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That was a quake

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ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped monday. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

1/ The reason this is particularly bad—and undermines all the great journalism the Times does—is that it a) treats lives like a game b) will be seen as the view/cavalier attitude of the entire NYT, and not just 10 columnists, many of whom should have been put out to pasture long ago.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Kinda wish I still subscribed to the NYT just so I can cancel it again citing that abhorrent "approval matrix." Absolute ghouls.

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You had different dreams for yourself than having to meet this shit historical moment. I did too. I did too.

submitted 41 days ago • 117 comments

The other day my spouse had me watch the pilot of PARADISE knowing absolutely nothing going in and now I'm OB-SESSED.

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I just really love books, you guys

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

submitted 10 days ago • 345 comments

Anyone who lived in the tri-state area from the 1980s onward knew exactly who he was, but The Apprentice effectively laundered his reputation for the rest of the country.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I still can’t believe having to mask temporarily during a global pandemic broke so many people. It’s been 5 years & they’re still irrationally angry at the sight of a mask. They’ve abandoned all sense of self preservation and community care, and lives will continue to be lost because of it.

submitted 19 days ago • 36 comments

For what it's worth - and this is meant to be a bribe, not a brag - as a person who wears masks any time I am inside and out of the home, I haven't gotten a cold, flu, or other seasonal illness in five years. This could be you!

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

I did my 5 calls today. I've seen several congressional staffers give tips: 1) Only bring up one topic per call (today, mine was the RFK Jr confirmation) 2) CALL even if you are a blue dot in a red sea -- ESPECIALLY then. Make these folks fear for their jobs if they don't listen 5calls.org

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

This was literally an episode of Abbott Elementary

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

gritty has seized control of the federal government

submitted 22 days ago • 204 comments

Finally had the chance to watch MIND BODY SPIRIT yesterday. A tense and inventive entry into the found footage genre that, perhaps most importantly, validates my lifelong aversion to practicing yoga.

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Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

submitted 28 days ago • 206 comments

More of this please

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

submitted 29 days ago • 214 comments

For all my issues with Roth both when I was an undergrad and as an alum, I've been impressed with the communications from him and the Wesleyan admin these past several days. They're not backing down from protecting their students and they're not mincing words.

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Video clip of hundreds of folks leaving protest at DC Children's National Hospital earlier today. This past week the hospital abruptly stopped providing gender affirming healthcare for youth under 19 years old, to preemptively comply with the Musk/Trump Administration's illegal Executive Order.

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

Anti-ICE protesters in California have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles marching towards City Hall.

submitted 30 days ago • 1102 comments

Come From Away is a "comfort musical" for me. I (perhaps oddly) find it soothing to listen to when traveling by air. I suppose it helps me to maintain faith in humanity, to remind myself that we're capable of such goodness. And it hits just a little different today, following Trudeau's speech...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Corporate leaders who were fine with Trump sadistically imposing mass suffering on vulnerable groups as long as they got their tax cuts deserve every last bit of what this madman is now unleashing on them with these tariffs. Assholes.

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In case it helps someone: The phrase “We don’t do / say that here” is immensely useful in managing people who feel emboldened to try to push boundaries and test behaviour norms in your spaces. It’s a bland statement of fact, doesn’t contain an accusation, and can be used by anyone including peers.

submitted 31 days ago • 27 comments

i think this should be factored into how states, counties, localities and hospitals respond to these executive orders. "we will investigate you if you teach DEI." okay, with what agents, specifically? with what state capacity?

submitted 31 days ago • 285 comments

I've sent feedback to @5calls.org asking them to add a call-to-action opposing Trump's anti-trans EOs as an issue users can call about. You may want to do the same. We need to get awareness up.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

are cis people aware there are multiple instances of the state confiscating trans people’s passports in the process of updating them, along with other documentation required for updating passports? a de facto travel ban has already begun for us.

submitted 32 days ago • 28 comments

If you’re a blue state legislator wondering how you can protect trans people right now, allowing birth certificates to be changed without listing them as “amended” so that we can still get passports is high on the list.

submitted 32 days ago • 24 comments

Needed this laugh tonight #horror

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submitted 33 days ago • 59 comments

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican. Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries. We are not going anywhere. Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.

submitted 33 days ago • 82 comments

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submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

This would also be illegal. Trump cannot criminalize conduct via executive order, and he certainly can't reinterpret state criminal law. This is intended most of all to terrify people. If you are a teacher, consult an attorney for the laws in your state. But don't comply in advance.

submitted 34 days ago • 22 comments

If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.

submitted 34 days ago • 50 comments

POTUS is shutting the US government down, except for immigration enforcement and military activities. That’s the story. He’s shutting the whole government down. He’s closing up every aspect of the United States operation, except the parts with guns.

submitted 37 days ago • 67 comments

Sending this to my folks in Jersey, better alert your fellow Garden Staters

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