“In fact, President Trump is so pro-family, he’s calling himself the ‘fertilization president.’ And if reading the phrase ‘fertilization president’ just made you throw up in your mouth a little bit, that’s called morning sickness. Congratulations, you’re pregnant.”

Once again we have created the torment nexus

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

And there's going to be a lot of sketchy-to-blatantly unconstitutional orders coming in the next year.

We can learn so much from disability history and the disability justice movement.

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

It’s my 12 tranniversary today. That means I’ve spent more of my adult life on estrogen than without it. It’s weird to feel more scared about my future now than I did back then. But, I’m not going anywhere. I worked too damn hard to become the person I am.

This is literally all of Medicaid btw

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

"I'm complying in advance!"

not really. most of what T***p has done through his career has been illegal but not punished; T***p is above the law, as we have seen. anyone else would have been prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated long ago.

Musk knows less about writing code and data structures than a first year PhD student in bioinformatics teaching themself Bash, R, and Python.

Who would have guessed that siphoning off the balance sheets of hospitals to buy some private equity douchebags more yachts and Congressmen would result in a drop in patient care?

They really want to force young white women out of the workforce. And it is wild to watch conservative white women stump for their own subjugation. Because when they are not longer useful they will find out the cage isn't even gilded

Eugenics against disabled people are ramping up, it’s BAD, we will die VERY QUICKLY. What you’re doing RIGHT NOW is what you’d have done “back then”. We NEED nondisabled people to speak up, to act up, to do SOMETHING, because your voices & actions always carry more weight in our ableist society.

Can we just shove a certain loud mouthed bootlicker trans woman back her glass closet and lock the door? She’s such a waste of oxygen.

I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.

framers couldn't account for the speaker of the house being a pathetic toady

The idea that they’re “dissolving” a congressionally-created, cabinet-level department that’s existed on its own for 45 years, and within the cabinet for 70 years, on the say so the president, an unelected billionaire, and like 3 racist code-monkeys is…well, fucking insan

Let’s be honest here The “return to office” obsession that’s happening is because US capitalism is a high-control cult. They want people monitored for dissension and to ensure as much energy is wrung from them as possible. An exhausted, burned out working class is less likely to revolt

Clip and save this for when he spends the majority of his time at his golf courses again, I guess

SCOOP: Texas State Law Library has removed public access to their LGBT Law name/gender marker change information page. This is especially concerning as there are already limited resources for options trans people from Texas have for changing documents. Texas ignores gender change court orders.

I saw someone name drop @nataliereed84.bsky.social as important influence today! Nice to know people still think about trans writing that’s mote than 5 years old.

If you think resisting the nazis was only about active violence, & not also about the grinding & halting of gears, the bureaucratic sabotage, the disruption of process, then go reassess what you understand about history. It's not everything, but it's a slowdown for them, & breathing space for us.

Like… the very concept of the rule of law is in fucking shambles, to be sure, but it takes them time and cost them effort even to dismiss shit. Every second gained through procedural delay is a second in which material resistance can be organized and enacted, and safety shored up.

If you don't understand the powers and procedures available to the party in minority by which they can stymie the agenda of the party in majority, please don't come to me making it my problem. Like, your basic failure to learn from very recent history is neither my fault nor my responsibility.

I wrote about the decimation of "reality" for @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social last week but the big upshot is this: the tech bros hate knowledge and they would rather fund a wrong computer to give them (and the world) bad answers than learn anything from people who aren't just like them.

German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal elections techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/g...

Conservatives about trans people just existing as teachers, academics, etc: “Burn them all!! ROOT OUT THE EVIL INDOCTRINATORS” Conservatives about a federal employee with long history of posting violent racist shit: “ZOMG cancel culture, let’s not be too hasty, what if he’s good at his job?”

They called 17 year old murdered child, Trayvon Martin, a grown man.

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."

ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:

Republicans lose in Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled — unanimously — that the head of the state's Elections Commission, Meagan Wolfe, can stay in her role until a bipartisan commission replaces her or she resigns. Republicans sought to fire Wolfe despite evidence of no wrongdoing.

Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing? DON'T DO IT. If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT. Document, document, document. Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document

this is just untrue, Democrats need him out as leader, just so embarrassing

BBC article: “Dr Upton had planned to arrive at work with a female colleague, but the colleague was late…Dr Upton therefore went into the changing room alone - before Ms Peggie WALKED OUT OF A CUBICLE” This whole case is a GC attack weapon, brought to cause harm.

I’m sorry but “trans people are not invisible.”? What the fuck is that supposed to mean? No shit we’re not invisible. It’s a full blown moral panic to the point where cis people are getting harassed for supposedly being one of us.

a really small thing journalists can do when writing stories about trans people is let them choose their pseudonym if they're using one

It turns out the NY doc indicted for telemedicine abortion care in LA was once MY doctor. Hands down the best I have ever had - I broke down in tears on my 1st visit because I had never received care like that & didn't even know it was possible Pls support her if you can: www.theactgroup.org/donate

Madonna all accidentally unpacking transphobia and femmephobia like Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short Wear shirts and boots 'cause it's okay to be a boy But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading 'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading

We've warned for years that on-campus surveillance (the explosion of CCTV cameras, schools using facial recognition, keycards that track student movements, etc etc) would be weaponized by a future government to chill speech and attack vulnerable students Welp... www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/tru...

The federal government built the internet and bankrolled nearly every tech innovation of the last 60+ years, one way or the other, from the “mother of all demos” in 1968 to Biden’s bailing out billionaire VC nitwits who did a run on Silicon Valley Bank in 2023