Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.
This is how the Cass Review worked. They were tasked with finding evidence to fit the conclusion they already held. There are so many who can see RFK for what he is but still think Cass is credible.
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
I wonder how much the NYT coverage of Harvard influenced recent decisions at Umich?
Impeachment now.
Still enraged by that Riley Gaines story, one in a line of in-soft-focus features of people who see harming others as a lucrative career. In the journalism world I stepped into 42 years ago, this would have been the headline and lede, not the 47th paragraph. The. 47th. Paragraph. I counted. 1/x
Nate Silver?
"White people when there's Lobster Butter Love at the function, am I right?" --19yo to her younger brother, getting a huge laugh. Bah. #a2council
People are trying to pretend RFK Jr used to be a reasonable person but I clearly remember referring to him as a "childhood disease enthusiast" when my kid was in elementary school and she's in college now.
Reality always tends to benefit the left. So unfair.
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when thereâs an emergency in Texas
The Nazi early prohibition on Jews from owning guns has been an NRA talking point for decades.
Does he know the UK isn't governed by the US Constitution?
This is a fascinating story: SEGM commissioned systematic reviews on gender affirming care, claimed they showed care should be banned, so the authors have released this statement saying their research is being misused and that it is unconscionable to ban gender affirming care:
A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."
Oh look. When you fight instead of capitulating, you can have your funding restored.
STPP asks our research assistants & experiential learning students not to use generative AI in their work with us. We created a one-pager explaining why the pitfalls of GenAI tools make them ill-suited for the partnerships and policy analysis that we do. stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/research/com...
Happening now at NatCon: âOVERTURN OBERGEFELLâ Theyâre coming for the right to same-sex marriage, as we knew they would.
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I canât live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.
Someone needs to do the math on the per-garbage-bag cost of using the National Guard to do groundskeeping.
For the record, he thinks this is idiotic. He's worried about the day there are doctors who haven't actually learned anything since middle school.
It's trickling down to HS kids, my 16yo reports other kids in his AP classes are using ChatGPT to do all their assignments, even during class. UM is going to let (or make) them use AI to do their work so why not?
As universities are pushing students to use generative AI for all kinds of things, even going so far as to call it an âethical responsibility,â I hope this will be a resource for people who supervise student workers and need to gently push back.
ive said this before but even well-intentioned cis people see transition as a luxury that is painful to revoke the rights for but not existential. i bet these hospitals would file lawsuits about this if it was about literally any other evidence-supported medical procedure
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95%
I've got unanswered emails out to the district on a variety of topics for the past two years. Don't hold your breath.
Bonjour from Detroit.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
"Just concede on the sports thing and then they'll leave you alone" is so shockingly naive I can't believe people are using it as a serious argument here.
No art class can make up for them abandoning trans kids.
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him â¤ď¸
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
BOOOOO.
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, âwe will protect your children from republicansâ is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we donât talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
What happens when he ties for 5th place? www.newschannel5.com/news/brad-ga...
It's totally different from anything you'd see here in the US. We spell "offense" with an s and "organization" with a z.
"Donald Trump has more felonies than there are trans athletes in America" isn't hard
I think thereâs only one sentence u need to understand Stephen miller, excesses and all, and that is: He is a Jew whose preferred immigration policy is an American law from the 1920s that famously made the holocaust deadlier and more dangerous for Jews
always a question of âwhat science counts to youâ but the destruction of the worldâs first trans clinic was in 1933 and most of the elimination program borrowed whole cloth from US jim crow pseudoscientific eugenics, so for sure, yeah the literal nazis did RFK shit.
I can
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender â 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender â 4,193. Hope that helps.
What if the author is deceased? My late father's book is on the list.
Swimmer Riley Gaines Admits She's Just Using Sports to Make Trans Rights "Crumble" www.them.us/story/ri... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Health officials under JB Pritzker, who is showing how to take on Trump, are moving forward. They're exploring buying vaccines in bulk themselves. Mass. Gov Maura Healey is in talks with multiple other states about coordinating purchasing of pediatric vaccines. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Elissa Slotkin is a very effective messenger. Shame itâs for the GOP.
Hell yeah!
Extremely proud to have a mayor who will take a second to defend innocent trans people even in this awful moment. A powerful contrast with the many moderate Democrats who abandoned trans people simply because they lost an election. Don't let the gun nuts scapegoat any minority; it's the guns.
you shouldn't just purge transphobes from power because it's the right thing to do you should purge transphobes from power because transphobia is the single greatest indicator of incompetence and mediocrity in modern society.
Family full of mood disorders for the win!!!
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: âAnybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any community out there has lost their sense of humanity.â
Lobbying: $59,000 Legal fees: $531,000 âOnly 10% of our activities were lobbying!â by the Library Grey Conspiracy #a2council
Brief đ§ľ, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factorsâbut motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
He's in shock.
