Please continue to contact your representatives and urge them to: -oppose age verification laws -rescind existing AV laws -protect peoples rights to use VPNs -protect section 230

sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive

Also learned the term 'Ikeoji' (イケオジ) which means an attractive/cool older man and I'm like 'oh this word was made for me,' from this amazing series lol. On volume 4 and pre-ordered vol 5. It keeps getting better! #BL #lore

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It's black history month, and so our writer S. Baum decided to cover black trans people you may not hear about in your history classes. Go read their latest piece, and don't forget to subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/black-tran...

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

A group of trans people in Germany, circa 1930 (pre full Nazi take over and book burnings). It's important to share this image widely as it dispels the myth that being trans is something new and trendy.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Liam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs “This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

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.

We all owe everything good in our lives to women

Back anatomy practice that doubles as body type headcanon #spardacest #dmcdv

Tomodachi Life stream going great so far

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.

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Weeks ago, CHLA ended treatment of trans youth in capitulation to the Trump administration. Then, the government demanded the personal info of 3,000 trans kid patients there. Six families just successfully stopped them with a lawsuit. Subscribe to support our journalism.

One of the things that really annoys me is that all of us who were getting beat up on our university campuses 2 years ago for protesting Israel's genocide of Gaza told y'all that this was coming. If they were willing to do it to us, everyone else was next.

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

But somehow we're the problem.

ICE & U.S. Customs & Border Protection employed at least 30 people with sexual & violent criminal histories in recent years. At least 20 agents committed offenses with underage victims. The bulk of abuse happened within the last two years. This article includes names of the agents.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Oh she’s EXTORTING US.

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

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Listen I do not care if this is the author's barely disguised fetish, if they're good at their damn job it will be MY barely disguised fetish while the story lasts and perhaps afterwards

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Ana Mendieta, Nile Born, 1984 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136295

Today, as we see ICE fascists target brown and Black people, beat, arrest, and kill them, deny due process of law, & we see centrist politicians respond with calls for "more training" (instead of the right answer to abolish ICE) — we remember when Dr. King, warned us about the "white moderate."

Going through bills this morning being filed across the US and here's one for you. A bill in Nebraska that mandates the teaching of the "atrocities" of communism and how communism conflicts with American values.

1. A terrible new bill targeting trans youth has passed committees in Florida. It would potentially allow health care practitioners, including therapists, to be charged with "aiding and abetting" transgender youth to transition, local orgs say. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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1. New reporting indicates that the Trump administration may be making a change to federal forms that could function as a defacto gun ban for transgender Americans. It would require assigned sex at birth on the forms, which could contradict their legal ID. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Hotel By A Railroad - 1952 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40399

It's pretty amazing that Google Modern Edition hates the Internet so very much that it consistently puts, in the premium space they used to charge exhorbitant fees for, a paragraph of made up things.

Crunch kills. Dreams. Relationships. Lives. People. Work. Dream. Live. Succeed. Never crunch. Signed 'a crunch survivor'.

Brief History of US Interventions in Latin America Since 1946 by Carlos Motta, 2005 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137307

Happy 10th, you magnificent freakshow. #TheFinalPam

Country Garden with Sunflowers https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28521

Tomorrow, there will be oral arguments in a major SCOTUS case on transgender sports. At least, that's how it's being reported everywhere. But it's not just about sports. The ruling could change transgender rights for a generation, and impacts EVERYTHING. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Composition 8 by Vasily Kandinsky, 1923 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137438

Those with integrity going once, going twice, going … going … 🙃

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It appears that some members of the Democratic Party are supporting KOSA. The act purports to be about protecting children, but it could weaponize Trump's FTC to target LGBTQ+ content on the internet. Evan Greer writes for EITM in this latest op-ed. Subscribe to support our journalism.