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to misquote
@kierongillen
: I don’t believe in modern love, but do believe in ‘This Modern Love’.
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A teacher saw a 12-year-old Black kid play with a Nerf gun at home on Zoom, videorecorded him, showed cops. Cops went to his home. He was suspended, his disciplinary record says he took "a fascimile of a firearm to school" & he now has a criminal record with the sheriff's office.
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despite all the Tweets about how inspiring and moving this is, TEENAGERS USING THEIR HIGH SCHOOL VALEDICTORIAN SPEECH TO BEG ADULTS TO REVERSE GOVERNMENT-IMPOSED RESTRICTIONS ON SUPPORT FOR LGBT STUDENTS ISN’T INSPIRATIONAL, IT’S A SIGN THAT SOMETHING HAS GONE VERY WRONG
florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe
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~during a pandemic~
~during Pride Month~
~on the anniversary of a deadly mass shooting at Pulse gay nightclub~
BREAKING: The Trump administration just finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people in health care and health insurance.
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the right is now openly describe the Pride flag as “the flag of a hostile enemy” to the United States. just in case you’re tracking escalating rhetoric that positions LGBT people as traitors to society
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Surely "[Student's name], could you please put your toy away and concentrate on class?" was the appropriate way to navigate this.
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his public persona might be ‘cantankerous old man’ but Bernie’s deep dark secret is that he’s actually a normie whose go-to pose in pictures with his son is grinning and giving each other bunny ears
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It feels worth pointing out that 3 of the 4 anti-war protestors who were killed by the National Guard in the 1970 Kent State massacre were Jewish students.
jonathan greenblatt, the president of the ADL, posted a video outside of the columbia university campus today that included a call to "bring in the national guard."
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It’s also worth noting that, according to the article, the 9-year-old cis girl who was harassed at her track & field meet by a random man who decided that she was trans because she had short hair *also^ has two lesbian moms who the man also harassed.
“Girl, 9, accused of being trans at Kelowna track meet”
This is where anti-trans hate leads. It is an attack on all forms of gender non-conformity, ending in the re-imposition of regressive gender norms and threatening progress on women’s rights.
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How is this snide tweet targeting Greta Gerwig and not, like, Aaron Sorkin?
Dear Greta Gerwig,
Please resist the temptation to recast the riots as a coming-of-age love story where Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan play congressional interns from different sides of the aisle swept up in the chaos.
Sincerely,
@TonyBravoSF
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i've wanted to tweet this for a week, but seriously Manila won this lipsync 5 seconds in the moment she wistfully leaned back against the doorframe and tilted her head back in a daydream. pure embodiment of the song.
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A trans woman won a bunch of Jeopardy episodes & now bigots are claiming Jeopardy prizes are somehow being taken away from cis women & want separate categories of competition for trans people? Are they under the impression that Jeopardy is a gender-segregated show?
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Oh and apparently the teacher didn’t record the kid specifically - the school video learning system was *automatically recording all the kids without any of them knowing?????* which is almost worse???
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again, the concept that Jews are a distinct 'nation' living among but not of the nation-states of which they were citizens is *literally* a main source of the antisemitic ideas that Jews are fifth columns & foreign infiltrators whose primary loyalty is only to other Jews
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This week’s Drag Race is a roast, which reminded me of maybe my favourite RPDR roast moment - when Sasha Velour described Valentina as “A queen who combines all the excitement of smiling with the thrill of … just standing there.”
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An Israeli woman whose mother is being held hostage by Hamas expressed her opposition to war crimes and the bombing of Gaza, so CNN added an “Editor’s Note” to provide a caveat that she is a peace activist…as if that somehow undermines her statement.
Have y’all ever seen an editor’s note like this? Since when did CNN need to start adding additional context?
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@kyliiemadiison
@benjaminbutter
@SamF_H
@IndieWire
Correct. Not everything in his personal life is public. Thus, he can only be understood and held accountable for what he chooses to make public. What he’s chosen to say, publicly, is a deeply ignorant & homophobic comment about gay male sexuality & its portrayal in cinema.
