It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE. This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

Knowing her family history of grifting + attention seeking, the fact that the account that reported on this was created just days before the incident, + how off-rubric the essay was, I believe Samantha Fulnecky failed on purpose to create a lucrative media cycle based on manufactured outrage

When you post your #SpotifyWrapped, you’re not just doing free advertising for a company that exploits artists, recruits for ICE, and invests in AI war machines. You’re actively celebrating the fact that you’re being surveilled and participating in your own surveillance. Maybe … don’t do that?

KOSA is never about protecting kids. It’s anti-queer and about making sure kids don’t have access to information they need to survive - from health basics to knowing they are not alone and not broken. And it will destroy the internet as we know it.

Billionaires love it when we’re busy arguing with each other. Meanwhile, they're rigging the system to hoard money and power while we fight over the scraps. We’ve got more in common than they want us to think.

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

Shot + chaser

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

It’s really fucking unfair that so many of us have to spend our one precious life fighting for the fundamental right to exist just because some evil fuckheads have decided to waste *their* one precious life trying to eliminate us

I had a lot of fun writing this story on a lightning quick turnaround last night, but I also endured one of the things I find most intimidating in the world: A fancy party full of rich people where I don't know anyone.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.

It is always the desire of power to make their unwanted feel alone. Trans, non-binary and intersex people are not alone. we have each other, yes, and we have massive support throughout this country and the world. Do not let them confuse you. We are small, but we are mighty, and we are loved.

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.

the reality is that they have already won & they do not want to change anything. they want a strong republican party, as they say often. the only time they put any work in is to sabotage candidates running to the left of them, otherwise they just sit around doing insider trading

What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Amazing how upfront and unfiltered he is about his ongoing authoritarian project. The goal is to make sure the opposition can never win, and he flat-out says it.

Fight. Win.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

I don't think I've come across a poem that taps into my ethos when it comes to navigating queer community within the context of a hostile world as much as "We Have Enough Dead Friends" by Lena Oleanderson. I strive to make my home a sanctuary where other faggots feel safe and cared for.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Speaker Johnson admits Trump & Republicans are forcing millions of kids to go hungry for political leverage. He says funding SNAP would "reduce the pressure" on Democrats. Disgusting.

if there ever was a worthy political donation, helping Kat cover legal fees for defense against a fascist crackdown on legal protests would be it

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on. You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

the thing about telling obvious lies is that it’s usually pretty easy to figure out that they’re obvious lies sorry that you couldn’t come up with a good excuse for having a nazi tattoo on your chest for the simple reason that there is no good excuse for having a nazi tattoo on your chest

I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

im gonna be a little old trans lady one day and im gonna hold my little old trans lady wifes hand and im gonna give her a little kiss on the cheek and we're gonna be like 80 and we're still going to be alive and we're going to be happy

The Trump administration just ordered two Gulfstream luxury private jets for Kristi Noem at a cost of over $172 million. This comes as Americans can barely afford groceries.

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

they believe that women are commodities and trans women are counterfeit women. it’s just pure misogyny. they do not think women are people, and plenty of feminists are fully on board with this logic

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

We should not care or reward Disney for this. We must make their bottom line hurt for even considering doing something like this. Don't let up. Other companies need to see that bowing to fascism is not something you can do without consequence.

Greta Thunberg and the Flotilla have made their last stop, they are now less than 1000 miles from Israel Sometime within the next 6 days Israel is going to try to stop them The people of the world stand with them, it's time the Governments did, they must be protected

They keep calling it DHS law enforcement, but this is your reminder that picking up people on the street with no evidence as to their status is not enforcing any law. It is terrorizing people.

Delete TikTok, and tell everyone you know to do the same. It’s going to be a surveillance and propaganda tool for the Trump regime.

Trans comrades: they could not crush American Islam, Civil Rights, the American Indian Movement, and they will not crush you. You have countless allies and we are with you ready for anything. Their campaign of genocide will fail, and they will face justice in this life and the next for it.

US politics in a nutshell

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year. Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

These people want us dead. They openly say so. It's not hyperbole. However, we beat them every day we survive and thrive. Every trans person alive right now living their life filled with joy is a failure for Matt Walsh. Finding love and joy is the biggest "fuck you" you can give to Walsh.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.