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we're witnessing an internal movement of trans people the size of the 'great migration' of Black americans feeling jim crow important piece from @sereneblossom.gay www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.

It’s crazy to me this isn’t a daily refrain from Democrats.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

4. Of course, the most serious difference between this year's congressional elections and 2018's is the SCOTUS decision to legalize cheating. All discussion of generic ballot polling must be seen through the lens of white-power gerrymandering.

(looks out at a nation run entirely by Republicans, with literally everything in shambles and more and more disasters on the way) "You know, the thing I worry about is a handful of DSA candidates winning House primaries."

I've played around with AI enough to know what it is - and any academic using it as more than a fancy search engine is playing with fire. It is capable of some degree of synthesis, often flawed, and that's about it. If you're letting it do your thinking for you, you're a fraud.

"The greatest country in the world" shouldn't have hungry people, especially hungry children.

This isn’t a novel US foreign policy agenda: it’s just more in the open. Immediately after the ICC Rome Statute was adopted, the Bush Admin negotiated more than 100 bilateral immunity deals. I point this out because any future reckoning of the US & international law is much bigger than one term.

ACA enrollment has dropped in every state, except New Mexico. What's special about New Mexico? They are the only state to fully replace the extra federal premium subsidies that ended this year. www.kff.org/affordable-c...

Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...

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6/6 The consequences don't stop with the people who lost their jobs. Public health depends on specialized expertise and institutional knowledge that an take years to build. Removing thousands of people doing this work reduces our capacity to detect threats and protect all Americans.

1/6 Imagine your company announced that everyone hired in the last year was fired on Friday. Then, when the union objected, management said: “These aren't layoffs. We just individually decided thousands of people weren't working out.” That is essentially what an arbitrator found happened at HHS.

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I was reluctant to weigh in on the racial discourse about Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy. But finally I did. Here's why I don't think we *NEED* to have a Black Helen of Troy when Black/African cultures have so many other strong, beautiful heroines. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I fully agree with Karen's excellent essay here, which is not yet-another hot take on The Odyssey. There are so many stories out of non-European traditions which have not been told in globalized entertainment media. Those are what racial justice advocates should be focusing on most.

I've covered local government meetings for over 20 years, in a city where the mayor notoriously makes up rules to curb anything critical of city hall, especially clapping. So, it's worth a quick🧵 on how governments use rules of decorum to intimidate the public, even to throw opponents in jail.

It took them one year to normalize I.C.E. killing multiple unarmed people in single week. One year.

The older I get, the more I think about the fact that men fundamentally desire and benefit from closeness to women, and women thrive (and at least are physically safer) with distance from men.