with all the bad news for trans rights recently I think it’s important to highlight some good news good for governor spanberger
Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · last mo.Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly ended a rulemaking process initiated in the waning days of former-governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration. The rule would have limited transgender students' ability to play sports and use facilities. www.wvtf.org/news/20... #transgender
The "Pro Life" party showing they're only pro-bullshit and enslavement.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · last mo.ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers, according to government documents obtained by the Guardian. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many suffered a miscarriage. 🧵
The US media's response to a film's evidence on Israel's targeting of civilians? Report on the directors possibly losing the citizenship for being brave enough to bring the evidence to light. In no way talk about the evidence itself. Can't risk being anti-Israeli by calling out Israeli war crimes.
Israeli official calls for directors of "NAZA" documentary alleging use of AI in Gaza to have nationality revoked
The documentary "NAZA" includes interviews with purported Israeli intelligence officers who claim the systematic use of AI-powered targeting systems in Gaza.
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We're only one step away from an officer with a grudge watching your every move from states away. Or, say, someone in Federal government monitoring political opponents to leak videos to favored networks. Not fiction. Not hyperbole. This is actually happening, now.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Texas sheriff's office that used 80,000 Flock cameras to search for a woman who had an abortion used AI to write a police report about the incident.
American history is filled with examples of white men paying little - if any - penalties when being called out on their lies or outright illegal acts. Ariely fabricated evidence on a paper about dishonesty. And yet he was still given a leadership role at Duke University. Why? Because he was white.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2mo agoAgain. Again. It was just the usual white supremecist double standard the first dozen times. After Arday‘s sad, avoidable tragedy it feels like more than the usual distraction. They want to gaslight us to death. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
“If that counts as sexual assault then almost every woman has been sexually assaulted”. Yes. Bingo. Almost every woman HAS been sexually assaulted. Many of us have had it happen more than once. The problem isn’t the definition, it’s rape culture.
Trump‘s not a builder.D in Donald stands for “destroyer”. He destroyed east wing of White House, the reflecting Pool, Kennedy Center, dozens of mature trees on a golf course,healthcare, fair trade, affordability,USAID, alliances,oil shipments, decency, truth and ethical behavior. Much more. 
"Whatever are we to do to avoid this catastrophe?" "Return to progressive taxation." "Anything, anything at all?"
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago“.. By the end of the next president’s first term, Social Security will run out of cash reserves to pay full retirement benefits for tens of millions of retirees .. .. we have run out of time, and the required changes will be larger and more abrupt.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/amer...
Saying it louder for those in the back: Parts of our country already endorse using electric shock gloves on disabled children. In our schools. Like cattle.
Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2mo agoMore on the Shock Gloves and how ableism and their use on disabled children helped pave the way for the atrocities we’re seeing today: www.disabledginger.com/p/ices-new-s...
Pundits: You professors should stop talking like professors. Cut out the nuance & complexity Professors: vaccines are safe & effective Pundits: No not like that
If you’re grabbed by someone wearing “shock gloves”…your body may convulse involuntarily. It could look like you’re resisting arrest when in reality, you’re in medical distress. The appearance of resistance will embolden ICE to use lethal force. These gloves will kill people.
Nothing says, "We are the most powerful nation on Earth" better than its main braggart being smuggled out of a foreign country in a catering box.
Dan Murphy@bungdan.bsky.social · 3mo agoI am particularly looking forward to laughing when the little nugget drops that the "intelligence" of an impending Iranian attack on Trump in Turkey came from the Israelis.
How do you make your cities safer for generations? You educate children - All children. From toddler to graduate, and beyond. eml.berkeley.edu/~moretti/lm4...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo agoToday, for the first time in New York City history, 2,000 two year-olds received offers for FREE 2-K. A big step for those who take baby steps. A big step towards a City every New Yorker can afford.
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My mom just called to tell me that she went to a museum about the Underground Railroad, where one of the exhibits talked about the locals having horns that they would blow to warn people when the slave catchers were in town “It’s just like your whistles!”
For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.
"You need to write exactly what I tell you." "That's not journalism." "So what. Do as I say. I'm rich." "Yeah... fuck you." "You're all terrible."
Jeff Bezos Called Washington Post His Worst Investment and Staff He Laid Off 'Terrible' People
The Amazon founder complained to Trump over dinner that nobody there listened to him before slashing staff, according to excerpts from a forthcoming book.
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June 1, 2009: GM becomes the fourth largest company in America to declare bankruptcy. In a modern, "the rich can do it, not the poor," the US government helped divide the company in two: one with all the assets, one with all the debt. Just remember: it was fourth largest up to that point... Musk.
May 31, 1921: White supremacists violently invade prosperous black neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma, decimating 35 square city blocks and killing an estimated 300 innocent people. Some assailants were deputized. The National Guard took 2 days to stop the attack. Over 10,000 were left homeless.
1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Museum of Tulsa History
Following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. This thriving business district and surrounding residential area was...
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May 30, 1989: Chinese protestors in Tiananmen Square erect a 33' tall statue they called the Goddess of Democracy, to defy the government's crackdown on them. It took 4 days to build, out of foam & paper mâché. Soldiers tore it down on June 4th. Countless replicas have been made around the world.
Let's be honest: the only interest Trump had in the Kennedy Center was his ability to piss on it. Just like the Constitution, women, or Republicans.
May 29, 1988: President Ronald Reagan makes his first visit to Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Russia. They agree on a number of terms, specifically human rights & an arms treaty. A large impact: Russian schoolbooks were updated to recent global events. 3 years later, Soviet Russia would dissolve.
May 28, 1830: President Andrew Jackson signs into law the Indian Removal Act, negating land treaties with Native Americans & forcing them from often prosperous lands to far-away settlements. The Trail of Tears & other effects resulted in thousands of deaths. All because of racist, rich white men.
May 26, 2020: Thousands gather in Minneapolis, in memorial to George Floyd, who had been murdered by police the day before. Over the following weeks, both peaceful and rioting protests would occur in reaction to systemic police brutality. Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder on April 20, 2021.
Mar 25, 2018: Ireland's people vote to nullify their 8th Amendment, replacing it with the 36th. In doing so, they legally back a woman's right to abortion. This is democracy, & a ioving Constitution, in action. Anyone saying Originalism is the only true way can go right the fuck off with themself.