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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky

@bmceuen.bsky.social

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Historian of science, focusing on genetics and eugenics in progressive era United States. Teaches the history of Detroit, Michigan, and the US at Wayne State University. Dad to Buddy (5) and Boogie (3). Gynocentric communicator. He/him 💖💜💙

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · Aug 23

Alright I have a little bit of time here before Boogie’s birthday party is starting up so I’ll make a little thread here of how this is the case. At least until I get called away to set something else up.

The “everything is eugenics” thread:

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · Aug 23

Welcome to the history of eugenics, where everything happening now is an extension of the eugenics program set about over 100 years ago

The Wonder Years of Lead @gonebabygone.bsky.social · Aug 23

TIL marriage counseling was invented by a lunatic compulsory sterilization advocate who mentored James Dobson, which feels like a Behind the Bastards waiting to happen

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 12h

Can’t tell if Bryce Harper is the ultimate wife guy (derogatory) or the ultimate wife guy (complimentary)

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13h

“If I can get seconds, thirds and fourths on that raw milk now? Ooh boy!”

Bryce Harper on the birth of his fourth child, a boy, last week: "I've got an incredible wife, man. She pushed that thing out in three pushes and 30 seconds. She's an absolute monster doing it. Women, man, what a breed.
I'm serious, it's an incredible thing."

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 12h

JOB

Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 12h

My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 14h

It’s hard not to see tools like this as a strong threat to the common human decency that I have spent the last 15 years working for. So I would genuinely like to know what public goods are worth all this.

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 12h

Whenever I see an AI generated video I get a tummy ache as if I just ate something I know is going to give me food poisoning.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 12h

Yankees turned to William Hull giving up Detroit without a single shot fired

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 12h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 12h

Eugenics scholar here: yes.

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 12h

When Taylor Swift sang, “Have a couple kids, got the whole block looking like you,” was she endorsing eugenics?

In this essay, I wi--

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 15h

Michael Jordan “fuck them kids” meme but instead of fuck them kids it reads “fuck them pigs”

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 15h

That is the least surprising part of this

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 15h

I’m surprised Alito has taken this long to cite Buck v. Bell and even more surprised he cited it in a negative way

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15h

Alito tried to act holier than thou by citing Buck v Bell, but the ADF lawyer wrapped up the hearing by saying "we like eugenics actually"
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Then there was Justice Alito, who suggested that states can’t fully rely on scientific consensus to determine the standard of care and regulate providers because of shameful medical movements like eugenics. “The medical consensus is usually very reasonable, and it’s very important. But have there been times when the medical consensus has been politicized, has been taken over by ideology?” he said, adding, “‘Isn’t it a fact that it’s happened in the past—‘three generations of idiots are enough’?” Here he is mangling a citation of Buck v. Bell, the case where the Supreme Court upheld Virginia’s eugenic sterilization law, though the opinion uses the word “imbeciles.” Alito also asked Stevenson, “Was there a time when there were many, many medical professionals who thought that every child born with Down syndrome should be immediately put in an institution?” He believes these decades-old beliefs are “gotchas” in a case about modern medicine.

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In his rebuttal at the end of arguments, Campbell presented a parade of horribles that underscores conservatives’ larger goal: trying to prevent kids from transitioning at all. Colorado’s law needs to be struck down because, he claimed, once young people start affirming their gender, they get “locked into that path”—and then he brought up a highly biased medical review published in the U.K. called the Cass Report.
“Over 90% of the time, once they start down the path of social transition, it will lead to the route of medicalized transition, which the Cass Report tells us comes with a lot of harm and devastation,” he said. This gives away the game. ADF is arguing that therapists cannot affirm young people questioning their gender because that can lead those queer youth to pursue medical procedures like puberty blockers and hormone therapy. Wanting to prevent anyone from expressing their gender identity is eliminationist thinking, which is all the more striking given Alito’s invocation of eugenics.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 15h

For republicans that’s a feature, not a bug

Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 16h

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

Reporting from @19thnews.org

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk • Michigan Advance

This story was originally reported by Mel Leonor Barclay and Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Mel and Shefali and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. In the lead up to her son...

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 15h

I am legit surprised we haven’t heard news of some ICE chud getting shot yet

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 15h

I cannot stress enough that the #1 rule of firearm training is you do not point your weapon at anything you do not fully intend to shoot.

These untrained fools need to be prosecuted when this is all done

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 15h

ngl had to look up tomalley because at first I just assumed it was the whitest way possible to spell tamale

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 16h

It will always be a very simple one for pistons fans: Darko.

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 16h

Oh my gosh I did and I was responding to it until I had to look up a couple of sources and then my ADHD apparently kicked in and I completely forgot about it. I’m so sorry I will get going on that tonight

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 21h

I don't understand how this guy fucked 20,000 women

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 23h

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 21h

Lmao

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 21h

When I say “Wells Fargo should not exist” I literally mean the US government should have unilaterally shut them down after they were found to have created millions of fake accounts under real people’s names. All assets should have been transferred elsewhere

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 21h

One of my pet theories is that along with the complete lack of accountability for people in positions of power blatantly lying, one of the biggest reasons for *all this* is the refusal of the US government to shut down large businesses for blatant violations of laws and policies.

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 22h

Wells Fargo should not exist after they created millions of fake checking and savings accounts not even 10 years ago

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 22h

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 22h

Like every bank sucks but somehow Wells Fargo continues to be many times worse than any other bank

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 22h

I question Pam Bondi’s ability to be fair and impartial. I also challenge her integrity, because she clearly has none.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 22h

Wells Fargo should not exist after they created millions of fake checking and savings accounts not even 10 years ago

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 22h

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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