if transgender for everybody is a consequence of shutting down the government, that’s a deal i’ll have to take

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

people are using ai to create mass hysteria nostalgia that will in turn be used to turn them into reactionaries. they’re very subtly associating change with bad and that is used to enforce fascism

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Less than 36 hours away from a shutdown, Republicans chose to fly to North Carolina instead of to DC to do their jobs. This field hearing is just another example of them exploiting tragedy to score political points.

Happening now: at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other CBP/ICE agents emerge to patrol Beach Street and escort a vehicle out. They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.

the trump administration is elevating to quash protests, they want people to be scared so they don’t block the gestapo from rounding up and deporting americans. they will try to jail as many people as they can. this is a fascist regime in action

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

Is anyone else's timeline suspiciously quiet and normal today?

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Trump has just fired U.S. attorney Michele Beckwith for reminding the Administration follow a court order.   She is the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento and lost her job for telling a Border Patrol chief to follow a judge’s restrictions on immigration raids.

Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump. It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.

Republicans, Trump included, are zeroing in on transgender people and blaming us for the looming government shutdown. They are demanding that Democrats cave on transgender rights. Many of them are copying the same talking points in their messages.

Honestly, a really good article. It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years. It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.

Silent Hill town fall is my last hope for the series to finally break away from the silent hill 2 "main character did something bad, forgot about it" trope. 😔

The last 2 hours of Silent Hill f are truly embarrassing It basically just becomes forced arena battle after forced arena battle Truly killing the whole story pace because it forces you to fight the ending was a big letdown predicted it an hour into the game but had more faith in Ryukishi07

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

If Wolverine isn't bisexual in the game, then I don't care about it......

State of play fucking sucked The only interesting trailer was for wolverine and that game feels like its 5 years too late. The devs were yapping about literally nothing for so long we could have easily got another trailer for something else. I'm so sick of current superhero character designs

GOP: We protect kids! So—ban child labor? GOP: No Ban child marriages? GOP: No Ban children from carrying guns? GOP: No Ban gun sales w/o background checks? GOP: No Then how exactly do protect kids?🤔 GOP: We ban books, discussions on racism, drag, free school lunch, & Tylenol.

Hinako might be the most badass protagonist, not just in a silent hill game, but survival horror in general. All the shit she goes through in this game would make leon Kennedy and Issac clarke look like wimps. Hinako is a BEAST.

Im loving SILENT HILL F so far but Im halfway through the game on the default settings. Some puzzles solutions and the chase sequences are annoying as fuck I just died to one like 10x because of dead ends giving instant game over and enemies draining stamina when present causing me to stop moving

Here is the exact statement he signed onto and a link to the full statement. He basically says evidence does not support the trans care bans. hei.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/systematic-r...

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

1. In a groundbreaking legal filing, transgender patients, represented by Women's Law Project, have filed a legal complaint against UPMC for capitulating to Trump and dropping trans care. Federal funding threats do not override state law. Subscribe to support our journalism.

9. If these anti-LGBTQ+ provisions make it through, they would lock some of the harshest restrictions on trans people into federal law and hand Trump a stronger platform to target trans rights nationwide. Only if Dems stand firm for their trans and queer constituents will this outcome be stopped.

8. Last year, Dems passed an anti-trans provision in the NDAA with full control of the Senate, refusing Tammy Baldwin's vote to strip the anti-trans provisions. www.erininthemorning.com/p/37-democra...

7. The NDAA is one of the biggest fights this month - it includes a total ban on tricare coverage for gender affirming care at any age, and saw several Democrats cross party lines to pass it. www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans...

6. The Financial Services and General Government bill follows suit, barring coverage of transgender healthcare for federal employees and their families while undercutting D.C.’s protections for transgender care coverage. bsky.app/profile/equa...

5. The Commerce, Justice, and Science bill carries its own slate of riders: a ban on funding transgender surgeries in any federally owned, leased, or used facility, and a prison placement ban that would force transgender women into men’s jails. docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/...

4. In the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education bill, one rider would ban “any federal funds” from supporting trans care at any age. A strict reading would mean a medicaid/medicare ban. A more expansive reading could target all hospitals providing care.

3. Though Trump frames the fight around “transgender surgeries” and sports, the provisions buried in the appropriations bills go far beyond that—and could devastate transgender people nationwide.

2. On Tuesday morning, Trump took to Truth Social with a rambling post announcing he would refuse to negotiate unless Democrats “agree to the principles in this letter.” Those “principles” included a slate of anti-trans measures—from bans on transgender healthcare to nationwide sports restrictions.

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people. His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority. Subscribe to support our journalism.

At this point, the Supreme Court may as well just declare Donald Trump a deity, who cannot, and must not, be subject to the laws of mortal men. You wouldn't notice a difference from how they're currently treating him, & it would save a lot of time & paperwork. SCOTUS is now an illegitimate court.

Make them ride circuit. Cancel a Supreme Court term. No more clerks. And strip jurisdiction.

This is unconscionable. Once again the 6-3 SCOTUS majority shows it’s in the tank for Trump and the rich and powerful. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

SCOTUS must be expanded and reformed to restore our democracy

SCOTUS’s right-wing majority is handing Trump control of agencies that are meant to be independent and nonpartisan. They are using the shadow docket to rubber-stamp his authoritarian agenda. This is not how our democracy is meant to function. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

We should not care or reward Disney for this. We must make their bottom line hurt for even considering doing something like this. Don't let up. Other companies need to see that bowing to fascism is not something you can do without consequence.

A few people have claimed that the "revoke some trans passports" in my latest story is "hyperbole" or "sensational reporting." The Trump admin in their 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has literally said they will do this if they win. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

The Republican party apparently thinks that making fun of people’s deaths is absolutely abhorrent, unless the people dying are your perceived political enemies.

Ok... so on one hand, fuck ABC7 Virginia for the framing of this question. On the other, Abigail Spanberger is really blowing this with her refusal to state clearly her support for trans Virginians.

1. The Trump administration has filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court to reinstate its transgender passport restrictions. The filing in the much-criticized shadow docket could cast trans travelers into chaos, with a decision likely soon. Subscribe to support our journalism.

placing my bet in the “solution to autism” is to just stop allowing testing for it and placing people currently diagnosed with it on a list

The American people deserve real accountability—not these selective investigations. If there are questions about misconduct, we should follow the facts.

They aren't Christians, They aren't good people, They goon over hatred and fucking over other people's lives so that their lives seem better in comparison.

mass psychosis