Zoe
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The dreaded childless cat lady
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
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There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments and no acceptable compromises on trans lives
For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights
Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
www.msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments and no acceptable compromises on trans lives
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It's almost like trans people told you all along!!!
For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights
Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
www.msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It's almost like trans people told you all along!!!
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It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok
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"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."
--Dick Cheney probably
--Dick Cheney probably
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."
--Dick Cheney probably
--Dick Cheney probably
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if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
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"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence
September 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence
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There is a clutch of pundits who treat the world like it’s an Ivy League seminar course, mostly because that’s the environment in which they emerged. They think debate and white papers are the pinnacle of political action. They fume at anyone who approaches politics in any other way.
September 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
There is a clutch of pundits who treat the world like it’s an Ivy League seminar course, mostly because that’s the environment in which they emerged. They think debate and white papers are the pinnacle of political action. They fume at anyone who approaches politics in any other way.
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starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
The government's net approval rating has fallen to -59, Labour's lowest score to date
Approve: 11% (-2 from 23-25 August)
Disapprove: 70% (+3)
Net: -59 (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Approve: 11% (-2 from 23-25 August)
Disapprove: 70% (+3)
Net: -59 (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
September 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
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University of Chicago being gutted because of insane debt loads and wasting money on crypto is incredibly ironic after what their school of economics put the global south through. Behind, the neoliberal boomerang.
The University of Chicago has a debt of over $6 billion, against an endowment of $10 billion. They played with crypto. That's more than irresponsible.
Their board of trustees contains a surprising number of people regarded as financial geniuses.
Their board of trustees contains a surprising number of people regarded as financial geniuses.
August 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
University of Chicago being gutted because of insane debt loads and wasting money on crypto is incredibly ironic after what their school of economics put the global south through. Behind, the neoliberal boomerang.
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Trump wants to make the military takeovers scary to stop resistance but the truth is the military is not large enough to control all the major cities if there is mass resistance. They'd need 600k troops at a minimum and the national guard only has ~336k. They can't actually hold cities if we resist.
August 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Trump wants to make the military takeovers scary to stop resistance but the truth is the military is not large enough to control all the major cities if there is mass resistance. They'd need 600k troops at a minimum and the national guard only has ~336k. They can't actually hold cities if we resist.
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it’s very true that trans people have always & will always be here no matter how draconian the regime, but this isn’t enough for me; i want each individual trans person to live. i have deep investments in some of them even thriving & want more than “in the geological sense, trans people persist.”
I am so tired of "winning" for my people meaning "some of us were so cockroach-like that despite billions of dollars and the very design of society's entire structure, they couldn't kill us all"
August 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
it’s very true that trans people have always & will always be here no matter how draconian the regime, but this isn’t enough for me; i want each individual trans person to live. i have deep investments in some of them even thriving & want more than “in the geological sense, trans people persist.”
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2) i’m fascinated by the mealy-mouthed and divided approach the opposition party has taken to this situation
because it makes me ask the question: would a future democratic president *keep* troops in cities to stay “tough on crime”?
a big question worth asking at least
because it makes me ask the question: would a future democratic president *keep* troops in cities to stay “tough on crime”?
a big question worth asking at least
August 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
2) i’m fascinated by the mealy-mouthed and divided approach the opposition party has taken to this situation
because it makes me ask the question: would a future democratic president *keep* troops in cities to stay “tough on crime”?
a big question worth asking at least
because it makes me ask the question: would a future democratic president *keep* troops in cities to stay “tough on crime”?
a big question worth asking at least
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I think a lot of these “perfect is the enemy of good so we’re ok with anti-trans candidates” are just privileged white people facing adversity for the first time in their entire lives and are so fucking fragile and terrified they’re willing to do anything and kill anyone to protect themselves.
August 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I think a lot of these “perfect is the enemy of good so we’re ok with anti-trans candidates” are just privileged white people facing adversity for the first time in their entire lives and are so fucking fragile and terrified they’re willing to do anything and kill anyone to protect themselves.
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this is a teeny, tiny, teeny-tiny ask. it is not "purity politics" or whatever nonsense you wanna throw at it. it's basic. if you can't commit to this you pose a present danger to marginalized people, which means you can't complain if you don't get somebody's vote.
Again, I am staking out my position more than 3 years in advance! My "demands" for getting my vote are simple:
1. Promise to undo the anti-trans actions taken by the Trump admin.
2. Promise not to roll back trans rights even further.
1. Promise to undo the anti-trans actions taken by the Trump admin.
2. Promise not to roll back trans rights even further.
July 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
this is a teeny, tiny, teeny-tiny ask. it is not "purity politics" or whatever nonsense you wanna throw at it. it's basic. if you can't commit to this you pose a present danger to marginalized people, which means you can't complain if you don't get somebody's vote.
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The people have spoken, "transgender for everybody!"
June 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The people have spoken, "transgender for everybody!"
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The idea we should behave in such a way that the Trumpists will not portray us as dangerous/ lawless/ violent is a silly idea, because they always portray us that way and no amount of curtseys and rolling over and playing dead will change that. So people might as well speak up and stand strong.
June 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The idea we should behave in such a way that the Trumpists will not portray us as dangerous/ lawless/ violent is a silly idea, because they always portray us that way and no amount of curtseys and rolling over and playing dead will change that. So people might as well speak up and stand strong.
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...