Same-sex pool Traer, IA

Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind. Second Enlightenment level.

A happy thing in the midst of the poo: my eldest wanted to see the @ourdykehistories.bsky.social podcast "being so real" in Spotify. So if you see comments that say YAY JACK or similar 11yo sentiments, pls know these comments are the coolest to me and I'm keeping them forever.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services delayed all payments to providers of 14 Medicaid services in the first weeks of a new system designed to prevent fraud. Providers said the delay caught them by surprise and interrupted payrolls, leaving older and disabled Minnesotans without care.

I was really delighted to talk with Jack Gieseking for the @ourdykehistories.bsky.social episode about the '40s - 60s! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

My entire Massachusetts family is bawling at the beauty of watching Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social be sworn in. Mazels and thank goodness for this hope. We are with you.

Is 1928's Café Dorian Gray Actually Cubbyhole 2025?! www.queergeographies.com/cafe-dorian-... Wander through Weimar Berlin's CDG, which hosted a 600-member lesbian club -- and looks *just* like #NYC #GreenwichVillage's famed Cubbyhole. #lesbianbar #lgbtqbar #lesbian #queer #trans #dykebar

Did you know the only published and printed #lesbianbar guide in history is from Berlin in 1928? Every other lezbiqueertrans tour guide includes many spaces beyond nightlife. Check it out here: www.queergeographies.com/the-only-les... #lesbian #bar #queer #trans #bisexual #dyke

this is genuinely wild

A text box in the lower right states: "After a campaign that promised high taxes, free stuff, hating Israel and vibes, socialist Zohran Mamdani romped to victory last night and will become the 111th mayor of New York City." Democrats, take notes and romp to victory!

#Taipei marches in support of trans rights tonight 🏳️‍⚧️

Announcing SEQC50, a conference and celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1st Southeastern Gay Conference, held at UNC in 1976. Join us April 10-11, 2026. We invite community members, activists, and academics to propose a panel, performance, or discussion! carolinapride.unc.edu/event/seqc50/

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

NEW: With the great Nina Martin, I wrote about bombshell allegations about a Planned Parenthood chapter in the South that has been taken over by new leaders with conservative connections. One new leader has even described herself as "pro-life." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

after “it can happen here,” there is the work of recognizing people know it’s happening here

Financially Burdened: A Rapid Review of the Impact of Financial Stress on University Students and Their Coping Strategies Guided by Lazarus and Folkman’s stress and coping theory, this review synthesizes findings from 19 studies published 2014-2024 and focuses on coping strategies.

See y'all there!!

Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, & desire that built it. 🤌 > Counting down the hrs for #OurDykeHistories release tomorrow, my #podcast I've produced with my phenomenal collaborator, #SinisterWisdom!! Preview us here: rss.com/podcasts/our... #lesbian #queer #dyke #trans #bi

@praeyesright.bsky.social's Hialy Gutierrez on why "school choice" is billionaires' way of dismantling democracy religiondispatches.org/the-billiona...

Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.

Immigration enforcement *is* a public health crisis, and a longstanding one at that. It harms both physical and mental health, and its effects burden immigrants and the U.S. born alike.

Utterly delighted to find A Queer New York: Geographies of #Lesbians, #Dykes, and #Queers fully free, #openaccess, and downloadable at library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... -- thanks so much, @oapenbooks.bsky.social! #lgbt #lgbtq #bisexual #trans

I was wondering who’s responsible for the ongoing demolition of NSF. Aside from Chief Management Officer Cheatham, whose resignation the staff union seeks, it appears to be 3 DOGE agents: Farritor (23), Terrell (25), and Riley (33). None appear to have any familiarity with scientific research.

NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch. One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

8. Trans women in prisons have recently reported having their hair shorn and their feminine clothing confiscated; being deprived of medication; and being subjected to mandatory, invasive body inspections by doctors and prison staff, including breast examinations. www.madycast.com/p/i-cannot-i...

what the actual fuck

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

#handsoff Paris

Two new *very exciting* #handsoff events came in today: American Samoa and Puerto Rico. Send them some love tonight, y'all. And in case you hadn't zoomed out on the map, let me do it for you, because multiple cities in Portugal, France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany are showing up.

#HandsOff in a small town in ruby red Alabama

NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices. "The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military."

This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Behind this astonishingly impressive £30k. / month savings (amazing for a health system in crisis) is also an increase in people leading healthier lives, experiencing fewer episodes of poor health, and material steps to closing wide gaps in health inequalities.

Precarity is a relational condition: people aren't simply 'precarious' but they are *made* precarious e.g. by marginalisation due to gender, bullying and harassment or disability. Above all, institutions make us precarious, and that condition has now been more widely generalised

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

“You’re under arrest.” “I’m a reporter.” “I don’t care.” Read more from Mohawk journalist Isaac White about his arrest and prosecution for covering a land claim demonstration in northern New York in May 2024: freedom.press/issues/mohaw...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Hold off on USAID obituaries and suggesting staff have gone. Most actions so far are under legal challenge, only Congress can get rid of USAID (and its funding), the staff are on administrative leave. What has happened is terrible, but it is time to push back, not give in.

Read this whole thread about how segregation is being enacted at the NIH This will have life and death consequences for communities of color that depend on interlocutors from our communities that do science with our well-being in mind 🧪

Susan Faludi’s book Backlash made the point that every time there is progress in diminishing sexism, aggressive backlash ensues. It is increasingly clear that attacking trans people is a vehicle to resuscitate reactionary views of women under the guise of “protecting” them. @paisleycurrah.com

The function of the New York Times is to normalize Trump to readers that Fox News can't reach.

Argentine feminist Verónica Gago in praise of the letter with the body—the materiality of the protester with a sign in the street. Elogio de la letra con cuerpo www.eldiarioar.com/129_b7520f?u...

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

2/ privileges in this system but has indeed begun rewriting the code base of this critical system, significantly rewriting the software for this critical system. For more on this it was this situation I was referring to in a series of tweets from last night in which, as I said, I substituted the …

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.