The "nobodies" doing "nothing" are the ELITES and most of the politicians representing you. PEOPLE in their communities are in motion, everywhere. You just have to pay attention and importantly you have to JOIN THEM.

regular US policing.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena. The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses. New, at Law Dork:

my first @theguardian.com: I wrote about this year's "Drag Queen Christmas" tour stop in Pensacola, FL, which from the 1950s-70s hosted America's biggest LGBTQ event; the state AG tried to get the "demonic" show canceled. I talked to Florida drag queens and supporters that refuse to go underground:

the vice president is a klansman

Update: @nywfp.bsky.social's Working Families Guarantee Mass Call will now be on Wed, Jan 21 @ 6pm. On this date we'll see the governor's Executive Budget and know if her rhetoric as universal childcare ally is real... ...by seeing if she proposes taxing the rich. www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...

It's your birthday, Duane.

vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

No student journalist should ever have to write this kind of story www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed. The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week. This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...

Reminder that Adolph Hitler, the Ayatollah Khamenei and Vlad Putin were all Time's People of the Year, so you can decide for yourself on which side of the split this grouping fits

"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award." chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...

this week, congress has agreed to ban trans participation in sports at military academies and the opening bid to fix aca subsidies bans trans care coverage on obamacare exchanges why does it feel like we’re not seeing a five alarm fire from the lgbtq+ advocacy groups yet

Transgender women have been playing women’s tennis in USTA for 50 years!

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

“Regardless, a cis woman refusing to share space with a trans woman is no different – and no less wrong – than a white woman refusing to share space with a Black woman” ^^ This Right Here ^^

For the first time since 1988, the U.S. did not officially commemorate World AIDS Day. At the same time, the Trump admin is degrading America’s most basic HIV protections and unraveling decades of progress. The consequences will be grave if things are not turned around. Read more from my story here

For #GivingTuesday: Thanks to a group of affirming parents of trans youth, every donation made up to $40,000 will be matched. But we have to raise it! Contribute at any level –– $25, $100, or $500 –– and your contribution will be doubled. Help us reach our goal bit.ly/GLMEndOfYear 🏳️‍⚧️💕

Asking for money will never come easy to me! But I'm proud of what we're building at @genderlib.com & need the support to help us grow. A thread on first year highlights:

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My uncle, Douglas Colesworthy, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He died in 1987. Silence = death.

Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin. New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.

The real problems on Riley Gaines’ college swim team, according to teammates and university documents: abusive coaching, sexual harassment, eating disorders. But Gaines climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports. Now, teammates speak out:

We door-knocked + phone-banked a million votes to— 👉 freeze the RENT 👉 make buses fast and FREE 👉 deliver universal CHILDCARE Now, to realize them all, we will do the work to— 🤜 tax the RICH The Tax the Rich campaign's field op launches on Sat, Dec 13. Get in on the ground floor. taxtherichny.com

my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner

On January 13, the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments over state laws targeting transgender girls in sports. This from @pablo.show and @motherjones.com is a great explainer on why the right-wing legal movement needs this issue to push trans people out of public life altogether

In 2023 the Progressive Caucus adopted a statement of principles including a commitment to reduce the size and scope of the NYPD + Corrections. The caucus' numbers shrank, but its politics gained coherence and power. With @harveyepstein.bsky.social, we'll be a step closer to a progressive majority.

I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes. So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/

but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children. (From One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad)

Asking for money will never come easy to me! But I'm proud of what we're building at @genderlib.com & need the support to help us grow. A thread on first year highlights:

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

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Chicago police are required by law to document every time they pull someone over. But an investigation by Bolts and Injustice Watch last year revealed the department failed to report hundreds of thousands of stops.

"What’s happening in Gaza and throughout the region is devastating," a spokesperson for HRC told The Advocate.

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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Detransition is being used as political fodder by the Trump admin and its allies to support extreme anti-trans policies. In the process, the reality of detransition is lost. For our new series, I spoke with detransitioners who feel harmed by the Trump admin. Their stories are complex and important.

its almost a month since lia smith, a trans woman who was in college sports until trump took office and banned her from competing, committed suicide her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @apnews.com @cnn.com

very proud of this

Activists had been pressuring the Human Rights Campaign, one of the world’s largest LGBTQ+ groups, to stand against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

What the fuck was the Human Rights Campaign doing having any relationship with weapons manufacturers in the first place, rather than denouncing them as the merchants of death that they are? That is the literal definition of pink washing.

Human Rights Campaign Cuts Ties to Weapons Manufacturers After 2-Year Activist Campaign https://www.them.us/story/human-rights-campaign-hrc-northrop-grumman-rtx-weapons-manufacturers

this is a big deal

Due to the organizing of LGBTQ & Palestinian activists fighting to end the genocide in Gaza, @hrc.org has confirmed it is no longer sponsored by weapons companies Northrop Grumman and RTX Corporation Out joint statement w/ @adalahjustice.bsky.social www.adalahjusticeproject.org/hrc-victory-...

my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"