 PM. Within 5 minutes, there were over 20 people on a call and even more people on foot in the area to respond.

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.

'Like Gaza': IDF razes south Lebanon villages during cease-fire, sources say Sources Describe a Policy Modeled on Gaza Operations, With Contractors and Heavy Machinery Demolishing Civilian Infrastructure South of the Litani; Officials Say It Aims to Prevent Residents' Return a...

IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return.

Both are war crimes punishable under international law.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...