Notices by Gwen Snyder is uncivil (gwensnyder@mstdn.party)

Is his strategy to talk to Maggie Haberman and have her launder his narrative by reciting it on CNN, by any chance

"Ursula Le Guin wrote whole novels while caring for three children," I tell myself, as the toddler climbs me like a jungle gym and the baby somehow manages to double-space my entire document using only her gums

In addition to all the reasons this is dystopian for birthing people, this would be disastrous for infant health.

Folks who aren't sure about keeping the pregnancy would likely avoid prenatal care.

Which would be dangerous for the infant if they later chose to carry it to term.

What the Friedman NYT crowd misses about the "weird" thing is that it names an ugly irony of the far right.

They want SO MUCH for their regressive creepiness to be an enforcement of norms.

But the norms they violently try to enforce are outdated and gone and, well, WEIRD now

The "weird" thing lands because more than anything what these people crave is conformity.

They abhor individual expression that might be read as "weird."

And yet it's that very desire for comformity and disgust at nonconformity that MAKES them weird.

It's weird to joke about corrective rape.

It's weird to want to inspect kids' genitals to enforce archaic notions of gender essentialism.

It's weird to want women trapped in abusive marriages.

They WANT these things to be the norms, but they simply aren't.

And the far right is trying SO hard to "I am rubber and you are glue" us on weirdness, and it isn't working.

Not because plenty of us aren't also different from existing norms, but because we don't give a fuck.

Oh, you think that lib's purple hair is weird?

Well, guess what, no one dyes their hair purple in a desperate quest for comformist normal.

We're fine with our weird, whereas the far right just desperately wants to have their weird be a lauded, rewarded normal.

Our weird is self-acceptance of our difference.

Their weird is a desperate yearning to eradicate anyone different from their outdated, repressive notions of normal.

Which is why our naming their weirdness-- the fact that their ideal norms aren't norms at all-- terrifies them.

Team MAGA is going to try its damnedest to use this moment to effectively criminalize telling the truth about the mortal threat that Trump poses to this country, and anyone with a meaningful platform right now needs to push back against that suggestion.

Aggressively.

Oh look, the "defund the police is a luxury belief" guy platformed by the NYT Opinion section today is a transphobe eugenicist who quotes Jordan Peterson on IQ and retweets literal phrenologist Claire Lehmann.

NYT is a far right rag, part nine million

It's not that I don't expect the NYT to launder far right talking points, that's always been their thing and they doubled down on it under Trump.

What frightens me is the *sloppiness* lately. They can barely be bothered to hide what they're doing anymore.

They've decided it's publicly acceptable.

This May Day the cops are really working overtime to demonstrate why they should never be considered workers or part of the labor movement

The cops are threatening to arrest the journalism school deans for trying to assert student journalists' right to cover the protests.

If the journalists about to be honored at Columbia's Pulitzers have any fucking spine, they will boycott and refuse the award this year

If you live in NYC and have the capacity to protest and risk arrest, this is one of those moments really worth finding your way to the scene and standing in solidarity with students.

Witnesses and numbers help deescalate police.

TO THE BARRICADES

Excuse me, but in what WORLD does this disinformatic crank's harmful opinion merit a top-of-page banner headline?

Journalistic malpractice by CNN

Weird to think there was a time pre-Trump that everyone did fake news on April 1 and people thought it was cute instead of, like, just part of the usual daily slog of misinformation

If I had a time machine, I'd go back to 2004 and tell some gender studies professor that in twenty years, Teen Vogue would be printing interviews with Judith Butler.

Just to blow their fucking minds

Had a very apocalypse experience yesterday where I assumed someone had a HEPA filter because of The Great Plague and they were like nah actually we got it back when The Smoke of The Burning Lands Obscured The Very Sun