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I literally posted yesterday about what a badass feminist icon JKR is, and how she spends her fortune helping women. And then today, this.
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BREAKING: “The J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund (JKRWF) offers legal funding support to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women’s sex-based rights in the workplace, in public life,…
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On the great Helen Joyce in interviews after UK Supreme Court ruling:
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ACTION ALERT: Tell Senator Fetterman to take accountability for his aid’s insulting remarks and disrespectful behavior to women advocating for their sex-based rights.
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Thank you Here is a deep-dive into what parents face when educators confuse and manipulate their children.
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Imane Khelif is a man. Anyone who thinks he should have the right to punch women in the boxing ring is either a moron or a sadist. Or both.
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J.K. Rowling has donated an estimated $160 million to charity — a staggering amount, with significant portions going to women’s rights and gay and lesbian organizations. She doesn’t just talk — she gives. And for that, she continues to prove herself as one of the only celebrities who actually puts her money where her mouth is.
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Brilliant essay that I cannot do justice to via numerous excerpts! Go read.
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We now have a new definition of “gender affirming care,” according to Nina Selvaggio, the executive director of the Greater Boston PFLAG:
“Ensuring that they [trans identifying people] don’t fall victim to not taking care of easily preventable diseases… that’s what gender-affirming care really is," Selvaggio said.
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I don’t want foreign students out of Harvard but I do want foreign billionaires out of the government
JVL is not necessarily wrong about Biden presiding over the victory of Trumpism. But at the same time, Trumpism is what the American people wanted. Biden's biggest failure was assuming that the American people wanted decency, competency, and seriousness in their elected leaders. Biden assumed wrong, but is that his fault or ours?
Biden's biggest failures:
1) Assuming the American people wanted infrastructure spending, green energy spending, student loan forgiveness, Ukraine spending, and domestic chip manufacturing instead of what Americans had been shouting about since 2021: that the cost of living, inflation, housing/rent costs, and the broken immigration system were the things they wanted to see addressed first.
2) Thinking he could run for a second term at 82 when he promised to be a generational bridge candidate.
3) B…
Sure, Travis, but you know better than anyone here that Trump isn't going to do shit to address the issues Americans claim they care about.
Oh he’s gonna do some of it. At the very least he’s gonna do a whole lot of deportations. But he’ll also lie to them a bunch about how he’s supposedly making the economy better in a way that will convince them that he is. That’s because he knows how to sell a narrative better than dems do.
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A new trade deal?
I think not. We got a deal we were always going to get, at twice the cost, and half the value.
A classic Trumpian bargain.
Why end food safety inspections? Why kill chronic illness research? Why engender vaccine cynicism?
This is the absolute best piece I’ve read on MAHA, RFK Jr’s NIH, etc. clarifying and terrifying.
I am a blue dot in a DEEP red state and an even deeper red parish in Louisiana. And for the first time since Nov 5th, I have felt a tinge of hope. Let me tell you what’s happening down here…
In March, the state voted down 4 MAGA-backed amendments that were attempted to be pushed through a historically low-voter-turnout election.
It was sho…
