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I never get the question: "Merien, how do I know if I'm at a Nazi rally?". Mainly because people know. People do not find themselves at Nazi rallies by accident. But in case you're wondering, here are some clues.

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They're going to make Sieg Heil-ing into proof of how strong of a supporter of the MAGA movement one is and how little one cares about history, but with the shield of just enough ostensible irony that if you call them Nazis, you'll be the one condemned for taking it too seriously and lacking humor.

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Punters > kickers

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

submitted 3 days ago • 238 comments

Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

submitted 6 days ago • 495 comments

“But Musk has indeed embraced the cultural mores of Christian nationalists, whose faith is less about Jesus and more about using power to enforce their racist, sexist, and anti-queer views on the rest of Americans.”

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

All you need to know.

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

Anybody who works closely with young people, anybody who's had cause to visit a psychiatric unit, knows that the EOs are going to result in dead kids. That's not a maybe. That's a fact. And these fucking killers know it; want it. Whatever happens, let us never forget that.

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JK Rowling after years of amplifying transphobic hate and misinformation: The fascists are saying the same thing as me and it's YOUR FAULT

submitted 15 days ago • 29 comments

Big day for child predators.

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Elon’s making up and insane conspiracy theory about @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and USAID that is all the rage over on MAGA Twitter. I break down the anatomy of conspiracy theory and show how none of it, not even a whiff of it, is true. It’s just how authoritarians play the game.

submitted 16 days ago • 84 comments

I’m just a country biologist, but it seems like it might be bad that the dude who has access to all of your private data and can now turn off the US government’s ability to spend money with the flip of a switch is sharing Russian propaganda to vast audiences on the network that he owns.

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I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 20 days ago • 166 comments

Now updated with the breaking news that Elon Musk's team has been granted full access to the Treasury Department's federal payment system.

submitted 20 days ago • 91 comments

Please listen to @kimlanelaw.bsky.social explain that while the eank insanity of the past 12 days is new to America, it's familiar in Hungary (and Poland and Turkey) down to every particular. When lawyers are more dangerous than tanks in the street... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 21 days ago • 48 comments

To comply with Trump's executive order on DEI, workers at NOAA have been instructed to deactivate specific agency materials containing the following keywords, per memos I obtained:

submitted 21 days ago • 165 comments

I think that we should be talking about what Trump is trying to do to trans people in the context of the Nuremberg laws.

submitted 23 days ago • 37 comments

The BMJ journal Archive of Disease in Childhood has just published the epidemiological study done by York university that was commissioned as part of the Cass review into gender clinics in the UK. It contains some STARTLING (and yet, unsurprising) revelations. 1/n

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Responding to an attempt to justify nativism #maklelan2533 youtu.be/JQUAoByJM1k

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

i don't know what to say that someone smarter won't say better. but i was a trans kid when there wasn't care for trans kids & i can tell a short story since that's allegedly my deal. i survived. but you know the survivorship diagram? i'm that fringe dot. i survived by accident.🧵 cw: self-harm ⬇️

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Reposting because, ya know...

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The nyt and much UK media served up only uncritical and cheerleading coverage of this deeply flawed report. Their so-called “news coverage” was little more than a PR campaign that advanced their years-long anti-trans narrative

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Oh shit! 😆

submitted 35 days ago • 196 comments

New from 404 Media: Meta is laying the narrative groundwork for Trump's mass deportations. Meta now says users can call migrants pieces of trash, vomit, etc. Multiple experts drew parallels to when Facebook contributed to a genocide in Myanmar. Now U.S. www.404media.co/meta-is-layi...

submitted 37 days ago • 64 comments

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

submitted 42 days ago • 64 comments

In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is, this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.

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I was confused by Liz Cheney's mention of. areport responding to Loudermilk's. It is here. democrats-cha.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

submitted 46 days ago • 19 comments

"The goal of targeting trans women’s participation in sports is to create a federal law that declares trans women are men. Once that precedent is established, then the laws can become more restrictive until it’s no longer legally viable to exist as a trans person under federal law." 👇

submitted 46 days ago • 35 comments

Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.

submitted 48 days ago • 1253 comments

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

submitted 49 days ago • 200 comments

New in PN: Trumpers discover a type of bigotry they oppose (against themselves) Vivek Ramaswamy gives MAGAs a taste of their own medicine and they don't like it.

submitted 54 days ago • 107 comments

New video! 👀 GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage! His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION! Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...

submitted 56 days ago • 76 comments

My Doctor Emailed Me Back This is the story of how the NHS tried to make me the face of their “new system” for trans health, and why I told them to shove it Exclusively on TransWrites

submitted 61 days ago • 80 comments

Dear children's author, I want to talk to you about kerning.

submitted 70 days ago • 77 comments