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Indigenous and queer news and politics, maps, earthquakes, & weather. In Camellia City. Choctaw. We were here before the US existed, and we’ll be here after.

Scotswoman Cathy Rutherford giving it to Margaret Thatcher after Thatcher went tits up. “Not a bit of good. Not a bit. I’d put a stake through her heart and garlic round her neck to make sure she never comes back”
"Markwayne Mulling when you have a box to stand on or a chair to cower behind..." picture of Mullin standing on box in debate to appear taller and picture of Mullin cowering in the House chamber on Jan 6 2021 while other members and staff oppose insurrectionists trying to get into the room.
Happy Captain Cook Death Day! Kealakekua Bay, Hawai’i Island, Feb 14, 1779. Colonial Actions Have Indigenous Consequences
Hot take meme from tangled with the guy getting swords pointed at him.
In the context of this lack of data—and this contentious political climate—the researchers used the most recently available data from a 2019 nationally representative pool of medical insurance claims to identify individuals who received a gender-affirming surgery with a concurrent TGD-related diagnosis. Cases where patients had any other medical indications for surgery outside of gender-affirmation, such as breast cancer, were excluded from the analysis. The researchers also compared the relative use of breast reductions by cisgender men and TGD people. Breast reduction surgery was chosen as a point of comparison given that it is the only gender-affirming surgery that is commonly covered by insurance for minors and adults. The study found no gender-affirming surgeries performed on TGD youth ages 12 and younger in 2019. This was expected, the researchers said, as current international guidelines do not suggest any medical or surgical intervention for TGD individuals prior to puberty. For teens ages 15 to 17 and adults ages 18 and older, the rate of undergoing gender-affirming surgery with a TGD-related diagnosis was 2.1 per 100,000 and 5.3 per 100,000, respectively. A majority of these surgeries were chest surgeries. When considering use of gender-affirming breast reductions among cisgender males and TGD people, the study found that cisgender males accounted for the vast majority of breast reductions, with 80% of surgeries among adults performed on cisgender men and 97% of surgeries among minors performed on cisgender male teens. “We found that gender-affirming surgeries are rarely performed for transgender minors, suggesting that U.S. surgeons are appropriately following international guidelines around assessment and care,” said co-author Elizabeth Boskey, instructor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Lead author Dannie Dai, research data analyst in the Department of Health Policy and Management, added, “Our findings suggest that legislation blo…
My ass! The adulation surrounding Mr. Mangione has horrified many Americans who were shocked by the brutality of the assassination of Mr. Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, in Manhattan, in 2024. Mr. Mangione has been charged with murder in both federal and state court in Mr. Thompson's death.
What the fuck
The Golden Sir @screaminbutcalm X.com Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Get out of my fucking shot!
Tan and white dog on her back with paws up
Hitler was obsessed with the Roman empire – its reach, its values, and seemingly, its size. The derivative style Hitler preferred for Nazi public buildings hewed close to its predecessors in the architecture of the Greek and Roman Classical eras. Nazi designs retained the grandeur of the earlier structures while stripping them of their many images of emperors, rulers, and gods and goddesses. With the decorative elements removed, the style has been called “starved neo-Classicism” by historians. Its designs became, in essence, tributes to the power of the state that created such out-of-scale monuments to the ego of the Führer himself. Hitler appointed an architect – like himself, not a distinguished one – named Albert Speer to plan and oversee building construction in 1934, and then commenced a program as audacious as any since the great sprawling empires of the Classical Era.
Sleepy dog on couch
Sour Cream and Onion but with money
Bowen Yang cracking up in Lisa from Temecula
Tanks pass in front of group of one singular bleacher and a few hundred people.
Chuck Chamberlain