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Politicians aren’t nearly outraged enough at the Trump regime disappearing these students of color. I’m not qwhite sure why?? But I bet we’d hear a very different tune if these students had the complexion for protection.

If you’re willing to sit silent when Black & brown people are denied due process and abducted by a fascist regime, then don’t be surprised when you’re the next victim of that same regime. That’s how fascism has always advanced—through complicit silence.

I've now seen a second instance of a quote attributed to me in a news site I've never heard of (and certainly was not interviewed for). In general, if the quote includes the phrase 'AI' with no scare quotes or other distance, that's a good sign it's not really from me.

I've written to ask for a retraction, so we'll see. I suspect this is yet another case of someone posting the text extruded from an LLM as if it were news. It's appalling.

I know trans people who range in age from 15 to in their 60s. I have noticed a few patterns. All of them are pretty normal. For those I've known before they let everyone know, they seemed much happier after, though that did take a few years in some cases. The only two people I know who are "struggling" are mostly struggling *because* they don't have a supportive family. But, most have supportive families, or families that learned to be supportive. And that is what I have noticed. Wow.

"As Defendants [Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security] acknowledge, they had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador—let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere. Having confessed grievous error, the Defendants now argue that this Court lacks the power to hear this case, and they lack the power to order Abrego Garcia’s return."

The judge is angry.

storage.courtlistener.com/reca

i have a new theory called alive internet theory where i propose that the internet is full of real people and you can befriend some of them even and maybe actually kiss them and more

**** Mastodon.social friends! ****

I accidentally blocked your entire instance instead of a pesky troll last night ( :awesome:) and severed all relationships with folks I was following (now restored) and now-former followers (🥹).

I've unblocked mastodon.social. Boosts to help let some former friends know would be great! Please.

Thanks!

Based on the shuttering of USAID alone, if the effective altruists had donated to block Trump's return to office, their return on investment would eclipse everything else they've accomplished in the past 15 years.

The tipping point is when Trump switches from "Tariff is the most beautiful word, and we are going to be so rich" to "Nobody knew we were going to be hit by a financial crisis because of the mess Biden left us".

Any day now.