one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one
There's a quote in here from my Buzzfeed essay that says as much, but I really do blame mass media for this the most. Why are you having guests on your talk show explaining "Gen Z slang" when a 5 sec Google search would immediately call their "expertise" into question. DO YOUR DAMN JOB.
What a sweet lil face. I’m so sorry.
Looking forward to chopping it up with @lisasnowden.bsky.social of @baltimorebeat.bsky.social about The Overseer Class and Baltimore's legacy from the 2015 uprising against the killing of Freddie Gray at @redemmas.org on May 27 redemmas.org/events/steve...
by age 30 you should have ridden a skateboard while holding onto the back of a moving car like Marty mcfly
"The problem is fewer pregnant teenage girls."
This party commands the loyalty of half the country. I will never understand it.
At today's hearing, @blumenthal.senate.gov brought up letters we obtained from kids held at the Dilley detention facility: propub.li/4lZbTF1
He also referenced our reporting on how Trump has detained the parents of more than 11,000 children: propub.li/4c2uqg9
I’m so sorry. May you always feel her close.
it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work
These episodes are a really good example of the ways in which men fuck over women's sports to enrich themselves, while calling themselves supporters. (Nobody listened to this show at all when it came out, as far as I can tell, which is kinda sad.)
Wow I wonder why people don’t want to come to the US????
thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week
Ty for rounding up the vibes bc I legit sent them!!!!
I just read through everything and am just so amazed by the things you are up to and also how many things you are, in fact, up to! Plus bonus mushroom knowledge? Ugh you’re the best ✨
Wonderful! I’m tied up today but will dm you this eve. Thanks!
Omg this is amazing! I just got a job at a community radio station and I’m doing a segment where I play songs from found/contributed mix tapes, could I include this? Happy to dm more details.
I hate how true this is, and how many times I think about this post every time I read the news.
missed yesterday’s so I’m doing two at once and they’re really fucking dark. 42yo Honduran dad dies of what ICE calls liver failure due to alcoholism (family calls bullshit). 39yo DACA kid from Mexico dies of sudden illness, mom says no prior health probs & explicitly calls it “medical negligence”
He’s running out of time.
Please sign and share to help this innocent man who not only didn’t pull the trigger, but the man who did got life without parole, while Sonny is set to be executed for a murder he didn’t commit on March 12th. Gov Kay Ivey needs to do the right thing.
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They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
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I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
These steps toward caution are wise, but an underlying problem remains: Society still has an irrational fear of effeminate boys, who should be free to live their life without altering anything about themselves. Gender-nonconforming children continue to get the strong impression from censorious peers and well-meaning adults alike that they’d be better off if they became something other than what they are.
My childhood experiences make me skeptical about pediatric gender medicine today. In many kids who grow up to be gay, gender nonconformity manifests long before overt same-sex attraction does. Yet from peers, from social media, and even from some school districts’ teaching material, kids learn simplistic lessons that equate gender nonconformity with gender dysphoria—in essence, If you act and dress like a girl, you are one. In recent years, many doctors and hospitals have been willing to provide puberty blockers and gender-related hormone treatments to minors after only the briefest evaluation of each patient’s circumstances, and LGBTQ activists have cheered the lack of gatekeeping.
Where? How? These people have been pooping this stupid myth back and forth for so long that they don't even bother to provide basic evidence anymore.
It's the *premise* of the article, how did an editor not ask for specific numbers and peer-reviewed studies on this alleged phenomenon?
This has been part of the trans-kids moral panic for years, gay adults going "If I grew up now, they'd convince me I'm trans."
If your movement had real evidence, you wouldn't be pointing to alternative-universe hypotheticals! Child psychologists know the difference between gay kids and trans kids
A long overdue reckoning for Henrietta Lacks — the Black woman whose cancer cells led to breakthroughs but were harvested without her consent. Novartis has settled a lawsuit by Lacks’ estate that alleged the pharmaceutical giant profited off her cells.
https://bit.ly/3NgCeBs
Deeply disappointing to see the Court tossing this complex issue with an emergency order.
Justice Kagan is not mincing words here:
"The Court is impatient: It already knows what it thinks, and insists on getting everything over quickly."