I guess this is kind of a PSA that if you’re fleeing one the worst states for trans people, consider Illinois for this reason.
Also other safe states should start doing this too, pls!
Do younger people know about the huge effort that was put into decreasing the % of smokers. Education campaigns in print, on TV, in schools, new restrictions/enforcement, labeling, a soupçon of public shaming, changes in how smoking was depicted, etc. Might guide us in anti-anti-vax efforts.
(Polio. It's polio)
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
I’m also currently watching a series of shorts where a woman in period-appropriate dress is eating a week’s worth of meals from 1940s UK ration cards and menus.
So cleansing.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
From the studio that brought you, "What if literally everything around you had feelings," and "Okay, what if your FEELINGS had feelings,"
Comes, "What, like queers have feelings?"
Photo with capitol building in background, speaker and signs reading stand up for science and the assault on science will haunt this country for generations
Great speakers and signs at the Stand up for Science rally today.
#standupforscience
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
The backfire effect. Humans are such stubborn cusses that if we're proven wrong, we double down instead of changing our minds. The more stinging the rebuke to our pre-existing beliefs, the weirder we get about it. And COVID represented a one-punch KO for anti-vaxxers.
To understand what it's like for trans people watching all this "nuanced reasonable debate" bullshit flow, just imagine all the "serious people" having a debate about abortion where the only participants are people who will never have an abortion.
Oh, wait
🤦♀️
It's the trans version of "maybe if you smiled a little more"
Canadians consistently see co-operatives as a stable path forward. Co-operatives help make communities more stable during economic ups and downs: 83% agree. Co-operatives are more likely to survive tough times because their members have a stake in their success: 83% agree. Co-operatives are part of the solution to Canada's biggest challenges, like affordability and inequality: 81% agree. Co-operatives are better equipped to adapt to change and new technologies than other kinds of businesses: 71% agree. https://abacusdata.ca/canadians-want-stability-co-ops-deliver-it/
Canadians find a number of co-operative attributes are appealing, namely the focus on building community. The business provides education to their customers, managers and employees to help grow the business: appeals to 89%. The business works to ensure sustainable development in their community, through things like community support and environmental awareness: appeals to 88%. Anyone can be involved in the business regardless of gender, social, racial, political or religious discrimination: appeals to 86%. Customers and employees are also the owners, and can benefit financially when the business does well: appeals to 86%. Decisions are democratic, meaning that customers and/or employees have a say in its strategy and direction: appeals to 83%. The business gives customers or employees a real voice in adapting to new technologies like Al: appeals to 78%. Depending on the type of enterprise, the business is always controlled by employees, customers, producers etc, no matter what: appeals to 76%. https://abacusdata.ca/canadians-want-stability-co-ops-deliver-it/
Cooperatives are widely supported in the United States. New data shows the same is true in Canada. People value the ability of co-ops to weather economic recessions better than other types of businesses, as well as their democratic and inclusive nature.
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this made me cackle all the way through
When I told @ajbauer.bsky.social he was a poet, he answered something like "I'm not a poet, the world is poetry, I'm just a journalist reporting on the poetry," which itself is poetry
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.
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
We lost ABSOLUTELY NOTHING by getting rid of Franken. We actually GAINED from it.
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okay so this seems pretty clear. he knows what it is, he did it on purpose, he chose keeping it over his career with the Marines, if we know this then Susan Collins will also know it, it will 100% come up in the general, let's be done talking about this guy as a real candidate
More than 1.5 million girls were sent to maternity homes during the Baby Scoop era, where they were kept in seclusion, told they didn’t deserve to be mothers, and returned to their lives to pretend none of it happened.
This is the America the GOP wants to make great again.
Good thing we’ve avoided having any of us overly emotional women in that office. Who knows what terrible things could happen. 🫠🫠🫠
Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying the president had a “feeling, again, based on fact,” that Iran was going to strike the United States. Below is a TV still of Leavitt speaking at a White House press briefing podium, with a news banner reading “BREAKING NEWS.”
We bombed a girls’ school and killed 175 kids based on his feelings?!
“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.
Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take
This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...
I saw on r/nursing this week that a nurse reported a colleague for wearing meta glasses to work. That has a billion HIPAA and other legal violations written ALL over it and that person should be fired
1. In an incredible public outpouring of support, trans girl scouts on our girl scout cookie list have sold over 330,000 boxes of cookies.
Parents report to us that they are in tears from the support.
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it’s grim out there, friends
hire more trans creatives! we’re out here and ready to go
and it makes a real difference in the cultural acceptance of trans people!
i love when transphobic democrats are publicly humiliated in primary elections. i want to harvest their tears & drink them as an electrolyte beverage.
Kristi Noem has learned her lesson.
by Susan Collins
