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Apparently it's possible to shame the author of "How to Fight Anti-Semitism" into deleting her tweet promoting the article she published, written by a white supremacist, defending "ironic" Nazi salutes

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Canadian journalists are usually barred from entering Iran. The Globe's @geoffreyyork.bsky.social was able to visit recently. His article on the changes he saw since he last reported from this country years ago. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440... gift link for first 20 readers

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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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So this week they tried to neutralize the AP and Reuters, the two most important wire news services in the country?

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i know ppl here do not enjoy screenshots of X but this one is such a great encapsulation of what it's become

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Demonstrators with Nazi flags leave Cincinnati-area highway overpass after residents confront them via nbcnews - www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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"These notions—AI can replace workers, the government should function like a startup—are not meant to describe reality; they are meant to create a permission structure for those in power to obtain more of it."

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It would be great if you all who follow me could amplify this story by reposting and liking and doing all the things that boost these things on social media platforms. Trans folks: you can fight back against Trump’s executive orders by becoming plaintiffs. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

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Andreessen Horowitz hiring Daniel Perry exemplifies what debates over preferential treatment are really all about. White men are actually rewarded professionally and personally by other white men for their willingness to commit acts of violence against people who threaten white male dominance.

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It’s so happening. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

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Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 25 days ago • 364 comments

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

submitted 25 days ago • 44 comments

Glimpses from inside the police state they’re aping (use autotranslate) meduza.io/feature/2025...

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The shuttering of public health data about trans people at the same time they're banning health care and threatening doctors who support trans people means it's not just censorship (though it's certainly that). It's an attempt to hide the evidence.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

submitted 26 days ago • 166 comments

Here's an interesting thing about "DEI". Avowed GC women are now learning that to right-wing men, THEY are DEI. Nancy Mace's rabid enforcement of cissexism and transmisogyny is not sparing her from Matt Walsh's misogyny, from the misogyny that treats all women who "overreach" as undeserving.

submitted 26 days ago • 101 comments

I loved how the evil archbishop in Conclave was seen occasional hitting his matching cherry red vape. Very nefarious.

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Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was founded to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.

submitted 33 days ago • 61 comments

A remarkable, historic document: The federal government’s first defense in court of the Trump administration restriction of birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. Actual lawyers signed this brief. I hope everyone reads it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Merely hiring a person of color in any desirable role is gonna get categorized as a verboten “DEI effort.” Mark my words.

submitted 35 days ago • 150 comments

Oops. Though, knock on wood, this feels less horrible than when I last had Covid in July 2022.

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If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Jamelle Bouie. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

It's snowing in New Orleans.

submitted 36 days ago • 118 comments

Birthright citizenship is literally the legal device that prevented the South from putting Black people back in chains. I wish more people would say this.

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There’s just one fruit fly in my apartment and it lives near my head

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Not so much a nail in the coffin but a stake through the heart of the Cass Review. Olson-Kennedy et al (2025) Emotional Health of Transgender Youth 24 Months After Initiating Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy. Journal of adolescent health. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 39 days ago • 29 comments

@dansup.bsky.social , who is the founder of pixelfed, sent this letter to Mark Zuckerberg/Meta regarding their blocking of links to Pixelfed.

submitted 39 days ago • 41 comments

From a piece I wrote for the Washington Post in 2016, before he was elected.

submitted 41 days ago • 16 comments

Tfw you would like just one more piece of bacon

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Bluesky needs a mute reposts option, stat

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entering the "I was experimenting, it was just a phase" era of corporations discontinuing their branded rainbow koozies

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Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

submitted 44 days ago • 222 comments

The story of my 3-year nightmare as a trans woman at a New York Times-owned company (CW: suicide, suicidal ideation, anti-trans hate): www.carlyjdubois.com/new-york-tim...

submitted 45 days ago • 73 comments

Best part of yesterday was overhearing some guy say “Todo sangramos sangre” on the subway platform after he asked Selma Nilla for a picture

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After a @Bellingcat workshop years ago, a participant built a geolocation tool to find locations that all had i.e. a library and a cafe in a 20m radius. Now, there's a supercharged version of that tool! Thanks @sanjanamv.bsky.social for flagging it. www.findthatspot.io