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Floating in space

Public discourse around trans people seems genuinely insane if you know enough trans people. Despite all the Ideology Stealing Our Kids narrative what I overwhelmingly have experienced is, basically, sad nerds who become somewhat happier nerds once they decide to transition. it just seems fine 🤷

Saw a post from Reza Akbari on here translating a firsthand account from someone in Tehran. People just waking up blocks away from the US leveling entire buildings, not knowing if the next one will be theirs. The seemingly stochastic nature of extreme violence will traumatize tens of thousands.

The path to a post-American world is punctuated by cycles where US air and naval power secure overwhelming short term tactical victories that the US no longer has the wider capacity to turn into anything other than long term strategic chaos. But the longue duree won't help the IRGC much now

Three months of Israeli siege on Gaza. The starvation of 2m people, half of them children, continues. The bombing continues The shooting continues The demolition of entire towns continues. Pictured: the destruction of Gaza's only Dialysis centre in Beit Lahiya.

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