WTAF? How do we get off this ride full of Austin Powers and Marvel parodic villains who are actually real?

A must read. @damemagazine.bsky.social nails it as usual.

hi, folks! is calling federal electeds to ask them not to pass shitty legislation not doing it for you? i get it. how about helping to bring about positive change that would materially help thousands of trans people? and that's actually possible? do you know about washington state's HB 1971?🧵

My Daughter Was at the Center of the Supreme Court Case on Trans Care. Our Hearts Are Broken. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth will no longer be in operation starting July 17, according to a statement from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Adriana Smith was the victim of misogynoir. An ER ignored her pleas for help, and she died of blood clots in her brain the next day. The hospital then forced her body to be kept alive to try and save a 9 week old fetus. Did you know that even if she had a DNR, it wouldn't have mattered?

good news from maine

Just a reminder that white nationalists are the biggest threat to this country and the “immigrant crime wave” is a far-right lie. The danger in this country , as always, comes from white men who are terrified someone will take away their power, their property, or their guns. Happy No King’s Day.

All “No Kings” protests against the Trump administration that were scheduled throughout Minnesota today have been canceled, organizers said. Officials had urged people not to attend “out of an abundance of caution" after the assassination of State Representative Melissa Hortman.

They wanted max cruelty. Shock and awe for the cameras. But all they did was traumatize a bunch of poor kids who’ll never forget it. An L.A. mom, US citizen, watched as unmarked vehicles rolled up. Masked, heavily armed ICE agents, guns drawn. And Cosplay Kristi Noem right there playing warlord!

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

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The most vital thing you can do right now is spread this message offline to normies. There is no "unrest", there's a protest. It has 400 people. LA does worse when the Lakers come in 3rd in a season.

Army circulates guidelines for expelling transgender troops from military townflex.com/army-ci... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trump cut a secret deal with the Mexican cartels, Mexican security chief Omar García Harfuch confirmed cartel family members entered US in a deal with the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump regime. President Sheinbaum is demanding an explanation from the US which tried to keep it secret.

Time to prepare, beloveds. If you are considering stocking up, remember that these pills do expire eventually, and *do not* discuss your actions online or via unencrypted communication. Take no shit, and leave no trace. www.plancpills.org

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

STEWART: “Trump’s gonna take a $400 MILLION jet from people he would expel from Columbia University.” #SwampForceOne ✈️

An entire lineage of influenza B viruses literally went extinct due to COVID mitigation measures and people will still say “masks don’t work”

Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison. I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.

At least seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump’s term began.

Legal challenges to President Trump’s El Salvador deportations have focused on due process, writes @conor64.bsky.social. Less attention has been paid to another constitutional protection: the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment.”

“Whatever adjectives American progressives might use to describe Democrats—feckless, weak, pathetic—the Canadian Liberals are the opposite. In fact, they may be the most successful left-of-center party on the planet,” Daniel Block writes:

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An app called “Habeas” that when you say “Siri, Habeas” it transmits your location and an emergency ping to a volunteer network of lawyers and a designated emergency contact with a pre-filled petition.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

This is high art

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

The National Park Service has restored the changes to its website about the Underground Railroad following public outcry www.nps.gov/subjects/und...

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Thank you for this decision, @lydiakiesling.bsky.social ❤️

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

Huh, weird

The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.

Sen. Cory Booker—a Black man—just BROKE segregationist Strom Thurmond's record for longest floor speech in US Senate history. Thurmond spoke for 24 hours 18 minutes in opposition to civil rights. Booker has now spoken for 24 hours and 19 minutes against Trump's abuses against Americans' rights.

The point of Senator Booker's filibuster is to be INSPIRED by this man to go find YOUR ROLE, not to wait for them to go save us now. That is not this assignment. Thread of places to go to get started. More coming out of LiST this Thursday.

Booker on Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here in spite of his speech. I'm here because as poweful as he was, the people were more powerful."

:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels. MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots. If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.

Yes, please. About freaking time.

Btw, that means in the last 24 hours we've had: -Cory Booker going for a record in holding the floor -Ruben Gallego putting a hold on VA nominees over cuts to veterans care -Adam Schiff putting a hold on Ed Martin's nomination for DC US attorney over... a lot That's a genuinely good start.

Cory Booker! More, please.

It means something to see our leaders do things we know to be hard. I was cynical about this when it started but I’m really moved. Every day brings new damage and it is all going to be incredibly difficult to undo, but we won’t ever finish if we never start.

If you weren’t aware Sen Cory Booker is filibustering right now. He has been at it since 7pm EST m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...

Erika shad bond hearing to reduce her bail amount but instead the judge changed it to having to pay the full amount of bail. Please share widely. #repost #blacktranslives #bailsupport #donate #support #wematter #bluesky #transtexas

Senate Democrats will launch a war room Tuesday dedicated to fighting back against the Department of Government Efficiency's cuts to Social Security.

Looking forward to moderating New Literary Forms for a New Literary Los Angeles at the #AWP2025 this Thursday, March 27th from 9:00am - 10:15am with authors @stephcha.bsky.social #SesshuFoster @circegirl.bsky.social @audreyshipp.bsky.social Concourse Hall 151, Level One LA Convention Center

Pete Hegseth and every single other official on that Signal chain should lose their jobs.

They must answer for this egregious national security breach.

All love to @chelseahandler.bsky.social who is hilarious but this headline sucks. Has anyone ever headlined a story about a 50 year old man trumpeting “Lest you think he’s slowing down…?!” LATimes headliners, Chelsea would be one of the youngest people in Congress. Get a grip.

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...