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Will join @joyannreid.bsky.social in about an hour to talk marriage equality! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsDN...

Kim Davis just keeps losing. Cert denied. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Winsome Earle-Sears dumped millions of dollars into anti-trans ads, refused to say anything useful for Virginians, and got waxed. If what you took away from 2024 was that there's a magic transphobia switch you can flip to win -- you deserve to get waxed.

If we really had a political media industry that was fair and balanced - then we'd have a deep discussion about how anti-trans bigotry from the Republicans/MAGA doesn't work when the data points against their leaders' incompetence is overwhelming. BTW cc: take note @governor.ca.gov ↘️

Lmaooo AOC v Riley Gaines is my fav genre

If “no kings” sounds radical to you, you might be the problem.

TONIGHT! I’m back at my alma mater to talk equality.

I need to ask you a favor. @translash.org is up for 5 @signalawards.bsky.social and we need your vote TODAY in order to win. Visit www.signalaward.com. October 9 is the final day to vote.

“War ravaged” and it’s just a guy in a chicken suit.

I’m coming home!! I’ll be in Eugene next week for a powerful conversation with University of Oregon (Sco Ducks) Political Science Department Head Professor Alison Gash and Chief Judge Michael McShane who, 11 years ago, struck down Oregon’s ban on same sex marriage.

Minnesota is such a breath of fresh air — powered by amazing leaders. Great to be with you all this week 🤍

Big thank you to @brandonwolf.bsky.social and everyone who came out to support the DFL and our LGBTQ+ community here in Minnesota! 🏳️‍🌈🏳

Meanwhile, every right wing talking head is in a never-ending race to see who can scapegoat trans people the fastest.

In the rush to be first, mainstream media has been false. America deserves only the facts and accurate reporting from its journalists.

News outlets like @wsj.com have a critical responsibility to report the truth. Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger. Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.

100%. Running with this unconfirmed reporting was outrageously reckless.

Great to sit with @katiephang.bsky.social to talk crosswalks, mental health resources…and finding defiant joy in the upside down.

@hrc.org's @brandonwolf.bsky.social joins me to talk about Ron DeSantis’ bizarre obsession with rainbow crosswalks & why Republicans just can’t stay out of our bedrooms, our lives, our doctors’ offices, & our schools. They're trying to steal our joy. They can go to Hell. youtu.be/lTpFac7dhG8?...

As HRC National Press Secretary @brandonwolf.bsky.social said, there is nothing “political” about our community — period. Anti-LGBTQ+ politicians want to erase our existence, our history, and our pain — but we’re never going to stop fighting for equality. We’re not going anywhere. 🎥: @cnn.com

Caring about 49 humans who were ruthlessly gunned down at the Pulse nightclub is not a “political statement,” Ron DeSantis. Removing their memorial is yet another cruelty. Ron DeSantis will quickly be forgotten. The love and legacies of the 49 will outlast his hate. #Pulse #FL

In the dark of night, they came to erase our show of solidarity, our declaration that we will never forget. The cowards who feel threatened by our lives should feel lucky they didn’t have to bury the ones they love — then watch the state come & desecrate their memory.

The stock market falling as he gets lost on the roof really rounds it all out.

Andry Hernández Romero is alive and was released from CECOT. It’s a relief that he won’t have to sleep in that hell hole tonight, but he should never have been disappeared there in the first place. He had a right to due process here. And we have no idea what awaits him back where he fled from.

Jailing doctors for providing the health care they've been trained to provide? What the hell are we doing?

Oh come on man 😪

Wow — NH Governor just vetoed this and an anti-trans bill.

It’s not a flood relief special session if it’s loaded with gerrymandering and anti-trans obsession.

Counterpoint to the essay: at what point do those family members start taking accountability for their behavior and stop demanding everyone else do all the emotional labor??

Trump’s swamp gulag is complete moral bankruptcy. So basically — on brand.

He means himself.

I just think that we - the richest nation on the planet - can do better than slashing health care and taking food off kids' tables to give billionaires more "can I make Al identify as Hitler?" and "$50million second wedding" money.

NEW: The Wisconsin Supreme Court clears the way for the state to institute a ban on conversion therapy in a ruling that gives the governor more power over how state laws are enacted.

You may not know: Medicaid is the largest payer of HIV care in the country. 40% of people living with HIV rely on Medicaid for their health care coverage. So…cuts to HIV prevention and care globally, cuts to CDC HIV prevention efforts, and massive cuts to the largest payer of HIV care in the US…

This cabal of corrupt elitists just ripped people from their doctor’s offices and took food off dinner tables so they can bankroll Jeff Bezos’ third tacky wedding and give ICE a budget larger than most militaries on the planet. It’s so sick.

The abomination of a bill — an immense transfer of wealth from poor and working people to the ultra rich — has passed the Senate. Some good news, though: the attempt to ban access to health care for transgender people was stricken.

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“Underestimate this community at your own risk!” – @brandonwolf.bsky.social We are taking action to bring Andry Hernández Romero back to the U.S. after the Trump administration disappeared him to El Salvador’s maximum security “terrorism confinement” prison. Take action NOW: hrc.im/BringThemBack

Congrats @robertgarcia.bsky.social !!

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

Utterly diabolical to wage a multi-billion dollar culture war against a community — then rip mental health resources out from under them.

“His erasure of the LGBTQ+ and Latino communities today may say a lot about what kind of person he is, but it doesn’t change the fact that those were the communities most directly impacted…that families have empty seats at dinner tables, friends have missing faces at birthday parties.

Nine years ago today, @brandonwolf.bsky.social went clubbing with two of his best friends in Orlando. That night, a gunman opened fire at Pulse nightclub, killing dozens and injuring dozens more. Brandon lost his friends. That sparked his ongoing mission. www.advocate.com/news/brandon...

Nine years ago, a gunman tore through my neighborhood bar, Pulse Nightclub, and stole 49 people from us. I was lucky to make it out alive, but my best friends Drew & Juan never made it home to say goodbye. Nine years, but it hurts like yesterday. Please #HonorThemWithAction .

9 years ago today, a 29yo with an AR15 hunted & killed 49 people & wounded 53 others in a mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Click to email your Members of Congress to urge them to #BanWeaponsOfWar! secure.everyaction.com/tQceIFM-V0Ot... @newtownaction.org #GaysAgainstGuns

#OnTheAir COUNTERPOINT airs Monday 8-9:30 pmET wpkn.org 89.5FM Bgpt #CT @HRC.org Human Rights Campaign's @brandonwolf.bsky.social‬ on Trump's many attacks on the LGBTQ+ community over the first 5 months of his regime, and in the first few days of June Pride month.

Classic bully: backs down as soon as he’s met toe to toe. Weak.

This is what Trump brings — chaos, crisis, and suffering. Every time.