(russian propagandist saying white americans are fleeing to russia en masse because russia is the last "normal" county as opposed to the US where queers are not killed on sight.)
Fascism Watch for 3 May 2023: the Rapid Unscheduled Dissemination edition.
The American College of Paediatricians, one of the more successful fundamentalist evangelical pseudoscience hate groups, accidentally dumped all its data onto a visible Google Drive share. From this you get an outline of their history, their authoritarian fundamentalist Christian agenda, the various plans they have to sell “social contagion” but in even cruder […]
@Frances_Larina@bird You can back that up even further, I have shit like this back through the 90s - and it wasn't new then.
I'm slowly filling out the back end of my newish amalgamation blog that collects all my old Livejournal stuff, Dreamwidth, my band and production blog with stuff from 1990s activism, in part to help demonstrate how exactly none of this is new - only the targets have changed. And people are falling for all the same old shit over again.
@Frances_Larina@bird Yeah, that's all known fact. The linage is direct. They were originally rallying around segregation, then that became politically impossible and they shifted to abortion and birth control, then abortion and queers. (Like me, to be clear.)
The decision to have CNN host the town hall with Trump raises some questions, as the network’s new leadership has said it was too anti-Trump when he was in office. Therefore, firing some of the reporters and anchors who were most vocal against him and boasting about having more Republican officials on air now suggest that this is an attempt to please conservatives.
Don Lemon and other critics of Trump spoke out openly and honestly against his radical behavior. #trump
CNN the new FOX?
just sayin
@gwfoto@TomMarcinko Eh, look up "carry fees." They're what keeps Fox going, for example.
It's hard to find a streaming service that's cable-similar that does not have Fox, but they do exist. We're on one. But we also aren't big consumers of that kind of media.
So The Atlantic is shilling a book by Helen Lewis regarding gender affirming care, and even though they make it sound "fair and balanced", it set off some red flags to me. Which isn't surprising given things she's said about trans people in the past, and that she's opposed bills to make it easier for people to change their gender in the UK (sound familiar?). But she also works for The Atlantic apparently, so no surprise they're pushing her book.
Anyway, she points out that countries that previously supported things like puberty blockers for trans youths who reach the age where they'd be helpful are now "backtracking" because of "new concerns over how much they help/harm", and republicans in America are using this as evidence that they were right all along.
Except...if you look at this article and its sources, an organization in Sweden (for example) only advised that puberty blockers should only be given out in "extreme cases". This is a suggestion to medical professionals, not a rule or a law. And their "evidence" for these concerns is actually debunked junk science from the US . So US is using Sweden as evidence they're right, and Sweden is using the US as evidence they should be cautious. Sounds pretty circular, doesn't it?
Every study that looks into trans affirming healthcare finds that it's overwhelmingly helpful. Less people regret it than those who get knee replacement surgery.
I don't normally like being Mr. Grumpy old man, but it is currently 68° (20°C) and just about perfect outside, yet I hear a bunch of air conditioners running.
@TechConnectify This Cascadian has been working on an air-exchange based HVAC assistance package for a couple of years now.
This spring I've added automation and air-quality drivers. But really, I've got the bulk of the savings already - between that and an AC upgrade (to cover much more of the house), I've cut our peak-demand electric use by 40%.
Like you, I'm not aiming for "Constant 20°C" - in winter, it's like 17, in summer, 23. But having never needed AC until the last several years we've all been making adjustments, and, well.