I don't identity as trans, thanks. I am trans. Little word that makes a whole lotta difference.

I mean look at Bezos. Yes ordering books online was an innovative idea. God bless. And how did Jeff get those books to people to make his billions? The post office that taxpayers built and subsidized for over 250 years.

This is where dangerous NYT style reporting on “Trans issues” as opinions up for debate rather than legally protected human rights gets us. Protect trans kids 🏳️‍⚧️.

Frank: a Life in Politics is Barney Frank’s memoir and I’m telling you that because 1. Some of the things he did in his career surprised me and he’s very candid in the book. 2. He reads the audiobook *himself* - an extremely Boston experience if you have moved away and are missing the accent.

I think this is especially harmful at a time when people are seeing the Trump administration destroy government and are feeling the effects of it. Now, more than ever, is the time for Democrats to make the case for all the ways government can improve lives, and how we must all pitch in to do that.

I think it’s very good that we have placed billionaires in the position of publicly defending the current tax system that was designed to enrich them. In a progressive tax system, those at the top keep their lifestyles the same. A person who profits $10 billion taxed at 70% is still a billionaire.

No Amazon, I don’t want to buy it again. I’m looking for a return button in the natural place a return button should go you absolute gremlin.

Imagine if a single democrat was this clear on the issue of taxing the rich? This is from 2019 at Davos of all places.

"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani

If you complain about Democrats going on Hasan Piker's show but don't complain about Democrats going on Bill Maher's show, you are telling on yourself.

So the guy who flew on Spirit Airlines for 24 hours is over on TikTok absolutely firing people up about buying the airline as a group. Everybody pitches in 40 bucks. His post has 200k views in a few hours and 26K likes. The website is already up and it’s legit 🙂‍↔️. letsbuyspirit.com

So this is actually happening over on TikTok. The guy who flew on weird airlines for 24 straight hours made a post being like - wait if a bunch of people chipped in $40 we could buy it. And the crowd went wild. Almost 200K views 26k likes. The website just went up: letsbuyspirit.com

I’m no longer a high school English teacher, but if I were I’d be using this in class this week. Fascinating context on how people used to get answers to basic questions before the internet.

Nothing about us without us includes legislation about dying. Cavedon nails it. “If assisted dying laws are built on able-bodied people’s projections rather than disabled people’s realities, we risk giving those misperceptions the last word over life and death.“ www.compactmag.com/article/i-am...

I will always support Mercury Stardust the Trans HandyM’am! Excited for this book 😍

So I took this screenshot from the NASA live stream last night… is that legitimately the Earth in the background that looks like a crescent moon? I couldn’t tell what I was looking at but now this post makes me think it was!

Today is Trans Day Of Visibility and the US Supreme Court is kicking it off by stripping children of their identities while residing in abusive homes. We need accomplices, not allies, friends. Everyday we see more and more rhetoric and hatred coming at us from the highest powers in this country.

Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️🥰. A good day to remember (or learn!) that Massachusetts public schools still have no standardized sexual education curriculum. The Healthy Youth Act would require schools teach sex ed that is: age appropriate, medically accurate, consent-based, and LGBTQ+ inclusive.

As a person with Multiple Sclerosis, I’m devastated to hear stories like this (must read!) thread from Long Covid patients. MS is a well-recognized condition with support networks all over the world. Culturally, many people see MS as the devastating illness that it is. They see a “real” illness. 1/

Shakespeare & Disability Zine absolutely making my day!

I really can’t get over that they are running with the famous line from Marie🎀 from the Aristocats while trying to sound tough.

If and when we get hit with a bunch of "anti-woke" pop culture, try to remember that it's not a "vibe shift." That stuff isn't popular. No-one watches it, buys it, etc. It's a few guys with too much money to ever go broke, willing to burn ungodly sums on forwarding their agenda.

put it in the Louvre

My Roman Empire is Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s resolutions from 1943. 18. Stay glad 19. Keep hope machine running 27. Help win war - beat fascism

Dutch Historian’s takedown of billionaires and “philanthropy” - to their faces and on their turf - at Davos in 2019 continues to be a spot on assessment. I watch it every year and it just gets more true.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

We don't need to give ICE agents more training. We need to subject them to rigorous oversight and, when they commit crimes, we need to prosecute them. The only education they need is to learn that they can and will be held accountable for what they do in the field.

Going to die on the hill (sorry, @bcdreyer.social) that we should call this BS red tape a “Job Loss Penalty,” as @matthewcort.land suggests.

No. No. No. Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy. Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.

Hoping to see countries pull out of 2026 World Cup (Boston) and 2028 Olympics (LA). If the opposition party here isn’t gonna do anything, the international community should set expectations.

Nothing encapsulates Dems powerlessness or inability to operate beyond conventional tactics when they send out fundraising emails like AI powered bots in response to crisis. This predictable soulless email from DNC is a perfect ie of preoccupation w/ tactics w/o any coherent strategy.

SNAP benefits should be universal, with zero means testing, and generous. Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively. The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.

If they cared so much about dignity, why are these parties not all in on your dignified right to: ✅ Hospice? ✅ Healthcare? ✅ Pain medication? ✅ Therapy? ✅ HOUSING?

The Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) has some choice words for the Atlantic 🔥 AHEAD: “The real threat to fairness is not the increased number of students receiving accommodations but the persistence of skepticism that delegitimizes disability.” www.ahead.org/blogs/ahead/...

I am 100% opposed to these laws because in all cases they are used to pressure disabled people to die. Because that's cheaper than providing the supports they need to live. It happens in Canada with MAID, it happens in Oregon, it will happen in Illinois.

In late stage capitalism, having the ostensibly more left major party support your right to die when you are no longer useful to capital rather than supporting your right to pain medication, healthcare, counseling, housing—ie your right to LIVE—is fitting

Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...

“If you go back a million minutes, you get to the start of 2023. If you go back a billion minutes, that’s the start of the Roman Empire.” I feel like this reminder / framing is essential. I tend to forget just how much even ONE billion is - it’s staggering.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

Love the people on this website who post clearly marked gift links - all my news currently comes from headlines and the first sentence I can read before the SUBSCRIBE gate slams up

Can’t be overstated how much Alice Wong contributed to and developed the modern disability rights movement. “Disability Visibility” showed me that I could be proud of my disabled identity. A huge loss - thank you for everything.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

After a breast cancer scare last year, Charity Herndon decided to pursue her dream of opening a bookshop. The result is a Jane Austen-themed mobile bookstore called Austen’s Shelf. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/jane-au...

Senator Ed Markey said Trans rights are human rights while literally wearing the trans pride flag. 🏳️‍⚧️

High Schoolers don’t necessarily need to read classics, but if we are going to assign Edith Wharton, it should be The Age of Innocence and not Ethan Frome. Age of Innocence has insightful social commentary about the gilded age and it takes place in New York City. Just so much to work with!

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the precursor to the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). It’s important to separate the two in this context. It was passed a full 15 years before the ADA, + remains the bedrock of equal right to Education for children with disabilities. 1/

Dems in Congress are out here trying to wordsmith the perfect gotcha post in response to the vice president of the United States calling for their party to be violently overthrown. At least show the video that proves he’s lying. You have paid digital teams! *WAKE UP*

JD Vance: “Charlie Kirk never said Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. He never uttered those words.” Charlie Kirk: “Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson — you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously.”