The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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ICE Agent David Brouillette admitted to fatally shooting Johan Guerrero in Maine during a call to his ex where he also demanded that she lie to authorities about his history of domestic abuse against her and to vouch for his character, but she chose to expose his abusive past instead.

ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer

An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

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Kills the wrong guy anyway.

The Needling@theneedling.com · 3w ago

“This guy was sick—he would get paid to hunt the most lovable, hardworking innocent people you’ve ever heard of on their way to work and take them out in broad daylight,” said the ICE agent. tinyurl.com/4s7r54ye

I have said many times, TERFism is largely an attempt to protect and enshrine in law the ways in which cis women have traditionally been allowed access to the power to abuse and prey on their perceived inferiors. Children, queers, the disabled, etc.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

This, in a nutshell, is Democratic centrism. "Let's not say anything true about the fascist that just died."

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3w ago

I did not need to wake up to Claire McCaskill on MSNow scolding us all to be "charitable" to Lindsey Graham because he was a "good man." No, he wasn't. He was the fascists' handmaiden.

[Exit Queen.]

I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

Mitch McConnell is one of the very worst Americans of this century, a force of selfishness and spite who laid waste to our political institutions and social stability like no foreign enemy ever could.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last mo.

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Greg Gutfeld says he doesn't understand how vaccines work as “a community preventative thing”

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

Sam Alito is a gutter racist who is willingly enforcing white supremacist rule in the country. It’s not “racial animus” or “controversial views towards race.” He’s a fucking racist who shouldn’t be any sort of judge let alone the highest judge we have

Seeing a lot of "DSA/Mamdani is the Democrats' Tea Party" and ... no. Name me one single thing the Tea Party did to positively affect people's lives on any level. They didn't want to improve anything! They just wanted to yell about the Black president they hated and wear stupid hats.

That sentence seems like one that should immediately prevent you from being a judge ever again

DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · last mo.

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” Additionally, motions 29 and 33 for acquittal and a new trial were denied from the bench.

it's because the major questions doctrine is a crock of shit

When Hitler fell, the purging of that mindset wasn’t de-Hitlerification, it was de-Nazification. When Saddam fell, it wasn’t de-Saddamification, it was de-Baathification. When Trump falls, it will be de-MAGAfication, not de-Trumpification. The entire movement’s hatred and corruption must be purged.

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

Turns out that if you gut CBS news, gut 60 Minutes, promise to gut CNN, cancel Colbert, get $29B in Saudi, Qatari & UAE money, and hold a weird lavish banquet for the President and acting AG in a federal building… you can get your illegal merger approved by DOJ

If you're a DOJ lawyer and your reaction to "okay, your job is to open a criminal investigation into the lady our boss sexually assaulted 30 years ago" is anything other than resigning on the spot, your choice to continue working there should haunt you for the rest of your life

There Are No Serious People In the Trump Justice Department

The nation’s top law enforcement agency is now a law firm that serves only the president’s personal interests, and bills its time to you and me.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

Let's Go Orcas! 👏-👏-👏👏👏 Let's Go Orcas! 👏-👏-👏👏👏 Let's Go Orcas! 👏-👏-👏👏👏

The Needling@theneedling.com · 2mo ago

Zuckerberg Docks Annual Salary of 1,400 Laid-Off Meta Workers in Seattle: tinyurl.com/yc8kwpu9

They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

TW@twesq.bsky.social · 3mo ago

but like I said the other day, NBC cast Vanessa Williams in The Odyssey in 1997 and no one gave a shit because this outrage is manufactured by racist incel billionaires from South Africa who no longer touch grass.

“The American Psychiatric Association, at its own annual conference, cut the microphone of its own human rights award recipient, in a room full of its own members, because he was going to talk about Gaza.” muslimmatters.org/2026/05/21/t...

The APA Gave Him A Human Rights Award. Then They Cut His Microphone For Talking About Gaza.

Dr. Mansoor Malik is a professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins. For most of his career, his work has been what you’d expect from a clinician-educator at a major academic medical center: healthcare wor...

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I’m firmly in favor of each and every one of these guys coming face to face with the public and realizing in real time that they’re unlikable, antisocial goons

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

What’s the point of electing democrats who do shit like this

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: Election denier Tina Peters will be released next month after Colorado’s Democratic governor commutes her nine-year sentence.