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am watching this year’s ap scores roll in and thinking about how weird it is that people (teachers, admissions officers, parents, journalists) still trust this brand at all in light of what happened with ap african american studies apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-sco...

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it was dumber than this

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The young Iranian #poet who lost her life in an #Israeli strike #ParniaAbbasi 23, was described by friends as funny and full of life. She and her family were some of the first people killed in #lsrael 's attack on #Iran www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Hear me out: birdwatching is inevitable. You can slowly and depressingly descend into it (as this New Yorker article once said) Or you can dive right in. Download Merlin and start to become an expert before the rest of your peers. When they make the descent you’ll be a hero.

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Walter already owned a minority stake in the team, and it was pretty clear (to me anyway) that he wanted the team. My Wow is that the Buss family finally sold.

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One of the top elected officials in the nation's biggest city was arrested just yesterday. See if you can spot where that city's ostensible local paper has placed the story.

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Best possible outcome for Lakers fans, honestly.

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Just once I would like people to acknowledge that those appliances that could survive a nuclear blast last so long compared to modern appliances because they were significantly more expensive in real money than most modern appliances. If you bought a Sub-Zero, it would probably last forever too.

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The 'revelation' here is a bizarre NYT hit piece on a researcher who said she wanted to make sure her findings were accurate before publishing them.

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This is great news! apnews.com/article/hiv-...

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smarter people than me have pointed this out, but 'the GOP returns to normal' is literally the only possible option that does not involve us enduring some sort of indefinitely long-term disaster that almost certainly winds up kicking off WW3 at some point. what is the alternative to normalcy?

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Jesse Singal should never get another night's sleep

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Today, we celebrate and express gratitude for Aaron, Lema, Bex, Morgan, James, and the whole MadCave team. Aaron's dedication to BytchCraft will always inspire me. “Being a witch means living consciously, powerfully, and unapologetically,” and friend, you embraced that fully 🖤

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The ebook of Ice Cream Lover is FREE for a limited time. He hates ice cream. She owns an ice cream shop. A grumpy x sunshine rom-com that's perfect for summer! jackielaubooks.com/books/ice-cr...

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WSJ opinion columnist: vote Cuomo because he'll punch left and won't stand up to Trump. www.wsj.com/opinion/cuom...

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In light of the SCOTUS decision on trans health care, reupping this episode of "Standing Room Only." I spoke with Imara Jones about how the right uses hoaxes and lies to stoke hysteria about LGBTQ people. And this terrible decision is the result. youtu.be/WGEr3F0uP1k?...

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Hey, I am on this week's episode The Official Marvel Podcast! Talk about the Marvel Pride Special, my history with Marvel Comics, how important Sera is to me and more! open.spotify.com/episode/5ot0...

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my first car was my dad's 1993 Honda Accord...that he passed over to me in 2004 and I drove for another SEVERAL years until it had electrical problems past the scope of him/his mechanic. I forget how many miles were on it, but it was perfect I loved that car (and I miss driving stick)

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"The fear is that agents, including those who are themselves Hispanic, are now racially profiling Hispanic residents and questioning citizenship on the street." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

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the argument that it's not life saving is literally that trans people, as an entire unit, cannot be trusted to report whether transitioning improved their quality of life

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I got to chat with @ebhutchins.bsky.social about Real Hero Shit: Harder Than It Looks, fantasy capitalism, and writing queer characters who are "obnoxious, slutty, and rude" (my words) over on Comics Beat! 🗡️😈🔥☀️ www.comicsbeat.com/pride-interv...

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I WANT BAD THINGS. TO HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE. MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT CONSEQUENCES EXIST. WHY NOT NOW?

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los angeles: join me + @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social for the very first black film archive event on juneteenth (6/19) at the philosophical research society, 7 pm. our timely, intimate discussion will focus on writing as freedom and black writerly life. ✨✨✨✨ www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-as...

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Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

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Ever since Tim McVeigh, US leaders have pretended all this right-wing domestic terrorism is made up of “lone wolves." They’re not. They’re foot soldiers. Violence like the Minnesota shooting is what Trump wants—he wants an opposition too scared to stop him. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-s-no...

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Apple must face a class action lawsuit over its illegal monopolization of the digital storage market and its practice of making customers overpay for iCloud, a federal judge has ruled. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care: on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid... & Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...

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The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

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And to disrupt the “normal” economy many are used to. The Regime’s bet is that this will mostly affect THEM and not US. We’ll see what happens when that’s in conflict. Ie ag. (A good ex, as we’ve seen you get confused, sloppy, contradictory, whipsawed, incoherent results)

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also your 89724589750349th reminder that ALMOST NO ONE ALMOST EVER is doing any "irreversible sex-transition treatments" to kids. typically they pause on puberty to give them TIME to consent and at very most they support a comfortable puberty

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I need a replacement saute pan and every website is like "nonstick will kill you, buy this $240 stainless steel pan that only needs 3 hours of hand scrubbing to clean instead"

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oh my god

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It is impossible not to read this in conjunction with the Supreme Court's heartrbreaking, awful decision in Skrmetti allowing states to deny transgender teens the health care they need.

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CW: self-harm and getting too real on main I wonder how many of my youthful suicide attempts and self-harm would've been averted if I'd been able to access gender-affirming care then. Just gutted for kids who had that life-saving care and had it ripped away by lawmakers and justices in this country

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Kindness

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This is like saying Trump made the gold shoes so you could gain access to the investors sneaker club. He wanted to sell a trinket to idiots. Not your kind of idiot, Mark. The poor ones. Man it's just a painted gold piece of shit.

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I know writers don’t always pick the headline, but still…this face.

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The NYT's anti-trans fear mongering was cited in a Supreme Court briefing that stripped away the rights of trans kids. They need to be fully blacklisted by queer people and their allies. Don't work for them. Don't use them for book press. Don't speak with them for stories. They made their bed.

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And what is wilder is the articles from this period .. often written by Newton, Roose, Lorenz Aka the folks who platform bigots and AI were the ones that posited Black creators as paranoid and unworthy of coverage Are the folks platforming fascists and trying to rage bait for AI HMMMMMM

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there is no future of spaceflight without reusable rockets that can be held together with staples and tape and work for decades

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"I want to support indie creators, but I dont have the money for it." Good news! Support is not at all limited to financial contributions! Give that book a glowing review. Invite your friends to play that cool game. Hoot and holler about how much you love that movie. Hype the good shit up!

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I’d really encourage people to read the contracts and interactions that constitute D.C.’s fusion center that’s sitting smack dab on MLK and almost exclusively monitoring protests, protesters, and poor Black neighborhoods. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Bloody toughen up, buttercup

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