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Trans woman: I am facing discrimination in a multitude of ways. Cis journalist: Ah, how to best visually represent the idea of a trans woman? Oh, brilliant: Pink lipstick. Someone whose mind melted in the pandemic: Gender Ideology believes that WOMAN IS WHEN LIPSTICK

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I am also totally floored in the best way: Amplitudes has debuted at #65 on the USA Today Bestseller list 😳😳 Thanks a million times to our contributors, whose stories made this possible, and to the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social for all their hard work!!

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Another suggestion for #PrideMonth: I was not prepared for this story. It starts how might expect. "Hey, Athena here. Want to be a woman? Makes sense. Let's do that and also dope fighty stuff, yeah?" The offer of a child born from the girl's own body broke me. It's gorgeous and handled so well. 🌈📚

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I think this is something I've missed when talking about why the far right values attacking trans people so highly. It's not just that it radicalises people and teaches them anti human rights arguments, it's that it literally cultivates authoritarian thinking theconversation.com/antagonism-t...

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Started reading Kimmy by @badambulist.bsky.social on the train this morning and spent the whole day looking forward to the commute home to keep going. So hooked

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ICE seemingly confirms they are using National Guard as security to conduct immigration raids. Let's call this what it is, militarized ethnic cleansing.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

conservatives have a high disgust reaction, which they mistake for moral conscience, and thus feel vindicated in their pathological aversions fascism is the evolution of this reactionary dynamic into a moralizing phobic fixation on objects of disgust and a monomaniacal drive to purify thru violence

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Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.

submitted 22 hours ago • 161 comments

If you want to know how a century and more of the growing surveillance state and its culture of fear have contributed to the authoritarian powers Trump is wielding against Americans today, this is the conversation you need to listen to. Pat and I dig into the sorry history and the present crisis.

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There are few English words I hate so much as "disrespectful", as it's never used except in response to the most deserved vehemence and contempt. In saying such, they don't mean he didn't respect their humanity—that's _their_ specialty. They mean he didn't respect their authority, and screw that.

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“We’re slowly going underground, underground, underground,” the mother said. “You put one thing in place, and then you have to prepare for when that gets taken away."

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Wine Mom Liberals are the buy index funds of being right about everything in the Trump era.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

Very promising early release of cultural heritage corpus for AI training with a detailed pipeline and data report. I’m happy to see that Pleias tooling contributed to it (for OCR detection).

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BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 15 hours ago • 211 comments

Intellectual property: dumber than you ever imagined

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🚨 ICYMI 🚨 Spent a year investigating a Christian Nationalist organization operating in my state! Their aim is to control every library in the state of Louisiana. I uncovered their: - tactics - origins - donors - Collusion with state lawmakers And more. Read and share below!

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Please consider emailing your MP - we can't go down the same route as the US.

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There's a rare moment - with abortion rights increasingly under attack - to decriminalise abortion. Please use our easy tool to write to your MP asking them to support NC20, Stella Creasy's amendment. Please use and share in your networks. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

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The latest astroturf group to be treated by the press as a genuine campaign is "Don't Divide Us", which like the "LGB Alliance" has links to Tufton St, is pally with the so-called "free speech" right wing lobby and keeps its funding secret. Don't let yourself be taken in.

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Here it is... the smoking gun that should bring down this entire EHRC committee.

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When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

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Remember those far-right dweebs, Diagolon? Well, turns out they’ve developed a “sudden interest in creating organizations that would act in parallel to more militant European and US far-right groups.” That’s according to a new report from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. Here’s what else it says:

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Bro even LOOKS like a cartoon Nazi. youtu.be/dJvXIMK-NXg?...

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Lawmakers say AB 412 is about transparency. But it’s a lawsuit trap that will help big entertainment companies.

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Kind of appalling - what's been happening behind the scenes in Parliament with rival amendments to decriminalise abortion. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I have emailed my MP and asked them to support this amendment. The link below makes it incredibly easy to do the same, and if you are a UK resident I very strongly encourage you to do so. Abortion is critical healthcare and we must decriminalise it NOW.

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Remember when Sinn Fein threw trans kids under the bus and we didn't know why and we thought it might be to get Casement Park funding through and then Casement Park didn't get funding? Today Sinn Fein have announced the British Government will join funding the redevelopment of Casement Park.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

the EHRC must have been hacked by a devious trans catgirl who had been practicing EHRC voice training for years

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Mein effing got.

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it's good they took out the "copy text" feature from here. this isn't some kind of everything app. you get a few things. they vary. you liked copying text? post better. earn it back, fuckers.

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No, actually, I don't think the government should have a role in creating an officially authorized and sanctioned sex for every individual. Kinda seems like none of their business tbh.

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Does no one find this restriction on freedom of association patently absurd?

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My piece at msnbc has the scariest headline of anything I have ever written www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... CivMilSky

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

[Gestures towards this while looking meaningfully at the drop-the-T tendency]

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Highlighting how eager the MAGA world is to manufacture a crisis that lets them justify turning the US military on Americans for exercising their rights.

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Fuck yeah qualified immunity

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y'all are so goddamn gullible that it's physically painful Disney is not anti-AI, they want to be able to profit off of their IP monopoly with AI

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Whatever your thoughts on AI, if you find yourself cheering on giant media corporations’ efforts to strengthen State-backed intellectual “property” privileges, you might not be as radical as you think you are.

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If you're active-duty military and filing conscientious objector paperwork in response to what's happening, we'd like to talk to you @taskandpurpose.com. Even on background or anonymously. Please reach out via signal nslayton.12

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SCOOP: Guardsmen deployed to LA aren't on formal orders, thus aren't set up to be paid or get healthcare yet www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Yeah if I thought there was even a 5% chance of being renditioned to Gitmo or El Salvador for the crime of leaving my passport at the hotel, I would simply not travel. This is going to kill tourism.

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feminism is when women have to ask the government if they're allowed to start a women's walking group and the less the government tells them they're allowed to start a women's walking group the more feminism it is

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It would be funny watching them squirm on the hook of refusing to admit on the record that the clarity they think they've obtained is "trannies aren't allowed any more" if they weren't in positions of power over, like, all of us

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