@kittystryker
author, "Love Rebels: How I Learned to Burn It Down Without Burning Out" | post-apocalyptic lovelord | social justice arcane trickster | anarchist cat valet | #bigbadcon 's familiar | miss.kitty.stryker at gmail
"...school instruction must "Describe the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on United States democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election."
Sen. Markwayne Mullin's new role could grant him leeway to control how detained immigrants receive reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare.
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
if i was Kristi Noem i simply would not quote Orwell
today on @theflytrapmedia.com a banger (pun extremely intended) from @sesmith.lol on the censorship of sex workers and how the algorithm and payment processers screw (pun extremely intended) with their hard-earned $$
He fired Kristi Noem while she is speaking live. Lmao
A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy
A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image
He clearly hasn’t been bullied enough
Can’t wait for Ben’s “ex-gay” grift alongside Milo!
It was in those spaces, in the late 2010s, that I realized that the fundamentalist Christians I’d grown up with weren’t the only people enforcing rigid ideas about how others should think. After arriving in New York with mainstream Democratic views, I took classes heavy on critical theories that fixated on identity categories and reflexively decried capitalism and the West. Within influential LGBTQ organizations, gay rights had given way to radical queer politics, and academic theories about sex and gender had hardened into doctrine. Widespread revulsion toward Donald Trump had narrowed the boundaries of permissible discussion on the left. The more Trump and his followers opposed something, the more we were supposed to support it. The prevailing view was that any debate within our side would become ammunition for the right.
For a long time, I feared that if I didn’t keep my thoughts to myself, I would lose the only community I’d ever really belonged in. As controversy flared up nationally about pediatric gender medicine, though, I started voicing concerns, rooted in my own experiences, over what looked to me like a rush to medical treatment. For all the sloganeering about protecting trans kids, I heard no discussion about protecting effeminate gay boys from unnecessary medicalization. When I and others asked whether progressive norms might be nudging effeminate gay boys to think of themselves as girls, no one wanted to hear it. Instead of answers, we were given the LGBTQ community’s official line. “Gender identity and sexual orientation are two different things,” the Human Rights Campaign asserts. But the confidence with which people claim that the two have nothing to do with each other is hard to square with research findings: According to data collected mostly before the recent surge in pediatric-dysphoria diagnoses, most prepubescent children who experienced gender distress went on to experience same-sex attraction and ultimately did not pursue a gender transition. Of 70 adolescents whom Dutch clinicians subjected to puberty suppression from 2000 to 2008, the overwhelming majority were attracted exclusively to people of their biological sex.
Straightforward right-wing agitprop. The idea that thousands of kids were pushed into gender-affirming surgeries because the left shuts down debate is a laughable conspiracy theory. The overwhelming social pressure is to be cis, not trans!
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.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.
Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.
Democrats had two years to fix this.
Surveys based on random samples & Catholic/Church of England data show churchgoing in Britain hasn't returned to pre-pandemic levels.
Opt-in online survey data suggests "churchgoing is soaring" 50% higher than it was in 2018.
Another opt-in online survey won't resolve this conflict.
We've got all of these steps on our essentials guide: activistchecklist.org/essentials
What you can do to protect yourself:
- Disable Advertising ID in settings
- Disabled location permissions for every single app that doesn't need it. (Mapping apps are probably the only ones that do)
- Consider installing a *trusted* VPN and turning on ad-blocking for an extra layer of protection
Hundreds of apps have been found to be selling your location to data brokers so they can earn extra $.
web.archive.org/web/20260216...
Let's talk about how a random app on your phone that shows ads might be giving your location to the cops. Hundreds of apps have ads. Creepy surveillance companies participate in the "ad bidding" process, which can include your phone's location. This allows them to track your movements.
This just sounds like anxious attachment
I have been wondering if I want to play another go through, I’ve been a little nervous about the Durge storyline 😂
6> Finally (apologies for being long winded) I believe the world would have rejoiced if when killing Op-Ed, NYT had also fired all columnists and binned "guest essays" and any opinion mongering. But NYT more importantly needs to correct its blind spot regarding the reality of universal human rights
5>Every day editors of every desk at NYT excise the word "genocide" regarding Israel while every day Israel is committing genocide misreports organized state murder as a policy choice or military strategy, a legitimate national agenda. That elevation of state rights over human rights is rightwing.
4>To daily publish opinion or imply in news reporting and analysis that human rights are negotiable, open to compromise, even non-existent brings angry protest from its readers, who. understand the necessity of ridding the world of the MAGA Mindset and its mission to deny human rights everywhere.
3>the New York Times has a consistent content, from a fixed point of view, and it extends all over the institution, not confined to what is labeled "opinon." That content inclludes, primarily, a disbelief in universal human rights. On most people's yardsticks, that is seen as a rightwing position.
2>that the Op-Ed Page was a distinctly defined space reserved for "Not-The-New-York-Times" writers, whose opinions were not endorsed in any way by NYT but presented for public interest and education. All that said, it is necessary and correct to note that what you term "a general perspective" at>
I'm going to weigh in here because I used to be an editor for the now-deceased NYT Op-Ed Page. That "now-deceased" is important because the page was killed by the publisher precisely because he saw (correctly) that once the "paper" ceased to be on paper but became digital, readers ceased to see>
I know, right, I was tempted to say if they promised to print it, I would write such an op/ed tomorrow. Feel safe that they wouldn’t ask though.
Ah, yes, the NYT has no choice in what writers and opinions they platform and set as within the overton window. That's why there's so many anarchists calling for immediate revolution on the NYT editorial page.
Horrifying and also as predicted. This is genocidal shit. The only hospital in Tennessee that offered this kind of care. www.them.us/story/vander...
Stew Peters is, and has been for years, a vicious antisemitic conspiracy theorist and white nationalist. Enough is enough.