At what point does voicing your gender critical (transphobic) beliefs at/about someone who is trans + become harrassment? Would you say 100 times croses the threshold? I think most reasonable individuals would agree that it does.

‘Bee-autiful’ gold pendant from Bronze Age Crete 🐝 ❤️ Minoan jewellery inspired by nature 3,800 years ago! The ‘Malia Bee Pendant’ is said to represent a pair of bees placing a drop of honey into a honeycomb. Heraklion Archaeological Museum #Archaeology

USAID used to trace and treat Ebola outbreaks. But Trump shut it down. And now we’re seeing people die as the Ebola outbreak intensifies. Global health involves all of us — it’s about saving lives and stopping the spread of diseases. Republicans stopped this critical work.

We heard the same thing during the Biden administration. Unless we actually withhold aid to Israel, Trump's supposed criticisms of Netanyahu mean nothing.

When Democrats fight, we can win. You do not need to be in the majority. You just need to be relentless.

Abolish ICE.

The House FINALLY passed the Iran War Powers Resolution that demands Trump remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities in Iran unless explicitly authorized by Congress. (1/3)

Learn to knock doors and meet Brent Saturday, June 6th at a volunteer rally in Ester Short Park. Hear Brent speak, ask questions, and meet other volunteers. After training and the rally, volunteers will have the opportunity to canvass the neighborhoods adjacent to the park.

Another thing I’ve heard folks doing is joining a professional org where you can buy health insurance as part of that group. I think the AHA allows for this but I don’t know anyone who actually gets their health insurance this way (plz let me know if you do!)

I’m at a Seattle city club event, and local FOX anchor Hana Kim just demanded that Mayor Katie Wilson respond to Spencer Pratt’s claim that people are flooding into Seattle to be homeless because they love the lenient access to drugs here. People are clapping for Spencer Pratt.

Tom Suozzi really loves capitalism and free markets unless a christofascist org happens to offer him subsidized housing. Luckily there is a real democrat on the ballot 6/23: votewelch.com

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration's attempt to dismantle Boulder's NCAR lab www.denver7.com/news/local-n...

I will not adopt a scarcity mindset. There is more than enough to go around. We just have to stop the billionaires from stealing.

A moment of concentration immortalized in stone some 4,500 years ago! This scribe statue was skilfully sculpted from limestone. His lifelike eyes are made of rock crystal and calcite, outlined with copper. Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5, from Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology

Busy day today! Topsham, Windham, and then back home to Bangor.

Drone tactics adopted by Ukraine are spreading to Lebanon. Hezbollah is now wrecking the Israeli military with kamikaze FPV drones controlled by fiber optic wire. It's rendering tanks useless and leaving IDF infantry defenseless. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/w...

Another day on the campaign trail meeting fabulous Mainers and getting folks excited for the future!

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun Advocate COL enacts new anti-conversion therapy bill which bans imposing a “predetermined outcome” regarding young patients' sex/or or GIE in what it hopes is SCOTUS-friendly wording after Court struck down the original bill. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun Advocate Kansas Dept of Revenue -- which oversees driver’s licenses -- is sending letters invalidating some trans people's licenses but not others, leaving some stranded and unable to drive and others dreading when theirs will arrive.

The inability of too many men to admit they could learn from others, remains in tact. Pelley no doubt knew firing would be the likely outcome. He used his privilege to speak truth to power. He will be fine. That is how you use your privilege. Well done, Scott Pelley.

In the ongoing battle over whether trans people are allowed to serve in the military, the court says the ban is likely unconstitutional, but only moves to protect the jobs of the servicemembers who brought the lawsuit. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you the latest update in this ongoing story.

The Senate HELP Committee is currently doing a hearing on gender affirming care for trans youth. Both Dr. Miceli and Chloe Cole are on the payroll of Do No Harm, a group funded by right wing billionaires and Leonard Leo to push white supremacist and anti-trans policies. It's theater by billionaires.

