Controversial thought: All rental housing should be income-based, OR should be no more than 30% of minimum wage, OR minimum wage should pay at least 3x the median amount of rent in the area.

The Trump administration is broadening its anti-DEI campaign to European companies.

Members of Kaleidoscope Collective, UUC, and others in our community stood by the boulevard outside the congregation building after service today for a trans rights protest.

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Easy. The banks did. And the GOP did their bidding.

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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

“Are things worse than they were before Stonewall? Not yet." I spoke with LGBTQ+ elders about what survival looks like under a hostile political regime and their advice for young people right now — which is namely, act even when you're afraid.

1. Germany has issued a travel advisory for trans and GNC people who wish to travel to the United States. International Pride organization InterPride has done likewise. Travel may be dangerous with visa restrictions. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

It should be noted that these numbers do not include the wars, civil conflicts, and spiraling atrocities that will follow this much unnecessary mass death.

Lefties. Your activism can’t just be online or even just “in the streets” at like, protests. It needs to be in Soup Kitchens Homeless shelters Schools Nursing Homes City Council meetings Religious Centers Art Studios Libraries Union Halls Hospitals

Recent executive orders targeting trans people have far-reaching consequences for intersex kids — @bcrodriguez.bsky.social + @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social report

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper... But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

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...

Today is #WorldObesityDay. #Obesity is a complex condition and each individual faces distinct needs & challenges. A healthier society is possible only if we prioritize community support & stand up against discrimination and stigma 🔗bit.ly/3SAcdeE

Michelle Obama: Kids should have nutritious meals. The pro-life party: This is an outrage! RFK Jr: Kids should have measles, mumps, and polio. The pro-life party: Yes, king! Tell it like it is!

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

Anti-Appalachian sentiment is a 🚩red flag🚩 Assuming Appalachians are all poor, uneducated, conservative Christians, or that any of us vote a certain way shows a lack of critical thinking, as well as your own classism and elitist views. (It's a shit take, in other words.)

If you can, try to continue the switch to small-locally owned businesses when possible after today to make an even bigger impact! A single day economic blackout is just a step toward demanding change.

If you feel safe, fly a Pride flag above it.

How to change a swastika that cant be removed

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

📚 WATCH: “I can’t do much, but I can do this.” As Rutherford County and other districts ban hundreds of books, a SMYRNA book store owner is offering banned books for free. #BannedBooksBrigade Full: www.newschannel5.com/news/how-one...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the original American patriots fought a fucking Revolutionary War to liberate ourselves from the rule of a king. This ain't the flex he thinks it is.

defunding a program that gives free books to children sounds like a great choice for your state's education system. I'm sure it's a super popular choice to thwart Dolly Parton, too

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This is going to be an extremely important case. Right now orgs ranging from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to AIDS/HIV advocacy, colleges, crisis centers, and more are being told to pretend trans people don't exist or lose your funding... and many are choosing to pretend!

If you’re opposed to fascism, please make sure you’re working on internalized ableism. The link between fascism, eugenics and ableism is well documented. Fight for disability rights. Make resistance efforts accessible. Wear a mask & stay home when sick. Don’t leave us behind.

Christian nationalists are domestic terrorists.

So can we all agree that if people start losing their homes to a recession we are all gonna band together and buy it back at the auction for a penny while threatening any rich person who tries to come buy it up? Like, this has been done before. We can do it again.

I do not need more seasons of love on the spectrum. I need an all-autistic season of the traitors. I want to see what would happen when everyone is doing inappropriate affect at each other while also being very invested in the concept of justice.

NEW: Days before West Virginia’s latest devastating storm, Morrisey budgeted no money for the state’s flood protection fund

Well, I was going to write today about Trump throwing our allies and democratic values under the bus for Putin...then GOP said they'll cut Medicaid, so I wanted to write about that...now Trump is coming out and saying he's King after quoting Napoleon a few days ago...

We wanted them to have healthcare and a high paying job and a planet to live on and freedom. They want us to suffer. The parties are not the same.

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

Just stopping by to remind y'all that we need to be contacting our representatives. There are a LOT of harmful bills being introduced that will infringe on our rights if they move forward and end up passing.

Another way this feels similar to COVID — the disaster is already unfolding but the people in charge seem to think it’ll only impact “blue” areas.

A U.S. Economic Blackout — a nationwide economic protest — is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. On this day, participants are encouraged to refrain from making any purchases, both online and in-store, from large corporations.

1. NEW: Not Just Stonewall: LGBTQ+ history webpages, mental health hotlines, and resources for the victims of CSAM and hate crimes are among the thousands of censored webpages identified by a custom tool I developed. I hope to document all .gov LGBTQ+ erasure. www.madycast.com/p/not-just-s...

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.