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People need to be allowed to keep their ID cards
I hope everyone is aware of the threat to đłď¸â⧠ď¸trans Kansansâ IDs. If I had a Kansas ID, Kansas would ask me to surrender my ID. It’s nonsense. There’s never been a reckoning. Anti-trans moral panic is hotter than ever.
On a journey toward truth
New art, ancient thought. Truth and the meaning thereof isn’t in a dictionary. It’s something you go on a journey to find. Philosophy by Guillermo Hurtado.
Will everything be OK?
No one can promise, but we can prepare. Put your plan into action. Uncertainty is a fact of life. We can promise each other we’ll do the work. We can iteratively take that moment to think about what we need and to prepare.
Climate change is expensive, but thatâs not the point
Why would we calculate how many dollars the planet’s worth? How many trillion dollars? Does it matter? Climate change is very, very expensive. It will make us reassess what it means for something to be expensive.
Iâm not debating that
But whatâs this article doing, then? If cheese-breads are puffy, why are nut-breads less puffy? No one is asking what bakers are up to! Might be a conspiracy. Maybe nut-breads should be banned.
You wonât be afraid of that book anymore
Youâll feel better when you acknowledge your own reactions. Some people don’t want us to think and feel for ourselves, because doing so is part of what it means to be, and they want us to be afraid.
Green Birds Are Birds
But green is a color. Itâs a concept, not a thing you can point to â unless you find a thing or a living being that is green. A bird is a living being you might encounter in the air. You can see it in the world. Birds who are green are green and also birds. Theyâre green birds.
The living cathedral of knowledge
Secreting a shell. The cathedral is partly mine. Or is it a living snail, creeping ahead of me, of which I had lost sight, with which I am at this moment catching up?
How Many Anti-Trans Laws Were Proposed Last Week?
We need to pay attention to all 50 U.S. statesâas well as all countriesâbut doing all that in the same article makes for challenging storytelling and storylistening. Reedâs article yesterday highlighted five U.S. states, so Iâll go with her approach.