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One of the most toxic things about Elon Twitter is how the mass unbanning of white supremacists means that Hitler-loving far-right bigots like this ‘Lucas Gage’ guy are now trying to build an audience by posting ostensibly pro-Palestinian tweets & then mixing in this crap.
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Seriously, I know we already said this last week and the week before, but homophobic straight frat bros jokingly do “gay” things all the time because they think the existence of gay people is funny. We can tell the difference.
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@Esqueer_
And then the cops cuffed and detained the hero and wouldn’t let him go find his wounded family members.
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Like, this is heinous bigotry and it’s ugly and awful but it’s also deeply ridiculous? Even if Jeopardy adopted these people’s transphobic ideas about gender… trans & cis women would still compete together because *everyone* in Jeopardy competes together, regardless of gender.
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Transphobes who spent years claiming to be motivated by women’s rights are starting to grapple with the fact that most women and most feminists disagree with them and aren’t transphobic. But instead of reconsidering their own bigotry, they’ve decided that *women* are the problem.
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Maybe this time the response to a mass shooting at a shul on Shabbat by an antisemitic white nationalist exactly six months after the last one can be dedicating media attention, government resources & police investigations into violent far-right white supremacist terrorism.
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for all the discussion of MAUS over the past week, very few articles address how much it is not just a book about the inhumanity of the Holocaust, but also a book about what it means to survive & how it lingered with survivors & how it impacted their children
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so this is fairly common rhetoric from transphobes who insist that queer youth are pressured into transitioning to avoid being bullied for gender non-conformity. a key flaw in this logic: in what universe do these people think homophobic bullies are enthusiastic trans allies?
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it turns out that the “I love Hamas” stickers with the UBC Social Justice Center’s name on them that were posted all over UBC campus were actually posted by an “independent contractor” who worked for Hillel and was trying to smear and incite anger at Palestinian rights supporters
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It doesn’t matter how many former 1Directioners think he’s secretly queer or how many annoyed gay people think he’s queerbaiting. His comments erase the history of LGBT film in an attempt to position his new movie as uniquely tender & romantic…
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“J.K. Rowling bravely sacrificed her career to preserve cis women’s God-given right to sex-segregated televised trivia competitions and protect Adult Human Trivia-Ladies from the unfair advantages of male brains.” - Next week’s Guardian editorial, probably.
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I don’t have many thoughts about the Luke Combs cover of Fast Car but I will say that every time he looked at Tracy during their performance together it was with a look of absolute disbelief & reverence for the person who wrote what has been his favourite song since he was a kid
Tracy Chapman, who has not performed in public in years, performs "Fast Car" with Luke Combs at the
#Grammys
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Two lesbian mothers are called groomers and pedophiles by a random transphobic and homophobic straight man because he thinks that their 9-year-old cis daughter is trans because she has a pixie cut. Somehow, this is a defence of women’s rights. 🤔
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Reading archives of underground Gay Comix from the 1980s and it’s all very “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” - most of the comics about bad pickup line, gay trans men navigating the queer community, sexual racism, etc. could just as easily be published today
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“I’m not inciting anti-LGBT violence by falsely claiming that performances by drag queens cause pedophilia. It’s a total coincidence that my replies are full of people praising the shooter for stopping a drag show & posting memes about mutilating gay people with wood-chippers.”
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@kyliiemadiison
@benjaminbutter
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…and simultaneously imply that, in order for gay film to be tender/positive, it needs to be sanitized of portrayals of gay sexuality that doesn’t fit ideals of heteronormative romance aka “guys going at it”.
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yes, he deserves praise for being politically engaged and eloquent and brave, but this is kind of like praising stirring Supreme Court dissents or the bravery of unarmed protestors facing off vs. riot cops. the need for the thing you’re praising is a big flashing warning light
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@kyliiemadiison
@benjaminbutter
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Harry’s deliberately ambiguous approach to use of queer aesthetics & public discussion of his sexuality *does not matter* (which is ostensibly what he wants, right?). What matters is that his comments are reinforcing messed up ideas about gay male sexuality & queer men.
