rewatching back to the future and realizing that marty traveled back 30 years to 1955, but it’s been 40 years since 1985 :(

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The reason it was so important to talk about how invading cities with the US military over nothing was a sign of weakness, not strength, was because they have basically no more steps on the escalation ladder. Everything they are calling for and threatening to do they've already basically done

Meanwhile, Michigan’s Attorney General issued a reminder that withholding gender-affirming care violates the state’s anti-discrimination laws, and specifically rebukes the University of Michigan’s decision to withhold this care as “shameful, dangerous, and potentially illegal.”

In the face of these growing legal threats, Illinois has announced a state-wide legal hotline and resource hub to support LGBTQ+ people. idhs.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

In Jan, the Office of Personnel Management told providers to stop covering gender-affirming care for federal employees & dependents under 19 in 2026. This loss in coverage is now expanded to all ages & will affect ~17,000 transgender employees, plus an unknown number of dependents.

you telling me a leftover sopressata from a picnic fried this rice?

“…National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for […] the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be fired […] or to resign.” good afternoon ONLY to organized labor www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...

i spent about 3 minutes observing the world outside of my own asshole and i gotta say this is actually one of the LEAST unsettling questions of our times

We have a new issue page up today, looking at the multi-pronged assault on both immigrants to the United States and the immigration system itself: unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

*flabbergasted in asian*

phrenology but it's good

They fired all my friends who were experts at doing this so that they could hire corrupt vendors to do this poorly

list of specific ills i wish upon jk rowling available upon request

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We’re continuing to build out our explainer about how the administration is undermining data security. Last week, the IRS moved to share taxpayer data with DHS, despite the outgoing commissioner’s previous refusal to do so. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

hell yeah

At Unbreaking, we’re continually reminded of how difficult it is for a single group to keep track of all of the changes made by the Trump administration. We’re very grateful to the people behind the 70+ trackers we use to do our work. Now, we’re sharing that list: unbreaking.org/blog/documen...

Turns out the 1940s NYC Tax Department photographs (by WPA photogs) include outtakes, and they are so wonderful! 1940s.nyc/outtakes

hey hi hello ... if you're #brownuniversity affiliated (past or present) and you've been affected by the university's recent, transphobic cruelty ... and you'd want to share for a story, please reach out: www.sandyernestallen.com/contact #trans #nonbinary #intersex #lgbtq #queer reposts pls!

This week, we added a new section to the Trans Healthcare page on Unbreaking to make clear the current extent of the administration’s efforts to defund, alter, discredit, and censor the scientific research around trans healthcare.

We also cover the good stuff!

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ai is stealing my job 😔 (manually flickering the smart lights from a different city to pester @johndrake.bsky.social)

appreciated seeing this coverage of what's happening at #brownuniversity ... icymi, my @globeri.bsky.social op-ed, which I write as a trans alumnus who is SO UPSET ... www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/04/m...

if you live in crown heights there is no discourse, there is just “shake it to the max”

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huge news for gen z hikkikomori

"To exclude those 300,000 low-cost [healthy] patients, Medicaid programs will now make more than 18 million people—many in poor health and very difficult circumstances—jump through paperwork hoops to repeatedly prove themselves eligible for coverage."

The retirement money of public employees is invested in firms run by Thiel, Andreesen, DOGE goons, and others who are trying to destroy the public sector. We can stop doing that. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/financing-...

lmaoooooo

Since day one, the Trump administration has recklessly exploited Americans’ sensitive data in efforts to deport immigrants, restrict access to critical benefits and services, and gut the federal workforce. Here’s what we’ve learned so far: unbreaking.org/issues/data-...

@unbreaking.org has put together a timeline of things that has happened around data security (of your personal data that the federal government has) since January and you may need a break or two to get through it 😭

i’m deeply sad to hear about this loss 💔 i only met her briefly but her brilliance was obvious, and her voice and mind are desperately needed right now

please remember that editors are the ones who write headlines, but the original writer should and can fistfight them if they pick one this unrepresentative of the material

bus delayed in south williamsburg bc the italians who half-closed the street for a cookout insisted on fixing the driver a plate. missed u nyc 🥺

There's still time to apply to be in the first cohort of this experimental school being launched by @shannonmattern.bsky.social with the NY metro library council. Dont snooze on this. Apps close tomorrow!

…really produces a different view of the world than this, from Politico, which is an exemplar of most Beltway coverage. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

So, reading this from Stateline… stateline.org/2025/07/07/s...

The Horizon scandal shows why we can't turn justice over to unaccountable technology systems. A completely unnecessary and heartbreaking tragedy. This piece from last year underscores how this scandal is also a cautionary tale for unaccountable uses of AI www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

As an aside, I'm told multiple major outlets were not interested in this story and passed on covering it. Mind-boggling.

It’s honestly so disrespectful and irresponsible that the national media has mostly ignored the DC33 city worker strike in Philly so far. It’s a huge story with massive implications for the 6th biggest city in the country. Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

"An absolute moral failure." Around one in three disabled people are on Medicaid. I spoke to disability advocates about how devastated they are that the House passed the budget bill that will slash close to a trillion from Medicaid at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

for years, I've wanted a Form Corps to fix all the badly designed government forms at every level...but a Form Corps to help people deal with the bad forms & processes is a good idea too - fwiw, civic tech at its best is pretty good at coordinating parts of this & a lot of civic tech folks need work

INDIANA JONES AND THE NEH GRANT RESCISSIONS 😭

eyyyyyyyy

More than tax cuts or whatever the fuck else, the biggest boost to American small business would be single payer healthcare.

this whole time the problem was that the plastics were not micro enough

Another understated part of the Parliamentarian's rulling: The OBBB's ban on gender-affirming care for Medicaid would have codified definitions "male" and "female" in terms of coverage. That Parliamentarian said this language violated the Byrd rule.