@kendallsquared.bsky.social
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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Advocate [Mar 8] -- An AZ Walmart called the cops on a Black cis lesbian who is stud-identified while using the restroom to put in a tampon. "The only men in the restroom were the cops," she said after. Even after raising her shirt one insisted she "looked like a man." [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)
“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.
www.advocate.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Advocate [Mar 8] -- An AZ Walmart called the cops on a Black cis lesbian who is stud-identified while using the restroom to put in a tampon. "The only men in the restroom were the cops," she said after. Even after raising her shirt one insisted she "looked like a man." [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
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one of my central beliefs, really genuinely and sincerely is that cars are fundamentally evil and indoctrinate people into extremely reactionary ideology.
I am not joking.
I am not joking.
It’s late 1934 and an American automobile magnate is supporting the German fascist party.
It’s late 2024 and an ‘American’ ‘automobile’ magnate is supporting the German fascist party. www.politico.eu/article/elon...
It’s late 2024 and an ‘American’ ‘automobile’ magnate is supporting the German fascist party. www.politico.eu/article/elon...
Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right
“Only the AfD can save Germany,” said the key Donald Trump ally.
www.politico.eu
December 20, 2024 at 11:24 PM
one of my central beliefs, really genuinely and sincerely is that cars are fundamentally evil and indoctrinate people into extremely reactionary ideology.
I am not joking.
I am not joking.
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I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.
What happens when the internet disappears?
Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?
www.theverge.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.
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No, nothing to be concerned about here with Peter Thiel investing in femtechs, like this period tracking app. futurism.com/neoscope/pet...
We're Concerned: Billionaire Peter Thiel Backs Controversial Magazine's Cycle-Tracking App
Peter Thiel, billionaire entrepreneur and top campaign donor has decided to back a "femtech" app called 28, created by the divisive Evie Magazine.
futurism.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:51 AM
No, nothing to be concerned about here with Peter Thiel investing in femtechs, like this period tracking app. futurism.com/neoscope/pet...
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Please read this by @morganmpage.bsky.social on trans death
"Reframing our very real proximity to death as a fit of manipulative hysteria is one way to inure the public to our pain and ultimately make our destruction seem not only possible but necessary."
"Reframing our very real proximity to death as a fit of manipulative hysteria is one way to inure the public to our pain and ultimately make our destruction seem not only possible but necessary."
Shroud Waving
On trans death, callousness, ancestors
open.substack.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Please read this by @morganmpage.bsky.social on trans death
"Reframing our very real proximity to death as a fit of manipulative hysteria is one way to inure the public to our pain and ultimately make our destruction seem not only possible but necessary."
"Reframing our very real proximity to death as a fit of manipulative hysteria is one way to inure the public to our pain and ultimately make our destruction seem not only possible but necessary."
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81 Democrats voted to ban gender affirming care for the children of military families. Absolutely disgraceful. This is the first national ban on care to pass congress and the first anti LGBTQ bill in nearly 3 decades.
The National Defense Authorization Act, which enacts the first federal anti-lgbtq law in decades and targets the trans kids of military servicemembers, just passed with 80 Democratic votes.
Shameful.
Will get the list of dems who voted for it shortly.
Shameful.
Will get the list of dems who voted for it shortly.
December 11, 2024 at 10:02 PM
81 Democrats voted to ban gender affirming care for the children of military families. Absolutely disgraceful. This is the first national ban on care to pass congress and the first anti LGBTQ bill in nearly 3 decades.
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I was told explicitly by a top nyt exec, Carolyn Ryan, that the nyt would never hire a trans journo who’d ever covered trans issues. By her account, a trans journo versed in the issues is by definition biased. That is not ofc a standard the nyt applies to any other group or issue. (Nor should it)
I’ve been saying for years that sports newsrooms are wholly unprepared for this political moment. imo it’s journalistic malpractice not to have a writer on staff who can cover trans sports stories well. But I can’t even place freelance coverage at this point. It’s so bleak.
Work has been drying up for trans writers for years. Of course, part of this is bc work has been drying up for all journalists.
However, with trans issues as the top priority of the Republican party there's a strong journalistic argument for increasing or maintaining that capacity.
However, with trans issues as the top priority of the Republican party there's a strong journalistic argument for increasing or maintaining that capacity.
