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This is tremendous from
@maragay
on the way that the decision by NY State legislature (with both houses led by Dems) to protect suburban single family zoning will deepen the housing crisis in NY.
i know many trans people are drag ambivilant, i was too for awhile. i went to drag shows, had a friend who was a drag queen briefly, enjoyed all the ones i went to. but watching reactionaries use drag as a proxy war against trans people has made me realize we need eachother
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Help Cory Doctorow! Taking a stand against DRM means Audible won't carry his audiobooks. So, he must self-produce his novels & then presell them on Kickstarter. His new book is *Red Team Blues*, an anti-finance finance thriller about MMT and the rot at the core of Silicon Valley.
There seems (I dont know the data) to be a rise in these evictions where someone gets shot. Sheriffs argue this shows a need for more firepower. But what if it's just that evictions are bad?
The difference between DeSantis and Trump for me is the difference between an elminationist effort to silence and erase trans people and an elminationist effort to silence and erase trans people but in a silly hat
“Yes, we may have snow instead of sand on the ground for four months of the year, but beach weather can be far chillier than New York winters for those who do not fit into the right-wing agenda of Florida politicians.”
Enovid is really expensive & I am once again resentful of the fact that the PH establishment is coercing those of us who take Covid seriously to pay exorbitant amounts of $$, energy, & time to continue to avoid it rather than socializing the costs by requiring masks.
Not a dunk - but this is a common mistake people made because the attack on trans people has been categorized as simply an LGBT issue (which to be sure it is) when it should be understood as another prong in the war over reproductive freedom and access to healthcare.