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Trump exec order repeats: Schools forfeit funds for accepting trans people
Trump’s anti-trans executive order #8. They want to shut down individual trans people & they don’t want to leave room for any trans person to claim they’re discriminated against for being trans.
Rescinded: ‘Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ People Around the World’
Trump’s anti-trans executive order #7. I’m surprised anyone would still be asking ‘Does Trump support LGBTQI+ rights?’ 10 years after he escalatored onto the campaign trail.
Helen Joyce celebrates the 2025 trans U.S. military ban (TalkTV)
She doesn’t have stats on who it may affect, but she doesn’t want us to be trans anywhere. The anti-trans movement is excited by Trump’s 2025 Inauguration Day order defining male and female as unchangeable and acknowledging no other genders.
When we don’t have Twitter, we’ll enjoy books again
Reading ‘Melancholic Parables’ as a parable of Twitter. Flash fiction by Dale Stromberg. One way to read it: who we are when we’re tweeting, who we think we are when we’re tweeting, and why we keep tweeting.
Gilbert Highet on censorship, 1954
A collage of his words. Cave man painting a running stag? Standards of good and evil? Transmuted into living flames? I’m in. Then I realize it’s an argument for censorship.
When you claim that experts don’t know their stuff
Jordan Peterson says climate scientists don’t define their terms. When a troll accuses someone else of bad-faith rhetoric, they’re usually only describing how they themselves operate. It’s spin. And it’s pure projection.
Project 2025 won’t listen to climate scientists
Non-scientists: Read beneath the surface. Climate scientists tell us we need to drop fossil fuels today. Project 2025 is trying to thwart this for what they see as U.S. economic interests.
Donald Trump’s corruption serves oil interests
The planet needs humans to protect it. Trump will destroy democracy for a dollar. It’s his position that everything he touches is his. The planet is on fire. Neither rich nor poor will survive.
If we left space for wild animals
An alternate reflection on the Binding of Isaac. Maybe you didn’t want this. On the other hand, it was an important step for you. On the third hand, you wouldn’t have been in this situation if—