Happy Trans Day of Visibility

Look what’s arrived on the eve of National Poetry Month. Can only be a good sign. Thank you @tacobellquarterly.org for making my day. 🌮🔔📓❤️‍🔥

Further: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security. Fun facts: -DHS is only 23 years old. - Its creation stripped 180,000 government employees of their union rights and other civil service protections. - No one called the US “the homeland” before George W Bush.

Like even if gAI wasn't destroying the planet (it is), even if it wasn't built on theft (it is), even if it wasn't making people less intelligent and inducing breaks from reality (it is), it was still built by fascists wanting to create technofeudalism and destroy the power of workers worldwide.

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

I think of all the days and nights I sweated over every sentence in the Los Nefilim books and how LLMs stole those works and now people might accuse me of using AI to write, because the LLMs used my works, and IDK, I get so furious I want to strangle something.

This made it out of committee. You do NOT want to let it go to a vote. Go make your voice heard right now right now

Don’t let the Democrats off the hook here. They let precautions go far too easily because they saw voters frothing for “back to normal”.

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

for some reason (the knowledge that 100% of my money is going toward torture camps, surveillance tech, and warfare, rather than vaccines or public radio) i am having a hard time starting my taxes this year

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

A strategy I am recommending to people who don’t want to mask all the time is always in healthcare facilities and public transportation, AND if you see someone in a mask, put yours on. The first helps protect spaces high risk people may have no choice but to go, the second shows them support.

"People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next." this whole missive will make you want to stand on your desk and yell "O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN!," but that bit really got me good

H.R. 7661 would harm so many publishers, authors, and readers. Only the smallest sliver of human experience would make it onto shelves. If you think kids deserve the world, you are against this bill - please read this article and call your reps.

This is amazing. When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels. That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

fish doorbell fish doorbell fish doorbell FISH DOORBELL FISH DOORBELL🐟🛎️

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets." Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

they double bombed an elementary school for girls

A government which does not want trans people to exist, and is legally allowed to force detransition in prisons, has created incentive for itself to put more trans people in prisons.

Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker. It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.

Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.” #californiacondor

I keep thinking about how the propaganda leading to this war was all about how you needed to rescue women and the first thing they did was kill dozens of little girls.

the worlds not over keep taking your meds keep taking your HRT keep scheduling surgeries keep talking to friends keep eating keep sleeping the worlds not over you're still needed

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Maybe everyone who helped normalize Trump should take a break from having thoughts.

After a judge ordered Isabel be released from detention in MN with her belongings, ICE sent her home—but didn't return her work permit, ID, checks worth $700, or her daughter’s US passport. Isabel is one of many now missing key immigration and identity documents www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime. You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

just really feels like their win condition is simply the fact that killing people makes this administration feel powerful and they’re reasonably confident Congress won’t stop them from just blowing shit up for funzies as long as they can get away with it

they’re trying to get this disaster through. they’re shredding trans Kansans’ IDs. they’re detransitioning children across the country. and the media refuses to report on this mounting genocide and it happens largely to the silence of cis people. we need help

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

i am glad to be a trans person on hrt. being trans is awesome and incredible and anyone persecuting trans people is hell's own jackass. gender should be a playground not a prison camp with barbed wire around it

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

every time you are tempted to read an article or watch a video clip of the State of the Union tomorrow you should dip into this and watch 5-20 minutes of some fabulously charismatic maniac having Big Feelings about something via PowerPoint, it will improve your life on every level

Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this. I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it. I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." — Anat Shenker-Osorio

This is why I'm tired of the endless "but you have to understand where they're coming from" pieces. I do understand. I grew up with them, they're my neighbors, they got online to try to get me fired after a school board meeting. The only consistancy is power and the willingness to wield it.

Loving this comic on Covid safety by Gilly, a writer & illustrator from the PNW 😷 YES to N95 masks, no to potatoes in your socks Link to full zine: static1.squarespace.com/static/5888e...

The thru line from slavery to Asian Exclusion Acts and the War on Drugs and Mexican Repatriation and Jim Crow runs right into the War on Drugs, mass deportation, and private prisons. There is nothing more American than oppression. We have always had to fight for survival here. Always.

I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

I’ve also been comparing AI to asbestos and radium—technology that had a bunch of benefits but then turned out to be deadly. The only difference is we already KNOW AI is killing people and they’re shoving it into everything anyway

it's like the universe knew we needed this times have been rough and a new absolutely unhinged dinosaur could fix me