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Gay Irish-Canadian AuADHD Buddhist journalist. Chaotic good. JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture. He/him.
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when someone said there were five (5) transgender girls playing high school sports in America (population: 350 Million)

A key aspect of the "anti-woke"/"anti-DEI" backlash: the executive class resented their employees holding them accountable for unsafe labor conditions. Cuomo represents the C-suite's rebuke, both because of his sexual harassment and his endangerment of nursing home workers.

A grim anniversary. If you feel like the entire past decade has been a dumpster fire, there’s a big orange reason for that 😡

christians often have a blind spot when it comes to christian extremism. i don't! so i wrote a book about it: bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

“Gender diverse people are living rich and vibrant lives, so long as they are provided the space, support, and care they need from their health care providers and communities.” We need to disrupt transphobic political climates and help make transition easier for all trans and gender diverse people.

Great piece from @wearequeeraf.com ⭐ I'm obviously no expert but I’ve never understood why staunch feminists wouldn’t *welcome* trans women. They have abandoned the patriarchy in literally every way! That’s a good thing, no? Nothing TERFs say makes any sense to me.

The constant abuser logic 😡 “You hurt Russia’s feelings and made them murder people”

Annie Lowrey of The Atlantic is another data point in favor of my suspicion that if I recognize your name and can't remember why, it's bad.

Call me a naive liberal but I had truly believed I would live the rest of my life without hearing the offensive label “mongoloid” ever again. Alas, the champions of “free speech” have won out 😡

This is awful but I also find it absurd to the point of hilarity. Given how many trans people I know, I guess I'm at extra high risk? 🤭

I live in a world where I am supposed to just accept that this sentence exists

This reminds me that “I am apolitical” is by default a deeply conservative position, and nobody’s particularly keen to interrogate it

Good job, large majority of Canadians ❤️

great news folks submarines for rich people are coming back

When I was young, I wanted to live and work on a kibbutz. I thought Israel was a shining beacon of hope after the Holocaust. Today, I just see Israel as a rogue, cruel nation, intent on killing its neighbors. And that is heartbreaking for me.

BREAKING The Israeli military has carried out strikes on the building housing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s state broadcaster. This footage shows the moment the strike occurred while one of the anchors was live on-air.

This is an important truth more people need to understand 👇🏼

I hope eventually that it's a collective view that supporting this policy was a far bigger sin committed by Biden than dropping out of the presidential race too late.

This is kind of odd framing. While big crowds are a problem, this is less a story about overtourism and more a story about an institution that would rather overwork the staff it has than pay for a properly staffed workforce. Which is not just a problem in the tourism industry.

*punts Instant Pot into the fucking sea*

I got trapped up on MOUNTAINHEAD, yikes 🫤

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

Whether it's Democrats putting flyers on Chris Cillizza’s Tesla or Republicans assassinating Democratic lawmakers, it's time for both sides to turn down the temperature.

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."

Yeah, I had to put a stop to the “I bought my house for $120,000, why can’t you?” conversations about ten years back 🫤

“We didn’t know” is a flimsy excuse. Parent, you need to read this. If you don’t know, you can’t demand clean air in schools. And if you ignore all info that says Covid is wrecking your kids’ health, they will soon be chronically ill and wonder why you didn’t do anything to protect them. Organize! ✊

“Oooooh baby, do you know what that’s worth….?” 💚

Trump declaring war on cities is scary, yes, but I have to admit “Transgender for Everybody” is a great slogan 😃 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Democrats: We must always respect our friends across the aisle 🕊️ Republicans:

Kinda wild that we all get to pay taxes to fund a civil war against us

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025