UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

I'm just thinking about how Mamdani talks (and defends) trans people for two minutes more than the democrats did at the last convention. And the video is only two minutes and five seconds long.

Very weird to sit down to watch my first movie in theatres since leaving L.A. for Vancouver, set in a fantasy world explicitly meant to be modelled after San Francisco, and recognize it as clearly having been filmed ... in Vancouver

Do a little dance Eat a little lunch Get down tonight Get down tonight

Telling how, when talking about the current U.S. situation for trans folks, almost every cis person I've talked to in Canada has known exactly what I'm saying and expressed dismay and empathy, while the neighbor we've known for years in SoCal just said "I don't follow politics, it's too sad"

i hope the democrats see that there is no working with these people. it really does need to be pens down. file court cases, lie down in the street, but theres no getting back to the business of washington or whatever. it's all on fire, act accordingly

This might be the one piece of news in the past few days that has made me genuinely, unequivocally happy. 😊

Just a quick PSA to any prospective jurors that Target does not sell G̮raḃcs Cards

Friendly older cashier at the Safeway leaned over conspiratorially and asked if I was trans, then said “me too!” and gave me a fist bump. All in all, a pretty delightful introduction to Vancouver.

I, a constituent, am dismayed to see @cisneros.house.gov voted for this. The most favorable possible explanation is that these people just don't know who it is they're honoring, and even that requires extremely poor judgment. There's nothing to honor in a life of rank bigotry.

According to imaging I had done today, I don't have cancer! I'll take that as extremely good news by 2025 standards.

Cancelling my USA+ subscription in protest

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I hope it's visible here how much fun I'm having rehearsing Plantamonium with the People Inside Electronics folks. Show this Saturday!!

Got mine this morning (along with flu)! Props to the CVS pharmacist for doing such a great job that I didn’t even feel it, and to what’s left of my immune system for engaging enough that I definitely feel it now 🫠

I have a doctor's appointment in the morning to get checked out for a brand new thing, I don't have time for this nonsense

1. It seems like right-wing media has been doing this thing for just about every mass shooting for a while, where they "just ask questions" about whether the shooter might have been trans, then just drop the subject when it turns out they weren't. Very cool & normal to have the gov doing that now

Open debate is for economic policy and whether we should charge for public transportation. Open debate is not whether some human beings are lesser than others. Some ideas are so vile, so odious, that they should not be entertained.

Approval of interracial marriage only passed 50% in, yes, the mid 1990s. news.gallup.com/poll/354638/...

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Between this point, and crossing the line of stripping constitutional rights away from a whole class of citizens, it’s clear this isn’t about guns. (Just like it’s never about bathrooms, sports, etc.) I see people really expecting the NRA will step in or smth. They won’t, bc guns aren’t the point.

Not to mention "Democrats were too focused on trans rights in the 2024 election" I am begging these people to count how many times Kamala Harris so much as *mentioned* trans rights in her entire campaign.

Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.

Does anyone know what the current status of Trump's bathroom ban EO is in federal courthouses? I basically can't find anything written recently, just a lot of "we'll have to see how each agency handles this" from like six months ago. Asking for a trans friend with three kidneys 😬

Cis people: This is where you fucking step up. Do everything you can to support trans people in the coming days. You're going to hear horrible, hurtful rhetoric about us. Shut it down. Don't let it stand. And buy the trans people in your life a drink.

The Democrats every single day:

"the American people have lost faith in the Democratic Party when it comes to border security" no, you feckless nitwits, we've lost faith in the Democratic Party's ability or even desire to counter fascism on any front

Hey, friends. You might remember that my kids' school PTA morphed into a mutual aid group after the Eaton Fire, & I'm writing in that capacity rn. Our community was already hard hit before the ICE escalation in LA, and now a dad was disappeared on Friday. www.gofundme.com/f/help-for-j...

Small thing by comparison, but I was born with only two wisdom teeth (I had both removed in high school). I also have three kidneys (and at least two sets of DNA in my bloodstream), though that's only been true for just over a year.

I had relatives who got caught up in Focus on the Family in the early '90s, and ended up making horrendous false allegations against other family members. It basically tore apart a whole side of the family, all for no reason other than James Dobson profiting off of pushing the Satanic Panic.

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@jenwang.com just used the phrase "Lamarckian horniness" in a conversation, and I really want to leave that without context

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Since another prominent Dem has decided to publicly be a shithead about trans rights... This is a very good metaphor

Stop repeating this. This is not doxxing. Public officials who are not ICE employees regularly appear in (um) public without masks. Their pictures can be taken. That is as it should be.

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These are legal immigrants.

Oh is *that* what this is! I’ve been wondering as I drive by why it looked like Cybertruck construction, with the steel panels fitting poorly and visibly warped. Last time I drove by a couple panels were hanging as though they were about to fall off. It all makes sense now!

I don’t usually talk like this, but “abolish ICE” should be the centrist position. Even if you are anti-immigration, this agency is an international embarrassment and a money pit.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

it's crazy how republicans keep handing democrats the perfect messaging of "these freaks are too hyperfixated on their bigotry to respond to a national disaster" but they won't use it because the establishment dems agree with them

This might sound like wild hyperbole if you aren’t here seeing it happen, but it is in fact purely factual. “Dystopian” really is, without exaggeration, the most fitting word for it.

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

SCOTUS knows damn well that this is coming from a state that argues that the mere _existence_ of LGBTQ people, especially trans people, is obscene. They're intentionally trying to help regulate us out of public existence. (And to them, that is a feature, not a bug.)