This is the least mid duck I've ever seen. Look at this duck. Gaze upon her and weep.

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

Which members of Congress Used to Talk About Charlie Kirk in Official E-newsletters? And what that means about the contours of American politics dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/who-in-con...

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

My girlfriend just started playing this game and it's so gosh darn cute! Very moss-core girlie bop🪲🍄🌱 The only way to improve this is to let us pet the big dog #art #Silksong

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

NEW: More than a dozen, mostly Long Island-based business interests have joined National Grid in backing a controversial pipeline championed by President Donald Trump. Some letters have "template" in the filename, "[INSERT PARTY]" in the comments, and traces of National Grid's lobbying firm.

"I’ve never seen this kind of venom and retribution for a group actually advocating for minority voices, and I think it’s pretty self-defeating and disruptive."

"The campaign against trans athletes is less about fairness in sports than about weaponizing hate against women."

Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue (1984) Beautiful SF about how to resist what we women most fear: being deprived of our hard-won citizens’ rights. The first in a trilogy of the same name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_... #BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres

FYI, the New York State Museum is reconstructing a revolutionary era gunboat in public in one of the back galleries; it's fantastic.

Former residents say Liberty’s Godparent Home used shame and faith to force adoptions.

Also, the answer is simple: read queer histories. There are tons of academics for whom researching the queer and trans people of the past is their life's work, and they'd love for you to, you know, actually pay attention to it. For example:

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

This is slavery. What Trump is proposing is slavery.

there it is. you had to suspect one of the reasons the Trump admin didn't want to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home was they didn't want him telling people what they put him through and what it's like at CECOT reposting with alt text and linking to the filing storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"I regret to inform you that at 3 o'clock yesterday, my mind came to a stand, and has since then been stationary. Ere this intelligence reaches you, I shall probably be a snail." -- Emily Dickinson

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.   This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

History lesson: Before and during the Civil Rights Movement, folks actually made religious arguments against integration and interracial marriage. Indeed, in the decision that gave rise to Loving v VA, the VA trial court said that God put the races on different continents to prevent race mixing.

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Part of the reason that universal injunctions became so prevalent seems to be because Presidents are increasingly making huge legal/policy changes via executive order. Maybe we can get back to Congress actually making the law and the executive merely enforcing it??

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

Ben makes a solid point here. If there is no universal injunction power, blue states should start testing the limits. Pass a law that requires federal Medicaid funds to go to anyone wanting gender affirming care. Pass a law that says anyone with feet on the ground in America is a US citizen.

Since Mamdani won last night, NYC has FALLEN according to my friends there. It is utter chaos. They couldn't get in to their top 3 brunch places+their 4th choice only had spots at *noon* Sunday. The corner bagel place was out of everything. Bus was 5 minutes late and the bodega cat hissed at them.

This is amazing! www.washingtonblade.com/2025/06/25/i...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Last night after the polls closed, I said that I wanted Cuomo to lose and cry and leave politics forever. So far I've gotten 2/3 of what I wanted out of this primary, here's hoping for that last 1/3 🤞

congrats NYC, good for you guys. have another bagel for me

It is, I-don’t -care-what-the-AC-bill-is-next-month hot outside 😩

Eligible New Yorkers enrolled in New York State of Health’s Essential Plan can apply to get a free air conditioner through the Essential Cooling Program. It only takes ten minutes to apply, and applications are open through August 31, 2025: info.nystateofhealth.ny.gov/CoolingProgram

President Trump committed an illegal, unauthorized act of war against Iran. The American people don’t want another war in the Middle East. Congress must reconvene immediately to pass the Iran War Powers Act resolution to contain the fallout and prevent further dangerous escalation.

this is actually something I wrote about last year abortion bans and gender-affirming care bans both invoke states' established power to regulate health as a way to prohibit healthcare that saves lives, promotes equality, & threatens traditional gender ideology ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

These state laws banning gender-affirming care for youth are a product of religious-right and anti-LGBTQ activist organizing, starting in the years after Obergefell. We know this, because we have the receipts. Here's my 2023 investigation. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Our hearts go out to the children who have had their life-saving care stripped from them, to the families forced to watch their children hurting and not have the parental rights to help them, and to everyone else who will undoubtedly feel the shockwaves from the un-American Skrmetti decision.

"Strangio pointed out, among other things, the U.S.’s history of bans on cross-dressing." Yet today Barrett claimed that trans people are not a "suspect class," meaning they have not historically faced discrimination as a group.

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice we're willing to make." They acknowledge the harms of trans youth being left untreated and then greenlight banning treatment. It's psychotic wanton cruelty.

The federal government imposing a stop work order on Trevor project for the national 988 suicide hotline on the same day that the Supreme Court greenlit a ban on care despite the risk of suicide sends a clear message: The United States government officially wants trans youth to kill themselves.

Wrote this in 2022: www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...

This is coming from a woman who admitted during oral argument that she didn't know about bans on cross dressing. And Barrett still put it in her concurrence!!

My god this is so vile

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The statute Trump used to unlawfully federalize the National Guard last night was 10 U.S.C. § 12406, which requires that there be an invasion by a foreign country, a rebellion, or an inability for the President to execute law, it also requires the President act through the governors of the states.

🚨 YURIY UPDATE: Transferred to Batavia, Legal Help Needed! Glens Falls' Yuriy Zinovyev is now at Buffalo Detention Centre in Batavia. We're trying to hire an attorney, but resources are scarce. His fight continues. Our efforts won't stop. #JusticeForYuriy #FreeYuriy #IndivisibleADKSaratoga

I just love how birding introduces me to phrases I never expected, nor wanted, to read

Christian nationalism is a mental disease that rots all human empathy out of those affected. There is no other explanation for this.

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

>be utah >ban gender affirming care and commission a study to support the ban >study comes out showing the care is safe and effective >ignore the study and continue the ban anyways

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!