On May 6, 1933, Nazi stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) broke into this library, looted the building, killed at least one of the occupants, and hauled the majority of its books outside for a public book burning in the streets of the Opernplatz. Joseph Goebbels gave a speech to 40,000 people about "protecting our nation's children".

The photo has become an icon of Nazi German brutality and fascism. It is shown in school textbooks worldwide above the caption "Nazi book burnings, 1933". It is often published in news stories and social media whenever the subject of banning books arises.

What is not often mentioned in those stories is the SUBJECT of the burned books. The building was the Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The first of its kind, dedicated to studying trans people and trans identities, and performing gender confirming surgery for a number of patients. And the books that were burned were trans histories and trans patient records.

Remember, they came for trans people first.

"Public investment" vs "Wasteful Subsidy." The only problem with this clever classic Singer cartoon is that some people might not get that it’s illustrating the perception problem, NOT telling the truth.

Just in case it actually needs to be said, the truth is exactly the opposite.

#PublicTransit #cities #cars #urbanism #math

"Should trans women be allowed to compete in women's sports?" is a question phrased in the form of a lie, like the classic, "When did you stop beating your wife?"

Trans women are women.

You may as well ask, "Should women be allowed to compete in women's sports?"

Stop engaging with the damned question. The moment you engage with it even the slightest, you're telling people that you don't believe trans women are women.

None of it is about sports. It's about getting you to say we're not women.

I never did find her contact info, I found the OG twitter thread and apparently she now has housing

https://twitter.com/prietodyke/status/1667649300631879680?s=20

Not that anyone noticed, but the English #Wikipedia recently crossed the 6,666,666 article mark.

Unofficially, the milestone article was... SatanCon! It's the annual convention of the Satanic Temple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SatanCon

So,

the AMA that Reddit’s CEO Steve Huffman did today was a complete disaster for Reddit;

Huffman avoided taking responsibility for how the company treated Apollo’s developer, and the comments were a popcorn-flinging circus

*while also* being a parade of Reddit community who’s-who, all of whom told the execs participating, that this was not going to fly.

Every stakeholder feels gaslit.

This 6 week period of Reddit history will easily be taught as “How to crash and burn your startup 101”.