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By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It's where Canadians go for news and entertainment. Sadly, it's not here, but still posting on X; a platform that is hostile to it and Canadians. As a publicly-funded institution, the CBC answers to the people. Contact CBC [email protected] at 1-866-306-4636.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO. Not for me. It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO

submitted 10 days ago • 507 comments

Reuters reporting that the U.S. has threatened Ukraine with the “imminent” shutoff of Starlink access unless the country agrees to handover control of rare earth minerals to the United States. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 8 hours ago • 29 comments

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

submitted 8 hours ago • 54 comments

Tucson cops trying to arrest a stud lesbian because they thought she was a man using the women’s restroom

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Depression is a protective urge; a chemical drive to return you to the safety of your innermost den to wait for a storm to pass, a bone to knit, a wound to heal. Civilization provides eternal psychic wounds from which there is no relief to be found in retreat, a storm which will never blow away.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 19 hours ago • 48 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 21 hours ago • 199 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 21 hours ago • 156 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 22 hours ago • 456 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 22 hours ago • 1944 comments

We could do with a transfem Derek Guy counterpart for all the transfem fashion

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1156 comments

I know there's folks who've been following me a while who wonder why I go on about alt text amid the horrors but to me, it's all 1 thing. Whether it's masking, honoring trans people, providing government services to people who rely on them... it's all about empathy and community. It's all connected.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Donald Trump has more billionaires in his cabinet then there are trans athletes in the NCAA.

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Germany's biggest periodical, with the headline "BETRAYED". With a mouth full of beef jerky, a head brimming with social media induced rage, and an encyclopedic knowledge of every dumbass 2024 Netflix series, America's dumbed down hordes have just assured WW3.

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The US government's foreign aid freeze has upended the supply chain for medical products crucial for fighting diseases including HIV and malaria in some of the world's poorest countries, and life-threatening gaps could persist for months, according to two sources reut.rs/3DalEhy

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One of the things people fail to grasp about the "Punk Bar" analogy is that for Punks (and metalheads, and rivetheads, and...) the Nazis that you have to throw out are neither hypothetical nor rare. The average person doesn't realize that the Nazis are an extant existential threat.

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“how did we get here?” asks journalist who refuses to call a nazi salute what it is.

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Unlike Nate Silver, I am a trained historian and, let me tell you, if I was reading any historical work that tried seriously to thematise IQ as an explainer, the last thing I would think of the author was that they were "competent."

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I’m begging the media to call Nazi salutes … “Nazi salutes.” You can write “he gave a Nazi salute.” That’s the proper journalism. Describe things as they are even if people get mad.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

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Elon Musk's private security detail has been deputized as Federal Marshalls and can carry firearms on Federal property. What could possibly go wrong? www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 289 comments

I've resigned from the UK Society of Authors

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

At the core of transphobia is the belief that men are inherently superior to women. It's the reason fascists and evangelical fundamentalists embrace it so wholeheartedly.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I need to tell you about Internet Archive Scholar, which is a fulltext search index with over 35 million research articles & other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive -- and has the most synthwave logo ever scholar.archive.org

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The warnings were there. Were there for months. But nope, y'all wanted lower grocery bills, were pissed at the Democrats for one reason or another, or just couldn't stand to vote for someone with dark skin and a vagina.

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Somewhere, at some point, the internet, across multiple services from different companies has decided my default language is French, and I can't seem to get rid of it!

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I look forward to a world where the last headline I ever have to hear about musk is him starting a lifetime sentence for treason without possibility for reprieve or parole.

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Five novels and many short stories behind me, I'm developing a pretty good sense of when the excitement in a narrative drops off. It's most often when I make a shift from showing to telling at the wrong moment 🙄 Timing is everything! #Writing

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shout out to all the parent writers. to all the projects started and then withered because a kid had a cold, or fell when you were jotting an idea down, or started a bath and jumped in still dressed. for the conferences and fellowships and sub windows missed. shout out to y’all who keep coming back.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Canadians on here actually being like "I can't believe how bad things are getting in the US" without acknowledging Alberta just passed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws and are about to vote Doug Ford back into power. Wakeup because the far right are in inside the building

submitted 2 days ago • 325 comments

It is wild how much evil in our world is the result of someone who never thought about something before and who is now mad at you for making them think.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 475 comments

Kid just shared this with me and I AM THRILLED. Again, I am a science teacher. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPhh...

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The National Park Service just took down Marsha P. Johnson's page. www.nps.gov/people/marsh...

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

Last day! We’re getting close; please send to any current full SFWA members you know! I know a lot of people have left over this and other issues. Hopefully we can make the organization more welcoming for the future, but it will take action.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments