Translation: It sucks to be next to Idaho thanks to the GOP
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Translation: It sucks to be next to Idaho thanks to the GOP
Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom. In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.
🚨Governor Pritzker is calling Stephen Miller OUT! 👏🏻The👏🏻Cruelty👏🏻is👏🏻the📌
Republican Representative: My kid barely graduated and I need someone to blame!
This is important. I no longer work in academia but I know a lot of my followers do and I encourage you to make yourself heard. When the average time to PhD is 5.7 years, limiting incoming grad students to a 4-year visa is just shooting our scientific community in the foot.
Gibbons v. Ogden? The one where the US Supreme Court affirmed the fed govt's exclusive power to regulate interstate commerce under the Commerce Clause? Texas: Maybe, but it'll take years to work through the courts. Meanwhile the damage is done, so we win! 19thnews.org/2025/09/texa...
"War crimes are off the table" "We need to look forward, not back"
Hey, it takes time to write on those silent auction paddles, or hire a plane to fly over Mar-a-Lago when Trump's not there, or write a strong letter with 8 very strongly worded questions or have your staff post AI slop "in the style of Trump". And also they have book tours to go on!
Good God - why does it have to be Rand Paul saying the obvious stuff? Where the F are Democrats?
PSA: Christian Nationalism is an ideology. Transgender people are not.
If you're interested in why this summer was so cool along the coast, how I approach wildfire prediction, or my broader philosophy on climate communication, check my wide-ranging two-part conversation on West Marin Community Radio (KWMR)'s "Epicenter!" kwmr.org/post/17695
And yeah, thanks to Bill for his repositioning, but it's after years of anti-trans humor on the show.
Malcolm Gladwell Says He Was 'Cowed' Into Supporting Trans Athletes in Women's Sports Why do I have the worst feeling he's furiously typing out his new book? www.newsweek.com/malcolm-glad...
It's capitalism. So long as those seven can convince others, they can grow the bubble they invested in. One of the oldest cons in the Capitalism book.
"There are people" Yeah, but is it THOSE people? Those individuals? Or just people who to your eyes "look like them"?
"there are people" But is it THOSE People? Those exact individuals?
Gov Pritzker is a keeper.
🚨Governor Pritzker has no fucks. He is not playing games with the host in D.C. Chicago is not a piece on a board, it is a city - just like LA and DC. Rolling over is not an option.
Are Native Americans immune to all the forces and psychology that make MAGA what they are? Throughout history people have become the thing they fear in order to have some control over it. Others do it just because they are assholes. That man could be either one. Or both.
Forget what I said about Ro, apparently this is who he really is.
He has the mind of an angry child in control of the means to threaten people's lives.
WTAF? He has the mind of an angry child in control of the means to threaten people's lives.
Me: Hey, why do real estate listings never show the house empty any more? (I *loath* the AI tool that allows realtors to "populate" interior home photos with just a few clicks. They are always slightly off in proportion or perspective, just enough to be entirely distracting once noticed)
This is pure RFK Jr / Republican style eugenics. Because, it's not just children too young to be vaccinated who will suffer or/and die, it's also plenty of disabled people, too. It's the enactment of, "may only the strongest survive".
"I’m more than worried that a majority Democrats in the House will use the excuse of this being a spending bill to let the worst [ie racist, eugenic, anti-LGBTQ] parts of this legislation slide." That scares me. A lot.
What is your definition of a woman, please? And please don't make it reductionist and then try to claim to want to protect women.
How, exactly, would blue states do that? Individual and corporate taxpayers send their federal taxes directly to the IRS.
They're delirious, right? High on their own supply of power?
Just a reminder that YouTube is complicit in the Republicans' attempts to eliminate vaccines and other forms of modern medicine from America. (YT deleted the entire channel of hundreds of videos) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reagan's "trickle down" economics (along with many of his other policies) were based on a set of policies given him by Heritage Foundation called Mandate for Leadership. Today we know the current version as Project 2025.
Alberta is implementing a schools policy of requiring parental permission to use a name other than the one on a student's birth record. Also? "Danielle" is not Premier Smith's "real" first name; that would be Marlaina. Like so many US Republicans, she expects everyone to call her by her nickname.
When you build a supercomputer that is so complex it can't even do the one thing computers excel at doing. Sure, we all laugh. But what if they're really being used to scrape and aggregate everyone's personal info, and the search engines are just a front so no one takes them seriously.
This is why I don't use search engine AI. It's not like it's going to get some things right, and some things wrong, *and know the difference*.
This is mercantilism as wielded by a narcissist. bsky.app/profile/fran...
Microsoft further clarifies that its Windows 11 telemetry – diagnostic data taken from computers running its OS – doesn't show any evidence of an increase in drive failures. www.techradar.com/computing/wi...
This entire thread feels like how social media used to feel. It's okay to take a break sometimes and just talk about normal things. Highly recommended.
The media is like what the kids call an NPC. It only responds to certain preplanned stimulus, like WH or corporate press releases. Sometimes press releases from NPO's but only under certain conditions.
Um, won't the Republicans who control Congress and many of whom voted to overthrow the election in 2020 just ignore that he's flat out violating the Constitution? That's sorta what they do, right?
"Historically accurate mural about the Ohlone Native Americans' brutal annihilation by Spanish missionaries which has graced the corner of 41st Street and Piedmont Avenue for 20 years is slated to be painted over by property management after a complaint about nudity" www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea...
Also, you know, the times he disappeared for medical reasons last term & without passing control to VP Mayo.
ICE Is Draining Funds From FEMA (note: this has been a bipartisan practice. We need a true opposition party, not the current national Democratic Party if we are to stop fascism) jacobin.com/2025/08/ice-...
What is happening is an AI enhancing tool made up detail from nothing. You cannot create data from nothing. At best an AI can do is provide an output of what might be there given many photos of faces and internal rules, similar to how our visual system fills in the gaps missing from images.
If you take mercantilism and tighten the focus from enriching the nation's GDP to only enriching its narcissist leader plus a select few oligarchs, and if instead of exploiting colonies it exploited its own people, you might end up with America under Trump. Mercantilism, btw, is tool of fascism.
"if they's already failed a GOP target." s/b "if they've already failed to protect a GOP target" Not sure what went wrong, usually I don't make *that* bad of a mess of things.
I eagerly await the day they see their choice to go AI as a sunk cost. I'm guessing it'll happen shortly before they're bought by a private equity.
Hey, maybe he could use those cops to protect people in hospitals instead! calmatters.org/health/2025/...
"As he publicly mocks Trump's threats to deploy law enforcement in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is surging law enforcement resources across the state" calmatters.org/politics/202...
Dems have shown that trans hate is not bipartisan. However, national Dems also decided ~2 years ago that they were going to throw away fighting for civil rights if they's already failed a GOP target.
How will Target's new CEO fix the damage done by ending DEI? By rearranging the deck chairs. “Reclaim merchandising authority, deliver an elevated experience with well-stocked shelves and clean stores, and use AI and tech to move faster and more accurately." therobinreport.com/heres-what-m...
"if Democrats too decide that transgender people can be sacrificed for political gain—the result will not be a lesser evil. It will be a political consensus that our rights are gone, and that outcome could be even worse.” www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/acti...
"Trump administration cancels $679 million for offshore wind projects" You know that wind power project slated for ~25 miles offshore of Eureka, CA? $427 million of the cancelled funds were to go to Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/t...
1 anecdotal data point: 3 years, E + Spiro only. 2nd wave of growth at 5 yrs.
For future reference “the impact of gender-affirming care on payer budgets has remained nominal even as national trends in coverage policies have made this care more accessible to transgender people.” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... (from: www.washingtonblade.com/2025/08/31/t... )
Here it comes. (warning, right wing site) dallasexpress.com/national/rep...
That entire strategy is why his tactic was a losing one. He's trying to portray himself as a counter to Texas, yet the methods and tactics he's choosing are either bound to fail or will only partially accomplish the goal. Let's see how it plays out, hmm? Let's see how he campaigns for the measure.
Headline from less than a month ago: "Paramount to pay Trump $16m to settle 60 Minutes lawsuit" "Trump asserted that CBS had wronged him with its editing of the Harris interview." This is when the Fourth Estate becomes the Fifth Column. knightcolumbia.org/blog/paramou...
"Kraft Heinz is betting that two separate units would worth, in total, more than the company's roughly $33 billion market value" Reading various analysis and I'm convinced analysts exist in a bubble where all change must be celebrated as an opportunity for greater profits.
Ooof, I forgot that one. Thank you. Makes sense, his dad was a hedge fund lawyer.
When Maher was leaving PBS for Fox, they did an exit interview. They asked how he could shift perspective so sharply and completely. His answer was that he's really a sort of actor and "this is all just a gig to me".
Do you mean he should lose his job or are we talking, "burn it, burn it with fire"? Because, yes.
If Newsom was really fighting he wouldn't take such an incremental approach, he'd grab all 9 possible seats. All he's doing is countering Texas; what if another red state redistricts?
"strategy is take 5 seats outright and then position good highly electable, carefully selected Dem.candidates in the other four and heavily fund them in '26, " That's bringing a spoon to a gunfight. Centrist Democrats honestly do not know how to fight back and they will not be the ones to save us.
"Trump Blocked By Judge Hours Before Deporting 600 Unaccompanied Children" Go ahead, try to tell me this doesn't smell like a child trafficking ring. crooksandliars.com/2025/08/trum...
Could be worse. A lot worse.
Too bad Gavin is doing a half-assed job of it. His proposed gerrymandering only grabs five seats instead of the possible 9. What happens if, I dunno...another red state follows Texas' lead?
Or Canadian provinces.
He's so bad in so many ways, but to acknowledge that we are mistreated and it raises suicide rates and then to go on in the same conversation and denigrate us is just evil. That he's being pushed hard this early by the DNC tells a lot about their values, too. He's their golden boy for 2028.
