"Maybe it’s important to them to create spaces that are accessible because the next several years are going to require community - and they want that community to include everyone and to be healthy enough to respond and act."

Bingo

Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife. He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness

Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today. It's resegregation in real time.

Ić hæbbe mīn ġécynd ġewendod 🏳️‍⚧️ #english #trans #mtf #oldEnglish #linguistics

Long ago, the actor Peter Ustinov described Toronto as "New York run by the Swiss."

BIG RED FLAG

As queer barista in the '90s, this checks out. It also explains the coffee shop-to-library pipeline.

He did not call for a general strike but that's an interesting headline from HuffPost.

Remember when Action4Canada was just a COVID-denial grift? A couple years later, the group pivoted to being anti-trans+ and suddenly there were bible verses on every page of the site, among the many DONATE buttons.

"That's why your kids don't like you... and your wife is f***in on you..." 🔥 (I think the woman is 🇯🇲? She is also brave *AF* here.)

Those who understand SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) causes neurological, endothelial, cardiovascular, and immune system damage, and that damage from repeated infections is cumulative, mask. And those who don’t will soon find out. I don’t “live in fear” typically means, I prefer to “live in denial.”

I hope other countries as well as the new regional health systems in the US pick up as much of this work as they can.

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Sending this back around because it's so dang good. Do yourself a favor and enjoy this queer musician who played a pro trans song at a straight pride festival in Boise over the summer.

The kids are alright.

old article, resolved with the family reuniting in Canada. follow-up article published 6 days after the one you shared. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you read anything today, let it be Nikole Hannah Jones’ essay on how Charlie Kirk’s death is doubling as an invitation to transform white supremacist views into normal political discourse www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

Another Sunday, another interview in the New York Times where two cis men politely discuss if trans people are actually human or not. No consensus reached! Oh well!

One of my favourite films. I was fortunate to see it in a theatre in England with a friend who whispered explanations of the lines in Urdu that had much of the audience giggling.

Get in losers, we’re grieving

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

FINALLY.

“Political violence needs to end!” This is a terrified politician’s way of saying: “Violence is okay when it’s happening to all you regular motherfuckers; when it’s your kids getting shot the fuck up at the school; when it’s your granddaddy riddled to death at the church..."

At the risk of doxxing myself, my grandmother (married with small children, like most women getting abortions) died at the age of 24 after an illegal abortion. Fortunately, we've learned a lot but we need to retain that knowledge!

@margaret.bsky.social , I convinced my wife to listen to the novella, Hermetica, on the CZM Book Club. We enjoyed "all" 3 episodes only to find out that's not all. There was some outrage. Do you know how many episodes there will be? If you don't know yet, will the last one say THIS IS THE FINAL ONE?

...Canada’s public health system, thanks largely to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in Saskatchewan, ... laid the foundation for the Canada-wide system we have today. This was a massive challenge to possessive individualism.

The latest fantastic stamps from Canada Post featuring five species of fungi in Canadian ecosystems. Indigenous knowledge, biodiversity, art, science.

Indigenous people being terrorized is a throughline of the US and Canada.

Please help get this podcast and/or the zine into the hands of every trans young person in the US and every adult who loves them. Thanks. www.tangledwilderness.org/features/a-l...

We can and should call out horrendous behaviour like Newsom's. No need to silence that in the name of "unity." Many people (mostly white & middle-class) misunderstood the message of MLK and others about nonviolence. Folks need to factor in power and LISTEN TO THE MOST VULNERABLE.

American Academy of Pediatrics not holding back: “It differs from recent recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC, which was overhauled this year & replaced with individuals who have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/h...

They don't know either. But if you convince yourself and others that everything's a distraction, you never have to take action, because you're waiting for the *real* thing to happen.

Premier Smith 'believes the secret to reforming health care, by which she clearly means privatizing it, is the introduction of fees and co-pays to soften the Canadian public up for the coming of U.S. style pay-to-survive health care.'

Consider requesting your library buy these, if they're available in your country.

This seems to be only for girls but would be solid option for all kids. As I recall, the options at my high school in the early '80s were home ec, auto mechanics, drafting, or BASIC coding. I chose BASIC after not getting into the drafting class. A life skills class should have been mandatory.

“The revolution of ‘xiaopin’ is a reminder that presence, too, is a language — one that hums beneath the buzz of progress, waiting to be heard.”

No one gave a shit if a gay man was lonely navigating a homophobic society. No one gave a shit if a woman was lonely in an abusive marriage. No one ever gave a shit if the Black kid in a white school was lonely. But we all need to care about straight white men being lonely. Miss me with this bs.

Obviously I don't speak for everyone who was talking about it, but. In Parable of the Sower, the protagonist gets on a prepper evangelism kick of her own, and her dad gives her a lecture. He explains that she is gonna freak everyone out and needs to slow her roll. Not because she's wrong...

Very much needed this today. You may too. '...fighting for a better world has immediate value. Even when we don’t “win” and create some utopian society, we “win” because through our actions we can often prevent at least some level of suffering.'

“… there are people who would volunteer to work at a death camp for free” - Anne Lamott quoting a friend who is a pastor [I've been sitting with this a lot]

Canada begins processing its first US refugees. Refusing to deport those at risk of persecution under Trump’s anti-LGBTQIA agenda.

Hate-mongers and grifters are not entitled to public platforms. ministrywatch.com/sean-feucht-...

The origin of street medics. Fascinating.

"Of course these superhero movies are only pretend, but I happen to believe that there are actual superheroes in real life who walk among us, and these superheroes are called trans people." Suddenly I'm crying. Alan Cumming IS Nightcrawler in a way only a handful of superhero actors have achieved.

It look fifty years for me to realize that cynicism and a distrust in people isn't wise or realistic. It's encouraged in our individualistic society to keep us separated.

"A warning coordination meteorologist is responsible for teaching emergency managers what specific types of weather alerts mean. If those positions remain vacant for, say, half a year, 'you’re really starting to lose your relationship w/local officials.' " www.latimes.com/cali...