Reminder that you are being lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale

America is beyond cooked. Falling off the damn bone.

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) sued the Trump administration today, alleging efforts to dismantle a Boulder-based federal lab are "unlawful retaliation" against the state of Colorado.

The computers suck, the educational materials on them are weak, and there's a cottage industry of scammers on YouTube telling kids how to get around the school firewalls to access whatever they want. As a parent they're a headache and a liability; they turn snow days into "work from home" days

I don’t choose that word lightly. The idea that an entire field of medicine, as well as numerous academic journals, systematically suppressed evidence that gender-affirming care doesn’t work is a conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, none of these people can provide a shred of evidence for their core claim

NYT's Jeremy Peters expressing stronger personal views in the comments to this article on transgender medicine than in the article itself. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

While we’re worried about the war, the Epstein files, drone attacks in CA… Josh Hawley and Republicans are taking this moment to push legislation to strip FDA approval for Mifepristone The assaults on Americans are coming from inside the house.

DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.

It is not enough to say, in oversight hearings, “you are committing crimes and there will be consequences.” I want these people to see draft indictments written up, the construction of the courtroom where they’ll be tried, their proposed prison sentences. Voters want to see this too.

Yes, yes, the Trump administration, quite famous for being good stewards with the American people's tax money.

About a quarter of all trans people in this country have moved states in possibly the largest internal migration of a particular minority group since the great migration. This is a full blown crisis.

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

Fucking love this guy.

This really is indistinguishable from self-satire from Thomas Chatterton Williams: The left should stop criticizing slavery because its causing the right to excuse slavery.

Lot of people saying “can’t believe QAnon was right” instead of “can’t believe the feminists were right about rape culture”, which feels suspicious tbqh.

From the Epstein documents: The FBI having to Google where Wisconsin is???

"Could this week be more filled with shit?!" is all my wife could say on hearing the news of Catherine O'Hara's death.

Are you kidding me with this shit NYT?

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

Tagging @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social

More protests should have singing. Something so unifying and inspiring about it.

Apple and Google have previously removed apps providing nudify services from their app stores. So why havent they taken action against X and Grok? @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

The fact that every other professor at OU didn't stage a strike - and yes - risk their careers - over this - is goddamn disappointing. This is the future that awaits them if they don't resist it.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Thank you to the Rapid Response Choir for using your voices to build community as we fight together for democracy and justice in America! @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/ToFL1...

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

not releasing it will, in itself, also detract from their winning streak and make the inevitable leak of the text more of a news event.

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵

"The existing NDS sites therefore behave more like billboards than public infrastructure. ... What makes this shift hardest to justify is that the federal government already had ... [an] office whose job was to actually make government UX work better. From 2014 to 2025, that work lived inside 18F."

TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit

The thread is great it really is, people have superbly and supremely weird ideas about why unsafe speeds make safe driving. My current leader is all the white people who say they need to drive fast to, it seems, outrun ICE

A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

It's cold as Stephen Miller's heart out there

AT&T commits to ending diversity, equity, and inclusion programs as it seeks approval from the Trump admin to buy wireless spectrum assets

So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

“There’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles.” Would the author say the same about building bike lanes? Installing automatic traffic cameras? Requiring Intelligent Speed Assist? All of those are proven to save lives — and at a fraction of AVs' cost.

The Olympics and every other international sports, arts, scientific and academic event has to be moved out of the US as long as whole countries are being blocked from travel here.