Max Osborn
@maxosb.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 | he/they | queer/feminist/critical criminologist | assistant prof at villanova | studies queer and trans victimization, resilience, resource access, and community-building
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.
I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.
Okay, Abbott Elementary and Deli Boys crossover episode WHEN??? If they could do it with Always Sunny, they can do this one too, goddamn it.
After working to purge trans people from the military, Pete Hegseth now insists that our soldiers have low testosterone and the military should be providing them with hormones. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you the story in this week's TWIBS!
TWIBS: Hormones for Me, but Not for Thee! - Assigned Media
After a year and a half of insisting medically transitioning troops can't serve in the military, the SecDef is offering cisgender troops HRT.
assignedmedia.org
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
reuters.com
sitting next to an elderly couple on a bus and they are googling whether you can overdose on fentanyl by touching a piece of cash money smdh
I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...
Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act gets the legal rebuke it deserves
Victor Ray: Ron DeSantis' loss in court is a win for education
ms.now
another day, another temporary ban from google scholar for typing too fast so they think I'm a bot 🤦
A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.
Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.
bbc.com
picked up with watching yellowjackets again, but I am a baby and have to watch on scaredy-cat mode (aka without my glasses on, so the particularly gross / upsetting parts are slightly out of focus)
they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo agoICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.
#OtD 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.
On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...
What You Need to Know About the MOVE Bombing
And how Philadelphia became "the city that bombed itself."
teenvogue.com
#MorningReads Underlying beliefs about the major elite-driven frames of bathroom issue – including safety of women & children, discrimination against transgender people, & safety of transgender people – shape opinions.
Policing gender in the bathroom: attitudes toward the transgender bathroom issue
“Bathroom bills” that require transgender individuals to use public restrooms that correspond to their sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity have become law in many states, some i...
tandfonline.com
Art exhibit at Brooklyn Public Library asks visitors to imagine a world without prisons “The Warehouse,” a collaboration between artist Vic Liu & abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, builds an environment where visitors can see and feel through the possible answers prismreports.org/2026/04/13/w...
Brooklyn Public Library art exhibit asks visitors to imagine world without prisons
“The Warehouse” is a collaboration between artist Vic Liu and abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba builds an environment for possible answers
prismreports.org
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
The country’s largest organization representing doctors is being pressed by Republican attorneys general on health care for trans youth. As families and doctors navigate this care in an increasingly hostile landscape, keeping tabs on what medical groups say matters. Here's what's been said so far:
Gender-affirming care is becoming a political test for top medical groups
The country’s largest organization representing doctors is being pressed by Republican attorneys general on health care for trans youth.
19thnews.org
a man in a suit and tie says " serious people "
Alt: Logan Roy from the tv show "Succession" (a white bearded guy in his 70s, played by Scottish actor Brian Cox) disdainfully says "You are not serious people"
media.tenor.com
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸@rweingarten.bsky.social · 4mo agoNo matter how you feel about AI, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms. Hear from three educators who have been experimenting with AI in this American Educator article ⬇️ aft.org/ae/spring202...
Relatedly, you don't have to have come up with a point-by-point plan for an alternative system in order to observe that the current version is bad/harmful/inefficient/not working.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 4mo ago"You can't support abolition/universal healthcare/reparations/universal housing/etc without being able to answer every possible hypothetical question about its implementation" is, frankly, horseshit. The Wright brothers didn't need to be able to design a 747 to build the first airplane.
An excellent writeup of the existentially terrifying House Resolution 7661. reactormag.com/what-to-know...
What to Know About the National Book Ban Bill - Reactor
House Resolution 7661 is a potentially significant piece of book ban legislation. Here's what you need to know about it.
reactormag.com
Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,
Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.
Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)
The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.
insidehighered.com
Help this is SUCH a funny throwback and remarkably restrained/subtle, considering youtu.be/T6s4N2h6Eec?...
We're finding savings everywhere
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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This stance assumes that media outlets and their leadership teams have a) no interest or stake in whether good or bad policies ultimately pass, and b) an obligation to platform misguided ideas simply for the sake of variety, as opposed to choosing ideas that are interesting or show merit. Nonsense.
Jill Filipovic@jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe job of an op/ed page is not to only publish the "right" opinions. If a topic, policy, or decision is in the news / under discussion at the highest levels, the op/ed page at a national newspaper should be publishing pieces that make the case for that policy or decision. Even if the policy is bad!
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
