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"I need the mayor to put his money where his mouth is," said activist Ceyenne Doroshow, the founder of GLITS, a Black-led trans advocacy organization. "I have faith in him getting this done. But I need him to do it." hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-prom...

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Relatedly, if your local library has a pride display: go to the librarians and thank them. Tell them you love it and want to see more like it!

We are seeing an influx in youth homelessness again, esp trans kids looking to escape non-affirming families and in an increasing number of cases, outright conversion therapy. Affirming shelters have lost all funding. Find out if they need toiletries, volunteers, supplies, food, transportation.

what this shows is that it has always been within the power of congressional republicans to say no to this man, and they must be held accountable for all the times they did not

these people are out of their gourds

So what you're saying is that I should make sure there's a return on my investment? What are you, INSANE?

Seattle Street Artist’s mural Tribute to Alex Pretti; veteran nurse killed by Border Patrol officers #StreetArt #mural #AlexPretti #tribute

(This is why masculinity is always in crisis, because it's in a perennial state of needing to be 'proved' through ritualistic patriarchal violence against the abject and effeminised. What is 'manly' is often synonymous with what is reactionary.)

Yes. I think it also shows how destructive letting him get away with everything has been. Everything *has* worked out for him in the end. It’s not shocking this has exacerbated his already nontrivial tendency towards hubris.

The Catholic Catechism and the Baptist Confession of Faith state explicitly that God is neither male nor female, has no body or physical form. To think of God as biologically male diminishes the very nature of God. Everyone from Billy Graham to the Pope to the Anglican Church agrees on this.

happy first day of pride 🌈

Oh did you guys not enjoy Chud Stalingrad

No one: The New York Times:

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

I do not understand why it's not obvious that transphobia is a mechanism for enforcing patriarchy. Trans people are transgressive in the eyes of the patriarchy because they are going against their "biological destiny" and this idea is the basis of all oppression of cis women too.

The transphobic wave worldwide is about defining and enshrining [hegemonic which in the West manifests as white] womanhood, which places heavy emphasis on mandatory heterosexuality, reproduction, and acquiescing to being exploited as such with a smile. Trans women are being made an *example*.

100% serious not being sarcastic: Trans women have been trying but I think we really need more cis women to say it

This is really outrageous when you think about it. A jury found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll. News coverage often frames it like they’re political opponents.

This truly should be the first and last piece of information someone needs to understand how much things have degraded.

Love this concept.

Lotta people turning up to say a woman can't win in America that don't seem to account for one fact and one obvious inference: -Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump (or any other candidate) -If Harris ran in today's political environment, I guarantee she'd win

Their new girlfriend is women

an under-discussed issue in our politics today is how worried the average democratic lawmaker is about their own/their family's safety, and whether they can trust state/local security

In 1854, a small force of US Marshals entered the city of Boston to capture Anthony Burns, a runaway slave, and return him to Virginia in chains under the Fugitive Slave Act. When a large crowd gathered to prevent this, it was Boston police who protected the Marshals and brutalized the crowd.

if you're obsessively fixated on the minutiae of how people feel and express attraction to you to such an extent that you feel alienated from the entire process and from your own body, perhaps the issue is not entirely coming from outside the house.

Pride month is coming up and I cannot tell you enough, cis people, that the best thing you can do right now is stand up for trans people financially, publicly, and in any way you can think of so this witch hunt ends, once again, with bigots on the wrong side of history.

This is very cool. This type of support for trans people should be the bare minimum. It's really a shame that Steyer is the only one in the California governor's race willing to stand up for trans people like this.

the way that laundry and dishes and groceries just keep….happening……

While I’m frustrated, I also want to be fair and highlight how he was boxed into this recent statement because it’s worth following the timeline. He’s attempted allyship quite a bit, and should be lauded for it. But he was predictably attacked by the right and this time he flinched and fell for it.

I don't find this scary. I find it very encouraging the government lawyers exposed to the inner machinations of MAGA are saying we need a new constitution. We need to hear MUCH more of this & we need to hear it OUT LOUD!

IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Built My Entire Society Around Fanatical, Slavering Adherence To Gender Norms and Now My Own Life is Unpleasant

At this point, I have to imagine this is the best shot Dems have had to turn a Texas seat blue since forever. Between Paxton, the current political climate, everything costing a bajillion dollars, and rhetoric like this, they'll never be more ripe for a loss.

It bears repeating periodically: so-called "centrist" ideas in U.S. media/politics about how universities "lost trust" + brought punishments on themselves mirror authoritarian rhetoric about the alleged failings of universities in repressive nations. It's chilling how poorly this is understood.

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

Yes!!!! NJ advocates have been working so hard on this.

The Trump admin is bragging about starving children. Don't take my word from it, hear it from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/05/food...

Honest to god, how embarrassing.

This is, to note, almost entirely as a direct result of Trumpism and DOGE. Totally wilful destruction.

bari weiss seems dead set on turning cbs into some country club maga shit and theres no market for that. you either have to offer up red meat like fox or at least dress it in nice clothes like the wsj. the audience for cbs news may be older but theyre not red hat kool-aid drinkers.

the cake is DELIGHTFUL

Actually, I’m a working writer and I don’t use AI because I enjoy all the parts of the work that are me doing the work.

i was such an avid reader of stuff i did not even get CLOSE to understanding as a kid and all it did was make me read more, and ask more questions about the world. there's a concerted effort from almost every consolidated power on this planet to make people less curious!!!!

If you are discoursing about the modernizing kid kit NYT piece , you are legally obligated to call your reps today bc there are like 5 FEDERAL book banning bills republicans are trying to advance at any given point in time

(so's "manhood") (in fact, the social construction of manhood is something we need to consider more, given that it's taken as the default of humanity rather than a designated role in a violent regime of patriarchal enforcement that can be undermined or abandoned)

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”