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Honestly I'm tired of unnamed lawyers being upset that their firms capitulated, federal prosecutors concerned about the politicization of DOJ, and reporters dismayed that their media owners are capitulating to Trump.
Either do something or accept that you watched democracy collapse and did nothing.
Either do something or accept that you watched democracy collapse and did nothing.
NEW from me:
Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom
EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.
www.the-independent.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Honestly I'm tired of unnamed lawyers being upset that their firms capitulated, federal prosecutors concerned about the politicization of DOJ, and reporters dismayed that their media owners are capitulating to Trump.
Either do something or accept that you watched democracy collapse and did nothing.
Either do something or accept that you watched democracy collapse and did nothing.
Half my trans friends from a few years ago have moved—almost all to blue states. Only 1 has left the country. It’s very hard to do.
I’m in a Brady bunch family and will need 2 court orders to move out of state. Lawyer says it‘s about a 50% shot to leave the state. About 0% to leave the country
I’m in a Brady bunch family and will need 2 court orders to move out of state. Lawyer says it‘s about a 50% shot to leave the state. About 0% to leave the country
I'm realizing a grim exercise/prompt may be in this ...
If others want to share, I'm curious:
Why aren't *you* leaving america (yet)?
Asking for trans folks in particular, especially those of us on HRT and/or other very directly threatened in terms of our healthcare ...
Reposts welcomed. Sigh.
If others want to share, I'm curious:
Why aren't *you* leaving america (yet)?
Asking for trans folks in particular, especially those of us on HRT and/or other very directly threatened in terms of our healthcare ...
Reposts welcomed. Sigh.
If i were 22, I'd maybe just bail on america. I'm 38 is the problem and I love my life here. My house, my gardens, my dogs. This is where I built my adult existence ...
October 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Half my trans friends from a few years ago have moved—almost all to blue states. Only 1 has left the country. It’s very hard to do.
I’m in a Brady bunch family and will need 2 court orders to move out of state. Lawyer says it‘s about a 50% shot to leave the state. About 0% to leave the country
I’m in a Brady bunch family and will need 2 court orders to move out of state. Lawyer says it‘s about a 50% shot to leave the state. About 0% to leave the country
This is a tough read while I’m literally at the airport on my way to Seattle 😔
I‘ve found this zine to be a helpful starting point in thinking about self defense
www.silversprocket.net/2021/09/13/a...
I‘ve found this zine to be a helpful starting point in thinking about self defense
www.silversprocket.net/2021/09/13/a...
September 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is a tough read while I’m literally at the airport on my way to Seattle 😔
I‘ve found this zine to be a helpful starting point in thinking about self defense
www.silversprocket.net/2021/09/13/a...
I‘ve found this zine to be a helpful starting point in thinking about self defense
www.silversprocket.net/2021/09/13/a...
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I understand the words 'there is no ethical consumption under capitalism' but nobody told me that meant that if I watched Jake the Snake Roberts vs William Regal in 1992 there would be no Department of Education in 2025.
March 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I understand the words 'there is no ethical consumption under capitalism' but nobody told me that meant that if I watched Jake the Snake Roberts vs William Regal in 1992 there would be no Department of Education in 2025.
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Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:
The Blue-State Hospitals Carrying Out Trump’s Anti-Trans Agenda
In states where gender-affirming care remains legal, some hospitals have nonetheless stopped providing it. What gives?
newrepublic.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:
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"Why would rapists pretend to be women when rapists get better treatment in this country than women?"
August 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Why would rapists pretend to be women when rapists get better treatment in this country than women?"
I’ll never get over that conservatives flat out told the NYT that they were going to manufacture a political issue out of trans kids to drive support for Trump.
And then they turned right around and acted like it was some kind of organic response to a real issue.
www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/u...
And then they turned right around and acted like it was some kind of organic response to a real issue.
www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/u...
A Conservative Push to Make Trans Kids and School Sports the Next Battleground in the Culture War (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I’ll never get over that conservatives flat out told the NYT that they were going to manufacture a political issue out of trans kids to drive support for Trump.
And then they turned right around and acted like it was some kind of organic response to a real issue.
www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/u...
And then they turned right around and acted like it was some kind of organic response to a real issue.
www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/u...
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My good friend Adrian is part of a project at the Dallas Morning News surveying transgender Texans' mental health after the onslaught of bills this legislative session. If that's you, go take this survey:
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/05...
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/05...
Are you a transgender Texan? We want to hear from you
Texas is home to about 93,000 transgender adults who make up less than 0.5% of the state’s population, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA School of...
www.dallasnews.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My good friend Adrian is part of a project at the Dallas Morning News surveying transgender Texans' mental health after the onslaught of bills this legislative session. If that's you, go take this survey:
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/05...
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/05...
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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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Nonbinary intersex activist Jim Sinclair on Sally Jesse Raphael's show in 1989
April 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Nonbinary intersex activist Jim Sinclair on Sally Jesse Raphael's show in 1989
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to all who celebrate...