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I didn’t sit through the “James Naismith saws the bottom off of a peach basket and invents a sport” Heritage Minute 8000000 times when I’d rather have been watching the Dr. Wilder Penfield “burning toast” Heritage Minute for you to call basketball an American sport.
Just watched a Canadian team win a championship in an American sport while drinking beer from a Dutch multinational conglomerate at an Irish-themed bar in Brazil while wearing a cap with a Japanese baseball team's logo. Then took an Uber home. Have achieved peak
@neoliberal
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🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Here's Trump's full quote about how he's building a wall in Colorado.
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Clark Kent (the original Superman) still loves Lois (not Louis) Lane. DC comics (not Hollywood) have revealed Clark & Lois’ son Jon (the current Superman) is bisexual (not gay). Current Superman’s love interest isn’t Lois Lane because she is his mother & that would be messed up.
Superman loves Louis Lane. Period. Hollywood is trying to make Superman gay and he is not. Just rename the new version Thooperman so we can all know the difference and avoid seeing it.
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He cased a synagogue a few months before committing a mass shooting in a city whose population is 30-50% Jewish (Jews are only 2% of the US pop.), 4 of 7 killed were Jewish, peers described him as posting racist Snapchat rants, he ran a discord called ‘SS’. Media: No Ideology!
It appears that the Highland Park shooting suspect has no ideological or political bent. Yet extremism researchers say these acts may actually be part of a troubling new trend. One that involves dark subcultures that glorify violence and foster nihilism.
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the ‘kink at Pride’ discourse claiming fully-clothed people were “non-consensually” forcing crowds into sex by wearing leather in the Pride Parade was respectability politics & set up these attacks on drag queens, gender non-conformity & any public displays of queerness
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Dear fellow non-Black people, I promise it’s possible for you to praise Stacey Abrams (and other Black politicians!) without treating her as a symbol or a totem instead of as a person and without acting as if her political activism was done for your benefit.
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since the earliest live performances of her career back in her country days, she’s always looked far more comfortable and had far more stage presence with a guitar in her hands or sitting at a piano. The choreographed dance numbers just…aren’t her vibe.
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the birding society that Christian Cooper belongs to put out a better and more comprehensive statement of support about the pervasive nature of anti-Black racism in American society than most organisations ever do when their members are subjected to racism.
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Bernie Sanders is not cool, has no desire to be cool, could not succeed at being cool even if he tried, and thus does not even bother making the attempt, and tbh it’s refreshing.
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Sorry…the leaked Alito draft would overturn Roe v. Wade and sets up groundwork for overturning basically all rights to autonomy and privacy that SCOTUS thinks aren’t “deeply rooted” in history & the Democratic response is that Republicans “will now have to explain themselves”?
Spkr Pelosi and Sen Schumer out with a statement. They say that "several of these conservative Justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, lied to the U.S. Senate" Say Republicans who voted for them "will now have to explain themselves to the American people.”
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“Does the shooter have a GoFundMe account?” - a Christian Twitter account with OVER 14 THOUSAND FOLLOWERS, expressing a desire to financially support the man who shot up an LGBT club and murdered 5 people.
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There are plenty of other ugly and cold-hearted things that Kissinger did and said and wrote in his life, but this one always sticks with me, given that he was a refugee whose family escaped the Nazis by fleeing to America in 1938, when he was 15 years old.
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Seb Gorka wants you to know Trump & his family aren’t racist, because they love America & its people: “Jew, Legal Immigrant, or natural born citizen.” Strange how he presents Jews as a distinct third group who are neither immigrants nor natural American citizens... 🤔
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right-wing Christians successfully attacking a left-wing Jew by alleging that they’re “antisemitic” has become such a common feature of political discourse over the past few years that I’m not even angry anymore, just exhausted at the prospect of more of this bullshit.
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when I read Harry Potter as a kid, I thought that the Death Eaters were a pretty obvious Nazi allegory & that they were evil because they wanted to exclude people from society based on “blood purity” & thought certain “races” of magical creatures were inherently inferior.
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oh dear lord he’s been doing it for decades.
