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Salmon-costumed

Jun 12th, 2023 11:10 am | By
Salmon-costumed

One more…the review hosted by LSE blogs:

In Underflows, Cleo Wölfle Hazard invites us into the hydrological, cultural and epistemological dynamics of both public imaginaries of water and water-related networks as well as the researcher relationships and ‘straight science’ norms that excise affect, care and kinship from the processes of knowledge production and communication. In doing so, he unpacks the settler-colonial land relations that shape water imaginaries and, by extension, water governance throughout the increasingly drought-stricken, dammed and extracted west coast of the US, tying in critiques and analysis with a queer and trans orientation to the world.

Or, to put it less flatteringly, attaching the absurd and decadent pseudo-politics of “trans” to a real and terrible … Read the rest



Vibrant communities of fish

Jun 12th, 2023 10:39 am | By

More on queering the fish:

Rivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Wölfle Hazard, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice, sovereignty, and dynamism. At the intersection of river sciences, queer and trans theory, and environmental justice, Underflows explores river cultures and politics at five sites of water conflict and restoration in California, Oregon, and Washington.

But there is no intersection of river sciences with queer and trans theory. Those two items don’t intersect. You might as well say Manhattan’s Riverside Drive intersects London’s Kensington High Street. It doesn’t. They’re thousands of miles apart.

Incorporating work with salmon, beaver, and floodplain recovery projects, Wölfle Hazard

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The cisheterosexism of the petro-masculine rural

Jun 12th, 2023 10:22 am | By

Another Sokal hoax. Has to be. Right? Right?

Wait there’s more.

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Guest post: How Cannon was assigned

Jun 12th, 2023 10:08 am | By

Originally a comment by Screechy Monkey on A uniquely favorable jurist.

This NYT article reports on the clerk’s explanation for how Cannon was assigned to this case. In a nutshell:

Judge Cannon’s handling of the prior case was irrelevant. The “low number” rule Rob reports Ken White mentioning was not in play here.

Her assignment was “random” in the sense that judicial assignments usually are — that is, strictly speaking, although there were 10 judges who were eligible to receive the case, it was not a 1 in 10 chance, because that’s weighted by how full each judge’s caseload is, and 3 of those 10 judges are senior judges (semi-retired) who have smaller dockets and are at or close … Read the rest



Normalize what?

Jun 12th, 2023 8:44 am | By

Moral monster Willoughby

Immediately followed by ridiculous fake dressup Willoughby

https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1668234218424377344… Read the rest


1, 4, and 5

Jun 12th, 2023 8:00 am | By

Festive interlude.

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Simple and crucial

Jun 12th, 2023 7:46 am | By

Excuse me?

https://twitter.com/LambdaLegal/status/1667949842683904000

The two halves of the tweet disagree with each other. The first two curt bossy sentences just issue an order, without of course any authority to do so. The rest of the tweet pretends to give reasons for the curt order.

First of all, it’s just gibberish. Bits of vocabulary aren’t “required.” What are they gonna do, arrest us? Give us an F? Sue us? Carve us up? They’re not in a position to tell us what words to use or else.

Second, pronouns, like verbs and nouns and prepositions and the like, are neither preferred nor required, they’re just part of language. Use them correctly if you want to be understood, use them creatively if … Read the rest



Non-men and men

Jun 12th, 2023 7:08 am | By

The Johns Hopkins definition of lesbian is doing the rounds.

https://twitter.com/SoniaRGallego/status/1668236564080590848 https://twitter.com/hatpinwoman/status/1668212741067137028

I really think Johns Hopkins ought to explain, as well as delete and start over. I really think anyone in a position to promulgate the claim that women are non-men while men get to go on being men ought to explain the reasons for spreading such a blatant shameless in your face insult to women.… Read the rest



It’s HuaMANists not Huwomanists

Jun 12th, 2023 5:24 am | By

Humanists UK are going with “men are women if they say they are.” Women are going with “Goodbye Humanists UK.”

Sex Matters explains.

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A uniquely favorable jurist

Jun 11th, 2023 5:23 pm | By

Mark Joseph Stern at Slate takes a very grim view of the Judge Cannon situation.

Cannon’s total lack of principle, combined with her evident incapacity to experience shame, renders her a uniquely favorable jurist for the former president. Indeed, if she maintains her grasp on this case, it is nearly impossible to envision Smith securing a conviction in her courtroom.

Cannon, a Trump appointee, gained notoriety while presiding over Trump’s attempt to halt the classified documents investigation in 2022. Following the search of Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s lawyers filed a complaint alleging that the search was illegitimate and unconstitutional; they demanded the appointment of a special master and, in the meantime, a freeze on prosecutors’ review of seized materials. In a

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Dead zone

Jun 11th, 2023 3:56 pm | By

But don’t worry, climate change is just a lefty plot to make people get rid of their SUVs, it’s not a real thing. Not real not real not real.

