Today on National Whores day - on the second day of pride month - it is important to remind everyone that without trans sex workers we wouldn’t have gay pride as we know it.

ICE attacked journalists at Delaney Hall, police obstructed one photographer with a broken knee from receiving medical care www.amny.com/news/photojo... www.instagram.com/reels/DY_WFj...

We will not sit passively as new technology is used to monitor and surveil us without our consent. This is why we have a contract; this is why we fight.

Mamdani's NYPD is going after the horrific crimes of... having nowhere to sleep, nowhere to pee, asking for money, and selling things to make a little money gothamist.com/news/court-c...

Here's how the Trump administration is chipping away at transgender health care access for adults With more than 30 interviews with trans adults, treatment providers, conservative activists and trans rights activists over the last two months. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

the Trump admin has already bullied some hospitals into ending gender-affirming care for minors, even in states where there's no ban on the books. and they are not content to stop there: now they want patients' records and providers' files and are turning to one federal judge to get them. my story:

seth moulton: not even once! from the bottom of my heart, fuck this guy

The UK is going to implement a national trans bathroom ban this week by fiat. archive.ph/aXsWh

Congrats to the Texas Tribune Guild for getting a contract with meaningful AI guardrails and common sense seniority order in layoffs. If TT's management can agree to these very basic things, so can @propublica.org's. Lets go @propublicaguild.org!

i like the latest mets hit celly because it kind of looks like a scooby doo villain shaking a fist at those meddling kids

Black trans woman Aleanna Belcher was murdered in Binghamton, New York. She deserved safety in life and dignity in death. Not deadnaming. Not misgendering. Not erasure. Read full report 🔻

Exclusive: Last year, she was demonized for grading a poorly written psychology paper. Now, Mel Curth is speaking out about being targeted by Christian conservatives and to correct misinformation she believes the University of Oklahoma allowed to spread. www.advocate.com/news/people/...

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

"In Montreal, most strip club dancers aren’t paid a salary. They rely on tips to earn a living and pay money to cover a bar service fee. They're walking off the job on one of the busiest nights of the year, demanding they be recognized as employees with the same protections as other workers." Good!

in april, Somerville public schools sent a memo to the school committee, saying they are exploring reintroducing police into the high school police were removed from sville schools in 2023 due to community pressure, after a 6yo black child was arrested in an elementary school #SomervilleMA

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

Good morning, as promised some info and thoughts on the NYC library budget. First, here's some background in case people are unaware of what came before: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

Happy Mother's Day

$upport sex workers unionizing in Nevada! unitedbrothelworkers.org

$15 dollars an hour. Seriously. $15 an hour. An absolutely insulting rate.

TOMORROW: Boston Bikes is hosting a Learn-to-Bike workshop for women and gender non-conforming people from 6 - 8 p.m. at WORK Inc. in Dorchester. The class is taught in a safe environment and can help you learn to bike for the first time or brush up on some basic skills.

NEW from me/lil scoop: HUD plans to rollback landmark protections for queer and transgender people in federally funded housing. prismreports.org/2026/04/27/h...

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

never been a better time to read HEALTH COMMUNISM! www.versobooks.com/products/280...

It will be extremely interesting to see what institutions like Fenway Health and NYU Langone do now. The ostensible reason for their ending of youth gender care is now gone - will they resume care for all the trans kids they abandoned?

also worth remembering that ending a Lyme disease (borreliosis) vaccine was one of the first victories of the American anti-vaccination movement that's since captured the federal government.

A phenomenal story from @theresagaff.bsky.social about how access to gender-affirming care for adults, like with kids, is shrinking. www.statnews.com/2026/04/20/t...

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

watching twin peaks: the return and the mets game back to back to produce emotions no human has ever felt before

restaurant workers fired and replaced by QR codes at daniel del prado’s cardamom chant “hey hey ho ho, QR codes have got to go outside the walker art center in minneapolis

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Watching the Dems try to use Zohran's "affordability" message without concrete plans like a rent freeze is going to make for a very painful couple of months

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

happy 17776 day everyone

I understand that most of us don't have the means to personally stop what's happening and there are many domestic victims of the US regime, but there's something very grim and galling about seeing Americans post "we must find moments of joy" every time our government murders children.

yeah and they are going to remain un fucking used oh my god. i get one of these like every few days

this is really good

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

The conversion therapy interest group profiled in this story with @hencarnell.bsky.social is cheering today's SCOTUS ruling. "Clients who have been forced to believe in LGBTQ ideology have faced irreversible harm in some cases," president David Pickup says. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

TDoV 🧵: trans visibility is a double-edged sword due to the Unmarked/Marked mindset: trans ppl face undue attention & scrutiny b/c we're marked. but we also face invisibility b/c ppl typically presume that every person they meet belongs to the unmarked majority (aka, cis)... youtu.be/xiU-G0mTYVY

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever. www.theverge.com/cs/features/... Here are a few stories from the collection:

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us. www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! We've just unlocked our Trans Cinema issue from 2023, guest edited by poet Spencer Williams. It is now (and forever!) entirely free.

lately i've been obsessed with the photographs of alison laing, which span from 1956 to the early 2000s for trans day of visibility, a new video about laing's life and legacy -- and the value of creating your own archive

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

Crossing state borders for HRT. Insurance denials. Missed surgeries. U.S. Catholic bishops imposed a ban on all trans healthcare throughout the church's massive networks. That's left working class trans people struggling even more. Our latest, by @davidforbes.bsky.social are some of their stories:

This piece is frustrating. The bulk of it is spent on the debate around licensing with a brief mention at the end of a major issue: Many older drivers live in areas without transportation options. Stricter licensing and more road tests are needed, but we also need to address car dependency.