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So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

Trans people for the past decade: This isn't actually about sports or ensuing there's appropriate screening before someone starts medically transitioning. The goal is to effectively criminalize the existence of all trans people.

Very Reasonable Journalists: You're crazy

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.

Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

I keep this image on my desktop now because of how often I have to use it.

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

i would die for slimey

This bad-faith talking point has been taking off across the right-wing industrial outrage complex, and it's obvious they never bothered to check that Jasmine Crockett had been on his show twice before.

So happy to see you and Trace again, Frank!

Here is the Czech pair dancing to their AI rip-off of You Get What You Give, replaced for the Olympics by an AI song with “original” lyrics that sounds pretty much the same

Only one Olympic pair, the Czech brother-sister pair of Daniel Mrázek and Katerina Mrázeková, skated to AI music. But they ran into a problem — the first time they asked AI to spit out a 1990s song, it plagiarized the lyrics to an actual awesome 1990s song, “You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals. (A true banger, maybe my favorite 1990s song, tbh.) The video is STUNNING, I have no idea how they thought they could get away with it. For the Olympics, they swapped that one out for a new AI song, which also sucks but isn’t directly stolen from anybody.

wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck?

People forget this was the surname of TITANIC’s heroine. Smart not to emphasize it though.

You know it's bad when even the Tribune isn't using modifiers like "possibly" or "allegedly" racist

If this is the same Peter Attia MD who was just revealed as one of Bari Weiss's big new additions to CBS News, he can just tell the stories about the "outrageous" life Jeffrey Epstein led on the Evening News.

Think of the ratings!

Whitney Cummings slammed for wild conspiracy about L.A. lesbian firefighters The comedian made waves for saying that lesbians were recruiting within their "dating pool" for the LAFD.

She is CONSTANTLY pushing anti-trans/anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theories. Here's one: www.out.com/celebs/whitn...

Absolutely disgusting to bring on this right-wing ghoul, @thedailyshow.com.

Never thought that the guy who asked whether Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 got lost in a black hole would be arrested for being an 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 or whatever, but here we are.

maybe we shouldnt have put right wing podcasters in charge of the world

Fuck off Patrick Kane

tom homan sucks ass, there is no reason for ice to be in minnesota other than punishing the citizenry for how they vote

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

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Here are some ways to help Minnesota with all the essential but less visible needs.

But also, go get involved with your own community. Make new friends. Get those networks going. Learn what orgs in your city are already doing good work that needs support. Don't wait.

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I will believe that ICE enforcement has changed on the ground when I stop getting daily notices that armed, masked goons are circling my kids’ schools and trying to sow fear in the parent patrols.

We invaded France and no one will sell us a croissant. It’s very hard on the men.

Note the problem here. Trump does apparently want to minimize clashes between government security services and protesters. But he doesn’t appear to want those heavily armed government militias to stop doing the things that are causing those clashes in the first place. What’s really going on here is this: Trump is looking to defuse anger among congressional Democrats for purposes that don’t portend a meaningful shift. An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package. The problem for the White House, Punchbowl reports, is that if Democrats successfully renegotiate new measures, the House might have to pass a new package—the House already passed funding that included money for DHS—and Republicans doubt that’s possible. So the show of de-escalation is about making it easier for Senate Democrats to support appropriations bills that don’t require another vote in the House.

There really seems to be a lot of kayfabe happening right now. Trump is pretending to de-escalate to placate Dems so they don't demand reform, and Dems are making up fake reforms so they can pretend like they made changes while they vote to fund DHS.

Grifters gonna grift

I spend a lot of time at my day job telling people that there's no wrong way to grieve but uhhh.

Apparently there is

My dad goes into a rage over those