@sammmjzm.bsky.social
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For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die
My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?
www.msnbc.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
“Be what scares them. Live lives in colors their eyes can’t even see. Cook food they want to deport….
…They are waging a war on living. The more fully you live, the harder their job will be.”
…They are waging a war on living. The more fully you live, the harder their job will be.”
The opposite of fascism
Living well and fighting back in a time of terrors
the.ink
March 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“Be what scares them. Live lives in colors their eyes can’t even see. Cook food they want to deport….
…They are waging a war on living. The more fully you live, the harder their job will be.”
…They are waging a war on living. The more fully you live, the harder their job will be.”
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@joellenovey.bsky.social wrote this:
The whole entire world
is a very narrow bridge
and the main thing to recall
I can’t remember right now
because the people who taught me that song
and the ones I sang it with
may make the same excuses
when they come for me, and you
The whole entire world
is a very narrow bridge
and the main thing to recall
I can’t remember right now
because the people who taught me that song
and the ones I sang it with
may make the same excuses
when they come for me, and you
The Whole Entire World: A Poem · Jewschool
the ones I sang it with may make the same excuses when they come for me, and you
jewschool.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
@joellenovey.bsky.social wrote this:
The whole entire world
is a very narrow bridge
and the main thing to recall
I can’t remember right now
because the people who taught me that song
and the ones I sang it with
may make the same excuses
when they come for me, and you
The whole entire world
is a very narrow bridge
and the main thing to recall
I can’t remember right now
because the people who taught me that song
and the ones I sang it with
may make the same excuses
when they come for me, and you
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Ignorance can be a source of a lot of hate, and the best cure is knowledge. After hearing the stories told by trans people, a conservative man changed his mind about LGBTQ+ folks, and had the courage to admit it in a public assembly.
Read more: bit.ly/4ixZB3P
Read more: bit.ly/4ixZB3P
March 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Ignorance can be a source of a lot of hate, and the best cure is knowledge. After hearing the stories told by trans people, a conservative man changed his mind about LGBTQ+ folks, and had the courage to admit it in a public assembly.
Read more: bit.ly/4ixZB3P
Read more: bit.ly/4ixZB3P
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#DidThisToday Entered public comments on the executive orders barring trans people from using their correct names and gender markers on their passports
FREEDOM TO FLY: Take Action to Protect Trans Passport Access | A4TE
The U.S. Department of State has opened public comment periods on three important passport applications, and we must flood all three with our opposition to anti-trans changes before it's too late.
transequality.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#DidThisToday Entered public comments on the executive orders barring trans people from using their correct names and gender markers on their passports
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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congrats to all the liberals calling the attacks on trans people in the U.S. "tragic but inconsequential since there aren't all that many of them" for finally finding out what they'd have done in 1930s germany
March 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
congrats to all the liberals calling the attacks on trans people in the U.S. "tragic but inconsequential since there aren't all that many of them" for finally finding out what they'd have done in 1930s germany
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There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
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Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence.
That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.
The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.
The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
February 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence.
That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.
The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.
The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
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Rebecca Solnit on the excuses used by fascists…
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Rebecca Solnit on the excuses used by fascists…
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
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Your trans friends on bad days
February 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Your trans friends on bad days
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Also, I am really tired of the idea that we have to choose between caring about class and caring about racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. This is not hard:
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump
How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.
nymag.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Also, I am really tired of the idea that we have to choose between caring about class and caring about racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. This is not hard:
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Googling “Constitutional Crisis“
Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts
Yesterday, the president said that no judge “should be allowed” to rule against the changes his administration is making.
www.theatlantic.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Googling “Constitutional Crisis“
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Hoping the bonobos are coming to get us really soon
Bonobos recognize when humans are ignorant, try to help arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Bonobos recognize when humans are ignorant, try to help
Study provides evidence that our relatives have a “theory of mind.”…
arstechnica.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hoping the bonobos are coming to get us really soon
Got followed by a bot with Paul Hollywood as its profile pic 🤣🤣🤣 jokes on you bot cause I’m sad and watch gbbo like it’s my job. any tips on how to block these things?
January 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Got followed by a bot with Paul Hollywood as its profile pic 🤣🤣🤣 jokes on you bot cause I’m sad and watch gbbo like it’s my job. any tips on how to block these things?
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Maryland is the best state
January 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Maryland is the best state
Today: On how all the normalizing is about (in part) fear of facing the grief & loss that this moment demands.
But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.
This is new terrain, but we can do this.
It's time for you to become the leader you seek.
We must figure this out together.
But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.
This is new terrain, but we can do this.
It's time for you to become the leader you seek.
We must figure this out together.
Feel. Then Do.
our work in this new era
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...