I think the thing I like the most about Claire Valdez is that she not only takes bold stands in support of trans people, but that when people on the right try to use those positions to attack her, she's just like, "yes, that is correct."

Never talk to a federal agent, don’t try and “out smart” them. Lying to them is a federal crime. Slickest thing you can do it say nothing. Slam that phone/door and call a lawyer or legal support. also don’t be private about agents calling around. warn your community.

Sometimes you forget how good like a REAL good strawberry is. The shit they sell at the store is nothing like this.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/4veRIqA

So, uh, what DO you mean? www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

What they want you to believe welfare fraud looks like and what it actually looks like are two very different things.

Getting rid of the headphone jack is up there with legalized gambling, re: the dissolution of society

While it'd be nice to get a job again someday, it is sick that the government just bought my horchata ice cream

Rewound it and yup. During Inside The NBA a cop starts bothering Brunson as he tries to take a pic with a fan. Jalen tells him to back up. Cop keeps at it. Rick Brunson calls him out. Shout out to this lady that told the cop “he just won the NBA finals. Leave him alone.”

The most awesome thing about death is that it grabs rich people and erases them, as an immutable law of eternity

"Bigotry"

Most movies don't have even a single mule for Sister Sara, so two sounds like a real trip.

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

Gimme gimme tbh

Quite the game!

Wayne Thiebaud, Row of Ties, 1969 www.artic.edu/artworks/485...

What a music video www.youtube.com/watch?v=neAt...

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

They should do it again sometime

3/5. However @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social dug into the data. Only $163 million are necessary repairs to maintain this public building. The remaining $341 million is for Blazers’ revenue generating upgrades. That’s should be on them.

1/5 @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social just reviewed the city’s independent report for renovations to Moda Center. The numbers are far less than what we are being asked to pay.

Our collective liberation is bound up in our collective struggles. I’ve seen the beauty this city creates when we organize together to build a world that protects each other from the intersection of racism, misogyny, homophobia and gender reductionism, and classism. I’m with you in these struggles.

Commemorating Pride this year by reaffirming that the work of our time is to turn this city into a place that has foundational structures that welcome, nurture and protect queer and trans people. If we’re not building those institutions today then we’re leaving a debt to future generations. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Some Adelman notes: -Won 50+ games 11x -Has 3 highest SRS in POR history -Has 4 highest SRS in SAC history (shotclock era) -Never won Coach of Year but came in 2nd 4x (90-91, 00-01, 01-92, 08-09) -Led HOU to 22 game winning streak in 07-08 www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/adel...

Sad Hollander COTD Rick Adelman. New Former player POR come coach. When Mike Schuler was fired, turned POR to contender, going to 2 Finals. Had bad run w/GS, but made SAC contender. Was solid for HOU + retired in 2014 after stint in MIN. The ultimate player's coach & HOFer. RIP.

"I need the mayor to put his money where his mouth is," said activist Ceyenne Doroshow, the founder of GLITS, a Black-led trans advocacy organization. "I have faith in him getting this done. But I need him to do it." hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-prom...

happy pride, shoutout as always to the 1978 gilbert baker pride flag which had pink and turquoise stripes for SEX AND MAGIC AND ART, and in this house we support gay sex and gay magic and gay art

Happy pride! I am nonbinary and bisexual. Or pan or whatever. I don't care about gender. All I care about is if they look like Barbara Streisand

The latest @theathletic.com No Offseason pod about the Fire's roster makeup is very very good and worth your time www.youtube.com/watch?v=R50F...

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

The roster becoming alarmingly white

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

the reason you hear about trans sports is because, after failing to create a culture war about bathrooms, GOP strategists all got together and figured out they could exploit the fact that every single adult spends an insane amount of money on their kid playing sports to attack trans people

Avalos 2 would have put dedicated resources toward helping immigrant and refugee communities. Here's how your councilors voted:

If Tom Dundon happens to read this: go fuck yourself, Tom

Bye bye, ya old sack o' shit bilbrowning.substack.com/p/barney-fra...

Crab Guitar

I love reading direct evidence of the President's blatant crimes and thinking "no one is going to do anything about that, including even mentioning it" and then going back to my emails. Been doing it for a decade

The largest federal reparations fund in US history goes not to indigenous tribes or descendants of formerly enslaved people or interned Japanese-Americans — but to J6ers who smeared shit on the walls of the US Capitol and attempted to hang the Vice President.

the thing is if you don't support trans people you should kill yourself

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

I can't believe @amcnal.bsky.social stole from Palestinian children. Kind of not a cool thing to do!

SARAH ASHLEE BARKER WITH THE WALK OFF GAME WINNER FOR THE PORTLAND FIRE FIRST WIN IN FRANCHISE HISTORY!

Fire win, baby!!!!!!

They should let Carla Leite be mayor.

I haven't watched a lot of Portland Fire games, but I've already made a few unpleasant noises when they've attempted some risky crosscourt passes.