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A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call.

Mississippi, the US state with the highest population of Black citizens, is no stranger to racist violence, gerrymandering, and deeply ingrained segregation. this week, on July 12th, a police officer in Senatobia, Mississippi shot and killed a ONE YEAR OLD CHILD

Kohen Wiley should be alive. he should be playing and growing and learning. instead, his mother now has to navigate trauma and grief, all while trying to seek justice for her baby and her friend

if you want to help them, the family is currently asking for calls to demand the body-cam footage be released. You can find the link for relevant numbers here

the officer who killed this baby has been placed on administrative leave and their name is being withheld from the public. they also tear-gassed protestors who showed up the next day. please take some time to make phone calls, put pressure. speak about this loudly.

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cartoon by Charles Barsotti.

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Art by Winsor Kinkade, poem by Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul.

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Some Pride Sheep Emojis! Enjoy~

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Yes, I am reblogging this a second time! Cause I have some queer sheep facts for you! Did you know! Lesbian Sheep were suspected to not be real because a way a female sheep shows she is interested in spicy time~ Is by going completely still. SO TWO LESBIAN SHEEP JUST FREEZE UP AND DO NOT TALK TO EACH OTHER. This is why I think the lesbian animal mascot should be a sheep cause so many lesbian girls do not talk to each other, XD

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When Europeans discuss America:

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Down by the Riverside by Matt Kubitza

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The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

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THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

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This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

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Happy Pride!

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Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

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I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

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Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

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