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47 is being stopped by the Constitution, not “activist judges.”

Remember, they are revoking visas and Green Cards for social media posts.

It's not about deporting criminals. The Trump administration believes the executive branch has the final say on who is and isn't allowed in the country. Enacting the Alien Enemies Act during peace time is proof of this.

They want you gone unless you pay for Trump's golden visa.

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RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory

In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.

Wait wait wait.

The chapter is called what?

The problem isn't the construction workers who want to be compensated for their labor. The problem is the capitalists who hoard homes for profit.

The problem isn't the medical workers who want to be compensated for their labor. The problem is the CEOs who hoard medical care for profit.

Those who say that housing or medical care are a human right are not saying that the workers should be forced to work for free. They're saying that it shouldn't be hoarded for profit. If the only costs were the materials and labor, it wouldn't be anywhere near as expensive as it is now.

"The left" are always saying to tip your servers. "The left" are always saying to pay for artists with money and not with "exposure". "The left" are always saying that workers should be paid a living wage. Clearly it's not "the left" devaluing people's labor.

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

Because bigotry and thumbing your nose at anyone who calls you out on it is one helluva drug, especially when you're an otherwise joyless sonuvabitch.

My girlfriend and I talk a lot about our different generations of queerness, because she was doing queer activism in the 1990s and I wasn’t.

And she’s supportive of my writing about queerness but also kind of bitter about how quickly her entire generation’s history has disappeared into a bland “AIDS was bad, gay marriage solved homophobia” narrative, and now we’re having to play catch-up to educate young LGBTQ+ people about queer history and queer theory. It gets pretty raw sometimes.

I mean, a large part of the reason TERFs have been good at educating the young and queer people haven’t is, in the 80s and 90s the leading lights of TERFdom got tenured university positions, and the leading lights of queerdom died of AIDS.

“Excuse us,” she said bitterly the other day, not at me but to me, “for not laying the groundwork for children we never thought we’d have in a future none of us thought we’d be alive for.”