What Wendy's Doing:
Paratroopers packing for Iran, the EPA gutted from within, a nonbinary doctor fired for existing. Spring smells like cordite.
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Seven dead. Two hundred ninety wounded. A month of bombs on Iran, and the chair of the House Armed Services Committee has to beg for a briefing that says something.
Editor's note: The White House calls it "major combat operations" because "war" requires a permission slip they never planned to ask for.
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Operation Epic Fury Is Really Operation Limp Dicky
What the GOP Said: "We want to know more about what's going on, what the options are and why they're being considered. And we're just not getting enough answers." — Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), Chair, House Armed Services Committee.
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Dr. Danielle Peterson arrived at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York for a dermatology residency. They are nonbinary. Their program director told them on day one: don't tell anyone.Department Chair Dr. Bijan Safai said Peterson had "tricked them." When Peterson disclosed their identity, Safai said they "would become ugly" if they transitioned.
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"It's not really coming out, which suggests opening a door and stepping through. It's more like a long, long walk through what began as a narrow corridor that starts to widen." — George Takei, actor and activist, Frontiers magazine, October 2005
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"People who don't know I am transgender treat me with much more respect. I can even complete a whole sentence without being interrupted by a man." — Ben Barres, neuroscientist, Nature, 2006
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"This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale. It's too late for moderation." — Jane Fonda, What Can I Do?, 2020
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Moderation was a luxury for people who could afford to wait. Fonda wore the same coat every Friday. Let them cuff her on her birthday. She did the math and the math said now. The EPA just erased the equation. Carry the numbers yourself — in your body, your kitchen, the call you make tomorrow. They're heavy. They damn well should be.
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