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Seriously, though, you can’t make this up. TERFs responding to Atwood with “I don’t remember any trans women in Gilead. Now why would that be, I wonder?” with seemingly no self-awareness.
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I just found the most galaxy brain antisemitic “Bernie Sanders is antisemitic” take on this entire website: “Bernie is a good example of how Jews can be antisemitic because he only cares about poor people & Jews are usually rich.” Seriously.
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An unhoused person ranting out loud and making noise on the subway that bothers people might be~disturbing~ to some people’s sensibilities, but it isn’t a crime & it definitely doesn’t justify physical assault. This guy killed a man for causing a scene in public.
This seems to be a straightforward case of someone murdering someone else in broad daylight?
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The one actually interesting thing from that NYT article is that it links to a Substack post from anti-trans groups that is explicitly about their strategic decision to moderate their language (but not their views) in order to get published in major media.
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@alex_abads
Hercules already has a pandimensional Kree twink boyfriend! Now he’s just being greedy and collecting all the Marvel twinks like infinity stones.
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I simply CANNOT. media have spent so much time demonizing Bernie & comparing his movement to Nazis that when journalists tweet about far-right protestors who showed up at a Bernie rally with *SWASTIKA FLAGS* to intimidate the Jewish candidate, people reply like this:
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so…the UK’s anti-trans panic is resulting in…the government selectively amending laws on medical privacy so that they can gather and study the private medical records of trans people and *only* trans people? without their consent?
Every trans child treated on NHS in past decade will have medical records scrutinised to see how many regret transitioning
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This opinion is grotesque and ugly. Being Jewish is not determined by one’s opinions about the modern political nation-state of Israel.
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On reflection, it’s strange (and arguably Islamophobic) that the word ‘martyr’ has seemingly gained the connotation of “someone committing violence” but almost exclusively in relation to Muslims. Both Christian & Jewish uses of the word refer to murdered victims of persecution.
While I don't condone this message, it is important to understand for two billion Muslims worldwide, the word "martyr" in Arabic also refers to a civilian casualty in war. For example, on someone's tombstone, it might say: "Martyr Fatima Nasir, who tragically lost her life in…
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The wildest thing about this outrage is that DC is currently blocking screenings of a critically-acclaimed movie by a trans director that’s *actually* about a trans Joker instead of whatever wacky Silver Age magic pregnancy is going on in the short back-up comic Fox is mad about.
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maybe it’s time to reflect on why far-right Christian nationalists who think Black people’s votes are illegitimate identify strongly with Israel & make defending occupation of Palestinian land without citizenship or equality a core part of their political & religious ID
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Straight liberals - you aren’t being queer allies in any way by mocking or trying to shame straight homophobic asshole GOP congressmen by claiming they’re actually gay due to this type of juvenile nonsense. You’re just playing into the same ‘humour’ they were in the videos.
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The guts? It takes guts to walk outside for a photo op surrounded by armed military after dispersing entirely peaceful protestors with tear gas and rubber bullets? This is a deluded fantasy of fake machismo.
Hard to imagine any other
@POTUS
having the guts to walk out of the White House like this:
@realDonaldTrump
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It seems relevant that this poll, which “finds” that 89% of US Jews support Israel’s military campaign in Gaza & 62% support how Israel is conducting the campaign, only counts US Jews who identify as religiously Jewish & not those who identify as culturally or ethnically Jewish.
New Pew poll of American Jews:
• 89% support Israel’s military campaign against Hamas.
• 62% back the way Israel is carrying out the war in Gaza.
• 54% have a favorable view of Israeli government.
• 45% think Biden is striking the right balance.
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But apparently I (and anyone else who thought that Death Eaters were bad because they were violent reactionary racial supremacists) did not understand the books, and they were *actually* evil because they did not tolerate disagreement.
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LGBTQ children are not an ironic punishment for your right-wing political enemies. When you wish for the children of homophobic or transphobic politicians to be gay or trans, you are wishing for something that will be horrifically traumatic for that child.
I don’t care how tall 16-year-old Barron Trump is, as long as he grows up happy, and gay, and marries a beautiful Mexican man.
