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an entire generation losing their minds that their children and grandchildren would DARE to do anything they don't understand and turning the full might of the world's imperial powers against the people they profess to love most
Breaking: House Republicans pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize doctors that provide gender-affirming care for trans kids. Her bill imposes jail time penalties up to 10 years. Now, it's headed to the Senate where it is not likely to advance as it would need 7 Democrats to sign on
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
an entire generation losing their minds that their children and grandchildren would DARE to do anything they don't understand and turning the full might of the world's imperial powers against the people they profess to love most
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Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
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Just to be clear, he means the people who are Democratic county chairs, the people who go canvassing, the people who are making sure that doors get knocked on and we get out the vote.
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Just to be clear, he means the people who are Democratic county chairs, the people who go canvassing, the people who are making sure that doors get knocked on and we get out the vote.
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he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
"Zaslav will receive $30 million in "Golden Parachute' compensation along with $537 million in equity for a total of $567 million in a transaction-associated pay."
half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job
half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job
Warner Bros. Golden Parachutes Revealed: What David Zaslav and C-Suite Will Get In a Deal
The CEO stands to gain $567 million if a deal is sealed to sell the WB empire while longtime lieutenant Gunnar Wiedenfels will see $144 million in cash and stock considerations if a transaction close...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
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It's almost the holidays! Except in Congress.
Today, a bill that would jail doctors for up to 10 years if they provide gender-affirming care to minors is scheduled for a House vote. It's not expected to become law, but it's still a big deal.
Catch up here:
Today, a bill that would jail doctors for up to 10 years if they provide gender-affirming care to minors is scheduled for a House vote. It's not expected to become law, but it's still a big deal.
Catch up here:
House Republicans advance sweeping anti-trans bills ahead of holiday break
One bill would jail doctors who prescribe gender-affirming care to trans youth. Another would block Medicaid dollars from funding that care.
19thnews.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It's almost the holidays! Except in Congress.
Today, a bill that would jail doctors for up to 10 years if they provide gender-affirming care to minors is scheduled for a House vote. It's not expected to become law, but it's still a big deal.
Catch up here:
Today, a bill that would jail doctors for up to 10 years if they provide gender-affirming care to minors is scheduled for a House vote. It's not expected to become law, but it's still a big deal.
Catch up here:
“What, of the words you helped bring them, will people pass back and forth to each other like they're showing off trading cards when they hear you're gone?” — Linda Holmes
I said roughly ten percent of the things I could have said about Rob Reiner.
Remembering Rob Reiner, who made movies for people who love them
The movies Reiner directed, from A Few Good Men to The Princess Bride, weren't just good — they were people's favorites, the types of films people come back to again and again.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
“What, of the words you helped bring them, will people pass back and forth to each other like they're showing off trading cards when they hear you're gone?” — Linda Holmes
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new monarca upstander training by UNIDOS scheduled for january 7 at hennepin united methodist church in loring park. register here:
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December 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
new monarca upstander training by UNIDOS scheduled for january 7 at hennepin united methodist church in loring park. register here:
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
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Who is Brian Walsh and why did he not address the elephant in the room of "improve access to education globally"? He wanks about fertility and ideas in wealthy countries but how many good ideas do we miss because we let people languish in poverty globally??
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Who is Brian Walsh and why did he not address the elephant in the room of "improve access to education globally"? He wanks about fertility and ideas in wealthy countries but how many good ideas do we miss because we let people languish in poverty globally??
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There's a pretense that despair/defeatism/doomerism is some kind of solidarity, when it's actually quitting while others face the horrors and resist succumbing to them. Wrote about that here.
Why climate despair is a luxury
Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we.
www.newstatesman.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
There's a pretense that despair/defeatism/doomerism is some kind of solidarity, when it's actually quitting while others face the horrors and resist succumbing to them. Wrote about that here.
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This is exactly it.
You can have optimism in mourning: knowing that people will die and lives will be diminished but also believing that everything we do now matters and will help.
You can have optimism in mourning: knowing that people will die and lives will be diminished but also believing that everything we do now matters and will help.
Well said.
For me, optimism does not mean "everything will turn out okay." Optimism means "a solution exists, and my efforts matter."
Without this kind of optimism nothing gets done, and yeah, that's a guaranteed that things will *not* turn out okay.
For me, optimism does not mean "everything will turn out okay." Optimism means "a solution exists, and my efforts matter."
