Today in the Tulips. The start of Sunday in Chicago’s South Loop.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Will Michigan Medicine and Corewell Health reverse course and go back to providing gender affirming care to minors?
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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

A federal judge forcefully struck down HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s attempt to impose far-reaching restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, ruling the policy unlawful and blocking its enforcement in the states that challenged it.

I really wish there was a better way to choose the leadership at our state's universities; a process that didn't lead to political hacks who care nothing for education and only about the athletic programs and names on buildings.

It's doubtful that McMorrow or Whitmer will change their endorsements of Acker.

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!

And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

I am obsessed with this

Trump, Hegseth, Vance, and Kash Patel all wear shitty-fitting suits. It's unnerving. They all can afford a good tailor, but they clearly refuse.

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

Nine Inch Nails, Boys Noize - Parasite (Nine Inch Noize Version) YouTube video by NineInchNailsVEVO

Happy Friday! It's time for some raging and dancing to Nine Inch Noize.
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Caitlyn Jenner asks Trump for help after impact of trans passport policy "I can’t travel internationally anymore. I can’t use my passport," Caitlyn Jenner told Tomi Lahren in a recent interview.

Face eating leopards ect.....

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Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

one of the biggest technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with crypto, AI, metaverse or any of the things the media relentlessly hypes

There's now an effective, de facto, ban on gender affirming care for minors below 16 in most of Illinois, despite statewide protections. The local hospital systems are run by religious groups & they were all too eager to have an excuse to discontinue care & pressure local doctors to do the same.

If manspreading could be verbalized

River Reflection. Spring time on the South Branch of the Chicago River.

Pic of Fr. Bob Prevost wearing a fedora and sunglasses in 1982

He’s on a mission from God:

New Show Pitches:

POPE COP
POPE & ORDER
The Rookie: VATICAN
CHICAGO POPE

2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…

So thrilled to share that alongside the one and only @maggietokudahall.bsky.social, I get to co-host this year's Locus Awards ceremony!!

...also SPREAD ME is a FINALIST for best horror!?! 😱 I am on the moon!!! Thank you!!!

Families across the U.S. are getting college acceptance letters — and tuition bills NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with economist Judith Scott-Clayton about the cost of college in the U.S. They discuss the difference between sticker and net price and the opaqueness of tuition costs.

I just listened to an extended NPR interview w an education economist about 40 yrs of rising college tuition & student debt, and not a single mention that 40 yrs ago was about the time all states cut higher education budgets, privatized tuition, in order to pay for tax cuts and prisons

one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"

walking from my election party to the Tisza rally and we heard crowds cheering in the distance as Orban officially conceded 🥰

ROMEO, BAKER M. @BakerMikeRomeo • 2h why would the pope care about your book Rod Dreher @roddreher • 1h Because it was widely denounced by Antonio Spadaro, SJ, and others as "anti-Francis" (which it's not, but that was the line in Civilta Cattolica, which Francis reads and has to approve before publication). And Francis's people called around Italy before my book tour asking... ROMEO, BAKER M. @BakerMikeRomeo Replying to @roddreher ok so here's the thing: he's the pope, right and you're explaining to a cartoon rabbit on the internet why you're important enough that the pope should know who you are

Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

I hope they send Vance to campaign for every Republican Senate candidate for the mid-terms.

This is rather brilliant - Having Super Mario Kart Racing in your own home, the live-action version.

This course features collectible LEGO figures of Mario, Luigi and the gang.

The creation is part of a Rube Goldberg-style machine featured by Joseph's Machines.

#mario #lego #racing #fun

I for one am shocked and astonished that a skill-free mediocrity with no interior life to speak of who's failed upwards his entire life and who didn't understand how to buy a donut could not actually successfully conduct difficult and contentious diplomatic negotiations.

For folks living in the United States, participating in this sort of thing is a federal crime and will land you on the radar of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control

If you don't go broke defending yourself from the federal indictment first, you'll likely go broke while you're in federal prison

anyone who says people opposing data centers are just nimbys need to stop echoing industry propaganda and see what it’s actually like to live near one

well i did need to laugh