“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally.” @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

The rubbing it in our faces is the entire point! They don't have any coherent policy goals because their goal isn't policy! It's humiliation of their perceived enemies!

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth. The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.

Dear every ally, both celebrity and random. Hormones cause puberty. Republicans are trying to convince everyone that *teenagers* are too young for *puberty*. Please bake this into the way you talk about trans youth.

I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"

Listen, I'm donating the max amount to the first dem who says "President Childhood Cancer killed the people on that plane by gutting the FAA."

This whole "It's just a distraction" line of thinking needs to die. They are genocidal bastards hellbent on eradicating the trans community. It's not a god damn distraction. This is what they stand for and you're running cover for it by minimizing it.

People really just do not understand fascism. It honestly just is so damn frustrating - but not surprising - how liberals do not have any real conception of how fascism actually functions and expect it to just be cartoonish Nazis or not at all.

clearly this is about protecting women's sports /s

Thing is, the OG Nazis came for the trans people first and they didn’t even put us in the poem.

We will be posting a link to a reputable program working on re-housing Trans migrants from Red States into California. You can fill an application to house, you can donate or you can share with a friend who needs it. Please boost this message to support when we share this link.

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

dear cishet people: when someone comes out to you, the appropriate response is "congratulations"

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE

Pixar you cowards

this animatic is beautiful and moving in how it covers part of the trans experience SO honestly and artistically, and in so little time, with no dialogue imagine what the finished scene could have been this is what they took from us 😞

LOOK AT THIS TIT

An excellent and informative thread 🧵

“Require states to permit” is a sleazy and dishonest way of saying “prevent states from overriding doctors and banning”

Disproportionate cautiousness and regulation *is transphobic*. It’s based on the belief that one cis teen choosing to transition is a tragedy but a dozen trans teens blocked from transitioning is not. In other words: that trans lives don’t matter as much as cis lives.

does the lid of an egg crate count as a "box"?

here are some very important images for you of my cats napping on my pillow in the morning sunshine

I made this Thing out of tissue paper and bamboo and string and (and some scotch tape)

good morning bluesky

lap boy 💜

I'm so lucky that these two little guys live in my house with me

hello good morning

every haircut and shopping trip is gender-affirming care and should be covered by health insurance

important to remember that "teens might be encouraged to transition when they don't need to" will always resonate to these people more than "teens might be prevented from transitioning when they need to" because to them the latter category doesn't exist because they don't think trans people are real

Rossi would like to wish you a happy second night of Channukah

חג חנוכה שמח

fyi in case you are wondering "may his memory be a blessing" is the standard jewish response to death but there's another, special one just for evil bastards, "may his name be erased"

If you believe “I’m never voting Biden again” is putting childish emotionalism over the hard compromises needed for electoral organizing, then under what analysis is “have fun with a Trump presidency!” NOT that?

It’s antisemitic that this emoji 🕎 is of a Hanukkiah and not a Menorah

looking through an old folder full of boring work documents and found this

Wizard Wednesday 🧙‍♂️

garden friend!!

me talking about @swordbimbo.bsky.social 😍

the word "support" being used here in much the same way that people often say they "support the troops." "we all support bringing in green, but not materially in any way. purely vibes-based support only."

last night I was baking a batch of granola at the same time that my wife was making burgers for dinner. both of these bottles were out on the counter at the same time, and uhhhhhh we had a little mishap