Last night at the Lynx game the league honored the leader of Haven Watch and the 10,000+ attendees rose to applaud
drawing a big red circle around the contrast here between the daughter’s telling of it and her mum’s and going straight to all the articles about gendercrit parents with sad tales of how their children were ‘suddenly transed’
The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"
They hate gender studies for the same reason they hate legitimate journalism: They don’t like people pointing out what they’re doing.
I’m a trans woman in my forties. Growing up without social media—and during Section 28—I knew nothing about transness and I knew no-one like me. I almost didn’t make it; I dread to think how many didn’t.
You can’t tell me that returning to this state is not an intended effect of this proposed ban.
It is impossibly hard to get an indictment for stalking when the stalker is an abusive ex.
It makes my blood boil that the DOJ indicted Minnesotans for observing ICE as a form of stalking.
These laws do not protect us. But they can be weaponized against us.
zuck managed to be at the right place at the right time for the social media explosion, stapled an ad money spigot to it, and has proceeded to completely fuck up every single decision he's made since
it would be impressive if it wasn't so destructive
I truly could not ask for a clearer example of what Republicans mean when they talk about “Judeo-Christian values.”