Tens of thousands of fish washed ashore along the gulf coast of Texas starting on Friday after being starved of oxygen in warm water, officials said.

Park officials for Brazoria County said that a cleanup effort was underway but thousands more fish were expected to wash ashore.

That’s ok. We can just print new fish.

Katie St. Clair, the sea life facility manager at Texas A&M University at Galveston, said that the warming of gulf coast waters through climate change could have contributed to the fish kill.

“As we

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Maybe race against toddlers yeah?

Jun 11th, 2023 3:06 pm | By

Just try harder grrrlzzzz

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Message undeliverable

Jun 11th, 2023 12:44 pm | By

No no no no no you stupid goons, you still don’t get it – we’re happy for you to play all-trans sports. Delighted. Go for it! It’s the playing “one man in the women’s sport” that we object to.

Pink News headline:

Historic all-trans rugby match sends a ‘big f*** you’ to transphobes

No, Pinky, it really doesn’t. Quite the opposite. All-trans sport is perfectly fine and doesn’t trouble us in the least. It’s the stealing women’s sports we object to. I think we’ve been very clear on this point.… Read the rest



The only arguments against it are political

Jun 11th, 2023 10:58 am | By

Ken White on the unwinnable case scenario:

Yesterday, on our Emergent Situation Episode of Serious Trouble, Josh and I sparred a bit over the moral and political philosophy of Jack Smith’s decision to prosecute. I pointed out that the somewhat predictable assignment of the case to Judge Aileen Cannon — who proved herself to be an arguably lawless Trump partisan when she entertained his attempts to derail his own investigation — will make it extraordinarily difficult to convict him. If Judge Cannon presides over the case she can derail the prosecution in myriad ways, some of them unreviewable, if she wants to. Moreover, there’s reason to doubt that a Florida jury will convict Trump. Finally, and perhaps

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Argument from Clients I Don’t Have

Jun 11th, 2023 10:39 am | By

Hmmm.

A lawyer speaks:

“And when they finally have the genitalia they want?” … Read the rest



The heavy hand of the law

Jun 11th, 2023 7:36 am | By

Trump isn’t the only one.

Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the SNP. Police confirmed a 52-year-old woman was taken into custody as a suspect and is being questioned by detectives.

It follows the arrest and release of her husband, ex-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell in April. A spokesman for Ms Sturgeon confirmed she was cooperating with the investigation.

She probably won’t have to spend time in a cell, but if she does, I wonder if she’ll urge the screws to put her in with a trans laydee.… Read the rest



It does not even mention the law on consent

Jun 11th, 2023 7:28 am | By

Sonia Sodha writes:

Patients are supposed to be at the heart of everything the NHS does. This is considered such an important principle that, a decade ago, the fledgling NHS constitution was rewritten after the mid-Staffs scandal, in which so many patients died, to make clear it should frame every aspect of NHS work.

You’d think that would be self-evident. What else would be at the heart of health care?

Yet, last week, the NHS Confederation, the membership body for NHS providers, published guidance that appears to cut this ethos adrift. [Its stated objectives are incredibly important: supporting trans staff by helping healthcare leaders to understand their needs and address any workplace discrimination they may face.] But it also

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He’s ready to disclose Mr DeMille

Jun 11th, 2023 6:34 am | By

Grey Slavery is back in the news gossip.

He adds several hundred tweets, which are too boring to read, let alone share. He’s enjoying the attention a lot.

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Don’t bother lowering the eyebrows

Jun 10th, 2023 5:14 pm | By

The Times says Aileen Cannon won’t be recused.

The news of Judge Cannon’s assignment raised eyebrows because of her role in an earlier lawsuit filed by Mr. Trump challenging the F.B.I.’s search of his Florida club and estate, Mar-a-Lago. In issuing a series of rulings favorable to him, Judge Cannon, a Trump appointee, effectively disrupted the investigation until a conservative appeals court ruled she never had legitimate legal authority to intervene.

In other words she’s the last person who should be filling this slot.

There are all kinds of reasons other judges couldn’t be assigned to the case. It’s almost as if there are too many reasons. Assigning a judge who has already tried to protect Trump from the … Read the rest



If I woulda left

Jun 10th, 2023 4:48 pm | By

Trump is displaying his usual taste and wit.

Donald Trump vowed Saturday to continue running for president even if he were to be convicted as part of the 37-count federal felony indictment that was issued against him this week.

“I’ll never leave,” Trump said in an interview aboard his plane. “Look, if I would have left, I would have left prior to the original race in 2016. That was a rough one. In theory that was not doable.”

Translation: He’ll continue to barge ahead because he’s a deranged narcissist.

While Trump said campaign fundraising had skyrocketed since the indictment was issued, he conceded it was an unwelcome development.

“Nobody wants to be indicted,” said Trump. “I don’t care that

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