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"Identified by an ex-wife" should replace "In god we trust" on our money

New from me: The KIDS Act tried to overcome KOSA's glaring First Amendment problems, but no matter which way you skin a cat, you've still violated the constitution (at least I think that's how the saying goes): platformpolemics.aricohn.com/p/the-kids-a...

All this tells me is that we also have to also shut down the golf courses

Canceled therapy so I could go to the movies after work

The ACLU has just detailed hundreds of cases of misconduct by immig agents: -kneeling on necks 52x -Agents choking people 10x -smashing car windows 47x -ramming cars 14x -Hit people w/ car 6x Report repeatedly cites ProPublica's reporting B/c transparency takes a village--when the govt blocks it

“When trans kids want hormone replacement therapy, we call it “gender confirming treatments” and publish article after fretting article about how strange and dangerous they are. When cis kids receive medically identical prescriptions, it’s Tuesday. We don’t even have a name for it.” (From 2023)

Since the Supreme Court upheld West Virginia and Idaho's bans blocking trans women and girls from school sports, you may be wondering what this means for trans rights across the country. Our experts answered your questions.

No thoughts, just Espeon

The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus. 1. Declassify docs to claim 2020 was stolen. 2. Declare a "national emergency" to seize control of the election apparatus. 3. Hope the "national security" predicate keeps courts out. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

YUP. Did a thread with all the research receipts he declined to include bsky.app/profile/jmap...

When even Third Way is telling you to back tf up

i think you can claim that you're a normal guy with normal politics or you can say one of your key national issues is that transgender women deserve to be raped if they get convicted of a crime but you can't claim both

"Another yelled at the little girl, who was trying to smell flowers."

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

Every single person in Maine and everyone around the country with a sense of humanity and decency need to remember this today. mainebeacon.com/collins-vote...

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"Taking sexual violence seriously isn’t a side issue getting in the way of the real fight against 'the establishment.' Fighting that machinery of domination is central to building a coalition broad and strong enough to beat that establishment." @naomiaklein.bsky.social

"The fact that many women supported Platner because they cared so much about women makes this juncture extra enraging, heartbreaking, and horrible."

hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering

Woke up early to beat the heat for a run

Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Which is also the logic of our colleges

Sports are such a potent area of American cultural life because they're imagined as the last refuge of meritocracy

Wait a minute, this crab on top of me in the bucket seems awfully tall for a female

Agreed that not everyone who disagrees with me is filled with hate in their heart but the high cost of a college education sounds like a problem chasing trans kids out of public life isn't going to solve

Sports has always been the entry point, but it is not the final stop. I’ve said this since I started covering the Hecox v. Little anti-trans sports case which the Supreme Court ruled on today.

I'm so thankful to Becky and her mom for their trust, generosity, and strength in front of the Supreme Court. No matter what the Court says, Becky is a hero for standing up for herself and trans girls like her. Doing what's right, even when the odds are against you, is the definition of courage.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls from school sports. This is a devastating ruling for trans students across the country who simply want the freedom to play with their friends.

Anyway tomorrow we find out how many rights trans people have left

Fascinated by this NYT op-ed arguing parents should have more than one child so they don't have to [gasp] live in community with others

I wrote about how, according to newly public FBI documents, Alliance Defending Freedom may have helped influence the criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Missed this Economist/YouGov poll from May that showed support for legalized same-sex marriage is down to 51%. Just five years ago it was 70%.

Rhymes with the Court's reasoning in Skrmetti on trans youth healthcare bans - they discriminated on the basis of age thus their discrimination on the basis of sex doesn't matter. Whichever has the lowest standard of scrutny, basically

This is horrifying and likely homophobia-inspired. It's become gospel in corners of the right that gay men adopt children to abuse them - it's why the latest pushes against gay marriage have dropped any discussion of the "sanctity of marriage" and made it entirely about "protecting children"

What I was told not three weeks ago that he had completely sold out trans people because he was talking out of both sides of his mouth to unfriendly media

We don't have to choose between freezing the rent, making universal child care a reality, and ensuring transgender youth have the freedom to be themselves. New York should be a safe and affordable place to raise every family.

What amazes me about Louise Perry is her insistence in being called a feminist despite holding no feminist principles and opposing feminism in even its most elementary forms

The ACLU is currently looking for a Youtube content strategist www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

Who in the world thinks Elon Musk "earned" a trillion dollars

The myth underlying this is that trans people (trans women specifically) were ever "invisible." We were objects of fascination, scorn, mockery, and fetishizing long before 2014 (for about the entire history of mass media really). What really broke a lot of brains was the idea we deserved dignity

Given what happened today at the Supreme Court, we @immcouncil.org have updated our fact sheet on Temporary Protected Status to include information about today's decision. If you want to learn more about the program, check this out. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/t...

Largely given up yelling at the NYT because - as I learned too late - my outrage was the point. Leadership felt embarrassed by the Bennet resignation and viewed themselves in competition not with WaPo or WSJ but Bari Weiss and Chris Rufo. They latched onto trans rights as their proving ground.

i wonder what race neutral policy stance trump was expressing when he accused haitian immigrants of eating the pets of their neighbors

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

Ignored takeaway of the left surge is just how broken the establishment liberal media apparatus is. Even if you include mainstream media like NYT they have no motion at all politically. Big weakness against Trump and the left

This applies to all patients that accessed care as minors at all NYC hospitals (not just the ones that have publicly confirmed they received subpoenas).

BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration's bid to seize the medical records of trans youth who have accessed gender-affirming care in New York City. We'll continue the fight to defend trans youth's right to privacy and end this harassment for good.