“We have a nice little database.” Two weeks ago I wrote about the risk of Trump using his NSPM-7 memo to treat citizens exercising their rights like terrorists. Now it’s a reality. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

1984: “The National Portrait Gallery removed a swath of text that mentioned President Donald Trump’s two impeachments and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as it swapped out a prominent photo of him this week.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

My hope is that in the race for raw materials, this will drive the development of large-scale and more-affordable desalination facilities, with the added benefit of providing fresh water for the surrounding areas.

What’s most disappointing in reading this is the active role of the NYT science desk in spreading transphobic disinformation. Really shameful what Azeen Ghoryashi (used to respect her for covering sexual harassment in science) and Virginia Hughes did to twist science for their anti-trans campaign.

Praise be

BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena. The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses. New, at Law Dork:

It's not subtle.

1. After the shutdown fight, Republicans promised Democrats a vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies, which cover 20 million Americans. Now, new reporting shows that Republican negotiators want to make a trans funding ban a requirement for the extension. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Only the weakest men are afraid of flags. Pettiest, cancel mob on the planet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

1. The Trump admin has demanded New York City to ban trans kids from bathrooms. Mayor Adams has come out in support of Trump's proposal. NY Law protects trans youth, and Adams has no power to implement it. Meanwhile, Mamdani has slammed Adam's comments. Subscribe to support our journalism.

We all know what to do...

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

The craven reactionary centrists at Third Way are advising Democrats not to use the term LGBTQ, BIPOC, allyship, or intersectionality. They're erasing the entire language used to describe minority communities. www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-...

Julia Child, who was born on this day, in 1912, was known as a titan of the culinary arts. But she was also highly politically engaged, speaking openly about her support for Planned Parenthood and her disgust with the Republican Party.

So many people talking about lawn order

Check out this new GLAAD explainer for @techpolicypress.bsky.social to learn more about LinkedIn’s recent removal of its policy protecting transgender and nonbinary people from one of the most prevalent and extreme types of online anti-trans hate. www.techpolicy.press/linkedin-joi...

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

"I will be glad that I will not have been somebody who defended the genocide of the Palestinian people" Charlie Kirk get called out to his shrinking face

California voters ratified a constitutional amendment protecting gender identity this past election. This blatantly violates it.

The "slowly and with a hard r" part is. Wild! And this happened in 2019? Why is this the first I'm hearing of it

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.

"Signalgate" just got worse: Signal messages were being auto-archived, non-encrypted. So all the people (I was one) saying "the security of the tech isn't the problem with this" were wrong actually. www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...

Woman in Florida deported to Cuba says she was forced to leave baby daughter

Oh hey there it is, I was wondering how long it would take to hit this point Anyways this is fucking terrifying and if HRT supplies get cut or banned people WILL die

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

They want LGBTQ youth dead. They are eugenicists, plain and simple.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

People couldn't handle pronouns in email signatures so we got this instead.

Trump has officially evaporated an entire year of stock market gains in two days.

🥺 I want to go back

Happy April 1st www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0sU...

Petition to draft Malcolm Kenyatta to primary John Fetterman in 2028

"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

REP. CROCKETT: “According to them the biggest issue we have is trans kids wanting to play sports… Since when?!”

The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.

Major corporate sponsors are pulling out of San Francisco Pride. I say it's time for the LGBTQ+ community to stop giving our money to these brands www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Is this where RuPaul got "We're all born naked and the rest is drag?" Bay Area performer and activist Tede Mathews in the 1977 documentary, "Word is Out"

This is genocidal. archive.ph/wbF4W

The VA has ceased all gender affirming care for trans veterans. This is a campaign of eradication. www.advocate.com/news/va-stop...

I finally managed to make a relatively attractive rustic loaf. Hopefully it’ll taste as good as it looks

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

Fuck this.

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

This is part of an ongoing move by the federal government to remove and alter National Park Service webpages related to LGBTQ history.

I can’t wait for Melania to say, “Let them eat quail eggs!”