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    any state gop that wants to stop this just has to pass a tort statute holding the hospital fully liable for the suicides that result

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    20 hours ago

    While I am sympathetic to the YIMBY crowd, there are so many places in the US who need people & would welcome them

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    Nov 20

    The 1565 Project

    Part of our work is recovering the Hispano-Catholic Founding of America, which, as a priest friend reminded me tonight, enjoyed a much wider geographic sphere and cultural span than did the second, Anglo Founding.
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  4. 9 hours ago

    "Olson-Kennedy has steered over 1100 transgender children, adolescents and young adults into medical care for their dysphoria."- This is Dr. Mengele level shit-and as long as media and government celebrate it, it will expand to more doctors, more families

    They really are mutilating these kids, and if the doctors are to be believed, it’s not an infrequent occurrence. Maybe it’s because I’m a father of young kids, idk, but I don’t see how mainstreaming this as ordinary medical practice can ever co-exist with an armed citizenry
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    sample:

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    10 hours ago

    I'd been holding out some hope that my base reactionary instincts had gotten the best of me on this story, and that once all the facts were revealed, I’d breathe easy knowing the world was not going quite so crazy as I’d imagined. But welp...

    great piece from . the james younger case is way crazier than even the wildest alarmists thought
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    15 hours ago

    “The people who will win this generation of technology/the internet/culture are exactly like this; those who intuit that the current iteration of information technology is based on pornography, and act on it, before everyone else catches on”

    americans are asleep, post thoughtful essays
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    Nov 15

    Just finished reading "13 Ways of Going on a Field Trip" by . This book is very, very good. It made me reconsider a lot of ideas I had, and caused me to revisit and deepen my own understanding of having been a student, about why things were there way they were.

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  9. Nov 20

    To be fair this was 2012, which may explain part of the time warp quality (and empty seats)

    Visited Clay High School today to talk to an English class that recently read the book, October Sky
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  10. Nov 20

    This is the true face of American education, in any case. Bored but don't have anywhere better to be, half of them half the time trying to be very serious, everyone all the time knows they're being watched

    what a powerful image
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  11. Nov 20

    The meta-irony is "October Sky" was only chosen as title of the movie because "Rocket Boys"(title of Hickam's excellent memoir) tested poorly with female audiences, & the anagram "October Sky" was just used for movie tie-in editions of the book. Kind of like Buttigieg, somehow

    what a powerful image
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  12. Nov 20

    2010s feminism was a decade-long tweet 'Getting really into "sex" and "work" like those things aren't fake.'

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    Nov 19

    The emphasis on Vindman's familial history (he fled the Soviet Union!!!!) has the function of once again elevating Trump's security state antagonists as selfless public servants who embody the American Dream, perhaps the central mythological theme of the Trump presidency

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    Nov 19

    This guy is the poster child for 's JEC testimony. The aggregate marriage penalties at the lower end of the income spectrum are crazy.

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    Nov 19

    Then finally this guy. Me: Who did you vote for? Him: Trump! Me: You fuckin with me Him: Maybe Me: Then why you vote for him? Him:

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  16. Nov 19

    The idea that poor people in committed relationships don't respond to the very obvious gov incentives not to marry (in this case, evidently, losing housing subsidies) is one of the most absurd arguments I hear regularly from liberal social scientists and journalists.

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    Nov 19

    Overhead, Bryan Caplan is slowly lowered from the top of the dome on a cable. Pausing in mid-air, Caplan declares school's out, forever. The crowd goes wild.

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    Nov 19

    Thank you, time traveler from 1950

    The conditions of heterosexual marriage and parenting are often very asymmetrical an exploitative for women, and I wish we considered this more, rather than simply assuming that marriage and motherhood are inherent goods that promote women's happiness and thriving.
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    Nov 19

    the more you get beat at your work self, the more need for stimulation as a consumer self. The more alienated as a worker, the more you reach out as a consumer to fill the void. This weird back and forth happens depending on the situaiton of your work self

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    Nov 19

    Joke: We should have prisons. Broke: We should abolish prisons. Woke: We should replace prisons with concentration camps.

    so prison abolitionists should rlly be seeing the methods used in xinjiang as an example for alternatives to carceral punishment but ur too busy lapping up the yellow peril and being racist to see past the imperialist propaganda
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