Search results

The purpose of a stay is to pause the execution of a law which may have unlawfully cause lasting or irrecoverable damage. If a state passed a law specifying that thieves were to be punished by removal of the hand, and then after 2 years once the law is ruled unconstitutional you may have...

you have no idea how envious i am of people who are free to be this naïve about how institutions function

Happy birthday!

https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter?utm_campaign=vox.social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=voxdotcom&utm_medium=social The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states It is no longer safe...

She actually didn't mention Grint specifically. Only Radcliffe and Watson.

A short history of transmisogyny, by Jules Gill-Peterson (Verso, 2024)

i don’t think any of these insipid political comedy shows has ever gotten me to laugh as hard as random accounts on twitter or tiktok have

first step….? The genocides are already happening bruv. It’s like saying “ensuring all guns are securely stored in a gun locker is the first step to preventing a mass shooting,” to a room full of people locked down in an active shooter situation.

Sadly it is very much not a new phenomenon:

It varies state to state. For instance, Tennessee requires a child’s consent to be adopted if the child is 14 or older. In Alaska it’s 10, in Arizona, 12, etc. I’m unsure about Foster Care, and it’s hard to find resources that talk about this stuff from the child’s perspective. It looks like...

I believe his point is that he brought in people who otherwise would say “it’s all the same anyway” because it clearly wasn’t “the same either way” in that election

Specifically, she is denying that trans people were victims of the holocaust, and denying the scale of the holocaust, in whole or in part, constitutes holocaust denial.

isnt it funny how it’s always white dudes insisting we must preserve the right to call other people slurs and debate over others’ human rights.

From what I can tell it's in continuity with what's been happening. It's more an update and reconsolidation of existing guidelines than it is a totally new set of rules. In this respect it's similar to WPATH's Standards of Care, which also omitted specific age limits for specific procedures when...

...so back to news On March 22nd, a press conference was held in Germany announcing new clinical guidelines for care for trans youth. 27 medical organizations, and 2 patient advocacy organizations were involved in the creation of the guidelines, and, once finalized, these will serve for...

That's not what he promised in 2020 though: Then you weren't listening very carefully: The simple calculus for me is that before Biden was elected president I was able to travel to every state in the country without worry that I would be arrested and imprisoned for simply existing in...

I think the thing that gets me is that the party says they take these issues very seriously, they describe what's happening to us as existential and imminent, but then when they actually talk about it at a governing level it's treated with the same dispassionate commentary that you might expect...