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>> Ich wohne aber so oder so in einer nichtroten Derf-Zone. In Griesheim also ruhig vor meiner Tür kiffen, bis ihr Shiva tanzen seht.

BTW: Erfreulich nüchterner Beitrag bei einer großbürgerlichen Wochenzeitung. Bin baff, wie gut Politik-Redakteur von ZEIT-Online Tillman Steffen infoirmiert ist.

youtu.be/BQ7mmRTtFME

This is fucking ridiculous...

A kids TV program (Hey Duggee) has a raccoon that hasn't had a gender assigned to it. Not even deliberately, but it's an animated raccoon - why would you think it necessary to assign a gender.

The show refers to "their siblings". And a load of snowflake-incel-bed-wetters get upset.

FFS get a life.

thepinknews.com/2025/03/31/bbc

PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news · BBC responds to hysterical right-wing backlash over supposedly ‘non-binary’ animated racoonBy Michele Theil

"If this becomes a pattern — the Trump administration threatens to withhold funding to institutions that don’t match its position on culture war issues — this would speak volumes about the state of America’s colleges and universities. They say they’re graduating irreverent rebels who are ready to change society. Yet they’re willing to bend to the will of the president?

One way for universities to stand on principle would be to tap into their endowments. Elite colleges are sitting on massive pots of money.

In Penn’s case, that endowment is about $22 billion.

In Columbia’s case, that endowment is nearly $15 billion.

These funds could easily be used to buttress any federal funding that the administration is using as leverage over these schools. They don’t have to simply comply. They have more than enough money to weather the storm for four years.

Does that mean that there are no legitimate debates about transgender athletes or protests over the Middle East conflict? Absolutely not. I think both of these highly contentious issues have plenty of nuance to them.

But if these colleges and universities decide to let the threat of federal funding decide these debates for them, it would prove that they’re far from the bold, reformist institutions they portray themselves as. They’re just a bunch of conformists, worried about their prestige and paychecks, after all."

theamericansaga.com/p/if-elite

The American Saga · If Elite Universities Really Oppose Trump's Crackdowns, They Should Put Their Money Where Their Mouths AreBy Zaid Jilani
#USA#Trump#Columbia

"Little House on the Prairie," which premiered in 1974, was all about honesty, integrity and inclusion. If it premiered today, it would no doubt be denounced as "pushing a woke agenda" — a criticism that conservative pundit Megyn Kelly has already leveled at the reboot that was just greenlit by Netflix. For @politico, Jason Kyle Howard writes about what the original show tells us about the politics of the time, and how they've changed today. "Everything is the culture war — even the remake of a television show that held mutual respect as its watchwords," he concludes.

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THIS is what I alluded to a few weeks ago. A 'broader church', in this instance, means 'people who are not exactly like you, but you share core values'.

#Dave Neal is an American podcaster & #StandUpComic who covers a lot of #Hollywood 🤮 stuff & covers real news stories too

Here's an example :

youtube.com/watch?v=edKNma0_dw

5.38 min mark: doctor retaliated against for exposing #UnitedHealthcare

12.33 min mark : #GOP's #culturewar b.s.

14.35 min mark #USAID, food going to waste , #Congressmember #GregCésar of #TX exposes #DOGE , #CFPB, #NaziBarbieLeavitt press conference, #authoritarianism, #fascism, #media, etc.

The point: #ClassUnity #ClassSolidarity but also unity amongst people of different ages, lifestyles, countries, etc who share the same values.