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anyone who's gonna go "it sucks but you gotta win over people first, slowly build the case for rights" for trans people should tell me, without looking it up, when they think interracial marriage reached majority approval in america

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Congratulations! This volume is eagerly awaited 😄

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The Guardian, yet again, failing to understand the first thing about right-wing metapolitics www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

submitted 20 days ago • 86 comments

CHatGPT produces word vomit, nonsensical bullshit that reads like a fever dream but without the charm, like a bad trip on paper but without heart or levity. It's nonsense in the form of reason, but it is still nonsense. It doesn't "do a college level course better than a student."

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.

submitted 46 days ago • 233 comments

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

submitted 47 days ago • 29 comments

“They should withdraw these strange things” LOL Swedish translated into English is so cute

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

icmi, I chatted with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and @burscott.bsky.social about the bargain-basement tropes of masculinity and femininity pushed by the hard right, and how patriarchal triumphalism overcompensates with feelings of inadequacy, loss, and failure... rightrising.fireside.fm/57

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

"Vox populi, vox dei" He says, raising the sacrificial knife.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

The last time I publicly questioned Byrne's anti-trans views, I got put on blast by Brian Leiter. I hope this leads Anglo-American philosophers to realize that their years-long willingness to normalize anti-trans views in the discipline has had terrible consequences in the real world.

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

For a brilliant unpicking of the nexus of fascist violence, pronatalism, gender panic, technodystopia, and magical thinking about A.I. that Elon Musk and his ilk represent, I can highly recommend this piece:

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Had a lovely chat about hard men, hard times, and the funny little manosphere guys who’ve taken over the US govt — with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Alexander Reid Ross from @franetwork.bsky.social — check it out below!

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Sara Ahmed: "So, when you see 'gender critical' feminists congratulating each other on their latest legal win, just remember, they are giving the patriarch more tools, turning biology into his hammer. It is not just a hollow victory. It is the patriarch’s victory." open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Our union sister, Rümeysa Öztürk, has been detained by ICE for exercising her right to free speech. Please consider contributing to or sharing this fundraiser organized by Rümeysa's immigration court legal team:

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

fuck jk rowling 🖕😤🖕 go to hell. leon stands with his trans brothers and sisters and every one in between forever and always

submitted 72 days ago • 16 comments

What does it take for someone's soul to be this emptied

submitted 72 days ago • 55 comments

"Not a single trans person was allowed to speak before the Court."

submitted 71 days ago • 8 comments

Few things more nauseating than watching British TERFs take a victory lap on cable news

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The myth of de-extinction in a lab vs the reality of preventing extinction in the field. As @korybing.bsky.social says later in the thread: the fieldwork is hard, slow, and unsexy, but it WORKS. Our world is NOT recoverable in a lab. It’s this world or no world.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

We're recruiting a #postdoc! Come and work with the awesome @birthingthenation.bsky.social team at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

It's important for people to log off every so often and engage with politics in the real world, whether that's through protest or other ways of getting involved in your community. That way, you'll have more to argue about when you get back online.

submitted 81 days ago • 9 comments

anyways. hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. context & guidance in the thread below. it’s not hard; you can do it while you’re still angry about other things. 9 days left, as of this post!

submitted 86 days ago • 13 comments

Just in from the president of Harvard. They clearly do not understand this isn't about antisemitism and think they can placate the Trump administration with platitudes and capitulation. Mark my words, Harvard will capitulate and still be defunded in the coming weeks.

submitted 87 days ago • 43 comments

Glenn once wrote a book about how it was bad that elites didn’t face consequences for their crimes

submitted 87 days ago • 267 comments

Why is there no mention of Project Esther in this story? Reporting on “antisemitism” as their actual concern is profoundly irresponsible: what they aim for is the complete submission of higher education to their fascist project

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

Both Alice Sullivan and activist-journalist Judith Woods are obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobes, actively using their power and privileged positions to punch down on trans people… just like Trump! If you’re a ‘GC’ transphobe, youre not “politically homeless”, you’re in bed with Trump! 😣

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments

LOL NoFap genius strikes again

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

no one should ever pay any of the signatories of the harper's letter for any of their opinions ever again unless and until they make fulfill a clear and active commitment to apply the same concerns to speech across the board

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

submitted 90 days ago • 398 comments

screaming about fascism using this particular framing is a special interests of mine. here's one thread on the urgent need to stop the eminently stoppable who's-gonna-stop-me gang: x.com/gaynarcan/st...

submitted 90 days ago • 5 comments

We are looking for a PostDoc to join the @birthingthenation.bsky.social team at Penn State! Are you interested in the overlaps between gender, sexuality, and the far right? Apply now: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks to @burscott.bsky.social and @birthingthenation.bsky.social at Penn State for the opportunity to share the argument of my forthcoming book on white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity. A video of the presentation and a summary is posted at their site: sites.psu.edu/birthingthen...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

and while you're at it you can also look up the things liberals were saying to actual Palestinians on here and elsewhere (including the Democratic convention) during the genocide of their family members and decide on the meanness scale where this rates next to Bernie bros yelling about Medicare

submitted 91 days ago • 22 comments

Yes. Let's fucking go. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 94 days ago • 167 comments

In less than 12 hours of being a candidate, my campaign raised over $150K because we can’t bow down to Trump. Unlike Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin, I will never capitulate to authoritarians. If you want to send a message, the time is now. secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...

submitted 94 days ago • 58 comments

Does Hegseth seem like he’s a little drunk here to you or is it just me?

submitted 94 days ago • 38 comments

Absolutely insane take. Recording trans people incorrectly as birth sex instead of actual sex harms trans people. Recording trans people correctly harms no one. These people are sick

submitted 95 days ago • 28 comments

Penn State faculty are organizing! Check out our website. www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Israel just committed the largest child massacre in its history, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

submitted 96 days ago • 61 comments

“There is no world in which people should be owning multiple private planes, private islands, private whatever, while other people are sleeping on the street.” - Vivian Wilson on growing up in Los Angeles among extremely wealthy people.

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