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#Maine #library #slammed over #AbigailShrier's #book #critical of '#transgender #craze,' #NewYorkTimes says. — The book is full of disinformation and misinformation, and seeks to influence parents into denying their children's innate gender identity, harming their mental health and wellbeing. #Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Maine #Libraries #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia

A huge flaw in American socioeconomic policy is that housing is seen as an investment. So much that increasing housing supply is seen as a disaster because rents decline and become more affordable. Housing should be a utility like water or power not a 401(K) with a roof.

It gets even more fucked up and lopsided if you add in cop budgets. IIRC the total budget for US law enforcement comes in as the third most-funded military force in the world, after China and the US’s *actual* military.

Canadian artist Kent Monkman's two-spirit alter-ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, has been creating art about Cree Indigenous history for years. Now, she's written a memoir, "The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island," which ArtNet's Katie White describes as "a genre-defying journey through North American history as seen through queer Indigenous eyes." Here, White interviews Monkman and collaborator Gisèle Gordon about how the book c...

Secret wartime files made public only in 2006 reveal that American GIs committed 400 sexual offenses in Europe, including 126 rapes in England, between 1942 and 1945.[76] A study by Robert J. Lilly estimates that a total of 14,000 civilian women in England, France and Germany were raped by American GIs during World War II.[77][78] He estimates that there were around 3,500 rapes by American servicemen in France between June 1944 and the end of the war. Historian William Hitchcock states that s...

Numerous people were let out of hotel quarantine, but the first time someone tries to leave one of the locked down towers in Melbourne they were arrested and broadcast on national news. The whiff of racism is strong. #lockdownMelbourne

GB News (a far-right British news outlet) hires Albie Amankona to spread racism as an anchor. His white colleague called a progressive Black politician "racist"and a "bigot" with no consequences. Amankona, a Black man, called a conservative politician a "racist" and a "bigot". GB News fires him after using him to spread racism but keeps his white colleague. He's now suing them for racial discrimination.

"You can't study chemistry." That was what a well-meaning teacher told Angela Bijimba, a Malawi refugee, but now she is studying biomedical science and is on her way to becoming a doctor.