An investigation from Transitics has revealed that, under a Democratic governor, Kansas secretly built a list of the state's trans people. Today, Republicans just weaponized it to revoke their IDs. transitics.substack.com/p/kansas-sec...

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

Let's see if we can raise $10,000 today for red state or national queer orgs. Post proof here in the replies that you donated to a red state or national queer organization and I will share. Who's with me? (I can't donate myself because I'm a journalist who covers these orgs)

only way to describe what this is as intentional and targeted evil. they want to make it impossible for trans people to live. this is genocidal

noise pollution causing actual real physical health problems in humans is one of those things that sounds fake but isn’t

1. A ballot initiative that would ban trans youth from bathrooms and sports in Maine is likely to appear on the ballot in November. It is bankrolled by Richard Uihlein, an anti-trans billionaire. It comes after Gov. Mills rejected Trump's anti-trans demands. Subscribe to support our journalism.

it's hard to explain to normies who are not plugged in on this just how thin the theories of anti-trans authorities really are. These people simply cannot believe that the NYT and The Atlantic would both push folks who are so full of shit.

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. For trans adults, Kansas is the newest "Do Not Travel" warning, only the 3rd state to achieve that warning. For youth, a change to the map increases risk to Medium in many states. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.

1. The President of the Heritage Foundation took to the influential PBD podcast today to announce his intent when it comes to transgender ADULT care: "You outlaw it." He stated that the foundation is working precisely on a plan to ban all trans adult care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Time for Mayor Mamdani to live up to his campaign promises and ensure care is kept safe for New York trans kids. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov

Just in: 50 parents and transgender activists have blockaded the HHS Building in protest of sweeping new rules that could ban trans youth nationwide. 24 were then arrested. This is the kind of action we need. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Democrats are suggesting reforms for ICE, but the reality is: abolition is the way forward, not reform. Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!

Transgender bathroom ban bills are now expanding to private businesses. First, Kansas bill creates bathroom bounty hunters that could target trans people in any business. Now, Idaho is hearing a bill today that lets you sue a private business if it lets trans people pee. Our latest story.

just because he isn't literally murdering trans people with a knife doesn't mean he doesn't have blood on his hands. y'all will do anything to defend your right wing faves if they call themselves a Democrat.

Newsom vetoed a bill that would've prevented insurance discrimination against trans people and allowed people to stockpile 6 months of HRT. So yes, not only would he do this, he is actively doing it right now by endangering our access to healthcare in order to protect insurance companies.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

What happens when you risk everything and open up a coffee shop as two trans people? This. ❤️ Thanks for making our first week incredible, Toronto. We love you.

This also extends to other fields. The abundance bros' attitude on housing, "give rich developers even more power so they can build luxury shit 95% of the population can't afford and someday you plebs might benefit," also clearly shows the same attitude towards the poor.

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

Kansas has passed a bill that would revoke trans people's drivers licenses, forcing them to surrender them for replacements. It also creates trans bounty hunters that can sue trans people for money. It goes to the gov, who will veto, but R's can override. Subscribe to support our journalism.

There's a rot -- a eugenicist, transhumanist, techno-optimist, new-atheist rot -- in elite institutions that connects Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Silicon Valley, CBS, Palantir, and ICE. It sweeps in Epstein, Bannon, Thiel, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Joe Rogan, and all these other IDW / NeoRX creeps.

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

Tell everyone you know HALF A BILLION $ apnews.com/article/trum...

“It did help me realize how important it is that we’re still at the point where people run to danger, and where people assist and help when someone’s being taken, and that we’re not at the point where people turn their eyes or are too afraid to see what’s going on.” lithub.com/everything-w...

1. The most extreme anti-trans bill ever proposed is currently rocketing through the Kansas legislature. It would empower bounty hunters to search for trans people in bathrooms, even in private businesses, and sue them for large sums of money. The House is voting on it today.

Yeah not only are these terrible, they bear little resemblance to other asks that party caucuses are making. I just got a Hispanic Caucus list of "non-negotiables" that has like 20 other things on it. The Senate Dems are squandering the moment in real time.

Death Star employee morale low after destruction of Alderaan.

As part of their effort to make sure far right sheriffs don't get reelected uncontested, @boltsmag.org has put together a list of every one that is up for vote in 2026. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

i joined matt bernstein to talk to ashley st clair, a mother to one of elon musks babies, who’s since exited the far right movement. we spent this time grilling her talking to her about her past bigotry and what made her change

NEWS: Minnesota investigators just said they were unable to do any work on the scene where Border Patrol agents shot and killed a US citizen. They even went so far as to obtain a search warrant, and DHS still blocked their access to the scene.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Minneapolis is really a city like no other. Trump fucked up thinking that brutal violence would scare people into submission, rather than foment widespread organizing and resistance. These aren't cowardly hospital CEOs or college board members. These are neighbors defending their communities.

This weird thing where people are like “ICE is not the Gestapo, they’re slave patrols” and then others are like “ICE is not slave patrols, they’re CPS“ and it’s like ok the guy in charge of ICE is dressing himself like a Nazi so yeah Gestapo but also fascists can learn from more than one thing!!!!!!

The Statehouse is moving fast, and so are bills that undermine civil liberties. Read about a few of the bills that passed out of committee yesterday and keep up with our online tracker: https://www.aclu-in.org/legislation/

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

1. In a major victory, Democrats have managed to get all anti-trans riders stripped from the final appropriations bills. This includes HHS and Ed, which had the worst provisions in congressional history. If it passes, it will be a big win for 2026. Subscribe to support our journalism.

seeing corporate outlets repeatedly refer to ICE beating the shit out of protesters as “clashes” may be the thing that sends me over the edge

1. Even Justice ACB seemed alarmed at the implications of anti-trans arguments being used to discriminate against women more broadly during SCOTUS hearings on trans sports. Experts say not to read too far into it, court likely to overturn rights. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Between this, and the looming AI bubble burst, the US is hosed. And it's exactly what they knowingly, willingly, voted for. No one should shed a tear, no more than they should for anyone else who chose fascism and found ruin.

We condemn ICE's killing of a Minneapolis woman today and call on federal agents to withdraw from Minnesota immediately. This tragedy is further proof that ICE is out of control, endangering our communities, and must end its lawless operations before anyone else is brutally hurt or killed.

I wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.

It seems it is once again time for everyone to familiarize themselves with this anti-imperialist classic.

Colleagues, in the face of this sort of weaponized mendacity, protecting the lives of disabled people requires that we must take a radically different approach to public health messaging www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

concentration camps.

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.