I feel like the main point conservatives are offering to men these days — mainly young men, but it's across the board — is a promise that they never ever ever have to grow up

NEW: After staff at school districts began learning of the PowerSchool hack, many said they had to resort to helping each other out, fueled by solidarity and necessity, because of PowerSchool's slow and incomplete response, half-a-dozen school staff tell TechCrunch.

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The six biggest banks in the U.S. have quit the Net Zero Banking Alliance just before Trump's inauguration.

The alliance was formed with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Let this serve as another reminder that so-called “corporate social responsibility” is a sham.

“I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. … I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

And now so do I.

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I want to emphasize the violence aspect because if you think your average white person in places like Ohio

That listens to Vance .. actually will care whose Haitian vs Senegalese or American

He WANTS them to attack random Black people

if I look up one old newspaper story on the thing I'm writing about, I can't not look at what else was going on that day. so here—The Tuscaloosa News, April 6, 1933, dateline Berlin (based on an AP wire story): news.google.com/newspapers?n...

not enough people know that danny kaye was a genius autodidact who just kind of set about learning things he was interested in and became a world-class expert in most of them. read up on him– he was incredible.

Project 2025 proposes decreasing the corporate tax rate to 18%, its lowest level in over 80 years. Corporations have been price gouging us, and under this plan, they'd be able to keep more of the spoils. Page 696.

In 1977, Houston cops murdered a military vet, José Campos Torres, and were found guilty and fined one dollar.

Police brutality against Latines is widely underreported; it’s why I tackle it in The Nightmare Box – a book where brutal cops don’t fare too well.

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Looks like a load of payments just plain aren't going through anymore so I need 47 sign-ups this month in order to make rent.

You get literally 1000s of posts, over 500 recipes for £5 and more added every day.

Please just give it a try. You improve my life massively and can cancel anytime.

Sure, women are growing in representation among undergrads and grad students. But then there's this. Fig by Rissler et al 2020.

The research by social scientists has shown that this isn't a passive filter. It's caused by harassment, discrimination, and overt bias.

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*extremely* telling that the NYT frames a family leaving a state because their trans son literally could not get the medical care he needed as a "politically motivated move" and an abstract "issue" rather than one connected to their child's intrinsic humanity www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/u...

Who's going to explain why false equivalence is bad to the NY Times? Their trans coverage has always been terrible, and here's another painful example. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/u...

How do other infosec women handle it when someone is just obviously full of nonsense about their experience? I'm so often questioned about knowledge--as if it's not hard won by decades--that I can't imagine making shit up.

I don’t even know the context, but this is the right answer.

It’s especially important to understand that “Asian American” is not a community — it’s a constructed identity that only exists *because* of white supremacy. So anything posed as representing that identity, including exploiting the model minority myth, is a lie from the start. We hate antiblackness.