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The conservative vision of free speech in two consecutive sentences

If I told you this was not about fossil fuel air pollution that kills 200,000 people a year but instead about people smoking pot in public would you believe me

The intersex exemptions in the trans health care bans are no mere hypocrisy--they give up the whole game. They preserve the right to deny intersex people autonomy over their own bodies because that's the central project of these laws--to enforce binary gender assignment.

so the tiktok ban is just a huge internet restriction bill? it says using a VPN to access "banned apps" lands you a minimum imprisonment 20 years + a fine of either $250k or $1 mil. the president appoints someone to head a group that monitors anything that access the internet

Solving the horrifying problem of sexual violence in academia will require task forces with actual power as well as student representation. To be blunt, it isn’t going to be solved by toothless #DEI committees. Justice is only justice if survivors say so. Change should happen now

One intended effect of Trump threatening to ban care for trans adults is it makes bans on care for trans youth seem like the more "moderate" position