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look as a queer Jew it’s validating that AF likely wasn’t straight but the dynamics/politics of a Jewish survivor of Nazi genocide publishing his murdered teenage daughter’s diary in the 1950s is already complicated & characterizing it as homophobic erasure is simplistic & gross
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this way of conceptualizing Jewish identity - as a trans/international nationality, the wandering Jew, living everywhere but loyal to nowhere - was the core of centuries of antisemitism in both Europe and the United States & was central to the Protocols, Mein Kampf, etc. etc.
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for Trump, any criticism of Israel *is* antisemitism, because he believes that Americans = white Christians & that just like e.g. Mexican-American aren't "really" American, American Jews are not *really* *entirely* American and their primary loyalty *should be* to Israel.
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It doesn’t codify legal same-sex marriage! It codifies Windsor - not Obergefell. The legislation means that states would be required to recognize gay marriages performed in other states, but if Obergefell were overturned, this law wouldn’t require states to let gays marry there.
NEW: US House votes 267-157 to pass a bill that would codify legal same-sex marriage nationwide, fearing the Supreme Court will rescind the right after it overturned Roe v. Wade last month; legislation moves to the Senate, where its future remains unclear.
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Runners up include Detox saying that Michelle Visage loves Showgirls because, like Nomi Malone, she gets through life by relying on the talents of her Black friend. Or Peppermint’s “Not since Destiny’s Child has a Michelle become so famous from riding somebody else’s coattails.”
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people flag down cops to ‘assist’ Black store owners defending their business from people trying to loot it and the cops instead try to handcuff the store owners & the other Black people who were helping them.
This is one of the most absolutely insane moments I've ever seen on live television.
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Bernie Sanders is promoting unrealistic pie-in-the-sky ideas like publicly funded universal healthcare similar to that in many other countries, whereas Joe Biden is a pragmatic realist who will keep exploitative private insurance but cure every major disease so nobody needs it.
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I wish Variety’s headline made it clear that this isn’t referring to a denial of a request made arising from Britney’s recent testimony - it’s the official release of the judge’s order from late 2020 that appointed an independent company as a co-conservator.
Judge Denies Britney Spears’ Request to Remove Father From Conservatorship
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He had a viral tweet re standing with Palestine as a former US marine with 50,000 retweets & now he has 150,000 followers (presumably because it’s such a relief to see an American who isn’t an anti-Palestinian bigot?) but when you scroll down his Twitter feed is full of Nazi shit
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People are spreading
@socialistdogmom
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This is so *obviously* hitting every single one of Sorkin’s favourite story tropes, like, it would be a decent Sorkin joke but they’d rather be misogynist I guess.
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Trump's explicit motivation for this is to make it easier for him to use the gov't to target Muslims & Palestinian student movements who protest Israel on campus, but his means mirrors the ethnonationalist concept of identity that underpins everything he says about America & Jews
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@AnnikaNewnham
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Sure. But equally so, that doesn’t mean that movies about gay men need to avoid portraying gay sexuality in order to be romantic or tender!
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Imagine if the NYTimes reported on a study that more teenagers were coming out as gay and lesbian, and that 94% of them were still gay or lesbian in their 20s, and added the caveat that it’s possible those who still identify as gay do so due to “pressure”.
This story describes the findings of a longitudinal study of trans youth. Five years after they transitioned, 94% still identify as trans.
The Times immediately invites us to consider the possibility that they're being "pressured."
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this is why he tells American Jews that Bibi is "your Prime Minister" & why he thinks that American Jews should vote for him because of his Israel policy & why he thinks that American Jews are "disloyal" to Israel (because he thinks they owe Israel loyalty!) etc. etc. etc.
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The students are chanting “Trudeau, Trudeau, you can’t hide”, not “Judah”. The idea that a bunch of kids are chanting the name of an ancient Biblical kingdom that split from the Kingdom of Israel after the time of King Solomon & not the name of our Prime Minister is bizarre.
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His wife and daughter survived, but reportedly his daughter’s boyfriend didn’t. So…cuffed, left in a car & ignored for over an hour while he wondered if his family survived, thereby preventing him from being there for his wounded daughter whose boyfriend had just been murdered.
