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Trauma recovery asks us to think more deeply & authentically about worth & value than the culture ever does. What we achieve does not make us more "worthy" as humans. What we "fail" to achieve does not chip away at our value. You are not your resume', trophy case-- or rap sheet.

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If you are struggling to write something here's this:

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DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc

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I need cis people to understand that if this bill passes, thousands of trans people will die. That's not hyperbole. That's not sensationalism. That's fact. You know the genocide of trans people in the United States you refuse to acknowledge? It's here.

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It took me a year to gather the courage to publish this. If you or anyone you know struggles in the workplace due to disabilities — like neurodivergence or mental illness — this personal essay is for you. bit.ly/fired-with-d...

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I actually want to say this really loudly because I am not seeing other non-Jews say it enough. The Israeli diplomat shooting was an antisemitic hate crime. Yes, most allegations of antisemitism within the anti-genocide movement are bullshit. THIS was antisemitism parading as anti-genocide.

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We all must have a long conversation that is honest about the effects of rapid digitization, social media, the destruction of physical infrastructure/third spaces and the future. We do not have to go down the dark path of authoritarian digitization and social destruction for profit any further.

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🚨🚨🚨 This is something in which we should be investing our attention.

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This episode is truly excellent. So clarifying.

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Destroying Poverty, Victor Hugo, 1849: I am not among those who believe that suffering in this world can be wiped out–suffering is a divine law—but I do think, and I insist, that poverty can be done away with. Please note, that I am not saying reduce, shrink, limit, contain: I am saying destroy.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

It's difficult to do justice to how deranged this really is -- from the official White House account. "The only DEI we support: Deport Every Illegal ✈️"

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It’s all fun and games reading a collection of short horror stories about space/the ocean and then SUDDENLY ONE SCARES YOU A LITTLE TOO MUCH AND ITS VERY LATE AT NIGHT 🫣🫣🫣 “No One Will Come Back For Us” is such a good collection but i ammm unsettllllllllllllled

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1/ People sometimes need a jarring reminder of how far down the path Trump administration is going toward authoritarian assertions of power A sign: John Yoo, architect of torture memos and maximal presidential powers, sharply rebukes President Trump and DOJ actions on 4 grounds @npr.org interview

submitted 22 days ago • 93 comments

No, this isn’t a stupid idea. It’s the way that we are going to have to go to avoid the worst possible outcomes of full digitization. it’s not just going to be for the game market. We have to think about slowing down and reverting to older forms of media if we want any chance at a democratic future.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

This is very good

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This is exactly right,and I know for people who have followed me for a long while I may have seem like I have gotten less loud about how overtly bad things are here, but to be honest,I’ve needed a breather and I think most people who follow me know just how bad this is and how bad it’s about to get.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

A Mother Jones investigation based on firsthand accounts from ICE detainees in Texas reveals how Venezuelans were nearly removed from the country under the Alien Enemies Act without a chance to contest the allegations against them.

submitted 24 days ago • 70 comments

responses to this have included -grow all your own food -buy organic -check labels -go to the farmers market -check for recalls -make your own food from scratch etc WRONG. none of you have read the article

submitted 24 days ago • 78 comments

Marco Rubio stands for nothing, not even himself: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

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Just yesterday I was thinking about how, when social media platforms rolled out algorithms, everyone was like “we don’t want that.” And they were like “no no, trust us, the data says you do; it’ll be great.” Now not only are the algorithms not great, they sucked the life out of everything

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

Look what arrived today. (Actual release date: Sept 16)

submitted 24 days ago • 221 comments

weird to wake up to good news about an innocent man being freed from custody for once thank fuck

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Being disabled is a lesson in extremes. You’re forced to rely on the healthcare system while simultaneously loathing its ableist & discriminatory practices. You become dependent on caregivers for whom you’re grateful but also come to resent. Managing complex emotions & extremes is a full time job

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This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

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My statement for for the Senate Judiciary Committee:

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Authoritarianism functions in predictable cycles and Trump is currently laying the groundwork for using state violence to meet organized resistance. So much depends on what we do now and how we meet this moment. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/an-escalat...

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Don’t be surprised if the next marginalized community the far right decides to target and demonized is the disabled community. The normalization of the ‘R-word,’ acceptance pronatalist eugenics, and the proposal there should be a registry of people on the autism spectrum. “Lebensunwertes leben.”

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“A common refrain in Trumpworld is “promises made, promises kept.” And when it comes to a lot of Donald Trump’s most unpopular ideas, we are in fact seeing promises kept—and that’s the problem!” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

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The problems you suffer from are too big for you to solve. The steps you can take to push back against these problems are too small and ineffective to actually solve them. You’ll suffer terribly even for trying to push back. Do it anyway. queersatanic.com/do-it-anyway/

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If we consider Trump’s base through the lens of cult psychology, his rhetoric may hit differently, and it seems less likely that they abandon him due to empty shelves, and a bit more likely they double down through their own sacrifice while waiting for the next promised salvation.

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“Perhaps in the future, anarchists can stop trying to ‘look after’ those they believe have less privilege than themselves and instead establish stronger bonds of material solidarity with those clearly willing to fight the systems of state control.” theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crim...

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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

submitted 24 days ago • 181 comments

Not sure why this keeps getting memory holed, but yeah, let’s not rehab the guy.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

the reason why these people believe in “the woke mind virus” and think of others as “NPCs” is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions

submitted 27 days ago • 203 comments

This is the week Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal is out - I know it is the best book I’ve written and the most useful - not much media stuff so, as usual, I will relentlessly tour bookshops and libraries cos I think it is worth your time Robinince.com

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Yet again Andreessen conflates being censored with being called an asshole.

submitted 27 days ago • 44 comments

Marcotte is one of the smartest documentors of the deliberately crazed aesthetics of MAGA.

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Part of why “anti-government extremism” maybe wasn’t a good term was that the right wasn’t actually paranoid over Big Gov violating rights but was animated by a desire to consolidate the violent power of the state to be used by a specific group of people to target other specific groups of people

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

Trump, Musk, and RFK Jr making lists of people, whether it’s because they’re Jewish professors, or because they’re diagnosed with autism, has some pretty crystal clear historical parallels and we ought to prepare for what comes next. Start a local Antifascist Book Club and get organized!

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This conference looks amazing! www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The anti woke "centrists" are reaching ridiculous levels of cope. Instead of acknowledging how wrong they've been for years about what the actual threats to freedom were... They're going to spend years contorting themselves to justify their bullshit.

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What people consistently fail to understand about the public is that there are issues they want to see as 'problems' but which they don't actually want 'solved'. They like the 'problem' being there. Immigration is a classic. Most want to complain about it; they don't actually want it stopped.

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