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they/them 🏳️⚧️ 3L / public defender free palestine / acab / BLM
"To treat an ectopic pregnancy, which is almost never viable, doctors must terminate it. But ... medical providers are [allegedly] hesitating or flat-out refusing to do that in states where they face criminal penalties for performing an abortion."
A ProPublica analysis found that the spike in deaths has elicited almost no public health response.
sometimes products actually change your life (i just got a candle warmer)
The time to push candidates toward more progressive policies is NOT after they get in office. It’s before. We have to look out for everybody. That may include a type of person that is not in your life!
Florida was as safe when I started transitioning in September 2020 but within 9 months it was the worst, tied with Texas. This isn't about fighting for more trans rights, it's about fighting for rights we had for YEARS that were such a non-issue Cis people don't know we had them.
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
Republicans can’t even rhetorically maneuver their way out of dogfucking allegations and there are dems still volunteering to gas trans people
everyone talks about the gen z stare but no one mentions how you can politely greet a boomer and ask them questions and address them directly whilst looking in their eyes and they will literally ignore you as if you are not in the room
how do i block all information about the hyrox poop lady from my ears and eyes starting 3 days ago
american elites are broadly in consensus that critics of israel need to be silenced but nazis are now within the acceptable parameters of public discourse and have to be given a seat at the table bsky.app/profile/theo...
like, Robert Kraft banned Macklemore over "Free Palestine," but literally "Heil Hitler" isn't getting Kanye dropped from the same stadium
Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit
MACKLEMORE: [delivering heartfelt speech about palestinian rights and the evils of apartheid] SHEERAN: I love your passion [texting manager: can mr beast sing???]
Big one today. Spoke to folks at The Working World, Seed Commons, and a few worker-owned restaurants and bars about how, exactly, to do the same for your restaurant. And more importantly, why you'd want to. www.weareravenous.com/worker-owned...
A Guide to Worker-Owned Restaurants
Restaurants around the country are pursuing the cooperative ownership model. Here’s how they did it (and how you can do it, too).
weareravenous.com
[reporter doing nothing other than quoting CEOs] this is the most important time doing this Job….wow. Covering the fast paced world of technology is difficult
“What’s real? What’s not?” is also rather famously more or less what Pontius Pilate said while being faced with having to torture to death a random guy with no criminal record because a mob demanded it
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the trans community’s demand is eminently reasonable: “democrats need to treat trans people as equal partners in their political coalition or trans people will not be partners at all.” so, democrats: do you want to win or not?
The vitriol directed at me and other members of the trans community for having the audacity to declare our votes are not to be taken for granted. By cisgender people who otherwise have called themselves allies. I wish it weren’t so utterly predictable.
every time i’ve opened myself to the world it’s responded with kindness and yet it’s still so hard!
all day i’ve been spontaneously remembering that they put hasan’s hog pic on the RNC jumbotron and laughing out loud
all of you samus heads need to go to horny jail (shifting awkwardly to cover up my computer screen behind me)
they are playing spinal tap at the bar tv for the third time in a row and this time i might cry about rob reiner
Devastating reporting. "The common factor is that constraints on targeting were minimised in the interests of an open-ended mission. Since the start of the war in 2023, no Israeli soldier has been convicted of wrongful death or war crimes in Gaza operations." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic
theguardian.com