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Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Really does seem like they just got excited about assassinating Khamenei Friday night and then forgot to plan step two.

Kansas Secretly Spent Years Making a List of Trans Residents. Today, the State is Taking Their IDs. An investigation from Transitics has revealed that, under a Democratic governor, Kansas built a list of the state's trans people. Now, Republicans are weaponizing it to revoke their IDs.

An investigation from Transitics has revealed that, under a Democratic governor, Kansas secretly built a list of the state's trans people.

Today, Republicans just weaponized it to revoke their IDs.

transitics.substack.com/p/kansas-sec...

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

I will go back to Target when they launch their new FUCK ICE FUCK TRUMP FREE PALESTINE collection, with all proceeds going to ARM THE DOLLS 501c3, their bathrooms are ALL GENDER and they stop selling Jordan Peterson books.

oh yikes

ok I'm gonna regret this but how exactly does somebody be racist about pottery???

Here's a discourse grenade for this website in particular:

Left and center leaning pundits (and posters, where there is a line) spend far too much time talking about what right wing ones are saying and doing to influence events, rather than trying to build their own influence.
It is reactionary.

(1) Seeing Singal sucking up to Bouie like “ah did the mean trannies hurt you” is disgusting.

(2) Seeing people be abusive to Bouie is disgusting. He is an opinion columnist. Most insulated from management meddling you can get at a newspaper. He uses that position very effectively. For good.

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And that's not even getting into how fucking twisted people get about Ukraine or the Uighurs. Look, you do not have to hand it to Russia or China to say "Naw, it's wrong that Netanyahu is getting his wish list". You can say "it would be good if the IRGC was gone."

The whole fucking American exceptionalism of "America is the Great Satan" but from the left is painful and one of the reasons I have ended up in a weird political position. IRGC is in fact, evil, just like Hamas, just like Likud, just like the GOP. We are not uniquely evil here.

A lot of Americans overcorrected the Team America: World Police shit by being all, "Well unless the US government is the evil one it's really none of my business" and like... that is also a bad stance to take

There is a pretty visible right wing radicalization pipeline happening for Iranians, the same way it has happened for Israelis and Jews, and like… one way to arrest it is by recognizing that the Islamic Republic really is very bad and kills its own people in massive numbers

Who’s Deciding Where the Bombs Drop in Iran? Maybe Not Even Humans. Behind last week’s scrum between the Trump administration and Anthropic lies a deeper question of how warfare is conducted—and whether accountability even exists anymore.

Truly dystopic.

"we are witnessing the fullest expression of the most inhumane weapons of the century: Autonomous bombs and missiles. Their “autonomy” refers to fact that humans need not be in the loop in any meaningful way when deciding where to target or whether to launch such weapons."

there is no metric by which this is true. even 2028 primary polling (which is meaningless in general but seems like a fair yardstick here) doesn’t have him on top.

just a brazen attempt to impose him on us by the rich and the commentariat.

Is it the best-preserved crinoid? No, definitely not.

Is it the *best* crinoid fossil? Possibly.

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate of Geosciences.

5/10

Ansari is Iranian-American, and probably the only person in congress justified in leading with Iran Bad. Overall it's a pretty good statement for a normie Dem.

And please don't harangue Iranians who are celebrating. We all can understand people singing "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" when a tyrant falls.

Yes, even though their future is uncertain and missiles are still falling from the sky. All of us would do it. People live for today.

I think this is definitely true. That, and also for other people they instead find their limits re: "trying to change things from the inside" vs. moral injury

May the palaces of UAE shatter - shaped from stolen Sudanese gold, relying on exploited and beaten migrant labourers, built on the betrayal of normalization, and marketed for the gluttonous global elite who will quickly abandon Emirati capital as quickly as they evacuated Burj Khalifa today.

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

“Flawed economic models mean the accelerating impact of the climate crisis could lead to a global financial crash, experts warn.”

“Recovery would be far harder than after the 2008 financial crash, they said, as ‘we can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks’.”

#ClimateCrisis #UrbanTruth

bluesky clippy: hey there! you seem to be mad at something but not the person you’re yelling at. would you like some help self-regulating?

Map showing bar graphs of all major CA reservoirs. Most of them are above or at historical averages for the date.

Most reservoirs are running at or above historical averages thanks to that science. A decade ago they wouldn't have been able to retain so much water this late in the season. But since forecast error went from 33% to 3% with lidar, we can hold onto more drops now!
cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/Resco...

Fish Doorbell – It's almost here! — The Fish Doorbell Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel dan opent onze sluiswachter de sluis en kunnen de vissen doorzwemmen.

FISH DOORBELL IS BACK ON MARCH 2!!!
visdeurbel.nl/en/

Turns out, human doctors, must UNDERSTAND things like symptoms. They don't just memorize them and regurgitate some approximation of knowledge.

The significance of this is often underestimated.