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Michael Kohlhaas Syndrom @thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social · 24d
trans rights are human rights
jaywillis.net Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 24d
The Supreme Court's decision to let the Trump White House implement its anti-trans passport policy is vile, and I appreciate Jackson going out of her way to include in her dissent, for the record, the administration's language justifying the policy. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
TRUMP v. ORR JACKSON, J., dissenting identity. From 1992 to 2010, passport applicants who wished to obtain passports with sex markers that were dif- ferent from the sex assigned to them at birth had to submit evidence of surgical reassignment. In 2010, the State De- partment began allowing passport applicants to submit a doctor’s certification avowing that they had undergone clin- ical treatment for gender transition. Beginning in 2021, the State Department allowed applicants to self-select the sex marker that matched their gender identity. Through it all, the indisputable point of a passport re- mained: to “attes[t] to the identity and nationality of the bearer.” 22 CFR §51.1 (2024). The State Department’s sex- marker policies have thus long demonstrated that what is important for identification purposes is the bearer’s gender identity today. No matter. On January 22, 2025, the agency overhauled the rules for sex markers on passports, reverting to its pre- 1992 practices. Its Passport Policy now requires that all new passports reflect the holders’ sex assigned at birth. Why? Because two days earlier, on January 20, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 14168, characterizing transgender identity as “false” and “corrosive” to American society. 90 Fed. Reg. 8615 (2025). The order asserted that “the policy of the United States” is “to recognize two sexes, male and female,” which it defined based on the sex as- signed “at conception.” Ibid. And the order directed the Secretary of State to require that any new government-is- sued identification documents reflect the holder’s “biologi- cal” sex. Id., at 8615–8616. The State Department re- sponded by rescinding its prior sex-identification policies moving forward; transgender Americans who had previ- ously obtained passports with sex markers reflecting their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth could continue to use those documents until they expire. Several transgender Americans w Cite as: 607 U. S. ____ (2025) 9 JACKSON, J., dissenting President from carrying out these supposedly legitimate ob- jectives. Thus, the Government’s asserted harm from being sub- jected to the injunction—its only asserted harm—is that the President cannot, at least for now, enact his preferred poli- cies regarding sex markers on U. S. passports. Even as- suming, arguendo, that this purported injury counts as ir- reparable harm, it does not suffice to justify the extraordinary equitable remedy of a stay pending appeal.5 What the Government needs (and what it does not have) is an explanation for why it faces harm unless the Presi- dent’s chosen policy is implemented now. It suggests that there is an urgent foreign policy interest in dictating sex markers on passports, but does not elaborate as to what that interest might possibly be. All the Government is able to muster is the statement that “the injunction forces the government to misrepresent the sex of passport holders to foreign nations” and to “contradict . . . biological reality.” Application for Stay of Injunction 34. But how urgent can this interest be when the Passport Policy itself allows transgender Americans who already have passports with sex markers reflecting their current gender identity to con- tinue using those passports until they expire? The Government also insists that gender identity is not a meaningful basis for identification—strangely begging the question why sex markers are required on passports at all.
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
Trump's efforts hastened the mRNA vaccines and his 2020 super dole prepared the brisk US "return to normal" in 2021

In 2025 Trump is streamlining science along ideological lines and demonizing vaccines
by-cjewett.bsky.social Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.

“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
Saw a local tv ad for acupuncture; best recollection, it's approximately the first time I ever saw an accupuncture ad on TV in Texas

