Love to my trans comrades, today and every day.

Most people killed by immigration officials are not, in fact, white. Midway blitz kicked off killing a dude. You never heard about it bc national media didn’t care.

tune in to hear me say ‘jesus fucking christ’ more times than i ever had in my life before

genuinely so funny and depressing that everything from the right is fake and bots. stuff like this reinforces that the rights strategy hinges upon paid lying and misinformation networks

Today, a week of action against ICE begins in the Twin Cities. melttheicemn.com We can't just try to mitigate the worst effects of their bad behavior. We have to take the initiative—to make it impossible for them to continue doing harm. If you can't make it to the Twin Cities, act where you are.

Seeing some "fuck Kansas" replies/QTs and while I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment behind the statement, I think a better response would be "fuck, we need to help the people of Kansas" If anyone knows a good way to do that, please put it in the comments and I will amplify

You should care about this because trans people are human beings with inalienable human rights, but even if you don't, you should care about this for your own personal safety First they violate the rights of a group they think no one will fight for, and then they come for the rest of us

This is why people are so upset when people say Democrats need to stop focusing on trans issues because it's too woke and people aren't ready for it: we're not talking minor inconvenience here. We're not talking microaggressions We're talking: they are stripping IDs from trans people

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

Making witches for Macbeth!

“Please note the legislature did not include a grace period” Effective immediately, Kansas begins criminalizing trans existence

fucking genocidal

who among us hasn't sniffed a seat some horrible chad was sitting in

"If the Bible were found sexually explicit under this bill, public librarians would have to move it from the children’s section to the adult section."

HR 7661, the Stop Sexualization of Children Act, already has 17 co-sponsors, from the usual gang of idiots. Rep. Miller, who introduced it, has been a major advocate for censoring "sexually oriented material" online as well. I'd say it's unlikely to move, but hey, it's 2026.

Congressional Republicans have introduced a bill that strips federal funding from any school that allows any book or resources that so much as references trans existence. They're doing it by redefining anything trans as "sexually oriented material." marymiller.house.gov/media/press-...

God this timeline is weird. Imagine being a legislator and spending hours and hours of staff time debating in when and how a book could legally feature an anus.

Ofcom basically admits that it can't do much to companies that aren't based in the UK or don't willingly comply with their regulations. Which means responsible platforms get devastated by traffic cuts and massive fines while their non-compliant competitors just throw Ofcom's letters in the trash.

Ofcom fines Reddit $20M for failing to comply with the UK's onerous and complicated age-verification regulations.

"Sure a thing happened, but what if a different thing I just made up happened instead? You ever think about THAT?!" -the entire basis of most right wing propaganda. They just take that, add racism or transphobia or whatever vile shit they're feeling that day and press send. Then they kill people.

I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS. The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.

The politics of age-verification aside, Apple already is collecting the data. Communicating that a visitor under 18 — without sharing data — would allow sites to block minors without requiring invasive facial scans and ID uploads every time they open a browser tab.

Apple is rolling out on-device age-verification, using data they largely already have access to, to let an app know if a user is over or under 18. Adult websites have requested this information to help block underage visitors. But Apple is refusing to share it.

I'm just a simple country homosexual, but in my day obsessing and fetishizing other men's looks might be seen as gay. It seems like a complicated path, but bring on the fagmaxxing I guess. www.wired.com/story/everyo...

I am going to lose my goddamn mind

"Arguments that high earners don't pay their fair share are mostly empty." 🤨

One International Incident After Another

If you want to learn about why Fran's out front, you can see her all around WI, basically all the time. Or, if I may, you can check out her very nice policy page: francescahong.com/policy. Join the ~2000 volunteers who signed up at franhong.com/volunteer or help us out at franhong.com/donate :)

Massive AI data centers are extremely unpopular in WI. The latest MU Law Poll shows just HOW unpopular. 70% think the costs of these data centers outweigh the benefits. Thankfully, I've introduced a bill for a statewide data center moratorium until appropriate safeguards can be put into place.

Landlords are now trying to get around rent control by keeping other original tenants off of the lease so that if the single signer moves out they can act like it's a new tenancy SCUM SCUM SCUM SCUM

You're allowed to have opinions obviously. I have so many opinions and most of them are about things that are none of my business. These are inside thoughts, though, and should not be let out unsupervised

If you are unsure whether you have been explicitly asked for advice, consider erring on the side of no you haven't or, if you must, just directly say "are you asking for advice?"

A completely list of times it's appropriate to offer diet and exercise advice when not explicitly asked to do so: 1) 2) 3) 4)

Hello howdy from Victoria, BC.

When you think about it, the 3 million horses alive in 1960 were a lot more free that the 26.5 million horses alive in 1915. A horse born in 1915, reaching the end of their life expectancy in 1940 in a world with half as many horses probably thought "this makes me twice as free as I used to be!"

This week's episode will be a little late but the upside is WE'LL BE RELEASING TWO EPISODES AT ONCE.

I'm gonna contribute to this today, but please chip in if you're able. Vanessa is the fucking best.

Amazon is opening its wishlists to third-party sellers, which means it can no longer control who has your delivery address. this is a huge privacy risk for sex workers, influencers, and anyone who uses public lists: www.404media.co/amazon-wishl...

I know I post a lot about the more challenging aspects of making it work as a freelance labor reporter, but I truly do love this job so much and wouldn’t trade it for anything

FYI @jbpritzker.bsky.social - I'm in Chicago through the weekend.

Unreal. Fran Hong is leading the race.

There’s a certain kind of man who does this whole bit where he can’t get any woman but says “every woman is above the legal age is old” and in this case spends time at the CSAM generator according to his most recent post

"The question isn’t just a matter of accounting or accuracy. The extremely low revenue figures equate sex work with trafficking, and are used to justify increased censorship, policing and banking discrimination. Better data is both a business and a political issue."

(also that I had a therapist who for two years would lecture me about fat positivity whenever I expressed a desire to do something about eating my feelings, but that's neither here nor there and she's fired now)

One of my biggest issues with the Healthy At Any Size movement is that it devolves instantly into an argument about what is and is not healthy while missing the vital key point: no one gets to tell other people how to live their very own lives

"It’s good to have a healthy body, but it’s not a moral requirement to be healthy" is such an important sentence

I read Casey Means' book last year and wrote about her "salvation through orthorexia" ideology so you don't have to. This woman being Surgeon General will entail enormous amounts of harm buttondown.com/theswordandt...

The face of a kitty who absolutely doesn’t regret stepping on my face at 6am this morning I am also convinced that she knows exactly what a photo does (steals your soul) and not once has she been happy that I took one