one of the main reasons trans healthcare moved away from strict gatekeeping and toward informed consent & GAC is that trans ppl who were denied the means to transition would simply seek it out elsewhere

i still cringe at how democrats ran away from obamacare in the 2010 cycle. and they still lost! imagine a universe where they ran on "we just made your lives better and the gop wants to bring back preexisting conditions. lets rumble"

NEW: FIRE positions itself as an alternative voice for free expression, but an analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social found deference to religious-based viewpoints in free speech debates — and in some cases, the elevation of those views over all others. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

A Colorado state Senator is launching a primary challenge from the left against Colorado's U.S. Senator Hickenlooper: coloradosun.com/2025/12/08/j...

YouTube phenom Ms. Rachel says LGBTQ+ inclusion is part of her Christian faith www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/yout...

A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.

I was interviewed by this really nice journalist. Thanks to Nikki Gamer for taking interest in what we do at @rainbowdefense.bsky.social! frayedrepublic.substack.com/p/the-hero-f...

Okay, this is freaking great!

This is a progressive Christian congregation, United Methodist in denomination although they call themselves "multi-denominational community". Contra some tweets I am seeing this isn't a sign church as a whole changing sides, rather a faction that was always there getting much louder. (This is good)

not sure how one argues with a straight face anymore that liberal elites did not play an outsized role in the slow-then-sudden disappearance of the cordon sanitaire around open racism and eugenics

The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs. They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.

As Bluesky grows in popularity, so does the industry of spam-for-hire services attempting to exploit it. Google searches for the query "buy bluesky followers" abound with numerous examples of strangely similar websites peddling bogus Bluesky followers, reposts, and likes.

And my Sunday! We have the same slumlord Add your name and help us out: actionnetwork.org/petitions/10...

one of the things that got me started on FEMINISM IS TRANSHUMANISM IS MODERNITY was empirical observation of the bigotry black hole--the way that the transphobes all became racists, the racists were all misogynists, and so on www.patreon.com/posts/book-p...

No one should be forced to carry a pregnancy against their will — regardless of how much money we earn or the type of health insurance plan we have. Tell Congress to stop anti-abortion politicians' latest effort to take away abortion access nationwide.

Listen to the latest episode of our podcast, At Liberty, where our People Power volunteers discuss how you can show up for immigrants' rights in your community.

Next year, we’re going to win back control of Congress from the fascists while building a Democratic Party that fights as hard as we do. Chip in if you can to power the nationwide organizing it will take to make that happen: secure.actblue.com/donate/2026-...

Incarcerated members of the LGBTQ community already face heightened risks for physical and sexual violence, and this directive to disregard the law will only put them further at risk. Human rights don't end at the prison walls.

DHS used a wide variety of weapons against people in Elgin yesterday, not only tear gas. Some wild photos in this writeup from @domguan.bsky.social:

In August, we got a bit of extra money from a generous donor, and I used it to expand into coverage of trans life in American prisons. This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.

I think the four pieces I edited by incarcerated queer journalist B Speaks may be the thing I'm proudest of this year. Speaks is an incredible writer, with an ability to take you into the world of the GA prison, and its trans and queer inmates, that takes my breath away.

the horror of what ICE is doing feels like it is really really really breaking through to people, and it's opening up big overdue conversations on other topics (that prisons have always been this inhumane, that Homeland Security has always been this racist) if we wanted to wedge those cracks open

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.” In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

It's incredible the extent to which the UK is now a warning about what the US could become even as the US is simultaneously a warning about what the UK could become. The two countries are somehow both dystopian visions of each other's future, and I don't like it one little bit.

This is the UK Labour Party, the left-liberal party who took power in a wave election after the fascist-adjacent conservs melted down. We MUST prevent the US Democratic Party from turning into this. It is an essential priority. If they come to power and do this it will destroy America forever.

The Ghost of Black History will continue to haunt America until the truth about its violent and racist past is fully acknowledged. There must be contrition. #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

there's a reason the reconstruction papers are top on our priorities list! we want to get the funding to put together a genuinely bold set of proposals for reconstructing our country--not whatever larry-summers-adjacent modslop is getting cooked now www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...

OK this is me at my most small and no one tell Slate but we passed Slate in TikTok followers last week. www.tiktok.com/@assignedmedia

Neither masculinity nor femininity are natural traits. They are behavioral roles invented for particular social purposes. The nonbinary are people that recognize this.

Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"

That's right

My understanding of Rahm Emanuel is he pumped a bunch of right-wing Democratic candidates who got immediately blown out two years later, then was mayor of a city where a literal police torture black site was operating under his nose, so I’d love to know why the fuck anybody still listens to him.

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

NEW: The controversial interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast floated ending in-clinic abortion procedures and spoke of dropping abortion care altogether. Leader of the affiliate serving Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi remains in her role after an investigation that sources call a "farce."

Trump's SEC is following Project 2025 blueprint for Christian nationalist regime change, targeting ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) and DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) at publicly traded corporations. "De-politicization is a euphemism for de-democratization." fortune.com/2025/12/05/a...

THREAD: It was supposed to be a routine surgery. So when the doctor stepped out, Sandra Parker wasn’t sure she heard right. Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying. “That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 To put into perspective the war crimes committed by Sec. Pete Hegseth, we have to go back to Vietnam, 1968. One of the most horrific war crimes in history was committed. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.firstpost.com/explainers/h...

Interpreting the 14A as narrowly as possible—as SCOTUS has done recently in Dobbs & Trump v. Anderson—aligns neatly with the larger GOP goal of destroying the New Deal state & reviving the overtly white nationalist apartheid regime of the Jim Crow era.

It's about making trans people unemployable mronline.org/2025/12... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Newsom's morality is his problem. So the only case for him is that "HE CAN WIN." Much of this lies in his white male bland handsomeness. Centrists think that solves Dems' "cultural issues." What this gets wrong is that 2028 must be about corruption. And he's on the opposite side of that.

This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.

I was just thinking that the actual functionalities of Big Tech and SV products and platforms find their most authentic market expression in authoritarian surveillance. So the turn toward reaction was inevitable, and the initial liberative progressivism was just a useful utopian bait-and-switch.

Nothing sends terror into the souls of local MAGA and Moms for liberty like normies showing up for local politics. When they say things like "Trans witches from Satan's bedroom are going to feast on your children's dreams" and normies say "Haha, no." local politicians side with normies regularly.

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

Noem insisted Sunday that the suspected shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was vetted for asylum by the Biden administration—despite the fact that it was her department that granted the asylum request in April. trib.al/Ks50RJ8

I've been in for surgery five times in my life so I've had a fair number of the grippy socks. The blue and white pair I got in October is the best-fitting set so far! Progress!

I’m fine with discussions about how to be less judgmental, but not from people who think that means trans people don’t get rights. We’re not the judgmental ones in this whole thing.