ParasiteSyndromePoliticalStuff
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Originally my main profile, decided that since I mostly reblog political stuff, I should specify that.
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I'm sure Starmer will speak up about this obviously unconscionable violation of international law any decade now.
Trump declares he is enacted a blockade on Venezuela until they "return the oil, land, and assets they've stolen from the United States."
This gaslighting is even worse than Bush demanding that Saddam Hussein "disarm his WMDs or the United States will invade," knowing full well Hussein had no WMDs.
This gaslighting is even worse than Bush demanding that Saddam Hussein "disarm his WMDs or the United States will invade," knowing full well Hussein had no WMDs.
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I'm sure Starmer will speak up about this obviously unconscionable violation of international law any decade now.
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You'd think this would be easy to understand AND YET
I would have been put in a camp in the USSR. Objectively. So maybe I’m not super excited to debate whether their camps were better or more justified than other countries’ camps. And it’s weird to me that you’d want to debate in defense of that.
December 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
You'd think this would be easy to understand AND YET
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Council budgets are such a joke.
Like it should not be possible for a council to go 'bankrupt' they should just have the money they need to provide the services required. This is apparently impossible in the 6th largest economy in the world.
Like it should not be possible for a council to go 'bankrupt' they should just have the money they need to provide the services required. This is apparently impossible in the 6th largest economy in the world.
That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.
Replacing collapsed bridge 'nigh on impossible' cost for council
The Spey Viaduct was completed in 1886 but partially collapsed into the Moray river at the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Council budgets are such a joke.
Like it should not be possible for a council to go 'bankrupt' they should just have the money they need to provide the services required. This is apparently impossible in the 6th largest economy in the world.
Like it should not be possible for a council to go 'bankrupt' they should just have the money they need to provide the services required. This is apparently impossible in the 6th largest economy in the world.
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Lengthy Thread (1/xxx) 🧵
It's time to retire "Weapons of Mass Destruction" as a phrase.
It's time to retire "Weapons of Mass Destruction" as a phrase.
December 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Lengthy Thread (1/xxx) 🧵
It's time to retire "Weapons of Mass Destruction" as a phrase.
It's time to retire "Weapons of Mass Destruction" as a phrase.
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They hit the nail on the head. Puberty blockers are typically prescribed for cis youth to alleviate the mental stress of starting puberty before their peers. Most of the time, there's no actual physical issue with early puberty unless it's extremely early.
New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers.
This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).
This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).
![[17] There is also no evidence of a particular need to act urgently to prevent new prescriptions because of some immediate risk to physical health if young people commence treatment. [18] Puberty blockers are reversible. There is no evidence that they affect fertility. If they did, they would hardly be prescribed for children with precocious puberty and they have been prescribed for that purpose for decades. They may alleviate distress for a child who is simply not ready to cope with puberty either because they are too young or because their mental health is such that a delay is recommended. The only evidence-based impact on physical health is on bone density and that impact results from long term use. A period of months until the Judicial Review can be heard is not said to create any issues with bone density for a young person commencing treatment. [19] The evidence relating to mental health outcomes suggests negative outcomes from a ban are a far more immediate concern.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xurjtu2wa2akyi64gab34ahg/bafkreih3dcnwld4y5s4wqdtgps3fdhnnw2jcetmvkit4ictclmkfixiese@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
They hit the nail on the head. Puberty blockers are typically prescribed for cis youth to alleviate the mental stress of starting puberty before their peers. Most of the time, there's no actual physical issue with early puberty unless it's extremely early.
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People should have pushed back harder against gambling mechanics in games. It started with horse armor and now you've got sports games where people will buy $500 in in-game currency just to play a team's full roster.
This is exactly the time to respond aggressively before it's normalized.
This is exactly the time to respond aggressively before it's normalized.
I appreciate that from Vincke's perspective this all likely seems like an enormous overreaction.
But AI use is existential for art as a whole. There can't be compromise on this. It's already destroyed so many careers and it is only going to get worse if it is accepted in any way.
But AI use is existential for art as a whole. There can't be compromise on this. It's already destroyed so many careers and it is only going to get worse if it is accepted in any way.
December 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
People should have pushed back harder against gambling mechanics in games. It started with horse armor and now you've got sports games where people will buy $500 in in-game currency just to play a team's full roster.
This is exactly the time to respond aggressively before it's normalized.
This is exactly the time to respond aggressively before it's normalized.
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How is it possible for Harvard to get it this wrong? These students will potentially face more consequences for bringing pressure against Summers than he has faced from Harvard over any of this. It's infuriating.
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
How is it possible for Harvard to get it this wrong? These students will potentially face more consequences for bringing pressure against Summers than he has faced from Harvard over any of this. It's infuriating.
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"The students are facing potential discipline that could range from a private reprimand to being required to withdraw from the school"
Instead of removing the guy who was buddies with a sex trafficker, they're investigating and going to discipline students who drew attention to it? Insanity.
Instead of removing the guy who was buddies with a sex trafficker, they're investigating and going to discipline students who drew attention to it? Insanity.
Harvard officials are reportedly secretly investigating two students for their roles in drawing scrutiny to the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Larry Summers
Harvard Secretly Investigates Students Over Larry Summers Video on Epstein
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"The students are facing potential discipline that could range from a private reprimand to being required to withdraw from the school"
Instead of removing the guy who was buddies with a sex trafficker, they're investigating and going to discipline students who drew attention to it? Insanity.
Instead of removing the guy who was buddies with a sex trafficker, they're investigating and going to discipline students who drew attention to it? Insanity.
