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trans ppl who dont transition still frequently need lifelong medical treatment, altho most of them just die. which is one solution nyt let's the reader infer.

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what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

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thinking about this again, no reason

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New rule: if you're in your 80s, I don't want to hear a damn word about whether someone will play a "role in the future of the Democratic Party." You're not going to be around for it!

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the only reason CBS hasn't folded and paid Trump his bribery money yet is California threatened an investigation into whether such a deal would violate state bribery laws, which chuck here "forgets" to mention

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

We really need to stop talking about this as some kind of looming threat rather than a process well underway. It’s not “close.” You have arrived at your destination. The order has been delivered.

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i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it

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Important note: there would be about 50x as much fuel loaded for a fully stacked launch on the pad, and that SpaceX repeatedly downplayed the chances and size of an on pad failure in order to categorize the project as "insignificant" under NEPA and that @petebuttigieg.bsky.social helped them do this

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TJ MCCONNELL

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BEN SHEPPARD 3Q BUZZER BEATER TO PUT THE PACERS UP BY 30 #NBAFinals

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When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine. It's the same court and lawyers.

submitted 22 hours ago • 30 comments

reggie miller is hyped it's so over okc

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lmao Nesmith trolling level: Indiana Pacers

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How it started: Indy goes 0-for-8 from the field in the first 3:58, down 8. How it's going: Pacers are on a 22-7 run, have made 8 of their last 10 FGA over the last 3:47. 5-for-7 from three.

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Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

submitted 16 hours ago • 1485 comments

the claim that billionaires will flee NYC and starve it of their tax dollars if zohran wins is funny for a bunch of reasons, but most of all because they actually don't pay taxes

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

this comparison of trans healthcare to type one diabetes is one i myself make a lot. they both require lifelong continued access to lifesaving medicine that is too often treated as a luxury and not essential.

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Those who keep saying “I just want to have a nuanced discuss about USAID”…. USAID has already been taken out back and shot. What nuanced discussion do you want to have about an agency that is already dead, and whose death is currently causing immense global suffering?

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

the Haliban must strike hard and fast tonight lest they concede victory to al-Shaida

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If an 11,000-word story has a major, factual error in the fifth graf, it probably should be seen for the biased, hit-piece it is.

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

Accelerationist rolls "Worst Apocalypse Ever," Asked To Leave OpenAI

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It is unconstitutional for the president to declare war and anyone who pretends otherwise needs to be impeached, primaried, fired, or tried depending on their role

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

If the Dodgers lose tonight, one team will stand alone with the league’s longest active winning streak, at four games: That’s right, it’s the Colorado Rockies

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what gets me about this stupid ass shit is that Ukraine is dealing with literal russian tanks and meanwhile the president is about to toss american power into the MENA meatgrinder once again

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so the NYT opinion desk has determined that now is the time to start publishing stories from people who are personally affected by Skrmetti. You know, after their "reporting" was cited in Clarence Thomas' concurrence. Fucking rich.

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Sure glad we wasted 4 years doing fuck all to fix the Supreme Court

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One thing I am seeing misreported in the media today about the Skrmetti ruling is a claim that the supreme court ruled this is "about age, not transgender status." SCOTUS also ruled this is about "diagnosis, not transgender status" Bans targeting adults are likely legal under this ruling.

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once again — if you’re one of the fortunate ones in a big blue city you need to start thinking about how your community can handle a big influx of vulnerable, scared newcomers. this is not hypothetical, it is happening now

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today I am thinking a lot about the 2016 bathroom ban and the subsequent uproar and how completely insane it feels to be here, 9 years later. and I think what you have to take away from that is so much responsibility lies with right-wing media, sure - but also with The Atlantic, with the NYTimes,

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Today's newsletter is about Sarah McBride's belief that politicians should react, not lead, when it comes to s haping public opinion. www.readtpa.com/p/politician...

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sure am glad that the approach to SCOTUS from the party nominally opposed to all this is almost certain to remain "we'd appreciate it if you didn't" and "come on, man"

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fwiw, Schumer's deleted post is not only insensitive and cruel, it's also wrong. the attack on trans rights is not a "distraction." harming trans people is a core goal of fascists. it's like saying that the Holocaust was a distraction from Hitler's effort to conquer europe or something.

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transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

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Hey guess what's cited by Clarence Thomas in his concurrence here? Oh yeah—the Cass Review (see below, Thomas apparently thinks it's good) and the New York Times (to go after WPATH, and incl the producer of that awful podcast)! I'm so angry and upset right now, this is so bad!!

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Ezra Klein is the Joel Embiid of Kevin Rooses

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Elon and Grok is the funniest ventriloquist dummy act in a looong time

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Digimon needs to go back to it's roots and do what it does best; act as subtle Maoist propaganda.

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These 18 Democrats just voted for the Senate's corrupt crypto industry bill that greenlights Trump's corruption: Alsobrooks Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kim Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner Warnock

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Absolutely incredible that we are still getting mainstream denunciations of "trans activists" when the far-right fringe has far more odious views and sits much closer to power.

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Is the floor so low we’re only half-expecting an apology from a Senator who mocked the assasination of politicians he didn’t like? Or is there just no floor at all anymore? Mike Lee should resign. Today.

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Only democrat senators could decide that the best time to create a new reserve primary fund is while every regulator is being gutted

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