Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach. If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

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Never forget that puberty blockers were a COMPROMISE

Ignoring bad grammar etc., what is "transgender for everybody" actually supposed to mean? How are Republicans interpreting that phrase, conceptually?

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

It's understandable if you missed or forgot when, two weeks ago, an American public university fired three people for telling students that LGBTQ+ people exist. I think it's worth keeping it on our radar because it's extremely fucked up skepchick.org/2025/09/fire...

“You kill people and break things for a living” is one of the most insane sentences I’ve ever heard

i am shaking with rage. ICE has always been abhorrent but now they're also completely lawless, unrestrained by money or rules. the people caught up in our disgusting immigration system bear the brunt of it, but now journalists are in their crosshairs. hideous behavior.

FUCK ICE FOREVER

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Meanwhile, Des Moines students stage a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gall...

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

Holy shit this opinion. Wow.

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

3. This time, LGBTQ+ people—especially transgender people—are watching with particular alarm. Dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ riders tucked into appropriations bills threaten to gut transgender healthcare nationwide and fuel even harsher crackdowns on many areas of life under the Trump administration.

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes. Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants. Here is your shutdown guide. Subscribe to support our journalism.

In the last two weeks these feds have choked & beaten protesters, broken bones, given people concussions from munitions, pointed their sidearms at people, tear gassed a neighborhood, shot reporters in the face, destroyed neighbors' property, threatened elected officials No National Guard necessary

Listen everyone gets mad at me when I try to talk about human nature but someone has to counter these maniacs who are going to keep saying this shit about dominance and hierarchy being "natural"

much as i'm not shocked, it is *unbelievable* to me universities are banning talk of ... me. myself. my existence. what the hell, folks.

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

I don't want 100 troops sent to Chicago. It's a major escalation that must be opposed. I also want folks to understand that the agents that have been attacking us at Broadview are more heavily armed and elaborately, tactically outfitted than National Guard troops would be. We're already in some shit

There it is. The explicit call from the Commander in Chief to every general to put down his opposition.

Understand that this will be deployed on American citizens whom they will soon classify as "enemies of our country."

Remember a week ago when Hegseth gave posthumous medals of honor to US soldiers who massacred unarmed civilians? Yeah, that was in preparation for this.

the democrats need to let the government shut down happen. they cannot let donald trump pass the funding bill that ends federal funding to hospitals that give hormone replacement therapy

Democrats need to be explicit that it’s a totally clean bill that will be voted on or none at all. The shutdown is HIS mess. Sure he will blame them, but he will anyway. The fact is the GOP alone is responsible for this mess if a shutdown happens and Democrats can and must relentlessly message that.

i think it's worth considering that every person who leaves is taking the resources and privilege they have that allows them to leave with them and making it harder for the people who are still here and can't leave to fight back. until the feds are actually at your door, at least.

‪I'm a trans woman of modest but comparatively comfortable means, living in a blue dot in a purple (gerrymandered red) state. I am not running, because this place is my home. And besides, we're all about lost causes in the Deep South. 🙃 With that said, I wouldn't fault anyone for running.

You know all those amazing trans people that make up a huge chunk of Magic's skill, talent, and artistry? If this passes, you'll hear from those voices less and less, because we're going to start disappearing. People you met in Atlanta last weekend will be dead by 2026. Call your reps.

every trans person in the US has a line. it's different for everyone but it exists. it says, "across this line i need to flee the country." a set of conditions where existing here is harder or more dangerous than leaving. the worst part is that most of us won't be able to when that line is crossed.

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the snip above is from HHS, but there's actually a lot more. h/t @lizsaila.bsky.social prison bans? yep. carveouts for abusive parents to foster trans kids & force them into conversion camps? yes. bathroom bans. yup! sports bans—despite their failure in congress this year? indeed. it's a lot!🧵

If you see trans healthcare under threat your only response should be “I’m going to call my rep” wherever possible. No jokes, no compromises, no nonsense.

The response to “they want to ban trans people from getting HRT” should never be “let’s ban cis people from getting their HRT too, see how they like it” Bodily autonomy for everyone, full stop.

That provision would effectively ban trans health care for people of all ages everywhere in the country. If Dems can't stand up to that, then they deserve to lose forever.

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

i would like very much to wake up one day and not have to fear for the survival of my entire community

I'm no longer voting for lesser evils. And you shouldn't either.

Me and @matthtaylor.com have a story in this about TRANS WITCHES dealing with a MONSTER. Don't you want in on that? You want in on that.

I mean yeah, it's funny watching the bicycle delivery guy juke the fucking gestapo, but what about tomorrow? What about when he wakes up with the knowledge and experience that he's risking imprisonment and torture just by leaving his house? How does he support himself? His family?

Photo of the Week. Taken by photojournalist and Chicago Sun-Times Photo Desk editor Ashlee Rezin yesterday, Sunday Sep 28. Dozens of masked, federal agents march through Downtown Chicago, as passersby yell at them to go home. (📸 Ashlee Rezin)

A silent, inter-faith march near the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon. The marchers held flowers. 💐

Played some Crisis Protocol today. Inhumans vs Cabal, running around a moon base trying to capture wayward Skrulls! 🦸‍♀️

We’re not a puzzle to work out. It’s not my obligation to prove I’m not a threat. I don’t have to ask for the space where I stand. The picking apart of how we fit into a world no one is happy with, that we could all change if you took in our wisdom… I should get paid if it’s going to go like this.

*banjo picking and sporadic musket fire* dearest martha, the horrors of war-torn portland cannot even be described

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.