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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: August 11, 2025 23:15

This guy is now the nominee for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. EJ Antonio was a key contributor to protect 2025 and a Heritage Foundation fellow. Why do they all look like horror movies villains.

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Published: August 11, 2025 21:04

They made Robbie Starbuck, the guy who calls LGBTQ people groomers and campaigns to get companies to eliminate support for LGBTQ people, an advisor on their AI. Of all the models, Meta's Llama has the most anti LGBTQ bias and especially anti trans bias…

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Published: August 11, 2025 18:49

But I was told by the New York Times that marriage equality was a stunning success that succeeded because of its modest political goals. Almost like the last two decades of progress were hollow assimilationism into a collapsing neoliberal order rather…

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Published: August 11, 2025 15:00

Beyond the immediate use of this to crack down on immigrants and people of color, I will bet you that they're going to target LGBTQ bars and drag events. With direct police powers, they'll have free reign to do whatever they want. [contains quote post or…

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Published: August 11, 2025 14:52

Look, while these are the facts, you're still arguing within Trump's framing of crime. The facts don't matter here because Trump's base love seeing the military and police crack down on people they hate, which are liberals and, most importantly, Black…

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Published: August 11, 2025 13:29

I know it's unpopular to say but Trump's authoritarian consolidation is succeeding, mostly because of cowardly institutions. We're effectively past the point of no return and life will increasingly become dictated by Trump and the federal government.…

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Published: August 11, 2025 12:18

It's insane how this administration is shaking down colleges for admitting too many students of color by citing alleged racial discrimination while simultaneously petitioning the Supreme Court to allow them to profile and detain anyone with skin darker…

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Published: August 11, 2025 00:11

Booted up my ps5 to play co op borderlands with my partner. 10 minutes to update the ps software. Anther fifteen to log back in to PlayStation network after I forgot the password. An hour to download the update despite having the game disk. Two hours later…

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Published: August 10, 2025 23:36

When you want to conduct a genocide without people seeing what you're doing, you kill all the journalists. That's exactly what Israel is doing. They just murdered 5 Al-Jazeera journalists living in a tent next to al-Shifa hospital. …

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Published: August 10, 2025 19:00

No, we don't want billionaires like you to exist in the first place, not someone to grovel with for a living wage. That kind of wealth is inherently destructive and toxic to democracy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 8, 2025 23:12

Alyx, a 15 year veteran of the Air Force was approved for early retirement in May. The Trump admin suddenly revoked it on Wednesday because of the trans military ban. She'll lose out on healthcare and pension benefits as a result. …

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Published: August 8, 2025 16:03

UPMC in Pennsylvania is expecting their providers to lie to trans patients and tell them their healthcare is illegal, even when they're at risk of suicide. https://newrepublic.com/article/198890/blue-state-hospitals-trump-anti-trans-agenda

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Published: August 8, 2025 15:23

This is funny when you remember that the perception of the color of the sky has indeed changed over time and various cultures based on the language available to describe color. https://www.snexplores.org/article/color-smells-sounds-language

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Published: August 8, 2025 13:39

This is legitimately insane. It's not an exaggeration to say this is actually a full on bathroom ban for trans people because they're banned from using spaces of their sex assigned at birth too! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 8, 2025 13:18

The UK is imposing a trans bathroom ban by fiat and it's being done by their equivalent of the Democrats. Trans men will be banned from all bathrooms and facilities because they're banned from the men's for being AFAB while being banned from the women's…

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Published: August 8, 2025 03:39

Trump and Hegseth screwing over trans veterans on retirement benefits is an easy slam dunk politically for Democrats to flip the narrative on trans folks and that's exactly why they'll continue going on podcasts talking about how bigots have a point about…

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Published: August 7, 2025 23:48

What makes this even worse is that many of those service members would likely have stayed on till they hit twenty years of service to get a regular pension and benefits but they're being forced out. This was a half measure as it was and even that is being…

