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Over 20 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Die In West Virginia, As Activists Celebrate Major Victories
www.erininthemorning.com Over 20 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Die In West Virginia, As Activists Celebrate Major Victories

West Virginia saw dozens of anti-trans bills proposed in 2024, including a bill to close an exception allow some trans youth to obtain care. Now, virtually all of those bills are dead.

Over 20 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Die In West Virginia, As Activists Celebrate Major Victories
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Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android
  • yes it is vaultwarden that i was thinking of, not bitwarden selfhosted. my bad. i actually just spun up a new vaultwarden last night using docker compose. its got a long list of environment variables but still makes it super easy to set up in a flash

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    Groundbreaking Study Shows Extremely Low Detransition Rates With Innovative Methodology
    www.erininthemorning.com Groundbreaking Study Shows Extremely Low Detransition Rates With Innovative Methodology

    A groundbreaking study out of Perth Children's Hospital using innovative methodology determined only 1% of patients receiving GAC detransitioned/desisted, that does not suffer from loss to follow up.

    Groundbreaking Study Shows Extremely Low Detransition Rates With Innovative Methodology
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    Joe Biden got the job done.
  • More pro Biden than I would like of mother jones but a good read. I will have to watch the actual State of Union today. Tell me what you think about his address? Personally I like the Dark Brandon caricature lol

  • Joe Biden got the job done.
  • For over an hour on Thursday night, during the State of the Union address, President Joe Biden energetically presented a vibrant progressive agenda and repeatedly stuck it to Donald Trump. Yes, there were stumbles and linguistic slips, but Biden portrayed a vigor at odds with the caricatures that are constantly promoted by Trump and Biden detractors in the conservative media. Caricatures focusing on his age are then bolstered by seemingly endless coverage by the mainstream media. The president was aggressive from the git-go; Dark Brandon was in the room.

    Biden opened strong, calling for congressional support for Ukraine and slamming “my predecessor” for bowing before Russian President Vladimir Putin and telling him to “do whatever the hell you want.” Biden then vowed, “I will not bow down.” Tying the fight against Russia in Ukraine to the battle to protect democracy in the United States, Biden pivoted to the Trump-incited insurrectionist riot on January 6, 2021, which occurred in the same room in which he was speaking. Staring at the Republicans present, Biden proclaimed, “My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth of January 6th.” He called on all in the chamber to say no to political violence. Democrats stood up and cheered; Republicans sat on their hands. Sitting behind the president, House Speaker Mike Johnson rolled his eyes.

    In these opening minutes, Biden cornered the Trumpists: They were foes of democracy abroad and at home, a theme he returned to throughout the speech, as he relentlessly pounded “my predecessor.” MP “brags” about killing Roe v. Wade. MP, and “many of you in this chamber,” are “promising” to pass an abortion ban. During the Covid pandemic, MP “failed the most basic duty…the duty to care.” MP wants to end the Affordable Care Act and take away coverage for pre-existing conditions for a hundred million Americans. MP torpedoed the bipartisan immigration bill that included proposals from conservatives to bolster security at the border. MP did nothing on gun safety and after a recent school shooting in Iowa said that we should “get over it” and move forward.

    Biden didn’t merely highlight the differences between himself and King MAGA and his comrades, he shoved it in their faces. After the speech, while delivering a predictably hyperbolic and fear-mongering GOP response, Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) derided Biden as a “dithering and diminished leader.” Had she not watched him? Biden’s blistering assault on Trump was vigorous and fierce. When he was heckled by Republicans, he shot back sharp one-liners. (“Oh, you don’t like that bill?” he jeered at Republicans who booed his remarks about the immigration bill that was negotiated by Republicans and then killed by Trump loyalists.)

    Biden still looks and moves like he’s 81 years old, but he was engaged and engaging, bantering with and goading the Republicans. Biden talked policy details like a pro. He was far more cogent than Trump ever is during his rambling rants at campaign rallies.

    As expected, Biden highlighted positive economic indicators and cited a long list of his accomplishments: the infrastructure bill and the 46,000 new projects it has generated (including removing lead pipes and bringing broadband to rural communities), the CHIPS Act, the revival of manufacturing, reducing the price of insulin, tax credits that lower the costs of health care premiums, $12 billion in funding for women’s health research, a reduction the student debt burden for millions, cutting credit card fees, and a wide variety of climate change initiatives.

    The speech also featured a lengthy wish list of progressive proposals: ending Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy, lowering the price of prescription drugs and capping the annual costs of such medicines, tax credits for first-time home buyers, increasing affordable housing, establishing universal access to pre-school, increasing Pell grants, raising taxes on billionaires and corporations, upping pay for public school teachers, boosting the minimum wage, enhancing voter rights, protecting transgender rights, banning assault weapons. (There was plenty more!)

