This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

If I were near Stonewall tomorrow I'd be there to protest this. It is outrageous.

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

this guy is a dummy www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

I am going to Venice for the first time in a few days. Please send recommendations! (So far, of course going to the Peggy Guggenheim and Doge's Palace). I'm with my kiddo so we will be doing some mask making and go see the glass blowing. Restaurants? Secrets? Lesser known?

I had no idea there were giant schnauzers.

Lots of signed copies of the paperback of The Book of Love at Brookline Booksmith, Harvard Bookstore, Porter Square Books, and—of course—Book Moon.

I feel sad and angry about the UK government's decision not to sign the statement from the AI Action Summit. Not because I think it presents a rare new hope, but because they have decided to follow Trump and Musk. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

I think I’m obsessed with this actually????

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

can i just say that in addition to being a bad thinker this dude is just a bad writer as well. "axiomatically true." just say self-evident!

I mean I think the obvious answer is that no, Americans have no idea what this means for their lives the "oh shit what have we done" turn we're all hoping for is simply not going to happen until the material ramifications become clear we are going to have to touch the stove

I woke up with a dermatitis rash having spread from the nicely hidden scalp all the way down my forehead to nose and I believe that's what one might call a stress reaction to all this. I keep failing to migrate over here, but am in earnest dedicated to continuing to try. Hello again and again all.

“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamour

Me to everyone here: Is this your new place? it looks great! Thanks for making it comfortable and cozy. I think I may stay for a while.