the vice president is a klansman

We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we don’t understand that, then we will fail to understand what’s at stake. And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.

"But Important Context looked into the peer reviews, which are available on the HHS website, and several offer stark criticism and warnings that the document is not a credible basis upon which to set policy." open.substack.com/pub/importan...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

On January 13, the Supreme Court will hear our case defending trans kids' right to play the sports they love. Join us and our partners outside the court to rally in support of transgender justice and show trans youth they aren't alone in this fight. RSVP at act.aclu.org/a/bpj-hecox-...

apple.news/ACQCCQduDREC... Everything Trump touches turns to shit, including things that were already putrid.

yelling that Trump is doing something "against the law" is meaningless if there are no consequences

The Trump administration is attempting to force a new term for gender affirming care to call it "sex rejecting procedures." This term was literally made up this year by the far right group Ethics and Public Policy Center in a comment submitted in April 2025. It is now being used widely by HHS.

I would like to see the major medical centers to file comments pushing back hard on this rule, which has implications for clinical judgment far beyond this context. I'd especially like to see it from the ones (like that affiliated with my university) who have bowed to Trump threats by ceasing GAC.

“These [HHS] rules are not in effect. They are merely proposals with a notice and comment process ahead. We encourage all to use the comment portals [that will be] provided to let HHS know just how dangerous these regulations are.” – Sasha Buchert, Senior Attorney Read more: tinyurl.com/brdy37e

Freedom for everybody Autonomy for everybody Health care for everybody Transgender for everybody

Good.

19 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- The HHS is also going after 12 companies who manufacture binders for trans kids, alleging they are engaging in illegal marketing practices. Admin. is also seeking to de-classified gender dysphoria as a disability under federal law.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

JUST NOW: HHS proposed two rules that would effectively ban gender-affirming care for trans youth. If implemented, the rules would end Medicaid coverage for this care, taking away parents' ability to choose the best path for their families. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Note also that today HHS is proposing rules (a) to bar the use of federal Medicaid/CHIP funds to cover gender-affirming care for those under 18 (public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23464.pdf) and

(b) to explicitly state that "gender dysphoria not resulting from physical impairments" is *not* a disability protected against discrimination by federally funded entities: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23484.pdf

Tonight, Donald Trump tried to sell us all a shit sandwich, desperate to convince the American people that he isn't a complete and utter failure. He’s lost the economy. He’s lost his mind. And next year, he’s going to lose the midterms.

Here is my recap of Trump district court nominee Justin Olson's Senate confirmation hearing, during which Olson spent a lot more time than I'd hoped sharing his thoughts on biblical eunuchs, the evils of fornication, and whether it's appropriate for disabled people to get married

Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis voted to make it a felony for a doctor to provide a child with the only evidence-based treatment for gender dysphoria.

This is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill. Today she claimed, "For far too long, children have been sexually exploited under the malicious falsehood of so-called gender-affirming care."

BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care. This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.

13 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Five transgender inmates at the Utah State Prison are suing the state for allegedly preventing them from receiving needed hormone therapy since HB252, a ban on prison GAC, was passed earlier this year.

Pete Hegseth has got to go. He has always been a racist, sexist transphobe — but now, it's been made clear that he is responsible for the illegal boat strikes that killed helpless civilians at sea who had not been charged or convicted of any crime. That is murder.

As a GOP activist, Harmeet Dhillon frequently insisted that the federal government has “little to say” about how states run their elections. Now, as head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), she claims the feds have “sweeping” authority to seize state voter rolls.

uf... to use "socialism" to excuse racism and make it cutesy.

Breaking News: Republicans in the Indiana Senate defied President Trump and joined Democrats in voting down a congressional map aimed at adding GOP seats.

Democrats—if they take back the House—already needed to launch an investigation into Bove’s egregious criminal conduct on Trump’s behalf before his confirmation to the 3rd Circuit. But they should also look into his brazen partisanship, which obviously violates the judicial Code of Conduct.

Merry Christmas!!! Tree is up and SCOTUS is throwing democracy into the trash bin.

Jasmine has won her elections, has experience governing and has a National profile so of course the white liberals think that she should cede the floor to the unelected unknown white boy with no experience.

The case is submitted. What a shitshow.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

the attempt by the attorney representing Rebecca Slaughter to use Trump v. United States for good is going sideways hard and it is making me even more confident in my opinion that there's no real upside to using Republican legal doctrine it won't convince Republican judges it's not meant for us

Well, time to update my talking points to law students again. I should just play the GoT's scene of Cersei saying, "Power is power [but only if it is a Republican president or Fascist]."

The practical effect of overturning Humphrey’s will be that Republican presidents can stack the formerly independent agencies with their copartisans and SCOTUS will be cool with everything they do but when a Dem POTUS does the same Roberts et al will declare all those agencies’ actions unlawful.

Given how this argument is proceeding, I wonder about the choice not to put up an advocate who would just speak ... a little more frankly to the justices?

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/

In August, we got a bit of extra money from a generous donor, and I used it to expand into coverage of trans life in American prisons. This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.

The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.

160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery. But that amendment came with a sinister loophole: a Slavery Clause that allowed for slavery “as punishment for crime.” We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!

Pretty much.

I’ve been nominated for the FIFA prize for literature, oh wait, I just found out I won. Imaginary prizes are it turns out, very easy to win.

Batma Returns is a Christmas movie.

6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Judge issues injunction against Georgia ban on GAC for inmates, finding it cruel & unusual punishment: "The state is responsible for the well being of any person it holds in its custody...whether that person has gender dysphoria or another diagnosis..."

Whitney “The Voice” Houston, “One Moment In Time,” 1989 Grammy Awards: youtu.be/7L9EMe-7Z4w?...

Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.