Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz

so, we're keeping our objectives limited to regime change, assassinating their entire gov't, choosing their next leader, destroying their uranium enrichment program, encouraging a popular revolution, encouraging a kurdish insurgency, and blowing up girls schools. got it.

Four More Books Banned from All Utah Public Schools; 27 Now Banned Statewide Utah banned four more books from all public schools this week, bringing the number of state-sanctioned book bans to 27.

Yesterday, the state of Utah banned four more books, bringing the number of state-sanctioned book bans to 27. These have to be removed from every public library.

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At most, three scientists, the total sum of the “some” saying yes, per the headline of this WaPo piece. All are sketchy, as Willingham details, & none of them have published anything close to establishing mechanisms for “preventing cases” of autistic people. Full takedown in the TPGA Newsletter. 6/6

Tantalizing if you’re into “staving off” a human condition that has, through insistence of self-advocates and allies, led to a genuine, positive shift in attitudes, understanding, and acceptance about how People Should Be in schools, workplaces, and social settings. 3/

It takes me entire books to express the combined sadness and rage I feel reading eugenicist, dangerous, dehumanizing nonsense like this (the WP article), after spending my day working with and parenting amazing, worthy, autistic people.

Religious freedom is a founding principle of this nation, and the First Amendment expressly prohibits the establishment of a state religion.

Any military officer who claims otherwise should be removed from the chain of command.

Connor Storrie and Katherine Hahn at awards show and she’s in black and glasses and holding his face like look at you, you treasure; he’s in a diamond choker

Gay student and English teacher

Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire.

That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players.

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Woman who attended SOTU to highlight her arrest without cause arrested without cause at SOTU.
““I just stood up. I stood silently, with no signs. I was not blocking anyone’s view of the hall. And then I was arrested.”

I have to try and forcibly remind myself that it's two things at once - that we hate Trump and his cronies not just because it's fun to dunk on the mad king for clicks, but because we love the people he is hurting and our anger is on behalf of the vulnerable, which makes it sacred and honorable

My Kind of Trouble: A Novel A Novel

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Final day, still need romcoms to avoid spiraling after calling my reps

Per NYT:

"The Department of Defense is calling these strikes 'Operation Epic Fury.'" 😐

Please call your reps. And then scream into a pillow over the fact we have man children creating geopolitical chaos in the Middle East.

In answer to some queries: this is not a joke, Melania Trump actually is presiding over a UN Security Council meeting Monday, and apparently they scheduled that knowing they were going to launch an illegal war on Saturday morning

-Zero Congressional consultation or approval.
-Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war.
-Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year.
-Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."

Book Bans ‘Kill Creativity,’ Sow Self-Doubt in Authors For the past few years, author Charlotte Sullivan Wild has been working on a picture book about an LGBTQ+ family who learns to cope with one member’s deployment to the military. The story is inspired…

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

This sounds incredible! Congratulations!!🎉

The women just keep winning

Every time a fascist takes office, they do increasing damage to this country's ability to fight off fascism. Look at the difference between 2016 and 2024.

The fascists are learning. If our leaders won't, they are advocating for eternal fascism.

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closeup of the tote bag print

THIS BAG IS DEFINITELY NOT FULL OF CATS!

my latest totebag design! a versatile bag that can hold, your books, portable videogames, supplies and... maybe cats??

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With a full PowerPoint of emails detailing how they actively excluded women from power while keeping a few sufficiently fuckable ones around as a smokescreen

😻😻😻

Thank you for asking.

It’s so weird to me what it implies about gender/sexual power dynamics if it’s truly seen as just the standard. I just don’t (want to) believe that of many of these characters, like on a craft level. But idk I was raised to never say good girl/boy to a child so maybe it’s not as deep for others lol.

You get it

I have more

- slut shaming is still slut shaming even if the character is male
- there is a difference between “gruff” and obnoxiously rude
- female leads who are only rude to other women aren’t assertive they are misogynists
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If I hear another “good girl” from a random ass guy where that hasn’t been the dynamic at all and doesn’t reveal any progression in an arc istg

Spice scenes should be CHARACTER SPECIFIC—either what they get up to or what they reveal should tie into the characters/story—not just pausing the book and pressing play on the same basic scene over and over where they all have the same light kinks for no reason

OOP

I love a cinnamon roll hero which is why I make my heroines unhinged unlikeable morally grey menaces, but with another bland self insert? BORINGGG