What @readlux.bsky.social is doing is beautiful, and we love to see @lexmcmenamin.com covering it as only they can ♥️

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 18 PinkNews NHS, which already has a waiting times for adults stretching over a decade in many places, is considering shrinking the number of private clinics which can prescribe, worsening the bottleneck worse and increasing its control over adult GAC.

Mamdani's promised $65m for gender affirming care doesn't appear to be in his preliminary budget. In my first for @prismreports.org, I explored why that might be, and what trans advocates and activists have to say about it. prismreports.org/2026/03/18/m...

On Feb. 17, the Mamdani administration released its $127 billion preliminary budget for fiscal year 2027, but, according to an analysis by @stahlidarity.bsky.social for Prism, the promised $65 million for protecting gender-affirming healthcare has not been explicitly allocated.

"The case was seen as a major test of the first amendment and whether the government could use a broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters. It marked the first time the government alleged individuals were part of an antifa terrorist cell in a criminal prosecution."

Thanks @chrisgeidner.bsky.social for this great writeup of our victory at SCOTUS against GEO Group and why it matters! www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-rej...

The EEOC just reversed its own position, which it held for over a decade, that Title VII not only protects trans workers from discrimination but specifically that banning a trans worker from using a bathroom aligned with their gender identity is against the law www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...

NEW: Two women incarcerated in a CA prison have come forward to report sexual assaults by a staff cook while they were working in the kitchen, paid 12¢/hr. They told me he threatened discipline if they spoke up. The prison concluded abuse occurred, a very rare outcome, but he hasn't faced charges.

Time for Mayor Mamdani to live up to his campaign promises and ensure care is kept safe for New York trans kids. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov

In a blatant violation of NY state and NYC law, NYU Langone has shut down its youth gender clinic and caused a potential forced detransition to its patients. Where is the NY AG and Mayor Mamdani? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...

1. Terrible news for trans people in Idaho. The state's House just passed one of the first private business bathroom bans in the United States. It allows you to sue any private business that lets trans people pee if you think they're in the wrong bathroom. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fascinating new interview of Philosopher Rowan Bell by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social asks whether the concept of gender identity is outliving its usefulness, and what might come after. Food for thought. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Democrats in Congress have rightly expressed concern about the Trump admin's overreach in demanding user data related to 1st amendment protected activities. But many of these same Democrats are supporting misguided age verification laws that will help Trump and other authoritarians censor & spy.

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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

the atlantic is right back on its bullshit again

The US is deporting people back to certain death. There is blood on the hands of ICE. www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-abductio...

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

This debate or discourse or discussion about why Bezos is dismantling WaPo or whether or not more subscriptions or boycotts could change things or how he could fund it easily is pointless. It’s moot. Bezos bought the Post to control the narrative and push his agenda. Financials don’t matter.

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

reading this by @tanvi.bsky.social 'as the new mayor takes office, the bigger question is not what he symbolizes for immigrant communities but what benefits he might deliver for them if he can realize his vision of an affordable city.'

Occasional reminder that Joe Lonsdale recently bragged about co-founding Palantir to cleanse the western hemisphere of communists — a term which, per this Politico piece, he defines extremely broadly.

In Skrmetti, they said it wasn't discrimination on the basis of sex because it applied to both trans girls and trans boys. Now that the sports ban only applies to trans girls, it's not discrimination on the basis of trans status. The only logic that is consistent is that trans people lose.

Nearly 15,000 NYSNA nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian are on strike today because greedy hospital management have given frontline nurses no other choice.

I'm in my mid-50s. I started organizing against the violence of policing when I was a teenager. I've heard ALL of the so-called "reform" proposals. They are the SAME ONES that liberals are offering in 2026. Cops have never killed more people in my lifetime. Gotta do something different.

BREAKING REPORTS: Ice has blocked off an entire street and is going door to door in Minneapolis. This has been also reported by @veronicadelacruztv.bsky.social ICE is not meant to be an occupying army! We demand #ICEOUTforGood!

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Five years ago, my sister @stahlidarity.bsky.social wrote about federal prisons like the one Maduro is being held in. In my humble opinion, it’s a piece worth reading. www.cjr.org/first_person...

Two and a half years after the NYT explicitly attempted to add trans reporters to the paper, the efforts never resulted in a hire. "This leaves an open question: Why?" writes the former NYT editor tapped to recruit. @assignedmedia.org www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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They turned trolling into a leadership style. Their supporters think it's fine because they have no integrity either.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Very sad to see NBC Out go down. I know journalists who have worked there and it was home to some of the best in depth reporting on LGBTQ+ issues out there from a legacy media outlet. Legacy media continues to abandon us, and it seems only we can tell our own stories these days.

NEW! After the initial introduction of intimacy coordinators to film & TV productions following #MeToo, the industry seems to have soured on the position. Do intimacy coordinators stifle creativity? Do they keep actors safe? Erica W Smith investigates:

Every single piece of research demonstrates that this is dangerously medically wrong. We’ve never had any reason to believe otherwise, medicine has always known this. In terms even the NHS can understand: people at highest risk of breast cancer all have one thing in common and it isn’t a uterus.

hey friends — if you haven't seen, The Verge is running a series on the future of being trans on the internet. it's got a bunch of very cool stories from talented writers! you should check it out www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Remember COINTELPRO? Or the FBI infiltration of AIM? The ex-director of Richard Nixon's presidential library says that Trump's vows to investigate leftist organizations + a Republican-controlled Congress + a cabinet of loyalists make Trump more dangerous than Nixon www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024. Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

Their reckless disregard for scientific expertise on topics like COVID 19's origins and trans healthcare was a key enabler that allowed this moment to happen.

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

100% The way this story was reported was... irresponsible and reprehensible.

There's plenty of complexity to the story of Ian Roberts, the Black Iowa superintendent arrested by ICE. But the way the @nytimes.com chose to frame this article is racist and shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children. That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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