Recent content by schlaufuchs

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greg-abbott-trans-teachers-texas-1235008156/ “Just up the street from where we are right now is Lewisville, Texas. In Lewisville, Texas, in the high school, recently — as in just a month ago — they had a high school teacher who was a man who...

Really is a perfect summary of the current state of US politics: just utterly bleak

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...