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just a girl, standing in front of a dumpster fire, begging it to entertain me | once described as a “pert little anticapitalist” by an angry man in an email | extremely reluctant academic

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Which is how we know they are unserious…

06.03.2026 16:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The only way to see this as “unexpected” is to completely miss the relationship between economic policy and job growth… which seems like it should be the bare minimum of what any economist should know?

06.03.2026 13:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unexpectedly?!

06.03.2026 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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One Year On: 13 people on the ruling that changed their lives On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned at birth. Forget the rage-bait headlines and attempts to divide us through...

my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

05.03.2026 10:47 👍 285 🔁 109 💬 7 📌 15
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The Wildest Frat Party on Campus? Prediction Markets Kalshi and Polymarket pour money into deals with social-media influencers and students, who try to parlay rumors, insider info into cash.

I am zero percent surprised that "predictions markets" are focusing on fraternities as an audience. The thing that doesn't make sense is how these don't violate insider trading regulations or fall under gambling statutes.

06.03.2026 11:28 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

05.03.2026 15:06 👍 463 🔁 240 💬 38 📌 178

I read that as the United States of Israel at first…

04.03.2026 23:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Florence ICE detainee dead after tooth infection, Chandler official says A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth, a local official in Chandler

Haitian asylum seeker Emmanuel Damas, 56, died at a Scottsdale, AZ hospital Monday, while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, after struggling to receive timely care for a worsening toothache: @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 03:18 👍 194 🔁 101 💬 12 📌 8
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Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.

04.03.2026 19:42 👍 241 🔁 139 💬 19 📌 40

God that broken straight man death drive is really shining right now…

04.03.2026 15:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It” A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

04.03.2026 15:04 👍 59 🔁 51 💬 13 📌 9
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Maybe men are lonely because they're trained to be assholes | LOLGOP Studios Get more from LOLGOP Studios on Patreon

The locker room talk wasn’t empty bluster. It was the operating system of men who had learned to treat girls and women as props for their pleasure or their humiliation, and to call that friendship.

04.03.2026 12:28 👍 135 🔁 34 💬 7 📌 0
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Two of the most respected OGs in the game. No endorsements, no commercials, no jingles, no rebrands. Just showing up consistently in tha candy bowl by the receptionist for decades. First Ballot Hall of Famers.

04.03.2026 09:59 👍 481 🔁 33 💬 21 📌 3
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades, blasting through a coral reef and dredging up sediment that could smother acres of coral, federal scientists say. https://wapo.st/4r7kRAU

04.03.2026 00:00 👍 100 🔁 66 💬 11 📌 14

If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) you’re probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, y’know?

03.03.2026 20:45 👍 763 🔁 104 💬 14 📌 11
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#Indiana legislators passed a law giving Governor Mike Braun his own personal military unit. ONE Republican dissented. @madvoters Kaitie Rector explains.

Full episode at progressiveindiana.net/p/this-week-at-the-indiana-statehouse-be3

03.03.2026 22:01 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Every trans woman I know has had "why not be an effeminate man?" shoved in our faces for ages and yet thus piece suggests that even once suggesting an effeminate boy might be trans is some sort of crime against humanity.

This is transphobia.

03.03.2026 19:51 👍 2684 🔁 485 💬 28 📌 16
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Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

Absolutely extraordinary people doing god's work in Springfield, Ohio.

03.03.2026 22:06 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Really excited to find out how this is, inevitably, the fault of women

02.03.2026 23:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is what the genocide was for…fuck them all

02.03.2026 23:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"In Amerika the VOID screams into YOU."

02.03.2026 20:06 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The majority of public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a survey released Monday by Gallup in partnership with the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Walton Family Foundation. https://cnn.it/4u32y2H

02.03.2026 17:00 👍 106 🔁 57 💬 17 📌 17
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Welcome to Gavin's Priors! A crowdsourced project that feeds the @heygavin bot on Bluesky's posts about Gavin Newsom's finest moments. The brainchild of @nora.zone and @sesmith.lol. When the bot pulls your contribution, it wil...

Now more than ever @heygavin.bsky.social needs your help to grow big and strong! Contribute to our stockpile of Gavin Newsom Facts so we can launch this bad boy with a robust back catalog.

02.03.2026 00:00 👍 51 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 4
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Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

https://mrf.lu/SBqs

02.03.2026 20:30 👍 17 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
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An Inside View of Why NYT’s Trans Coverage Has Been So Bad A former New York Times editor affirms that the paper's fearmongering, pseudo-scientific, anti-trans coverage is a response to directives from the top.

fair.org/home/an-insi...

02.03.2026 14:54 👍 269 🔁 44 💬 1 📌 0

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

01.03.2026 15:25 👍 5652 🔁 1703 💬 199 📌 73

Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.

01.03.2026 13:38 👍 903 🔁 332 💬 13 📌 12

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

28.02.2026 18:53 👍 23559 🔁 5963 💬 142 📌 66

It’s also a good example of how the Right loves to take little mantras from the self-help world and turn them into policies of destruction…

28.02.2026 18:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Live updates: Israel confirms attack on Iran with US help as explosions are heard in Tehran Israel launched a daylight attack Saturday on Iran's capital, with a cloud of smoke rising from the city's downtown near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

BREAKING: Iran’s Red Crescent says Israeli-U.S. airstrikes across Iran have killed 201 people and injured 747, according to Iranian state TV.

Follow AP's live updates for more.

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