As we head into a new year - one likely to be worse - remember this: solidarity is power. ✊🔥 Graphic from @inthesetimes.com on IG.

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks. My case for hope for 2026.

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

Before Bari Weiss was silencing journalists at CBS for segments that were critical of Trump, she waged a war to get college professors fired for expressing concerns about Christian and Muslim Palestinians. This is who Bari Weiss is: theintercept.com/2018/03/08/t...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

OPINION by @katelynburns.com: “The proposed rule would make the future for trans kids in this country look very bleak if it’s approved as currently written.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/tran...

I'm sure everyone with the ACA (including me) would appreciate calls to House and Senate members right now! Please call!

This entire weekend

This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.

An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science. Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.

“This is not just survival; it is a relentless fight to hold onto life, care for loved ones, & be seen as human.” Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been cruel to disabled people, whose disabilities have been exacerbated by inadequate access to food, medicine & support, reports Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi.

"Northwestern officials proudly noted that their pact with the WH explicitly declares that the agreement doesn’t allow the gov't to dictate “the content of academic speech and research” .... But the pact itself restricts speech and research at the university. Saying otherwise won’t change that."

NEW: AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

@parkermolloy.com has a great (if depressing) rundown on the well-oiled, well-scripted, and lavishly funded machine targeting trans people for simply living. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

one day people will look back at the term “biological women” the same way we look back at racist terminology from the 1910s. a euphemistic anti-science phrase with no actual meaning other than indicating an intent to discriminate against a group based on the circumstances of their birth

"Northwestern University reached an agreement with the Trump regime." "[A] single cis student who objects to sharing restrooms with trans students in a Northwestern dormitory is enough to trigger a bathroom ban." #Illinois #USA #Education #Healthcare #Bathrooms #Sports #Housing

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Elsewhere: these provisions make it clear that Northwestern is in violation of the agreement if they do not immediately identify/apprehend people taking part in unapproved speech.

It is incredibly dangerous that universities are signing agreements that tie purported measures against antisemitism to rolling back diversity in admissions and excluding trans people from basic facilities. This ends terribly for everyone.

Who is supporting these settlements? It’s generally not faculty or even long-time university administrators, it’s university boards and interim administrators who they’ve installed after admins with more of a fighting instinct have been forced out. There’s a playbook here.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Trump’s extortion campaign continues. This time with Northwestern University reportedly capitulating to the tune of $75 million. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

"A year later, I sense that many people I know who live in the U.S. feel a little disappointed in themselves. Somehow, if we imagined living under full-blown fascism at the Federal level, we believed we would be different." open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now

As suspected, the messaging being posted on the HHS social media is not coming from any of the hard working and dedicated licensed and experienced scientists and health care professionals but just from the uneducated(a law degree doesn't mean shit in science and medicine) trust fund baby in charge.

It’s gut-wrenching watching politicians act like they know more than doctors while kids suffer. Puberty blockers have been safely used for decades; they’re only “controversial” now due to people weaponising them against trans kids. Our kids deserve healthcare, not cruelty disguised as “protection.”

When I was young I never needed anyone And makin' love was just for fun Those days are gone All by myself, don't wanna be All by myself, anymore

Next week, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=b...

"And I guess that’s why I hate AI in the classroom as much as I do. Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection."

Tell me again how the administration's actions targeting higher education are sincere and not pretextual

Show me your pet and what they're named after

llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever

2.) If you’re giving books as gifts this holiday season, consider purchasing them at Pilsen Community Books, either in person or on our website. We ship anywhere in the so-called United States, and our gift wrapping is festive with a message. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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“Gimenez Gonzalez, an outspoken advocate for migrant day laborers in Chicago, was released on Oct. 28 after 47 days in custody. ICE detained him despite his legal work permit, a pending asylum case and no criminal record.” www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...

This is such a beautiful 🧵 “Disability ancestors aren’t gone; they accompany us. In our organizing, in mutual aid, in the awkward joy of surviving another day that wasn’t designed for us. They’re in every access met, every gentle reminder to slow down, every firm refusal to abandon one another.”

Obit from @thesicktimes.org by Alice’s friend @mileswgriffis.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Brave, funny, loving, shameless, compassionate, horny, and in solidarity with everyone fighting a good fight: Alice Wong was the example of how to live your life. Live it in such a way that people around the world gush about how much they loved you when you pass. Alice knew how to live!

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Man alive. The contrast between the courage of voters and the absolute cowardice of Democratic leadership is just undeniable and the story of the moment. The question is which will win out in the end and that question just got a whole lot louder.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Let’s clarify: the GOP is responsible for SNAP benefits NOT being paid when there is a $5B congressional appropriation within the USDA budget to pay SNAP benefits in case of government shut down. The both of these clowns are lying. 🤥 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

It's no coincidence, they targeted SNAP months ago. www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...

I always point out—for a man who confidently speaks on the law everyday-that Stephen Miller, in fact, did not go to law school and very, often is profoundly wrong about the law.

They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.