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Conservatives like Michael Knowles have made it clear that their goal is to erase trans people from existence - with GOP laws already attempting to forcibly detransition people in the south. Jen breaks down how to dissect this anti-trans rhetoric and weirdify it.

Just days after he called for the “eradication” of trans people, Knowles is being welcomed to the University at Buffalo

Plus: What an old video tells us about Tucker’s shtick.

Created by the company OpenAI, ChatGPT is a chatbot that can automatically respond to written prompts in a manner that is sometimes eerily close to human. But for all the consternation over the potential for humans to be replaced by machines in formats like poetry and sitcom scripts, a far greater threat looms: artificial intelligence replacing humans in the democratic processes — not through voting, but through lobbying.

The complaint’s 92 pages bombard the reader with a barrage of evidence — not predictions or opinions, but glaring, unarguable facts.

For decades, conservatives were fine with sexually charged cross-dressing entertainment — so long as it reinforced traditional power structures.

Too often, the critics can’t seem to make their case without resorting to distortions, conspiracy theories, and Kremlin apologism.

There will be no consequences.

Bigotry is bigotry, even if the bigots are in the majority.

A deep dive into the narrative that America is experiencing an acute “free speech crisis” – and why it is so misleading

The problem isn’t Tucker’s show; it’s how GOP elites submit to radicals.

At its “Stream On” event today, Spotify showed off a major overhaul that’s rolling out for its iOS and Android…

Diaspora Jews have both the right and the responsibility to speak out against a government that is undermining our society’s cohesion and its democratic ethos

Ever since Israel’s founding in 1948, supporting the country’s security and its economic development and cementing its diplomatic ties to the U.S. have been the “religion” of many nonobservant American Jews — rather than studying Torah or keeping kosher. That mission drove fund-raising and forged solidarity among Jewish communities across America. Now, a lot of American Jews are going to need to find a new focus for their passion.

(And why it’s not going well.)

I give it six months before bankruptcy

The right-wing media despises its own supporters. That's dangerous for all of us.

On the Book of Esther, retributive violence, and the recurrence of those who seek to destroy those who won’t obey them