Skaters criticise Latvian federation’s delayed and inconsistent funding - by @choreosequence.bsky.social anythinggoe.com/latvia-part-3/

WIRED asked security and privacy experts for their advice for hardening personal privacy protections and resisting surveillance. Here are their recommendations.

cw: physical and emotional abuse, injury, violence New Allegations Emerge as Latvian Club Defends Coaches Accused of Abuse - by @izyone.bsky.social and @choreosequence.bsky.social anythinggoe.com/latvia-part-2/

cw: description of suicide attempts, self-harm, depression, anxiety, eating disorder, emotional abuse, injury, violence “It’s not worth your life”: Latvian figure skaters speak out about abuse - by @izyone.bsky.social & @choreosequence.bsky.social anythinggoe.com/latvian-skat...

GOEing Into Detail: 🇫🇮 Emma Aalto & Millie Colling @choreosequence.bsky.social talked to Finland's first same-gendered ice dance team about how their partnership came to be and the start of their competitive journey together youtu.be/soW97T8jNk0

All the more reason to make sure local law enforcement isn’t complicit in this abuse of power.

We’ve exhausted every check and balance except the one they don’t mention, which is the consent of the people being governed.

News you can use. From Scientific American mag, of all things!

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Simone Biles, continuing to prove she’s the GOAT

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

I've seen people saying this is due process; being put before a kangaroo court on the charges the regime transparently only invented to smear Garcia's name after his name became public is not "due process". It's still openly fascist dictator shit and I hope people won't be Handing It To Em for this.

GLAAD on new NYT anti-care podcast: "Instead of addressing the critiques, meeting with the community harmed & fixing its errors...the NYT is deploying its most distrusted and discredited reporters in a new project designed to profit off its inaccurate and biased coverage." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Finland has a competitive junior ice dance team with two women!! So thrilled for Millie and Emma and major kudos to Neil Brown and Finnish Skating for making this possible! www.instagram.com/p/DKkOgA6IUG...

So my season will be John Nicks 🇺🇸 -> SkAm 🇺🇸-> Finlandia 🇫🇮-> Euros 🇬🇧 -> Olympics 🇮🇹- > Worlds 🇨🇿 🤯

New interview with the Taschlers out today! 🎉Fan favorites, advocates for mental health, and all-around awesome people: youtu.be/pW-BS2_gj7I

i think it’s important to remember that the erosion of empathy and community in this society has been purposefully part of the christian nationalist project (to erode trust in both other people and government services to make room for the rollback of those services and the rise of authoritarianism)

Workers at the Kennedy Center have faced layoffs, censorship and uncertainty from management about their jobs. Now, they’re organizing. Congrats to the Kennedy Center United Arts Workers on announcing their intent to unionize.

Off-ice at #WorldFigure 2025 - updates on music rights, research on athlete health, and a celebration of Asian-American excellence by @choreosequence.bsky.social anythinggoe.com/off-ice-at-t...

Solène and Olivia are incredible, brave and compassionate.

Every time you accede to the wishes of transphobes, you are doing the work of fascists. They are one and the same—transphobia is just the mask fascism wears when it wants to exploit your anxieties about gender.

happy may day 💕

Coach and choreographer Massimo Scali talked to @choreosequence.bsky.social at #WorldFigure about working with Alysa Liu, Finnish ice dance teams, and Chock/Bates! anythinggoe.com/in-conversat...

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

“But even if they never created a single piece of art or simply existed, their life would not be a tragedy. There would still be joy. There would still be grace in their existence. Not because autistic people are naturally angelic, but because they are human beings with inherent value.”

JUDGE BOASBERG: “.. The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders. .. To permit such officials to freely ‘annul the judgments of the courts ..’ would make ‘a solemn mockery’ of ‘the constitution itself.’” 🇺🇸 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Almost 60,000 fewer people visited Maine from Canada in March compared to last year. That’s a decline of 26%. An even steeper drop than February’s numbers which were down 15%. #mepolitics www.cbp.gov/newsroom/sta...

Yeah, all the focus now is on "will institution/person X win their fight to get back government dollars" when the point is THE EXECUTIVE IS DOING ALL KINDS OF WILDLY ILLEGAL SHIT

Paul Robeson had his passport revoked and was blacklisted for his political activism. Was recently learning about artists who rallied to support him financially so he could feed his family.

Today in poems I think about a lot, "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NBC [Apr 10] -- Great backgrounder on how a single Maine girl in high school athletics became the focus of Trump's war on trans athletes. A teammate told NBC the rest of the track squad is “extremely accepting and just happy that everyone is trying to be who they are.” @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

People in other states (especially blue states) tell your leaders to fight with Maine. Divided we fall.

These are the worst pigs in the universe torturing all children in a not very wealthy state because the chief pig feels personally slighted, and also is demanding other children be tortured and humiliated as he demands. Of course we can't frame it this way in polite discourse for some reason.

Someone in the administration learned about necropolitics and said “exactly.”

They're trying to kill Rumeysa Ozturk for writing a fucking op ed

Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.

You couldn’t make the corruption any clearer. Every member of Congress should disclose their trades in the market this week, effective immediately.

9 years after the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline….

And lo, the trailer did drop: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2... #murderbot

Every day I realize anew that part of me is still a very young only child who is appalled to find out how little some alleged grownups know.

With all the chaos in Washington, it’s more important than ever that I have a chance to hear your thoughts and answer your questions. I'm excited to announce I'll be hosting two in-person town hall events next week: on Sunday 4/13 in the Rockland/Camden area, and on Monday 4/14 in Westbrook. (1/2)

John Oliver's segment about trans athletes is a must watch for anyone who genuinely has "concerns" (and isn't just using that as cover for bigotry) www.readtpa.com/p/send-this-...

Also from the ISU history book: respect forever to Madge Syers! Beating men in competition and using ambiguous rules to get herself into the ice! 👏👏👏

I knew that the switch from “ladies” to “women” in figure skating was recent. I didn’t know that (as per the official ISU history published in 1992) it was still the World Champion and the Ladies World Champion - only the second needed clarification.

Enormous hands off protest in Augusta, Maine today. More than 1,500 people showed up.

I don’t love competing - it’s not what fuels my skating - but it was still nice to debut my new program and see the hard work of so many great skaters at Adult Nationals.

"AI art Ghibli trend" but it's Miyazaki's reaction and actually art

My Op-Ed on why the SAVE Act would hurt Maine voters. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/04/03/o...