Jess
@howyalikemenow.bsky.social
Health Coach, mom, HAES, BLM, Defund the Police, Covid-19 didn't have to go down like this. Zag. Also here for all trash pop culture takes.
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The decision means trans men can be exluded from men’s single-sex spaces – but may also be excluded from women’s spaces.
What does the UK Supreme Court’s gender ruling mean for trans men?
The decision means trans men can be exluded from men’s single-sex spaces – but may also be excluded from women’s spaces.
tcnv.link
April 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The decision means trans men can be exluded from men’s single-sex spaces – but may also be excluded from women’s spaces.
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Colleges and universities have been early targets of the second Trump Administration. The president of Wesleyan University discusses why he is speaking out when many others won’t. nyer.cm/22Z1hvP
April 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Colleges and universities have been early targets of the second Trump Administration. The president of Wesleyan University discusses why he is speaking out when many others won’t. nyer.cm/22Z1hvP
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BREAKING: Israel attacks Gaza school shelter again after dozens of Palestinians killed in initial aerial bombing aje.io/x9gkiv
April 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
BREAKING: Israel attacks Gaza school shelter again after dozens of Palestinians killed in initial aerial bombing aje.io/x9gkiv
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The decision a lot of universities face now is whether to:
-- have their federal funding pulled because they stood on principle to protect their students and the integrity of their research, or
-- have their funding pulled anyway just because they exist, regardless of how cravenly they submit.
-- have their federal funding pulled because they stood on principle to protect their students and the integrity of their research, or
-- have their funding pulled anyway just because they exist, regardless of how cravenly they submit.
March 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The decision a lot of universities face now is whether to:
-- have their federal funding pulled because they stood on principle to protect their students and the integrity of their research, or
-- have their funding pulled anyway just because they exist, regardless of how cravenly they submit.
-- have their federal funding pulled because they stood on principle to protect their students and the integrity of their research, or
-- have their funding pulled anyway just because they exist, regardless of how cravenly they submit.
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If you buy the premise, which I don't, it's also wild that they ignore EVERY SINGLE female politician who's done great aggressive messaging in this moment, and as a fun bonus DOES NOT have a disqualifying scandal in her background
Andrew Cuomo is resurgent, Gavin Newsom is podcasting, and Rahm Emanuel is considering a presidential run. Are these the bullies Democrats need? @galbeckerman.bsky.social asks. theatln.tc/BO6vnFaE
March 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If you buy the premise, which I don't, it's also wild that they ignore EVERY SINGLE female politician who's done great aggressive messaging in this moment, and as a fun bonus DOES NOT have a disqualifying scandal in her background
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The idea that Democratic senators can play this cute “just the exact right number of us voted for the bill so we could all vote against it and have it pass anyway!” game might have worked in a local-news driven era. But it fundamentally misunderstands the national media environment today.
March 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The idea that Democratic senators can play this cute “just the exact right number of us voted for the bill so we could all vote against it and have it pass anyway!” game might have worked in a local-news driven era. But it fundamentally misunderstands the national media environment today.
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak
March 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak
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The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
March 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
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I will not vote to weaken my power to fight for WA state.
I will not vote to turn YOUR taxpayer dollars into Trump & Elon's personal slush funds.
I will vote NO. We should pass my short term CR, avoid a shutdown, and do our jobs.
I will not vote to turn YOUR taxpayer dollars into Trump & Elon's personal slush funds.
I will vote NO. We should pass my short term CR, avoid a shutdown, and do our jobs.
March 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I will not vote to weaken my power to fight for WA state.
I will not vote to turn YOUR taxpayer dollars into Trump & Elon's personal slush funds.
I will vote NO. We should pass my short term CR, avoid a shutdown, and do our jobs.
I will not vote to turn YOUR taxpayer dollars into Trump & Elon's personal slush funds.
I will vote NO. We should pass my short term CR, avoid a shutdown, and do our jobs.
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And if they ask you to do it in a voice call or video call, send a follow up email reading "My understanding per our call is that I am directed by you to do the following: XYZ . Please confirm that this is what you are ordering me to do."
Not in writing? Not an order.
Not in writing? Not an order.
"would you please put that in writing" is how you pull off insubordination without actually being insubordinate. Very useful when you are getting sketchy (whatever 'sketchy' might mean) instructions from someone who might not want to take responsibility for it later.
signed, a former union steward.
signed, a former union steward.
Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
February 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
And if they ask you to do it in a voice call or video call, send a follow up email reading "My understanding per our call is that I am directed by you to do the following: XYZ . Please confirm that this is what you are ordering me to do."
Not in writing? Not an order.
Not in writing? Not an order.
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"would you please put that in writing" is how you pull off insubordination without actually being insubordinate. Very useful when you are getting sketchy (whatever 'sketchy' might mean) instructions from someone who might not want to take responsibility for it later.
signed, a former union steward.
signed, a former union steward.
Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
February 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"would you please put that in writing" is how you pull off insubordination without actually being insubordinate. Very useful when you are getting sketchy (whatever 'sketchy' might mean) instructions from someone who might not want to take responsibility for it later.
signed, a former union steward.
signed, a former union steward.
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨
January 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨
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We should, as a society, all agree to start the run-up to Halloween on January 1. Just for one year to see how it goes. We won't know if it works until we try it.
January 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
We should, as a society, all agree to start the run-up to Halloween on January 1. Just for one year to see how it goes. We won't know if it works until we try it.
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Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society ... we can't go around the world saying, 'in Russia Putin has an oligarchy.' Well we got an oligarchy here too."
December 15, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society ... we can't go around the world saying, 'in Russia Putin has an oligarchy.' Well we got an oligarchy here too."
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"The idea that the US university is a place of critical thinking, social justice, liberal arts, and making the world a better place is as false as the day is long."
— #AJOpinion by @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social ⤵️
— #AJOpinion by @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social ⤵️
With words they try to jail us: US universities are not citadels of freedom
Today, the American university – just like the American nation-state – is once again at peak repression.
aje.io
December 13, 2024 at 7:10 PM
"The idea that the US university is a place of critical thinking, social justice, liberal arts, and making the world a better place is as false as the day is long."
— #AJOpinion by @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social ⤵️
— #AJOpinion by @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social ⤵️
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It’s so funny that Charlie Brown’s theme song isn’t even named after him, it’s named after Linus and Lucy. I remember getting the sheet music when I was taking piano lessons as a kid and being like “Man, that boy doesn’t have anything”
December 9, 2024 at 1:05 AM
It’s so funny that Charlie Brown’s theme song isn’t even named after him, it’s named after Linus and Lucy. I remember getting the sheet music when I was taking piano lessons as a kid and being like “Man, that boy doesn’t have anything”
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Shooting the Grinch point blank in the back of the head on a city sidewalk but successfully eluding capture because the words “stink”, “stank”, “stunk” are etched on the shell casings and everyone kind of gets it
December 9, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Shooting the Grinch point blank in the back of the head on a city sidewalk but successfully eluding capture because the words “stink”, “stank”, “stunk” are etched on the shell casings and everyone kind of gets it
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In some ways, I liked the world better before everything got super dark and insane
December 9, 2024 at 5:50 AM
In some ways, I liked the world better before everything got super dark and insane
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JFC.
These people are deluded and utterly tone dead.
"we guard against unnecessary care"?
Get tae fuck
These people are deluded and utterly tone dead.
"we guard against unnecessary care"?
Get tae fuck
United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and that "There are very few people in the history of the U. S. healthcare industry who had a bigger positive effect on American healthcare than Brian [Thompson]."
December 8, 2024 at 6:26 PM
JFC.
These people are deluded and utterly tone dead.
"we guard against unnecessary care"?
Get tae fuck
These people are deluded and utterly tone dead.
"we guard against unnecessary care"?
Get tae fuck
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It is worth repeating. He choked a man. To death. On the subway. In front of people. On video. It was not in self-defense. It was out of hate.
BEING HOMELESS IS NOT A CRIME!
HOW WE TREAT PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IS!
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/n...
BEING HOMELESS IS NOT A CRIME!
HOW WE TREAT PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IS!
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/n...
At Daniel Penny’s Trial, the Moment May Matter as Much as the Evidence
Jordan Neely’s death on the subway would once have prompted persistent protests. But when it comes to the perception of threat, context is everything.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 6:28 PM
It is worth repeating. He choked a man. To death. On the subway. In front of people. On video. It was not in self-defense. It was out of hate.
BEING HOMELESS IS NOT A CRIME!
HOW WE TREAT PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IS!
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/n...
BEING HOMELESS IS NOT A CRIME!
HOW WE TREAT PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IS!
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/n...