Josh Roman
@joshroman.bsky.social
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Josh Roman
@joshroman.bsky.social
· Mar 14
They're lying to you about transgender women and girls in sports
The president, politicians and right-wing activists are lying to you about trans women in sports to get what they want.
ftw.usatoday.com
“Totally fabricated lies demonizing some of the most vulnerable people.”
Trans rights are human rights, and we can’t let bigoted lies and right-wing talking points go unchallenged.
Trans rights are human rights, and we can’t let bigoted lies and right-wing talking points go unchallenged.
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Dr Oz says being healthy is a patriotic duty
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.
May 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dr Oz says being healthy is a patriotic duty
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.
As someone raising a boy, all of this ⬇️
That silly “it’s the worst time ever to be or raise a Real Man” post in defense of “boys simply MUST worship at the altar of the Tate brothers b/c feminism & the gays” has me thinking - not about that, obviously it’s nonsense. About what it would take to see a societal shift in masculinity.
May 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
As someone raising a boy, all of this ⬇️
WTF NPR?
“J.A.Q.”-off.
“J.A.Q.”-off.
May 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
WTF NPR?
“J.A.Q.”-off.
“J.A.Q.”-off.
RFK Jr, “a nepo baby wastrel”
Another terrific column from @monicahesse.bsky.social -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows the fallacy of ‘doing your own research’ wapo.st/44krKXX
Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows the fallacy of ‘doing your own research’
Has he even looked into the origins of the phrase?
wapo.st
May 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
RFK Jr, “a nepo baby wastrel”
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Lol, Media covering this exactly how we said they would.
May 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Lol, Media covering this exactly how we said they would.
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This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
April 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
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I just published the most personal thing I’ve ever written.
The High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About Housing.
It’s about Atlanta and San Francisco, growth, and grief.
And the decisions that shaped my marriage, my loss, and everything after www.dataandpolitics.net/the-high-cos...
The High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About Housing.
It’s about Atlanta and San Francisco, growth, and grief.
And the decisions that shaped my marriage, my loss, and everything after www.dataandpolitics.net/the-high-cos...
The High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can't Stop Talking About Housing
Atlanta isn't just building structures. It is filling them with life. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, we keep fighting over everything except how to make room for each other. Cities, like lives, are made...
www.dataandpolitics.net
April 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I just published the most personal thing I’ve ever written.
The High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About Housing.
It’s about Atlanta and San Francisco, growth, and grief.
And the decisions that shaped my marriage, my loss, and everything after www.dataandpolitics.net/the-high-cos...
The High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About Housing.
It’s about Atlanta and San Francisco, growth, and grief.
And the decisions that shaped my marriage, my loss, and everything after www.dataandpolitics.net/the-high-cos...
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This really hits the nail on the head IMO:
April 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This really hits the nail on the head IMO:
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Their concepts were tested in the Grand Marketplace of Ideas and found wanting. So now they have to pass them back and forth in the Underground Flea Market of Unhinged and Dangerous Notions
April 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Their concepts were tested in the Grand Marketplace of Ideas and found wanting. So now they have to pass them back and forth in the Underground Flea Market of Unhinged and Dangerous Notions
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If I was a Congressional Democrat I'd be publicly asking whether or not it's possible the SecDef blasting out tactical details on non-secure devices is responsible for this.
So the Houthis spooked a US carrier into dropping a fighter jet in the drink.
UPDATE: A US official said that initial reports from the scene indicated that the Truman made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...
April 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If I was a Congressional Democrat I'd be publicly asking whether or not it's possible the SecDef blasting out tactical details on non-secure devices is responsible for this.
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also i think the fact that mark cuban is the Liberal Genius Thought Leader in there while he gets utterly clowned on by random college kids and bored 9-5ers on here really gauges the overall intellectual temperature in these spaces
April 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
also i think the fact that mark cuban is the Liberal Genius Thought Leader in there while he gets utterly clowned on by random college kids and bored 9-5ers on here really gauges the overall intellectual temperature in these spaces
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Trump’s NOAA Has Downplayed an Alarming Finding: NOAA has minimized an announcement that climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere grew at a record-breaking speed in 2024
www.scientificamerican.com/article/co-s... @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social #Climatechange
www.scientificamerican.com/article/co-s... @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social #Climatechange
CO₂ Surged Last Year, but the Trump Administration Has Downplayed the Alarming Data
Under the Trump administration, NOAA has minimized an announcement that climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere grew at a record-breaking speed in 2024
www.scientificamerican.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Trump’s NOAA Has Downplayed an Alarming Finding: NOAA has minimized an announcement that climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere grew at a record-breaking speed in 2024
www.scientificamerican.com/article/co-s... @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social #Climatechange
www.scientificamerican.com/article/co-s... @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social #Climatechange
Posting this for no particular reason…
April 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Posting this for no particular reason…
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Now would be a really good time for cis allies to start wearing trans pride badges and make it even more impossible for the toilet police to determine who is and isn’t trans
April 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Now would be a really good time for cis allies to start wearing trans pride badges and make it even more impossible for the toilet police to determine who is and isn’t trans
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My NSF grant on Clean Energy and Society got terminated today. It helped support the @climatesollab.bsky.social.
We will continue our work as best we can.
We will continue our work as best we can.
April 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My NSF grant on Clean Energy and Society got terminated today. It helped support the @climatesollab.bsky.social.
We will continue our work as best we can.
We will continue our work as best we can.
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“It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off," writes prison journalist Kwaneta Harris in Texas.
Why Solitary Confinement Is a Safe Haven for Sexually Abusive Guards
After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual exploitation and violence.
www.themarshallproject.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off," writes prison journalist Kwaneta Harris in Texas.
“The oligarchs bring to our fascism its libertarian entry point: they preach that government is the source of all evil. As we yield to that logic, the hydrocarbon oligarchs drill away at the earth and the digital oligarchs at our minds.“
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
www.newyorker.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“The oligarchs bring to our fascism its libertarian entry point: they preach that government is the source of all evil. As we yield to that logic, the hydrocarbon oligarchs drill away at the earth and the digital oligarchs at our minds.“
Solidarity from Boston
April 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Solidarity from Boston
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Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
April 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
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For all the Democrats who think that speaking up on this, like this, is a losing issue or a distraction ... Fuck you.
April 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
For all the Democrats who think that speaking up on this, like this, is a losing issue or a distraction ... Fuck you.
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People have interpreted this as a call for a boycott, when I actually want a wealth tax so aggressive it'd make Lenin say, "steady on, lad" if Lenin talked like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.
A lot of people want to separate the art from the artist, but I would settle for separating the artist from her money.
April 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
People have interpreted this as a call for a boycott, when I actually want a wealth tax so aggressive it'd make Lenin say, "steady on, lad" if Lenin talked like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.
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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
www.euronews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
And this site is free!
April 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
And this site is free!
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right winger getting cancelled vs. trans person getting cancelled
April 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
right winger getting cancelled vs. trans person getting cancelled