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When I landed in SLC, I used the bathroom despite an anti-trans bathroom ban. Nobody cared. Nobody ever does. The truth is, whatever anti-trans laws they keep passing, nobody actually gives a damn or wants to be the bathroom police. This is the ultimate reason anti-trans hysteria will fail.

submitted 8 hours ago • 144 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 223 comments

Some self-proclaimed leftists (campists more than anything) are now caught in the difficult position of being on the side of Russia and the US. Let’s see how they reconcile this one. And good luck to Ukraine, now in the far more difficult position of defending itself against two imperialist powers

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 4 days ago • 388 comments

It's a good time to rediscover System of a Down (even though one of the band members has gone MAGA, which is...WILD, considering SoaD's music)

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

submitted 5 days ago • 240 comments

Join us for an exciting event! Book Launch: Judy Fudge's 'Constructing Modern Slavery: Law, Capitalism, and Unfree Labour' 11 March at 2pm, Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice, further details here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-la...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Bar-prepping as the parent of an almost one-year-old is not for the faint of heart, especially one that's violently teething.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Never mind woke Marxism, I can't even indoctrinate my students into formatting a bibliography consistently. 🤷🏻‍♀️

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Non-definitions of gender are more pressing than ever. Disappear the ground they have to stand on. Every right(s)-minded person/institution around the world should be keeping this in mind as they, say, draft new treaties/policies/consider amendments.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web page, removing the “T” in references to LGBTQ+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

submitted 10 days ago • 335 comments

Unrelated, we saved the vaccine schedules for our son. Just in case it became useful as a reference.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It shouldn't surprise anyone to know that the author of That Article's whole bread and butter is writing about "Radical Islam" in South and Southeast Asia. There's always a type.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I'd love more context—why did we end up relocating, again? /s

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 11 days ago • 309 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 1572 comments

despite all the persistent, unending horrors, it's the "red, white, and blueland" that has rendered me catatonic today

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 14 days ago • 119 comments

Alexander Pope wrote poems that were so mean grown men quit writing, and Kendrick is firmly in his tradition

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

For decades, the right has been obsessed with apartheid South Africa as a way to mourn the end of formal segregation in the US. With neo-segregationists now in power, it’s no wonder they’re opening the doors to white South Africans, using racist conspiracy theories to justify their actions.

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

Many have correctly noted that forced transfer/deportation is a war crime & crime against humanity. On “voluntariness,” it bears emphasizing that the forced nature of transfer can be established where the perpetrators take advantage of a coercive environment that precludes genuine choice.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

The Guardian deserves an award for this paragraph. An Ignominy. Just absolutely outrageous mealy mouthed unwillingness to call a spade a spade.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Signs. Of. Life. Protest outside Treasury Dept. tonight.

submitted 19 days ago • 123 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

Ugh, link here: 19thnews.org/2025/01/tran... This is very red flag. And hasn't been big news.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

🐢Discworld and Pratchett fans! I am delighted to announce the upcoming publication of our collective book, Power and Society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Building a Fantasy Civilization! It will arrive on April 24 in the wonderful series Perspectives on #Fantasy (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social)!

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest. But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy. Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live. Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.

submitted 23 days ago • 353 comments

I applied for naturalization yesterday as an insurance policy to keep my family together, and I’m not sure that it’s a good insurance policy anymore.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Since the FDA can’t communicate with us, then I will help the government do their job. Subscribe to my Substack to get FDA recall alerts until their communication embargo is lifted. This is a matter of public safety. drrubin.substack.com/p/fda-recall...

submitted 29 days ago • 29 comments

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submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed more than 800 babies under a year old, and over 17,800 children in Gaza overall, officials said.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Thrilled! The Morrigan Blog - a feminist blog that looks at exploring the ways in which gender and sexuality articulate with questions of law and justice - is up and running! Thks @illanwall.bsky.social for the set up! #FeministLegalWork #Feminism #LegalFeminism Pls repost! dflw.ie/how-to-join/

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

warm lines save lives. please share 💖 credit ig: @/inclusivetherapists

submitted 109 days ago • 11 comments

For absolutely no reason whatsoever, here's a comment I wrote about the #RomeStatute 's binary definition of #gender and the harms thereof in a world that's seeing increasing hostility against trans and GNC folks. Applicable beyond the Rome Statute, of course. repository.law.wisc.edu/s/uwlaw/medi...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about all the pictures and videos of people celebrating and wondering how many of them…

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Nightmare continues

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Journalist Anas Al-Sharif removes his helmet and announces a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. His voice steady as his fellow Palestinians lift him into the air in celebration. For 15 months, the Al-Jazeera correspondent has reported on the genocide of his people in Gaza.

submitted 39 days ago • 24 comments

Freedom next. Ameen.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Watching reels of Palestinian babies' eyes lighting up as they touch a tomato or bite into a shawarma; guys bringing the aid sacks & cooking with whatever they've got. May they consume strength after this starvation. 🇵🇸

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Since then, the IDF killed at least 10,361 Palestinians and wounded at least 27,955 Palestinians. Hamas killed several hostages, and the IDF may have killed others inadvertently (reports vary). Biden was too weak to stop it. And that is the generous interpretation.

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

‘a place that allows me to weep for a long time’ hasan qatrawi

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

i'm terrified and hopeful and so terrified and so hopeful

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I am following the cue of Gazans celebrating on the streets and trying to feel some joy. I’m facing how numb I’ve become in order to survive. I longed for this moment for 467 days, and it’s here. And I don’t know how to access my feelings about it.

submitted 39 days ago • 27 comments

Breaking news: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal, in a major breakthrough including the release of Israeli hostages, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations.

submitted 39 days ago • 72 comments

Don't look away.

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The Israeli ban on UNRWA is set to begin in about three weeks. There is no other entity that can fill the void of their humanitarian capacity. Israel, as the Occupying Power, is responsible for Palestinian health, yet it is highly unlikely they will start fulfilling this duty. What then?

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments