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Just your average middle aged mom but disabled and socialist. Anti-fascism, progressive politics, inclusive feminism, birds, psychology and neuroscience. Orange County, CA. pfp: @hayalah
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For more than a week, conservative media and politicians have worked themselves into a frenzy over a spectacle manufactured by a fencer who refused to compete against a 19-year-old trans woman. Here is the target of that hate campaign, finally, in her own words.

honest to god, whenever some dipshit right wing fuckstain decides to do this "they made it political" rhetoric, thats just a sign that a show is good and i should watch it at this point

Has anyone produced the contract by which El Salvador is holding folks for the US?

Nothing will prevent them from going after U.S. scholars doing academic work on Christianity. Having written an academic book on Trump-supporting Pentecostals/Charismatics and working on these movements globally, I have no plan of going to the U.S. any time soon! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

A 14-year-old American boy and his two friends were gunned down by Israeli soldiers Sunday night. Their largely American village in the West Bank is wondering why Trump and the U.S. government have said so little about the killing of one of its citizens.

One of the doctors RFK claimed was doing “heroic” work “curing” kids of measles . . . a) is treating kids with a steroid, which is making them sicker b) said the idea came from god in a dream c) boasted about treating kids *while he himself had the measles* www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

NEW: I confirmed w/ CBP that the email @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social receive telling her to self-deport is real, not a scam. It's also is very weird and likely causing fear and chaos. I spoke w/ Micheroni—a US citizen and immigration attorney—about her experience. www.wired.com/story/homela...

More than 130 Jewish members of the Georgetown University community released a signed statement in support of Badar Khan Suri, a Muslim postdoctoral scholar and professor at the school who was arrested and targeted for deportation.

This is the fundamental failure of respectability culture.

Spectacled Owl in the forest at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #owls #nature

Astonishing RFK Jr interview with NBC. At 23.30 he claims pharmaceuticals are the 3rd leading cause of death in the US [wtf]. He discloses the name & medical history of the 2nd child to die of measles, implies she wasn't healthy & argues about her cause of death. @gorskon.bsky.social

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...

I'm already seeing Right Wing influencers spinning this as "the democrats and leftists are out of control." I have very little faith that this means there will be a focus in people who are *actually* committing violence.

The only way to interpret this is that the Trump administration is trying to close public schools. Which has been an open goal of conservatives for decades. They want to privatize education to resegregate on race and gender. And to ensure some people can’t access education at all.

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The guy is a Nazi who sought to start a revolution to “save the white race.”

Worshipping at the altar of bipartisanship—at a time when innocent people are being kidnapped and trafficked to foreign concentration camps, our government is trying to forcibly resegregate society, and our universities are being obliterated of free thought—is morally bankrupt.

Neo nazis so racist they think Trump is too DEI oriented.

Ooooh good point!! I'd read an in depth article about this

“unscrupulous supporters of nonviolence have spread the accusation that other members of a social movement are police provocateurs…And by spreading false rumors of infiltration and dividing the movement, they expose those they accuse to violence”

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

One President wildly exceeded his authority by forgiving some student loans; a different President barely scratched the surface of his authority by disappearing anyone he pleases without trial to a foreign gulag. Constitutional law is a serious intellectual enterprise.

Every time you see an account that's posting with the default handle (which is just their username) remind yourself "that's bait." A substantial percentage of them are chatGPT bots.

Wish that type of liberal realized that by their own logic, they deserve to suffer because trump got more votes than kamala

The "vote blue no matter who" people made you keep all these people in power who are now handing it to fascists, and yet y'all still blame leftists.

Progressives have been telling you all of these Democrats are worthless.

Homeless workers now have to submit *proof of employment* to be allowed to sleep in their cars in one of the richest counties in the U.S. Welcome to America: people shivering overnight in subzero temperatures, steps from luxury ski resorts, for the privilege of keeping the local economy booming.

As I’ve said, yes, this was their aim all along. That’s why they didn’t just send these people to Gitmo. This is an attempt to find a step beyond Gitmo where the court says, “Well, our hands are tied.” It’s an awful, lawless gambit that must fail, but that is what they want it to be.

We are finding out that a lot of things we thought were illegal in the USA were actually just things we were lucky no president had ever tried to do.

You know why

So let’s counter a tax distortion that juices house prices with… another tax distortion that juices prices www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

This was published 11 days after the 2024 election www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

El Salvador is a "proud and sovereign nation" but Canada is not.