We are killing children all around the world because a handful of rich people who don’t understand the science think it is worse to be neurodivergent than it is to be dead.

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice:

State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official

Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.

The national press desperately misses having Biden around to beat up, so they are vowing to make the 2028 Dem primary all about Biden ... and having the gall to pretend that it's *voters* who want this.

Pinning the communication failure on Biden and his age is pure cope, a way to avoid having to grapple with the utter wreckage of our information environment more broadly. The fact is, the system is set up to make it effectively impossible to convey positive news about Dems to voters. Period.

Are Democratic politicians ready to accept that most Americans who say "border security" don't mean border security, they mean make the country whiter?

Under Obama, the US increased security assets along the US-Mexico border, including patrols and drones. Few who demand "border security" cared.

Relevant.

I can't emphasize how radical this all is. There's never been a bill to mass invalidate driver's licenses at this scale. It will create immense fear for trans people. They could be pulled over and arrested for driving with an invalid license. They could be ratted out by people around them.

It plainly invalidates all driver's licenses held by trans people if they've changed their gender markers. It requires them to turn those licenses over.

They don't have a list to check but now any out trans person could be ratted out by family, friends or coworkers and have their licenses revoked.

Want to re-emphasize what this bill does. It implements a $1,000 bounty for anyone to sue someone they suspect is trans and using the bathroom.

"Should we freak out that Trump sent his masked goons to a polling place in a key state?"

How is it even possible that this is a question? Has no one learned anything?

Listen to Hasen:

This is not a "possibility," it is very, very obviously what's currently happening. The only reason people in power want to view it as a possibility rather than an ongoing fact is that they are scared of the implications. If it's the latter, they have to *do* something. History calls. It's scary!

This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech.

This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.

This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm

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“Parents should absolutely have the right to choose not to vaccinate” is not a pro-vaccine position. It’s the MAHA premise. It treats children as objects of parental choice rather than persons with independent claims to health.

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