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Like I'm sorry I'm a bit soapboxy about this today but what exactly is the plan from those who feel no responsibility for engaging in the open brainwashing and radicalizing of white male children?

Israel will cut the flow of electricity into Gaza immediately, a week after blocking all aid into the territory: cnn.it/4kBAmiz

I think it's important to note, in the conversation about alt right absorption, that again deprogramming is HARD I suspect there's a point of no return many of these guys have unfortunately passed AND we need to be focused on preventing/interfering in the brainwashing of the young

What a different world we could have.

“Trying to appeal to a voter who will congratulate you for scolding a member of your own party for peacefully protesting fascism is a losing game because that voter does not exist.”

Dear @aoc.bsky.social, I just heard you say you are willing to come to deep red rural spaces to speak to voters. I can make those introductions for you. Let me know! Sincerely, Jess in deep red rural Missouri

For International Women’s Day, asking the men in my life to: • Shame other men’s toxicity and abuse – simply calling it out is NOT enough; make it taboo • Stop being neutral: step in, initiate difficult convos with other men, go out of your way to defend your female friends/partners/family members

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

Do you know how shockingly refreshing that would be?? "Actually we created the National Weather Service to save lives. The weather app on your phone uses the data collected by NWS and NOAA. History proves that was a smart investment every hurricane season, every tornado, every [etc etc]"

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Tesla’s German sales fell 76% in February to 1,429 cars, a steeper decline than the 60% drop in January.

So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non-fascists are least likely to defend.

JD Vance says protesters chanting 'Glory to Ukraine' scared his 3-year-old daughter. JD Vance, would you like to see how my son trembles in fear during every air alert? How he shakes with every explosion? I don’t even need to mention how he endured days without electricity or heating.

every time the "what can we do to connect to young men and pull them off right wing paths" convo comes up i keep thinking "have the suburban libs decided to pull back on making it illegal for kids to exist in public yet? because that'd be a great place to start"

This is how you know that your tactic has broken through. You start getting absolutely tedious & pedantic *columns* in newspapers that previously ignored you.

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

I’ve had a few people ask “oh, so is disagreeing with Gavin Newsom on trans athletes a PURITY TEST?” And yes, protecting trans people from discrimination is a vital purity test. It is pathetic and disgusting how many people who claim to be Democrats are failing it.

Another important consideration

Changing the world takes work and being resentful of that helps nobody

They do seem like inconsistent positions, but the attacks on teachers was really about dismantling public schools to get taxpayer dollars for home schoolers and private charter schools run by charlatans.

Seeing so many opinions on the challenges of preventing right wing hold on young men, who's responsible for that, how, etc. I think it's irresponsible to shrug the conversation as not our responsibility. There are systematic failures letting our kids be preyed on.

One way to boost recruitment is to wreck the economy

We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.” No. They're firing women and people of color in the military. They’re forbidding whole fields of research. They’re erasing trans people from existence.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

"The termination of these two important advisory committees is very alarming," said Brian Ronholm, director of food policy at Consumer Reports.” Tough times for consumer advocates in the US ☹️

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