TIL - long before bathrooms were used for trans panic they were a focus of ERA panic

I wrote about how weird and bad it is to have a future AG going around claiming he'll make Dobbs "permanent in every single state"—unless he understands Dobbs to be a national abortion ban, and thinks his job is to force states to comply

Todd Blanche Is Claiming That He Can Ban Abortion In Any State

As he fights to be confirmed as attorney general, Blanche is trying to appease Christian-right groups with wild legal theories about restricting abortion.

newrepublic.com

This highlights a profound impact of Trump — the further normalization of violence against women. Trump got elected in spite of his long history of violence against women. He is not held accountable when he continues to abuse women. 1/2

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

Max Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."

Who the fuck comes up with a phrase like “feminist social engineering “ besides some misogynist ass hole?

The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Give Them an Inch...

And they'll take away women's sports...

open.substack.com

It’s kind of amazing just how badly the far right want to utterly oppress women. It shows how fragile the ego of those men are that women’s sports terrifies them.

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 5h ago

The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.

the libs are getting accelerationist to cope with a muslim winning one primary against a white woman

Pádraig 🏳️‍🌈☘️ (he/they)@patmch51.bsky.social · 5h ago

To put it another way, the prospect of another 4-8 years of Project 2025 followed by a bloody civil war keeps me up at night less than the idea of just handing the engine of racialized violence to a new team for another several decades.

white people like you pitting ethnic groups against each other and imaging a RACE WAR is a very interesting tactic for a self-described “anti racist.” me personally i think we should work together to overthrow fascism instead

In fact, in ways, the reich-siders LOVE having us as victims because it gives them "two genders at once" to abuse. They get to take out misogyny AND their desire to abuse "weaker" men on us.

👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 2h ago

can you guys retire "the right wing / chuds don't know what to do with trans men and forget they exist and will be So Confused by them!!!!" already. they are fully aware trans men exist and the thing they do to trans men is violently abuse and murder them

"...if someone had a record of several lawyers disbarred and had lost dozens of suits at law over lying and violations of canon of ethics etc. I'd hardly be spouting crap from a government run by them. I do not believe anything said in international relations by them. Known liars testimony."

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2h ago

Prosecutors say Maduro’s regime hired the street gang Tren de Aragua to kill a political dissident in Chile. The Venezuelan leader suspected of ordering the hit continues to be a key player in the country’s Trump-backed government.

did bari weiss take over propublica too?

22% of human trafficking victims, including through kidnapping are bound for enslavement into criminal enterprises such as working at scam centers

Understanding human trafficking | United Nations

un.org

I think it says a lot about capitalism that when we talk about human trafficking and kidnapping, we all think "Taken" even though by a significant margin the most common form of human trafficking is essentially kidnapping people to make sneakers or mine for sand

Dear Donald Trump: Welcome to irrelevancy. Tehran says it agreed coordinates of Hormuz route with Oman www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Iran says it agreed coordinates of Hormuz route with Oman

Iran says statement on Oman deal being "finalised", warns against interference in deal by "certain third parties".

aljazeera.com

there are many many many reasons you should not be giving the new york times money

FDR put American citizens in concentration camps and passed the New Deal specifically because he was worried the people would overthrow capitalism if he didn't. We shouldn't be wanting "a return to FDR."

Who made her judge, Jury and executioner.

Oh so it’s gonna CRASH crash

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h ago

Jim Cramer just now on Elon Musk and why you should buy SpaceX: “Because our minds are small and his mind is big.”

current discourse feels like

Soad and Omar aren't asking for the impossible, just a chance to survive. Every passing day steals Omar's childhood and what little strength Suad has left. The worst part of this tragedy isn't just the hunger, but witnessing one's own pain and finding no one to offer a helping hand. Please donate 🙏🏼

An alleged cat abductor, torturer and killer is on the loose in Seattle and the city needs your help with info leading to their arrest and prosecution. There's a $5k reward for info that can identify this suspect. Contact Seattle Animal Control at (206)386-7387 and provide reference case #9600346.

should've impeached GWB it wasn't even a close question

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2h ago

Q: "What message does it send if Trump fires a U.S. Attorney because she determined there was not sufficient evidence to charge four people with a crime?" Blanche: "If the president wanted to fire a U.S. Attorney, it turns out he's allowed to do that."

"“Most people still don’t vote on Israel and Palestine, they vote on their pocketbooks,” said Levin, who endorsed El-Sayed. “But if you’re not willing to say that Israel perpetrated a genocide in Gaza, Democratic primary voters are like, ‘OK, you’re bought and paid.’"

The Intercept@theintercept.com · 2h ago

Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens – despite a record-setting $60 million in outside spending in her favor.

from “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman 1985

The US began this war by demanding Iran give up its ballistic missiles, and has instead given up its own (non-nuclear) ballistic missiles

Travis@someforeignfield.bsky.social · yesterday

The US Army has expended "virtually all" of available ATACMS ground-launched missiles during the war against Iran. This comes after expending all of the available more modern PrSM missiles. These were all launched from Kuwait, Bahrain, or other nearby Gulf countries.

We're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.

SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision

Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour

theguardian.com

The parallels between Space Nazi spreading his seed among women and spreading his litter in space (“million-satellite” plan, booster rocket crashing into the moon) are remarkable. Some men will do anything other than go to therapy.