April 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
to all who celebrate...
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This brief speech, by a transgender legislator in Spain, is incredible:
April 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This brief speech, by a transgender legislator in Spain, is incredible:
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🧵 You are not on the Truman Show. Despite all the cameras in your phone, webcams on your computer, license plate readers on the street, you *uniquely* are not Jim Carey, stuck on an island.
Here’s why that’s important & why that makes you so powerful:
⬇️
Here’s why that’s important & why that makes you so powerful:
⬇️
March 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
🧵 You are not on the Truman Show. Despite all the cameras in your phone, webcams on your computer, license plate readers on the street, you *uniquely* are not Jim Carey, stuck on an island.
Here’s why that’s important & why that makes you so powerful:
⬇️
Here’s why that’s important & why that makes you so powerful:
⬇️
Here’s a photo I took of the “litter boxes” at my kids’ Texas school. They’re there because Abbott and the Texas GOP put them there as their best response to school shootings. My heart broke seeing them.
These are the litter boxes they keep talking about. There are no others. They own them
These are the litter boxes they keep talking about. There are no others. They own them
March 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Here’s a photo I took of the “litter boxes” at my kids’ Texas school. They’re there because Abbott and the Texas GOP put them there as their best response to school shootings. My heart broke seeing them.
These are the litter boxes they keep talking about. There are no others. They own them
These are the litter boxes they keep talking about. There are no others. They own them
Thank god for Stan Gerdes finally putting a stop to children having an imagination
March 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Thank god for Stan Gerdes finally putting a stop to children having an imagination
Like omg 🤩
March 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Like omg 🤩
This whole thread is the most intriguing covers for the driest sounding reports. I love it 😍
March 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This whole thread is the most intriguing covers for the driest sounding reports. I love it 😍
Great thread on how to think through the scary bills that get shared on here
You actually make me want to do a thread on this because I think it's a great question! Not combative at all.
Part of it is speculative - of course I can't know what will happen in the future. But I think it's a numbers game. There's 3,000+ bills this session, not all of them can become law.
Part of it is speculative - of course I can't know what will happen in the future. But I think it's a numbers game. There's 3,000+ bills this session, not all of them can become law.
March 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Great thread on how to think through the scary bills that get shared on here
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scores of pissed off Mormon CIA agents who just got canned are ideologically cross-pollinating with platoons of fired trans FBI agents. we are on the verge of new types of politics our ancestors could only dream about
March 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
scores of pissed off Mormon CIA agents who just got canned are ideologically cross-pollinating with platoons of fired trans FBI agents. we are on the verge of new types of politics our ancestors could only dream about
@josie.zone’s piece comes to mind here. It is foolishness to think that you can look at “outstanding cruelty” and decide it is of little consequence without rotting the heart inside your chest.
flaminghydra.com/issue-265/
flaminghydra.com/issue-265/
March 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
@josie.zone’s piece comes to mind here. It is foolishness to think that you can look at “outstanding cruelty” and decide it is of little consequence without rotting the heart inside your chest.
flaminghydra.com/issue-265/
flaminghydra.com/issue-265/
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THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY
February 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY
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Amazingly cute needlepoint design by trans artist Jessica Ray.
She’s such a stan, as we are of hers 😉💋
We’ve featured some of her other art here, too, including the final piece which inspired our “Let Them See Your Pain” cover.
#trans #art #music #punk #queer #queercore
@i41m.bsky.social
She’s such a stan, as we are of hers 😉💋
We’ve featured some of her other art here, too, including the final piece which inspired our “Let Them See Your Pain” cover.
#trans #art #music #punk #queer #queercore
@i41m.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Amazingly cute needlepoint design by trans artist Jessica Ray.
She’s such a stan, as we are of hers 😉💋
We’ve featured some of her other art here, too, including the final piece which inspired our “Let Them See Your Pain” cover.
#trans #art #music #punk #queer #queercore
@i41m.bsky.social
She’s such a stan, as we are of hers 😉💋
We’ve featured some of her other art here, too, including the final piece which inspired our “Let Them See Your Pain” cover.
#trans #art #music #punk #queer #queercore
@i41m.bsky.social
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
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🧵Hi.
To those of you in the US asking “What should I be doing right now?”, especially if you’re queer, disabled, non-white, or otherwise someone who Nazis would take particular issue with, I offer these resources.
To those of you in the US asking “What should I be doing right now?”, especially if you’re queer, disabled, non-white, or otherwise someone who Nazis would take particular issue with, I offer these resources.
February 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🧵Hi.
To those of you in the US asking “What should I be doing right now?”, especially if you’re queer, disabled, non-white, or otherwise someone who Nazis would take particular issue with, I offer these resources.
To those of you in the US asking “What should I be doing right now?”, especially if you’re queer, disabled, non-white, or otherwise someone who Nazis would take particular issue with, I offer these resources.