Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

This is a project Alice helped to organize - just made a donation in her honor, and I hope some of you will too.

I am holding so much grief, but also so much gratitude that we lived in a world so shaped by her brilliance and creativity. Rest in power, Alice Wong. Your work changed us. Your vision will continue to lead us. Your memory is a blessing and a responsibility we must honor every day through action.

May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

Alice was a master of calling out power without losing sight of community. She named the violence of austerity, medical rationing, eugenics & state abandonment with unflinching clarity. But she also paired critique with genuine belief that disabled futures are possible & already emerging everywhere

Alice was not only a brilliant disability justice activist—she was a cultural force, political strategist & builder of worlds. She showed how access is built through struggle, creative collaboration, interdependence, and principled refusal. She made the invisible labor of disabled life beautiful.

Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.

Really sad to hear of the passing of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social - a fierce, powerful voice for disability justice and by all accounts a lovely human being. Will be setting aside some time to revisit her work.

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

Cornell has become the latest "elite" university to agree to the DOJ memo banning trans students from bathrooms and sports and adopting a definition of sex that defines trans people of out of existence. statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...

“Álvaro López, the electoral coordinator for the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, believes “we need to get away from a ‘holding them accountable’ framework toward a ‘building power’ framework.” hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...

The correct headline here is "Trump administration begs courts to let him keep starving children and elders"

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

the fact that Sandwich Guy is facing this 'wich trial at all is evidence of subpar justice. he is a hero being put through the judicial grinder. i hope the jury wraps up a not guilty verdict without delay or loafing around

Man, I love whenever I get to do history research. Today I learned that when Lafayette visited Philadelphia in 1824, city leaders showed him Eastern State Penitentiary, still under construction. Lafayette's reaction: "What!? have you Bastilles in this country?"

To invoke Mario Cuomo - but NOT SAY HIS NAME. Because he had already told us he was done saying the name of his defeated opponent. I shrieked.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

*taps sign*

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

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Necessary column by Will Bunch in anticipation of the Trump Admin dispatching their Nazi goons to Philly and other blue metros.

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

Morality, decency, justice, and fairness just never enter these discussions. Nor does the possibility that effective leadership and advocacy can move the needle. The year I was born, public approval of interracial marriage was 30 percent. Death penalty support has dropped 30 percent since 2000.

This is sort of a pattern: See also naive parroting of the claim that troops are being deployed to cities “to fight crime”. You don’t have to do admin propaganda by laundering their falsehoods in your headlines.

“Major never abandoned the struggle against fascism, which is to say, the fight to free us all… the way to honor Major is to keep hammering holes in the walls that confine us, and to expand the trans and queer spaces she built.” - Toshio Meronek & Eric A Stanley truthout.org/articles/to-...

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Lord I beseech you, when I ask for the confidence of a mediocre white man, please stop before hitting the 'thinks sitting down for a one-on-one profile by Isaac Chotiner is a good idea' level of confidence

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

Please read this thread.

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Who could’ve predicted this, other than every single critical data studies scholar, who’ve been highlighting data bias issues for years and years? Given this previous knowledge, it’s criminal that this technology has been deployed at scale. A triumph of willful ignorance and wishful thinking.

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

This is horrific, but just wanted to highlight this quote from a trans kid: “I don’t have to live my life as someone I am not. I am choosing to be brave and assert myself in my true identity, even though it is not socially acceptable. My name is MINE, and mine only. I own this part of myself.”

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

I've been saying this for yearsf: LLM-GENERATED SAMPLES ARE JUST FALSIFIED DATA. It's similar to just lying about what people said, or taking your own best guesses. HEY FELLOW SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: STOP TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO AVOID ACTUALLY TALKING TO THE PEOPLE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING

Thinking, as I now so often have cause to do, of Emily Lenning, Sara Brightman, and Carrie Buist's "trifecta of violence" framework, which traces the interplay between violent rhetoric, violent policy, and violent action: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is messed up for a number of reasons, but worth naming specifically that the offending content appeared to be the general existence of trans people, which the student claimed was “illegal” to teach about.

Lil Nas X faces felony charges of "battery" against an officer from an arrest during a mental health crisis in late August. I wrote about my family member's experience with police being sent during mental health episodes—still common for wellness checks—and how it ruined their life. @teenvogue.com

Still afraid to get my hopes up but…this seems good?!

Every step we take to lessen suffering makes the world better. Every life saved is a world saved. We needn't solve everything for everyone to be able to solve everything for entire worlds. Help Ella, Ellen and Alaa. Please. I just don't know what else to say

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

A federal magistrate judge said an arrest in Northeast Washington was preceded by the “most illegal search I’ve seen in my life” and described another arrest as lacking “basic human dignity.” wapo.st/3Jyc2QI