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39|he/him | historian, Ph.D from UMD |fil-am| this isn't just your dream.
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This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
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The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction.
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
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which is why britain, with its class system, has been such fertile ground.
The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction.
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
which is why britain, with its class system, has been such fertile ground.
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this isn't even how ice cream works, let alone news
@rishad.bsky.social: “The future — and viability — of your information ice cream shop is based on how many flavors you’re able to sell, based on how many user problems you have found to solve.”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/welc...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/welc...
December 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
this isn't even how ice cream works, let alone news
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Solidarity with the Jewish community, because I feel this every time I see a pride flag in my very Conservative town I live in. Minorities exist and we will continue to exist, and we need to stand together against the bigots who want us gone.
I wish all who celebrate a Happy Hanukkah. 🕎
I wish all who celebrate a Happy Hanukkah. 🕎
Annual reminder that if you see a menorah in someone’s window, that’s an act of defiance against bigotry and hate. It’s also pride and bravery.
It’s says “a Jew lives here” and that’s both painting a target but also reminding everyone that we still exist and we always will.
It’s says “a Jew lives here” and that’s both painting a target but also reminding everyone that we still exist and we always will.
December 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Solidarity with the Jewish community, because I feel this every time I see a pride flag in my very Conservative town I live in. Minorities exist and we will continue to exist, and we need to stand together against the bigots who want us gone.
I wish all who celebrate a Happy Hanukkah. 🕎
I wish all who celebrate a Happy Hanukkah. 🕎
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Veggie garden people: i accidentally let my winter squash freeze on the vine. They are essentially bowling balls now. Are they toast? Do I have to toss them? Is there anything I can do with them once they defrost? 😭 help
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December 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Veggie garden people: i accidentally let my winter squash freeze on the vine. They are essentially bowling balls now. Are they toast? Do I have to toss them? Is there anything I can do with them once they defrost? 😭 help
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this is, of course, exactly what republicans have always intended for vouchers to do: defund public education to facilitate the creation of a private system of segregation academies
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
this is, of course, exactly what republicans have always intended for vouchers to do: defund public education to facilitate the creation of a private system of segregation academies
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Yet one more reason we cannot allow LLMs to serve as epistemic grounding is that we cannot triangulate among them the way you can among reasonable independent sources. They bullshit in the same way and end up agreeing with one other about things that are completely false.
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Yet one more reason we cannot allow LLMs to serve as epistemic grounding is that we cannot triangulate among them the way you can among reasonable independent sources. They bullshit in the same way and end up agreeing with one other about things that are completely false.
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Reminder that if anyone is setting you up online to do some crime, THAT PERSON IS A COP.
ALWAYS.
WITHOUT FAIL.
ALWAYS.
WITHOUT FAIL.
Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Reminder that if anyone is setting you up online to do some crime, THAT PERSON IS A COP.
ALWAYS.
WITHOUT FAIL.
ALWAYS.
WITHOUT FAIL.
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"While we will never be able to know the exact meaning this manuscript carried, I am heartened by the thought that queer monks may have used it to find community in their monstrous, Christ-like existence."
Christ, What a Monster!
Something gendered was going on here.
contingentmagazine.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"While we will never be able to know the exact meaning this manuscript carried, I am heartened by the thought that queer monks may have used it to find community in their monstrous, Christ-like existence."
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A kid goes from their short form social media, carefully curated to exclude visible disabilities and marginalizations, to a video job interview, which does the same thing.
And both, paired, make this whole process perfectly normal. The pattern that emerges is seen as just normal and unbiased.
And both, paired, make this whole process perfectly normal. The pattern that emerges is seen as just normal and unbiased.
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
A kid goes from their short form social media, carefully curated to exclude visible disabilities and marginalizations, to a video job interview, which does the same thing.
And both, paired, make this whole process perfectly normal. The pattern that emerges is seen as just normal and unbiased.
And both, paired, make this whole process perfectly normal. The pattern that emerges is seen as just normal and unbiased.
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The result is a workplace that has fewer disabled people than you'd expect, fewer trans people than you'd expect.
And a social media environment where it seems normal that none of the creators you follow, are deaf.
And a social media environment where it seems normal that none of the creators you follow, are deaf.
December 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The result is a workplace that has fewer disabled people than you'd expect, fewer trans people than you'd expect.
And a social media environment where it seems normal that none of the creators you follow, are deaf.
And a social media environment where it seems normal that none of the creators you follow, are deaf.
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The obvious purpose of video job interviews is to give employers a plausibly deniable reason to not hire disabled and other visibly marginalized people.
You gotta wonder how much the purpose of such as short form video media, is the same. It creates a media environment curated to exclude.
You gotta wonder how much the purpose of such as short form video media, is the same. It creates a media environment curated to exclude.
December 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The obvious purpose of video job interviews is to give employers a plausibly deniable reason to not hire disabled and other visibly marginalized people.
You gotta wonder how much the purpose of such as short form video media, is the same. It creates a media environment curated to exclude.
You gotta wonder how much the purpose of such as short form video media, is the same. It creates a media environment curated to exclude.
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It’s difficult to have to do this again but I’m still waiting on the state to move forward with my case for getting state medical insurance while disabled to get and I need ASAP mutual aid get this month’s meds this Thursday
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December 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It’s difficult to have to do this again but I’m still waiting on the state to move forward with my case for getting state medical insurance while disabled to get and I need ASAP mutual aid get this month’s meds this Thursday
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The West doesn't have an immigrant problem.
It has a white supremacy and capitalism problem.
It has a white supremacy and capitalism problem.
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The West doesn't have an immigrant problem.
It has a white supremacy and capitalism problem.
It has a white supremacy and capitalism problem.
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Two-story outhouse
Gays, IL
Gays, IL
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Two-story outhouse
Gays, IL
Gays, IL
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Today I remembered that there is a resource that is just a list of almost one hundred humanities PhDs who have transitioned to other careers and are available to talk about it.
You can schedule an informational interview or invite them to talk to your department!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
You can schedule an informational interview or invite them to talk to your department!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Alt-Ac Support network
docs.google.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Today I remembered that there is a resource that is just a list of almost one hundred humanities PhDs who have transitioned to other careers and are available to talk about it.
You can schedule an informational interview or invite them to talk to your department!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
You can schedule an informational interview or invite them to talk to your department!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Jon Ossoff (GA), Gary Peters (MI), Jack Reed (RI), Jacky Rosen (NV), Chuck Schumer (NY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Elissa Slotkin (MI), Mark Warner (VA), Raphael Warnock (GA), & Sheldon Whitehouse (RI).
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Jon Ossoff (GA), Gary Peters (MI), Jack Reed (RI), Jacky Rosen (NV), Chuck Schumer (NY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Elissa Slotkin (MI), Mark Warner (VA), Raphael Warnock (GA), & Sheldon Whitehouse (RI).
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Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->
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Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
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28 Democrats voted yes on a bill that motherfucking TED CRUZ voted no on. It could not have passed without those 28 so check the list and if one of your senators is on it don't forget to write or call to tell them they're a bigot and a quisling and worse. Than. TED. FUCKING. CRUZ.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
28 Democrats voted yes on a bill that motherfucking TED CRUZ voted no on. It could not have passed without those 28 so check the list and if one of your senators is on it don't forget to write or call to tell them they're a bigot and a quisling and worse. Than. TED. FUCKING. CRUZ.
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There's the "I want shorter games worse graphics not kidding etc etc" phrase, how about "I want artists to be able to make mistakes and make weird unappealing shit sometimes and not starve"
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
There's the "I want shorter games worse graphics not kidding etc etc" phrase, how about "I want artists to be able to make mistakes and make weird unappealing shit sometimes and not starve"
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When I went to college a hundred years ago (2000-4), my school was actively recruiting humanities majors, w scholarships etc. Institutions incentivize areas of study in order to grow them. And they underfund them intentionally to strangle them. It’s not a random natural phenomenon.
one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
December 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
When I went to college a hundred years ago (2000-4), my school was actively recruiting humanities majors, w scholarships etc. Institutions incentivize areas of study in order to grow them. And they underfund them intentionally to strangle them. It’s not a random natural phenomenon.
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We have moved beyond the need for Vox.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
We have moved beyond the need for Vox.