December 10, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I was told explicitly by a top nyt exec, Carolyn Ryan, that the nyt would never hire a trans journo who’d ever covered trans issues. By her account, a trans journo versed in the issues is by definition biased. That is not ofc a standard the nyt applies to any other group or issue. (Nor should it)
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This is literally true.
School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.
From my book WHITE FLIGHT:
School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.
From my book WHITE FLIGHT:
December 10, 2024 at 12:52 PM
This is literally true.
School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.
From my book WHITE FLIGHT:
School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.
From my book WHITE FLIGHT:
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i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will.
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM
i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will.
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO.
December 8, 2024 at 2:20 PM
We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO.
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open.substack.com/pub/sadbrown... multiple JGP posts today but she is meeting the moment and this is an incredibly relevant and pretty brief essay. so grateful to have her work in these times
Understanding What's at Stake (It's Always Been Transition)
What history brings to the Supreme Court for today's oral arguments.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:18 PM
open.substack.com/pub/sadbrown... multiple JGP posts today but she is meeting the moment and this is an incredibly relevant and pretty brief essay. so grateful to have her work in these times
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Nancy Mace has now posted multiple videos using the slur "tranny."
December 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Nancy Mace has now posted multiple videos using the slur "tranny."
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Obergefell is doomed if this logic holds
Amy Coney Barrett suggests that the health care ban might not be sex discrimination under the 14th Amendment because its "burdens of the law fall equally on boys and girls because neither can transition." She asks if it should be seen more as targeted discrimination against transgender people.
December 4, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Obergefell is doomed if this logic holds
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Importantly these policies are discussed bans on public funding for trans care but, as trans adults even with private insurance in Florida and South Carolina are learning, it leads to hospitals canceling all appointments because they don't separate public/private funding streams
Conservatives are already saying that a victory for Tennessee in Skrmetti will extend to adult trans care
December 4, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Importantly these policies are discussed bans on public funding for trans care but, as trans adults even with private insurance in Florida and South Carolina are learning, it leads to hospitals canceling all appointments because they don't separate public/private funding streams
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Excited for Barrett's clerks to read "Stone Butch Blues"
I am just shocked that a conservative just would have failed to do her homework.
December 4, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Excited for Barrett's clerks to read "Stone Butch Blues"
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The sinister effectiveness of the “Think about detransitioners*” argument is that it implicitly gives cis people gender dysphoria-like feelings, which make them uncomfortable, which they then use to punish people who experience those feelings with far more frequency.
December 4, 2024 at 5:01 PM
The sinister effectiveness of the “Think about detransitioners*” argument is that it implicitly gives cis people gender dysphoria-like feelings, which make them uncomfortable, which they then use to punish people who experience those feelings with far more frequency.
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I think they see it just fine
Barrett and other conservatives don't seem to see how state-sanctioned discrimination against trans people basically always takes the form of sex discrimination—imposing unique restrictions on people's rights based on their sex assigned at birth. Frustrating that the argument isn't breaking through.
December 4, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I think they see it just fine
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Gender affirming care is older than heart surgery.
December 4, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Gender affirming care is older than heart surgery.
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this is an argument for banning both all plastic surgery and knee replacements
Kavanaugh obsessed over trans people "regretting" their decision to transition and that being a state interest.
Setting aside the fact that the rate of "regret" is very low, it's not the state's job to protect people from regret.
This is an argument for the ultimate nanny-state.
Setting aside the fact that the rate of "regret" is very low, it's not the state's job to protect people from regret.
This is an argument for the ultimate nanny-state.
December 4, 2024 at 5:50 PM
this is an argument for banning both all plastic surgery and knee replacements
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This is hard to listen to. It's pretty clear that the conservative majority has already decided that trans people aren't worthy of legal protections and this is all a formality.
December 4, 2024 at 4:52 PM
This is hard to listen to. It's pretty clear that the conservative majority has already decided that trans people aren't worthy of legal protections and this is all a formality.
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That a right-wing lawyer just suggested before the Supreme Court that Americans don't have a right to not conform is... a real mask-off moment in a way I suspect is not going to get enough attention.
December 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM
That a right-wing lawyer just suggested before the Supreme Court that Americans don't have a right to not conform is... a real mask-off moment in a way I suspect is not going to get enough attention.
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states rights unless its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case its states rights unless the state is wrong in which case its federal rights unless the feds are democrats in which case its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case
December 4, 2024 at 7:30 PM
states rights unless its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case its states rights unless the state is wrong in which case its federal rights unless the feds are democrats in which case its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case