Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

Every review of “smart glasses” I’ve seen includes some line about how you can escape the tyranny of your phone by *wearing the phone on your face* and I think I have a very different definition of tyranny.

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

Fuck the Supreme Court

We’re going to see more and more of this and it will be tempting to mock such customers as suckers and fools but this both a corruption of commerce itself and a cruelty towards people who hope for things new and delightful. Literally punishing people for dreaming 😡

ezra klein matters because democratic leaders *listen to them*. they listen to klein and yglesias far more than the liberals and leftists who have been right about nearly everything else. that is the problem. so no, we can't "just ignore" them. this is another thing we cannot ignore.

Not the first to say this but the season finale of America has really sucked.

I broke apart their insides Now I've got no Bear to sell

"we can't do anything about that" is their favourite phrase when in power anyway, not like they're going to break that habit for a minority most of the fanatical weirdos hate just as much as MAGA do.

Assuming it's not going to go the way of the trans athletes, I know a lot of "we should follow the law" centrist Democrats who are going to be overjoyed with the trans sports rulings that will come down today, because they'll be able to say "it's out of our hands anyway, so vote blue no matter who"

Republicans demand Irish dance competition kick trans girl out due to “biological edge” - buff.ly/gUHXZ1m

19 in 2025, 9 already in ‘26. 60% receive the death penalty from judges based on non-unanimous jury recommendations. At the same time, Florida leads the nation in death row exonerations (30 since ‘73)—wrongfully convicted men, later cleared of all charges.

Also they'd be like, "What happened to all the fucking streetcars?"

On this last* day of Pride, with an impending Supreme Court decision which could badly alter our world, my wish for all trans people to do something wonderful for yourself today. You deserve it.

I canceled my subscription to the NYT* the last time they did a puff piece on Chris Rufo, who is quite literally a terrorist. You should too *yes, even games. I had a 1000+ day crossword streak, this decision was not taken lightly

Seeing her picture makes my heart clench. Part of it is abortion laws, but let's be honest: part of it was that she was a Black woman and no doctor was going to stick their neck out for her. We lose pregnant and birthing Black people at a much higher rate than white ones. Black babies, too.

I have similar feelings about “Ignore the culture war and focus on the class war!” I’m an active target of the culture war. All that saying tells me is that the speaker considers my desire for survival a distraction from what they consider to be ‘real issues’.

I always hate hearing the phrase that "trans people are the canary in the coal mine of how fascists will target you" because it implies that trans people are here to die to warn cis people that they should fight back.

This whole thread.

i mean for what it's worth i'm looking to do my political science phd abroad because i don't trust that social sciences will be funded in america, so it's not just the hard sciences

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

There’s a story like this approximately every other day now. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/t...

“We are asking the oil and gas industry to be mindful of their profits and use some discretion“ I don’t have enough lols to lmao sufficiently

Fix your hearts or die. You know how many of us joke that Pride month should be followed by Wrath? This year I feel a deep, burning fury towards all who use transgender lives as political propaganda. We are human beings. You cannot erase us. Happy Pride. Trans liberation at any cost. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

this is so. infuriating. hard to even convey what nearly 5,000 soldiers in 68 square miles feels like (especially when you factor in how much of that space is places they can't actually be)

Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov, Gov Whitmer et al: from here on the ground we cannot tell who was sent here for 250 and who wasn’t, they are all just occupying forces

i just received confirmation from a private source that @rlstollar.bsky.social has gone to be w the ancestors. a stalwart warrior for children & homeschool alumni, he will be deeply missed. my heart aches so much. be at peace, my dear dear friend.

when it zoomed out I gasped

Laura Dern had a career slump just for being a straight woman who played Ellen's girlfriend in the coming-out episode

Almost 70% for melanoma is amazing! Due to the proximity melanocytes have to the vascular system, when it starts metastasizing, it spreads fast systemically. When a dermatologist says treat it soon, they mean ASAP. Also, chemical sunscreens stop working when they expire, replace them.

if you’re telling us you’re fixing 230 but you don’t have sex workers and Ron Wyden on board I refuse to waste my time

The House has passed KOSA. It now heads to the Senate, where this version, at least, faces an uphill battle. That said, get on the horn and call your legislators. NOW.

spotted in the wild - artifacts of three dying communication systems

Coming up in the '90s and listening now to the stuff, whether or not it feels dated, is a completely different experience. Songs had key changes, bridges, harmonies, and a whole lot of work that we just don't get anymore. So, yeah, it's just not the same anymore, and I hate we don't get that.

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

i want every pilot, flight crew member, ground crew member, and atc employee who participated in these flights to know that i hold them personally responsible for the deaths of all those they helped kidnap and rendition to venezuela. they have blood on their hands

In a thread he started where he's defending Singal for no reason at all, just decided today was the day to tell us all we're being to mean to the sex offending transphobe, the cherry on top is this nasty little comment accusing trans people of overstating the violence against their own community >

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

So what using ableist language does, ultimately, is it signals norms and beliefs about devaluing Disabled people. And a culture that devalues Disabled people is dangerous to Disabled people.

So, the thing about ableist language—and slurs in general—is not that it hurts people's feelings. It can do that, sure, and that's bad, but the issue with ableist language—and slurs in general—is about that language's role in a system of oppression. It's about what using that language does.

My god. He admit it. www.msn.com/en-us/techno...

Cool now she can comment on two things she doesn't understand.

When you finally collect allllll the data you need to file for a phase II grant 😱 BUT your product is for women, w/ a female PI Sigh. I fucking hate this place. 😭😭😭😭😭

"Why should any question be off limits?"

"We've got room for everyone! People who say they support trans people and people who want to kill trans people! Vote blue no matter who!"

I wrote about the smug hypocrisy of Stephen Miller, the pointless cruelty of Donald Trump, and the shame I feel at seeing America become a whites-only refuge. www.theredoubt.net/america-is-n...

It's not too late to call your reps to vote NO on KOSA, and if you like being able to sign on to the internet without entering your driver's license or passport number, it's crucial that you do! I left a message over the weekend and called again for good measure today. I hope you do the same!

At my Presbyterian college circa a year or so after Matthew Shepard's death, my required freshman core class included treating the question of whether a government that's run by Christian principles should stone gay people as an acceptable topic of debate where reasonable Christians can disagree.