Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.

Strong support for Ken Paxton in the hat community

I am still hustling to get Assigned Media back on track after our big platform change. If you've been meaning to subscribe, maybe a lazy Sunday morning is just the time?

Walking outside in Washington, DC in mid-July 2026.

At press time, a tantruming President Trump vowed to strip FCC licenses from all who did not air his speech including ABC, NBC and the neighborhood Ring camera everyone’s hacking tonight to watch more Jimothy.

BREAKING: NYC Mayor Mamdani signs new law that says you don't have to go to work if your pet is asleep on you or just being extra cute.

Assigned Media needs YOUR HELP! We're a growing trans news site, bringing high quality reporting to our community. But the financial environment is, shall we say, not exactly kind to scrappy little community minded news outlets? Join us! Join us! Join us! assignedmedia.org/support/

A lot of good folks doing great journalism about trans issues right now, but @assignedmedia.org is by far the best in my opinion. Please show them some (monetary) love!

Judith Butler has their number.

It'll be a stressful few months as I wait to see if the risk of leaving Squarespace is something we can bounce back from. In my mind, I had no choice if Assigned was to weather increasing government interference in trans speech. But a safe financial decision, it was not. Please join if you can.

A lot of good folks doing great journalism about trans issues right now, but @assignedmedia.org is by far the best in my opinion. Please show them some (monetary) love!

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Wtaf

BREAKING: University professors (AAUP) represented by NAACP LDF and Lambda Legal, with Davis Wright Tremaine, file a federal lawsuit challenging censorship at the Texas Tech University System under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

“By the thinnest of margins, the extremely corrupt U.S. Supreme Court didn’t illegally overturn the Constitution in its entirely. Clearly this means the system is working as intended, so I will continue to do basically nothing to fight the rise of fascism in this country.” - Schumer

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.

This isn’t the easiest needle to thread in left-wing spaces, but @evanurquhart.bsky.social threads it well.

What I was told not three weeks ago that he had completely sold out trans people because he was talking out of both sides of his mouth to unfriendly media

Mamdani announces $15M for trans healthcare, includes launching a call/text resource support line. Notes city Law Dept filed an amicus brief against subpoenas for medical records. Hospitals suspended care to trans youth following a Trump EO. This seems to try working around that, doesn’t mention it

I just noticed that HHS Civil Rights office has deleted its webpage about the Supreme Court's 1999 landmark Olmstead decision, which guaranteed the rights of disabled people to live in their homes rather than being institutionalized. It was live on May 25. Now it's "PAGE NOT FOUND"

ZOHRAN: *parachutes in to help wildly unpopular congressional Dems get more popular* 🦸🏻‍♂️ ESTABLISHMENT DEMS: “wHY iS He TRyiNg tO KiLL tHe PArTy?”

Judge Failla finds that plaintiffs are likely to succeed in demonstrating violations of both the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. She does not find a likelihood of success on the state law claim.

JUDGE: I cannot conceive of a crime that would justify the breadth of information sought. The government's interest does not outweigh plaintiffs' interest in privacy.

Huge decision and an important one. This administration is on a tear to deny us all our rights to privacy, among many rights they seek to abrogate.

Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.

I might have to move to Boston. English fans came in and immediately started being whole asses. They chanted anti Scottish chants and tore down Scottish flags hanging in businesses. On the day of the match, the famous Dubliner bar posted this and closed their doors. /

New: the tokenpocalypse is here, companies scrambling to stop spending so much on AI. I got leaked audio from consulting giant Accenture showing AI token spend/'chewing' is not from supercharged engineers. It's non-technical workers converting PDFs to presentations! www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

Judge Failla: How do I balance if I don't know what subpoenas there are? AUSA: That's a question for Judge O'Connor in the North District of Texas. Allegedly. Judge Failla: An alleged subpoena in an alleged District. Can you say patients wouldn't be prosecuted?

Chase Strangio: They want to force us into wackamole, looking for grand juries all over the country. Judge Failla: How could I certify with other health institutions if we don't know if they have gotten a subpoena? Maybe Mt Sinai. Strangio: Carl Coe went to both

We call on @nycpride.bsky.social to ban the hospitals that ended care for trans youth from marching in the parade. At a moment when trans youth need institutions to stand firm, these hospitals chose cowardice over courage. 20 current & former grand marshals agree: www.them.us/story/nyc-pr...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun Advocate Transgender advocates, along with past and present NYC Pride grand marshals, demand Heritage of Pride bar hospitals that have stopped providing kids' care from participating in 2026 Pride march. www.advocate.com/news/culture...

Algaememnon

This is insane. So disappointed in a24

Fuck Google and A24

Assigned Media is excited to announce our Founding Editor Evan Urquhart has been awarded the Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for the LGBTQ+ Journalist of the Year by the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social Our little newsroom is making waves, baby!

Breaking: Kevin Warsh to be investigated for mortgage fraud.

Unlike O'Connor, Pittman notably has a history of looking skeptically at litigation ~oddly~ filed in his court. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-appo...

I wrote for Dame Magazine today arguing why the fight for trans rights involves court reform and expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices. The shenanigans in the Northern District of Texas today and the past few years demonstrate exactly why. www.damemagazine.com/2026/06/17/t...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun Advocate Speaking at annual Equality PAC's National Pride Gala, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries vowed that House Democrats will stand with trans Americans ‘always and forever.' www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

This goes double when it comes to doing the sort of good you believe you ought to be doing in the world. Don't tell yourself you're focusing on yourself now so you can give back later. Don't tell yourself you're protecting your org now so it can do good again after the Trump administration is over.

Still trying to reach our members who want to remain members - look for an email from [email protected]

one of the most important digital security steps i take, knowing full well that the gov will get whatever tf they want off my phone, is to call stephen miller a little bitch in response to any problematic text message so that i can at least move to have that admitted too on completeness grounds

Trying to reach as many people as possible to resubscribe or become new members. Changing platforms is brutal, but with your help I know we'll make it through this crucial transition.

Thank you Now, please get rid of that "under 19" bs, please