    Recognizing the rift within the Democratic party over his support of Israel, Biden noted the horrific loss of life in Gaza and told the Israeli government that “humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip. Protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority.” The US military, he said, would lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters for Palestinians. Meanwhile, he vowed to keep working for a ceasefire that would include a return of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. “The only real solution is a two-state solution over time,” he declared, a position at odds with that of the current Israeli government. This is unlikely to calm the protests against him for supporting Israel’s assault in Gaza, but he highlighted the horrendous civilian casualties in Gaza more than he has done in the past.

  • Joe Biden got the job done.
    www.motherjones.com Joe Biden got the job done.

    In the State of the Union speech, he took it to Trump and showed he can fight.

    Joe Biden got the job done.
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    Does this plan make sense? v2
  • Hiring an advocate for groups like homeless people, charities, minorities, protected classes, etc. may be a necessary evil to help ensure that people are heard out

    I think we already know what people have higher needs and have been historically marginalized and exploited. Instead of relying on private funding, we can have the state employ people to work on the project of "leveling the playing field". that committee or bureau would be transparent to the public and have elected positions within it but not be ultimately ruled by those elected officials. we could have people with verifiable community backgrounds employed on a regular and/or contract basis. this could allow work with regional groups and even more granular than that. basically i imagine providing them grants and resources to get the pulse of the communities they serve and channel that info back through. the people that know how best to serve local communities are the advocates within them.

  • Florida man facing 91 criminal counts dominates Super Tuesday primaries
  • you think theres a "left" in america? where the hell have you been?

  • Florida man facing 91 criminal counts dominates Super Tuesday primaries
  • Donald Trump is coasting to victory in Super Tuesday primaries across the country—a decisive, if not unexpected, showing that follows his overwhelming wins in GOP nominating contests in states like Iowa, New Hampshire, and Michigan earlier this year.

    The former president—who tried to overturn the 2020 election and illegally hold on to power—is facing four indictments covering a whopping 91 criminal counts, and he owes half a billion dollars following multiple civil judgements handed down this year alone. But on Monday, the US Supreme Court gave him a key legal victory, ruling that he could remain on state presidential ballots despite his involvement in inciting the January 6 insurrection. And on Tuesday, he was once again dominating the GOP primaries, leading former UN ambassador Nikki Haley in nine of the 10 states reporting results as of 8:45 pm ET—in most cases by huge margins. (Haley held a narrow lead in deep-blue Vermont.) Prior to Tuesday, Trump has won every GOP contest with the exception of Washington, DC, where Haley received the support of roughly two-thirds of the 2,000 voters who participated.

    Tuesday night’s results reaffirm what poll after poll had already shown: Trump wields a seemingly ironclad grip on the party, even as his first criminal trial is slated to begin later this month.

    Haley has, up until now, nonetheless stubbornly refused to drop out, claiming that she has “no fear of Trump’s retribution.” But it remains to be seen if or how her crushing losses in Tuesday’s primaries will affect her campaign; she told reporters last week she was only “thinking about Super Tuesday.”

    Tuesday’s results, if they hold throughout the evening, will all but guarantee that Trump will be the GOP nominee—though he won’t formally receive the party’s nomination until the national convention in July. Regardless, polls suggest it’s (basically) official: November’s election will present voters with a 2020 rematch—between Biden and Trump, and between democracy and authoritarianism.

  • Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android
  • Bitwarden TOTP code generation is still paid

    not if you self host

  • Haiti: Ariel Henry’s U.S.-Backed “Criminal Regime” Faces Gang Uprising
    www.democracynow.org Haiti: Ariel Henry’s U.S.-Backed “Criminal Regime” Faces Gang Uprising

    Haiti is under a state of emergency after the country’s gangs freed thousands of people from the country’s largest prisons and are reportedly uniting to bring down Haiti’s de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who has yet to return to the country since he traveled to Kenya last week to discuss a deal...

    Haiti: Ariel Henry’s U.S.-Backed “Criminal Regime” Faces Gang Uprising
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    Study calls US infrastructure spending a "climate time bomb"
  • its almost like the people that end up spending the money don't really want to fix the problem.

  • They really want a horse race
  • the DNC is not party for the people. its a party to the corpo fascist state. the amount of apathy from liberals is astounding. they say that the people saying uncommitted are apathetic. idk about you but saying youre just gonna vote for the dude w/o so much as a fucking protest action (that the DNC knows won't even hurt bidens candidacy) against a literal genocide being funded with our tax dollars is like apathy 101. if any of y'all want to say i'm an apathetic piece of trash, were you at the protests this past saturday calling for an end to genocide??

  • this election, do your duty and vote tabasco
  • what if i made an alcohol extraction of ghost pepper and carolina reapers, steeped it for two moon cycles and took it on a tuesday because thats the day for mars, the planet that rules most peppers? bet that would have a good kick to it, yea? could boof it too.

