HugWolf
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Those stars overhead shine bright like they're golden, and I can't stand it.
Days after a WNBA team co-ownwer was suspended for confronting anti-trans activists courtside, Cheryl Reeve of the Minnesota Lynx wore a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt while facing down Sophie Cunningham's team, the Fever. The Lynx won 108-100. Subscribe to support our journalism.
WNBA Coach Cheryl Reeve Wore “Trans Kids Belong” While Beating Sophie Cunningham’s Team
The crowd was equally indignant, reportedly booing whenever Cunningham touched the ball.
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Basically the height of caricature at this point: Israel is demanding that as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, it be allowed to continue attacking Gaza.
remember how Riley Gaines’ swimming coach raped a bunch of her teammates? then when her career path became TV Nazi she defended him and he claimed he was being targeted for standing up against trans women in sports? anyway she cares deeply about women and girls being safe.
The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us
Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d agoa bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
i feel like post one is going to throw a grenade into both sides of this discussion i am sorry i am just serious about that family and national abolition stuff. i'm gonna go back to playing video game
prison abolition is the component of a world of family abolition and abolition of the nation, etc. this is sort of why it mustn't coexist with liberal or reform demands, insofar as it would be an ongoing part of the project of the genuine transformation of the planet & social relations
one must be serious about communism being a planetary-scale project (social-technological) involving all sentient beings (ecological) that necessitates the synthesis and sublation of the local and the universal rather than leaving these two disjoint, etc
prison abolition is a worthy goal, the important caveat in this is that "family/kinship systems" and "local communities" are generally carceral institutions themselves closer to prisons rather than alternatives to prisons
Every time I across one of these I watch the entire thing three times in a row
I am going to become The Joker Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Brigitte Empire@brigitteempire.bsky.social · 6d agoHank Green admitting to using A.I. in research and scriptwriting does unfortunately explain why they released a video on HRT full of (sometimes outright dangerous) misinformation
The GCs won on this and they're still miserable. Complaining that the apology didn't go far enough and that Amnesty sent a separate email to their supporters apologizing to them. No matter what you do, you will never appease them. They're a miserable group of bigots.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 6d agoAmnesty International has now issued a public groveling apology to JK Rowling's organization and has pulled her another report documenting the anti rights platform of gender critical organizations. www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
Anyone who thinks an Amy Acton victory won’t convince Democrats to adopt anti-trans stances should read any related thread on /r/Ohio. The number of liberals and Democrats that have now fully adopted trans sports bans being good in Ohio is unreal.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 6d ago1. In the aftermath of forcing the Ohio Progressive Caucus to delete criticism of Amy Acton for calling trans girls "boys," progressives were promised a meeting with Acton. Now, we have learned she didn't show up, and kicked trans people out of the meeting. Subscribe to support our journalism.
1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators. But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances. It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"
The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much.
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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d agoICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
A Johns Hopkins public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight this week, the university confirmed, as the Trump administration...
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The WNBA is known for being one of “the most LGBT-inclusive professional sports leagues." But when Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton confronted anti-trans activists who showed up to a game, they suspended her instead of the transphobes. Subscribe to support our journalism.
WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Co-Owner Five Games for Confronting Anti-Trans Activists Courtside
Anti-trans provocateurs bankrolled by the right were sitting courtside with signs praising WNBA player Sophie Cunningham. Celeste Keaton reportedly confronted them.
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1. In the aftermath of forcing the Ohio Progressive Caucus to delete criticism of Amy Acton for calling trans girls "boys," progressives were promised a meeting with Acton. Now, we have learned she didn't show up, and kicked trans people out of the meeting. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Dem. Ohio Gov Candidate Amy Acton Scheduled a Meeting With LGBTQ+ Advocates, Didn't Show Up, And Kicked Out Trans People Who Did
The meeting was supposed to be Acton's way of making up for calling trans girls "boys."
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I love that our current political moment of bile and shit smeared across the discourse means that the most banal, milquetoast liberal inclusivity is increasingly starting to look like an unattainable goal unto itself rather than a stepping stone to actual progress. That's a reactionary victory.
Seattle Storm co-owner suspended for 5 home games. The WNBA has chosen a side. Now, transphobic protesters have an incentive to goad players, team staff, and fans into reacting to get them kicked out or suspended. sports.yahoo.com/wnba/article...
Storm minority owner Celeste Keaton reportedly suspended from 5 home games, fined after incident with Sophie Cunningham fans
The Storm's majority owner released a statement apologizing for the incident.
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Oh, so those girls at the Seattle Storm game were being obnoxious the entire time trying to provoke people and filming the reactions for content. Of course.
important work. sophie lewis on the centrality of the rape of palestinians to the zionist settler-colonial project:
Sophie Lewis@reproutopia.bsky.social · 6d ago"Much of the escalation no longer requires secrecy – it is photographed, filmed, and disseminated by its own perpetrators, turning the thousands of members of Israeli society who daily consume and share the footage into co-participants." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...
The racial dynamics around this couldn't be any clearer. The way these people try to make Caitlyn Clark out to be the great white hope for women's basketball is disgusting. They turn fouls and player scraps into a race war dynamic. I'm frankly sick of it. It's ruining the league I love to watch.
A third of the active players in the league are LGBTQ. This is very clearly a call to purge queer Black women from the league. It's absolutely disgusting.
The Missouri AG threatened Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia with total defunding and investigations if they read books with LGBTQ+ themes to kids in a Pride story hour. They did so anyway. Our latest story from s. Baum of one library's defiance against an oppressive Republican regime.
Missouri Library Defiantly Holds LGBTQ Story Hour Despite Funding and Legal State Threats
“This isn’t isolated to Missouri. It doesn’t end here if we don’t stop it here.”
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Labour without labor is just 3 Oxbridge grads in a trench coat.
TACC@tacc.org.uk · last wk."Unison, Aslef, Usdaw, and the Musicians’ Union will not attend Labour Women’s Conference in September over the decision to ban trans women from formal proceedings at the event. The unions are among Labour’s largest financial backers..."
