if this guy could press a button that made trans men get misgendered 10% less but killed all the trans women in the world, he for absolutely sure would press it immediately. The real coin flip is whether he would press the button if it didn't do anything except kill all trans women.

guy who never talked about audrey hale now being a shining beacon of truth telling about supposedly trans mass shooters... you have to laugh

Yes in the realm of facts and inferences it would be relatively simple. In the current moment and the Roberts court? we'll see

my read is that they do not want to say that it is any individual because if they say one (let alone if it is Elon) it brings up the issue that it is very obviously a principal official who in order to do these things would constitutionally be required to have been confirmed by the Senate

It’s crazy how true this is

Yes it's hard to not sound like Ogbert the Nerd when you point out that the last month has been basically a ton of statutorily illegal and moreover unconstitutional actions.

in general, it has been very interesting watching them move from relatively unbothered and not talking about it in class to now obviously worried and bringing it up multiple times in class over the past month.

i'm in a Con law class this semester and the professor was like "We're still reading this but all this stuff on Executive Powers might be different in a couple of months"

“Queer” as an identifier seems to be mostly the province of like what I’d call post-lesbian communities that have a very specific relationship of resentment/ownership/envy of gay male erotics

The pope of Avignon was the real one and the keys of St Peter have been lost to time