Join us tonight as we remember and celebrate the lives taken from us this year.

The infodemic just got a booster shot. The CDC, one of the world’s most powerful health agencies, is now promulgating disinformation.

middlebury college student lia smith killed herself one month ago after facing harassment for being a trans athlete you will not hear her name once on cable tv don’t let them erase her #TDOR #TransDayOfRemembrance

No contract. No coffee.

Breaking: With a federal court order in their favor, the journalists of @pghguild.com have voted to end their strike and on Monday notified the PG that they intend to return to work next week: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/17/p...

Attorney Barbara Schwabauer explains her decision to leave the Justice Department's Office of Civil Rights rather than comply with a Trump administration order to subpoena the medical records of transgender teens

Trans Youniting does incredible work supporting Pittsburgh’s trans and gender non-conforming community. They help with employment, Housing, clothing and soon a new food pantry. Help them meet their goal today at: giveb.co/s/Ebqxay

12 Nov 2025 -- With TDOR coming up, A4TE's 2025 Remembrance Report documents 27 deaths last year + 21 suicides, with 61% of the latter from age 15 to 24, which it directly connects to the Right's crusade against on trans youth. Hug a trans kid today. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

We can and must outlive every single one of those who seek to eradicate us. And for those who don’t, we will not forget you, we will honor your memory by continuing to live and fight for a better world.

Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶

Proud to stand with Starbucks workers here in Pittsburgh, and across the country today. No contract! No Coffee!

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”

Leadership has to look different than it ever has before. If we want leadership that meets this moment, we need leaders that are responsive to the people and will fight for them.

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

New sink hole lore just dropped.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Americans have endured the pain of the longest government shutdown in history for a “deal” that guarantees nothing on healthcare. If Republicans wanted to vote to extend subsidies, they would’ve done it already. Capitulating is unacceptable.

No health care, no deal.

Autumn says trans rights.

“However, when candidates inoculate early and respond directly, they recover those points and sometimes gain additional margin by demonstrating their values and strength,” the memo continued.

The suggestion it would, proffered by many of the same people who failed to prevent Trump’s return to the White House, strikes me as an opportunistic blame game, a concerted effort by the people with the most power to scapegoat the people with the least for their own failures.

From Spanberger’s matter of fact responses to anti-trans attacks, or Mamdani’s full embrace of trans New Yorkers as full equals in society, Democrats now have multiple playbooks to choose from the next time a Trump acolyte hits them with a “Harris is for they/them”-type ad.

Hope.

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

Looking at you UPMC.

From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything. Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.

YES TO RETAIN! Thank you PA!

Another often overlooked but important election. Loudoun County Public Schools has been ground zero for targeting by the Trump administration over trans students, and chose to protect their students. Pro-trans candidates Chandler and Svenson are winning, and anti-trans Munoz-Melendez is losing.

That was fast! Transphobia DID NOT play in Virginia

Do you know where your polling place is? Make sure you are ready to vote in tomorrow’s (11/4) election by using the online Polling Place Search tool. Find your polling place and learn more about in-person voting by visiting https://www.alleghenycounty.us/Government/Elections/In-Person-Voting

I’ve gotten this exact same text nearly twice a day over the past week. The message is so off putting and annoying. Who does this actual move to the polls on Election Day?

UPDATE: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to continue paying for food stamps during the government shutdown.

It's cool how every claim trans people make about our own lives must be backed up by peer reviewed randomized control trials but the claim an entire kind of person is a "contagion" (using the unweighted data of a community survey) is gospel the moment it's made

I have a bad cold so sorry if this is blunt/not clear: If you are going to mention the HHS Report, you have to contextualize it properly for the reader: that it was anonymous, not peer reviewed (not normal practice), widely criticized, etc. Readers don't know the quality of research unless you say!

a trans girl in college committed suicide days ago amid discrimination against her easily tied to this administration’s policies. npr and other media should cover that too

Trans people just want to live a life of dignity with access to care that has been proven safe and effective. For me, it was literally lifesaving care. This act of cruelty towards the most vulnerable members of our community must be called out for what it is: transphobic hate that will end lives.

they are trying to kill every trans kid in America when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink unconscionable evil

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Q: What did you mean when you said you're prepared to send 'more than the National Guard' into American cities? TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want

Check in with your people. Let them know they are loved and are valued. Wrap each other in love and hope and solidarity.

We've collected a list of every local resource for food assistance we could find. These resources include pantries, free fridges, food banks, and free grocery programs by neighborhood or region:

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

Pigeons.

“I don’t know how I’m going to do it. I don’t know how,” said Trautman. “I feel bad because I think the food banks are probably going to get overrun. They’re going to start hopping from food bank to food bank. And this community alone has so much need.” www.publicsource.org/snap-food-ai...

🎃 Meet Autumn — the cutest little pumpkin on the windowsill! 🍂 This four-year-old sweetheart is all treats, no tricks. She loves head scratches, cozy sunbeams, and flopping over to show off her soft belly once she feels at home. Adoption info at: trashcatrescue.org?page_id=53