or isn't aware that the dystopia part is already here for disabled people reliant on technology that is part of the Internet of Shit and therefore can be disabled remotely by companies when they're done supporting them.
Democrats watched Republicans get everything they wanted, no matter how illegal or immoral, for four terrible years under Trump.
Then when it was their turn, their leaders were so inept that they couldn’t even prevent it from happening again.
Nobody wants moderation anymore. They want results.
it’s very funny how the Senate Democratic leader — who btw consults an imaginary suburban family — couldn’t endorse the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor because Israel or whatever while actual, real suburban Americans are like “he is very handsome and charming and I agree with many of his policies”
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It's after midnight on the east coast, and that means today is my book day! BUTTERFLY EFFECTS is out in the world!
I am ecstatic, exhausted, and anxious, and so I am going to bed.
Since we're doing "saying writers should read is gatekeeping" again, I'll tell the tale of my friend whose dad wrote a book and truly believed it was going to be hailed as the best book of all time...bc he'd only read 2 novels in his life & was therefore "free from influence."
Spoiler: it was not!
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.
"The Price of Safety: Stories of Abortions Denied, Careers Disrupted, and States Left Behind" details the human and economic toll of abortion bans. The anthology uses stories from patients, doctors, business leaders, and others to show the real-world consequences of abortion bans.
“Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”
— Frankie Boyle
Censorship inside Israel is massive so the fact news of these Hezbollah successes is coming out is a big deal
Again cis folk if you can please do mutual aid
This potential draft is going to disproportionately affect American Indians, & AGAIN we are the community no one talks about when new policy like this gets tossed around. Once again, OUR communities are going to get torn apart by this. It is going to be hardest for us to fight back against.
Surely the President’s task force on antisemitism will be looking into this pronto to figure out how this could have happened.
Basically, Tucker Carlson made his squinchy face when talking about the Holocaust and they saw some reel by Nick Fuentes and this convinced them that the entire historical profession was lying to them. If only there was some historical precedent for entire nations embracing lies like this.
A modest proposal:
News media reporting on major developments in legal actions should include the case caption at the end of the article.
@masnick.com goes above and beyond in this article, with hot links to pdfs of filings.
But even if that’s not possible, just give people a case number!
AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?
Dead people can opt out?
Wow.
Love* to hear them explain how that works.
*hate
Journalists do your fucking jobs challenge eleventy billion and one
One thing we absolutely MUST demand from the Green and Liberal Democrat parties is trans-led inquiries. No more cis people checking the work of cis people. Trans people need to be empowered to directly punish our oppressors.
it's remarkable how we all decided facebook is for scams and low-grade propaganda and normalized quitting it, and yet people will treat it as a requirement for being alive that you have an account on facebook 2 (instagram)
So bsky.team, about that pronouns field that's been languishing unused in the profile lexicon for months now...
mass death on this scale is incomprehensible and we have to confront this reality honestly if we want our government to do what's needed to stop the deaths because they've decided to allow them to continue indefinitely; this is a policy choice
#bcpoli
www.kamloopsbcnow.com/watercooler/...
america is the land of opportunity. you could become a navy seal, and then even a US senator, and before you know it you’re breaking a marine veteran’s arm with no repercussions. greatest country on earth.
I wore this shirt from @reveleth.com's excellent Flash Forward podcast until it fell apart (the shirt, not the podcast), but I still repeat this message to myself every goddamn day
It’s day 98 of the ICE occupation of MN.
For almost 100 days, we’ve been doing everything we can to protect our immigrant neighbors. This is the next step to keeping our neighbors safe.
Call on Mayor Frey to sign the 60 day pre-eviction notice.
There's a conversational thing maga chuds do that I call motivated incuriosity.
They will say thing X, which to normal people is something very, extremely, cartoonishly, obviously connected to thing Y.
And then act incredibly confused frustrated when you bring up thing Y.
You've seen this.
You're like "don't you see that the ABA industry, regardless of target, is all about eroding children's rights?"
And they'll be like "you keep insulting me and accusing me of being a horrible person"
Which is *not* a normal person's reaction.
Here's an example:
ABA therapy was first done to autistic children, pioneered by Ole Ivar Lovaas. He was a nazi.
In 1974 he pivoted to creating the Feminine Boy Project, applying these torture techniques to develop conversion therapy for queer children.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Iva...
Same design. Zero utility.