  • this election, do your duty and vote tabasco
  • Bonus prize: i won't be able to see all the people in lemmy dogpile and say im a MAGA Trump troll!

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    this election, do your duty and vote tabasco
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    U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs
    www.democracynow.org U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs

    The death toll from Israel’s assault on Gaza has surpassed 30,000 as health officials say at least 16 Palestinian children have died in recent days from starvation and dehydration. UNICEF is warning the number of child deaths will likely “rapidly increase” unless the war ends. As Palestinians desper...

    U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs
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    Mr Turner is uncommitted
  • Yea my point is that he can veto it. Looks like he was threatening to veto simply because it didn't have aid for ukraine. Not because it had money for israel

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    Fact Checked: New Problematic "Finnish Study" Actually Shows Trans Care Saves Lives
    www.erininthemorning.com Fact Checked: New Problematic "Finnish Study" Actually Shows Trans Care Saves Lives

    A new study from Dr. Kaltiala in Finland is being used to claim that trans care is not lifesaving. Experts say this is false, and the study itself shows trans care likely saves lives.

    Fact Checked: New Problematic "Finnish Study" Actually Shows Trans Care Saves Lives
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    Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs
  • I took the wifi chip and antenna right out of a roku TV. I don't even want it broadcasting its MAC out to the world, fuck that

  • Mr Turner is uncommitted
  • hm as if he can't veto but ok,sure, go off

  • Commit to ceasefire
  • Just like how Israel was going to attempt/commit genocide regardless of what Biden did.

    We sanctioned russia for what they did in Ukraine. Personally, I am disgusted but not surprised that we are actively funding this genocide with our taxpayer dollars. Genocide is being done in our name. I'm not about that and i don't most americans are either.

    Most people know that with all things- there something called “nuance.”

    Most people don't want to be a party to genocide. If you do, you can give money directly to israel if you want but we will keep pushing the issue that we shouldn't be paying for ethnic cleansing, genocide, coups, and all the other shit that this govt gets up to. Its not like any of that is new either. America was originally a colonial project just like israel.

  • Mr Turner is uncommitted
  • thank you

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    Office For Civil Rights Declares Investigation Into Owasso Public Schools Over Nex Benedict
    www.erininthemorning.com Office For Civil Rights Declares Investigation Into Owasso Public Schools Over Nex Benedict

    The United States Department of Education Office For Civil Rights has opened an investigation into potential Title II and Title IX violations over the death of transgender teen, Nex Benedict.

    Office For Civil Rights Declares Investigation Into Owasso Public Schools Over Nex Benedict
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    Political Memes @lemmy.world phreekno @lemmy.world
    Mr Turner is uncommitted
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    lesser of two evils
  • “As a gay black man” type posters

    So yall have been alienating gay black men from lemmy? wtf?

  • Unforseen
  • Biden and liberal democrats politicized the genocide by giving the israeli's so much money and arms. I mean what is more political than how a nations money and resources are distributed?

  • Israeli Attacks Continue Unabated After Gaza Food Aid Massacre, 4 More Children Starve to Death
    www.democracynow.org Israeli Attacks Continue Unabated After Gaza Food Aid Massacre, 4 More Children Starve to Death

    In Gaza, the official death toll has topped 30,200 as Israeli forces continue their deadly attacks, one day after soldiers fired on people waiting for aid in northern Gaza. Over 112 people were killed and 760 injured. Harrowing survivor accounts have emerged in the wake of the massacre. Injured Pal...

    Israeli Attacks Continue Unabated After Gaza Food Aid Massacre, 4 More Children Starve to Death
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    LGBTQ+ @lemmy.blahaj.zone phreekno @lemmy.world
    Pope Francis: Gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time - Vatican News
    www.vaticannews.va Pope Francis: Gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time - Vatican News

    Addressing participants in the international Symposium "Man-Woman: Image of God.” Pope Francis describes so-called gender ideology as the "ugliest ...

    Pope Francis: Gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time - Vatican News
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    The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7
    www.democracynow.org The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7

    We speak with Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim of The Intercept about their exposé of a major New York Times piece into alleged mass rapes committed by Hamas militants on October 7 that raises serious questions about the accuracy of the story. The Times article was headlined “'Screams Without Words': Ho...

    The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7
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    Act now to stop WordPress and Tumblr selling your content to AI firms
    grahamcluley.com Act now to stop WordPress and Tumblr selling your content to AI firms

    If sharing your content with AI firms is such a great thing for the publishers of blogs, you have to wonder why Automattic feels the need to enable it by default rather than insisting they opt-out…

    Act now to stop WordPress and Tumblr selling your content to AI firms
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    phreekno phreekno @lemmy.world

    they/them non-binary transfemme

    trans rights are human rights

    most leftest leftist

    pirates are humans too

    emphatically, adamantly, militantly anti-MAGA, both red and blue (libs and libertarians take note or lick my boot)

    no war but class war

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