Lindsay Hecox didn't even make the cross country team! AND she's quit club soccer But Republicans aren’t satisfied with forcing just one trans student out of school sports—not when the Supreme Court could force trans people out of public life

Greetings! I’m at Mariachi Plaza in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. 100-200 people are here protesting the fatal shooting of Rene Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis as well as the shooting of Keith Porter Jr. who was shot in LA by an off duty ICE agents on New Year’s. March likely.

People Magazine is incredibly clear eyed about ICE being a terrorist organization. I’ll probably buy a subscription because of it:

No more, no more.

I keep coming back to the fact that one of the weirder facets of of ableism, transphobia, &c. is acting like members of marginalized communities can't also and independently be assholes.

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

whole lot of ICE pricks just saw that they can murder someone and not only not be arrested, but the president will call them a hero who saved the day. they even have a blueprint for how to shoot people they want to. extremely bad precedent

fox news putting in the legwork on my posts

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

To move forward, Coloradans must face the massacre’s trauma and begin to repair trust.

My anger at having to stand outside my kid’s school for two hours to ensure none of their classmates, parents, or teachers get kidnapped by my own government is only slightly tempered by the amazing outpouring of support from other parents and especially neighbors who stand against this bullshit.

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TIL that the DHS has had such a problem with officers purposefully standing in front of vehicles to justify shooting the drivers that they had to update their guidelines a decade ago telling their officers to not stand in front of vehicles www.npr.org/sections/the...

Because y'all wearing the wrong kinda masks.

putative liberal outlets and politicians are so scared of being seen as too pro-lgbt that we end up getting more recognition from the people who want to exterminate us than we do from our supposed allies

the right wing is activated and happy to jump on any indication of support for lgbt rights from people, politicians, and organizations, so journalists and politicians have become reluctant to mention lgbt people and our rights unless necessary there are words for this: cowardly. craven. spineless.

we all know this and i am tired of having to pretend whats happening is not obvious. the last decade has witnessed an increasingly vicious propaganda and legislative crusade against lgbt people, a crusade that has seen increasingly frail resistance from our supposed allies

we all know if her husband had been in the car instead there would be no hesitation describing him as such. we all know everyone from national media outlets to her senator wouldnt be calling her son an orphan. we all know there wouldnt be quotes from distant relatives about taking custody of her son

theres so much horrible shit about the murder of renee good, but there is something deeply terrifying about the way everyone from media to politicians have erased her wife from the story. ive seen far more mention of her late husband than her wife who was sitting next to her when she was murdered

I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.

A reminder that the Uvalde response was led by Border Patrol, which waited 77 minutes to confront an armed gunman in a school. But shooting unarmed civilians in split seconds, no problem for them at all www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.

Sure looks like ICE is intentionally escalating

The person who was shot in the face here is a local organizer who has been very active in the Movement for Black lives.

As people mobilize around the country, beware of claims that a sanitized version of "nonviolence" — passive, compliant and non-disruptive — is the only option. As @thefreeradical.org detailed in-depth, these myths are based on bad history and social science. They're meant to serve the status quo.

New in PN: Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye "We’re in thrall to a con man who denigrates the very idea of truth and uses media only to distract and divide. And so the CPB board members broke their plowshares lest they be beaten into swords by a deranged demagogue."

"Dude, [I'm] getting a Dell"

"Hostile takeover from a foreign power" = "bringing back democracy" Ok cool got it

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Disabled organizers are building mutual aid, cross-movement solidarity and community care to survive Trump 2.0’s attacks, finding hope in collective resistance and insisting that disability justice is central to a liberatory future for everyone.

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

That whole “Minnesota fraud” scandal is a completely made up racist lie and the media is eating it up and presenting it as if it’s a genuine scandal. I’m going to lose my mind

As daily goals, "stop fascism," "defeat evil," and "save the world" probably aren't going to get you anywhere, and might leave you feeling overwhelmed and helpless, but "work towards building something good" is always achievable, concrete, and useful.

Brilliant 🧵 on how children's rights, queerphobic 'backlash', and reproductive rights are all deeply nationalistic, authoritarian responses to polycrisis --

One thing I will say is that all things about politics aside, I'll always genuinely appreciate how Tim Walz embraced his son Gus and didn't try to change him. It is a role model for other parents of neurodivergent kids. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

Tara Roberts is a Black Woman Scuba Diver who works for National Geographic that goes deep into the ocean in search of lost slave ships.

That's exactly the playbook they ran with trans people. Getting fans folks fired from jobs, doxing, harassment, death threats etc. There's an entire cottage industry of right wing influencers who do this for clout and money.

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

"Days before 16-year-old Kevin was expected to graduate from Francis T. Maloney HS in Meriden, federal officials detained him in Hartford & moved him to an ICE facility in TX. After 6 months in detention he returned home to a standing ovation from community members" www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-12...

One of the Trump regime's arguments for Greenland is that they don't manage their resources properly and so we should do that. Colonization is the term for this.

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

Isn't it odd that the United States has enough money to suddenly run Venezuela, but not enough to run our own country? There is always cash in the piggy bank for bombs to kill people, but never for healthcare to keep them alive.

Full-throated admission that torturing queer people and designating women as reproductive property is core to the sanctified patriarchy of your belief system. A huge problem for a sane world, in my view. :)

At the gym, and half the TVs are on Sunday sports shows promoting gambling and the other half are on the Sunday news shows promoting war.

You don’t have to want kids or even enjoy being around them. But it’s also worth unpacking why kids simply existing, learning, or having unmet needs reads as “annoying,” “unlikeable,” or “bad behavior.” This collective discomfort with noise, need, & vulnerability is why many ADULTS are struggling.

The very things that annoy you about kids are the same reasons y’all get on here saying you hate small talk and don’t speak to your neighbors. It’s hyper-individualism. It’s easier to project that discomfort onto the most vulnerable rather than examine how disconnected we’ve all become.