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Depart, men of education.

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Thats fucked, I'm gonna look for that story. I've been seeing lots of stuff (even locally in a relatively progressive state) about trans folks' documents being confiscated and/or destroyed when they try to leave or get a new or updated passport or sometimes other docs iirc. Please don't come here, to anyone thinking about it. Period. Unless you're planning to stay a while and help us out, I don't recommend it but we will be needing all the help we can get :(

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CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (Including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, and more)

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They are stealing the documents of trans people who go to get new documents including passports, leaving them without identifying paperwork (and identified by the authorities by the paperwork they lost) in a time where that is very convenient for the people in power, and threatening them with arrest if they ask for them back. In addition to what has been said already

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Israeli speaker of parliament calls for bombing food stocks in Gaza now that Israel has cut off their food and water.

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Do you not know the history of Zionism?

Edit: let me rephrase that in a less "personal attack"-y way. Zionism has historically been supported by Nazis, US, and the far right generally. It isn't your fault for not knowing this and I'm sorry if my initial comment came off rude. Here are some resources for further reading (as always, check sources for claims made on Wikipedia, and engage media literacy skills when reading these pages. The topic is highly controversial):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany

https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-zionism-helped-nazis-perpetrate-holocaust/37326

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That's why it's called science fiction duh

I always think it's so weird when someone uses the aryan nazi blonde hair blue eye chad guy or whatever it's called to show the "good old days" or whatever. Additionally in this case I find it curious that the images used for the folks who seem to represent the regressive anti-science crowd are a group of characters with more diverse looks. Care to explain your choices OP? @[email protected]

Edit: thank you for the correction!