The recent trans rights cases--Skrmetti on health care, the shadow docket passport order, and the pending athletics cases--should be seen in this context, as vehicles for chipping away at the promise of equal protection

🚨 US House of Representatives are voting on two anti-trans bills next week in an attempt to severely restrict gender affirming care for youth. HR3492 would criminalize parents and providers charging them with felonies if they even attempt to access care. Join us next week and fight back! Link ⬇️

Also #herps and #fieldbiologists, check out this job opportunity! If I was 10 years younger…. Wooo what an awesome job. www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-...

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I know it’s not technically a tv show but Dispatch has episodes so I’m going count it

Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸 vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Food pantries for pets: www.pethelpfinder.org/m/phf/35

The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.

Some good news for a change. www.genderjustice.us/minnesota-su...

We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies. Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.

This week on Boom! Lawyered, @hegemommy.bsky.social and I get into the anti-trans cases the Supreme Court is going to fuck up this term. The challenge to Colorado's conversion therapy ban in Chiles v. Salazar and the trans girls in sports case: Ms. Becky Pepper-Jackson v. W. Va. Dept. of Education.

It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org

Just in case any of y'all thought they'd actually filibuster the appropriations bills coming with all the anti-trans provisions and shut the government down. Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.

Please read MediaJustice’s report on Data Centers in South. Not only do these centers require an insane amount of water consumption that will impact our watersheds, but companies are getting discounted energy rates while every day families end up footing the utility bill.

alert: potential ban on federally-funded hospitals providing any trans health care is in the house hhs funding bill

Maybe the weirdest part -- and there are many -- is that this is just a thing some ants do. Like, this is not the only ant that does this. This one is just that much weirder because the other species this ant queen creates no longer lives anywhere near here. EXCEPT WHEN THE QUEEN CONJURES IT. 🧪

🚨 ‼️ At 8:30 tonight, the South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Committee quietly sent out an email announcing that on October 1 at 9:30 a.m., a subcommittee will hear public testimony on Senate Bill S.323.

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

Muslim person does something bad - All Muslim people are bad Trans person does something bad - All trans people are bad Black person does something bad - All Black people are bad Cis white guy does something bad - He had mental health problems

things just got substantially more dangerous for every trans person in the US. the most vile people in the country have been *waiting* for something like this as an excuse.

“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” Mayor Jacob Frey said. “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity.” www.advocate.com/crime/minnes...

Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

It's working, too; I heard about Bolton as soon as I got up, but it took until just now to hear about this production.

TW. Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

UPDATE: A spokesperson for the NPS told me that the agency and the DOJ are pursuing administrative action against several Yosemite employees and possible criminal charges against several park visitors over displays on El Capitan since 2024.

Really important article to read as NC is a pivotal swing Senate seat in next year's midterms. Will NC Democrats risk their chances of retaking the Senate by continuing to abandon trans people? Thank you @davidforbes.bsky.social for the excellent work.

Less than $700 left before Brave Space Alliance hits its 100k fundraising goal to support trans Chicagoans! Surely we can get this in front of the eyes of some cis gays with money and push it to the finish line? 🥺🏳️‍⚧️ www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...

Salmon don't need any more problems, but African Clawed Frogs might be a new one. Our newly-published experiment shows that these frogs easily chow down on eggs, alevin, and fry from multiple salmon species cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

The thing about this is, a HUUUUUGE amount of what NASA does is earth science. Most of the reason we are able to see Earth and what’s happening here is because of NASA. This would be like blinding us to our own planet.

Some good trans news to cleanse your timeline!

This is legitimately insane. It's not an exaggeration to say this is actually a full on bathroom ban for trans people because they're banned from using spaces of their sex assigned at birth too!

Vanity Fair did a profile on Sir Ewan Forbes, a trans man from the UK who transitioned as a teenager in Weimar Germany. www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

1. The DOJ under Pam Bondi is trying to scare businesses, hospitals, airports, and more which receive federal funds into banning trans people from bathrooms. We've seen this tool lead to mass compliance on trans healthcare and sports. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Stickers, pins, and iron-on patches are all now available for my queer Game Changer designs! Thank you so much to @samreich.bsky.social & @dropout.tv for the kind permission to make and sell these! Every sale really helps with my own trans expenses and creating more queer art 🏳️‍⚧️ canopyrobin.etsy.com

It’s good to remember there are still people out there doing the right thing.

New — I wrote about Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and his harrowing stories of what he witnessed while being there under the guise of distributing food aid to starving Palestinian civilians:

“It really is something,” a former senior administration official tells Rolling Stone. “They are just bragging about doing now what we all were told to downplay or lie about in his first term. … Incredible.” More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

New: After Gaza aid flotilla volunteer & US citizen Christian Smalls was taken into Israeli custody, seven uniformed individuals beat him, choking him & kicking him in the legs, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. Smalls is co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union.

If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️

Urbanization enhances biodiversity loss. Yet sometimes cities may *paradoxically* shelter species threatened by other components of global change We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇 📸G. Casbas doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

1. Multiple hospital systems are capitulating to Trump's threats and ending care for transgender youth. This includes hospital systems in blue states. Parents and youth are being detransitioned in some. S. Baum investigates the hospitals ending care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Looks like you can comment anonymously! There are only 35 comments currently. The FTC needs to be flooded with comments calling their transphobic rally horrific as well.

New It Could Happen Here 🏳️‍⚧️ @miawong.bsky.social talks with UPMC therapist Salena Binnig and TransYOUniting founder Dena Staley about the fight against UPMC's capitation to the Trump administrations anti-trans policies and how the community is fighting back. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Hospitals across the country are abandoning the health and safety of transgender youth under political pressure from the viciously anti-trans Trump admin. The latest is Children's National Hospital in DC. More from @alyssaur.bsky.social here:

A reminder that anti-vax bullshit was coddled for years in the mainstream of both parties. In the 2008 election, Barack Obama, John McCain, and Hillary Clinton all suggested more study was needed into vaccines and autism. By then, it was clear Wakefield paper was BS. prospect.org/article/thre...

Rush University System for Health is the latest Illinois hospital system to scale back its gender-affirming care for minors, amid threats from the Trump administration against institutions that provide such care.

NEW PAPER: Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data. ➡️ vist.ly/3n99bk6 #ornithology #birds #same-sexbehaviour #review #partnerships @tashgillies.bsky.social @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social Illustration: @bertillemohring.bsky.social

The loss of the microwave data means a hurricane could suddenly go from Cat 1 to cat 4 and there will be a significant delay in knowing it’s happening. This is a huge degradation of hurricane forecasting ability not just for the hurricane center but for all forecasters.