Am I out of touch?
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that. "You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now." Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Handshake meme - "Me doing a CAPTCHA" and "THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O'Brien" uniting over "Is the guy riding the bicycle part of the bicycle?"
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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antlervel.vet
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
holy shit
whitneytrettien.bsky.social Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 18d
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
poignant and real
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24d
Jackson's dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, says the evidence showed that gender-incongruent passports led to humiliating, invasive searches of trans Americans (including strip searches) since their gender marker didn't align with their appearance. The policy is both cruel and irrational.
Thus, by preventing transgender Americans from obtaining gendor-congruent passports, the Government is doing more than just making a statement about its belief that transgender identity is “false.” The Passport Policy also in- vites the probing, and at times humiliating, additional scru- tiny these plaintiffs have experienced. Given this, it is no surprise that each of the plaintiffs credibly testified that they would experience significant anxiety and fear for their safety if required to use passports that reflect their sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity. Absent an injunction, the plaintiffs and the classes of transgender Americans they represent are forced to make a difficult choice that no other Americans face: use gender-incongruent passports and risk harass- ment and bodily invasions, on the one hand, or avoid all ac- tivities (travel, opening a bank account, renting a car, start- ing a new job) that may require a passport, on the other. The harm to these individuals from having to make that choice—before their legal challenges have even been re- solved—is palpable.
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
trans rights are human rights
jaywillis.net Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 24d
The Supreme Court's decision to let the Trump White House implement its anti-trans passport policy is vile, and I appreciate Jackson going out of her way to include in her dissent, for the record, the administration's language justifying the policy. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
TRUMP v. ORR JACKSON, J., dissenting identity. From 1992 to 2010, passport applicants who wished to obtain passports with sex markers that were dif- ferent from the sex assigned to them at birth had to submit evidence of surgical reassignment. In 2010, the State De- partment began allowing passport applicants to submit a doctor’s certification avowing that they had undergone clin- ical treatment for gender transition. Beginning in 2021, the State Department allowed applicants to self-select the sex marker that matched their gender identity. Through it all, the indisputable point of a passport re- mained: to “attes[t] to the identity and nationality of the bearer.” 22 CFR §51.1 (2024). The State Department’s sex- marker policies have thus long demonstrated that what is important for identification purposes is the bearer’s gender identity today. No matter. On January 22, 2025, the agency overhauled the rules for sex markers on passports, reverting to its pre- 1992 practices. Its Passport Policy now requires that all new passports reflect the holders’ sex assigned at birth. Why? Because two days earlier, on January 20, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 14168, characterizing transgender identity as “false” and “corrosive” to American society. 90 Fed. Reg. 8615 (2025). The order asserted that “the policy of the United States” is “to recognize two sexes, male and female,” which it defined based on the sex as- signed “at conception.” Ibid. And the order directed the Secretary of State to require that any new government-is- sued identification documents reflect the holder’s “biologi- cal” sex. Id., at 8615–8616. The State Department re- sponded by rescinding its prior sex-identification policies moving forward; transgender Americans who had previ- ously obtained passports with sex markers reflecting their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth could continue to use those documents until they expire. Several transgender Americans w Cite as: 607 U. S. ____ (2025) 9 JACKSON, J., dissenting President from carrying out these supposedly legitimate ob- jectives. Thus, the Government’s asserted harm from being sub- jected to the injunction—its only asserted harm—is that the President cannot, at least for now, enact his preferred poli- cies regarding sex markers on U. S. passports. Even as- suming, arguendo, that this purported injury counts as ir- reparable harm, it does not suffice to justify the extraordinary equitable remedy of a stay pending appeal.5 What the Government needs (and what it does not have) is an explanation for why it faces harm unless the Presi- dent’s chosen policy is implemented now. It suggests that there is an urgent foreign policy interest in dictating sex markers on passports, but does not elaborate as to what that interest might possibly be. All the Government is able to muster is the statement that “the injunction forces the government to misrepresent the sex of passport holders to foreign nations” and to “contradict . . . biological reality.” Application for Stay of Injunction 34. But how urgent can this interest be when the Passport Policy itself allows transgender Americans who already have passports with sex markers reflecting their current gender identity to con- tinue using those passports until they expire? The Government also insists that gender identity is not a meaningful basis for identification—strangely begging the question why sex markers are required on passports at all.
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
inflicting pain for political clout

domination and sadism
juliedicaro.bsky.social Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 24d
Now Tyler Becker for the gov't - he's muted. LOL

Becker: This issue is affecting vulnerable populations. As we stated in the last hearing, this all comes down to Congress not having appropriated funds and being in a shut-down.

"Gov't was not able to find other funds within same bureau"
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
McConnell orders the government to fully fund SNAP benefits for November immediately via TRO—written order to come.

Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned.

Wow.
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
"Launched by the Central Bank of Brazil in November 2020, Pix is, in the central bank’s own words, 'an instant payment scheme that enables its users — people, companies and governmental entities — to send or receive payment transfers in few seconds at any time, including non-business days.'”
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
crap heuristics reveal substantial dreck, with associated human misfortune
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
Happy Halloween!
mcnees.bsky.social Robert “The Baste God” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Oct 31
Henri Poincaré was the first to understand the nature of Weierstrass's horrifying creation. He called it "an outrage against common sense.”

