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Transgender and non-binary folk matter. They are us, they are family, they are neighbors, and they need/deserve rights. Don’t be mean. (For the duration: this will be a daily posting.)

If each Treasury payee is a separate record, and there are, say, 68,000,000 social security payees (as is estimated), then at $5000 per violation, it seems like Elon could be penalized $340 billion if he unlawfully accessed their Treasury records...

Kinda feels like a whole lotta people found out for the first time today that there's a very large, very vibrant progressive wing of Christianity (and religion in general).

Too late!

This is my favorite bird ever!!

Gofundme should not be our national safety net

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My contribution to happiness today? Listen to Jon Batiste’s new “Beethoven Blues” album. Beyond fantastic.

I love “Quiet Hands.”

"The Potential That Was in All of Us": Carceral Disability
and the Japanese American Redress Movement
Adria L. Imada
WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Numbers 1 & 2,
Spring/Summer 2023, pp. 21-47 (Article)

Sandy Sufian’s work on adoption! I also love Nina Mackert’s essay on the history of the calorie. It’s brilliant— Work, burn, eat: abilities of calorimetric bodies in the USA, 1890–1930 Rethinking History, 23:2, 189-209

A Pedagogy of Kindness - University of Oklahoma Press Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, highe...

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Since Google’s AI overview is really annoying me, advice on your favorite search engine?

I’d love to be added!

Dorothy Sayers taught me the word “defenestration.”

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