Mary Wheeling
@marywakesup.bsky.social
Mom, wife, fighter, late-career English professor & Director of Faculty Development.
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Please call both senators today and leave messages saying you need them to fight for gender affirming care for youth, and for all trans people
It doesn't take a lot of calls for them to feel swamped / pressured / that people care about an issue
It doesn't take a lot of calls for them to feel swamped / pressured / that people care about an issue
December 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Please call both senators today and leave messages saying you need them to fight for gender affirming care for youth, and for all trans people
It doesn't take a lot of calls for them to feel swamped / pressured / that people care about an issue
It doesn't take a lot of calls for them to feel swamped / pressured / that people care about an issue
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Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care
The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
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1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban.
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Imminent As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule
The new federal rule formalizes previous threats to hospitals to pull Medicaid funding, and represents a significant legal stretch by this administration.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban.
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
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Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
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Exactly. If people can’t see the familiar choreography by now…..
Worried that the escalation this week is designed to coincide with Friday's deadline for the DOJ to release the Epstein files
Gallego: "This is the Iraq War 2.0 with a South American flavor. I'm hoping this doesn't happen, but I'm telling you - if you look at what they have down there, all the assets they have down there, all the actions they're taking, this is absolutely an effort to get us involved in a war in Venezuela"
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Exactly. If people can’t see the familiar choreography by now…..
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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The thing about DOGE is it accomplished neither its ostensible nor actual goals but did manage to cause a couple of holocausts worth of deaths internationally.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The thing about DOGE is it accomplished neither its ostensible nor actual goals but did manage to cause a couple of holocausts worth of deaths internationally.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
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Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
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Calling a noose or swastika “potentially divisive” green lights racism and antisemitism
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Calling a noose or swastika “potentially divisive” green lights racism and antisemitism
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Be someone who is remembered like Alice Wong is being remembered, that's the goal.
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Be someone who is remembered like Alice Wong is being remembered, that's the goal.
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every OpenAI commercial is like “hey dumbass your brain is terrible, use this fake one that we stole from other people that also doesn’t quite work right”
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
every OpenAI commercial is like “hey dumbass your brain is terrible, use this fake one that we stole from other people that also doesn’t quite work right”
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i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
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"Violence is when people cannot afford a house, violence is when a voter cannot afford medicine, violence is when mothers continue to lose sons and daughters to greed and guns," Rev. Valtoria Jackson told about 600 people at a "No Kings" protest in Montgomery. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector)
October 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Violence is when people cannot afford a house, violence is when a voter cannot afford medicine, violence is when mothers continue to lose sons and daughters to greed and guns," Rev. Valtoria Jackson told about 600 people at a "No Kings" protest in Montgomery. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector)
Livestream of the DC Peaceful Protest www.youtube.com/live/raD5GuV...
Millions rise up at over 2,500 peaceful protests to say: No Kings
YouTube video by No Kings
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Livestream of the DC Peaceful Protest www.youtube.com/live/raD5GuV...
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We are not fighting what we hate, we are fighting to save what we love
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We are not fighting what we hate, we are fighting to save what we love
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attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
February 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
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On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
www.assignedmedia.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Every time I think I have nothing left to give - I dig deep enough to find love again.
The grief you are holding right now is love.
The rage you are holding right now is love.
The fear you are holding right now is love.
The task is simple - never let it go.
The grief you are holding right now is love.
The rage you are holding right now is love.
The fear you are holding right now is love.
The task is simple - never let it go.
September 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Every time I think I have nothing left to give - I dig deep enough to find love again.
The grief you are holding right now is love.
The rage you are holding right now is love.
The fear you are holding right now is love.
The task is simple - never let it go.
The grief you are holding right now is love.
The rage you are holding right now is love.
The fear you are holding right now is love.
The task is simple - never let it go.
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A divide in journalism right now that's worth watching is between reporters who understand how bad things are but are mindful of their reputation and not wanting to be perceived as too extreme or hyperbolic and reporters who feel things are so urgent they have to use urgent, clear language.
September 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A divide in journalism right now that's worth watching is between reporters who understand how bad things are but are mindful of their reputation and not wanting to be perceived as too extreme or hyperbolic and reporters who feel things are so urgent they have to use urgent, clear language.
Read Erin's reporting here (and subscribe). This is an emergency moment for human rights in the US.
1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people.
His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority.
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His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trump Digs In On Anti-Trans Provisions In Shutdown Fight Message
The provisions are becoming a key sticking point in the ongoing fight to keep the government open.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Read Erin's reporting here (and subscribe). This is an emergency moment for human rights in the US.
My students read silently an excerpt of epic of Gilgamesh off a paper handout for 8 mins with no devices out. Asked them how it was to sit and read during class. "Peaceful." Asked if they'd felt drawn to check devices during. "No." Good talk followed about G's struggles with grief.
September 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
My students read silently an excerpt of epic of Gilgamesh off a paper handout for 8 mins with no devices out. Asked them how it was to sit and read during class. "Peaceful." Asked if they'd felt drawn to check devices during. "No." Good talk followed about G's struggles with grief.
Humanities starts tomorrow, F2F. Mostly first-years. Will shoo them outside, as I have for many years, to do some scouting around campus. Find flowing water, high ground, plants/animals, sounds, smells. Which way is east? Never in my 30+ yrs teaching have I felt my responsibility so deeply as now.
August 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Humanities starts tomorrow, F2F. Mostly first-years. Will shoo them outside, as I have for many years, to do some scouting around campus. Find flowing water, high ground, plants/animals, sounds, smells. Which way is east? Never in my 30+ yrs teaching have I felt my responsibility so deeply as now.
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I know it’s not everything, but it’s something: how each of us, in our little spheres of work & community, can help foster & sustain places of care, decency, & intelligence even when powerful people celebrate venal, coarse, mendacious practices. What a gift, to be able to do something so worthwhile
January 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I know it’s not everything, but it’s something: how each of us, in our little spheres of work & community, can help foster & sustain places of care, decency, & intelligence even when powerful people celebrate venal, coarse, mendacious practices. What a gift, to be able to do something so worthwhile
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yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves
I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.
May 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves