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.

US politics make more sense when you recognize that a lot more people are susceptible to delusions than most folks probably assume.

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court ruled that parents could opt their children out of being in a classroom at the same time as a picture book about two hamsters getting married. Now that decision may lead to kids dying of preventable diseases, because this is Hell. skepchick.org/2025/12/anti...

Leave me something #StarTrek

The only reason not to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act is if you do not want to eliminate rape

Today for World AIDS day, read our latest article about how one of the biggest opponents to AIDS healthcare, the Catholic Church, is back at it again by banning trans healthcare across their hospital systems.

We're all we've got and we're all we need

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1. After the shutdown fight, Republicans promised Democrats a vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies, which cover 20 million Americans. Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Bought and sold

Finally some hope

LOLOLOLOLOLOL... This man is absolutely in free fall...

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

I don't know what alternate reality you inhabit , but the party *was* united, united around stopping a catastrophic increase in ACA premiums leading to 5+ million uninsured, and a death spiral in the ACA market, and collapse of the service and delivery system.

By the way, this has been the Democrats party for decades. They’ve skated by for years on this “at least we’re not republicans” bullshit, meanwhile enabling them at every turn. This is just the time during which you can ill afford their feckless ways.

younger generations have always dreamed to be in debt until the day they die

These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.

you could call your democratic senators and ask them to replace schumer as minority leader

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

Cave bill text is out www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Here's the full text of the deal: - House CR extended to January 30, no RIFs permitted until then - Minibus - Ds get a filibusterable ACA vote in December Read the text: hillheat.com/files/467/co...

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge

Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

1. In a major shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court, the court has ruled against trans people's passports, giving a stay to the Trump administration. The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I'm ready for apologies from pundits and politicians who showed their bigoted asses and suggested we needed to abandon trans people in order to win. looks like "fairness in girls' sports" wasn't the unbeatable wedge issue you thought it was, was it? kinda makes you look like a dumbass, huh?

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

this portion of zohrans victory speech genuinely brought tears to my eyes

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Finally some good news this year www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...

oh buddy. oh pal.

Disabled Americans experience the highest rates of poverty of every marginalized group in America. 27% live below the poverty line (12% for ableds). Their median earnings are $18,865 compared to $28,983 for the abled. These numbers WILL get worse. If you can help you will save lives.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

If you are in a medical setting, where vulnerable people HAVE TO BE, you need to wear a mask- whether or not it is mandated, whether or not you are sick. More than half of Covid cases are spread ASYMPTOMATICALLY. Protect the most vulnerable, it’s everyone’s duty. Any medical appointment anywhere.

In twelve days, New Yorkers will begin to cast their ballots and face a stark choice. A choice between democracy and oligarchy. Between a city you can afford or more of the same. Between the hope of a brighter future or a broken past. We will choose the future.

Anyone who thinks the US will have free and fair elections in 2028 is deluding themselves. apnews.com/article/domi...

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid. Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure. Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

🧵 regarding the shutdown: The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives. If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss. More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation. It methodically goes through each problem in the review. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

BREAKING: Federal judge issues a TRO in the Northern District of Illinois (including Chicago and the Broadview ICE facility), providing protections for protesters and journalists covering the protests. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Some of the key elements:

When we say “T4T,” we mean more than just sex or dating; we mean a shared language of ache, an erotic ontology of mutual becoming

this will only continue to escalate, they want a civil war