tie between marge calling flying a kite "so unwholesome" and homer saying "i hope you pick many a bean" to lisa in a weird long exchange about sending her to grandma's

It's scary and impoverished out there for trans folks and I'm going to have to upend my life pretty soon. My wonderful friends and bandmates put this together to help out — if you can help in anyway, with a few bucks or a share, it would make this tgirl's life a lot easier gofund.me/55321f9d3

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

it's always terrifying to live like this but today has been extremely, extremely rough.

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

Hey, uh... we're gonna need every cis ally to call their congresscritters and yell at them, because this is, like... a straight-up deathblow to healthcare that keeps a LOT of us alive.

it always hurts to be reminded that i can never go home again

the fuckers, they finally did it www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSAN...

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

When calling my reps, I think it's just as important to push for "parental responsibility" alongside saying no to KOSA/SCREEN/IODA If these legislators care so much about family values, then remind them how much they matter to you too! #SaveSpeech

It's like a virus. If they put out a statement at 2 weeks and we stop, then the next time they censor even more, we'll have to call 4 weeks to get them to even make a statement. The fight won't be easier to win a year from now. We just have to be relentless, we can't give them a recovery period.

Oh look more authoritarian bullshit trying to weasel itself into our lives. Be loud and make them know we don't want any of this.

I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save. Save the png and repost as widely as you can

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

and this petition is quick to sign if you are in the US. More number go up is good bsky.app/profile/acva...

I've seen more people scolding others for who you're allowed to be mad at than people circulating payment processors phone numbers so here they are again.

i am vibrating loudly

Demand an affidavit ballot and submit it. Your vote will count.

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

my venmo is max-cohen-39 god knows i could use it!

i went through the wrong puberty and got denied hrt when i was OVER 18 and like yes i survived but i don’t want anyone to suffer the way i had to suffer. protect trans kids with full-throated support or shut the fuck up

i know a lot else is going on, but US folks PLEASE call your senators - they are actively set on trying to ban trans healthcare on Medicaid entirely which trans people like me who are on Medicaid actively depend on for life-saving healthcare

wow he's just like me fr

If you want transit in Chicago to be saved, sign a “Proponent” witness slip immediately! Firm: “Self” Representing: “Self” Subject matter: “HB 3438 - SFA 3” Position: Proponent Testimony: “Appearance Only” my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/...

The wildest thing to me is this fear that you’ll be cancelled and pilloried for misgendering a trans person, when myself and everyone i know usually just corrects them and moves on. We only get mad if you do it on purpose, to fuck with us.

STOP: Don’t panic–organize! @thefreeradical.org and I consulted for weeks with experts about the bill attacking Medicaid for trans people. We find that advocates can still kill the bill or mitigate its impacts through direct action and community solidarity. 🧵👇🏽 www.madycast.com/p/dont-panic...

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

It bears repeating that 5calls.org makes it incredibly easy to contact your reps. They give you the phone numbers, a script to read, and a run down of what is happening with each issue. I just called my senators in my pjs half awake and I'll probably do it some more later

so, in short: • if we all get loud for trans rights and actually organize a movement, we can win this one • if we don’t, then a de facto ban on care is assured in us law within the next six months in other words, you found yourself in history now’s a moment to be the hero really.

ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely please read on 🧵

DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc

used 5calls to call my state senators on the gop nightmare budget bill. it's stupid easy - gives you a phone number and a script for each senator it'll take 5 minutes and it's your duty to do whatever you can to protect the vulnerable ppl in your life and community 5calls.org/issue/medica...

hi, folks! is calling federal electeds to ask them not to pass shitty legislation not doing it for you? i get it. how about helping to bring about positive change that would materially help thousands of trans people? and that's actually possible? do you know about washington state's HB 1971?🧵

this is like worse case scenario for me and many other trans people on medicaid. i will likely not be able to access life saving care if this goes through. can't state it any more - they're trying to eliminate us from existing. please call your reps now

if this bill passes it will kill people. it also provides the framework for those of us with employer health plans to lose our access as well

It's cruel. It's an incredible escalation of their anti-trans culture war. And there is still a chance to stop the provision in the Senate, so if you have a trans person in your life you care about, I implore you - make your voice heard with your Senators. Both of them. Republican OR Democrat.

Cis Americans, if you do one single thing today please let it be to contact your representative. You have no idea how many US trans people I follow who are freaked the fuck out And for everyone else, if America does it, your country will use America as an example of how they can do it too. Speak up

"The bare minimum will reach the population - simply so the world doesn't stop us and accuse us of war crimes." www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...

They are literally forcing all of Gazans into a concentration camp in what used to be Rafah in southern Gaza, after destroying it. They are now planning on annihilating Khan Younis. There’s never been a genocide so thoroughly documented as it was live-streamed straight to our phones.

i keep saying this. heck, some of the worst books i've ever read were by trans folks! marginalization doesn't give you talent.

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

A film that takes place where you're from

this had a pretty outsized influence on young max. there's a direct line from hearing this title music at five to becoming a diehard residents fan ten years later.

tbh i always like shriekback more than gang of four, but the opening bass riff here completely rewrote my brain when I was a kid. RIP Dave Allen, one of the great bassists in the genre of great bassists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaEn...

ok i just need to stay alive until june 27th pitchfork.com/news/bruce-s...

rikki don't lose that number. every note a hateful chore.

i’m disabled and have no money and there are a lot of other trans people in that situation. if you can get out great but i think a lot of us who can’t move are still going to need support and organizing and i worry about us being abandoned

this from the band that fired their best songwriter for doing coke