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Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.
Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023.
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
www.sltrib.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.
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To be more specific: Pinker edited the 2004 volume of The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and included an essay by Sailer from The American Conservative that argued that nation building in Iraq would fail because Muslim Arabs are too inbred to handle democracy. Seriously.
Reminder that Pinker has been a member of the race science “human biodiversity” mailing list since its inception, and personally bolstered the career of racist commentator Steve Sailer for years, inviting him to contribute to edited volumes. A lot of us were ringing the warning bells at the time.
this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
May 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
To be more specific: Pinker edited the 2004 volume of The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and included an essay by Sailer from The American Conservative that argued that nation building in Iraq would fail because Muslim Arabs are too inbred to handle democracy. Seriously.
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welp I sent an email
May 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
welp I sent an email
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(also, literally no historian denies that africans were active in the slave trade. the point is that the *transatlantic slave trade* was the product of european involvement and that it was a unique permutation of the trade such that it transformed half the globe)
May 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
(also, literally no historian denies that africans were active in the slave trade. the point is that the *transatlantic slave trade* was the product of european involvement and that it was a unique permutation of the trade such that it transformed half the globe)
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see also 'Marriage reduces crime'. Here the research states "We find that the desistance process tend to start up to several years before marriage" - so doing less crime makes you a more attractive marriage partner. Not the same at all. academic.oup.com/bjc/article-...
Crime and the Transition to Marriage: The Role of the Spouse’s Criminal Involvement
Abstract. Influential perspectives in life course criminology maintain that marriage leads to desistance from crime, and the mechanisms are largely related
academic.oup.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
see also 'Marriage reduces crime'. Here the research states "We find that the desistance process tend to start up to several years before marriage" - so doing less crime makes you a more attractive marriage partner. Not the same at all. academic.oup.com/bjc/article-...
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The way that I'd reconcile the first sentence with the second is that Enlightenment Now Guy is dancing his particular version of Richard Hanania's Enlightened Centrism two-step - www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-dsquar...
May 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The way that I'd reconcile the first sentence with the second is that Enlightenment Now Guy is dancing his particular version of Richard Hanania's Enlightened Centrism two-step - www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-dsquar...
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chiquita, formerly united fruit, is the company responsible for overthrowing jacobo arbenz and causing the chaos of the guatemalan civil war, ultimately creating the monster known as Rios Montt who genocided hundreds of thousands of indigenous Maya peoples
Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike.
The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
US banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike
President Jose Raul Mulino, whose changes to social security laws prompted the protest, called the strike ‘illegal’.
www.aljazeera.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
chiquita, formerly united fruit, is the company responsible for overthrowing jacobo arbenz and causing the chaos of the guatemalan civil war, ultimately creating the monster known as Rios Montt who genocided hundreds of thousands of indigenous Maya peoples
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The saddest game of limbo I've ever seen
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
May 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The saddest game of limbo I've ever seen
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This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P.
The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice.
The dots moving in the background are stars.
The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice.
The dots moving in the background are stars.
May 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P.
The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice.
The dots moving in the background are stars.
The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice.
The dots moving in the background are stars.
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While I've mixed feelings about Joseph Heath, this is a very good and provoking essay josephheath.substack.com/p/why-the-cu...
Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
(reprinted)
josephheath.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
While I've mixed feelings about Joseph Heath, this is a very good and provoking essay josephheath.substack.com/p/why-the-cu...
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I thought this by David Bell was useful, explaining how previous iterations (Buckley, Douthat) fought over the Ivy League and higher education, but this one is instead against it. davidabell.substack.com/p/why-this-a...
Why This Assault on the Universities is More Serious than Earlier Ones
Although it has faded from the headlines in the last few weeks, amidst the endless tsunami of Trump news, the administration’s assault on elite universities has not abated.
davidabell.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I thought this by David Bell was useful, explaining how previous iterations (Buckley, Douthat) fought over the Ivy League and higher education, but this one is instead against it. davidabell.substack.com/p/why-this-a...
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Plz stop reading clickbait BS about AI and instead read pro-human exegesis of how we retain and enhance our humanity in the face of different technological capabilities
Yesterday I got annoyed about a thread between @drewharwell.com and @dkthomp.bsky.social but it was good news because it made me start writing about AI and how almost no one thinks about or writes for normal everyday tech users.
www.leahreich.com/are-you-bett...
www.leahreich.com/are-you-bett...
