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Lawyer (not yours); Trans (not Atlantic); Stupid (not untrue).

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · Sep 9

Transness, as it exists, is embedded in some pretty fundamental layers of material reality... How can I describe it; @foldablehuman.bsky.social put it best; you can convince someone of flat earth, but then you have to convince them that lagrange points don't exist, or like, the satellites that make

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h

huh I wonder if there's any historical precedence for a conservative religious faction making bed with an ethno-nationalist movement only to immediately get blindsided by its fascist insiders

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

Case in point - First Things is freaking out:

firstthings.com/false-patrio...

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1h

[remembering the hillary '08 campaign spreading photos to imply obama was a muslim, as an attack on him] mmmmm.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 9h

Genuinely hilarious that Bill Kristol has more moral clarity in the moment than Chuck Schumer

Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 10h

If I told 14 year old me this had happened hed say "time to cut back on the beer old man."

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 6h

From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago:

"He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 4h

The amount of aging well this thread is already doing is incredible, scientists are stunned

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 10d

Merry Christmas from the Groverballroom in advance

Okay, in the foreground are Trump and Melania and a Christmas tree. Behind them is Grover's living room stairs. He hasn't finished framing the stairs in yet so you can see that he insulated each step with pink fiberglass insulation. That is not something you do. Further, on the landing of the staircase is a window at a perfect height for a child to fall clean out of if should they fall down the stairs, held up by wooden stringers that Grover maybe gnawed out of cardboard or something they have dangerously long treads and shallow risers. The handrail is made of 2 by 4s improperly braces and there's a few Christmas stockings hung on them

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 4h

Okay so we've been having a good time joking around about President Groverhaus and his architectural stylings but I feel even Grover would look at this and say it looks like shit

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

And now he’s on a posting spree of photos showing the remodeled bathroom. At least half a dozen of these posts so far.

Trump posts showing a tacky bathroom remodel

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4h

I’m pleased to announce that following our reporting, multiple people have reported that a formal inquiry is being made into SEGM’s accreditation, and that the CME courses are at least temporarily pulled down.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. Washington State University has credentialed an anti-trans, conversion therapy org SEGM to teach CMEs to medical providers.

The panel is filled with the most vitriolic of anti-trans activists.

Unsuspecting providers may be taught harmful practices.

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Washington State University Credentials Anti-Trans Hate Group SEGM to Teach Medical Providers

The Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine an anti-LGBTQ hate group for its role in proliferating pseudoscience and transphobic policies.

www.erininthemorning.com

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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 22h

the liberal Dem establishment is a dying species. it’s wild to see them wither away how they are. they also think they’re raising young little minions like Olivia Juliana to rule after they die, but those dweebs don’t stand a chance either. they’re already just junk for the pile. beautiful

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23h

KAMALA HARRIS: I believe he [Biden] was fully competent to serve.

JON STEWART: Do you really?

HARRIS: Yeah, I do.

STEWART: That surprises me, actually.

HARRIS: No, I do. But there's a distinction to be made between running for president and being president.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

Has there ever been a fictional character who's even close to this man? Wouldn't happen, it would be too over the top. The audience would be offended

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

the tone deafness is beyond parody

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 4h

therefore do not change those constraints as not materially different enough between each other as suggesting a new position and getting confused as to the point she was making. I was wrong, as I was getting yelled at by a lot of folks at the time. Happens.

jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 4h

will always be constrained by the class dynamics.

Changing the class dynamics changes the *constraints* of what SNAP; or hell, what any government program to feed people could be.

Where we started with this conversation was me mistaking the descriptions that do not change those dynamics and

jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 4h

We have gotten quite far off the point, have we?

Let's bring it around then. SNAP exists the way it does in a system that has billionaires. Its form and function is materially dependent on that. You can have a system without SNAP with billionaires, you can have a system with better benefits, but it

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 6h

This chart always makes me think about how we made the streets "safer" by making sure no one goes outside ever, especially kids

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h

once again posting The Chart

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 5h

In terms of comparative material differences, yeah, you got it.

One is a change in class dynamics; the other is a system with two outcomes allowed under that system.

Would SNAP benefits going through tomorrow (which for the love of god they should) change the class dynamic in a material way?

jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 5h

This country is going to pretend that they're a protected class while saying "sorry trans people, we no longer extend protected status". Watch.

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 5h

Why stop at 25?

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 6h

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition

www.vox.com/politics/466...

The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi

Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.

www.vox.com

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 6h

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7h

The event occurred at a university. Ole Miss should lose its accreditation for hosting this.

🚨 JD Vance just claimed that when settlers arrived in the New World, they “found widespread child sacrifice,” adding that “Christian civilization ended the practice.”

Archaeologists, including those specializing in North American history, are calling this a flat-out lie. There is no evidence of widespread child sacrifice among First Nations.

To say that about Indigenous people is historically false, deeply racist, and disgustingly revisionist.

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AL @seriouscynic.bsky.social · 6h

"The two Iroquois people Cartier brought to France... were astonished by the way Europeans raised their children. Corporal punishment was commonplace in France whereas children in Aboriginal North American society were never reprimanded physically."
People's History of Quebec - Lacoursière & Philpot

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7h

The event occurred at a university. Ole Miss should lose its accreditation for hosting this.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 6h

I told my husband about the massacre in Rio and he literally didn’t believe me. Every time I have been to Rio there has been some kind of police massacre in the Complexo de Alemão/Penha (starting in 2007) but I can’t process the scale. It’s a sign of what policing will look like across the world.

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SEGA-16 @sega-16.bsky.social · 8h

Remember to be considerate tonight while trick-or-treating!

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 8h

People will get on here and say anything

"The far-left are defending Graham Platner"

No we're not. That's not true. We've been clearly and openly roasting him non-stop.

In fact last week were in trouble for *not* lining up behind Mr. Nazi tattoo. Make up your minds.

Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 20h

I think we all need to take a moment and identify the fact that the current spat of Nazi apology (Graham Platner) is coming from the far-left, not the liberal base.

The far-left has had a Nazi problem for a long time. Not like the right, at all, but significant enough that it needs to be purged.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 14h

If you or anyone you know is on a state ACA plan and has recently lost access to trans healthcare from a private insurer, please send us a message on signal at madye2.39, or email us a tip to [email protected] !

We will advocate for you and your needs, and make sure your stories are heard.

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