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Transgender Menace 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷. Famously, not a liberal. Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Bylines: Wired, Slate. Views = my own. She/Her.

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Published: January 10, 2025 03:43

Estimates put the losses from these fires at potentially $150 billion. That's more than all natural disasters last year combined. We're only one week into 2025. There may not be functioning home insurance markets in many states by next year. [contains…

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Published: January 10, 2025 03:18

Reminder that in ten days, tiktok will be banned and they are currently preparing to shut down if the Supreme Court doesn't stop enforcement. Meta will undoubtedly see massive usage growth as it will be the only major social media left outside of Twitter.

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Published: January 10, 2025 01:39

F it, here's the email addresses of senior Meta execs. If they want to greenlight pogroms against us, they should at least hear from us. Lindsay Elin, VP Public policy lindsaye@meta.com Roy Austin, VP Civil Rights royaustin@meta.com Cynthia Deitle,…

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Published: January 10, 2025 00:23

There was a evacuation order sent out in error county wide. Please double check if you are near a fire and in an evacuation zone. www.fire.ca.gov [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 9, 2025 21:04

The focus is on trans students but this threw out efforts to protect students who are victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault along with several other protections. So they'll blame us for it. …

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Published: January 9, 2025 05:57

Learning about the doctrine of prior appropriation in law school is one of the most maddening things I've ever learned. Water rights are determined by who first owned the property centuries ago and does not take into account climate change, development, or…

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Published: January 9, 2025 03:36

I love Rep Crockett but why the hell are they doing roundtable debate about an ongoing natural disaster? This is everything wrong about our country. There's nothing to debate while people are dying and losing their homes. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: January 8, 2025 23:40

The people that supposedly care about women's rights when it comes to trans people openly mock women for their appearance when they're in positions of power. These are the people that actually hate women.

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Published: January 8, 2025 13:56

This policy change makes sense when you remember that Project 2025 architect, Dustin Carmack, is in charge of policy at Meta. When I uncovered this, he deactivated his LinkedIn. Project 2025 wants to classify trans people as pornographic and ban us from…

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Published: January 8, 2025 04:17

Remember that California voted to keep legalized slavery for incarcerated people. Many of those fighting these fires are effectively modern day enslaved people. They're forced to risk their lives for their freedom.

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Published: January 8, 2025 00:01

Wikipedia editors need to up their opsec. There's a full on war against any independent sources of authority and the oligarch project of taking down Wikipedia is part of it. Donate to Wikipedia if you can.…

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Published: January 7, 2025 22:46

The thing that the oligarchs fundamentally misunderstand is that civil society and social safety nets were the compromise of the social contract. Dismantling civil society, rolling back civil rights, looting public resources, and exacerbating unimaginable…

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Published: January 7, 2025 21:31

A trans woman on tiktok posted about getting her gender marker changed on her Florida drivers license. Florida investigated her over it, canceled her license, and then leaked the story to libs of tiktok to announce it publicly to humiliate her.

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Published: January 7, 2025 19:10

Meta is pure evil and deserves to be wiped off the face of the planet. They removed all restrictions on content targeting protected characteristics i.e. hate speech. Anyone working there is complicit. You are enabling this. You will have blood on your…

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Published: January 7, 2025 17:24

The Canada and Greenland annexation talk make sense when you realize that it's solely to supply capital with more access to deep sea oil and seabed mining when the ice cap melts. "Climate change doesn't exist." "It exists but it's not that bad." "It's…

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Published: January 7, 2025 16:03

Thinking a lot of what Arendt termed, "a fool's freedom." The deprivation of rights comes not from being deprived of the right to an opinion, but from that opinion not mattering at all. What the oligarchs coin as free speech isn't actually freedom because…

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Published: January 7, 2025 15:15

I think we can thoroughly declare me too movement dead. A wife beater can now sit on the board of meta with no backlash while a rapist will be president. One step forward, two steps back. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 7, 2025 06:13

During the Holocaust, the Nazis and their collaborators paid bounties for every Jew they turned in. https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article-abstract/CXXI/494/1562/389360 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 7, 2025 03:41

"President Hindenburg put country first and ministerially and ceremoniously chose Hitler as a chancellor to ensure the future of German democracy." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 7, 2025 01:34

I've always hated Meta but this Dana White news still shook me. I'm so sick to my stomach. I represented many DV victims early in my career, it's something I deeply care about. To see Meta elevate a wife beater to the board is so morally repugnant. Meta is…

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Published: January 7, 2025 00:52

This is separate from Taylor Lorenz' scoop today. At this point, "technical error" is Meta PR speak for "we got caught." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-06/pride-groups-slam-meta-removal-of-facebook-posts/104667198

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Published: January 6, 2025 17:38

Once again, it's shown that trans youth are an extremely small part of the population and getting care is exceedingly rare. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/06/nx-s1-5247724/transgender-teens-gender-affirming-care-hormones-jama

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Published: January 6, 2025 16:58

