“Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender” (DIAG) is a hate group spreading misinformation.

just juxtaposing the idea that caring about trans people’s safety & dignity isn’t “culturally normal” with: • 401,000 people fleeing homes • “if the gender/sex…on the face of your current credential does not match your sex assigned at birth, you are directed to surrender your current credential”

Trans people in Kansas are having IDs stripped. IDs they need to function in the modern world. To vote. When politicians and pundits tell you trans rights are a distraction, that we're not worth fighting for, they're telling the folks to go fuck themselves Trans folks have kitchen tables too

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

Coming soon to a Pentagon near you! Think of the taxpayer savings, and election security benefits!

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

You want to read this.

Heritage foundation plans to outlaw all gender affirming care, regardless of age. I think it's a near guarantee they'll succeed if the Trump admin buys in and uses the same tactics they did on youth care. Anyway, another I told you so on many levels. www.erininthemorning.com/p/you-outlaw...

*endless screaming* Like, there's so much to scream about but the "cumulative infections per person: 5.07" is the thing that's making me scream the hardest

There's a reason why I fled to Canada with my family: I am absolutely convinced that these people in the US decided that the final solution to the transgender question was rounding them all up and putting them in mental institutions from which they would never emerge alive as far back as late 2022.

I make the case here: what we are seeing is literally the blueprint pathway to genocide, and absolutely no one is noticing the parallels, much less how close they are. It's not even a stretch. www.damemagazine.com/2025/09/08/t...

There's a reason why I fled to Canada with my family: I am absolutely convinced that these people in the US decided that the final solution to the transgender question was rounding them all up and putting them in mental institutions from which they would never emerge alive as far back as late 2022.

I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Full interview here: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding? Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

A name to burn into memory alongside the others names who live in eternal infamy…

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

Fun fact: poetry is so central to Somalian culture that Somalia is often called “a nation of poets.” Not a surprise that a letter this beautifully written would come from that community in particular. This is kind of their whole deal.

Goddamn ninjas cutting onions in the vents…

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

There is so much in this piece. The misuse of science, the fact that Epstein was proud of being illiterate, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico and the horrible things that occured there, and of course, the creation of a mostly men's club where Epstein funded intellectuals who would push his agenda.

"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Sunday = fun day~ wild bears playing at a public playground, captured by someone just passing by~🐻

Hugo noms are open! In 2025 I published: *The Sheltering Flame, a novella about radical hospitality versus the personification of late-stage capitalism: wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove... *All That Means or Mourns, a short story about mycelial networks and grief: reactormag.com/all-that-mea...

Just read this great piece by Thomas Johannsen, a perfect resource for exiting the problematic big tech monopolies (and inspiring you to do so). If you've already made the shift to Bluesky for ethical reasons, here are the next steps in your journey toward digital sainthood.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

This is because "going to jail" exceeds my personal risk tolerance for "running a website that primarily exists to let people make their favorite characters kiss". If I am going to jail, it is going to be for something a fuck of a lot more important.

Friend, you are speaking to someone who is in fact currently suing *at least* (I have lost count) seven US states over their age verification and deanonymization laws. Discord joined the organization doing those lawsuits about four lawsuits ago and has participated in each of them.

My tiny company can afford to have a level of risk tolerance that the entire industry views as quite frankly batshit because we have zero advertising, zero venture capital, and zero outside investment. We have still blocked all access from Mississippi and under-18 registrations from TN.

Most of these laws don't even have a size provision: they apply to every website no matter the size, from the start. (Size thresholds make the laws more obviously speaker-based discrimination.)

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

Non-paywalled link to the article newspub.live/technology/t...

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.

Chinese scientists turn carbon dioxide to starch with 10-fold productivity boost — industrial bioreactor starch production doesn't rely on water- and land-intensive corn https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341032/chinese-scientists-turn-carbon-dioxide-starch-10-fold-productivity-boost

This street art in Downtown Los Angeles is fucking brilliant. 🙌🙏💪👏✊️👇

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

Something like the Truth and Reconciliation process at the end of Apartheid in South Africa?

This guy nailed it 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 bsky.app/profile/mary...

Alt texted. I love that this shows so many ways disabled people can help! (this time I'm bard & wizard, but sometimes I'm rogue, sorcerer, or artificer)

“together we will expand what we can do in our city, AND what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference”

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

"This is the story of an extraordinary effort by the second Trump administration to shape our ideas about who and what men and women are — a campaign that began targeting trans people but has vast implications for the rights of cisgender people as well."