Conrad Elliot ✝️📿🏳️‍⚧️

@conradelliot.bsky.social

small town trans guy in the twin cities. prayerbook catholic in the episcopal church. liturgical jack of all trades. pax per sanguinem crucis.

My job'a contract is changing hands, and wrapping up with the old employer is cutting my hours this week by half. Very stressed. If Y'all could help me knock out this GoFundMe, it would relieve a significant amount of stress. gofund.me/449c6e84b

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BREAKING: New York just sued Kalshi — alleging it’s an illegal gambling operation. New York AG Letitia James alleges Kalshi failed to obtain a state gambling license and pay taxes. Her office is seeking an order enjoining Kalshi’s operations, plus fines, restitution and forfeiture of profits.

New York sues prediction market Kalshi alleging it’s an illegal gambling operation | CNN Politics

The New York attorney general’s office is suing Kalshi, one of the largest prediction markets, alleging it’s running an illegal gambling operation in the state.

cnn.com

White male Boomers— the guys *still clinging to power as we speak* — were in late HS/college when the Civil Rights Act passed & married before 2nd Wave feminism took off. “Political correctness”- the wild idea of treating humans with respect—began to be a thing ca. when their kids were in college.

Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6d ago

I say this with love but it really hasn't ever been latent. We went through a brief period where it somewhat fell out of fashion to be overtly racist/xenophobic/transphobic/misogynist, and I do mean *brief.* MAGA is the rage response to that short interlude.

I don’t think it’s appropriate to call out on the front page of The Minnesota Star Tribune that the police chief is a “St. Paul native” in relation to his complaint against the mayor, an immigrant.

Photo of the chief with caption: St. Paul native Axel Henry
climbed the Police Department's ranks for 24 years before becoming chief in 2022.

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

an immediate reaction i always have as someone who has lived in a communitarian setting is: who’s going to clean all this?