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The man at the desk that day was Dr. Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and one of the very few people alive who can sight-read cuneiform, the wedge-shaped writing of ancient Mesopotamia. He had translated thousands of clay tablets in his career. Contracts. Prayers. Grocery lists...

Yep - "Transgender people have existed throughout history, with documented examples spanning thousands of years, including Gala priestesses in ancient Sumeria (5000–3000 B.C.) and Roman figures like Emperor Elagabalus. Historical figures such as surgeon James Barry (1789–1865) and Lili Elbe...

TOURISM SHOCK: Canadian Boycott Slams U.S. Travel — $5.7 BILLION Vanishes Overnight A sudden chill has swept through the U.S. tourism industry after a growing boycott by travelers from Canada reportedly wiped out an estimated $5.7 billion in projected travel spending. Industry insiders say...

Trans = transgender

And while automation does create jobs (albeit not as many as the old processes did) the jobs of maintaining and running those machines aren't accessible to the guy whose education stops with high school.

For the last thirty years, Netanyahu has been telling US policymakers that Iran was two months away from having a nuclear weapon. During that time, he continually pressured US presidents to help him attack Iran. None were stupid enough to buy-in to Netanyahu’s lies until…

The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a lower court order blocking the enforcement of state policies that restricted transgender people from updating gender markers on birth certificates and driver’s licenses. In a 5–2 decision in Kalarchik v. State of Montana, the court said the policies may...

This year it falls on May 4-10 with trans history day on the 6th. Trans people have always been there and always will be.

I think the most striking thing about #232 is the graph that shows manufacturing has increased.

"Credit card spending is through the roof... The consumer is really, really firing on all cylinders just like the corporate sector... And they're doing that because they have so much more money in their pockets... They're spending more on gasoline, but they're spending more on everything else...