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"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies"
What's Title VI?
"prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"
What's Title VI?
"prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"
April 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies"
What's Title VI?
"prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"
What's Title VI?
"prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"
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From my latest piece.
The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
April 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
From my latest piece.
The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
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The Crumbles.
Historians will propose in due course a name for this current phase we are witnessing in the United States. My early submission: The Great Dismantling.
April 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The Crumbles.
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it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
April 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
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To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.
there's also people claiming we trans people are "holding allies to a purity test" here and to be clear:
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
"Don't participate in stuff that actively funds the campaign to exterminate us" is a pretty fucking low bar. One might say it's not even "allyship," it's just decency.
Also, Lithgow is trying to muddy the waters by giving interviews where he pretends that the controversy here is that he's American, not that he's signing off on transphobia.
deadline.com/2025/04/john...
deadline.com/2025/04/john...
April 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.
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This is the inevitable outcome of a decades long firehose of fatphobic eugenics language in public health
that hugely financially rewards everyone that participates in it.
that hugely financially rewards everyone that participates in it.
Now it's your fault if you get sick?
Dr. Oz: 'It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources.'
Dr. Oz: 'It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources.'
April 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is the inevitable outcome of a decades long firehose of fatphobic eugenics language in public health
that hugely financially rewards everyone that participates in it.
that hugely financially rewards everyone that participates in it.
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Leonard Zeskind will be missed. We had the opportunity to speak with him in 2018. May his work continue to be a light in the fight against fascism and white supremacy. itsgoingdown.org/zeskind-hist...
April 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Leonard Zeskind will be missed. We had the opportunity to speak with him in 2018. May his work continue to be a light in the fight against fascism and white supremacy. itsgoingdown.org/zeskind-hist...
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Strangely, the official who is exploiting legit concerns about antisemitism to revoke hundreds of students’ visas and undermine democracy has… no qualms about sitting down with an antisemite who thinks “Hitler actually had some decent points.” 🤔
Secretary of State Marco Rubio just sat down for a one-on-one interview with a man who, as @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social has reported, has claimed that "Jewish influence on the West" has led to "white genocide" and once said "Hitler actually had some decent points."
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
April 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Strangely, the official who is exploiting legit concerns about antisemitism to revoke hundreds of students’ visas and undermine democracy has… no qualms about sitting down with an antisemite who thinks “Hitler actually had some decent points.” 🤔
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2. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), run by famed vaccine skeptic and legacy hire Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has launched an online portal for “whistleblowers” reporting medical providers if they offer gender affirming treatment to trans people.
Find it here:
Find it here:
www.hhs.gov
April 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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“Trump is illegally disappearing people. He is proposing abducting Americans. He must be removed from power. He no longer has authority.”
And honestly that’s the weak version of what Democrats should be saying.
And honestly that’s the weak version of what Democrats should be saying.
April 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“Trump is illegally disappearing people. He is proposing abducting Americans. He must be removed from power. He no longer has authority.”
And honestly that’s the weak version of what Democrats should be saying.
And honestly that’s the weak version of what Democrats should be saying.
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"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
-Frederick Douglass, 1857
-Frederick Douglass, 1857
April 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
-Frederick Douglass, 1857
-Frederick Douglass, 1857
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Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
UPDATE: Trump seems to say for the first time that U.S. lacks ability to recover those sent to El Salvador if government deports someone erroneously. Says it’s totally up to Bukele. Seems to leave out that he could … ask Bukele to help fix an error. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
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In the last century unions in this country made a massive error in responding to offshoring not by saying “we will organize our siblings all around the world because we are stronger together,” But instead focusing on keeping jobs here. I’m glad to see a bit more solidarity here
April 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
In the last century unions in this country made a massive error in responding to offshoring not by saying “we will organize our siblings all around the world because we are stronger together,” But instead focusing on keeping jobs here. I’m glad to see a bit more solidarity here
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Anyway. I’m here to stay until that happens. I’ll keep reporting until they pull my keyboard away. I’ll keep telling the stories of transgender people in this time and age.
If not for those who read today, for those who look back on these times in years to come.
If not for those who read today, for those who look back on these times in years to come.
April 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Anyway. I’m here to stay until that happens. I’ll keep reporting until they pull my keyboard away. I’ll keep telling the stories of transgender people in this time and age.
If not for those who read today, for those who look back on these times in years to come.
If not for those who read today, for those who look back on these times in years to come.
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Students across the US are rallying on campuses to demand an end to sweeping attacks on international students, as the Trump administration moves to revoke visas for hundreds. Protests in the last few days have taken place in Indiana, Florida, Texas, Michigan and beyond.
April 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Students across the US are rallying on campuses to demand an end to sweeping attacks on international students, as the Trump administration moves to revoke visas for hundreds. Protests in the last few days have taken place in Indiana, Florida, Texas, Michigan and beyond.
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It is very easy to be vindicated by history when your consistent position, one which anyone can and should take, is opposition to the existance of the American Gestapo
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
if only anyone had said this for years
At this point I’m convinced that the entirety of ICE should be dismantled, and every agent blacklisted from law enforcement work for life.
This is just one story of casual evil, and new ones come out every day.
This is just one story of casual evil, and new ones come out every day.
April 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It is very easy to be vindicated by history when your consistent position, one which anyone can and should take, is opposition to the existance of the American Gestapo
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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libs love to quote Orwell.
here's one for you:
"When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist — after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct." -- George Orwell, from Homage to Catalonia
here's one for you:
"When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist — after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct." -- George Orwell, from Homage to Catalonia
April 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
libs love to quote Orwell.
here's one for you:
"When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist — after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct." -- George Orwell, from Homage to Catalonia
here's one for you:
"When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist — after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct." -- George Orwell, from Homage to Catalonia