I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now
The vacation special
so if we had a liberal outlet that took the nypost/fox approach to news you would have a field day with the "trump crime spree" narrative -- something that official dems mostly ignore, the msm downplays, and actually gets eyeballs *with the truth*
very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation
Here are the 11 potential expansion locations in blue, which could arrive as early as May.
Successful debut for the Minneapolis traffic safety camera pilot. Speeding down by half at a handful of intersections that had cameras installed.
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boy that's a war crime
Hey that’s me
This has been part of the trans-kids moral panic for years, gay adults going "If I grew up now, they'd convince me I'm trans."
If your movement had real evidence, you wouldn't be pointing to alternative-universe hypotheticals! Child psychologists know the difference between gay kids and trans kids
In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
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Activists attempt to impose social costs on people who voice reasonable misgivings about youth gender medicine. Someone added me to an online blacklist, so now when someone Googles me, one of the first hits is a page titled, “Ben Appel vs. Transgender People.” It includes personal details not only about me but also about my family members. It states falsely that I’m associated with an “anti-trans hate group.” To support my writing, I work in sales. At my former job, someone who disagreed with me on pediatric gender medicine contacted my employer’s CEO to report my journalistic work. This wasn’t a great way to meet the boss, but thankfully, my antagonist failed to get me fired.
Ben Appel is the author of Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic.
And of course we get the obligatory whining about how trans people are mean. Gee I wonder why they think you don't like them, Ben!
That’s what I was told would happen !
But I thought SF banned landlords from using AI software to illegally collude and set higher prices therefore ending the housing affordability crisis ???
The Pentagon is rapidly burning through its stocks of precision weapons at a rate that puts the U.S. military potentially “days away” from having to prioritize which targets to intercept, according to three people familiar with the matter.-WSJ
For most of the history of cars, turning right on red was illegal due to its obvious danger, since drivers looking to their left for oncoming vehicles can't see pedestrians in the crosswalk on their right. It should be again.
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
"They died so we could be free" is a stupid trope that gets it exactly backwards.
They died because we are free and because 77 million of us did not take the sacred bargain of our citizenship seriously. This isn't a game show--our votes have life or death consequences.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
Just remember this whole thing, and I mean *all of it* is because Trump couldn’t handle how much Obama made fun of him at that WHC dinner in 2011
They're calling it SuperBenghazi.
A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'
“In the process” is where we got stuck at like four years ago when the state tried to change and got told it would require an act of Congress
bibi is just descriptively correct and the next dem needs to just sever all ties with israel. defense, trade, all of it. even thinking on utterly cynical grounds: israeli political leadership and overall politics is overtly opposed to the american left-of-center project
The Secretary of Defense calling rules of engagement stupid should be an immediately impeachable, if not criminal, offense.
Jeet Heer: “it’s the lowest of low bars but Trump is doing more to rein in Israel than Biden ever did. This should spark introspection among Democrats, but won’t”. May 12 2025
I repost the infamous Caitoz ‘promise me’ post a lot but this from Jeet Heer is equally Louvre worthy imo
It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.
James Franco being executed by hanging. "First time?" he asks, as though he's been hanged before.
hey gen z welcome to republican governance
