don't read too much into this because Beto famously also raised a ton, but still that is insane

The EU says its rolling out an age-verification app for use across its member states. Users will have to upload their passport or national ID in order to access large swaths of the internet.

When you work in largely progressive circles (like, say, entertainment or news media) it's easy to believe trans people are an ideological project being forced on you by an HR department rather than a vulnerable population being victimized by some of the most powerful people in the country

Your periodic reminder that LLMs are incapable of "understanding" anything and that it is all a function of "self working card trick" of language probabilities; it just generates likely sounding bullshit. Sometimes that likely sounding bullshit is accurate because likely sounding things often are.

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There's a reason why great comics have historically avoided punching down. Because it doesn't stay in the comedy club. It inevitable filters out into society to cause actual harm to the communities they're targeting.

"She [Boebert] should never do that to a person like me." Really captures how someone like Chappelle can target a whole community, double down, make millions from it and then get offended when someone casts him in a way HE doesn't like.

No, that's exactly what Chappelle was doing and it's why trans people criticized him for doing it.

the tension with clavicular doing mainstream interviews is he genuinely sees himself as some sort of self health influencer philosopher but the average person generally looks at him like he’s an animal in a zoo to be studied

more people should be paying attention to the fact that the city of houston passed a policy trying to limit cooperation with ICE and now Greg Abbott is threatening to cut the city's state funding if city council doesn't undo it. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/14/h...

I still think this is the main reason a lot of terfs are British btw

you may remember that Kansas voters approved a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive freedom. last week, the Kansas state lege overruled the gov's veto of two new anti-abortion laws. "freedom" was not supposed to look like this.

and here's their story:

And of course they're relying on the junk HHS report compiled by a far right think tank employee and a bunch of crackpots, most of whom aren't even doctors, let alone practitioners with expertise and experience in providing this kind of care.

It's obscene the level of which this administration has gone after trans youth to make their lives a living hell. The latest attack on care will completely defund any hospital or clinic that provides care to trans youth. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here’s what I’ve been saying: even if you think kids should be off social media you should oppose this bill. It lets Big Tech off the hook while punishing parents. It will force you to upload your government ID to post online, and will force parents upload sensitive docs like birth certificates

"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

I maintain that among the media's biggest mistakes has been continuing to ask Trump questions as if he's a normal guy instead of asking things like "Can you explain who Jesus is" or "Describe the process of pumping gas"

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

The only difference in ability to provide services between now and 2019 is the level cap on greed for CEOs was taken off in 2020

"Porn addiction" surfaced in the mainstream media around the time of the Josh Duggar case, but I'm not sure how far back it goes. It's used since to absolve everything from assault to queerness, but I don't know that anyone has fully covered it or the connection. Def needs a deeper dive.

MASSACHUSETTS! The social media ban legislation that passed the House is a nightmare for online privacy and safety, would force YOU to upload a gov ID to post online, and would harm LGBTQ youth and undocumented families. @fightforthefuture.org is organizing a sign-on for MA orgs opposed. DM me!

Once, again: listen to sex workers. This issue was first flagged to me over a year ago by @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app who noted how surveillance tech would be used to stalk and out sex workers at industry shows like AVN. And that's on top of clients using them to secretly record sessions.

NEW: A large swath of civil society is warning Meta against rolling out a face recognition service that will predictably be used by sexual predators.

I’ve been spending a lot of time exploring communities in geekdom recently — anime, gaming, VTubing, TTRPG, etc. No one wants to hear this, but streamers, shortform content creators, and YouTubers have the biggest political cultural influence on this group right now. Journalists are losing

hahah eat shit, terf 🖤

JK Rowling when she realizes a successful indie project by a trans woman and with several nonbinary cast members beat out her TERF wizard franchise on YouTube's trending charts

anyway my hot take is that not only should trans women play with cis women in sports, but the entire idea of sex segregated sports is fucking stupid

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1. In a massive defeat of anti-trans politics, Viktor Orbán, one of the most autocratic and anti-LGBTQ+ figures in Europe, has fallen to Péter Magyar. This comes after JD Vance traveled to Hungary to campaign for Orbán and decry trans people in a speech. Subscribe to support our journalism.

We're going to win. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

is trump healing jeffery epstein with his hand

The path forward is going to be relying on reformed liberal institutions and EU courts to dismantle the anti LGBTQ policies of the Orban regime. It's most certainly going to take years to do if not at least a decade. But at least now, there's some breathing room.

Progress for LGBTQ folks in Hungary likely won't come from the Tisza party. They'll be less overtly persecuted as they were under Orban but the new governing party is not exactly progressive on LGBTQ rights. What they will do is enable liberal institutions to once again protect human rights.

Conservatives: "DON'T HAVE SEX IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE CONSEQUENCES!" Also Cons: "WHY AREN'T KIDS FUCKING!"

We used to celebrate when teen births were low. They aren’t financially, physically or mentally prepared to be parents. This is insane.

I am the number of years old it takes to remember when *increasing* teen birth rates was a concern for Fox News. Ya know, it’s almost (aaalmost) like they’re disingenuous whiny hacks who complain just for the sake of complaining. And don’t actually give a shit about much of anything.

"Telling them ... to wait until they're in a more stable life situation..." Does it seem wrong to many Americans that kids should wait until they are graduated from high school before starting families? Most places in the world wouldn't see this as a "fertility rate drop." We'd see this as ...

pedocon theory is real

Make Teenagers Pregnant Again is going to be hard to fit on a hat.

Years and years of "what is a woman" discourse only to settle on a definition that includes 15-year-olds.

you have to not hate women though. that's the catch

men are so stupid bc "entire team of women plus their one special little guy" is a top tier coworker situation to be in

i think a cool thing is that every time some right winger is revealed to have, let’s say, a non-normative sexuality, i get to hear what liberals really think about me but feel they can’t voice :)

Melania: I never cut child in half with sword. I never do this. The entire USA: what? Melania: not me.

While this is true regarding constant exposure to stories where women are SAed by male predators, it can be very traumatizing for male victims of CSA to constantly see stories about CSA on the news as well. Male and female teachers, YTers, Epstein files, predators in families, feels endless

I've known Men, Women, non-binary people.. cis, trans, inter, endo.. whom have all been victims of SA and CSA as a result, the way some people try to have the conversation be gender specific.. makes me uncomfortable tbh

fcking censorship, can’t even listen to crazy psychopathic yandere murdering everyone anymore… Crazy how YouTube really just became a broadcaster trying to regulate its content, when it was supposed to be just a place where you could share any video you’d like.