a.j. 🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✡️

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trans dude (ftm) and transmedicalist + transitioning since 2008 + bisexual + zionist jew + elementary school educator + tired of everyone's shit. not american, nor queer, so don't call me either. he/him pronouns. views my own.

The job of Bari Weiss et al. is to invent spine-chilling horror fanfic for fascists. "Senator-elect gives speech in Arabic, Shari'a law incoming!!!!!" is part of the same narrative franchise that gave us: * "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats" * "public school transgender surgeries"

It’s a Fuhrerbunker appointment. Miller might not want the job, and certainly being in it might leave him less room to maneuver than as a generic advisor, but he’s going to do nothing to limit the destruction as the administration enters its death throes.

Sarumaru-kun, an unofficial mascot for Oita Prefecture, is a mischievous monkey who was made to wear a giant kabosu citrus fruit by the gods for being naughty. He travels Japan in search of the key to remove the fruit, and along the way he tells everyone he meets about Oita.

A monkey mascot with a white headband featuring a hot spring symbol and with a round green torso with a keyhole on it

I wish reporters would retire the "culture war" shorthand, which shaves the hard edges off reality. "Culture war" signals meaningless sideshow, obscuring the reality: This was a campaign to roll back the civil rights of LGBTQ students, whitewash history lessons, attack academic freedom, etc, etc

Eva Geller, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, died overnight in a Sydney hospital. As a child, she escaped Romania during World War II, when its wartime government persecuted the country’s Jews, and she lost much of her family.

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