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Published: August 7, 2025 22:47

It's taken the New York Times a decade to finally realize how the far right works. They amplify a handful of random posts by nobodies as a characterization of the entire left and then get outraged by it. That in turn drives media coverage and takes over…

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Published: August 7, 2025 19:13

Air Force service members with 15-18 years of service can be eligible for early retirement. The Trump admin just blocked early retirement for all trans folks in the Air Force leaving them without the lifelong pensions or healthcare they're owed for their…

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Published: August 7, 2025 16:28

AI driven mass surveillance is already a reality for many students across the country. In one instance, students typed up a threatening message on their school computer and quickly deleted it, within minutes school officials barged in and took them away. …

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Published: August 7, 2025 16:00

I'm losing a lot of followers over this but I don't care. You're asking me to surrender to my own oppression to maintain your own comfort. If preserving democracy requires sacrificing vulnerable communities then democracy isn't worth saving. [contains…

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Published: August 7, 2025 12:03

Yeah, I'm never voting for Buttigieg even if he's the nominee. This is a bright line for me. You cave on trans issues and lend credence to bigots, it's over. I'm not letting the Dems go down the path of Labour. …

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Published: August 6, 2025 21:03

Vanity Fair did a profile on Sir Ewan Forbes, a trans man from the UK who transitioned as a teenager in Weimar Germany. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/the-hidden-case-of-sir-ewan-forbes-the-transgender-baronet

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Published: August 6, 2025 19:47

Remember when a woman filed a lawsuit in 2016 against Trump alleging she was raped by him when she was 13 years old in 1994, at Jeffrey Epstein's home?! This was years before Epstein was investigated and arrested again in 2019 and the M.O. lines right up.…

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Published: August 6, 2025 18:05

This is what the far right does. They send bomb threats against their political enemies. They did it to children's hospitals and now state legislators. The worst part is those legislators cannot trust the FBI won't detain them if they speak with them. …

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Published: August 6, 2025 14:30

Trump's war on the legal profession is working. Despite the firms that challenged the EOs winning in court and the number of firms making deals being limited, the chilling effect of depriving civil society of pro bono rep. has been incredibly effective. …

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Published: August 6, 2025 13:45

The cruelty aimed at trans military members who have bled for this country is heinous and disgusting. Even worse is the fact that this is all at the behest of a rapist defense secretary and a draft-dodging, pedophile, rapist president. …

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Published: August 6, 2025 03:55

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized. …

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Published: August 5, 2025 22:13

I honestly don't know how to live with our government's complicity in the genocide in Gaza. Every day is more abject horror as dozens are shot for seeking food while even more starve to death. I feel so powerless to do anything to stop it.

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Published: August 5, 2025 20:40

"While the avatar was created by Oliver’s grieving parents with the noble intention of gun control advocacy, the method is profane and disrespectful. This is not Joaquin Oliver. It is a sophisticated deepfake wearing his face, a ghastly marionette…

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Published: August 5, 2025 19:00

Deleted the last post about Trump and his arm "gesture." After watching the actual video it was less clear. The reporting did the euphemism of "gesture" and after the Elon sieg heil, it seemed worse than it was.

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Published: August 5, 2025 18:13

I wrote about the horrifying use of AI to resurrect the dead as hollow simulacrum puppeted by the living and why we should reject normalizing this as it dehumanizes the living and desecrates our humanity. …

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Published: August 5, 2025 16:57

Grok is now creating AI video deepfakes of celebrities such as Taylor Swift that include nonconsensual nude depictions. Worse, the user doesn't even have to specifically ask for it, they can just click the "spicy" option and Grok will simply produce videos…

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Published: August 5, 2025 14:12

I'm never get over the fact that this administration's war on trans people is being carried out with the pretext of "protecting women and girls" while the president is a pedophile rapist.

