It's hilarious that they've convinced themselves that there's a massive, under-served audience segment just yearning for more right-wing content if only someone would give it them. It doesn't exist! The people they're talking about already only watch TV and entertain themselves by bitching about it

the “reasonable concerns about women’s spaces” to hard right pipeline continues to pump them out

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

If the DMV said “you have one year to get a new license; here’s how to do it for free” it would still be shitty and discriminatory. But to have your license invalidated OVERNIGHT is absolutely malicious.

(posting this for the fourth time because Bluesky was crapping its pants earlier) I made a playlist of RPG music to study, to sleep, or perhaps to just invoke whimsy. 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHcP...

No joke, no memes, no snark, I'm dead serious, the pipeline from Transphobia to Nazi is one that is deserving of study. You'll find so many times someone begins minor anti-trans rhetoric, and in a few years they end up here.

We are going to need Nuremberg Trials when this is all over.

Republicans and conservatives are one step closer to their dream of transgender genocide. One day, it will be illegal for us to be in public. Then, they'll abduct us into camps. We know the playbook. It's right there and they're checking off each step neatly and loudly.

We have made a donation to Equality Kansas, which works to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and we encourage you to follow suit with donations to organizations that share your values. Get more info on Equality Kansas at their site: eqks.org

In just an hour and a quarter, we've already raised over $2500 for red state and national queer orgs! We can do this!

I wrote this comic 2 years ago. I was terrified when I wrote it but had hope it wouldn't come to pass and would be a reminder of how bad things got before we pulled back. It not only has, it has gotten even worse. This is absolutely terrifying and will destroy lives if passed.

Over at the newsletter I wrote about how the right wing, corporate U.S. press is utterly dedicated to derailing AOC's pursuit of higher office:

I have literally no patience for anyone saying that trans Kansans "just" have to go to the DMV and get a new license. There was no time given for that. There was no process in place for that. There were letters sent out to some people whose licenses were invalidated, but not all.

people out here arguing that you need AI to write fast when Chuck Tingle exists

I'm trying to imagine how I would feel if I received a letter saying my license was invalid because the state decided I'm not my gender, and then strangers said, well, "just" go get a new one with someone else's gender.

Anno is joking. He's buds with both Miyazaki and Tomino (Gundam) and knows that they didn't even really breakout until their late 30s/40s. Anno himself was 35 when NGE came out. Despite what you may have heard, Japanese people can be funny and sarcastic on purpose.

Yeah - I don't think they understand how weird and confusing it is for people if you have to pull out an ID and the sex doesn't match what you look like at all.

Never "AI will be installed in grills, signal when meat is done" or "AI added to fountain drink dispenser, detects when cleaning required." When they dream of person-approximating helper technologies, somehow it always circles back to policing or punishing employees.

“Bills introduced in recent weeks in the legislatures of at least four Democratic-led states would impose long-term consequences on new ICE employees by rendering them ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education, and, in their most expansive form, the entire state civil service.”

The bottom line on this: Media figures are unable to grasp the possibility that most ordinary people don't agree that undocumented immigrants are dangerous criminals, and don't reflexively see them as inevitably locked in zero sum conflict with US citizens, so they think this just *has to* resonate

Ok new thing is mockingly singing Frosty The Snowman at every NY cop you see from now until it starts to haunt their dreams

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I understand the instinct to donate to orgs that are helping trans folks flee red states but let's not forget about the orgs that are still fighting for trans folks in red states.

I've always wanted to do an anthology called BIG DAMN EXPLOSIONS where the only requirement for the stories is that they must have a big damn explosion in them. I think we could get an interesting range of stories with that.

im going to be honest kitten the fascist administrative state is kind of hyperfocused on mommy right now and it's stressing her out a little bit

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

a key feature of this is there is no public benefit to it at all. it is legislature designed to harm a specific group, nothing more.

i am glad to be a trans person on hrt. being trans is awesome and incredible and anyone persecuting trans people is hell's own jackass. gender should be a playground not a prison camp with barbed wire around it

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

If you need to 'draw a clocky trans woman' so bad for your 2woke4me story collection, she should look like this. I am not explaining what this means to anyone who isn't trans.

I just want to say I am a Kansan, I have lived at my address for over a year. I did not receive a letter at all. If I wasn't aware of the law I could be imprisoned tomorrow with no warning beforehand. I have had my gender marker changed on my license for more than 7 years with no issues before this

I'm so happy that there's a free lightstick emote-- i only have the mogstation ones on my main and i miss them so much on all my alts 😅

Going to once again say that Josh Barro blocked me years ago because I kept replying to everything he said with a picture of the brain Gremlin from Gremlins 2

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

The things that gets buried talking about the Kansas thing is... everyone says "just move" every time something like this comes up. And to loose your license? You can't move. I am currently moving from one state to another right now. Thus far I have used my old state license to:

It isn't all about passing and ppl who pass, but at this point an F marker on my license would likely read as possible fraud to a cop. Absolutely no one reads me as female or even as trans, often including other trans people - and despite the fact that I'm about as out as I can be.

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

I want people to know that I’ve heard that if there was slightly more pressure on the Kansas legislature it’s likely that a few legislators would have flipped to stop the veto override on the the Kansas drivers license bill. But national media largely ignored the story.

just stumbled upon an antique shop named 'the past & the curious' which

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

The state of Kansas invalidated trans people licenses. Here's one way to help. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

For some reason we live in an era where the worst people on Earth are also the most attention hungry people on earth

This is what the Trump bureau of prisons is doing to trans people, putting them at immediate risk of medical emergency to forcefully detransition them. Unimaginable levels of cruelty.

Every New York Times column & Atlantic thinkpiece, every Guardian broadside led us here. Jesse Singal and Ben Ryan and all the others "just asking questions" led us here. Every bit of coverage that's treated us as suspicious outsiders and punching bags helped speed this day. You are responsible.

We shouldn't be basing higher ed decisions solely on numbers like these because higher ed isn't a business, but we *definitely* shouldn't let people use 'run higher ed like a business' as a pitch and then bury the numbers that show they're killing profitable programs.

This is such a joke. NYPD are the biggest babies on the planet.

every person who dedicated their time and energy to bring us from point A to point B here has blood on their hands that will never wash off they’re the ones who should be exiled from society instead of trans people

everything is increasingly intolerable all the time.

being trans online is like [posts a silly joke] [sees news abt government trying to exterminate us] [like funny post by trans friend] [more news about gov wanting us dead] [repost funny joke] [trans friend shares horrible news about insurance issues/sexual violence/abusive family] [sees funny post]