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Do you know what a dog whistle is? It's subtle ideological language used within in a group, and is largely only understood by those in that group.
In this thread, I'll highlight some common dog whistles used by TERFs, or Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists, to watch for.
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the other thing about this bill, as a matter of parenting: suppose you did try to shield your kid from the concept of gay until 9. Isn’t your kid gonna have a lot of questions about what’s happening in the world? what are you telling them? it’s like ..I think they’re gonna notice
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Fleetwood Mac is just such an excellent band name.
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clear the bill’s writers believe: we don’t have a sexual orientation, we’re straight. It’s like claiming your accent is the only one that’s not an accent.
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desantis against trump is … man what a choice
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I love malicious compliance
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People experience trauma in different ways. People experience different levels of trauma in their work. It’s brave to continue your work after facing it. It’s even braver to speak about it openly so others can understand. That’s why I’m proud to call Taylor a friend.
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NEW: Taylor Lorenz says she has "severe PTSD" from being a journalist and breaks down in MSNBC interview
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People are trying to own Taylor for saying she contemplated suicide because of internet drama, but like I literally did try to kill myself bc of internet drama. She’s not some humorously sensitive outlier.
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NEW: Taylor Lorenz says she has "severe PTSD" from being a journalist and breaks down in MSNBC interview
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And props to her for talking about this publicly! Like it’s super hard to talk about this stuff publicly!
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lot going on at the free library
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That was fast. The new Florida Board of Education appointee praises a parent for reporting a teacher’s Protect Trans Kids shirt as “unacceptable attire.” This took place yesterday on #TransDayOfVisibility
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still soaring
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also, this is already making the rounds on tattoo instagram…
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Disney advocating the furry lifestyle smh
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seriously Dumbo literally has a bad trip
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Also, Disney being a “guardian of the innocence of childhood” — that never was. Ever see the native Americans in Peter Pan? Song of the South?! Dumbo getting drunk? Bambi’s mom getting blown away? I don’t think these people have ever seen a Disney movie
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Premise of this column is that a movie rated PG (for parental guidance) contains puberty and sex metaphors, which is "grooming."
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it’s April 2
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real Americans commute two hours to work in a crossover!
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Sen. Cotton (R-AR) fear-mongers about life in a city:
“[Dems] want to make us all poor. They want to make you live in downtown areas, and high-rise buildings, and walk to work, or take the subway, or ride an electric scooter, or whatever it is that Pete Buttigieg takes to work.”
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Happy Retirement, Betty!
Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest active ranger in the National Park Service at age 100, retired today after a remarkable career. Learn more: nps.gov/orgs/1207/sosk
📸Betty Reid Soskin
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OMG.
So (1) Mickey Mouse goes into the public domain in 9 months anyway.
(2) Lately, the biggest pro-copyright lobbying org is not Disney... but Fox.
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So-called "driving experts" are saying that crashing my car into a tree was a disastrous error and that I should have been looking where I was going. What they don't seem to realize is that this was a *feint* designed to achieve my broader strategic aims: 🧵(1/47)
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If the Right really wants to go after Disney, they should skip the culture war memes and drastically shorten copyright terms.
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As a CODA, I know firsthand how many in the deaf community feel compelled to watch any movie or show with deaf characters & almost always have mixed feelings afterward.
It's a privilege to share a few thoughts from deaf & CODA people in my latest:
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Trump sought a portion of the photographer’s profits on the book she’d been planning; he then went ahead with his own.
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NEW: Trump's White House glossy, photo book, which has earned him millions of dollars, preempted a book that his own chief White House photographer had been planning. with @maggieNYT nytimes.com/2022/03/31/us/
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everyone made fun of trump for saying you’ll see like magic it’ll disappear, but this is exactly the policy here — don’t worry about people outside the country having the virus, how’s that gonna hurt us, you’ll see, like magic it’ll disappear
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this whole thing — a logjam for funding the response to a virus that has killed a million Americans, solving the logjam in a way that will absolutely come back to bite us — this whole thing is evidence of a completely broken unfixable stupid government, what are we doing
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Grotesquely funny that a movie series that by all historical precedent should have foisted a phalanx of child star monsters onto the world produced the most normal and adjusted ones of all time, meanwhile the maker of said material has gone insane.
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Daniel Radcliffe on the Will Smith and Chris Rock #Oscars incident: “I’m just so already dramatically bored of hearing people’s opinions about it that I just don’t want to be another opinion adding to it.”
(variety.com/2022/film/glob)
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“As a technological and cultural force, should we be more inclined to celebrate Apple or to fear it?” asks.
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Pacino is a national treasure
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What an Oscar Win for ‘CODA’ Tells Us About Apple’s Power
my column about how sometimes Apple’s market power is good and sometimes it’s bad.
another very firm-point-making column from your friendly neighborhood tech pundit
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“Apple got into the movie business the way a lot of the tech giants do a lot of things nowadays: It spent gobs of money to win a top spot in a market dominated by much smaller companies,” writes.
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Over 20 sources told me & that for at least 4 yrs, Bruce Willis has grappled w/ his loss of mental acuity on set. He was fed lines thru an earpiece, asked crew where he was, and Lala Kent said he accidentally fired a prop gun in her direction.
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. killing the Biden agenda means that 14 million people will be getting a notice of massive insurance bill increases right before the midterm election
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as a parent myself I am rarely concerned. I am mostly annoyed
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a good rule of thumb in news is never believe anything purported to be from a “concerned parent”
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FB's scorched earth campaign against TikTok includes planting Meta-approved op-eds in major regional news outlets from "concerned parents", promoting dubious stories about "TikTok trends," and pushing to draw political reporters, politicians into the fight washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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SCOOP: Meta is paying Targeted Victory, one of the biggest Republican consulting firms, to quietly orchestrate a nationwide campaign to turn the public against TikTok.
We got a hold of documents outlining their plan. Read my and story
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FB's scorched earth campaign against TikTok includes planting Meta-approved op-eds in major regional news outlets from "concerned parents", promoting dubious stories about "TikTok trends," and pushing to draw political reporters, politicians into the fight
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Man, I am NOT cut out for LA. This girl at a party said “I’m a sub” and I said “oh that’s cool did you always wanna work with kids?” and she looked at me HORRIFIED.
I THOUGHT SHE MEANT TEACHER.
LIKE A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER.
THAT’S NOT WHAT SHE MEANT.
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