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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
As bad and ridiculous as Phantom Menace was, I didn't spend most of the runtime laughing at it OR headcanon it out of the main storyline, which puts it ahead of Rise of Skywalker in my opinion
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
As bad and ridiculous as Phantom Menace was, I didn't spend most of the runtime laughing at it OR headcanon it out of the main storyline, which puts it ahead of Rise of Skywalker in my opinion
Not a weirdo at all. Logan is a solid airport.
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Not a weirdo at all. Logan is a solid airport.
The place I'm eating lunch has ABC News on, and the journalist is talking about how the Comey & James dismissals are "slowing down Trump's efforts to go after his political enemies."
I'm sorry, but what the FUCK kind of epic professional malpractice is that? Could we NOT normalize this shit please?
I'm sorry, but what the FUCK kind of epic professional malpractice is that? Could we NOT normalize this shit please?
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The place I'm eating lunch has ABC News on, and the journalist is talking about how the Comey & James dismissals are "slowing down Trump's efforts to go after his political enemies."
I'm sorry, but what the FUCK kind of epic professional malpractice is that? Could we NOT normalize this shit please?
I'm sorry, but what the FUCK kind of epic professional malpractice is that? Could we NOT normalize this shit please?
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
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It's not a matter of whether or not we'll have such tribunals. It's whether or not we can still manage to have them in prosecution of fascist Republicans for crimes against humanity. If we can't, fascist Republicans will eventually hold them against everyone else for the crime of humanity.
Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
Hey look POTUS calling for military tribunals
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It's not a matter of whether or not we'll have such tribunals. It's whether or not we can still manage to have them in prosecution of fascist Republicans for crimes against humanity. If we can't, fascist Republicans will eventually hold them against everyone else for the crime of humanity.
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To simplify: the thing that made American higher-ed unique was the institutional organization around education as a PUBLIC GOOD, rather than as an elite training ground, or job training.
This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.
This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
To simplify: the thing that made American higher-ed unique was the institutional organization around education as a PUBLIC GOOD, rather than as an elite training ground, or job training.
This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.
This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.
It's from a few months ago, but NOME HIPPO THREAD!!!!!
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It's from a few months ago, but NOME HIPPO THREAD!!!!!
When I needed to replace my last phone, the guiding principle of my choice of replacement was which came with the most guaranteed OS updates. (I have *thoughts* about the whole "here is our timeline for planned obsolescence" thing.)
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
When I needed to replace my last phone, the guiding principle of my choice of replacement was which came with the most guaranteed OS updates. (I have *thoughts* about the whole "here is our timeline for planned obsolescence" thing.)
I live within walking distance of both a light rail station and a trolley station and it *maddens* me how prohibitively inconvenient they are. If I want to go into the city on the weekend, I can take a 1ce/hr train, an hourpluslong trolley trip, or I can drive 15 minutes.
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I live within walking distance of both a light rail station and a trolley station and it *maddens* me how prohibitively inconvenient they are. If I want to go into the city on the weekend, I can take a 1ce/hr train, an hourpluslong trolley trip, or I can drive 15 minutes.
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Your misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, racism, ableism etc? All parts of the same fucking system. If you hate your neighbor enough you ignore the horrors happening to them until they happen to you. And then you can't fight back because you have no allies. See the police state
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Your misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, racism, ableism etc? All parts of the same fucking system. If you hate your neighbor enough you ignore the horrors happening to them until they happen to you. And then you can't fight back because you have no allies. See the police state
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Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
The sheer predictability of all of this is exhausting. It's an old song and we all know the words.
ProPublica and @startribune.com found that victims of abuse within an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Duluth were told to forgive and forget.
Here are the biggest takeaways from our reporting:
Here are the biggest takeaways from our reporting:
5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into How Leaders of a Minnesota Church Community Enabled a Child Abuser
ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune found that victims of abuse within an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Duluth were told to forgive and forget. Here’s what to know from our reportin...
www.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The sheer predictability of all of this is exhausting. It's an old song and we all know the words.
I moonlight as a proofreader for them and it takes So Much self control to not call people over to look at my computer so I can squeal "Look at this!!" over and over again
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I moonlight as a proofreader for them and it takes So Much self control to not call people over to look at my computer so I can squeal "Look at this!!" over and over again
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Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already
"Listen to what the statistically average person says."
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Listen to what the statistically average person says."
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RFK may do the most long-term damage, but Miller is the most thoroughly evil person in this Administration.
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
RFK may do the most long-term damage, but Miller is the most thoroughly evil person in this Administration.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
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We really need to stop allowing the fascists to dictate how we talk. They've openly said that even criticizing them is criminal. Anyone who isn't them is a "criminal" in their eyes. They don't believe in due process.
Literally no one deserves to be kidnapped off the street and disappeared
Literally no one deserves to be kidnapped off the street and disappeared
This isn't it. Embracing the police-state rhetoric of people with criminal records as "the worst of the worst," even if only to show the Trump regime's hypocrisy, is not helpful and ultimately abets fascism and a white-supremacist government. One in every three US adults has a criminal record.
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We really need to stop allowing the fascists to dictate how we talk. They've openly said that even criticizing them is criminal. Anyone who isn't them is a "criminal" in their eyes. They don't believe in due process.
Literally no one deserves to be kidnapped off the street and disappeared
Literally no one deserves to be kidnapped off the street and disappeared
My *kids* have all met Ruby Bridges, because she's spoken multiple times at their elementary school!
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My *kids* have all met Ruby Bridges, because she's spoken multiple times at their elementary school!
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The irony here is painful.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
The new owners of Teen Vogue have already erased her column.
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The irony here is painful.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
I'm literally crying. What an inexpressible loss.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'm literally crying. What an inexpressible loss.
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This is important context from Julie K. Brown.
With alt text.
With alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is important context from Julie K. Brown.
With alt text.
With alt text.
If I die because Microsoft can't be bothered to understand what nuclear licensing is before getting its hallucination machine involved? Yeah, I'm going to be pissed.
November 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If I die because Microsoft can't be bothered to understand what nuclear licensing is before getting its hallucination machine involved? Yeah, I'm going to be pissed.