BREAKING: We're suing the Department of Justice for demanding a New York City hospital turn over private medical records about trans youth who've received gender affirming care. The goal of these baseless subpoenas is clear — pressuring providers into dropping patients and obeying President Trump.

If you're response to the vanity and frivolity of your opponent is just "doesn't this remind you of trans people" I don't think you're winning new voters or helping trans people

We only know about Cercle Hermaphroditos because of the 1918 memoirs of Jennie June (who we might recognize as a trans woman though that language didn't really exist at the time; she referred to herself as an androgyne). You can read it for free here t.co/rdCJABVmSB

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

Close Delaney Hall. Close them all.

Immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ have been forced to cook, clean, & repair the facility for as little as $1/day and sometimes for free. They are on a hunger & labor strike; protesters outside have been tear-gassed. Here's our report, including a quote from a detainee:

To lose one father, Mr. Vance, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness

Morrissey and Iggy Pop

It's always been weird to me that cats are coded feminine when they exhibit the traits society demands of men (independence, defiance, moodiness) while dogs are coded masculine while exhibiting the traits society demands of women (loyalty, subservience, service/labor)

“When the federal government can reach across the country and pull a child’s entire medical file out of the filing cabinet without so much as a phone call to the parents, every family in America should be concerned. This is not how a limited government is supposed to work.” @nclrights.bsky.social

Maybe? I don't personally think that's the case. I think they see the polls and get scared because the polls are not great!

There are helpful and unhelpful ways to advocate for trans rights, and the helpful way is not always the most progressive-sounding way. People like Paxton or Trump want to create a divide in voter's minds between trans people's interests and their own; your job at all times is to close that gap.

Values. Villain. Vision. First, say what you are for & believe creating a big WE that rejects hate baiting & division. Next, make clear who true villains are - give people accurate origin story for their pain. Finally, close with what you will deliver for all. /2

All authoritarians run on same story: scapegoating some other & claiming their opposition is for some undeserving "other" that is taking from the "real" patriots. Paxton has principally set upon trans people in this role. There's a clear way to address this & Talarico has chance to show it. /1

E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.

“On Wednesday morning, the Justice Department went to court to advance an argument that, if accepted, would all but erase the existence of transgender people in the law.” Read my report at Law Dork:

Thank you @evanurquhart.bsky.social for interviewing me The GoFundMe Comms team reached out on Friday asking for permission to share my story with journalists...and noone reached out Shows why trans led journalism is so important for getting our stories told 🏳️‍⚧️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...

A family in Idaho has dropped their lawsuit challenging a state law barring transgender students from using the restroom after their 16-year-old trans daughter died by suicide. Idaho AG Raul Labrador praised the decision without mentioning the girl's death or why the case was dismissed.

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

You cannot do your job as a teacher and be forced to harm your own students in this way.

Lmao

JUST DROPPED: Episode 3 of Know Your Rights University, where we cover the 3 branches of government! Grab your little one's favorite snack and watch now at youtu.be/oSQyG213Tbc?...

“This is the epitome of a mosque that shows our true values as Muslims, in community and in solidarity," says Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour about the Islamic Center of San Diego, where two teenage gunmen killed three people Monday before dying from apparent self-inflicted gunshots.

BREAKING: The Colorado Supreme Court, by 5-2, orders Children's Hospital Colorado to resume gender-affirming care to a group of trans plaintiffs. Justices Boatright and Samour dissent. Story coming soon.

They remind me of printers because they seem to hate their customers and have no interest in innovation whatsoever

DOJ has filed dozens of lawsuits against immigrants in courts across the country seeking payment for billions in civil immigration penalties.

Once Frank dies, people are going to insist that you can't say bad things about him, which is why it's more important than ever that you say all the bad things about him right now. Time's running out!

Pretty sure I met this couple at Southern Decadence in 2019

"While Republicans, and I would say corporate conservatism, has very much developed a theory of power over the past 40-odd years, the Democratic Party developed a theory of management"

"We’ve locked ourselves in the stupidest possible version of Plato’s cave...what looks like the spontaneous consensus of the hive mind is often just shadows on the wall, put there by marketers, political operatives, foreign-influence campaigns, or anyone else with a few hundred bucks"

He's the crooked urologist they brought in to treat gunshot wounds on The Sopranos

I wrote this for you—yes you: Bluesky, where a lot of people whine that we cannot win because the media isn’t our friend. The media isn’t our friend, it’s true. Let’s win anyway.

there's something so gutting about how she got the world we all wanted so bad, the one we're fighting to create for the younger generation - an early transition supported by a loving family and circle of friends - and then got cut down anyway

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."

"The general consensus I see from Bluesky users is a sort of indigence or confusion as to why the rest of the world is trapped in a right-wing echo chamber that they don’t care about. It’s because their little doomsday bunker has not really affected the apocalypse raging beyond their walled garden"

ICYMI yesterday: I wrote about Trump’s new moms.gov website, which suggests pregnant people can get medical care at anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, and refers people to the hate group Focus on the Family for adoption information.

we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world

Soon after this post was created Floosh pivoted to AI and built a data center that will drop the SAT scores of every high school in a 200 mile radius

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

For @ms.now, I wrote about the Trump administration going after Smith College, a New England women's college, over allowing trans women to attend the school. The investigation not only threatens the school, but also the surrounding town, which I live in. www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

I've returned to Bluesky to yell at you about books

I think these criticisms are easily misunderstood - he's talking about candidates for office and it's a critique of shallow representation over redistributive politics; I don't see this as saying we shouldn't fight for the safety and dignity of marginalized people.

Three weeks ago

Everyone read Judith Herman

I continue to think that "backlash politics" is the wrong frame. There has been a counter-revolution against the Black freedom movement for generations. It is a FRONTLASH and I think that not thinking of it this way has done a real disservice. It's been PERMANENT WAR.

Transgender adolescents who were unable to access gender-affirming hormone therapy were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could, according to new data from the Trevor Project. 87% of those currently on hormone therapy are very concerned about losing it

If they evict this 67 year old man, may they know only suffering for the rest of their life. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

About 45,000 Haitians in Ohio are waiting nervously as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a Trump-administration move to force them back to their homeland. As they do, a new assessment says that conditions in Haiti are about as bad as anywhere in the world. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/05/c...

my latest for @theverge.com is about something i’ve been hearing constantly: Gen Z hates ”AI”, and many young people are deeply resentful of the jobs, schools, and institutions that are now pressuring or forcing them to use it.