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
The betrayal UM is committing goes beyond Michigan's borders. They should he ashamed. #protecttranskids
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16yo described to me what makes a "good" teacher: 1) Some discernible enthusiasm for the subject matter. 2) A brief individual interaction with each student by the end of the term. Shockingly, not all of the teachers at his school make the grade.
If someone in government knowingly and illegally compromises my SSN and I have my identity stolen, do I have grounds for a civil case? Asking for 300,000,000 friends.
When this is all over either we will all need new SSNs or we will never need them again.
See how quickly they go from "parents with concerns about sports" to "if you mention the existence of trans people you will lose federal funding"? This is why you don't negotiate with bigots.
Remember when all the really mature adults in the room said it would stop at bathrooms and sports and protecting the kids and that transphobes had legitimate concerns.
Financial Lesson #1: Don't spend $65K a year to "learn" on apps.
It's madness that this was ever a question, but it's a good outcome at least.
Buttigieg and other politicians know full well that the anti-trans laws and policies plaguing this country aren't because of concerned parents. They're because of a coordinated effort by Christian nationalists to chip away at our rights. It's no different from any other civil rights issue.
People have been answering this type of question for years now and the attacks on trans rights have just gotten worse.
I'm not implying, I am flat-out stating that parents with "concerns" about their daughters playing sports with trans girls should get the same reaction they would get if they had "concerns" about Black or Jewish players.
If either of my kids were Nazis I would consider my entire life a failure.
Taking the "concerns" of bigots seriously. It isn't about sports or bathrooms,to pretend there is any validity to the "concerns" just emboldens anti-trans people. For what other group would this be acceptable? "I know you don't want Black people in the pool and I hear your concerns"?
Ashamed once again of my alma mater. Michigan Medicine (UM) is ending all medical transition care for minors. For some reason they seem to think the first day of school was the appropriate day to drop the bomb. And they didn't notify pts/families before it hit the news. Just absolutely disgraceful.
University of Michigan just announced they're ending all transition-related medical and surgical care for trans kids 18 and under. I have to wonder how much Newsom and Buttigieg gave them political cover for the awful decision.
Will @dananessel.bsky.social do something?
Fuck.
She's a CHILD. These people are monsters.
Added bonus of bike racks: they make a low-stress place to practice parallel parking on a real street. (19yo is finally getting a license.)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
âI gave my life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lotâ sounds like the filthiest euphemism I have ever heard.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
a note on doctor james c dobson:
Someone in the umich genai department asked the AI âwrite me an argument to convince people to use this wildly expensive technology to justify my job and departmental budgetâ My counter advice for students: donât take a forklift to the gym to lift weights
âInfluential child-beating proponent, foe to interracial and gay marriage diesâ is the factual headline, not something to be alluded to and couched as âsome critics arguedâ seven paragraphs in.
Question: if my kid were just going to use ChatGPT to "learn" and "write" why would I pay UM many tens of thousands of dollars?
When you're mowed down by the fascist regime you'll take pride in knowing the weapons were made in Michigan.
She loves to talk about how she got involved in politics after her mom got sick but she can't connect the dots.
What in the actual fuck.
So the argument is we need to inspect the genitalia of every teenage girl in America, but the roving bands of armed thugs crashing into our houses must retain the sacred right of privacy.
3500sqft is amateur hour, the new one around the corner from me is 5100sqft!
Everything is unpacked, no sign of roaches but there was a giant hairy spider, big sister was kind enough to take care of it for him. Shudder.
Nothing like picking your kid up from band camp and being told there were roaches (ick) in the cabin so he's planning to unpack in the backyard and then wash everything. At least he's old enough to do all his own laundry.
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
I drove there, the streets are still there. What is she even talking about?
She was also arguing that kids shouldn't get free lunch at school, so there's that.
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I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
This breaks my heart. This is sexual harassment. This is traumatizing. TERFs and transphobes and everyone âjust asking questionsâ for âwomenâs safetyâ (this happened to a cis teenager) should be ashamed for the rest of their lives. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
More (?) importantly, this is the exact reasoning that John Roberts used to uphold Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors in June. The right says there's an issue; the NYT writes about it; lawmakers "debate" it; it becomes law; and Roberts says, "Well, there is a debate!"
The fact that he admitted to all these violations to explain away the fact that he himself contributed 2/3 of the Vote No money is kinda hilarious.
Reboot Anthony Bourdainâs âNo Reservationsâ but with Alan Dershowitz and the whole show is just enjoying him never getting food because heâs a querulous, joyless douche and heâs constantly demanding that the Laotian street vendor or whoever denounce Hamas before heâll try the khao jee
Alan Dersowitz was denied another pierogi.