You *do* know that detrans people can still identify as not the sex/gender they were assigned at birth...right? Some detrans when they figure out it's not who they are. Others feel they can't fight the world and give up trying. Still others detrans to put it on hold for a bit till they can do it.
He's, "looking into it"? Why does this feel like another, "we're going to take the slow route almost surely destined for failure so we can say we're doing something to fight fascism"?
Yes! It's infuriating that he's showing right wingers that yes, we are a very vulnerable population, and also it's okay to attack us and strip us of basic equality and health care.
As Heritage Neocons, they expect private equity will buy the private companies who might replace the nat'l healthcare system. And then do what private equity does. In other words, they don't care. Yes, they lied. It's what they do. What they've always done. People should really stop trusting them.
Important to remember: There is the public part of the rolls that anyone can ask for, and the private part that reveals sensitive data. The DoJ is "asking" for it all. Has he threatened to pull all federal funding yet if they don't comply with another of his illegal schemes?
Newsom has so many flaws. Anti-trans bigotry, anti-homeless bigotry, killed solar in CA, that whole weird collaboration with Don Jr.'s wife to rework Gavin's image, the courting of far right republicans. I have no doubt that many of the accounts pushing for Newsom online are DNC stooges & toadies.
I've already said what I need to say about Newsom's stance on trans ppl & why it will fail in this short 🧵. but can I just add, as a long time Californian & Bay Area resident, I'm convinced that this online push for him 3 years out from Dem primaries is 100% astroterfed... bsky.app/profile/juli...
He completes the transphobic talking point and then starts talking about how open mindedly he's considering the trans issue and the opinions he previously dismissed entirely because they come from people he's characterizing as raging homophobes for a whole minute. bsky.app/profile/illc...
Newsom: I don't know much about it, it's all so confusing. It's not like I'm the governor of the 5th largest economy in the world and have the resources to learn about it. But I'll tell you this: [spews right wing talking points like there's no tomorrow and is sure to throw in some genuine emotion].
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
Is Putin really a world leader in any sense, though? Russia borders China; getting along helps both of them. Putin invaded Ukraine & it's drained his armed forces & economy; neither were world leading to start with.
I have a 1982 Heathkit robot in the garage and I'm so incredibly disappointed that their behaviors are nearly identical. I've come to grips with the lack of flying cars in this future but I really thought robots would be far more advanced by now. Instead we have big versions of toys selling bananas.
And if he gets away with it, that makes him all the more attractive to GOP voters.
Is it like this is other countries, ones where healthcare is not treated like a free market commodity?
The funny thing is, people are so enamored with tech they think this is new and cool but out in the garage I have a Heath-Zenith robot from 1982 that can do this same task the same way.
How did it "work" if they, a) did not accomplish what they set out to do and, b) caved for the 2nd special session, showing the nation they won't really fight until they win?
If it comes to that, I wish your family luck.
Not to mention that another part of the MO is that Trump knows courts move slowly, and his courts will allow his threats to stay in place until the case is finally decided. All too often by then the damage is done. For instance, most hospitals can survive maybe two months without federal funding.
How's that mechanism work? When you pay your federal income taxes, do you pay the state or do you pay the IRS?
Overtly taking a neutral position on something like this IS supporting Trump.
Yeah, actual immigration as in "live there and make a living and maybe support one's family". Not vacationers or day trippers.
Tell that to the trans kids who cannot get heath care because nearly every major hospital has caved to Trump's extralegal demands to stop providing it or lose federal funding, even in states with laws prohibiting them from doing so.
A surprising number of a certain class of NPO's don't really want volunteers under their current structure but know that volunteers donate more money.
Well, they have to offer competitive rates if they want competitive people, or something like that. OT, but literally all of our top local gov't jobs are like that, too. What we end up with is really greedy people running the local gov't. A fair number of NPO's are like that, too.
It's one parent, really. Julie Carter. Who isn't really a parent of a student, she's a grandparent. She claims having a trans teacher "doesn't respect Yup’ik tradition". Yup'ik language is non-gendered & two spirit people are part of Yup'ik tradition. alaskawatchman.com/2025/08/29/t...
They don't need to be laws; he'll just coerce his targets to comply by threatening to withhold federal funding. Works pretty much every time.
I'd love to see you and her go a few rounds of formal debate about feminism or women's lives in America.
I mean, if the SCOTUS says Trump can do no wrong, then the entire Executive Branch can do no wrong if he tells them to do it. THAT IS THE DANGER OF WHAT THE COURT DID. Who is going to stop them? They won't stop until crowds rise against them. But we've been told for years that's what they want.
Almost as if the old-school proclamation that Autistics didn't have empathy was projection. Theory of Mind is really just a mirror; in a culture of very similar people, they assumed they could read each other's minds, intent and feelings. Yet it's missing when they try it on us & vice-versa.
Page not found – Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Say, when did ANTHC purge their site of all pages & documents that mention the term, "two-spirit"? There used to be a number of them, now a site search still has them cached but returns only 404 when viewed. anthc.org/wp-content/u...
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