your ol' pal Susan
@destron.bsky.social
research psychologist, IPV survivor, proud parent of a trans kid, etc.
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I got a Twitter DM from the publisher of a book by Jeffrey Haas (Fred Hampton's lawyer) that I'd recommended in a thread that went viral, thanking me for the unexpected spike in sales. I'm sure we're talking dozens, not hundreds, but they were like doing highkey internet sleuthing to figure it out!
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I got a Twitter DM from the publisher of a book by Jeffrey Haas (Fred Hampton's lawyer) that I'd recommended in a thread that went viral, thanking me for the unexpected spike in sales. I'm sure we're talking dozens, not hundreds, but they were like doing highkey internet sleuthing to figure it out!
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If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.
Now that summer is over, Chicago is still on track to have fewer homicides in 2025 than almost any other year since 2001. This is especially impressive considering that the five most violent years of the 21st century have all been in the past decade.
September 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.
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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
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Talked to Tim Walz as he campaigned in Wisconsin. Thought his answer to one Q I'd had for Dems - if you come back in 2028, do you rebuild everything DOGE broke? - was interesting.
"I think it's an opportunity."
www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
"I think it's an opportunity."
www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
March 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Talked to Tim Walz as he campaigned in Wisconsin. Thought his answer to one Q I'd had for Dems - if you come back in 2028, do you rebuild everything DOGE broke? - was interesting.
"I think it's an opportunity."
www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
"I think it's an opportunity."
www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
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Firing prosecutors who are pursuing brutal white supremacists is of a piece with the anti-DEI orders, as segregationist social orders are maintained through law enforcement winking at violence.
In the past weeks, the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing white supremacist groups that had been listed among the most dangerous threats to national security.
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
Trump’s Pardons and Purges Revive Old Question: Who Counts as a Terrorist?
The president’s sweeping clemency for Capitol rioters and his administration’s ongoing removal of career national security specialists foretell a permissive new climate for extremist movements, say…
propub.li
February 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Firing prosecutors who are pursuing brutal white supremacists is of a piece with the anti-DEI orders, as segregationist social orders are maintained through law enforcement winking at violence.
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I don't know any headline is bad enough to break the fever, but Elon Musk's Ketamine Dealer Is Gutting the Department of Education might do the trick
February 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I don't know any headline is bad enough to break the fever, but Elon Musk's Ketamine Dealer Is Gutting the Department of Education might do the trick
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Is now a good time to remind everyone that the first real test of SCOTUS putting a check on this unhinged president may come from their pending decision on trans rights nymag.com/intelligence...
The Trans-Rights Showdown at the Supreme Court
In a case on health care for minors, the justices could undermine decades of anti-discrimination law.
nymag.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Is now a good time to remind everyone that the first real test of SCOTUS putting a check on this unhinged president may come from their pending decision on trans rights nymag.com/intelligence...
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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trump revoking desegregation in federal contracting
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
January 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
trump revoking desegregation in federal contracting
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The allyship we need
January 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The allyship we need
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after getting over the initial despair of our current situation, the reason I am ultimately scared but not hopeless is because you can sign all the idiot fake laws you want but "male and female" aren't a "biological reality" and women aren't being put in danger by trans people. nothing can stop us.
January 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
after getting over the initial despair of our current situation, the reason I am ultimately scared but not hopeless is because you can sign all the idiot fake laws you want but "male and female" aren't a "biological reality" and women aren't being put in danger by trans people. nothing can stop us.
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This is what the Biden admin did; their proposed Title IX rules were blocked in court by Republicans and it didn't gain them anything electorally. It's also what the NCAA tried to do and they've also been sued by Republicans. So congrats--your plan is both unoriginal and politically worthless
Democrats could "couple basic civil rights with reasonable restrictions on transgender women in women’s sports," Moulton said. "So why don't we propose this and counter Trump's hate with legal protections?" www.wgbh.org/news/politic... #mapoli @gbhnews.bsky.social
Moulton says Trump's early anti-trans actions show Democratic reset is needed
The congressman said after Democrats lost the presidency that intransigence on transgender issues was one factor.
www.wgbh.org
January 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is what the Biden admin did; their proposed Title IX rules were blocked in court by Republicans and it didn't gain them anything electorally. It's also what the NCAA tried to do and they've also been sued by Republicans. So congrats--your plan is both unoriginal and politically worthless
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Survey analysis finds people who don't watch women's sports, think they are less deserving of media attention than men's sports, and think women should prioritize being thin are more likely to oppose transgender women's inclusion in women's sports
Transgender athletes’ rights was opposed by those who viewed female athletes as undeserving, study finds
A recent study found opposition to transgender athletes' inclusion in sports was more common among those with weaker interest in supporting, promoting, and watching female athletes.
www.psypost.org
January 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Survey analysis finds people who don't watch women's sports, think they are less deserving of media attention than men's sports, and think women should prioritize being thin are more likely to oppose transgender women's inclusion in women's sports
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Alito's comments about Pornhub reminded me that Wendy Carlos gave her first interview about her gender dysphoria and sex change to Playboy in 1979
January 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Alito's comments about Pornhub reminded me that Wendy Carlos gave her first interview about her gender dysphoria and sex change to Playboy in 1979
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RIP to a real one
January 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
RIP to a real one
Fellow military brat, been saying this for years. Life on base was an almost classless microcosm (there were two classes, officer/non-officer). We all shopped at the same stores for groceries & things like clothes. We all benefited from subsidized systems. And the buildings were ugly. Socialism!
Exactly. I grew up on military bases and between the subsidized housing, subsidized food, state-provided health care, subsidized childcare, public recreation facilities and public schools, they are basically little socialist paradises.
October 12, 2023 at 7:50 PM
Fellow military brat, been saying this for years. Life on base was an almost classless microcosm (there were two classes, officer/non-officer). We all shopped at the same stores for groceries & things like clothes. We all benefited from subsidized systems. And the buildings were ugly. Socialism!