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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 27 days ago • 178 comments

public comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit & strip care from DACA recipients ends at 23:59pm EDT tonite if you haven't commented, it won't take long & is worth doing. context & guidance in-thread ⬇️ if you have commented, thank you💜🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 30 days ago • 35 comments

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

submitted 30 days ago • 1518 comments

This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.

submitted 31 days ago • 21 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 37 days ago • 829 comments

incredibly earnest babies next to me have just pledged to each other that if one reads foucault, the other will read spinoza. all happiness, sweet babies.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

last night of this seminar on moby dick, & bro near me is inviting another bro to hang out on his boat

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

And everyone, when evaluating James Carville's winning advice, please consider what Gavin Newsom's anti-trans swing has done for his numbers:

submitted 54 days ago • 191 comments

man who last week was extensively hilarious on his own inability to understand transgender folks pronouns, is this week delighted at length by Melville showing that some 1851 white folk knew that other white folks' racism was wrong

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

every single protest i attend there's a couple 9000 year old white people waving signs they painted themselves and offering everyone homemade trail mix bro old people love to protest chuck schumer is just weak.

submitted 55 days ago • 66 comments

they know this kind of thing can constitute sexual assault and that is the intent: that kids will get molested as a punishment for being trans, GNC, intersex, or just androgynous-looking

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

Tim Walz: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

submitted 59 days ago • 142 comments

very likely that they’re about to find a constitutional right to forced conversion therapy

submitted 61 days ago • 43 comments

I keep seeing a lot of these FAFO assholes regurgitating the lie that most Trumpers are poor people, so I just want to remind folks that that is not true.

submitted 68 days ago • 35 comments

A whole host of overpaid consultants and talking heads told them not to do the right thing and they still chose to do the right thing, so I'd even go a step further and encourage people to contact Senators who opposed this measure (SB 9) and thank them for standing by trans people and our families

submitted 67 days ago • 15 comments

"Authoritarian parenting is a vital ingredient in the recipe for patriarchal socialization because it sets girls up to actively seek out abuse, to perceive abusive behavior as loving, and to never fully trust themselves."

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

The "WHY ISN'T AMERICA PROTESTING RIGHT NOW" takes - even from Americans! - really show how many people are programmed to believe the only "real" action is mass protests. Even with the constant stories of town halls & locals fighting back, people dismiss it because it's not "big." That's a problem.

submitted 73 days ago • 28 comments

I do not need more seasons of love on the spectrum. I need an all-autistic season of the traitors. I want to see what would happen when everyone is doing inappropriate affect at each other while also being very invested in the concept of justice.

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

basically molly conger on why molly conger's podcast is a comfort listen.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

submitted 83 days ago • 490 comments

do you think all the #resist dems freaking out about dying because of RFK will start masking again or nah?

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

<3

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

submitted 90 days ago • 65 comments

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

submitted 95 days ago • 80 comments

Not to be too much a flippant asshole, but, also, waiting for the One Charismatic Leader is dangerous. Everything feels off & overwhelming, and you're waiting for someone charismatic to tell you exactly what to do? Who do you think it's going to say it's easy, just do exactly what they say?

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

And if compassion doesn’t move you, asshole,how about the fact that the people with the mad skills at organizing, the ones who’ve been tried and tested on the front lines, are in the red and purple states?

submitted 106 days ago • 10 comments

you can donate at ufw.org/scarytimes or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

...wild that the Smithsonian didn't mention the deeply classed exclusion of Gage, nearly as wild as calling Anthony her "friend" 🤣

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

submitted 110 days ago • 135 comments

As an archivist working with queer materials, I'm concurring massively with this. And one more thing -- it's easy to see people in our queer past, who made their queerness known in times like these, as superhuman. They weren't. They were us.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

It’s nearly impossible to explain to non disabled people the hope we had at the beginning of the pandemic. Hope for inclusion & accommodation. For better awareness & treatment of chronic illness. Having that hope ripped away and replaced with increasing ableism, eugenics & hatred? Its devastating

submitted 111 days ago • 44 comments

"While the majority of news content creators across the social media landscape are conservative men, a recent study found that TikTok is the only platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones."

submitted 111 days ago • 7 comments

Dismissed and disbelieved, some Long COVID patients are pushed into psychiatric wards time.com/7206080/long...

submitted 115 days ago • 5 comments

I know there are 10,000 things right now but please consider contacting your rep and asking them to vote NO on HR-28 which would ban trans and intersex kids from playing sports.

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week: www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 118 days ago • 28 comments

this is the party that keeps texting me and asking for money

submitted 122 days ago • 106 comments

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

submitted 125 days ago • 315 comments