Fascinating that Danny Westneat failed to recognize a pattern of "failure" on homeless shelters until a mayor actually started adding shelter units—unlike the two previous mayors, who oversaw the LOSS of shelter beds. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

it's fascinating to see people in these biohacking communities recommending old-fashioned single-issue forums, first as an alternative to tiktok/facebook ads, and increasingly as an alternative to reddit astroturfing

public sentiment toward autonomous vehicles seems to be trending downward as well, I think what we're dealing with here is bigger than just "AI"... this feels like a broader turn in popular sentiment against Silicon Valley and Big Tech

This was extremely foreseeable (in fact I publicly foresaw it) and I will forever be mad, as a Jew, at my fellow Jews who sold out our hard-fought history of integration into US universities for Bibi and a hyphenated white identity. cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

btw if you are an Oregon-based buyer in this burgeoning new market for no-tech tractors, I'm trying to help an extended family member get a few bucks for a vintage Farmall Cub in great condition... no kidding, hit me up

everything Elon Musk does is incompatible with basic human dignity

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun Politico Gallup poll out today finds Rep support for gay marriage has fallen from 55% in 2022 down to 37% today -- 18% drop. ION Andy Ogles [R-TN] sends Pride email saying "Homosexuality has no place in America," then blames it on a staffer and deletes it.

Suozzi wants you to know that his loyalty is to corporations. Today at WelcomeFest, he is "launching a pledge for their party's candidates they hope will act as a rallying cry for centrists, calling for a 'politics of persuasion over purity' and declaring that 'we are capitalist, not socialist.'"

Just days after voting to defund schools with trans-friendly policies and voting in favor of forced outing laws, Congressman Eugene Vindman (D-VA) Posts "happy pride." It did not go well. Our latest, from our writer S. Baum. www.erininthemorning.com/p/rep-vindma...

My pledge to Ameria is to do everything in my power to fight fascism, oligarchy, discrimination, and the crippling affordability crisis in this country. Please help me replace Tom Suozzi in the primary on 6/23. If you can afford to, please donate today. Every dollar helps. votewelch.com

People are in motion, everywhere.

@snp.org are abandoning trans people. Only 2 out of the 7 SNP MP's have signed this early day motion. edm.parliament.uk Please explain yourself @johnswinney.bsky.social. Why is your party abandoning trans + people?

The awful AI image on the right appears to be an attempt at propaganda to divide the trans + and disabled communities. Thankfully North Dorset Greens removed it from their post. Why though was was it created and posted in the first instance 🤔

Microfiction - Princess Gnarlo’s Bargain 2

It’s very wild to ask AI to do parts of your job that you don’t know how to do yourself. Therefore you’re incapable of checking it.

When people talk about carbrain this is one of the things they mean.

Reform SCOTUS. Impeach the impeachable. This illegitimate institution is taking us back to Jim Crow at best. While Suozzi has zero policy on his site, you can be sure it doesn't include court reform. Please consider supporting my campaign: votewelch.com

This is also an excellent reminder that your library card gives you access to so much more than books. My library system includes access to The New Scientist and hundreds of other magazines & they notify me when a new issue is available.

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

Sometimes the last lever you have to pull is the fire alarm as you walk out.

Remember when Suozzi quit Congress to primary the already-conservative Democratic governor of NY from the right, giving us this guy? NY-03 deserves better than these men. votewelch.com

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but in the Rick Chow trial, the prosecutor didn't ask for a manslaughter instruction and didn't take a lesser included manslaughter charge to trial at all. That's a big red flag. Let me explain.

Hey @wired.com, how about interviewing neuroscientists who are really studying the brains of people with #LongCovid? "When the brain gets stuck in a feedback loop of fight or flight" What does that even mean? Patients deserve explanations grounded in biology, not vague buzzwords. #Pseudoscience

People use class terms in very different ways: If "working class" means "doesn't have a BA" and if that's the criterion, Platner is 100% working class. If it means "job is manual labor," he might also be. His parents had degrees & professional jobs, so his class *origin* isn't working class. +

I'm incredibly grateful for all the support I've received from Maine voters. We're building momentum ever single day, which is exactly the direction you want to be headed moving toward an election. Let's do this! andreaformaine.com

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun Health Nerd slam new NHS systematic reviews on pediatric hormone use, which 2 yrs _after_ Cass Review found just 11 good studies to Cass's 53: "You can’t possibly produce 10 reviews including just 11 studies and expect people to take the work seriously."

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