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Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop.
You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
September 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop.
You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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rip annie dillard
September 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM
rip annie dillard
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Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine.
howtovote.tips
howtovote.tips
How to Vote / Cómo Votar
A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.
howtovote.tips
September 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine.
howtovote.tips
howtovote.tips
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An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.
September 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.
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Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
prospect.org
September 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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This is ethnic cleansing.
Anyway, here’s a section that will cut you to your core. Odds are 1-2% of the local Latino population has been deported & one community member thinks 25% have left.
September 11, 2026 at 1:49 PM
This is ethnic cleansing.
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This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress.
They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post.
I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail!
www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post.
I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail!
www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
September 4, 2026 at 10:20 PM
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress.
They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post.
I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail!
www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post.
I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail!
www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
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As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
www.theverge.com
September 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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If you want to know what medieval cookery looked like, 'The Forme of Cury' from 1390 is the oldest cookbook known in English, compiled by the cooks for Richard II.
The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org
August 31, 2026 at 3:18 AM
If you want to know what medieval cookery looked like, 'The Forme of Cury' from 1390 is the oldest cookbook known in English, compiled by the cooks for Richard II.
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🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott.
Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
August 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott.
Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
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Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
imaginationlibrary.com
August 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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It's worth reiterating every time the Trump regime performs one of these murders that they are murders, wholly illegal, & everyone in the chain of command from the president on down to the officers who fired the weapons should be prosecuted for their crimes in aiding & abetting the murders.
The Trump administration's lawless killing spree at sea resumes with a strike reportedly killing two supposed "narco-terrorists" in the eastern Pacific.
August 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM
It's worth reiterating every time the Trump regime performs one of these murders that they are murders, wholly illegal, & everyone in the chain of command from the president on down to the officers who fired the weapons should be prosecuted for their crimes in aiding & abetting the murders.
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BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next.
Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.
Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.
August 20, 2026 at 8:59 AM
BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next.
Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.
Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.
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🚨 The archived version of the suppressed Amnesty report into the anti-trans network operating to dismantle human rights in the UK has been "excluded" from the Wayback Machine.
JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.
JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.
August 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
🚨 The archived version of the suppressed Amnesty report into the anti-trans network operating to dismantle human rights in the UK has been "excluded" from the Wayback Machine.
JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.
JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.
i just think Patty Fairfield
youve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd
Trying to do a daily dumb little prompt to not think about The Horrors
August 16, 2026 at 12:42 AM
i just think Patty Fairfield
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Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030.
That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030.
That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
trying to explain to my mother that guilting me into things doesn't work because I'm experiencing a low-level feeling of guilt at all times anyway.
August 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
trying to explain to my mother that guilting me into things doesn't work because I'm experiencing a low-level feeling of guilt at all times anyway.
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Roman carnelian intaglio showing two grasshoppers fighting as gladiators, c.1st century BC.
August 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Roman carnelian intaglio showing two grasshoppers fighting as gladiators, c.1st century BC.
watching annie (1982)
me: i always assumed this was a good movie
my mom: you know what they say about assuming
me: i always assumed this was a good movie
my mom: you know what they say about assuming
August 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM
watching annie (1982)
me: i always assumed this was a good movie
my mom: you know what they say about assuming
me: i always assumed this was a good movie
my mom: you know what they say about assuming
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There is no ethical consumption of Harry Potter.
And not in the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" way. In the "your fandom is now comprised of hate symbols" way.
And not in the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" way. In the "your fandom is now comprised of hate symbols" way.
JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.
August 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
There is no ethical consumption of Harry Potter.
And not in the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" way. In the "your fandom is now comprised of hate symbols" way.
And not in the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" way. In the "your fandom is now comprised of hate symbols" way.
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SOME GOOD NEWS!
continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!
continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!
SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators.
More work ahead!
More work ahead!
The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉
Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference.
Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.
Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference.
Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.
August 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
SOME GOOD NEWS!
continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!
continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!