Atrevida Beer Co. in
#ColoradoSprings
is owned by Jess and Rich Fierro. The Atrevia FB claims Rich Fierro helped take down the gunman inside Club Q. They say his daughter's boyfriend died in the shooting.
Fierro is a veteran. No police confirmation yet, but he's also a hero.
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No one is suggesting that this student isn’t brave or eloquent or that his involvement in activism is bad. But adults shouldn’t be *inspired* by kids speaking out vs. government bigotry - we should be preventing the government from persecuting them in the first place.
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But then when Palestinians who have been vocal advocates for their own people for YEARS call the bigoted grifters out, they accuse those Palestinians of being ‘Zionist ops’. It’s deranged.
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I mean, you already knew this if you ever watched the videos of him talking politics with Killer Mike or Cardi B or talking about the indie bands who perform at his rallies without any pretense of knowing who they are musically but this really brings it home.
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Claiming George Soros is using his wealthy socialist Jewish power & money to manipulate Palestinians and their allies into protesting the bombings that killed 10,000 Palestinians in the last month is a remarkably efficient way to be simultaneously anti-Palestinian & antisemitic.
Rep. Harriet Hageman on Newsmax claims that George Soros is behind pro-Palestinian protests
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Not every homophobe is a closet case & it’s a narrative that straight people are eager to embrace because it lets them off the hook. Cawthorn is a fascist creep credibly accused of sexually harassing women. Trying to end his political career by pretending he’s gay doesn’t help us
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seriously: as someone who was regularly bullied by peers who (accurately) guesses that I was gay long before I came out, the notion that they would have been *kinder* to me had I instead came out as trans is ludicrous.
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this is grotesquely offensive. you don't commemorate the Holocaust by implying via Twitter meme that diaspora Jews murdered by the Nazis were weak or worse than modern Israeli Jews. this guy is the deputy spokesman of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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If Cawthorn were actually gay, he wouldn’t be filming goofy videos of him & his friend playing gay chicken or getting naked & pretending to hump a friend’s face while laughing & making exaggerated over the top sex noises. Cut this shit out. It’s as homophobic as the video itself.
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I told all of my cult-like supporters who listen to my every word that they shouldn’t vote by mail and now most of the mail-in votes are for my opponent! How is this possible?
How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?
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Just spitballing here, but it’s probably because the book’s theocratic society defined by rigid essentialist ideas about gender & sexuality executed LGBT people as ‘gender traitors’.
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if you keep carving out exceptions to your principles (Blackface is bad! It’s wrong to mock people for being fat! Sexual assault allegations vs. politicians should be taken seriously! etc.) along partisan lines, people will reasonably think you don’t really hold those principles.
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In 2010, Republicans had a popular margin of 7.2% and gained 6 Senate seats and 63 House seats.
In 2018, Democrats will have a popular margin of ~9.2%, lose seats in the Senate & gain maybe 34 House seats.
This is what gerrymandering and the urban-rural divide has done.
The NYT currently projects a national popular-vote margin of D+9.2%. The largest popular margin since 2008, larger than waves of 1994, 2006, 2010, 2014.
1994: R+7.1%
2006: D+8.0%
2008: D+10.6%
2010: R+7.2%
2014: R+5.7%
By historical standards, this a popular wave.
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the main targets of this policy are Palestinians, but its effect is also to redefine Jewish identity & antisemitism as primarily related Israel (& reinforce the right-wing project of redefining left-wing Jews, esp. those critical of Israel, as not really Jewish / as antisemitic)
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One can only wonder why a Jew whose uncle, grandparents & cousins were murdered in the Shoah would be upset by a journalist comparing his electoral success to a Nazi invasion. It will remain a mystery forever but sources think it’s likely because he’s an angry stubborn cruel man.
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The other obvious red flag about these guys is, despite tweeting about Palestine to drive engagement to their accounts, they rarely share posts by Palestinian journalists, activists or people. They aren’t seeking to elevate Palestinian voices - just raise their own profiles.
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