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OUT NOW - our episode on US v. Skrmetti, the case upholding TN’s ban on gender affirming care for minors. With @chasestrangio.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social crooked.com/podcast/scot...

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There's a vaccine for cancer and we're going to get rid of it because of massive disinformation campaigns by this fucking death culture

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Prof. Max Strassfeld: "I want to say 2 things 1) some trans youth will likely not survive Skrmetti & the denial of medical care in their states. It is a horrible decision & these fuckers have blood on their hands....I curse the fascists w/every Yiddish curse my people have ever devised. AND +

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

as the government allows and enables discrimination against trans people, it's important to look at how trans people have looked out for each other in recent history. @tsdav.bsky.social writes about Transy House, where for 13 years one couple sheltered unhoused trans people, including kids.

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Barbara Lee was the the sole member of Congress who voted against the War on Terror. She feared voting yes would give Bush "a blank check to attack an unspecified country, an unspecified enemy for an unspecified period of time." She was right. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

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Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year. This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist. apnews.com/article/heal...

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The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

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“For years, she was a historical footnote in Philadelphia’s story of abolitionism. Finally, she’s getting her due.” “Dinah Nevil came to the city in 1773 and insisted on freedom for herself and her children. And jump started the nation's first white abolition society.”

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An LLM chatbot's literal entire job— what it is designed, built, & trained to do— is to respond to you using words which, in tone & connotation, you are statistically most likely to accept, based on what you've said to it & how you said it. It's just stats & bullshit. (Original image w/ alt text)

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mods are bombing Iran post testimony

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How Dred Scott Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost

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The article frames Skrmetti as a poor strategic gamble by activists. In reality, Tennessee passed a categorical ban applicable solely to transgender adolescents which was framed in sex-based terms. The choices were (a) challenge it or (b) concede defeat in advance and abandon trans teens nationwide.

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CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social ) #Juneteenth

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what the hell, man they just tweeted it out???

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Not reading it, not today, but—let me propose that one big change between Bostock and Skrmetti is that the New York Times devoted itself to making trans rights controversial and arguing that reducing the number of trans kids getting on hormones was both reasonable and urgent.

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From historian Christopher Wilson's “It was Not the 'News' that Traveled Slowly—it was 'Power.'” www.zinnedproject.org/news/junetee... #Juneteenth

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The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us. They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.

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If we're sharing cultural artifacts from the Iraq war era with the youths, I am generationally required to share this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpj...

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One thing I've noticed is broad awareness that they've been saying Iran is on the verge of having a nuke for decades, but to really show my ass with a Capitol Steps joke, "we can't be too concerned about what the people think, most of them didn't vote for us anyway"

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

I kept reading Roberts opinion in Skrmetti trying to make sense of it. Spoiler alert it doesn’t make any sense. He says the law doesn’t discriminate against trans status but medical use for gender dysphoria. But I wonder who the people are that have gender dysphoria it’s a real head scratcher

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Happy #Juneteenth! This is your loud reminder that the only policy that completely closes the racial wealth gap is REPARATIONS! According to Drs. Sandy Darity and Kristen Mullen, giving every Black American a direct payment of $267,000 closes the racial wealth gap. #econsky #blacksky

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“Why is bluesky so incredibly dull” because you haven’t carefully curated a feed of the most unhinged people on the internet, like i have

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Happy pride 🌈❤️

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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

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I keep seeing people saying "everyone who voted for the Iraq war was disgraced" no they weren't! It worked out great for all of them! Bush got re-elected! The 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee voted for it!!!

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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

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“Here’s a fact that should appall New York voters, especially women: You paid for Cuomo’s lawyers to seek the gynecological records of an accuser. Why? It’s a good question that voters should ask the candidate as he makes the rounds.”

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I’ll save you some time: while interracial marriage was legalized in the US in 1967, majority approval didn’t happen until the mid to late 90s.

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7 Stories From Incarcerated Writers for Juneteenth

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After the measles outbreak in Texas began, @iwriteok.bsky.social reached out and asked me if I'd be willing to do a special series for @coolzonemedia.bsky.social. Today, we released the first episode of Anti-Vax America, a five episode series that run this week. Enjoy. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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"Since the ACA was enacted, fewer adults report that costs kept them from seeing a doctor." BUT "these gains are threatened by proposed federal Medicaid cuts and coming increases to marketplace insurance costs." ncnewsline.com/2025/06/18/a...

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Concurrently terrifying and erotic Goodnight

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trans people will always exist (laudatory) trans people will always exist (threatening) trans people will always exist (factual)

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It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

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i am not saying merely engaging with someone is lethal i am just saying “the pope”

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it cannot simultaneously be true that media outlets like the Times and the Post are the Fourth Estate, playing a vital Democratic function, and also that what occurs on its pages is harmless intellectual inquiry

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The ban on gender affirming care for trans kids that the Court upheld as constitutional today in Skrmetti is so obviously unconstitutional that John Roberts basically just writes 20something pages of buffoonery ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

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