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“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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The welfare queens thing is so bizarrely nonsensical. The average taxpayer pays $36 for Snap, and there are 41 million Americans using the program. Let’s assume that 1 million people are defrauding the system, an insane assumption. That means you’re paying less than $1 per year to fraudsters.
REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The biggest ‘welfare queens’ in 🇺🇸 are corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes, and CEOs who get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet — not hungry kids, or working parents who work multiple jobs.”
December 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The welfare queens thing is so bizarrely nonsensical. The average taxpayer pays $36 for Snap, and there are 41 million Americans using the program. Let’s assume that 1 million people are defrauding the system, an insane assumption. That means you’re paying less than $1 per year to fraudsters.
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“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
my hot take is that encores shouldn’t exist. i’d so much rather artists just play their set. i don’t see the point in them leaving the stage just to come out 2 min later to play 1-2 songs.
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
my hot take is that encores shouldn’t exist. i’d so much rather artists just play their set. i don’t see the point in them leaving the stage just to come out 2 min later to play 1-2 songs.
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This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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Riley Gaines is a leading face of the anti-trans movement, appearing at Trump’s signing of an executive order to ban trans girls from girls’ school sports.
But her teammate remembers a different Gaines, who expressly did not support Trump.
What happened?
But her teammate remembers a different Gaines, who expressly did not support Trump.
What happened?
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
ow.ly
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Riley Gaines is a leading face of the anti-trans movement, appearing at Trump’s signing of an executive order to ban trans girls from girls’ school sports.
But her teammate remembers a different Gaines, who expressly did not support Trump.
What happened?
But her teammate remembers a different Gaines, who expressly did not support Trump.
What happened?
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Your regular reminder that Airbnb has become more of a platform for landlords to both turn housing into straight-up hotels, taking units off the market which drives up rents, & sets up the opportunity costs for landlords still renting, which also drives up rents. Airbnb is antithetical to housing.
At least two million of those wasted Super PAC dollars for Cuomo came straight from Airbnb co-founder and Tesla board member Joe "JoeBnB" Gebbia... Who is also lingering at DOGE to help Trump's fascist takeover #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall
Sherrill and Spanberger were good victories but neither of them were outspent 7 to 1. Wow.
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Your regular reminder that Airbnb has become more of a platform for landlords to both turn housing into straight-up hotels, taking units off the market which drives up rents, & sets up the opportunity costs for landlords still renting, which also drives up rents. Airbnb is antithetical to housing.
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Kristi Noem claims that ICE has not detained or arrested any US citizens. We're calling BS.
More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents
ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.
www.motherjones.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Kristi Noem claims that ICE has not detained or arrested any US citizens. We're calling BS.
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once again wishing democratic politicians and pundits would speak out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
cities are "real america" just as much as any twee main street or dying industrial town
cities are "real america" just as much as any twee main street or dying industrial town
NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
once again wishing democratic politicians and pundits would speak out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
cities are "real america" just as much as any twee main street or dying industrial town
cities are "real america" just as much as any twee main street or dying industrial town
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Charlie Kirk's assassination is heinous and frightening and warrants widespread condemnation.
But it should not protect him or others who engage in such politics of extremism from critical review.
But it should not protect him or others who engage in such politics of extremism from critical review.
No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
www.motherjones.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Charlie Kirk's assassination is heinous and frightening and warrants widespread condemnation.
But it should not protect him or others who engage in such politics of extremism from critical review.
But it should not protect him or others who engage in such politics of extremism from critical review.
I’ve finally gotten my TBR down to one pile and this is what my September TBR is looking like!
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August 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I’ve finally gotten my TBR down to one pile and this is what my September TBR is looking like!
💙📚
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Happy Shark Awareness Day!
I want people to be aware of 5 things:
1 Sharks are awesome
2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety
3 Sharks are ecologically important
4 Sharks are highly threatened
5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!
I want people to be aware of 5 things:
1 Sharks are awesome
2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety
3 Sharks are ecologically important
4 Sharks are highly threatened
5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!
July 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Happy Shark Awareness Day!
I want people to be aware of 5 things:
1 Sharks are awesome
2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety
3 Sharks are ecologically important
4 Sharks are highly threatened
5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!
I want people to be aware of 5 things:
1 Sharks are awesome
2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety
3 Sharks are ecologically important
4 Sharks are highly threatened
5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!
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Don't forget that the Supreme Court has undertaken this radical expansion of executive power and personal immunity not for some ordinary Republican but for the most corrupt president In American history. They're doing it for THIS GUY, who is guaranteed to abuse every ounce of power he's given.
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Don't forget that the Supreme Court has undertaken this radical expansion of executive power and personal immunity not for some ordinary Republican but for the most corrupt president In American history. They're doing it for THIS GUY, who is guaranteed to abuse every ounce of power he's given.
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JUST IN: The Supreme Court rules in favor of parents who want to opt out of classes that use books with LGBTQ characters.
Supreme Court rules for religious opt-outs for kids in public schools
At issue was whether school systems are required to provide parents with an "opt-out" option when parents claim their religious beliefs conflict with their children's course material.
n.pr
June 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
JUST IN: The Supreme Court rules in favor of parents who want to opt out of classes that use books with LGBTQ characters.
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UPDATE: The attack marks a major escalation in the burgeoning war between Iran and Israel and came despite years of promises by President Trump to keep the U.S. from entering another Middle East conflict.
U.S. completes strikes on Iran nuclear sites, Trump says
The attack marks a major escalation in the burgeoning war between Iran and Israel and came despite years of promises by President Trump to keep the U.S. from entering another Middle East conflict.
n.pr
June 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
UPDATE: The attack marks a major escalation in the burgeoning war between Iran and Israel and came despite years of promises by President Trump to keep the U.S. from entering another Middle East conflict.
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“The federal government used to prioritize domestic terrorism, and now it’s like domestic terrorism just went away overnight,” Michigan AG Dana Nessel said. “I don’t think that we’re going to get much in the way of cooperation anymore.”
(Published May 2025)
(Published May 2025)
“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States
As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington. The result is a patchwork…
www.propublica.org
June 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“The federal government used to prioritize domestic terrorism, and now it’s like domestic terrorism just went away overnight,” Michigan AG Dana Nessel said. “I don’t think that we’re going to get much in the way of cooperation anymore.”
(Published May 2025)
(Published May 2025)
My April TBR…might be getting out of hand 💙📚
April 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
My April TBR…might be getting out of hand 💙📚
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Israeli forces arrested Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' in the occupied West Bank after settlers beat and injured him, according to his colleague
‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
The film is an Oscar-winning documentary collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.
aje.io
March 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Israeli forces arrested Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' in the occupied West Bank after settlers beat and injured him, according to his colleague