Forget hot girl summer, this summer will be my Gail the Snail summer. "I'm more confident, I've grown into my body". youtu.be/dbbYl-1z7iI?...

Sometimes I feel like the only monogamous trans lesbian. It's a lonely life. I can't recall the last time I met someone like me in person. Tbh, it makes me feel like I'm broken. There must be something wrong with me.

Fun fact, getting a PhD is more difficult than transitioning genders. I did the latter but failed at the former.

I like how instead of talking about TDOV we have to talk about cis people's latest attempts at getting rid of us. We aren't even allowed to experience joy.

As a trans woman who works in a field that is 90% cis men, it's wild to hear the meeting conversations. It's just them talking about gender, basically. One day it's sports, the next it's carpentry, the next it's pickup trucks. Gender, gender, gender. And they say we're obsessed with gender!

I wish lesbian axe-throwing competitions were as popular as drag is

I spent pretty much all of my life thinking the thing I wanted most was impossible, so I taught myself to not want anything at all and it turns out that’s not a skill you can learn overnight.

Ahh, Them did an article about an obsession of mine. Going to Antarctica. One day I will do it, it's on top of my bucket list. www.them.us/story/antarc...

I went on a date recently with another trans woman and she downplayed my concerns about what is happening to our community. What the fuck? What is wrong with people? No second date, I can say that for sure. You failed, girl.

Somehow we're the one minority people can have "an opinion" about. People can say the most vile shit about us and it's their "opinion" in a talkshow, courthouse, or newspaper. When we speak up, we're apparently infringing on their free speech. It's insane

It's so nice to go on a date now and not feel imposter syndrome. That was how dating felt to me before transitioning.

I tried to explain to a cis person today what is being done judicially and legislatively to erase trans people and I was told I was catastrophizing and that I'm "safe here in a blue state". Where do I even begin? I didn't bother explaining, it felt pointess.

First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her

In less than 3 months I went from a lifelong hater of winter to loving it. I went snowshoeing for the first time and walked across a frozen lake. I can't wait to go again.

American survived without ICE from 1776 to 2003

i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal

In Germany, a lot of houses have these Stolpersteines on their sidewalks or stoops. They’re a memorial to victims of the Holocaust who were ripped from that home. Some houses have a few. Other houses have many. ICE has started going door to door in America.

Incredible photo.

If the entire government and society is desperately trying to maintain your artificially constructed dominance over all other groups and you still can’t hack it the problem is well and truly you

I spent some time watching Canadian geese at the reservoir at sunset (on their way south for the winter). They mostly squawked at each other and made a ruckus about nothing. Lots of fun!

We're 7 months in and Trump and the oligarchs have completely seized control of the media. If you criticize them, your show will be pulled from the air. This is what dictators do. Fascism isn't coming, it's here.

There are three Truth and Reconciliation commissions the United States needs to undertake before this nation ever has a chance to heal: 1) the original genocide of Native Americans 2) the sabotage of Reconstruction 3) the unwillingness to hold the Republican Party responsible for January 6th

I draw an absolute line at voting to strip myself of equal rights. Sorry if that's hard to comprehend, but it's not changing.

Capitalism, which produces "vagrants, tramps, outcasts, paupers, thieves, gamblers, pickpockets, suicides, confidence men, fallen women, consumptives, idiots, and dwarf children, needs to die."

Conservatism is the belief that the world is passing you by and the only way to make it right is to hold everyone else back.

Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth

Nobody said it would be easy, but Republicans found a way to cut taxes for the rich while taking away your healthcare. A story of true heroism.

“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

Being trans right now is waking up on Supreme Court decision days wondering if decades of precedent will be overruled to decide that we as a class no longer have constitutional protections from discrimination.

With the New York Times continuing its attack on trans people, I wrote about its failures and how Azeen Ghorayshi has led the charge to weaponize their coverage against the trans community and launder anti-trans talking points into the mainstream. www.thedissident.news/the-new-york...

The Crypto guys are!

Sunset at the reservoir

I do not endorse car hood pooping, but pooping on someone's car is arguably better than punching them in the face.

TIL, 90s music video legend Hype Williams still makes music videos. Seeing as how it's 2025 and we can't have nice things, of course he makes music videos for Kanye.

Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly. Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy isn’t drawing arena-size crowds like Bernie Sanders and AOC are as he tours the country talking to voters. But in a packed concert hall in rural North Carolina, people are starting to view the Democrat as worthy of the national spotlight. apnews.com/article/chri...

I started a newspapers dot com subscription and it's a lot of fun. Here are some crazy (and some racist) stories I found in old Hartford Courant newspapers from 1907 to 1922.

“They fully acknowledge these are general health care services that anybody could need, and they only want to limit them as essential health benefits for the purpose of treating gender dysphoria. It’s extremely targeted at trans people,” Keith said.

What the fuck, AP. "Likely"? No, it's blatantly illegal and unconstitutional.

The rationale behind Trump's tariffs is the same rationale behind attacking Trans rights. It's called zero-sum thinking, & it's a cognitive bias. It's essentially, "if X gains, Y loses", where X & Y are two countries, or two people, or two groups of people, etc. 1/2

Interesting fact: Minnesota became the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858. The founding population was so overwhelmingly of New England origins that the state was dubbed "the New England of the West."

I can't even. "On March 13, Texas state Rep. Stan Gerdes, a Republican, introduced a bill titled “Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education,” aka the F.U.R.R.I.E.S. Act."

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

Rahm Emanuel saying he’s a predator so trans people shouldn’t have rights is a pretty clear distillation of the issue. Cishet men are sexual predators but they have all the power, while trans people have the least power, so trans people must be blamed for and punished for the crimes of cishet men

Really glad to see my Senator picking up the slack from the rest of the party. New England is the birthplace of America and you can bet we're going to fight for our country.

My bank sent me this and now I wonder, do they know something I don't? 🤣 "Sophie, good news! Your $1,000 no-cost Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage is now available for you to claim".

Why won't they leave us alone? "Lawmakers in at least eight states are seeking to restrict state or public funds from being used for gender-affirming care, limiting a patient's ability to use Medicaid to help pay: Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia."

Rights I've lost since last week: I will not be issued a valid passport even though I am an American citizen by birth, solely because I'm not cis.