"The Department of Health and Human Services will be firing 10,000 employees—nearly a quarter of the workforce." a quarter of the workforce. jfc

1. The 1Q 2025 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map is complete, and there are big changes. I have issued a "Do Not Travel" for transgender foreign citizens. Risk has deteriorated broadly across the US. Transgender youth see changes in previously safe states. Subscribe to support my journalism.

This executive order requires RealID to vote, specifically. Regular licenses won't work Only 61.2% of license holders currently have RealID If you're not one of them, get your ID NOW. NOW. TODAY. Because this will likely not be the last thing you'll need one for abcnews.go.com/US/real-id-w...

Americans don’t seem to grasp how angry we are. We do them a disservice if we fail to communicate that. “The US has become a threat to our way of life, and if Canadians don't boo to show we'll resist, we'll never boo anything. The hockey game's big. Country's bigger,” brucearthur.bsky.social

It looks likely RFK Jr will be confirmed to lead HHS. It’s a death blow to public health, but we are NOT powerless: Update your vaccines Stockpile meds Obtain extra birth control & EC Wear a mask! N95 or better will keep you safe from many contagious illness We can help save each other

“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamour

This is your daily reminder that it's a coup.

Earlier today, unconfirmed border ogre Tom Homan complained that “Know Your Rights” information was “making it very difficult” to arrest families in Chicago and elsewhere. Remember: WE HAVE RIGHTS www.aclu.org/we-have-rights

ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

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In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers. See what changes are in store for your county. By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

The media has focused on wealthy, White neighborhoods. But the fire in Altadena--a racially and economically diverse suburb--deserves more attention, because insurance may not cover their rebuilding costs, forcing families out and leading the neighborhood to gentrify. www.reuters.com/world/us/far...

She corrected all of the lies about President Carter’s legacy. His life and work was ahead of his time.

Hot tip coming through!

The National Weather Service has issued a Bisexuality Warning for the Louisville Metro Area. Take appropriate precautions.

Never forget.. Jimmy Carter left the Southern Bapitsts because of their stance on women

There are laws it’s moral to break and then there’s laws where it’s morally okay for stuff to happen to the people who pass them.

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“The difference between Netflix and its predecessors is that the older studios had a business model that rewarded cinematic expertise and craft. Netflix, on the other hand, is staffed by unsophisticated executives who have no plan for their movies and view them with contempt.” Damn.

It appears Musk came to US on a student visa, did not attend school and worked illegally here. If he lied in his subsequent immigration applications he committed a felony level crime and could be stripped of his citizenship and security clearances. Musk's brother: "We were illegal immigrants."

Our second most read story of the year is our investigation into the irregularities of a Colorado charter school nonprofit operated by controversial Houston ISD superintendent Mike Miles.

If you are a teacher, you do not know the status of your students. Really, you don't. Haven't got a clue, move along, officer.

Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion

sorry was driving and just seeing the gaetz stuff and uh how is he just…walking around

As CEO of the entire universe, this is My official endorsement of universal healthcare.

btw a lot of yall live in (blue!) states where your governor could be pardoning people too. if you live in michigan, please call gov. whitmer and ask her if she's planning on granting clemency in the near future. there are demonstrably innocent people she's keeping in prison as we speak!

Since details of the smear campaign broke, initially in a big feature in The New York Times, then subsequently in dozens of articles on major news sites, not one outlet has used the word misogyny. www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...

Well this is horrifying. The wave of stories over the summer about Blake Lively being a horrible person were deliberately engineered. After Blake Lively alleged sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us, Justin Baldoni hired Johnny Depp's PR person to smear her.

Senate confirms 2 Biden judicial nominees, boosting total over Trump President Joe Biden’s diverse cohort of judges includes more women, minorities and LGBTQ+ individuals than any other U.S. president www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

BREAKING President Biden is considering commuting sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 men on federal death row. If he does commute, they would serve life without parole. A broad coalition of religious and civil-rights groups has been pressing him to take the step. https://bit.ly/4iLlKfG

I'll need to make sure my numbers all add up when I'm not in transit but right now it's looking like 10 out of 14 of our twice-queer shows were canceled (71%). "Twice-queer" means they met BOTH sets of criteria to be considered queer in our study. #SaveQueerStories

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Trump named Herschel Walker to be our ambassador to the Bahamas

There are thousands of exceptional independent journalists scraping by while producing excellent work and Substack chose to partner with a well-funded right-wing propagandist. This indeed tells us everything we need to know about them.