Happy “the Rapture isn’t actually in the Bible and 19th century Evangelicals made it up to act superior to everyone around them” Day to all who celebrate!

NEW: We filed a class action lawsuit to challenge the widespread denial of bond hearings to people detained by ICE in New England. All people in the United States are entitled to due process — no matter what the Trump administration says. www.aclum.org/en/press-rel...

Yikes. This is not good.

1. In a groundbreaking legal filing, transgender patients, represented by Women's Law Project, have filed a legal complaint against UPMC for capitulating to Trump and dropping trans care. Federal funding threats do not override state law. Subscribe to support our journalism.

For years, medical professionals and transgender advocates have been saying the "Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine" was not following the principles of evidenced-based medicine. Now the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine is leveraging the same claim against them. (1/)

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people. His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy. "There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."

Thank you and congrats, @teamsters.bsky.social ! Organized power is realized power, and when we fight, we win. Grateful for your vision, stamina, & sweat equity which delivered this victory and secured meaningful benefits for your members and future generations of working people.

Bruce Harrell piled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot. Buttegieg hasn't endorsed Mamdani, but hell endorse this asshole on the other side of the country for some reason. Cringe.

Honestly, can she just go away? I don't need to hear from someone who lost to the worst presidential candidate America has ever seen. She has no insight I need. And if she's gonna be out here being transphobic, she should just be quiet and live her comfortable life and leave us alone.

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

Imagine if (non-health) news reporters wrote like this instead of whatever sanewashing nonsense they keep doing.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - UN secretary-general says statehood for the Palestinians "is a right, not a reward."

Disney paid $16 million to Trump to settle a bogus lawsuit involving George Stephanopoulos. Disney fired Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a “world-class hater.” Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. That Disney has walked back one of those after immense public pressure doesn't change who they are.

1. A federal judge has blocked a Trump policy that says the National Endowment for the Arts will disfavor LGBTQ+ performances, ruling it violates their 1A rights. NEA funding is a significant for theatres. Their ban helped stop plays with trans themes. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

It sucks that as an atheist I have basically no representation at any level of government. Religious nonsense is pervasive in practically all government functions and it's frustrating and exhausting.

NEW: A former Ball State University staff member is suing the university president after she was fired for a private Facebook post about the death of Charlie Kirk. She is being represented by ACLU of Indiana @acluindiana.bsky.social. READ THE COMPLAINT: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It bothers me that political-violence statistics separate "Islamist" violence from "right-wing" violence. Islamist violence *is* right-wing violence. It is the same religious fundamentalism that fuels Christianist violence.

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

what in the FUCK Abolish the police.

In case you needed another reason to not use airbnb:

This is why I'm not a Democrat any more.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

On the anniversary of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’s repeal, we honor the bravery of LGBTQIA+ service members. Today is also a stark reminder: our communities are under attack. Hateful policies continue to harm those who serve our country with dignity. We must keep fighting for true equality.

Today is the best I've felt since getting out of the hospital. I actually have some energy today, though coming out of the hospital just to leap headlong into a new schoolyear while also trying to catch up on housework has been using most of that energy up. 😴

It is depressing that every Democrat isn't running on "abolish ICE" right now. They aren't, because they love the idea of ICE when *they* control them. Same reason Biden cried "FUND the police." Both parties support state violence and push for absolutely heinous anti-immigrant policies.

"Lack of corporate sponsors" Well, there's your problem. Corporate queerness is over. Back to bricks.

Yarse

something something political violence

GUARDIAN: “~15 of every 16 Palestinians the Israeli military has killed since its renewed offensive in Gaza began in March have been civilians, data collected by the independent violence-tracking organisation Acled indicates.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Fucking yikes. Zionists, come get your trash.

Breaking: Portugal confirms it will formally recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday, September 21, 2025. The move comes just ahead of a high-level UN conference on Palestine.

Furthermore, you need to get it through your head that there is nothing inherently wrong with trans women winning sometimes. "Fair" is not a system in which trans women are only ever allowed to lose. We can and should be the best sometimes, and that's perfectly fine.

So hey, fuck Kamala Harris for this.

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

Israel’s recent strike in Yemen reportedly killed 31 journalists – one of the deadliest attacks on the press in over a decade. As we fight to protect the freedom of the press at home, we must also do so abroad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/19/yemen-journalists-strike-israel-houthis/

Rob Bonta (California), Anthony Brown (Maryland), Andrea Campbell (Massachusetts), Charity Clark (Vermont), Keith Ellison (Minnesota), Letitia James (New York), Kathy Jennings (Delaware), Dana Nessel (Michigan), and Dan Rayfield (Oregon) each stating "I promise to fight for trans students."

Why are the Democrats so awful? Just unforced error after unforced error. And extra fuck McBride once again. We queer people deserve better representation.

Nazi shit.

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

I'm sick and tired of pretending like these people didnt set the stage for the current crisis

A trans woman was murdered by a man who kept taunting her for not being a woman. This is exactly the kind of hate that has been incited by Matt Walsh, JK Rowling, and Chaya Raichik. They got exactly what they wanted, a dead trans person killed because of hate. wtop.com/dc/2025/09/d...

wtf

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.