fuck you fortune cookie

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

I agree this is a moment when we all need to work together in getting the temperature down, but that doesn't mean excusing hate speech. Charlie Kirk did not support free and open debate. He supported engaging in bad faith as a monetization strategy and otherwise suppressing free speech.

i always wonder if folks who say this realize they're pushing the other side's narrative? "red states contain only people who voted that way/live those values, and anyone there harmed by their policies doesn't count bc they shouldn't live there" ...like. listen. you're singing the other side's song

It's not even a "people are instinctively good" thing. I wish that were true, but people are... everything. But I do think selling kindness is more frictionless than selling hatred. It's just less useful for the kinds of people who might have the money to wage either kind of propaganda campaign.

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

why does this matter so much? • there are ~2.8 million US trans folks & this would affect many to most—none positively • despite hard work by the media to reframe it, trans care isn't a luxury item! • pundits & columnists work constantly to convince dems to abandon trans folks (tap the thread) 🧵

ok there are MANY problems with audible, & i know change.org petitions don't make much of a difference, but someone is in talks with audible & is using this to show if these new (shitty, basically stealing $ from some authors to give to others & screw over libraries etc) policy. chng.it/CnRQ9yxRnr

… and yet, we continue to force adoption in health setting everywhere. People continue to treat this technology as if it is accurate // reliable // consistent — it is not.

Just a reminder, if you have stuff on AO3 that you want to read or preserve, please make sure you download it. Also make sure you have your books, movies, tv-shows etc that might have sexual themes and also LGBTQIA+ topics saved. It might not be this bill, but it can be a future one.

Hey, if you got some time today, call or email your reps and tell em why this is a ridiculously stupid idea! Even other legal advisors are saying this bill is too broad and could jeopardize more things than porn, so act now to ensure it dies for good!

Wearily pointing at the sign once again that says you gotta defend porn because these fuckheads see every queer person as inherently pornographic and they always have and they always will. You have to defend it even if you don't personally engage with it because otherwise this happens. ⬇️

"Being a good ally means *listening* when you tell me I'm helping to further enrich a wealthy bigot who wants to erase you, then *ignoring* everything you've said and asking YOU to donate YOUR money, not mine or the weakthy bigot's to a US based LGBTQ charity" Fuck off Michelle

every single person/business who has ever interacted with trump:

Exactly like Washington, all three of these cities have reported a drastic DROP in crime over the first half of this year.

guess what all these mayors have in common. i’ll wait.

Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”

Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies. Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.

hi if you want to listen to a d.c. band who makes music about the resilience of our city’s queer community against fascism, may i introduce you to “pink balloons” by ekko astral

Beyond the immediate use of this to crack down on immigrants and people of color, I will bet you that they're going to target LGBTQ bars and drag events. With direct police powers, they'll have free reign to do whatever they want.

Trump is announcing Federal control over DC. White supremacy fascism is when you pardon 1600 violent Nazi insurrectionists who tried to overthrow democracy and beat hundreds of cops, killing several, but then claim DC is violent despite 30 year lows in crime, including a 26% drop last year.

Well, that’s an illegal waste of taxpayer money and law enforcement resources. It’s also a sign that their election rigging coup project is more important than their ethnic cleansing project.

Full on authoritarianism on every front in Texas: -Stealing five seats to help Trump rig midterms -Threatening to arrest/expel democratically elected reps opposing election rigging -Weaponizing federal law enforcement to illegally target elected reps -SCOTUS preparing to kill Voting Rights Act

This is what fascism looks like.

JK Rowling is trying to create a world where a tall woman can't even have a polite interaction in a store on the off-chance she's transgender So, yeah, I'm probably not going to watch the new Harry Potter content, and while I hate to be prescriptive, neither should you

It’s only problematic through a capitalist lens -- to people who mistake community for a growth metric rather than a space for actual conversation.

Imo it would be FINE if Buttigieg said, "hey, some folks have fallen for anti-trans propaganda from the far right around sports, and we have an obligation to help them understand why that propaganda is hateful and false." But he didn't. He said we should "take them seriously." Absolutely not.

A depressing number of news outlets are reporting this without mentioning the minor detail that it would be unconstitutional.

We’ve never been closer to finding a potential cure for cancer than we were with mRNA. So of course, RFK Jr. cancelled all government funding for mRNA. God fucking damn it.

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Yeah, I'm never voting for Buttigieg even if he's the nominee. This is a bright line for me. You cave on trans issues and lend credence to bigots, it's over. I'm not letting the Dems go down the path of Labour. www.them.us/story/pete-b...

yall i just spent most of the day blasting through this and it's fantastic. read as soon as you can get your hands on it. literally all of the books by this author have hit perfectly for me and this one is no exception.

All I want to do is stay home and read this all day, but alas, my family is forcing me to go to a picnic. I will be doing NOTHING ELSE tomorrow.

Elon Musk bought X Stephen Colbert is getting pulled off the air NPR and PBS just got gutted Jeff Bezos is reportedly considering killing Teen Vogue And then they'll try to tell you progressive politics aren't popular

DIY healthcare has a long history of use by people who don’t have access through established channels. Underground AIDS meds in the ‘80s generally didn’t work, but abortion, compounded weight-loss meds & hormones can be safe & effective if you know what you’re doing.

Everyone needs to understand that the defunding of public broadcasting this week is part of a broader effort to dismantle the free press and control the means of reality production itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

These fascists will use mainstream journalists to their benefit as long as it takes them to enact their desired end result of destroying mainstream journalism. They are using you to destroy yourself and you are too naive and morally corrupt to realize it

RFK Jr. appears hell bent on destroying funding & publication of medical research. Demonizing medical journals that criticize his conspiracy theories is irresponsible & dangerous. Health Research Group director Robert Steinbrook & others decry the dangers of this war on science.

"Alligator Alcatraz": Florida Activists Resist Everglades Migrant Jail as ICE Deaths Rise in U.S.

This is so beyond important to remember: the average person tends to view a legal verdict as Absolute Truth rather than what it really is, an awkwardly balanced morass that may or may not reflect reality. The absence of guilt legally is not innocence; a conviction is not always absence of innocence.

we got some of the very worst bits out but the core of the bill remains: gutting medicaid, supercharging ICE this is a disaster and a good reminder that there are no good republicans - murkowski betrayed us all, collins would have voted yes if murk hadn't saved her, paul wanted it to be worse

I'm really glad the anti-trans Medicaid exclusions were removed from Trump's billionaire bailout but a bill that still kicks 20 million (largely working class) people off their health insurance is still going to have a disastrous impact including and especially on trans people. Kill the bill.

Those of us who warned—before the election—that a Trump regime would eventually come for everyone were called “cynics”, “alarmists”, “idiots”, or worse. Fast forward to not even 6 months in to his second term and he is now calling for expelling American citizens as he opens concentration camps.

Rainbow capitalism aside, queer books are actively under attack, and now is a great time to show publishers there's still a thriving market for books with LGBTIA+ characters and by LGBTIA+ authors. If you've been hoping for an excuse to buy queer books on your wish list, consider this your free pass

The party that's trying to pass a law that makes it harder to vote if you got married and changed your name wondering why women don't want to get married and change their names... Hmm.

The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.

I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time. That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.

Yeeeeah— you can pry the em dash from my cold dead hands.