The American Diabetes Association appears not to have learned their lesson the first time around (below). Now they've blocked publication of an editorial about this event that was slated for publication in the same journal, Diabetes Care, this week. But here it is. You know what to do.

It says so much about the lowering standards and poor values at the new WaPo that this is what they turned to for an opinion podcast. He's not even a top notch version of ... this. It's like Temu Benny Johnson.

A lot of people are doing testosterone explainers, but you should read the one written by a trans man.

You know what’s never killed anybody? Collard greens.

We made it to 50 new members for July and it's only the halfway point! Thank you everyone!!! Please keep em coming, though, because the longterm goal is adding back 200 new members by the end of the year to bounce back as strong as ever after leaving Squarespace.

I emailed the campaign twice today. Once to vociferously criticize this and once to ask for my donation back. $100 dollars I sent them literally the day before this was published in the Blade. I hope more people demand their money back. Sickening!

Since February I've been trying to get Assigned on the radar of larger dollar donors and today is the first time I've felt like maybe it isn't worth it.

5. The statement drew swift condemnation from Democrats. The Ohio Democrats Progressive Caucus issued a blistering rebuke: "Our hearts break for those kids. Those who disagree with that will never vote—let alone doorknock—for Amy Acton." Then they swiftly took down the post.

[many many years ago] Rowling: [writing] the best kind of wizard is a boy wizard Amnesty Supervisor: joanne do you have that memo about african genocide i asked for Rowling: not yet AS: ok well i need it soon AS: there's a bunch of genocides we need to deal with AS: i mean we're real behind on that

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

holy fuck she's putting herself at insane risk here i hope she has someone looking out

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: finally my evil plan reachesss fruition Rowling: it'ss taken me yearss of careful planning but finally Rowling: finally!!! Rowling: finally we can defeat the sscourge of human rightsss

Testosterone is a hormone surrounded in myths and misconceptions, which the Right loves to use to both demonize trans people as well as to fuel their weird beliefs about masculinity. Today, Jules Sherred dives into the science of testosterone and the reality of the effects it can have on the body.

Never forgetting the masterpiece that was being asked straight faced by Barrett if trans people had experienced historical discrimination and her answer was "I don't know".

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

The only research center in the United States focused on disabled parents may close soon due to loss of federal funding. New from me at @motherjones.com. “It is a profound setback for disability rights and family equity.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Some might argue that trying to destroy a human rights organisation for being too vigilant about human rights is the exact kind of thing an anti-rights movement would do.

New publication from me! 🎉 Please check out my latest investigation where we identify (no surprise) a crypto guy to a popular 'leaked' nudes website. Users could even get paid out for sharing leaked/hacked nudes from women. Within 48 hrs of reaching out to him, the site went offline. Impact! 🙌

Important🧵from Cal at the coal face. “the school staff cried” doesn’t move me any more, it angers me, as they proceed to act on govt policy and cause harm. Streeting told me, meeting the trans youth whose medication he’d removed was “really upsetting for me, really hard”. We need more than tears.

“Freedom is not a state; it is an act…not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we…sit down & rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, & each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, just society.” ~John Lewis, 2017. Image: Nat’l Geographic.

People don't really understand how, as a pre-transition trans person, you basically live with wall-to-wall pain. It's incredible how you learn to screen it, rationalize it, diminish it, as an act of survival, simply because society doesn't want you to have an alternative.

The ACLU has just detailed hundreds of cases of misconduct by immig agents: -kneeling on necks 52x -Agents choking people 10x -smashing car windows 47x -ramming cars 14x -Hit people w/ car 6x Report repeatedly cites ProPublica's reporting B/c transparency takes a village--when the govt blocks it

I know it seems like the motley coalition of rancher-klansmen, Dominionist car dealers, and deeply impoverished authoritarian followers who only talk about killing liberals and burning cities might all be gleeful fascist, but actually they're just sad about deindustrialization and diesel taxes

i actually think most men havent broken in to a woman's house and raped her. i dont think most men have done that

This is the context of JK Rowling putting a survivor of rape or sexual assault on blast for having the gall to seek help

My opponent, Tram Nguyen, voted to subsidize data centers and owns stock in NVIDIA while it gets rich from data centers. I will do neither: bethfordemocracy.com "Don't profit from what you spend our money on" doesn't seem like that high a bar, and yet...

Here's an excerpt from my latest essay for the Assigned Media newsletter. It's about feeling as though my pre-transition self was another person, and asking myself: OK, so what do I make of that person?

The gaslighting in the UK is absurd. My kiddo has been fully included for years. This segregation has a start date, September 1st. It is a 180 of school policy, that they are being forced to follow by Government policy. Yet not one newspaper is mentioning this HUGE change to trans kids' lives.

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

Please pay attention to this information Nisrin is sharing. You need to keep eyes on Sudan. I couldn't get past the paywall, but the gist is that the United States military, as well as the evil company Boeing, are complicit in the Sudanese genocide. Something to know about your own complicity.

Saw it on Twitter, saw it on Facebook - I have never seen one trans person in the public eye (myself included) who hasn't been pelted with bullshit by other trans people once reaching a certain level of (usually small) influence. Not criticism, but bullshit. It saps your strength.

And of course a lot of cis people are going “wow now someone likes gender affirming care so much huh?”

Rapinoe has opted not to name and shame www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...

I know a lot of the focus here has been on the Dems who voted not to cut aid to Israel but I think “the majority of the caucus voted to cut aid” is a monumental sea change in Dem politics and the movement here is only going in one direction this is the most Dem support Israel will ever see again

This has been an enormous change in my lifetime, and something I'm holding onto for hope. All of my parents family friends - a lot of them fairly 'old-fashioned' people - now have stories of 'well, {x}'s husband, who's now her wife, well, they're both so much happier now...' and it matters.

The movie trope of a person "living by a code" is more useful than we give it credit for. Developing a personal code you live by is a good way to develop a personal integrity that is robust to social pressures in a time of widespread immorality w/o being churchy or judgy.

Who needs a Hollywood or sports personality blacklist when a robot will just flag anyone dissenting from the toaster ordained social order as a "commercial risk"?

The nyt has created the very authoritarianism that should “shock the conscience” of Americans. You can’t pick and choose when to defend fundamental democratic principles. You have to do that every day.

About the time nyt editor Joe Kahn blithely dismissed the danger of Trump’s attacks on democracy, he was telling Alan Rusbridger his paper was winning Trump’s respect Such foolish comments reflected the nyt’s warped view of the press’s role and signaled how its failures would threaten Americans🧵

like "oh we had loitering laws and enforcement back then too". yeah we did. it is *much worse* now. "our programs and activities were getting cut too". yeah, they were. they *didn't stop after we graduated.*

I can’t believe he called the troops low-T

Thing is, the old science journalists couldn’t help but start writing about politics, because the politics got anti-science. And then we got iced.

Just three years ago, Pat Ryan was among the 22 Democrats who voted to censure Rashida Tlaib

Nancy Pelosi breaks with Jeffries, backs Thomas Massie's bill to withhold arms from Israel.

I, for one, will welcome my newly-titted army brothers

Hegseth demonstrating the magical transmutation theory of cisgender endosex hormone biology whereby conservatives believe HRT and other endocrinological interventions are desirable, beneficial, and safe— until they enter a trans body and alchemically and supernaturally transform into angel dust.

NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky