"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

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Wow!

This is such a thorough take down of Bari Weiss and the vapid shill she is for oligarch billionaires. He especially shreds the Free Press over it's coverage of trans issues and the so called whistleblower Jamie Reed. youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups. The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“A more robust and effective damages regime obviously would not prevent unconstitutional conduct by government officers. But it sure would be an easy way to reduce its frequency—and it would also be a remarkably easy statute to write.” Me in today’s bonus issue of “One First”:

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways. blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

As part of its crusade against gender-affirming medical care for minors, the Department of Justice recently issued civil subpoenas to a range of health care providers offering this care. Our legal experts answered your questions about what this means for trans people and their families.

One tiny bag of $3 bills

The Supreme Court is considering three cases this term that could impact the national landscape of trans rights: one relating to conversion therapy and two related to trans student athletes. We’re offering guidance and key context for reporters and newsrooms preparing to cover these developments.

Another win for privacy!

if they're going to do this, then we should all take the day off & refuse to buy anything. tell your boss you can't work out of respect for this national day of remembrance...

Stay safe. Sources and documents in the replies.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

"Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors." — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, delivering the unanimous decision of the court in NRA v. Vullo

19 Sep 25 -- Interesting NPR profiles on the financial costs for many trans people of the decisions they are now faced with under anti-trans federal and state laws/policies. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.

They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant. Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.

Insane to rollout your billionaire-backed "ditch the trannies and fuck the planet" think tank the same week the most influential voices on the right are calling for transgender people to be locked up and subjected to Nazi medical experiments

"I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole f*cking thing down."

Exactly!

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Important thread on the violence against workers that we need to remember on Labor Day.

Good news for personal privacy

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

70 years ago today, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. When you see “MAGA,” realize THAT was the America Trumpers are saying was “great.” I want a GREATER America than that. We all should.

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Every lawyer should get the day off in observance of the fact that they actually failed to indict a ham sandwich

The federal government doesn't have the authority to trample on our rights. No matter what uniform they wear, federal agents and military troops in DC are bound by the Constitution. Full stop.

As a result of our lawsuit, the State Department must issue transgender, non-binary, and intersex people passports with the correct gender marker. Our legal experts answered your questions, here.

So Arkansas's ban survives even rational basis review despite factual findings that their was no evidence it was even rational?! Wow!

So sensitive!!!!

This is a really important corrective to a lot of reporting today. Trump did not—and cannot—federalize MPD. The police force remains under the ultimate control of the mayor.

Watch the Lawless Majority of the Roberts Court try to slow-walk the birthright citizenship issue now! The four nationwide injunctions meet every procedural requirement and the rulings are clearly right on the merits. Maybe Trump’s DOJ just won’t seek cert. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

On this uhh busy news day in the world of anti-trans politics: a reminder that @transjournalists.org is offering stipends for journalists' professional development — trainings, conference tickets, etc. Apply — it's easy! Deadline next week. www.transjournalists.org/level-up/

Great news!

Outrageous! I'm glad I delete, unsubscribe and/or block all fundraising emails and text messages from candidates or packs I don't directly support.

“This ruling affirms what we already knew: you can’t just snatch people up for being brown and working hard. Not in the fields, not in a Home Depot parking lot, and not on our watch...."

Years from now, god willing, when we get through this, there will be stories that come out about these folks covering something up or letting something slide or choosing not to do anything, and I want you to remember a lot of them didn't do it out of fear. They did it out of selfishness.

"Higher education policy in the United States is now being developed through ad hoc deals, a mode of regulation that is not only inimical to the ideal of the university as a site of critical thinking but also corrosive to the democratic order and to law itself."

Bracing analysis from Columbia Law School’s David Pozen about the significance and implications of Columbia’s settlement with Trump. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...

This is a thing of beauty!

So he has the power to do everything he wants to, whether or not authorized by Congress or validated by the courts, but no power to do things he doesn't want to do? Am I getting that right?

Yes! More of this please!

In other words, any effort to ease the burdens of disadvantaged groups are unconstitutional. Basically, we like the way it is, and like the way it was even better. Stop trying to help people!

Unbelievable! But obviously not since it happened.

Scary stuff