A candidate for governor meeting with - and unequivocally supporting - a child personally targeted by the current governor is a pretty huge deal and if the media regarded trans people as humans it would be covered everywhere.

We love to see it: Federal judge orders IRS case reopened, will investigate if DOJ’s fake dismissal request to create slush fund constituted a fraud on the court, or otherwise sanctionable, “collusive” conduct. Win for former fed judges who moved to reopen: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tag urself, I'm all genders

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

really needs to be pointed out that these two are not gay, they just have to perform masculinity so hard that they come up with theories to justify their hatred of women. "women aren't actually hot!" yeah i'll take his word on that as soon as he cleans the rat shit out of the room he never leaves

OPINION: "Families are flooded with disinformation and misinformation suggesting the science on gender-affirming care has changed. It has not. But a growing gap exists between what the law permits and what families believe possible," Susan Radzilowski writes.

The artist behind Cuppy "The Good Advice Cupcake" says BuzzFeed reassured her they wouldn't use the cartoon without her on board. Now they've leased it to Amazon for an AI show. Nightmare fuel for any digital media refugee. by @milesklee.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/story/...

NJ state police just arrested Ian Austin, a vet and Minneapolis activist who has been interviewed multiple times at Delaney Hall by @statuscoupnews.bsky.social. Just in case you were wondering: the cops are NEVER on our side. www.instagram.com/reel/DY7yDE4...

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

I accept that it may take decades just to get back to that 2020 status quo. But it is set firm in my mind as a low bar - if you're against returning trans people to the rights and acceptance we enjoyed 6 years ago, you're clearly an enemy of trans people who simply want to live our lives in peace.

I cannot believe how stupid everything is, but at least @dell.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social are here to document it in excruciating detail

OMB has a new proposal for the regulation of all federal grants, which would -deemphasize peer review -ban $ for publication costs and conference travel -make it easier to terminate grants we read the 400 page document (🫩) so you don't have to www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n...

Two nights ago, I told the ICE agents in front of Delaney Hall that this was the most violence I had experienced from them. They were surprised it wasn’t Minnesota, where many of them had also been deployed, or Chicago.

They don't see anyone else as human.

The FIRE legal team will, like, win a settlement for a professor fired for not properly mourning Charlie Kirk, then their policy team will turn around and say that same professor should be fired for donating to Bernie Sanders .

Takeaways: Fox and the NY Post were deceptive. Their stories distorted the facts. Ben Ryan is a shameless propagandist.🧵

one might ask why a free speech org is scrutinizing the small dollar political donations of private citizens

FIRE is a right-wing dark money outfit. Let’s be absolutely clear about this. It presents as libertarian, but its real agenda is imposing right-wing ideology on schools.

I am so impatient - I really try not to be but it seems undeniable that the system of government I grew up under has failed and we're sleepwalking into a new set of rules designed by fascists to favor them. Anyway, I hope some people really are aware and thinking through the implications of this.

my question is: who's saying this publicly, so far?

While I’m frustrated, I also want to be fair and highlight how he was boxed into this recent statement because it’s worth following the timeline. He’s attempted allyship quite a bit, and should be lauded for it. But he was predictably attacked by the right and this time he flinched and fell for it.

Anywho let me get back to work. I actually LIKE being a leftist. I'm not embarrassed by the Left(s). I'm not apologetic. I think we should be loud about our ideas and our programs. They are the right ideas.

I'm concerned about this, currently waiting for a tech writer I trust to either verify or complicate the story since it's outside my expertise.

In Strasbourg, folks from Sudan and the Ivory Coast who say they were tortured in Libyan prisons have filed a case at the European Court of Human Rights against Italy for releasing a warlord wanted by the ICC.

Regardless of the reason Republicans backed down, no one should underestimate the significance of Republicans’ failure to remove the only Black congressman from a state infamous for leading secession from the Union in 1860.

I think, too, it’s also this regime, specifically, being filled with scammers who can’t help scamming even when they don’t have to.

Yeah - for me the part that both interests and bothers me is that it's impossible to know. It's perfectly plausible that they innocently agreed to something billed as nonpartisan, but only insofar as it's plausible they're in an info environment that misleads them that such a thing was possible.

VVV This VVV And, while it's a show of loyalty and most Republican voters really dont understand the IDEOLOGY behind the constant lying, this reinforces 1)the Conservative hostility to empiricism, and 2)the Conservative preference for "Truth" dictated by Authority over Factual Reality.

Leaving aside the 2nd q as unanswerable in a post - my whole thread is my explaining why it IS possible they sincerely thought it was a normal event, but also why it's impossible to know. It's NOT possible for this president to hold a normal event, but it IS possible they didn't know that.

I’m writing about this today so I’ll have a more considered answer for y’all, but I will note that even Lee Greenwood considers himself “not that political” lmao. It means that these conversations behind the scenes are euphemistic until the artists actually see how weird the promotion is

One of the most insidious effects of the fascist era of American politics has been the effects on our ability to communicate and understand the world. And it impacts every single one of us, no matter how much we care about truth and work to stay informed. 🧵

ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses.

required reading. there were trans people who have known this the entire time and i've never faced such hostility from cis people when trying to tell them the facts. most of them didn't want to hear any of it. your concerns were not reasonable or fact based. it was a witch hunt.

April 2016. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

I don't think the metrics we use for inflation are well designed to capture stuff like how many regular things people use and are kind of required by society to consume which run on rentier models now for instance.

“It’s not a big deal” yeah actually it is a really fucking big deal for SO MANY reasons. Like layers and layers of big deal.

Over 80 clinicians, researchers and academics have signed an open letter raising serious concerns about NHS England’s recent evidence reviews of gender affirming hormone treatment for trans youth. Read the full letter here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/05...

Daily Memo: ICE Is Detaining People Who Show The “Know Your Rights” Red Cards

Jeff Bezos stole that money from everyone in this country.

Weird how few articles begin "imagine being a young 18yo female voter."

fascists are running concentration camps all across this country where they are torturing people inside, and they want us to treat it as normal. it's not normal. people inside and outside are resisting. the camps will be liberated. not a question of if, but when

These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.

this is exciting.

I would say that at their best, cat people respect consent and boundaries and dog people have a boundless capacity to love and care for another creature and that at their worst, cat people see independence as justification for neglect and dog people need the world to revolve around them.

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

i asked DHS if the protein from maggots counts towards the daily calorie standard at delaney hall.

Proud to help my friends at Assigned Media do their part to combat the rampant misinformation about the Camille Kiefel detransitioner lawsuit and settlement. The story also links to my PUBLIC spreadsheet of detransitioner lawsuits w/ citations. As I stated to Valorie: "I'm not Ben fucking Ryan".

Writing is hard, but it's also cool and interesting. I don't understand how anyone who cares enough to want it as the main part of their job can also care so little they're comfortable using the chatbot.

Here’s how I worked through the tricky piece. I wrote an imperfect first draft. Ate lunch. Took a nap. Read it again and the edits I needed to make were now very obvious to me. Viola. Done. But that’s not optimizing my workflow or whatever so allegedly I’m being left behind.

my confidence that these people are going to lose is rising and my estimate of the amount of damage they are going to do on the way out, especially as they realize they're losing, is also rising