Dr. Joanna Horrocks-Pashdag

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Writer, clinical & forensic psychologist, university professor. Just about ready to gladly turn this planet over to a new set of octopod alien overlords. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️(she/her).

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The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

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Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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JD Vance is on the ticket because he wants the government to kill trans people. Vance has been more vocal in his transphobia than just about any other leading VP candidate. That's a deliberate choice by Team Trump.

J.D. Vance's horrendous record of homophobia and transphobiawww.advocate.com Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick hasn't been a senator long — but he's been in the public eye long enough to accrue a strongly anti-LGBTQ+ record.

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Hope you are planning for how you are going to organize over the next few months to do all you can to stop the fascists telling you exactly what they will do if given the chance to do it without pushback. They are coming for everything.

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We seem to have reached the point where more accurate reporting of the news could be secured by slaughtering a goat and analyzing its entrails, which is bad but on the other hand dinner.

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Fuck you, Wes Streeting.

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An incomplete thread of the many times Donald Trump has called for violence, made excuses for violence, celebrated violence, or dismissed violence committed against others:

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Bernie: “Enough! Biden may not be the ideal candidate, but he will be the candidate & should be the candidate. With an effective campaign that speaks to needs of working families, he will not only defeat Trump but beat him badly. It’s time for Ds to stop bickering.” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/o...

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for Presidentwww.nytimes.com Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

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I'm certain the P2025 position was not fully explained. They don't want to outlaw porn, they want to criminalize it. And they say anything LGBTQ+ related is porn. Gay? You're a criminal, go to prison. Trans? Prison. Dad's Playboy collection in the attic? Prison.

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Wish more people were aware that Republicans plan to purge- fire, imprison, deport, and murder- tens of millions of people if they come to power. They are telling us this openly. And the silence of the big media outlets shows their corporate owners are fine with it.

“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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I just wrote about it in my weekly newsletter and how it will specifically impact the LGBTQIA+ community: sethjmeyer.substack.com/p/project-20...

Project 2025 and the Republican Party's Platformsethjmeyer.substack.com Hello everyone. I hope you are all enjoying your summer. I am getting ready for an exciting weekend where I will be celebrating my father’s 75th birthday with a big party and my birthday where I turne...

You know that fantasy some folks have about going back in time to stop Hitler before he came into power, now that we know about the horrors of the Holocaust and the war? Whatever you imagine you would have done in 1933, the reality is that you would have done whatever you're doing now.

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

FOUR seats for the Greens - even better!

Mordaunt gone, Shapps gone, Fabricant & the hair he stole from Boris Johnson gone, Rees-Mogg & his phony posh accent GONE, Jeremy keeps his seat, the Greens take Bristol Central, Davey's Lib Dems bungee-jump into a solid 3rd position -- it's not all perfect (Clacton, ugh), but GOOD MORNING!!!

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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

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I sure hope all the Dems calling for Biden to step aside have gamed out the fuckery that the Heritage Foundation is planning www.notus.org/2024-electio...

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Folks, I know it's been a rough week, but do yourself a favor and don't start falling for a line fed to you by someone who works for the opposition just because it matches what you already think.

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"Amidst all the tearing of garments and vultures circling, the fact is that we’re still pretty much where we were pre-debate. There are two questions: Is Biden fit to serve? And, would Democrats benefit by forcing him off the ticket? The answers remain 'he is' and 'probably not.'"

The pundit class needs to get a gripwww.publicnotice.co Politics isn't fantasy football and there's no One Weird Trick to beat Trump.

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"Politics would be interesting again" Oh, jeez, I'm sorry that SCOTUS Team 6 waterboarding democracy to pave the way for a felon-messiah-king who's vowing to use the presidency to deport millions and imprison his foes for treason hasn't been INTERESTING enough for you. Let me jangle some car keys.

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”

Report Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Carelaw.yale.edu A new report from The Integrity Project provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review that has become central to U.S. litigation regarding health care for transgender youth.

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what

I hope we all enjoyed our last Pride month in the US. Project 2025 will put an end to it

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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

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i'm getting so, so tired of the doomerism on here, and the press loves covering shit like a horse race instead of explaining fundamentals and what's at play, a job that seems to fall to @golikehellmachine.com on here. so here's a thread about why i'd rather be biden — yes, biden — right now

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Don't fall for the trap. If Democrats listen to the New York Times and try to replace Biden, the New York Times will have a new narrative: Democrats in chaos. And they will then have 347 stories a week about whoever is the candidate, all focused on how inexperienced and unprepared that person is.

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National pundits are doing their level best to manifest a world in which Kamala Harris does not exist

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.