Somehow, Weierstrass had stitched together a pathological function made out of pointed teeth and sharp corners, and brought the thing to life. (2/n)
October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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bot.cowtools.org
“Okay, okay, you guys have had your chance—the horses want another shot at it.”
“Okay, okay, you guys have had your chance—the horses want another shot at it.”
October 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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tomphilpott.bsky.social
New piece in The New Republic. Catch it in the current print mag or read it here. newrepublic.com/article/2011...
Of Corn and Cancer: Iowa’s Deadly Water Crisis
All that feed corn and all those soybeans—and those nearly 25 million hogs—produce a lot of nitrate. It’s making Iowans sick and causing them to die. And the politicians aren’t doing a thing about it.
newrepublic.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
Remember that one time at band camp when Trump deliberately destroyed priceless art deco friezes that the Met had asked to be preserved because he couldn’t be bothered and had them destroyed instead? news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
October 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Maybe we should bring that back
sethcotlar.bsky.social Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Oct 22
In case people were wondering what the founding generation of the 1770s & 80s thought about the proper role of the executive, here are 2 paragraphs on the subject by conservative historian Gordon Wood. Georgia literally forced their executive to swear an oath that they'd step down after elections.
Americans in 1776 wanted a very different kind of chief magis-trate. Most agreed with William Hooper of North Carolina that "for the sake of Execution we must have a Magistrate," but it must be a magistrate "solely executive"" a governor, as Thomas Jefferson's 1776 draft for the Virginia constitution stated, without a voice in legisla-tion, without any control over the meeting of the assembly, without the authority to declare war and make peace, raise armies, coin money, erect courts, lay embargoes, or pardon crimes; in sum, they wanted a ruler, as John Adams proposed, "stripped of most of those badges of domination, called prerogatives"— prerogatives being those often vague and discretionary powers that royal authority had possessed in order to carry out its responsibility for governing the society." As the Revolutionary war years would quickly show, such an enfeebled governor could no longer be an independent magistrate with an inherent right to rule but could only be, as Jefferson correctly called him, an "Administrator." 12 The Pennsylvania constitution, the most radical of all the new state constitutions, eliminated even the office of governor. Instead, it granted executive authority to a twelve-man executive council directly elected by the people. Other states, while clinging to the idea of a single executive magistrate, in effect destroyed the substance of an independent ruler. The framers surrounded all the governors with controlling councils elected by the legislatures. And they provided for the annual election of nearly all the governors, generally by the legislatures, limited the times they could be re-elected, and subjected them to impeachment. 3 So feared was magisterial power that the Georgia constitution required the annually elected governor to swear an oath that he would step down "peaceably and quietly" when his term had expired. 4 Perhaps this was not an unfounded fear, as demonstrated in our own time by numerous so-called "republican" rulers throughout the world refusing to surrender their offices even when defeated in an election.
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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dansolomon.com
it's very texas democrats that the party has a decent bench for the first time in years and they all want to run against each other for the same job
dceiver.bsky.social Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · Oct 22
for Democrats, Texas Senate elections are the "climb the Murderhorn" of electoral challenges but one thing I really like about Crockett is that she is adept in the current media environment which sets her apart from a lot of her colleagues

www.axios.com/2025/10/22/j...
Jasmine Crockett "strongly" considering U.S. Senate bid
"Every other day there's a poll that comes out that makes it clear that I can win the primary," Crockett said.
www.axios.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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aelkus.bsky.social
while a lot of admin’s wrongs are described by the Declaration of Independence’s complaints, its worth noting that Trump is seeking powers far beyond even those wielded by George III
donzeko.bsky.social Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · Oct 16
This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Oct 15
President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
"By the end of the war, a full eight percent of the 2.5 million Germans living in the United States had been interned under the Wilson-approved sedition act."
October 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
19th century public health problems are not so much back as they never completely went away

but public health in the USA apparently has gone away for the time being
October 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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gabrielmalor.bsky.social
The gist from the Court here is that because the grand jury refused to indict them over the entirely fabricated claims, the criminal process did not get far enough to constitute a deprivation of liberty. Just deprivation of their future football careers, educations, and reputations.
October 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
one low-effort, low-information, low-trust individual being so irritable, loud and overbearing the whole world must accommodate him isn't just our president, it is a significant social dysfunction
October 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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On deck: purging ideologically refractory judges
jjgass.bsky.social Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · Oct 9
I've said it before, but it's remarkable how quickly the feds have managed to piss away the seemingly ironclad presumption of candor & credibility they enjoyed with federal judges.

They've lied so shamelessly, flagrantly, & frequently that judges have decided not to be played for fools any more.
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · Oct 9
U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."
October 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
thewinedarkwaves.bsky.social
h/t @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · Oct 9
bro lee greenwood is not even top billing at a bar in Tomball, Texas
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM