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The federal government will spend $700 million on building or refurbishing coal power infrastructure in a boost to coal, Trump said.

“It is hard to overstate the magnitude of this,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said. “If you look at our efforts across the whole government, so far 45 coal plants are open today that would not be open.”

dead miners today! dead miners tomorrow! dead miners forever!

communistkenobi

Traditional fascism embraced the ideal of fossil modernity because of the direct association with the values of strength, speed, and power carried by fossil fuelled objects such as industrial machines and motor vehicles. The historian of fascism Robert Paxton mentions Trump holding a campaign speech in an airplane hangar in 2016, after getting out from a plane that had just landed and taxied up there, which “is exactly what they did in 1932 for Hitler’s first election victory”. This example displays how the love of current far-right leaders for fossil modernity leads to a stunning resemblance with fascist symbolism (Chotiner, 2016). In Brazil, Bolsonaro delivered an analogue picture in May 2020 as he requisitioned a helicopter to fly six circles above the presidential square before landing in front of a crowd of his supporters who had rallied to demonstrate for a military coup. Fossil fuelled objects stood and continue to stand as the symbol of a virile, powerful and aggressive performance of modernity, and for the material fulfilment of authoritarian desires (Daggett, 2018; LeMenager, 2014).

Yet, while at the time of early fascist parties, the climatic toxicity of CO2 emissions was virtually unknown, far-right campaigns and governments today explicitly mock the global concern for climate change. Carbofascism, in this sense, could be different from historical fascism in so far as it merges its fascination for fossil modernity with a political discourse that promotes human domination over nature through the preservation and amplification of the fossil energy model as an endangered ideal of modern society. While fascism looked at fossil fuelled objects as the future of humanity, carbofascism would tend to consider them as the remnants of a golden age which need to be preserved in spite of their impact on the planet´s (and human) health. [emphasis mine]

Acker (2020) - What could carbofascism look like?: a historical perspective on reactionary politics in the COVID-19 pandemic

liberalsarecool

Freedom FROM religion is mandatory.

politijohn

Source

Slavery…

theconcealedweapon

"Slavery was so long ago. Get over it."

Slavery is literally happening now. Police never stopped being slave catchers. People are supporting it now just like they supported it then.

If you support ICE, you would have supported slavery, because ICE is slavery.

gaslit-dipshits

appalachian-werewolf

Follow the money behind America's data center boom. Track 2,300+ projects, PAC spending, and the politicians who sign off on it.

twisted0lli3

This is a really good example of how TERFs disguise their attacks against trans men, and why it’s so harmful to consider TERF attitudes towards trans mascs as infantilizing.

The post is made to appear sympathetic to the man they are mocking. “Look at this poor ‘girl’ and how he’s mutilated himself” sounds sympathetic, especially to trans people who are subjected to aggressive, direct attacks on their identities and humanity.

But this performative sympathy is just a front so that TERFs can enjoy being cruel without appearing as the aggressor. This allows the audience to still enjoy the pleasure of engaging in cruelty while dressing it up as pity.

This plays into the broader tactic TERFs deploy with trans mascs.

Rarely ever do they confront us directly the way they do with trans women.

In fact, because they see us as women, their primary objective is to make sure we are never ever heard at all, so that they can maintain the narrative that none of us would ever transition of our own free will.

Instead, they poison the well. They talk to our “handlers”. Our parents, our doctors and psychiatrists, our husbands, boyfriends, our pastors.

The veneer of sympathy is not to appeal to trans men. It is to appeal to those they see as having ownership over us. When trans men fight back against this, the malice comes out in full force.

Trans men do not get attacked less. The attacks are simply not recognized as such, because even in protesting oppression, we place it on a hierarchy.

genderkoolaid

vexatiousvic

Confidently asserting that people who were AFAB aren't experiencing these things just shows how this person never cared to listen to anyone who wasn't exactly like them.

I Was Denied Treatment At My OBGYN Because I Am A Black Transman

My medical records list my gender as male so they didn’t believe I would need to see an OBGYN.

I explained that I was there for a pap smear and the nurse told me I didn’t know what a pap smear was, and they couldn’t help me.

The nurse at the reception desk started loudly misgendering me (calling me “she” and using my birth name) (...) I asked her to use the correct pronoun and to call me Jaden. I went to sit and wait and the next thing I know, LAPD is coming in. The nurse had called the police because she felt like I was threatening her.

I felt humiliated, and this kind of experience is so common.

When Joseph Schneier, a transgender man in his early 40s, started experiencing unusual spotting and elevated progesterone levels in 2021, hi

"The doctor won’t see you because you are trans."

Jay Kallio faced hostility and bias when he was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer.

