Just a few months after firing their entire LGBTQ+ focused newsroom, NBC has joined in on using vitriolic and hateful language to describe trans people that has no basis in biology. Trans women are not "non biological" women.

NEW: According to the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute, “Donald Trump is dismantling U.S. democracy at an ‘unprecedented’ rate” — “comparable to some coups d’états” And now civil rights, equality, freedom of expression and freedom of the press are at their lowest levels in 60+ years

My brother is a 6'6 cis gender man who could dunk in the 8th grade. He would be a dogshit gymnast & a struggling wrestler but can play competitive basketball & volleyball with his eyes closed. Remove transphobia & it's so obvious the "fairness in women's sports" argument is stuuuupid.

NEW: A newsletter from the Board of the American Medical Association states the group has requested a public correction after the paper characterized a statement about trans youth care as having "endorsed restrictions" on such care. h/t @lyolyon.bsky.social www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Vibe is immaculate

I really don't have any strong feelings about Bridgerton at all. (sees media coverage saying that next season will be the show's First Queer Love Story) THAT MAN EARLIER WAS BI. THAT WAS A BI MAN. HIS LOVE STORY WAS QUEER. HIS PRESENCE MADE IT SO. HE WAS A DRY SLICE OF WHITE TOAST BUT HE WAS BI.

Just sitting here thinking about how Black ppl came up with jazz, the blues, rock and roll and hip hop WHILE this country was doing everything it could to ensure we had nothing. Nobody needs Al to create except the untalented.

Loitering on a college campus before practice tonight and it’s amazing. Random couches to nap on, people giving out free energy drinks. This is deadbeat adult skater paradise.

No one told me how much harder recovering from a large color tattoo would be compared to a medium-sized b&w tattoo with heavy shading. This has been ROUGH. Like it’s healing well but OH GOD THE ITCHING

No one in the entire history of humanity has ever transitioned just to win a sporting event. It has never happened. It will never happen.

Castor Semenya: "I have carried this weight. So have other women of colour who deserved better from sport. Reintroducing genetic screening is not progress — it is walking backwards. Women’s sport does not need this. It needs to be abuse-free... This is just exclusion with a new name."

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

My man clearly had to fight with Cigna over an MRI

arguably this is the original sin that brought us the current terf cultural victory; they weren't content with just voicing bigoted thoughts, they needed, on a deep psychological level, to be praised for them

As a serious, hobbyist athlete, I am genuinely disgusted by any cis female athlete who has so little faith in their own athletic skills they think they need protection from other competitors and -especially- from other women.

Another abomination currently being committed on an ICE detention facility. All of this is horrible beyond description. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

Safety is measured by statistics. Safety theatre is defined by how people feel.

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.

I do think kids should be able to read cursive and write efficiently if a keyboard is unavailable. I am so completely MYSTIFIED by the argument that learning cursive “lets kids be kids” especially when that phrase is often a dog whistle for not letting kids be educated on politics or human diversity

If you need help convincing people not to watch the new HP show, here it is. JKR will make $20m per year from the show, per Forbes. She also openly admits that she pours her fortunes into anti-trans activism, per Yahoo News. There’s a direct pipeline between HP and trans people’s suffering.

Nothing makes people angrier than when the propaganda that worked on them doesn’t work on you.

Lots of farmers in red states just got screwed, but will any of their Senators say anything?

I come from a family where gambling is normal and was taught (just like I was taught to drink in moderation) and have relatives who work in casinos - gambling on phones has enabled betting on everything and betting on everything is how people lose houses and get tangled up with criminal violence

“Separate the art from the artist” was meant to provoke a philosophical discussion about the nature of art, not opt you out of responsibility for the actions of your money and time. YOU may separate the money/support you fork over to that woman from the political but I assure you she does not.

BREAKING: Trans West Virginians ask full appeals court to revisit alarming ruling in Medicaid coverage case. "Left to stand, the panel’s reasoning could amount to judicially-endorsed regulation of transgender people’s liberty to be themselves," lawyers for the plaintiffs wrote. At Law Dork:

She's not just a creator who happens to be a bigoted arsehole. She's a really proactive participant in Scottish and UK political debates, who uses her private wealth to muster forces enacting actual real world political change for the worse. She is not just a rich writer, she is an oligarch

I'm not sure we have a more explicit example of an artist who said "hey, if you give me any money I will definitely go hurt this small group of people with it, so.... money please??" Some situations have nuance. She smashed all nuance with a sledgehammer years ago.

Here’s your periodic reminder that my first published book was an HP trivia book I was contracted to write because of my HP fanfiction. Like, HP literally changed my life. It’s also how I met a ton of my friends. And I still won’t engage with anything that makes JKR money or raises her profile now.

NEW: Trump had business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them — and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain. www.ms.now/news/trump-c...

Donald Trump has been President for 2% of America’s history. He is responsible for 25% of our National debt.

Watching my wife’s face as I made her read this list was everything

Haha there are NO launch windows for missions to Mars in all of 2028. The planets literally do not align properly for a Hohmann transfer orbit in that year. Maybe the President will tweet threats at Mars until it changes orbits.

Incredibly specific job klaxon if you are: 🇬🇧 looking for a UK remote role 💻 where you can use your programming and data skills 🛠️ and do some hardware hacking too 🐈‍⬛ also if you like cats, omg this is a weird cat tech job (Cat Scientist - Emerging Welfare Technology, £49k, apply by April 3)

I rarely listen to music with headphones because I’m usually just at home. Currently very much enjoying all sorts of details from the Sinners tracks I was not previously aware of

Today we sued the federal government to obtain evidence they are hiding in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis. This follows the DOJ’s refusal to respond to our Touhy demands. This lawsuit is unprecedented in American history.

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Eric Swalwell — “I don't say this lightly: when we escape this trump hell there needs to be a Presidential Crimes Commission. It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president."

I hate this! Starfleet Academy didn’t make my heart sing because its issues didn’t feel personal to me. But that’s okay. I’ve loved watching it. And love love love Holly Hunter’s Ake.

ALL Star Trek characters are bisexual, especially the ones you insist aren't.

Thune has the votes to override a veto if he needed to so that TSA, etc., could be funded. The GOP too cowardly to do it.

This is Stanley. He just helped solve a 160-year-old murder by digging up a bottle of poison in his backyard. Just two doors down in 1865, Mary Ann Ashford poisoned her husband's tea to be with her younger lover. Since his discovery, Stanley has stopped digging. 15/10

In late October, a cat showed up at our front door. He was skittish and ran off, but came back for food off and on over the next two months until I could trap him and get him fixed. He was NOT a candidate for adoption or even inside adjustment at the time, so the rescue released him to my back yard.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Air travel has been a testing ground for Americans to accept fascism since 9/11. Remember life before there was even TSA? They said, to get on a plane you need to accept the airport as a site of surveillance & infringement on your human person. ICE being there really just expands that.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

I’m a white US born citizen w an unusual name. Half the time I fly I get officers being like “where were you born?” over and over, while I say “New York, like it says on my passport which you are holding.” Anyway, this use of ICE Is going to result in terrible things happening to just about ANYONE.