it is wild how many non-trans people seem to be taking an issue with this extremely correct thread: transphobia was an extreme minority position that was isolated to fringe reactionary christian conservatives, but through "liberal" publications laundering bigoted talking points it became accepted

Jules Gill-Peterson doesn’t want to fight for trans joy. She wants to fight for what trans people really need: resources, hormones, and surgery. Her latest arena? The Supreme Court.

gonna keep yelling about this for as long as we need good news!!!

jfc when did Lynda Carter turn into Mary McDonnell? 🔥

Mainers spoke up and our reps stood firm -- every anti-trans bill has been DEFEATED! Thank you to the legislators who said NO to removing trans Mainers' rights. 👏🏼🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏼

This reminds me that “I am apolitical” is by default a deeply conservative position, and nobody’s particularly keen to interrogate it

I'm going to have a lot more thoughts later, but as we wait for this last flicker of life in this very last bill to die, I am filled with so much joy. This was an ugly fight, and this is a goddamn satisfying victory.

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

After a long and emotional week in my sphere of this world we’re surviving, I’ve missed a lot and I’m not feeling too inspired to catch all the way up; that said, I just checked BS for the first time in several days just in time for the “parade” and lmaoooo I love everyone in this bar

Sitting in the State House hearing representatives quote the New York Times in their arguments to pass anti-trans bills. The rage is incalculable.

I'm tired of having to coddle harry potter fans if you have spent money on harry potter in the last five years, your money has contributed to the deaths of real trans people & the defense of their killers that is a fact, don't celebrate a harry potter video game during pride month for fuck's sake

Not going to lie, learning this gives me a sigh of relief. I had seen numbers showing the active military is not as Trumpist as this speech/rally seemed to suggest. Nice to know that this was basically a handpicked audience of supportive soldiers.

I swear to god, every single day Maine Dems make it harder for me to show up and smile and talk to them about how human beings deserve to live safely like they're the fucking children that will die as a result of their mealy-mouthed "moderation".

re: lrt, if you're going to take that freak's money to make her wizard bullshit, just say you like money. stop half-stepping. stop talking about diversity of opinion. just say your career is more important to you than the safety and health of trans people.

This whole thread!!!

This. Doesn't matter who they are, or what else you've always loved them for.

Easiest way to declare a state of emergency is to create the emergency.

We are living in scary and uncomfortable times as the pace of change speeds up under the motivations of the worst people alive, and it is very tempting to argue over our own righteousness (speaking from experience), but sometimes we should focus on the results we want and work from there.

As someone who Discourses too much, I’d like to suggest to everyone that we take a deep breath, step back, and ask ourselves where we want to put our energy right now.

Couldn't be more deserved. So, so proud of you, @writingroslyn.bsky.social.

A fictional character reminding us: "There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." --Commander William Adama,

There is so much history happening, if you're a future historian please tell everyone I said aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa thank you

The way trans issues and trans lives have been covered by contemporary media is the ultimate example of talking about people like they're not in the room *while we're in the room* begging to speak

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

It's not going to be enough to abolish ICE. There are going to need to be prosecutions.

The NYT has faced intense (and hard earned) pressure internally and externally over its coverage of trans kids and they likely know they'll face even more blame if SCOTUS rules against trans care in Skrmetti, and I think the podcast and more should be seen in that light

#ThePitt x #ParksAndRec crossover you never knew you needed. 🐀

I'll never forget watching one of my poetry professors, who also lived through Hurricane Katrina, read the revised version of a poem I wrote about that experience. Her face (and tears) stick with me more than what she said, but it was the first time I truly felt like I was actually a poet.

once again I must tap my own sign

I know everyone is loving the Musk schadenfreude but we have to stay on the alert for the possibility that Musk is going to turn his sights to those centrist dem conventions going on and further entrench transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. And they would easily work with him.

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From Warsan Shire's book, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Own Head: bookshop.org/a/862/9780593134351 #poem #books #writing

I'm not a political scientist but if you're advice to the Democratic Party is pushing out unions, immigrants, and queers then I think there's already a party for that

He did those things. He also did things about which I'm angry--failing the Dobbs response, his handling of Gaza--but those were all choices, in any case. Given the urgency of the dangers to the nation & its people right now, however, this rehash is a diversion. Intentional? That's a question.

Couldn’t be worse than the present honestly

When you realize they do this for fun and actually enjoy getting this reaction from transgender people, it will make it ever clearer that they know exactly what they are doing and it's not journalism.

This is a brilliant, simple explanation of how the Current Fuckery will hurt everyday people delivered by a trusted local figure and we need 2000% more of this

"I fell asleep knowing I would wake/to walk against grief in waves."

this unlocked a well of rage from somewhere real deep!!! anyway, please follow/support/utilize @imaginewaterworks.bsky.social, an incredible organization doing essential work around climate justice, land stewardship, and disaster readiness/preparation

From Randall Mann's book, Deal: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556596766 #poem #poetry #books

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

To maintain old friends, focus less on what they're doing (or not doing) for the relationship and focus on your own efforts, says Nina Badzin, host of a friendship podcast.

the first sentence of Elon's obituary should be that he was one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of humanity this is his legacy

This image from HRC goes so hard

I resent so thoroughly how much ChatGPT has made people recoil from the em dash EMILY DICKINSON AND ALSO ME HAVE NOT LIVED AND FOUGHT IN VAIN THE ARTROOMBA ROBOTS WILL NOT TAKE THIS FROM US

its so telling that maine told trump to fuck off, the admin shook and blustered and threatened a bunch of shit, maine didn't budge and trump just capitulated

(No, this act of making trans people less safe and this particular project aimed at making trans people safer don’t have a 1:1 correlation but it is yet another apt day to remind people to support the TYEP and projects like it nationwide.)

It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends

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