Kallio learned "accidentally" that he had breast cancer when the lab technician called to ask how he was doing with his diagnosis. "Which diagnosis?" Kallio asked, horrified.

Evan Minton sued Dignity Health after his medical treatment was cancelled because he is transgender. Now he has shared his story with Congre

I was denied healthcare because I am transgender. The justification, according to the hospital, was that religious doctrine permits them to refuse transgender patients, just because of who we are.

show-me-the-bones

genderkoolaid

Transcript:

Livingston: "[…] really about who was prettiest. Um, I preferred categories that had athletic dance, or original costumes, or somebody going for an overall look. And that was more in keeping with the film’s overall themes. And then there were aspects of the balls there wasn’t room for. There were a couple categories for actual women participants, including a category for butch girls, who would either pass as men or were just handsome. But ultimately I left out - we left out the category for lesbians and women because it was just too hard to explain. I mean, you’re trying to say to your audience, “all these women are actually men,” and then you’re saying, “but these people are women.” I just thought, even for a gay audience, it might be confusing. And there were some other categories that, you know, just didn’t make it in the film ‘cause we had so much footage. […]"

(from the Criterion Collection's 2005 Commentary track for Paris is Burning).

So yeah, she really did cut out drag kings from the documentary because she thought it would be "too confusing." And not even just to a cishet audience but a gay audience, would be too confused by the idea of butches and male impersonation. Damn.

@therapatical @ftmtftm since y'all were looking for a source too

ghostchanuwu

Okay, so, I know this happened very early in the month but I legit haven't seen ANYONE even bring this up since this happened

Oklahoma (my home state) fully banned gender affirming care for EVERYONE regardless of age (Image below, please read it)

I'd be really happy if people shared this post around because I am sick and tired of nobody talking about this, y'all remember those anti trans laws that passed in Florida?

Those originated in Oklahoma.

My state banned gender affirming healthcare for anyone under 25 before Florida did and guess which one got widespread discussion and which one got completely ignored?

It especially hurts given all the violently racist and anti indigenous shit my state's governor has said over the years that has gone completely under the radar in wider online leftist circles.

Please, if you actually give a shit about trans people in the south (especially indigenous people here) share this around so people can actually pay attention to what happens here.

genderkoolaid

Some opponents say the law’s quick turnaround and vague language may have led to overcompliance and confusion among patients and providers.

Senate Bill 904 was one of several measures introduced this session focusing on restricting gender-affirming care. It prevents the state Medicaid program, or SoonerCare, from covering it, and bars public funds from being used to provide or subsidize it. State property, facilities and buildings also can’t be used to deliver this care. [...] SB 904 was filed during last year’s legislative session as a measure establishing criteria for incentive payments to contracted Medicaid long-term care providers. Sen. Todd Gollihare, R-Kellyville, submitted an amendment in March to replace the language with his bill on gender-affirming care. Affected services include surgical procedures to alter or remove physical or anatomical characteristics “that are typical for the individual’s biological sex” and drugs used to suppress or delay puberty, or to promote the development of feminizing or masculinizing features “consistent with the opposite biological sex.” Exclusions apply to things like behavioral health services and depression or anxiety medications, and individuals with differences in sex development[*]. People who violate the law can be charged with a misdemeanor. [...] That impact is being felt in the limited spaces statewide that offer gender-affirming care. Lily Pina is the family nurse practitioner at the Oklahomans for Equality Health Clinic. The clinic is one of the newer arms of the nonprofit organization, which has served the LGBTQ+ community since the 80s. It offers several services, including gender-affirming hormone therapy. The clinic is fully credentialed with Blue Cross Blue Shield, and its lab is credentialed with all insurances. It also accepts self-pay patients. But Medicaid is no longer an option. LGBTQ+ adults are twice as likely as non-LGBTQ+ adults to rely on Medicaid as their primary health insurance source. “We've definitely had an influx of patients needing to transfer their care because their current provider couldn't continue to provide their transgender services,” Pina said June 3. “So, as of right now, we're booked out for the next five weeks.” Hailey Briggs, the executive director of Oklahomans for Equality, added that OU was quick to reach out the day after the legislation passed to ensure its patients could continue to access care. Briggs said the “intentionally vague” language has left a lot up to interpretation for providers. “There are a lot of medical institutions that are publicly funded in some way, and so how those institutions are interpreting this legislation has a big impact on who we're seeing,” Briggs said. Oklahomans for Equality currently has a fundraising campaign to support patient assistance and is working to stretch its resources to serve more people.

*By which they mean "we will still happily fund whatever procedures and medications doctors want to force on intersex adults & children"

sick-jan

lifeafterpsychiatry

"Clearly I wasn't talking about disabled people-" yeah part of the problem is that the existence of disabled people just isn't considered in your worldview like that's the problem we're criticizing not a get out of jail free card

covid-safer-hotties

hyperlexichypatia

Epstein files discourse has me more convinced than ever that we need to be talking a lot less about "pedophiles" and talking a lot more about child sexual abuse.

