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If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren't as biological or innate as you think they are
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What happens is a scared kid tells their guidance counselor they think they might be trans and then yes the same building that won't give your kid cough drops without your signature rushes them off to the surgeon'a table
Tuberville: Can you imagine if your kid would come home one day and says, “I'm taking these drugs. And I'm getting ready to have surgery because my teachers and my principal says I can”
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Moderates want to talk about Roy Cooper until you note he vetoed every anti-trans bill that came across his desk as governor and has refused to give an inch in the face of anti-trans attacks and is now up by double digits in North Carolina
My column from last month
Sure enough, Rs cut NC loose today, 10/2
GOP operatives are already eyeing cutbacks in their spending against Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), I’m told by well-placed party sources, and by October may have to cede North Carolina entirely and hand over a Republican-held seat. Internal Republican polls show former Gov. Roy Cooper leading that race by double digits, a margin that can perhaps be halved but not erased.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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Danny Lavery described this experience like attending a never-ending funeral where you are treated like both the body in the coffin and a rude interloper who wasn't invited
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College educated white people being the least likely to go no contact (while it's not clear if the difference is even significant) is the funniest possible survey result. 100% pointless discourse.
Btw, the actual numbers show that no, cutting off your parents isn't a "white people" thing
It *is* disproportionately a "queer people" thing, so when people talk about it being "white", let's all be aware of the subtext being pushed there
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RT @kylietcheung: I wrote abt the campus SA crisis that never went away despite the public moving on after the Obama era; the material ways…
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Acknowledging the political talent it takes to know how insulted JD Vance would be by getting called "the most ordinary man imaginable"
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while they enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors built. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here /2
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RT @raynefq: rest of this aside, continues to be a fascinating sleight of hand how rape is constantly reframed as a "middle-class" problem,…
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The Republican position is that trans people's sex cannot be changed by hormones and surgery but their own sex is threatened by everything from chemicals in the water to workplace sexual harassment policies
Minnesota Republican House candidate William Beck says frogs are "changing sexes" because of chemicals in the water
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If you somehow think MeToo "went too far" or is "mob justice" it should probably concern you when the authorities invested by society with the power to adjudicate claims of rape are either too incompetent to do so or complicit in covering it up
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Its important that the left focuses on core issues (things that affect me) and stop purity testing over stuff that doesn't matter (things that affect other people.)
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1/ The Senate Leadership Fund, Senate Republican leadership's super PAC, is reportedly putting $10m behind an Ohio ad blaming Sherrod Brown for "sex change surgery for minors." But the surgery in the ad happened in Austin, Texas, in 2021, when the woman in it was 19.
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Today Senator Blackburn is expected to try ramming KOSA--the Kids Online Safety Act--through the Senate via unanimous consent.
KOSA was an Internet censorship bill in its inception, and in 4 years the only thing its authors have done is try to disguise KOSA's nature, not fix it.
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In February, the Kansas state legislature passed a law that required all driver’s licenses to reflect sex at birth.
Roughly 1,700 intersex and transgender Kansans received a letter saying to get new licenses, including Dakota West. Now, she’s suing. wapo.st/4z9akKc
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Love a trainwreck
'Digger' is a climate movie, maybe the most explicit one in years. It's a bracing parable that argues for the complicity of Big Oil in the destruction of the planet.
It is also one of the worst movies I have seen in quite some time.
grist.org/culture/digger-mov…
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If a Democrat did this we’d have a lot of thinkpieces on here about how gay people shouldn’t have jobs
Pretty big apparent misfire from GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt at today's Jack Smith hearing.
Schmitt basically constructed a conspiracy theory about how Jack Smith was in Atlanta when Fani Willis's affair was revealed, saying Smith had attended an Atlanta Hawks game.
Smith had no idea what he was talking about.
After the text messages Schmitt's theory was based on were shown, Smith said it was a game between the U of Maryland and Iowa HAWKeyes -- in Maryland -- not the Atlanta HAWKS.
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