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Published: August 4, 2025 19:59

JD Vance started his heel turn after his movie got a bad reception. Every single one of these reactionary assholes is just grievance personified. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 4, 2025 15:46

This is the giant Canary in the coal mine of what AI will do to education. Improperly adopted, it will destroy critical thinking and educational attainment. For the oligarchs, this is a feature of AI, not a bug. …

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Published: August 3, 2025 23:39

This is a must read on how the ADL radicalized itself under Jonathan Greenblatt and became a deeply illiberal and authoritarian organization solely committed to censoring its critics and shielding Israel from criticism. …

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Published: August 3, 2025 21:41

The Orange County Mayor, which encompasses Orlando, signed an agreement to cooperate with ICE as he, along with the entire board of county commissioners, were threatened with removal from office if they didn't. They should've forced DeSantis to do it and…

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Published: August 3, 2025 16:53

Why can't they build with permits? Once you find out that answer, you realize it's a slow motion ethic cleansing in the West Bank using bureaucracy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 1, 2025 20:13

Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte signed the ban on gender affirming care for trans youth in New Hampshire becoming the first state in New England to do so. The state is motto is live free or die and it's clear they chose die for trans youth. …

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Published: August 1, 2025 19:21

And when demand never materializes for AI, it'll cause a full economic collapse. It'll make the dotcom bubble look a blip. Hello great depression 2! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: August 1, 2025 19:05

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not…

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Published: August 1, 2025 17:18

17 states have filed a lawsuit to stop the illegal intimidation of Healthcare providers to stop providing gender affirming care to trans youth. They're bringing APA and 10th amendment states right claims. …

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Published: August 1, 2025 14:12

The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban. The media is…

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Published: August 1, 2025 05:49

Suddenly, you start to realize why the Supreme Court is doing everything Trump wants. They basically got Amy Coney Barrett in line and bragged about it after she got threats. We have a mafia state that runs on stochastic Terror. [contains quote post or…

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Published: July 31, 2025 14:42

This is going to ruin so many cis women's lives. They had to end it in the 2000's because it resulted in women having their lives destroyed, partners leaving them, family disowning them etc. After some high profile suicides and attempts , they had to stop.…

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Published: July 31, 2025 13:58

DOJ put out a memo stating that all recipients of federal funding must ban trans people from bathrooms. https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1409486/dl?inline=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

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Published: July 30, 2025 22:40

This violates R.I. Gen. Laws § 11‑24‑2.3 on its face which provides protections for gender identity in public accommodations in Rhode Island. Brown University is openly admitting it will brazenly violate Rhode Island state law. I expect lawsuits will…

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Published: July 30, 2025 20:00

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/israel-gaza-war-children-death-toll/

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Published: July 30, 2025 17:36

The reason 1 of the elements of committing genocide was codified as "deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction" is because most genocides are from indirect deaths, not direct murders. If the disabled…

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Published: July 30, 2025 14:35

Seeing how badly mainstream media treated a victim of sex trafficking because she was trans reminds me why I didn't come out till 25. This shit becomes so internalized. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 30, 2025 01:30

Today is the day the Federalist society lost control of the monster they created. No longer will it be ideologically groomed movement conservatives put into the judiciary. It will be open fascists only loyal to Trump. The American legal system is well and…

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Published: July 29, 2025 23:33

Brianna Wu is seeing the writing on the wall and walking back her support of Israel due to their genocide. She had no problem calling the burning of Palestinian children a "gift to the world" but only now Israel has gone too far for her.

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Published: July 29, 2025 21:20

The fact that Harvard is seriously contemplating bribing a pedophile with $500 million while dismantling everything it previously stood for is seriously depressing. Every single one of our institutions are failing us.

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Published: July 29, 2025 19:14

Harvard has just informed all employees that DHS has sent a subpoena requesting access to all i-9 records for Harvard employees and that they turned them over to the Trump admin with some exceptions

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Published: July 29, 2025 18:54

The planet is burning and the arsonists in charge want to pour gasoline all over it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/29/epa-endangerment-finding-clean-air-act/

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