sadly, that was the logic used by the teen that died on the submarine that imploded. he felt he didn't have a choice, his dad really wanted to be on that sub and he was just going to go along with it

dress for the job you want

And yet Frank literally spent his last days attacking trans people—as he'd done his entire career.

Ms Rachel and Mychal the librarian are out here trying to shut down a child jail. Let this be inspiration to others to do the same.

this isn’t a policy question, it’s a messaging problem: the Democrats are not functionally addressing LGBTQ+ rights at all right now, but the GOP keeps hammering the message that they are. good media coverage would ignore GOP talking points when they’re lies and report actual facts

I spent months speaking to trans politicians and scholars, as well as one victim of viral transphobia, to write about how trans hatred has become a political strategy to gain votes in Brazil for @globalvoices.org and @noornetwork.bsky.social: globalvoices.org/2026/05/21/a...

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

Trans kids just want to live man. Mine came home today and announced that they now have twenty-SIX friends bc a new kid joined their class and they can’t remember his name but they’re sure he’s nice. Anyway. Call your reps I guess but also start beating asses, I’m all the way done with this shit

This event is tomorrow (Thu) morning, and you can still sign up to watch live! It will also be recorded. There has been a big uptick in wildfire activity in recent days, so this will be a timely opportunity to discuss bigger picture surrounding the "fire information landscape."

Not to be pretentious, but I hope seeing two trans women having a big happy traditional wedding with their families in attendance and supportive is good for someone to see

Rapidly Growing California Wildfire Threatens Contaminated Nuclear Reactor Site gizmodo.com/rapidly-grow...

After ordering a RI hospital to turn over trans kids’ medical records, “he then issued an injunction claiming to prohibit the hospital from seeking relief in the federal courts that oversee Rhode Island under threat of contempt.” Again, how can that possibly be legal?

I was a bit off on the timing in my February 2025 predictions of what RFK Jr. would do if confirmed as HHS Secretary. He’s already accomplished all of these things.

8 Democrats voted yes 6 Democrats abstained Yes - Cuellar (TX) - Davis (NC) - Fields (LA) - Gillen (NY) - Gonzalez, V. (TX) - Kaptur (OH) - Perez (WA) - Vindman (VA) Did not vote - Craig (MN) - Jackson (IL) - Johnson (TX) - Moskowitz (FL) - Neal (MA) - Thompson (MS)

As the UK works on a trans bathroom ban, a reminder that such policies are hate-based, not evidence-based: open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...

Bevis and Butthead keep it real.

Of course the effect in practice is to push trans women out of public spaces altogether because there's no safe place for them to use the restroom. That this is facially insane seems to be beyond the whole British political class, & far too much of our own

the number of trans kids in sports is like single-digit per state

Often overlooked in the "fertility crisis" hullabaloo is that men's online media is basically a conspiracy to make them unfuckable.

NEW: DOJ has escalated its attack on trans care for minors. Where could it be headed next? As Rhode Island Hospital begins turning over documents to a far-right judge in Texas, a number of grand jury subpoenas have been issued and DOJ settled with one hospital. Tonight, at Law Dork:

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

there is nothing "logical" or "sex-based" about anti-trans bathroom policies. it's about stigma-contamination: *all* trans ppl are "corrupting" or "corrupted" in their eyes, so we are all banned from women's restrooms: juliaserano.medium.com/penises-priv...

was really sickening to watch this whole thing be cooked up by the worst people alive and see elite media go for it hook line and sinker

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

H.R. 2616 passed in the House of Representatives this afternoon. This is devastating. It's like a national "Don't Say Gay" bill only exponentially worse. We're going to need everyone -- EVERYONE -- to help out as we full-court press the Senate. This bill MUST be stopped. They are coming for us.

Cannot stress enough that WE did not make this a problem. Trans people just want to mind our own business. REPUBLICANS made it a problem and liberals went along with it. You didn’t have to do this.

blazed a trail then fenced it off. signs all 'keep out' 'private trail' etc

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

This is what frustrates me the most about that line of argument. It's not something trans people, as a whole, were agitating for. It was just... kind of how it was. The reason it's a whole thing now is because *Republicans* made it a thing. The people making this argument are misrepresenting it.

Three selfless men, likely, saved the lives of over a hundred children.

it is truly absurd that this lawless attack on the rights of trans kids succeeded the conservative legal movement runs on bigotry and unchecked audacity ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

basically the whole thing is the result of a conspiracy involving less than 10 bilious transphobes, most of them at The Atlantic or the NYT bsky.app/profile/kiss...

Just a reminder to everyone: The idea that the Biden admin was engaged in "weaponization" of government was a myth dreamed up by Russ Vought. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-weaponiz...

Lmao

When you order your dog from Temu

the thing of "trans people just pushed too hard on the sports stuff" is so ahistorical that it makes me mad, when did you hear about trans sports before 2020 outside of the occasinoal human interest story on it

I recently watched an interview where actor /comedian Martin Short, talking about his daughter who passed away, said: “She did the best she could until she couldn’t,” and described mental illness as often being a “terminal disease.” We need more compassionate honesty and conversations like this

Solar plus storage in India is cheaper than building fossil fuel power plants. So they build the solar.

That star snoot!

"This court has no jurisdiction over Northern Texas" bitch why does Northern Texas have jurisdiction over Rhode Island?

The reasoning in this decision is hopelessly naive. Reed O'Connor is now essentially the most powerful man in the country because the federal executive branch can now just go to him for a rubber stamped decision that carries the weight of the judicial branch.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this carcinization timeline cleanse. #DoomscrollingBreak

tell your doctor not to use AI notes

If all the nobles could just get out of their exposed positions in the countryside—where all sorts of trouble can ensue—and live near and attend and party with the sun king on the well-guarded premises of Versailles, I think it’s a great investment for the French people.

I want to address the "Talarico believes in six genders" thing. Trump isn't confusing "cisgender" for "6 genders", he's referring to a comment by Talarico at a TX House debate in April 2021. And Talarico is referring to one definition of "common karyotypes" for chromosomal sex.

Barney Frank died. You're going to hear a lot of eulogizing for him this week, but I am going to remind everyone that he was oddly obsessed with trans women's penises for some reason.

He’s right — Bezos pays barely any taxes at all right now, so doubling them won’t do much. We’ll need to increase them by at least an order of magnitude.

In case you've ever wondered what it's like to be trans in 2026: friends are texting each other today to be safe again, as we do every week, because the richest man in the world is yet again boosting false claims that neo-Nazis who attacked the Mosque were trans and there's a conspiracy to hide it.

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God, it's so annoying to see posts from people talking about how awesome he was when he literally used his dying breath to go after trans people, a continuation of decades of being an antagonist.