ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Abuse isn’t enough, they have to silence kids too: “They threw away all my drawings,” said 15-year-old Cariexis Quintero… . Her mother, displaying a pile of colorful paper scraps, detailed how the guards “stormed into her room looking for drawings and letters” & then “destroyed what they found”

Wow.

The GOP is once again showing its disdain for the Constitution. fox9.com/news/residen...

Matthew's guide made it easy for me to write a public comment opposing the proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule banning GAC. Sex-variables researchers, please join in contributing your expertise to debunk sex bioessentialist myths being used to deny care to trans kids

I don't think these are unreasonable asks

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

Happy President's Day - the holiday in America where we remember what it was like to have a President.

We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.

Don’t let Trump see this

Call US Senators and tell them to vote against the SAVE Act. It has already passed the US House. In its current form, it means that 100 years after women earned the right to vote, we are facing down the implementation of a 21st century poll tax for women.

Yeah sure Storm the Capital, Change Laws of the Constitution, force Americans to get and pay for unobtainable requirements to vote..to weed out the (avg) of 4 illegal immigrant votes per Election

We hate you for free!!!!! #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

'sup, y'all?

This is why I've started referring to AI chatbots as Syconphancy-As-A-Service

Oh nooo that thing literally everyone warned me could happen has happened, how could I have ever anticipated such a turn of events

CW fatphobia, and remember that fatphobia directly results in fat people getting inadequate medical care and dying. The medical profession is intensely fatphobic, fueled by ongoing societal fatphobia. The attitudes we hold and the words we say can and do end up killing people.

call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again

Dealing with Gen AI is like shuffling a fox, a chicken and some grain across the Semantic Gap

Working on it!

Trumpists do not believe that people who disagree with them are entitled to a voice in government.

Note the framing here: It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

This entire 'debate' is so maddening. We have been promised that a groundswell of rushed, dissatisfied detransitioners was about to emerge for nearly a decade. Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

A) This is a lie. Other countries have it. B) Trump uses it regularly. Bottom line: They are afraid of you voting.

With all the literal horror happening in this world, if a person thinking, "I'm this gender but it would make me happy to be another gender" is at the top of your list of things to be freaked out about, please transition to sanity.

Yes, by all means, Democrats, whatever you do, in the middle of Trump's SOTU speech, DO NOT stand up and yell, "QUIET PIGGY," unless you want to be the frontrunner for the 2028 presidential nomination.

Damn, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's got hands today.

Finally penned my "If you only play D&D, I encourage you to try other TTRPGs because you might find you love them" manifesto.

Our little podcast that could has officially turned 5 years old! What was your favorite episode? While you're at it, go watch the latest episode on YouTube!

Massie: "Here is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released it! Literally the worst thing you could do the survivors you did."

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

I honestly can’t remember any prior AG being this overtly disrespectful in a Congressional hearing. They really think they’re never going to be in the minority. Maybe I memory holed it, but personal attacks on members of Congress during testimony just seems so out of bounds.

Insane levels of corruption. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

So peaceful church protesters get hunted, while a Jan 6 insurrectionist who screamed for cops to be killed gets pardoned and put on the payroll. That’s not law enforcement, that’s moral collapse dressed up as authority.

Listening to AG Pam Bondi testifying before Congress. This nation is entirely done. She’s yelling at Congressmen, calling people hypocrites to their faces. No decorum. No order. Just mayhem. And goddamn JIM JORDAN is the chair of this committee—he enabled sexual abuse at Ohio State.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

on the one hand, yes, we are living in the endgame of years of conservative plotting/treachery, but on the other ... it's just extraordinary to imagine what a better place the world would be had our special boy never been born.

Billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, the other predator named by Ava Cordero in *2007*, was identified as being in the redacted Epstein files in Congress today.

'Gavin is the only option we have against the GOP, so it's a pretty obvious choice'. I have a question for ANYONE saying this: What do YOU stand to lose if the election goes this way and Gavin Newsom wins? If the answer is 'nothing', you are not qualified to tell a marginalized community this.

The FTC has subpoenaed the records of the American Academy of Pediatrics and WPATH as part of its campaign to eliminate access to gender affirming care. The FTC does not have the legal authority to regulate nonprofit medical professional orgs like this. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Tonight's Negroni

I keep thinking about when Mike Johnson was asked about the NFL getting Bad Bunny to play the halftime show and he responded by saying they should find "someone who appeals to a broader audience" like... 82-year-old Lee Greenwood. Really shows how much of a bubble the right lives in.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level