i don't want to be valid. i don't want to be tolerated. i want my sisters to be loved. to belong. to survive adolescence. i want to live a fulfilling life without wondering if i have the legal right to do so.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.

OMG Roberts: "To “discharg[e] the duties of his trust,” the President must have the assistance of officers he can trust." He's literally creating constitutional protection for loyalty tests. Sweet heavens to Murgatroyd

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

The long term issue is that this Supreme Court is effectively eliminating civil service reforms that eliminated the spoils system that promoted widespread corruption and graft. The federal government cannot function effectively if every single political appointee switches out every 4 years.

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Texas agrees this defendant👇may be intellectually disabled and ineligible for the death penalty. It asked SCOTUS to (a) vacate a lower court decision that refused to consider this possibility and (b) instruct it to evaluate the evidence. Today SCOTUS refused 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Just remember, though, that anytime the Trump administration wants to use race as a basis to persecute vulnerable people, the Supreme Court swiftly suspends its "colorblindness" principle. The Constitution is only colorblind as needed to subjugate racial minorities. slate.com/news-and-pol...

do cis people understand how utterly fucking INSANE it is that they’re attacking trans healthcare now using the FTC?

uhhh what the hell

...anyway, I've compiled all the evidence that anti-trans propaganda & positions do not help (and most likely hurt) politicians in this piece: in video form: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Vh... in essay form: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

This hasn't received the attention it should but DOJ lawyers are openly misrepresenting things to the courts to get access to the medical records of trans youth. Now a judge in Rhode Island has referred them to a disciplinary hearing to face potential sanctions. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American." He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador. Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

If you absorb nothing else take this observation in fully. And here’s a gift link to the entire conversation. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

When the Supreme Court decided Shelby County in 2013, Republican states were implementing aggressive voter suppression laws within *hours*. They are moving even faster this time. Louisiana has already suspended its primary so that the GOP can draw Black people out of electoral existence.

"What is less clearly stated is that the clinician, not the AI, carries the consequences." benngooch.substack.com/p/i-was-an-e...

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

It's because it breaks people's sense of justice and the social contract. If the world's richest man on his way to being the first trillionaire can just causally kill millions of people with no repercussions, it means there's no absolutely no societal accountability. Instead, he's rewarded for it.

Good news for transgender youth and their families: A federal judge blocked an effort to undermine their care, finding that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acted illegally by trying to override established medical standards.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

I'm always struck by how seriously all these gentlemen take themselves as they engage in the laziest, most corrupt attempt to pretend they're engaging in serious, adult, good faith interpretation of consumer protection standards the press certainly helps by framing it as good faith seriousness

the "fun" part is that even though the Trump Supreme Court may not have really agreed with the wireless carriers about their arguments, they're going to tailor their ruling so that wireless giants still ultimately see no accountability for anything. isn't that nice

Just to repeat this aloud, as a mental health and specifically schizophrenia focused journalist, I find the reliance on like terms "psychosis" and "hallucinations" throughout this whole discourse nonsensical (and truly meaningless) as well as offensive ...

“We are glad the SAVE Act died in the Senate. We are grateful to every senator who stood firm against it. To every American who called, wrote and organized to make their voice heard, thank you – your voice matters." #BlackskyNews www.splcenter.org/presscenter/...

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason? just a wild country

Education doesn’t need to be a monetary “investment”. It can just be “education”

not conspiracy or exaggeration to say that the NYT has been actively complicit with the destruction of trans rights and lives and utterly unapologetic about this behavior ... and it's definitely not stopping at just us. my question is always: when will cis folks say enough is enough.

Garcia: Blanche just said that the Epstein investigation is basically in the past, that he’s not going to address it moving forward, and that all the documents were released. I mean, that’s just a bold-faced lie.

I strongly believe it’s the right wing outlets that initiate the bulk of the splintering. ‘Oh look at this one thing candidate x believes that you don’t!’ then don’t refute anyone concluding, ‘well there is no way candidate x could be persuaded to change’, when that’s right wing projection. 1/2

Probably not going to get the traction it deserves but it’s insane 1. Stephen Miller is giving dod press conferences and 2. explicitly saying the us policy towards the irgc will be war crimes

Go read biology, go read history ... trans people exist. We're real. This effort to delude the public otherwise is part of that larger right-wing propagandizing that seeks to destroy us all, in my view. It's about dehumanizing my people (and many others). My bias: I am in favor of human rights.

worth reading the whole story for all the awful details - including literal bounties for other people to rat out trans people using the “wrong” bathroom

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

(2/2) The county argued the DOJ is attempting to: ❌️ “Evade…review of an unconstitutional seizure of hundreds of thousands of original election records” ❌️ “Set a precedent that would grant the federal government unchecked power to interfere with the local administration of elections.” Read more:

As is so often the case, this interview of former NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney, by @davidforbes.bsky.social, is once again highly relevant to current events. Sweeney breaks down, in detail, how anti-trans bigotry's pushed from the very top of the company.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

Reminder for those who don’t know: the Democrats codified respect for same-sex and interracial marriages into federal law in 2022 while they had the majorities in Congress and control of the White House. But “both parties are the same”, people keep telling me.

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

A True the Vote co-founder revealed it was “in contact with people at DHS” to discuss a federal data-sharing partnership to scrutinize voter rolls for potential noncitizens. The comments raise concerns over the relationship between DHS and right-wing groups challenging state election systems.

Honestly a weird way to say, "ICE has decided the Constitution no longer applies to them."