I talked about how conservative authoritarians define "pedophilia" as "youth autonomy," but even among less overtly authoritarian communities, the spectre of The Pedophile is, at best, a distraction from the reality of CSA.

"Pedophiles" are a distinct, discrete type of person. They're Not Like Us, but also, they Could Be Anywhere. They're hiding in plain sight among us, lurking and sabotaging. Anyone could secretly one of them. They're queer, they're Jewish, they're vaguely foreign. They conspire. They're a cabal. They have secret signals. They're rich and powerful and secretly control governments, but they're also poor and dirty and hide in alleyways. They're sexually deviant. They're everywhere and nowhere, and you should constantly be on guard against anyone who might be one.

Child sexual abuse, on the other hand, is abuse. It's an action, not a type of person. Anyone can commit it, because it's an abuse of power, and all adults and many other children have power over all children. Any adult has the ability to sexually abuse a child, because every adult has the ability to wield power over any child. Child sexual abuse is part of the continuum of child abuse, which in turn is part of the continuum of abuse, which can be committed by anyone who has the power to commit it.

The Epstein clients are the most prosaic phenomenon in the world. Rich, powerful people trafficked powerless people to force the powerless people to serve them. Rich, powerful people got away with breaking laws. Rich, powerful people uses people as objects -- in this case, as sex objects, but by the same structural mechanisms by which they use people to clean their houses, pick their crops, and assemble widgets in their factories.

It's not A Secret Cabal Of Pedophiles Conspiratorially Running The Government. It's just kyriarchy working as intended. Absolutely, keep up the pressure to release the Epstein files and prove what we already know, but if you're using "pedophiles" in a sentence where "illuminati" would make sense, put down the conspiracy juice and pick up the youthlib juice instead.

thehmn

Wait…why are busses depicted as a dangerous way to commute in American media?

I never really thought about it before but busses are one of the safest ways to commute to work I can imagine. I’m not ever worried when I take the train but if I had to pick which I’d feel more safe on it would be the bus.

I used to travel between towns late at night when I was a teenager/young adult woman and it would be straight up cozy and a nice way to end my day.

I think a bus feels safter to me because the driver is always right there in case something happens, while you’re kinda on your own on a train late at night.

aetherograph

So did you ever see Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Remember the plotline about the Red Car trolley being bought out and dismantled by Cloverleaf, and the villain's Big Reveal that they planned to demolish Toontown and put a highway through it, and people would use it because the Red Car trolley wasn't there to use anymore and so they'd be FORCED to buy a car?

That really happened, in the US. Only instead of the villain being an evil cartoon posing as a judge, the villain was General Motors and Ford and all the big car companies. They bought public transit lines and dismantled them. They lobbied congress to fund the interstate highway system and they CONTINUE to lobby the us govt to keep trains and public transit from having any money, while making sure the roads get lots of it. They are responsible not only for the dismantling of public transit but also the public's perception that public transit is bad and even dangerous.

American media thinks busses and trains are dangerous because the car companies have spent DECADES and billions of dollars on propaganda making sure Americans think that so they will continue to buy cars and not question how much roads and highways have destroyed the landscape.

pingintech

its also a healthy dosage of classism and ableism and a hatred of homeless people and addicts all of which are the largest demographic of people who use the public bus

quasi-normalcy

It's even worse when you learn that one of the writers has a transgender son.

quasi-normalcy

Just Marlon Wayans bullying his son in public by presenting a hate crime as funny; this is the state of American comedy.

quasi-normalcy

Lol, yeah, "supporting"

justalurkr

Xitter ate the tweet this is from, but Tim Bender posted it

On what the male loneliness epidemic is really about. Given actual alternatives, women are opting tf OUT of "traditional roles".

Edited to add found the tweet

wiisagi-maiingan

Getting increasingly sick of my tribe's name being associated with a million companies and NOT the actual people tbh.

wiisagi-maiingan

I know a lot of places are named after tribes to "honor" them but it's so fucking frustrating when that ends up muddling the meaning of our people's names, especially when people end up naming companies and products after locations named after tribes. Our people's names just keeo getting separated more and more from us.

ambidisastrous

People who work within a system: okay so studies show that the normal system works 90% of the time, but because it’s very bad when it doesn’t work, we’ve set up a process to manage those outliers. We need six well-trained workers to run the system 100% of the time without any serious incidents.

CEOs and politicians, every time: Well i just saw it go right twice in a row which means the normal system which you say works 90% of the time actually works 100% of the time. We’re cutting the team down to one person pulling 18 hour shifts without breaks

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