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my brain wants to interpret this through the conspiracy theory lens, that the pro-police people think the lizard people running the world hate the thin-blue-line or something.

But given the context I think my interpretation is wrong, and I've never seen the calvin pissing cartoon used to express victimization, it's always communicating hatred of something.

good morning ☺️

Link to the actual article published in Molecular Psychiatry: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02872-3

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include harms that affect children indirectly through their living environments (e.g., parental conflict, substance abuse, or mental illness) or directly (abuse and neglect). The direct harms are commonly described as childhood maltreatment exposure (CME). CME is highly prevalent, as shown by a recent systematic review and meta-analysis that reported a pooled prevalence of ca. 23% in Europe and the U.S. for adults who reported at least one ACE [1]. Worldwide, as many as 12% of adults report a history of childhood sexual abuse, 23% of childhood physical abuse, and 36% of emotional abuse [2]. ACEs have numerous adverse consequences for later health, via a range of hormonal, metabolic, and immunological pathways [3], especially for mental health outcomes [2, 4]. In addition to affecting health later in life [5], accumulating evidence indicates that paternal ACEs /CME may also affect the health of the next generation [6,7,8,9,10].

Here, we report that CME [Childhood Maltreatment Exposure] is associated with specific epigenetic signatures in sperm. We identified differential expression of numerous sncRNAs and 3 genomic regions with hypomethylation in the high TADS [Trauma and Distress Scale] score group.

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Intergenerational transmission of well-being, health and disease is an important research topic with many implications for health care and societies. It has been postulated that a key component of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), CME is the single most important preventable risk factor for future mental health [1, 4, 37, 38]. CME has also been shown to have effects on health outcomes even when genetic confounding is taken into account [63]

I feel like it can never be said enough: you are awesome, thank you for being so awesome. ❤️

I studied German for several years, and it was ironically useful when I was in Guatemala - another traveler sometimes needed help bridging the gap with her spotty English and I was able to help. Though, Spanish would have been much more useful in that country, learning languages can be really useful in unexpected moments.

Links to the two executive orders:

• Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness
• Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation

Coverage from Erin in the Morning, more on the military ban than the healthcare EO: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-chilling-line-trump-just-crossed

Maybe a pedantic distinction, but executive orders are not bills or laws, they only reach as far as the executive branch has power.

This is relevant because he is writing many illegal executive orders, e.g. trying to end birthright citizenship despite being encoded in the Constitution. Likewise, banning trans healthcare for minors across the U.S. is something only Congress can do, and most of the things in this EO are attempting to defund or otherwise attack that healthcare rather than outright ban it like a law would.

It does seem like an obvious consequence is that Medicare and Medicaid won't cover gender affirming care for minors (Sec. 5, part i), and he is going to try to use existing laws to try to bring prosecute people in shield states for providing that care, even if he fails in court it will do damage by scaring providers into voluntarily refusing care to avoid being involved in lawsuits.

Also it does look like this trans healthcare EO is trying to recreate the UK's Cass Review, (Sec. 3, part ii):

within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall publish a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion.

By appointing loyalists across organizations he can force authorities on health to support anti-trans views on that are not supported by the evidence. Not unlike how he appointed anti-environmentalists to the head of the EPA in his first term, and suddenly the EPA was taking positions that were contrary to the role of the organization, like rolling back regulations on the coal industry.

Trump is just going to try shit, but that doesn't mean it will work out for him in the end.

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

refer to areas of work provided for the unemployed by the French Second Republic after the Revolution of 1848. The political crisis which resulted in the abdication of Louis Philippe caused an industrial crisis adding to the general agricultural and commercial distress which had prevailed throughout 1847. It rendered the problem of unemployment in Paris acute.

basically the government trying to solve unemployment by employing people for the sake of employing them

so busy, omg 😭

yeah, it's telling that the logic is always that the gay person will become (more) straight, but they don't really want to consider the reverse (that a straight person could "become" gay by their logic). It's a clear example of "heteronormativity" - the assumption that heterosexuality is conventional, normal, good, desirable, etc. and same-sex attraction is unnatural, abnormal, subversive, or otherwise bad.

And for additional context, femcel communities often have lots of trans women in them, probably something about trans people being stigmatized, perceived as ugly, etc. - we are seen as losers, have difficulty finding sexual partners, generally struggle with mental health, and so are natural candidates for identifying with femcels.