HEY TERFS ARE YOU PLEASED REMEMBER HOW WE SAID THAT EVERYONE'S LIBERATION IS BOUND UP TOGETHER BECAUSE EVERYONE'S SAFETY AND THRIVING IS ONE SINGLE THING AND NONE OF US ARE TRULY SEPARATE AND EVERYONE SHARES THE SAME ENEMY Do you remember that can you see it yet, like

It's 2026. Several states can't go outside because of climate change-fueled fires. Trump is bumbling into a forever regional war. The worst corruption in U.S. history snowballs daily. And Matt Y.'s big concerns are equity programs that no longer exist and 9 kids who want to play high school sports.

Taylor Farms also owns and runs Earthbound Organics, which is available in nearly every grocery store across the US

Genuinely believe that one of the reason transphobes are attacking trans youth so cruelly is because it terrifies them that this generation of trans youth are so much more likely to be accepted and loved by their friends and family than earlier generations. For people my age, bullying was the norm

Taco Bell is really good and one of the most vegetarian-friendly fast food restaurants and the diarrhea jokes annoy me because it doesn’t deserve them, both because it was a supplier issue and they took action even before that was pinpointed and because the food is good!!

Much of the evidence that Rubio and Miller are using to try to target protesters is claims from ICE, which have proven to be lies pretty much any time they've met a courtroom. The real epidemic, of course, is the president's secret police attacking civilians recreationally as a benefit of the job.

I mean even beyond that, on a very tangible level things have changed. I started my transition as a minor through the Tavistock pathway. Within the decade, Tavi is dead and buried with conversion therapy as the only replacement, and trans healthcare for minors is banned.

Guys I'm reporting on cyclospora, the lettuce diarrhea, for a story, and while Taco Bell lettuce does seem to be *a* source it is definitely not *the only* source so please keep washing and cooking your vegetables!

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

this is also why you can't appease the right on this issue. bans on trans people in sports are the camel's nose under the tent for the entire suite of right-wing gender politics, including but not limited to bans on gay marriage, abortion, and birth control

It's amazing that Trump have a speech dedicated to pushing his election fraud lies, still get in weird comments about trans people, and pundits will be like, "Are DEMOCRATS too focused on trans issues?" No, dummies. There's only one side that's obsessed with trans people, and it's certainly not Dems

Everything they say about hormones lacks scienfic backing but sure, pay attention when it's cis people they're fucking up

Have you ever admired the earrings I’m wearing? A significant fraction of the time, they’re earrings made by Crystal Galindo. Today I’m here to ask you for a favor on her behalf: her husband is raising money to go to Harvard! I will mail signed book plates to anyone who gives $30 or more 🖖🏽

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social and I wrote recently about the need for better black political leadership. newrepublic.com/article/2106...

it's like living in NYC in the days when Tammany was siphoning away all the money and letting city infrastructure go to hell, except on a national scale

Not long ago the main argument made by anti-trans activists was that their free speech was threatened. Now their goal seems to be to bully every opponent into silence. Not a new observation but it's never really about free speech is it?

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

This thread by American trans journalist Evan Urquhart is worth reading. To all the British journalists following me: if you think we're better than Trump's America in this country — we are absolutely not. You are willfully ignoring a crisis.

"The school staff cried" reminds me of the frustrating interactions with Fenway Health, an LGBTQ community health center in my area that ended medical care for youth but also wants everyone to know how terrible they feel and how wrong they think it is that President Trump is making them do this.

It's worth noting that the case that Linehan got £25k for was a separate case to the assault. That was for being arrested for encouraging people to assault trans women. He was convicted of the assault on a child and overturned it in appeal.

The people demanding my exclusion from society with a calm smile and the veneer of civility are the most dangerous. They are the people who know they have the power to unleash massive social harm without ever having to look their victims in the eye.

It's almost impossible to really explain how bad things are, or how quickly they've regressed, and on some level I think some people almost can't accept it even when you lay the evidence before their eyes. Yet we have a more anti trans policy regime than Trump's America.

One of the reasons I find talk about this stuff (outside of Bsky which is like my diary of doom LOL) is I can't bear explaining to cis ppl how bad things are, and on some level they can't really grasp it. Extreme attacks on LGBTQ is something that happens in *other countries* not civilised Britain!

What's happening to trans rights in Britain is more chilling than what's happening in the US. In the US there's an ecosystem of zealotry. The people dismantling trans rights openly lie, not just about trans people but about a whole host of things. For them to dismantle human rights feels natural.

Our second letter to the editor about the Finnish study on trans people and the effect of gender affirming treatment on mental health (Ruuska, Kaltiala et al.) is out now. This time, we request that the authors disclose their data. 💻⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

It sounds stupid, it is stupid, but its deadly serious because they are trying to blame an impoverished .5% of the population for EVERYTHING, no matter how ridiculous. Very much the same as how Germany blamed .5% of the population for everything, and you know what came next.

… will probably have more to say about this later. Palestinians, Jews of color … all people of color deserve better than this shit jewishcurrents.org/curt-mills-a...

I really wish I didn’t even have to say this but making space for racist, anti-semitic politics in the anti-Zionist left is a terrible idea. This was the first step that led to the normalization of TERF-style anti-trans politics before it (and yes, Mills is transphobic too!)

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