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Comms specialist and independent journalist. Host of @famprocs and @podfireside. Creator of @AntiRacistJazz. Lover of books, music, and Saturday naps.

Salt Lake City, UT
Joined November 2008
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A few yrs ago I dreamed I met @paulscheer. I'd spent hours listening and laughing along with his podcast, so it wasn't like a random dream. A few yrs later he published a great book. And wouldn't you know it, the book was a great fit for my podcast. Some small dreams come true.
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Terrific piece about the power of conversation.
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"Trans women are women" simply means people believe in the legitimacy of trans identity and experience. As a slogan I agree that it has downsides. But the claim that it is SCIENTIFICALLY inaccurate to say "trans women are women" is, itself, not correct according to science.
Replying to @LDS_Dems
As Democrats, we cannot ask the world to take us seriously on science-driven issues like global warming and COVID-19 if we all line up behind such an obviously unscientific view that trans women are women. The average person sees right through it and we lose credibility
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Dem Saints goes on to blithely and ignorantly lambast gender affirming care and sports participation by trans athletes without showing a shred of awareness about why a real person would support either of those things, other than as a stupid attempt to be "woke" or something.
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Question for Word experts. I am editing a podcast transcript, and the transcript software I use puts timestamps in before every transition. I want to know if there's some sort of macro I could run in a word document that would remove all of these automatically.
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I was befuddled by Harris's strategy. But it all makes so much more sense now.
This interview was an object lesson on the professional left. No accountability, no candor, and no broader concern for the country. We lost, oh well. 🤷🏼‍♂️ ‘Delusional’ Kamala Harris Aides Mocked for Still Giving Election Advice - The Daily Beast apple.news/ApVSI1dzdRXGSFW2q…
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White feminism is all about personal empowerment but doesn't pay any attention to racism, ableism, economic inequality, and discrimination. This episode features @rafiazakaria. Don't miss it!! Link below.
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Thread here 👇
1. Nancy Mace, in an interview, made it clear that her opposition to Sarah McBride in Bathrooms was never about safety. She stated, "It's offensive that Sarah McBride thinks [she's] my equal." The audacity of a trans person being her equal. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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She wanted to be seen. Then she didn't. Now she does again. Don't miss this one with @LaurieLeeHall and @signaturebooks. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Matthew's 12yo kiddo asked him the exact same question in the exact same words that my 12yo asked me the day after the election. What will happen? Thankful for his response. A terrific collection of thoughts to discuss with kids. And honestly, adults.
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Transphobic accounts get blocked. Been blocking a ton of people this week because Musk turned this app into a playground for transphobia.
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All those -ites didn't have to worry about property values ok
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Thank God for ij
Replying to @ijbailey
For me, this isn't a political question. I'm neither a strategist nor politician, or even a Democrat. It's a basic-human rights one. That's why I won't abandon trans people, and others like them, just because I might get laughed at. 20/
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Say something positive about trans folks on here, it's like sending out the Bat signal for The Worst People
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I've ended a friendship over politics because those politics involved a denial of the basic humanity of other people I love.
Replying to @jkimballcook
I've never ended a friendship over politics but one of the best ways to be an annoying friend is to act entitled to people's friendship and respect
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There's nothing inherently virtuous about being friends with a person who would actively try to deny or strip basic rights from marginalized people. In fact, you just end up sending a signal to your marginalized friends that you're not up for sacrificing or changing much for them
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This is the historic Provo Tabernacle. After it was wrecked by fire in 2010 the LDS Church announced it would be restored into a temple—the faith's most sacred type of building. The chief architect over the project helped create a miracle. She was also a closeted trans woman.🧵
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The LDS Church had few official policies about trans folks at the time, and while she undertook her own personal restoration, coming out as trans, the Church increasingly developed policies against being transgender. Restricting employment and membership possibilities.
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Great thread
I don't know what to do about the appeal of the "easy fake solution" versus the "complicated actual reality" issue in messaging. Because when I think about the misinformation I've encountered in the last few months ("tariffs mean other countries have to give us money! Getting
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Terrific thread!!
Hey we've all had a minute to process, right? All done? Good. Let's talk about some guidelines for continued use of this platform and other social media systems. This one will probably be the worst, but the same forces are coming for all of them. A quick thread. 🧵🧵🧵
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Getting ready to move my efforts over to BlueSky.
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A thread I loved
Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, covid, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo. 🧵1/
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