The CEO of Barnes and Noble says he will stock AI written books.

Recent portraits of cats I made for people ♡

A new, proposed ATF rule aims to make it far more difficult for trans people to legally purchase firearms. @queerarmorer.bsky.social breaks down what it is, why armed defense is such a key part of queer and trans survival and what you can do in response to this attack on trans rights:

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“99.2% of GPS patients who received gender-affirming medical care continue to identify as transgender into adulthood. Of the remaining 0.8%, most did not regret the medical treatment they received.” This is why transphobes are terrified of youth care, and why youth care should be legal everywhere.

In Kansas, a judge looked at the medical evidence on gender-affirming care and found the evidence simply does not support the state ban on these treatments. Don't believe the propaganda. Youth trans care is not a particularly tricky or nuanced medical question. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Chevron is seeking a massive tax break in Texas for a new gas-fired power plant would exclusively serve a Microsoft data center. The plant could qualify for more than $227 million in tax breaks over 10 years, and the power from the plant wouldn't go to homes or local businesses at all. /1

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Our Latest: 📰 Inside the battle to protect trans care for New Jersey youth📰 📝: @jane.theneedlenews.com

To my white brothers & sisters: the GOP is using recent SCOTUS rulings to rob minorities of their voting rights. We must not regress to the days of Jim Crow. Write your Senators, representatives, and protest. We are all disenfranchised when any of us lose the right to vote.

Roy Wilson remembers marching with his family before the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. Sixty years later, he’s walking the route again with his friend Sharon Gargill and hundreds of others, reflecting on a new fight over voting rights. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/3PMJjLp

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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May KSHB Kansas judge rules state ban on GAC for minors passed last year likely violates the state Constitution and blocks it from taking effect. Trial has yet to occur. State promises to appeals.

the services sought for detransition are quite literally the same ones sought for transition. detransitioners work in tandem with us on advocacy. there aren't enough people to keep a detransition-only clinic busy. this should clue you in that this clinic will not be used for consenting detransition

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

BREAKING: 3,500 Long Island Rail Road workers are on strike, shutting down America’s busiest commuter train service.

Been quiet for a bit, but this original is still available! DM to claim!

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ICE flights. Friday, May 15, 2026.

It's interesting how it is always the left wing's fault that fascists rise to power, as opposed to the centre's. This is, of course, despite the fact that the centre are the ones in power who have declared that racism is 'reasonable', transphobia is acceptable, and the disabled don't need money.

Patient privacy means nothing to the right wing. They’re targeting the most vulnerable first, but they are not stopping there. Women are in their sights.

Realized I never shared my updated cat avatar! (Will make it my profile pic soon)

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this is open to every american to comment on, and it only has 220 total comments! if we want to stop this we need a LOT more please share and encourage your cis friends to do the same, we need you!

My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.

A few years ago I was a govt researcher in a blue state and when we started collecting data on trans kids I was like hey, do we have a plan for what to do if a future trump admin demands this database of trans people and they were like wow you're being such a paranoid woke nutcase. Anyway,

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

32 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote to criminalize bail funds. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026169

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May Guardian Fed judge block Trump DOJ demands for minor's confidential records from Rhode Island Hospital, explaining bluntly that the DOJ "has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case.”

HELL YES, because whomst among us writer folk has NOT imagined our cat reading our book

Have progressive LA politicians broken their promises on sweeps? Data show hundreds of CARE+ operations in the districts of Councilmembers who campaigned on ending sweeps.

Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, the group is launching a grassroots campaign called “All Roads Lead to the South” in response to the rollback of voting rights. The mass mobilization movement will start on May 16, when thousands will descend on Alabama. https://bit.ly/4nvctew

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Our Latest: 📰 Department of Justice demands list of trans youth at New York Hospital📰 📝: @jane.theneedlenews.com

Next week marks the beginning of the trial of the Spokane 3 - the local protesters arrested for their role in the June 11 action to stop ICE from detaining two refugees who were lawfully in the United States. Here's what you need to know before the Spokane 3 trial, call it your court cheat sheet!

BREAKING: The Senate just voted not to advance an Iran War Powers Resolution 49-50. John Fetterman was the decisive vote against it. The resolution was intended to limit Trump's ability to wage war on Iran.

SOURCE CALL: I’m looking to talk to a doctor who treats trans patients and can speak to the reality of how much fat actually impacts surgical outcomes for gender-affirming surgeries. It’s for an @assignedmedia.org article about the unique experiences of fat trans folks.

BREAKING: JD Vance announces that the Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements owed to the state of California.

Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff struck student protesters with his car. This is why.

The attacks on Black voting rights, reproductive rights, and trans lives are intertwined. Our resistance must be too. "While the Government of Tennessee is hardly the first government to assemble a list of trans people, they would be the first to release information from that list to the public."

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May LGBTQnation Three Dem Senators --Sens. Ed Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) -- send letter to DOG calling on administration to reverse new policy banning GAC for BOP inmates even if they use private funding.

'Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments' by Saidiya Hartman: was on an indie bookstore pilgrimage on Independent Bookstore Day and was grabbing everything queer and modestly interesting I could justify budgetwise.

In 2025, Charleston set a record by generating $14 billion in tourism and about 7.9 million visitors. It’s created a culture of gentrification, erasure, and disrespect, as the boom is forcing descendants out. https://capitalbnews.org/gullah-geechee-charleston-plantations-reparations/

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“Rowan having a birth certificate or any identity document that matches who she is hurts no one else, and depriving her of that only harms transgender people… by endangering their very basic safety.” – Peter Renn, Lambda Legal Senior Counsel #TransRights

The price of tomatoes is now up 15% from a year ago.

Americans’ wages are no longer outpacing inflation. Prices are now rising at an annual rate of 3.8%, the highest rate since May 2023. That means inflation is now outpacing wage increases.