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Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Jeffrey Epstein’s young victims weren’t “barely legal” or “underage women.” Read @martha-kempner.bsky.social about how teenage victims of abuse are still children. “We should stop talking about the age of Epstein’s victims and start talking about their sexual agency.”

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Once you see this disinformation playbook in practice, the "just asking questions," the new age speak, the purposeful undermining of medical authority, you start to see it everywhere. It's not just trans people, it's people with autism, birth control, disability accommodations in schools etc.

Important insight. ALSO, I have no patience (and I mean ZERO) with people who say "they won't ban birth control." They will eventually try BECAUSE WHAT THEY WANT IS TO CONTROL YOUR BODILY AUTONOMY. We need to be proactive about BODILY AUTONOMY IN GENERAL.

When I said birth control was in danger people said I was catastrophizing. But here we are, wait until they come for the right to own property. It's a fantasy where only wealthy white men have rights. No one else

BAFTA and BBC really are emerging as the villains in this, aren't they.

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses. Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

“As we prepare for more waves of bad news, I’m remembering that there is always a next right thing to do, that I am never alone in my despair, and that when we come together, we can create new worlds that are kinder and more of what we all deserve." - B Loewe

Meanwhile, meta analyses of generations of anthropological research on hunter-gatherer societies show that Darwin was deeply wrong in his conclusions about sex and gender. Showing clear and consistent evidence of women in prominent hunting roles. stories.spu.edu/articles/pro...

I'm following the lead of the most impacted by this when I say this: Black people should not have to endure having racial slurs screamed at them on an international stage. With an intersectional lens toward disability justice, it is important to recognize the impact that outburst has on those men.

I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

Someone told me that they don’t see enough of the big wins against this administration so it always feels like we are losing even though we aren’t by a long shot. So I started a newsletter that does just that.

Last week, far-right streamer Nick Fuentes openly called for the mass criminalization of women and girls. “Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists — all of his political rivals — we have to do the same thing with women … They go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”

Benjamin Shepard’s book, “On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting,” documents four decades of wisdom about the importance of friendship in political movements.

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

“Abolishing gender programs & the lessons they have taught, will, Trump & his acolytes hope, undermine our ability not just to condemn, but also to critically analyze the policies & practices they want to impose.” Must Read by Joan Scott, member of the AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom.

If your organization has Slack, Teams, or any other messaging program, you should have a dedicated accessibility channel. This would be a great way for everyone on your team to learn together by sharing links, posing questions, and reviewing alt text, among other things.

For those who don't know, this is a finding from 2009 by the EPA which stated greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are heating the Earth and that warming threatens public health and welfare

TONIGHT. We’ll break down what’s happening in Congress, how we can pressure our elected officials in real time, and organize together to stop ICE's campaign of terror. SEE YOU THERE: wfpus.org/WFPmasscall

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

For more detailed explanations of our styleguide advice, see our recent expansion: www.transjournalists.org/why-biologic...

Renewed my annual subscription of @wired.com and can attest they are meeting this moment with great reporting.

Inhale. Hold 1, 2, 3, 4. Exhale. Hold 1, 2, 3, 4. Repeat until your lungs are full and your nervous system calms.

“It’s very draining to never know what my entire life might look like by this time next week, just because of policies & politicians.” Trans Legislation Tracker is tracking 645 anti-trans bills as of Feb. 2026, marking an escalation in a decade-long campaign, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.

I feel so sick reading this. She dedicated her life to helping her immigrant trans siblings, finally got the medical care she sought her whole life, and then a year later ICE tricked her, kidnapped her and used her postoperative status as a weapon to destroy her health. CW for basically everything

Yes. This. Let people talk about their joy. Let people live. That's the fight, for people to be able to live. So let people do it, in the ways that they are managing to.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Yes, you can share your article via Green OA.”

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

RFK Jr. cut vaccine research for cancer, cancer being one of the leading causes of death in the world. Help us impeach & RemoveRFKJr to save lives and restore cancer vaccine research. Use this link to take action! : standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:

If you have 15 minutes, it's worth listening to this interview with Aisha Gomez from MN - www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YHa... Listen particularly to her responses to the questions of what the cops are doing and also to what state/local government responses are/can't be. The limits are everywhere.

Shirley Raines, founder of Beauty 2 The Streetz and known for her volunteer work serving homeless communities in Los Angeles and Nevada, has died

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

I have nothing new or insightful to add, only gentle reminders: - Continue to regulate your nervous system. - Hydrate and fuel your body. - Check in on your loved ones and neighbors. - If you can, give to mutual aid (it helps people immediately!). - Protect the most vulnerable. - Read.

Fascism needs us isolated. Community is the antidote. Think about it. They bust up unions and outlaw them They make bulldoze playgrounds They deploy BOTS to sow confusion and hate in online communities They segregate schools They redline neighborhoods They gerrymander voting districts

After hearing the news today, I feel rage. I am going to do what I've told so many of you to do for so long; use your anger for something good. So this is me, trembling as I type this trying to do something good. Here is a list of ways to help folks in Minnesota right now⬇️

Alex Pretti was a helper. He was directing traffic in an area of ICE occupation and then was trying to help a woman bystander being roughed up by ICE when ICE tackled him to the ground and executed him.

💔 we need to do everything we can to help Minneapolis, and with the other hand be preparing our communities. Love to everyone.

In response to the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization, California announced that it has joined the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network, the first state to do so.

But have you taken care of you today? Have you taken your meds? Drank water? Ate something nourishing? Rested? Unplugged? Connected with someone you love and who loves you? Please take care of you. You matter and are important and deserve care.

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one. It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Everyone with authority must speak out now against Trump's depravity and lawlessness. Every Democratic leader. Every university, professional association, charity, and foundation head. Every CEO. Every religious leader. If they don't, history will condemn their cowardice and complicity.