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Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

every time AO3 goes down I see people saying they lost their writing. never write on AO3 itself- that writing can be lost at any time. there are free word processors out there. USE A WORD PROCESSOR and save to your own device(s). I use an ancient version of OpenOffice. it does everything I need.

The whole right wing movement is animated by 1 conspiracy theory: that white people are all secretly in agreement with them, and are being suppressed by a woke conspiracy

Miller and ICE occupations, Carr/Ellison and right wing media, DOGE and USAID, it's all looking for the off switch for the woke

One of the craziest things about Musk-era twitter is that because linking to anything is penalized by the algo, no one uses links and you have NO IDEA where any of the info you see is coming from. It's madness!

it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal

Largely fears over cancel culture among elites are likely motivated by the fact that they truly believe that their status and wealth should shield them from certain moral or ethical standards. Pretending it is anything else is delusional at this point.

I hope these messages Alysa is trying to get out here are hitting athletes who need to hear them, but I hope they’re hitting coaches & parents & admins even harder

yes, spread the word 💜💚

Bad ass Leila Edwards, in a blue USA jersey holds a hockey stick. A quote from Laila Edwards about leaving a legacy and inspiring young Black girls is displayed beside her.

A Black woman won an Olympic gold medal today! Her name is Laila Edwards. She's is the first Black woman to win an Olympic hockey gold medal in Team USA history. 👏🖤

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent the department's powers from being abused for political purposes.

Trump has turned the Department of Justice into his own personal vendetta machine. And Pam Bondi has been happy to go along for the ride.

We're witnessing the most egregious politicization of the DOJ in recent memory — and I lived through the Nixon years. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana...

Anyway I wrote about "The Music Man" and maybe was a little mean about Hugh Jackman.

Can’t believe we are still doing this

She fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away??

I don't believe in hell but I kind of wish I did rn

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!

The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

GORGEOUS

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

I had a great aunt we called Aunt Sherry whose real name was Rose. she had a brother everyone called Uncle Dutch, I have no idea what his birth name was. Their brother Aleck had two daughters, my Aunt Doody (real name Edra Lee) and Aunt Bird (again, no idea what her birth certificate says)

The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.

Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Every couple of years there's a male skater who clearly gets lauded as the Great Straight Hope and it's a real bummer.

I love the endless creativity of human resistance in the face of adversity, I fucking swear

Hey fun fact my husband posted this how to flyer to Reddit, he's a dreamboat and I love him and ALSO HE'S RIGHT FUCK THIS SHIT RETURN YOUR RING CAMERA

Stick it to ICE and Amazon at the same time 🥰💛

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Epstein pressed billionaire media mogul to influence coverage, files reveal Epstein leveraged ties with Mortimer Zuckerman to try to steer tabloid's coverage of abuse allegations.

"After Epstein reached out to Zuckerman, the then-owner of the Daily News, the tabloid first delayed its coverage of the allegations and then omitted details that the late financier had specifically requested be left out, according to the documents."

The text says: “JIM CROW 2.0: The “SAVE” Act is voter suppression in disguise. This impacts ALL of us, especially: -150 Million Americans without a passport. -Seniors who are less likely to have access to their birth certificates. -Students frequently moving, facing a prove residency nightmare. -Members of the Military trying to make their voice heard in the country they serve. -Victims of Natural Disasters or those with lost documents. -Immigrant communities targeted for exercising their basic rights. -Call 833-346-1779 Tell your senators to vote NO on the SAVE Act.

While Americans struggle with real issues, Republicans are wasting time on a voter suppression bill that would block millions of people from voting. They're not trying to save America—they're trying to take OUR power to keep theirs. Call your MOC: #StopTheSaveAct
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Bovino sent this email at 3:11 p.m. on Oct. 4.

This is what the scene looked like at 2:48 p.m. when the first group of feds made their exit. They gassed people again at 3:27 p.m.

So during this attack, Bovino congratulated his guy who kicked everything off by shooting a woman five times.

RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say Newly revealed emails undermine Kennedy’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of deadly measles outbreak

Three members of Congress and the governor of Hawai'i, a medical doctor who responded to the measles outbreak in Samoa, are calling for RFK Jr's resignation. Emails now reveal he lied under oath about his antivax role in those 83 deaths.