Are You Better Than ChatGPT?
The other day, during an unexpectedly deep conversation, a stranger made a confession: Only that morning, just before we met, she'd felt so uncertain and in need of guidance that she asked ChatGPT for...
www.leahreich.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Plz stop reading clickbait BS about AI and instead read pro-human exegesis of how we retain and enhance our humanity in the face of different technological capabilities
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Mark, let’s imagine you or I pointedly ignored a judge’s ruling to cease to act illegally and also vilified the judge for making the judgment whilst refusing his/her injunction to undue the harm we had done in the first place, what do you think would happen?
May 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Mark, let’s imagine you or I pointedly ignored a judge’s ruling to cease to act illegally and also vilified the judge for making the judgment whilst refusing his/her injunction to undue the harm we had done in the first place, what do you think would happen?
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Kelvin is waiting to board his plane this morning. bsky.app/profile/mari...
NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives.
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
A mother's urgent plea to stop ICE from deporting her daughters’ birth father tomorrow
He served his time in the US. He deserves to heal here, too.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Kelvin is waiting to board his plane this morning. bsky.app/profile/mari...
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When you read the comments (I know), the stories of peoples' experiences with burdens are heartbreaking--and inevitably involve the most vulnerable beneficiaries. As a parent whose child has a significant disability, they're also kind of terrifying to read.
May 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
When you read the comments (I know), the stories of peoples' experiences with burdens are heartbreaking--and inevitably involve the most vulnerable beneficiaries. As a parent whose child has a significant disability, they're also kind of terrifying to read.
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shoutout to certain of my peers who called this overblown back in 2016 slate.com/news-and-pol...
What Gave Us Donald Trump Is What Gave Us Dylann Roof
On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump took the stage at his eponymous tower in New York City and announced his bid for the White House. His message was clear....
slate.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
shoutout to certain of my peers who called this overblown back in 2016 slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Something is happening. General sociology is beginning to take colonialism seriously. This article by one of Bourdieu's most famous students, Loic Wacquant, draws on historical work on colonial policing to rethink the sociology of the police.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
Loic Wacquant, Punish to Rule, NLR 152, March–April 2025
If punishment was central to colonial statecraft—police, courts and prisons forming a ‘penal triad’—how has this logic mutated since? A comparative survey of the forms of official violence that upheld...
newleftreview.org
May 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Something is happening. General sociology is beginning to take colonialism seriously. This article by one of Bourdieu's most famous students, Loic Wacquant, draws on historical work on colonial policing to rethink the sociology of the police.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
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Essential read for the history of how universal healthcare has been kneecapped across history alone.
Far from the cure to authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline.
The forum in our new issue—led by Lisa L. Miller, with @ericblanc.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social + others:
The forum in our new issue—led by Lisa L. Miller, with @ericblanc.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social + others:
The Dead End of Checks and Balances - Boston Review
Far from the cure to Trumpian authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline.
www.bostonreview.net
May 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Essential read for the history of how universal healthcare has been kneecapped across history alone.
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" .. China and European countries are offering positions for scientists laid off, fired or pushed out by Trump and DOGE’s mass culling of federal workers and funding. The massive U.S. “brain drain” is a “brain gain” for other countries."
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/21/br...
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/21/br...
Trump’s Brain Drain: Scientists Look to Move Abroad Amid Cuts to Research Funding in U.S.
Cuts by the Trump administration are beginning to “chase” U.S.-based scientists at federal agencies and research institutions out of the country. “We’re draining our scientific talent,” says environme...
www.democracynow.org
May 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
" .. China and European countries are offering positions for scientists laid off, fired or pushed out by Trump and DOGE’s mass culling of federal workers and funding. The massive U.S. “brain drain” is a “brain gain” for other countries."
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/21/br...
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/21/br...
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He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.
gotta say I did not anticipate ICE goons going after the whitest possible immigrants with American families, jobs, and in good standing legally. a freaking Danish-born welder in Mississippi with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife. just omnidirectional hate
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.
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Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year.
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
May 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year.
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
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"And when I ask myself, what would Jesus do, the answer is clear. Remove health insurance from the poorest of Americans so the richest pay slightly less taxes,"
“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”
Opinion | JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies
The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"And when I ask myself, what would Jesus do, the answer is clear. Remove health insurance from the poorest of Americans so the richest pay slightly less taxes,"