Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf

4 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Transgender Army vet and officer Alleria Stanley has announced her campaign to turn one of Maryland’s most reliably Republican legislative districts blue.

Trans women will be banned from the Olympics. Unfortunately with current visa rules trans athletes aren't even allowed in the USA for LA in 2028. There are indications from the last time this was implemented that intersex and DSD women will also no longer be able to compete.

Why would Trump be so desperate to halt SNAP benefits? My only guess is that political violence tends to increase under food shortages, and he wants an excuse for further crackdowns. Starving 10% of the population sets a tinderbox, and Trump keeps pouring gasoline with ICE conflicts, matter of time.

New proposed DHS rule will potentially require DNA testing for immigrants to prove their sex assigned at birth. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

Platner was calling people the f-slur in 2018. A Senate term is six years. If he changed that much in the last seven years, how much will he change in the next seven?

The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021. The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

1 One tragedy of transition and historically gay relationships is the loss of family to pass down history. Most survivors of the holocaust were able to have children and remember the tragedy to help fight against it in the future. Very few trans and gay folks survived, but even fewer had children.

If you don't personally know a trans person I'm asking you to read this. If you haven't sat next to a trans person at a bar who just got out of the hospital from being placed into a coma after an attack I'm asking you to read this. If you don't know what a pogrom is I'm asking you to read this.

Getting a Harris yard sign was enough of a pain in the ass that someone knocked on our door and asked how we accomplished it. If your checkbook isn't open they're perceptibly annoyed at hearing from you.

I think contacting the WSJ is warranted in this situation. The false narrative the WSJ spread based on misinformation was and remains a dangerous one.

I'm honestly terrified of what the right will use this as justification for. They're itching to engage in violence against their enemies and this will give them the excuse to do so. This is why political violence is never acceptable. It just descends into uncontrollable chaos and more violence.

Feels like it’s to the point the Feds and MPD could be arresting Epstein himself in McPherson Square, and locals would stop to record it and tell the Feds to kill themselves. Great stuff for community relations.

Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

I keep asking this to everyone who brings up sports (and haven't gotten a response from anyone yet), but I'll do it again: Watch this video and explain to me why this 14 year old girl shouldn't be allowed to play field hockey with her friends. I'll wait. youtu.be/yf9MfYZ-Bl4?...

DC statehood now.

oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing

Just remember, the leaked memo from LA, when they had a show of force in that park, showed that Trump and his masked thugs have a specific number of "opposition" where they would shut down. In that case it was just 1000 people. Guarantee it's far less in DC now.

Another breakthrough in therapy. Therapist asked “when do you think you will flee?” Instead of “how will you know you need to flee?” And that’s kind of the mood being trans in Washington, DC these days.

NEW: The largest employer health benefits program for the federal government announced a last-minute policy change Friday that it would no longer cover gender-affirming care for adults next year, according to a letter issued by the Office of Personnel Management. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This is what I mean when I say their ultimate goal is mocking and intimidating DC's actual residents. Similar to DOGE they want to "traumatize" the federal workforce until more people just leave

‼️Trump's demands of UCLA are far worse than you think. His demands could result in thousands of trans people outside UCLA losing care, risking lives. From Poppy Press on Instagram, an independent student-run outlet by UCLA students, reposted with permission 🧵 www.instagram.com/p/DNTwD5IvAAy/

Yeah, this is fucking bad, Bowser.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough.

This is why Trump had to send in the feds in the first place. Sandwich-based violence in D.C. is at unprecedented levels.

Very easy slam dunk issue for Dems that will be ignored because their consultants are scared of trans athlete polling.

The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

a real problem with book tour and going to the gay part of town in another city is i keep thinking i know people at the coffee shop or bar but its simply: No. i just know someone with that character design back home

it's getting towards the midterms, so going to just share some unsolicited advice: please consider running for state legislature, local office, or fucking mosquito control board instead of jumping into a race for congress, senate, etc with no experience, fundraising skills, or name recognition

If you are trans don’t come to Mallorca. I have been called the T-slur in 3 different languages every single day for a week. When walking through the cities and towns it’s dozens of times per hour. I’m not that clocky. But people have shouted it in my face when they knew.

Learning that Mallorca does anti-witch ceremonies on the same day I’ve had a very bad time here is honestly kind of healing

Event organizers for a DC World Pride party this weekend (Lush) made a post telling bisexual women to sell their tickets to make room for “real lesbians,” and the event wasn’t for them. I reached and confirmed, yes this was the organizer. And she recommended I get a partial refund on the ticket app.

Reddit is about to experience a shift to transphobia and misogyny like all the other platforms. Vanguard folks are being forced out and people defending trans rights are already getting disproportionately suspected and banned.

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

I, a cishet male, require treatment to boost my testosterone levels following an orchiectomy for testicular cancer. I will need this for the rest of my life. Everyone should be able to access the health care they need equally without barriers.

🚨 In addition to banning gender affirming medical treatment through Medicaid, Trump's reconciliation bill PROHIBITS health insurance purchased through Obamacare exchanges from offering transition care. Detransition care, though, is specifically protected. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS!

I'm grateful for all of the responses. But this is happening to thousands of women, cis and trans, up and down the country. Every day. The only difference is she and I have a voice. Fuck all of those, especially the institutions, who didn't do the work before piling in on 'the transgender issue.'

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy. This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

Absolutely insane filing. The Trump government is arguing that a law firm is a national security threat because it was part of the lawsuit against the transgender military ban. We are just STEPS away from Russia-style designating LGBTQ+ orgs "extremist and terrorist organizations"

Very pleased, over at Instagram, to be collaborating with Ben and Jerry's who are urging their followers to support our litigation to undo the Supreme Court decision.

The Trump HHS approach to transgender youth is not "greater emphasis on psychtherapy." It is "ONLY psychotherapy," with the explicit goal of making trans youth no longer transgender. It IS conversion therapy. Washington post is an absolute right wing rag at this point.

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