How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

I took an at-home test before I started HRT, too. It was listening to Anhoni and the Johnsons' "I Am a Bird Now."

I took an at-home test before I started HRT, too. It was listening to Anhoni and the Johnsons' "I Am a Bird Now."

I can’t stop laughing at this

Lucinda Williams

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

"A year ago I was with Charlie having this conversation..." Gavin Newsom will talk to every professional transphobe in conservative media before he'll ever talk to a trans person.

good news! if you need or want to know what transphobic shit gavin newsom got up to with ben shapiro today but you don't hate yourself enough to go through his podcast, i do! 🏳️‍⚧️🧵here is a thread of clips for your immiseration

My face hurts from smiling so big. I loved this so much.

There's about a 10 minute stretch where Shapiro keeps trying to get Newsom to say "boys can't become girls," and Newsom, without disagreeing, just keeps saying "I appreciate your viewpoint" and "there are plenty of good people, successful people, with gender identity issues." Compelling stuff.

Goodbye, academic freedom. The newly selected dean of the University of Arkansas law school had her offer rescinded after conservative state legislators learned that she had signed onto "friend of the court" briefs challenging bans on trans athletes in sports. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

They're not shy about saying "there's no such thing as a trans child," and they won't be satisfied until there are no trans kids left. Anybody who's still pretending that's not the case agrees with them but doesn't want to seem impolite.

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Gently: I think the sweet little leftist fiction that right-wing politics are the result of epistemic gaps---that you can just newsletter and educate and evangelize your way to leftism---is dead. Consider: many people want to hurt others. Want to feel superior. Want to inflict pain on the lesser.

Trumpists: [murdering women, kidnapping and shooting people, beating protesters, punching babies and throwing grenades at children] Democrats: owning a home is the most important part of the American dream, it builds equity

what a legend lmao

Media bias in action: “A nyt piece on the special insights Brett Kavanaugh has into women’s sports due to his coaching girls’ basketball was notable in what it didn’t say: The warm picture of Coach Kavanaugh did not include any quotes from people representing the trans supportive side of the case… 🧵

"...everything i feared in 2010 about authoritarianism, the rise of nationalist movements across the world, the sprawling and more entrenched police and intelligence and military apparatus all over the world ... towards full blown genocide and ethnic cleansing in the US" - chelsea manning, 2018

remember, a college student who gets an F because she wrote "because Jesus says so" in an essay she didn't do any reading for is tyranny but a dean losing her new job because of her beliefs is freedom. what are you not getting about this.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

This is actually demonic & should strike as corrosive to the souls of anyone who considers themselves American. It’s the most dishonorable act imaginable. It’s beyond disgusting.

Lmao someone threw an open bottle of piss into an ICE vehicle that was driving by

In Skrmetti, they said it wasn't discrimination on the basis of sex because it applied to both trans girls and trans boys. Now that the sports ban only applies to trans girls, it's not discrimination on the basis of trans status. The only logic that is consistent is that trans people lose.

If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.

the people’s dilbert issue #2

this is really so wonderful -- Garcia's deepest musical connections were to folk and bluegrass, and he's right in the zone here

My pillow wet with tears, more empty than I've ever been, sure that this time was the last time, and that I'm doomed to die alone and unworthy of love. I can smell her on my skin, and as my eyes close, I whisper to myself, just to hear the words one more time "It's the year of the Linux desktop."

ICE shot out a young trans man's eyes for the crime of caring about his neighbors.

the people's dilbert issue #1

Local pizza joint leads insurgency against federal paramilitary forces. Wrecktangle Pizza co-owner: "You can see from that video exactly what happens when they try to fuck with us." www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQUo...

Meet Me in My Study w/ Clay Puppington

So there's indisputable evidence that trans women have an athletic advantage, but federal funding for any research that could dispute that is forbidden because of "gender ideology," and simultaneously there is no evidence that trans people face discrimination from the state. Did I get that right?

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Today, I would like to present a deep dive into feminist history that got away from me. Like, really got away from me. It is about the futility of a politics of appeasement. It is about the unburial of a neglected feminist history. But most of all, it's about lesbian feminism, and sins unforgiven.

even ignoring all other evidence showing that trans sports bans are about discriminating against trans people, not protecting cis women... I'm supposed to believe that the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade and has two justices credibly accused of sexual misconduct cares about womens rights?

Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.

So there's indisputable evidence that trans women have an athletic advantage, but federal funding for any research that could dispute that is forbidden because of "gender ideology," and simultaneously there is no evidence that trans people face discrimination from the state. Did I get that right?

CONGRATS, TEXANS!

Live look in at Aaron Rodgers

My favorite thing in football is when the big guys on defense get to run it in for a touchdown.

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.