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Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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They gutted the DOJ and the FBI and placed the bulk of the remaining agents and attorneys on immigration raids. They don't have the capacity to do what they want right now. All they have left are scare tactics and it's frankly pathetic.
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
They gutted the DOJ and the FBI and placed the bulk of the remaining agents and attorneys on immigration raids. They don't have the capacity to do what they want right now. All they have left are scare tactics and it's frankly pathetic.
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Pathetic. They can't even get indictments or convictions in high profile cases. This is all scare tactics and theater.
www.them.us/story/pam-bo...
www.them.us/story/pam-bo...
Pam Bondi Directs FBI to Offer Cash Bounty for Promoters of “Radical Gender Ideology”
The memo teases out a directive from President Donald Trump.
www.them.us
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Pathetic. They can't even get indictments or convictions in high profile cases. This is all scare tactics and theater.
www.them.us/story/pam-bo...
www.them.us/story/pam-bo...
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Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
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Sen. Chris Murphy said Hegseth + Rubio admitted to senators yesterday that no fentanyl is coming out of Venezuela -- despite Trump’s misleading efforts to tie the country to the deadly drug so he can justify bombing boats.
The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe. www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...
The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe. www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...
Senator Reaches Damning Conclusions After Classified Briefing With Hegseth, Rubio
Sen. Chris Murphy trashed a meeting with the Cabinet duo about the Trump administration's boat bombings.
www.huffpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Sen. Chris Murphy said Hegseth + Rubio admitted to senators yesterday that no fentanyl is coming out of Venezuela -- despite Trump’s misleading efforts to tie the country to the deadly drug so he can justify bombing boats.
The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe. www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...
The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe. www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-...
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This is ever more evidence of the shrinking influence of white evangelicals in Trump's second term (as opposed to rad trads and groypers and Millerites and broligarchs etc). International adoption by evangelical families is literally an article of faith. See: @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is ever more evidence of the shrinking influence of white evangelicals in Trump's second term (as opposed to rad trads and groypers and Millerites and broligarchs etc). International adoption by evangelical families is literally an article of faith. See: @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social
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The White House is now just explicitly stating its intent to kill and maim non-white people here and around the world and white men are *still* insisting they are at a societal disadvantage
December 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The White House is now just explicitly stating its intent to kill and maim non-white people here and around the world and white men are *still* insisting they are at a societal disadvantage
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Capitulating to Trump on gender affirming care is not risk free. It violates state and federal law to deny access to this care and providers should be on notice they are legally liable if they unlawfully deny care.
www.gladlaw.org/connecticut-...
www.gladlaw.org/connecticut-...
Families Challenge Abrupt End to Medical Care for Transgender Adolescents and Young Adults at Two Connecticut Hospitals - GLAD Law
We are suing on behalf of Connecticut families whose health care for their transgender children was suddenly and unlawfully taken away.
www.gladlaw.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Capitulating to Trump on gender affirming care is not risk free. It violates state and federal law to deny access to this care and providers should be on notice they are legally liable if they unlawfully deny care.
www.gladlaw.org/connecticut-...
www.gladlaw.org/connecticut-...
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'not buying a video game' is maybe the easiest battle I have ever fought in my life, I don't buy thousands of video games every single day
this shit, despite its faults, is not going anywhere and people are going to have to pick their battles
Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' - IGN
This morning, the news broke that Larian Studios, developer of Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming, just-announced Divinity, is apparently using generative AI behind the scenes. The backlash has been swi...
www.ign.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
'not buying a video game' is maybe the easiest battle I have ever fought in my life, I don't buy thousands of video games every single day
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every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
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Katsas and Rao strike again. This is honestly insane.
DC Cir. will allow the continued deployment of National Guard troops in D.C. while the litigation continues.
Decision rests on idea that D.C. has no sovereignty (or federalism interest) of its own bc it is not a state.
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Decision rests on idea that D.C. has no sovereignty (or federalism interest) of its own bc it is not a state.
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![The District of Columbia, in contrast, is a federal district, not a sovereign State. From its inception, the District has been a creation of Congress. See U.S. CONST. Art. I, § 8, cl. 17 (vesting Congress with the power “[t]o exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District * * * as may * * * become the Seat of Government of the United States”). And not just a federal district, but also the Nation’s Capital—a jurisdiction in which Congress has distinctive power to provide for the defense of the operations and property of the federal government.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreiduu334jmbcannco2umj5xadaxgbhvpktvqbjjkdzdnwxnunung7y@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Katsas and Rao strike again. This is honestly insane.
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I sincerely believe this is Gavin Newsom's inner monologue:
August 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I sincerely believe this is Gavin Newsom's inner monologue:
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Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Police officer who shot Tamir Rice hired by West Virginia departments, report says
Rice family attorney calls the hiring "imbecilic and heartless," as Loehmann has previously resigned from three other departments after public protests.
www.cleveland.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
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Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
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When I asked Marie Gluesenkamp Perez if she would vote against the Trans care ban for minors, she wouldn’t give a straight answer
December 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Ken Paxton, the Texas AG has created a bathroom snitch line to report suspected trans people in bathrooms.
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ken Paxton, the Texas AG has created a bathroom snitch line to report suspected trans people in bathrooms.
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
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LOL
Brendan Carr is confronted with his own 2018 comments before Congress where he said that the FCC is an independent agency.
Brendan Carr is confronted with his own 2018 comments before Congress where he said that the FCC is an independent agency.
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
LOL
Brendan Carr is confronted with his own 2018 comments before Congress where he said that the FCC is an independent agency.
Brendan Carr is confronted with his own 2018 comments before Congress where he said that the FCC is an independent agency.
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And guess what?
The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!
The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!
December 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
And guess what?
The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!
The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!