When the cop murdered Philando Castile his girlfriend and her 4 year old daughter were also in the car.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

! Trans creators and activists are being targeted by the FBI. One, Tara, was told she was “propagating radical gender ideology” and “domestic terrorism.” Rose’s analysis: the feds are targeting politically engaged trans people to find something “illegal” to “make an example out of us.”

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

A few hundred are gathered at Foley right now. More steadily arriving.

Is it healthy when you feel like the world is ending to canvass for a local trans politician? I don't know But it's what I've got

I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.

Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.

another morning when it’s an existentially shameful thing to be an american huh

Time to start Dry January (I'm on meds that I can't drink on)!

Switching from Goodreads to Storygraph this year!

My biggest victory of the year is that I arranged for five trans people to get gender affirming surgery. And several of them have told me how much better it has made their lives. So no matter what happened, I'm counting 2025 as a win.

Holy shit this is amazing

This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...

This is a good thread about the 60 minutes episode about CECOT

This is so incredibly fucked up. I wore binders for 4 years before I could afford top surgery and idk what I would have done without them

Shut the fuck up about the Kennedy center. Legit I have no idea what trans kids are going to do. This essentially ends GAC for trans kids except at independent clinics and online and already parents are struggling to find care

Go help trans people get housing, go help trans people get hormones, go help trans people get money and food and jobs and everything else we need to not just survive but to thrive Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

This announcement alone is going to kill people and we need to prepare for that

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

if you are a trans teen right now, you do not have the lifetime of experience with the united states federal legislative branch to cope with “this will *probably* die in the senate” on top of the rest of your life and that right there feels like a fucking flavor of abuse at scale.

Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison. Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.

Anyone know if fireworks are legal to buy in KY?

Christmas always makes me wish I had more money. I would love to spend Christmas Eve online making GoFundMes meet their goals

Feeling this more today than I was when I originally skeeted this

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked

I'm a trans person working at a state university and this news out of Oklahoma is why I do not feel safe being out at work (even though that's kind of a moot point since if you Google my name my activism is all that comes up)

What's the point of it snowing if I still have to go to work 😡

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

One of the worst parts of only being in contact with chosen family is that none of my shirts are controversial enough to get in a fight about at the Thanksgiving table anymore

1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families. For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇

I am offering a sum of up to $200 for anyone willing to put me into a coma from now until the holidays are over

My last point of the year of the year on #tdor: I wish I could do this over and over and over again. I could not imagine being in a tomb with my deadname on it and buried in a dress. I wish there was justice in the world.

Sorry for TDoR posting on the day after TDoR but I was so focused on making the vigil come together that I didn't even have the time and energy to post. And I need to get it all off my chest somehow

Also for TDOR I want to remember Henry Berg-Brousseau, a young man I got to work with at the Fairness Campaign. He testified against a bathroom ban in 2015, when he was still in high school. He was forced to use the wrong bathroom and bullied because of it.

This year for TDOR was my first one organizing an event. I designed a brochure and included names and brief descriptions for everyone on the list in the US so I read every person's story and I mourn every single one of them. #tdor

We also lost a sister from Louisville this year. I don't have as much information on her, especially beyond what is already online. She died when she was hit by a car on her bike at a neighborhood intersection.

Kentucky lost a sister from Mayfield (western KY) this year. Hope Youngblood was an advocate for the LGBTQ community and a filmmaker who moved to LA slightly before her death to pursue her dreams of filmmaking. #tdor

This year we lost one of our siblings from Lexington. Arty Gibson was a young trans man from Lexington. He liked Pokemon and anime and was loved by his community. He and his financee Juli moved to Portland shortly before he took his life in June. #tdor

Unfortunately I am breaking the #1 role of the Internet which is I am responding to Facebook comments again.

I'm speaking at TDOR and what the fuck do I say

So if you're cis and you know a trans person struggling to access hormones...

I feel like it's a positive sign for our democracy that there aren't Kalashi bets on who will get named in the Epstein files.

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

Writing little tiny bios for each person for TDOR and am really fucked up about it. How do I sum up an entire life in a few phrases?

This has permanently altered my vocabulary