Chloe literally testified in court under oath that she makes up to $100,000 in speaking fees and made an additional $100k in donations in her donorbox. She has to lie to her followers about how much she's really making but she can't lie in court. …

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Published: January 6, 2025 16:32

This isn't the only thing meta has been doing, it's been restricting the reach of LGBTQ accounts for nearly a year under its social and political content minimization policy. Expect to see more of this with project 2025 architect Dustin Carmack in charge…

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Published: January 6, 2025 00:10

The free speech™️ platform suspended maia for 30 days for sharing the article who detailed who Adrian Dittman really is. They are also suppressing all links to the story in the spectator and maia's blog. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 5, 2025 15:58

Political detransitioners are such grifters. Chloe Cole makes $200k/year and drives around in her $100k cybertruck. And the media continues to portray her as some helpless victim while she goes around raking in the cash from speaking fees.

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Published: January 5, 2025 15:44

The far right is getting upset that Elon is changing the algorithm to promote "positive content" which means political influencers will be penalized and lose reach, just in time for Trump to take office. I've seen it myself even with my alt that follows…

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Published: January 5, 2025 03:18

They need to look at it like post Soviet Russia, a mad dash by oligarchs to loot the public of their property in the government to benefit wealthy connected insiders. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 4, 2025 19:21

The media is really under playing how violent the manifesto was. I was initially under the impression it was just a warning of collapse, not a violent call for the military to form death squads and kill Democrats.…

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Published: January 4, 2025 17:22

I represented trans sex workers for years in various legal contexts, this is completely false and horrifically bigoted. They went into sex work because it was the only way to survive. Wu is projecting her insecurities onto the entire community. [contains…

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Published: January 4, 2025 15:56

Where is this point of view of crackdowns on trans people as authoritarian when it's happening in the US? They can clearly see it when it's in other countries. When is here, it's just a "culture war." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 3, 2025 23:29

A Trump supporting veteran killed himself by blowing up a cybertruck in front of a Trump hotel to bring attention to the fact that he believed the US is heading towards collapse. His warning is one I've heard from veterans and folks who analyze country…

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Published: January 3, 2025 19:03

Verge is reporting that the screenshot is likely fake according to employees at X. https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/24335045/elon-musk-4chan-adrian-dittmann-x-screenshot-admin-portal-fake [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 3, 2025 18:13

While these chats are a hallucination, Meta did indeed limit the reach of LGBTQ accounts by limiting social and political content last year. This is not farfetched. They're already doing it. …

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Published: January 3, 2025 16:44

This is most certainly a hallucination but chatting with Liv regarding project 2025 and Dustin Carmack at Meta and she said there's a secret plan to limit LGBTQ influence on Meta products.

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Published: January 3, 2025 15:23

This is what 4chan did for years to troll people. Adopt avatars of people of color, LGBTQ folks etc. It can disrupt social movements and create negative perceptions around certain groups or identities. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 3, 2025 14:58

Meta is doing digital blackface with its fake AI profiles. Seems to me like it's an attempt to deflect criticism from AI critics and smear it as racist. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 3, 2025 04:34

The free speech™️ people want the government to retaliate against people for political speech. This is literally what the first amendment is designed to protect against. They never actually cared about free speech, they just wanted a platform to silence…

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Published: January 2, 2025 21:05

He's using consumer protection laws to do this. If he wins, it could set a precedent that trans people identifying as they are is fraud. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 2, 2025 16:34

It hasn't been ruled out yet but it's not impossible that the Cybertruck explosion was simply an idiot filling his rented cybertruck with fuel and fireworks to camp in the desert to shoot them off. Could've easily gone off from a static discharge. It's…

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Published: January 2, 2025 15:25

People need to realize that the truth no longer matters to these people, only what feels right to them. The New Orleans attacker was Muslim so he's coded as foreign even though he was US citizen born in Texas and served in the military for 10 years. …

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Published: January 2, 2025 14:58

The NHS continues to slowly pull the care of trans adults across England. The purpose is to limit the number of people receiving care so when they use the Levy review to effectively eliminate all access, there will hardly be any patients left getting care…

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Published: January 2, 2025 14:06

Confirmed. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/matthew-livelsberger-tesla-cybertuck-explosion-las-vegas-trump-b2672787.html [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 2, 2025 06:50

This is so brazenly cynical. Early media reports used the Trump org statement to base their reporting which is why most people thought it was a fire initially. Now that it emerged it was intentional, Elon is using that to discredit the media.

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Published: January 2, 2025 06:07

The Cybertruck bomber has been identified as 37 year old Matthew Livelsberger of Colorado Springs. His potential LinkedIn seemingly shows he was a special forces operator Seth the army for two decades. …

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Published: January 2, 2025 04:47

This partially why I left Twitter. The new terms of service require litigation to be in the Northern district of Texas with far right judges. He can start utilizing that clause on news orgs with Twitter accounts. This issue is why I filed an amicus brief…