In a sworn declaration filed today, the State Dept stated that it intends to revoke and replace the passports of trans people who obtained gender marker changes under the current injunction if it is overturned by a higher court. They're maintaining a list. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“There is no clear precedent for what DeSantis and the president are doing." Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges.

READ THE COMPLAINT: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thank you @mintopia.net for sharing her story with me. Thank you @katymontgomerie.com for making me aware of her ordeal. My latest article published on @northwestbylines.co.uk northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Do you ever come up with a cissona cover story in case you ever need it for anything? Mine is Mike or Bob or Dan or something and his favorite movies are Joker and John Wick 3

Normally it's called a ride along if reporters are with cops. Embedded is what reporters are in times of war. We are in a war. 😞

Everyone who on some level never needed me in their life has realized this is their chance to break it off

For me there are basically three eras. 1996-2008 - we don’t exist outside of certain communities. 2008-2020 - much visibility! Token trans friend! 2020-now - you horrible fucking pervert why was I even friends with you?

"As a preteen [girl], Ziz grew depressed. She saw puberty as 'evil,' ... and was horrified at the idea that she would be 'killed-overwritten' by a new self. She began to feel 'like the world was a hypothetical'" Basic literacy on dysphoria and depersonalization at puberty could have prevented this:

This is the sort of thing that should never, ever be allowed to happen again. The elite transphobes are MAGA in spirit and frankly should be hounded out of any decent institution that wants access to non-MAGA money. I wish a Democratic elected official would say this.

It has nothing to do with trans people defending or not defending themselves in sympathetic or unsympathetic ways.

The expansion of American transphobia from a minority position is almost wholly astroturfed (more like astroTERFed) by a few writers, editors, and capitalists at the Times, the Atlantic, and maybe NYMag.

It’s quite competitive but it’s probably the single most disgusting thing elite liberals have done since supporting the Iraq War.

There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.

I said this app has a dogpiling problem. You won’t believe what happened next!

This is hard evidence that Wes Streeting’s “new” GIDS for children are basically just Conversion Therapy centres. @niagriffith.bsky.social unless your bill to ban Conversion Therapy includes stopping what Streeting is doing here, it will be worse than nothing, it will help these child torturers.

This whole process philosophy thing means I'm going to have to revisit and reconceptualize whatever earlier work of mine treated gender identity as merely a discoverable object

I mean I did my best but I’m just one guy www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

Print still hits.

The Republicans are doing this shit, and the Democratic Party elders are doing everything they can to stop the most exciting young politician in the country in favor of either a disgraced sex pest granny killer or a walking corruption magnet

Ahahahahaha

so to be clear, Microsoft is using a tool it's embedded into its operating system and many (all?) of its softwares to promote conversion therapy against trans kids, disguised to fool their parents into thinking it isn't purely anti-transition

Sometimes I feel like the only thing that can bring humanity together at this point is some kind of universal catastrophic threat that requires us to unite for our survival, then build a series of giant humanoid combat robots

Everyone stop, this is important

The government has made it very clear they see us as expendable. They aren’t coming to save us, they’re rooting for our demise. We must save each other. We must work together to ensure no one gets left behind. We must refuse to see anyone as expendable. www.disabledginger.com/p/heat-waves...

the paper of record, theybies and gentlethems

Seems like a real problem that much of the media and literary elite in this country is convinced that the most serious and respectable intellectual position is Nazism.

Tbh I can be a little more cold-blooded on sourcing questions than most, but the core journalistic issue here is the NYT story heavily suggested in its opening paragraphs Mamdani was doing some sort of Dolezal situation, which was unsupported by its own reporting. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

Weird @nytimes.com feels in competition with Chris Rufo, considering that he's their executive editor.

they found his name on it huh

Claudine Gay's credentials as *President of Harvard* were suspect because she was Black woman. A rando white man named Jordan Lasker shitposting racism on the Internet from a basement in Lubbock, Texas keeps getting credentialed as an 'academic' by @nytimes.com and @semafor.com. STOP IT.

I have not seen "Homeland" before and I am about to start

good morning

the camera in the action movies always follows the main character, which deludes a certain kind of person into thinking they would be Bane or John Wick rather than one of the thousands of guys those guys mow down and step over

I saw this when I was a kid, now whenever I talk to a robot I only give it a few minutes of my time while addressing it in a formal mode like Dr. Chandra

Here is the latest from Texas (as of 11:50 a.m. ET) The death toll is now at 69 people across five counties. In Kerr County, officials this morning have reported 59 deaths: 38 adults and 21 children. 11 children remain missing from Camp Mystic.

Check out this information about Atypical Opioid-Related Overdose Presentations. It is important that we keep ourselves informed as the toxic drug trends change, the overdoses we could witness and how to respond to them change as well. www.ccsa.ca/.../CCENDU-N...

Trans National Guard pilot Jo Ellis is suing a right-wing influencer for falsely blaming her for a DC crash that killed 67 people. A WIRED review reveals 12 similar incidents of scapegoating trans people.

Sad and almost sweetly naive to see Texans who are reasonably upset about flood deaths reacting to officials with “So can we get some actual information or just political platitudes?” These officials were elected to give political platitudes and deny actual info. This is one reason that’s bad.

Whatever the typology, my personality type is I don't subscribe to substance-based ontologies

I'm still not over the time a few months ago where my grandpa told me that I wasn't promoting the "right kind" of trans books and how I needed to have better taste if I wanted liberals to like trans literature. Everybody wants an opinion, and a lot of them suck.

I think this may be some kind of auDHD indirect motivator, because once I thought about trying this, I realized it would need to know this and that and the other thing, and that meant I would need to go through and read this paper and that book, and take notes on all of it, and it just kept going

“We feel totally blindsided,” Cynthia Olivera’s husband — US citizen and self-identified Trump voter Francisco Olivera — told the California news station KGTV. “I want my vote back.”

Noticing when some random blog wrote an article with ChatGPT, first of all because of the suspicious cadence and continuous overuse of parallel structure ("It's not just an A, it's a B"), but also, then they forgot to take out the part where it's referring to their prompt in the second person

This ignores that we are not talking about how much *forward* progress on civil rights we should accept in this moment. We are being asked to shut up and compromise on rights we have had for decades—with no major issue—being taken away from us. Seems like a pretty different discussion.

if there was legislation that, e.g., failed to protect trans athletes while protecting trans rights in other respects, THEN you can try to have a conversation about compromise. but ceding the issue without getting anything in return isn’t compromise, you’re just losing.