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I wrote about the #fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

I’ve tried to be as fair to Mamdani as possible. I’ve reached out, as have other journalists, several times. They’ve stonewalled us. It would go a long way if they could just say if they’re willing to direct H+H to absorb the patients, which is what she was asked about and she refused to say yes.

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.

Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.

A final note before I quit ranting: yes, I have trans people in my life. I've watched it play out in my own extended family & friend groups.

And I get that that matters. But it shouldn't, really. Your empathy & compassion should not be reserved for people you find familiar! All humans are human!

Here is a man with more simple moral integrity & courage that the vast bulk of Dem electeds & pundits.

Not one of these ghouls knows a trans kid, understands anything about the actual circumstances or humanity of trans kids, or gives a shit. To them, trans kids play a purely symbolic role: they are a Weak Other that can be abused as form of collective self-soothing. So fucking gross.

It is repulsive to me -- morally, aesthetically, politically -- on a scale that I genuinely don't know how to describe. It's just so deeply, deeply gross, to be so filled with weakness that you abuse other, weaker people to feel better. What a horrible kind of human, to do that, to *allow* that.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

I’ve long suspected this and it’s why I’ve been pushing for comment. Now it’s pretty much exactly as I thought.

“At the same time we have to protect what we’ve got”

Like… I’m glad they’re finally saying it. It’s an active decision to not direct this. It’s a capitulation. How can Mamdani be mad at NYU if his hospital system is making the same decision?

Listened to this at 6 minutes in or so. It’s not directly stated, but it appears the reason that Mamdani has not directed H+H to absorb trans patients is out of fear of the federal government. “It’s part of the game we have to play with the federal government .”

It’s the EXACT logic NYU is using.

"Karen has no criminal record. “I don’t even have parking tickets”, she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.”

So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? As Karen got to know the guards at the […]

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

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OMFG This is what T's BFF Putin is doing.

TWIBS: Girlguiding Assembles Team to Solve Self-Made Crisis — Assigned The UK girls scouting organization has put together a task force to figure out how they can support trans girls! Without… you know… letting them back in, or anything.

After banning trans girls from their organization, Girlguiding has set up a task force to figure out just what they can possibly do to support trans girls.
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Just to say it: sinking a ship on its way home from a friendly international exercise that we were also taking part in is such cowardice. I can't stop thinking about it. It makes everyone less safe in so many obvious ways.

The Central Lie of Prediction Markets Polymarket and Kalshi promise the wisdom of the crowds. They deliver something very different.

Wrote about the central lie of prediction markets. How they are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action becomes harder. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

A while back we were joking here about how a little over a year ago, some economist must've looked at a monkey's paw and said "I wish regular people appreciated textbook economics more."

Like he could've just come out of the White House every morning like a cuckoo clock, said something outrageous to make his base happy, then went to golf. And people would call him an economic genius because he grew gdp and tamed inflation. But here we are.

Stock market tanking again today and oil *way* up. What's crazy is Trump could've just rode out the current regression to the mean on inflation, combined with an apparent productivity boom. Instead, did the opposite of econ 101: kicked out workers, reduced immigration, started wars of choice.

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs Employees who are impressed with corporate jargon are less good at their jobs. News at 11.

Employees who are impressed with corporate jargon are less good at their jobs. News at 11. #Business https://werd.io/workers-who-love-synergizing-paradigms-might-be-bad-at-their-jobs/

South Korea approves creating a trans rights foundation South Korea has approved the creation of a foundation fighting to protect transgender people from discrimination.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 6 PinkNews
A court has ruled the repeated delays on approval to launch for a new non-profit that will protect trans South Koreans from transphobia--caused by a conservative member on an oversight board--was illegal and the organization can go ahead as planned.

This trans teacher has no choice but to leave Florida: 'I can't defend myself' Saoirse Stone says state policies have turned her daily life in an Orlando high school classroom into a series of quiet humiliations.

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The insanity of what it's like being a trans teacher under FL Don't Say Gay/Trans law where you can't use your correct name or pronouns with students or otherwise indicate that you're female while in school.

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action in Iran. When ignoring "don't know" respondents, 56% disapprove

Interesting: "No president in modern polling history has launched a major military operation with the public against him. After September 11, Gallup found 90% of Americans approved of military action. The 1991 Gulf War hit 79-80% approval. And 76% supported the 2003 invasion of
Iraq."

A senior scientist spammed a mailing list of most of the scientists in my field with his latest paper in a predatory publisher's journal with nonexistent peer review.

I replied to all with: "We’re going to rescind your PhD for publishing with MDPI."

He was not pleased. 😅

New Hampshire House Passes Trans Public Bathroom Ban That Bans "Asserting" Ones Identity The bill is more extreme than a recent one vetoed by the governor.

1. The New Hampshire House has passed a public building bathroom ban that says it is a violation of the state civil rights act for a trans person to "assert" their identity gives them access to a bathroom.

It bans them from public bathrooms across the state.

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Our Story Thus Far: Obama negotiates a treaty with Iran to not enrich nuclear material. They stop doing so. Trump cancels it, bec. it's Obama's. Iran starts enriching nuclear material again. Trump declares, "Iran is enriching nuclear material again--we must go to war to stop it" Did I miss anything?

Rogan Calls Trans People “Perverts,” Spreads School Shooting Lies On Show This week, on The Joe Rogan Experience: Steve-O and more anti-trans hate.

1. Yesterday, Joe Rogan called transgender people perverts and school shooters to his audience of tens of millions of people.

It was his most overt display of transphobia yet.

Democrats wanted to court this man and his listeners.

The latest from our journalist, S. Baum.