Texas Tech is expanding its prohibition on "gender and sexual orientation" topics to include faculty research and student theses and dissertations. Our chancellor wants to censor the truth because he knows it topples the hateful ideology of MAGA. Knowledge is power, so they plan to destroy it.

If you're submitting articles for publication with hallucinated references, it's a clear indicator of academic fraud. You clearly have not read articles that don't exist, and you're lying by claiming they support your research. Reputable journals should simply no longer accept your work.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

No. Trans people won’t start peeing on the floor. They’ll either get arrested or leave the state. It’s not a distraction. They really do hate us and want us gone and it’s the main event. The reaction will be assault or arrest. There. Now you know.

@badambulist.bsky.social help, I'm being viciously attacked by a book

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

I won’t say it’s a surprise that the testimonials don’t use the actual images of the reviewers (if they exist) but our “med student” Emma Collins appears to be an image from a website for lubricant

“AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought.” www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Why is this not resonating with white evangelicals? A mystery.

For some reason, this doesn't "resonate" with white evangelicals. It does "resonate" with Black people, and with white people that don't describe themselves as "evangelicals." I wonder why that is?

when bigots say shit like "mass transition regret is inevitable" what they mean is that their goal is to make society so hostile to trans people that trans people decide to go back into the closet. thats why a bunch of terfs got all depressed when trans didn't go away after that supreme court ruling

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back. Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.” 19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time. But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned. But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives. 1/

AI can't even summarize emails properly. People trusting it for research are out of their minds.

okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

ava cordero is a latina trans woman and that's part of why she was targeted and not believed by anyone when she told the world of Epstein. we had like 12 seconds in 2020 during Black Trans Lives Matter when cis people pretended to care about how POC trans people are killed by them, now it's silence

we've always done this to Black people, we've always done this to immigrants, we've always done this to the nearly 1% of our population we've incarcerated, we've always done this to the global south. it is the entirety of what we do. we are a machine set up for this; this machine makes fascists.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Conde Nast just sold them.us to the parent company of Out, The Advocate, etc. so there goes like 95% of the trans staffers at the company (after they got rid of 2 of us in November <33)

BREAKING: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order. Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

Something I wanted to say when I started this but that got lost in the writing of the thread is that... Burson is from 1972. A right to keep a driver's license once issued isn't new. This is a **knowing** piss they're taking on the 14thA wall of Due Process that is supposed to protect us.

Erin's reporting is, as always, impeccable. What many may not know, however, is that once a license is issued, the holder has a property interest in that license that is protected by the 14th Amendment. This goes back to Bell v Burson (1972). For more, keep reading... 🧵

can I please piggyback off you as a Bigger Account that responses like "lol it's Kansas what did you expect" or "Kansas deserves to be hit by more tornadoes" are actually not helpful or comforting to the people being harmed most right now? Because no one bothers listening to me

also because it's Kansas, and it's a Bad State so it's not surprising for bad things to happen here, and it's our fault for living here anyway and trying to fight back and not just moving away (with all the disposable income we all have, you know a rich state like Kansas)

Part of the reason the whole country hasn't been screaming about trans Kansans who drive being made criminals overnight is because there's so much else that's unconstitutional and horrifying. But part of it is because it's happening to trans people.

I'm not going to lie - it's extremely troubling to me that this law and its obvious implications hasn't dominated national news for the weeks since its passing.

It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public. It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

Jesus fucking christ these people are absolute ghouls.

Memorial for Fobazi Ettarh

Just hours after Trump’s SOTU rant about trans kids, House Republicans introduced a nationwide school ‘Don’t Say Trans’ & book ban bill. Defining trans people as “sexually explicit,” it would prohibit schools from discussing anything involving trans people. transitics.substack.com/p/hours-afte...

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

i shouldn’t go to 26 states & a few of them threaten me with jail time if i use the bathroom there & there’s the one where they may or may not have bounties? all of that is culturally normal, but me asking to be properly referred to as “she” would be freak shit—politically damaging to the US.

it's so fun and cool to be correct

Five years ago this month I thought: hey, maybe I would listen to more/different music if I just made a brand new playlist every month. Here's the latest one. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

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Meanwhile the regime that most of the authors of this allegedly exciting technology—that I’m missing out on—cheerfully support is destroying our capacity to produce many of the technologies I am very excited about, like solar power and trains and mRNA vaccines that literally fucking cure cancer

Straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. I’m so mad.

More escalation.

Every fucking company is like "hey guys you know that thing we make? That we are famous for? Well we're not doing it anymore. Here's a chatbot that'll tell you to drink bleach instead. You're welcome"

Yet another state I might never be able to go to again.

7/ Read the rest of the letters:

It's being widely reported that @ama-assn.org has "reversed course" or "altered their position" or "backtracked" on gender-affirming care for trans youth. As far as I can tell, the sole source is a "statement to National Review" in a story on the ASPS statement (archive.ph/gukPX). (1/3)

Hey, can anyone source this supposed endorsement of restrictions on surgery for trans patients under 19 from the AMA? (1/4) #MedLibs

I never met Fobazi, but her writing has been incredibly influential on me over the last decade or so. What a massive impact and a bright light. I know she will be missed terribly by those who knew her.

tell your friends to come to trans woodstock

Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.