Without this kind of optimism nothing gets done, and yeah, that's a guaranteed that things will *not* turn out okay.
December 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is exactly it.
You can have optimism in mourning: knowing that people will die and lives will be diminished but also believing that everything we do now matters and will help.
You can have optimism in mourning: knowing that people will die and lives will be diminished but also believing that everything we do now matters and will help.
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You're walking home from the gym when you're stopped by FBI officers in an unmarked car. They handcuff you, even though you tell them you're a US citizen.
Then, they scan your face.
23-year-old Jesus Gutiérrez recounts his experience to @revealnews.org and 404 Media:
Then, they scan your face.
23-year-old Jesus Gutiérrez recounts his experience to @revealnews.org and 404 Media:
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.
www.404media.co
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You're walking home from the gym when you're stopped by FBI officers in an unmarked car. They handcuff you, even though you tell them you're a US citizen.
Then, they scan your face.
23-year-old Jesus Gutiérrez recounts his experience to @revealnews.org and 404 Media:
Then, they scan your face.
23-year-old Jesus Gutiérrez recounts his experience to @revealnews.org and 404 Media:
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Activist lawyers could do great work here representing faculty when the inevitable abuses occur.
Because every women's studies course needs to give angry 45-year-old male drunks—who don't go to the school and often aren't in the same state—an opportunity to learn what's on tap and menace the faculty. (h/t @tressiemcphd.bsky.social)
December 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Activist lawyers could do great work here representing faculty when the inevitable abuses occur.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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“It can feel like ICE agents are everywhere. That, presumably, is how they want it to feel. At the same time, more and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble.”
At the outset of Week 3 of the MN 🧊 invasion, CAN CONFIRM
At the outset of Week 3 of the MN 🧊 invasion, CAN CONFIRM
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“It can feel like ICE agents are everywhere. That, presumably, is how they want it to feel. At the same time, more and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble.”
At the outset of Week 3 of the MN 🧊 invasion, CAN CONFIRM
At the outset of Week 3 of the MN 🧊 invasion, CAN CONFIRM
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Posting this again because I've been getting questions: at this moment there is no licensed merch for Murderbot or Sanctuary Moon except what is on Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/... where it's sold for charity fundraising. And they are getting a new t-shirt design soon.
Martha Wells
Worldbuilders Market is the official online shop of Worldbuilders, a geek-centered nonprofit supporting humanitarian efforts worldwide. We carry a wide variety of officially licensed merchandise from ...
worldbuildersmarket.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Posting this again because I've been getting questions: at this moment there is no licensed merch for Murderbot or Sanctuary Moon except what is on Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/... where it's sold for charity fundraising. And they are getting a new t-shirt design soon.
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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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Here’s the latest on the deadly shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island.
https://to.pbs.org/48Uk6nU
https://to.pbs.org/48Uk6nU
Live updates: Deadly shooting at Brown University
The shooting happened inside of a classroom.
www.pbs.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Here’s the latest on the deadly shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island.
https://to.pbs.org/48Uk6nU
https://to.pbs.org/48Uk6nU
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Online grocery delivery service Instacart used AI to charge different prices for the same item, up to 20% more for different shoppers, a new report says.
https://ow.ly/IIpT50XJ7wp
https://ow.ly/IIpT50XJ7wp
Instacart's AI technology is hiking prices as much as 20% for the same item, new study reveals
Online grocery delivery service Instacart used AI to charge different prices for the same item, up to 20% more for different shoppers, a new report says.
ow.ly
December 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Online grocery delivery service Instacart used AI to charge different prices for the same item, up to 20% more for different shoppers, a new report says.
https://ow.ly/IIpT50XJ7wp
https://ow.ly/IIpT50XJ7wp
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The ACLU of Minnesota said it has heard of “at least a dozen” U.S. citizens of Somali descent being detained during recent ICE operations — a pattern attorney Ian Bratlie described as unlawful racial profiling that fails to meet the legal standard of reasonable suspicion.
As ICE activity intensifies, some Somali students lower their profile
Fear on Twin Cities campuses has grown following recent detentions, leaving students to reconsider their daily activities
bit.ly
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The ACLU of Minnesota said it has heard of “at least a dozen” U.S. citizens of Somali descent being detained during recent ICE operations — a pattern attorney Ian Bratlie described as unlawful racial profiling that fails to meet the legal standard of reasonable suspicion.
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.