If you're getting ready for SCOTUS season, you need to add this webinar to your calendar! 9/30 discussion with experts about the Roberts Court www.americanprogress.org/events/twent...

Today is the final day to submit a comment to the FTC's request for information on gender affirming care. You can submit your comment directly to them or use A4TE's portal. Either way, be sure to remove personal information. transequality.org/ftc-hands-of... www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...

Interesting new poll out from the 19th/SurveyMonkey! 19thnews.org/2025/09/poll...

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No notes. He also did an interview with stat news (but its behind a paywall). www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I have been sirred and maamed on the same day in the same clothes. Its wild how bad we are at gendering people

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Extremely devastating, the Trump admin has cut the Hunger Report, which has run for 30 years and is an important tool to capture food insecurity in America. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

The people telling you Tylenol isn’t safe are the same ones who told you to drink some bleach and try horse de-wormers. 🫠

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Also I'm extremely worried that parents of autistic kids who hate autism are going to totally misunderstand this fake science and withhold pain relief from their autistic kids.

So the gov't is about to tell people that tylenol during pregnancy "causes" autism. Which achieves at least 3 of their goals... **from a gender and politics scholar**

You can’t fix the AI problem in higher ed until you fix the labor problem. We need more long-term, livable contracts for instructors, a lower teacher to student ratio to de-incentivize assessments that AI can do, & more support for instructors. If the unions give in, we’re ~cooked~ .

The Dept of Ed has put out new proposed definitions for their grant-making in the future. They're calling it "patriotic education". This is classic fascism and I'm not using that word as a 'gotcha'. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

@mapresearch.bsky.social just put out an incredible new report "In their own words" sharing the stories of LGBTQ youth! Check it out: www.mapresearch.org/file/MAP-202...

Today is my partner's birthday and we're all going to celebrate it for a tiny bit of joy amidst all this bad news.

NEW: As the Trump-GOP budget's colossal cuts to health and food assistance loom, state lawmakers have two options: Let constituents pay the price, or take action and tax the rich. Amber Wallin of State Revenue Alliance in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social:

The admin has published their Spring 2025 Unified Agenda (where they lay out all the reg plans currently in the works). www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eA...

Happy Silksong Day!!! And happy anniversary to me!!!

In October I'm going to Dartmouth to do a guest lecture and meet with some post-docs. To say I am excited is an understatement. I miss & love universities because I love teaching and watching students' grow.

Went outside this weekend and touched pond. Happy anniversary to us! Love being trans and queer with my partner 💜💜💜

Removing data means we can't accurately estimate our populations, and without data, it is really hard to tell our stories for broad audiences. theconversation.com/weve-been-tr...

What Louisiana is doing in the Voting Rights Act case — see @rickhasen.bsky.social: electionlawblog.org?p=151805 — is a more extreme iteration of what Mississippi did in Dobbs, blowing up a case at SCOTUS by bringing an extreme argument late in the game b/c the SCOTUS majority signaled it wants it.

We cover the cuts to our health care pushed through by Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress, with the most harmful cuts strategically delayed until after the midterms, but giving us a window to fight back w/ @americanprogress.bsky.social‬. https://www.momsrising.org/bt18aug25/?source=bsky

WATCH: Tune in for AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler’s State of the Unions address, where she will discuss what lies ahead for our workers, for our labor movement and for our country. Aflcio.tv

CAP tech policy expert Nicole Alvarez wrote about how the admin is abusing our data for surveillance www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Just so we’re clear.

Trump’s authoritarian DC takeover has cost more than $15 MILLION. How could we better spend that taxpayer money? - 1,558 public housing units. - 1,172 Head Start slots. - VA medical care for 882 veterans. - Health care for 5,219 low-income children. What an absolute disgrace.

Haven't seen a lot of coverage about this which is sad, because this change is very very bad. Also ironic(?) given the admin's push for more AI in gov't agencies. www.404media.co/the-governme...

States can and should resist federal overreach when it comes to voter data!

Sorry for the paywall article but this is important. Children’s Hospital of Philly (CHOP) fights back against DOJ investigations. www.inquirer.com/health/chop-...

I want us to think about AI/data centers the same way we reflect back on they era of oil speculation. Mass drilling, destruction of land, fights over land rights, manipulating infrastructure monopolies, economic bubbles that pop when the magic resource (AI in this case) doesn't pan out. 1/3

She's beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe...

Let's goooooo! Good news for small things feels amazing right now.

At last count, over 20k health workers have *officially* lost their jobs and put our public health infrastructure in a gridlock. We've lost scientists, regulators, and support staff. Labs can't afford supplies and safety inspectors can't do their jobs. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

On October 7, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, which is about Colorado's ability as a state to regulate mental health care providers and ban conversion therapy. This is an extremely important case. www.interfaithalliance.org/post/the-mor...

@moreperfectunion.bsky.social has excellent coverage on the impacts of data centers on local communities, infrastructure, & environment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=20qF...

The Election Assistance Commission is meant to be an independent agency, but we've seen how that goes under this admin. They release guidance docs and have grant programs. www.eac.gov

NEW: DOGE affiliate Chris Sweet has developed an AI tool that is being used to rapidly slash government regulations, according to details of a meeting reviewed by @wired.com. Scoop by me: www.wired.com/story/sweetr...

The scientific method and our ideas/means of proving causality were created by philosophers.

I'm beginning to think that maybe this wasn't really about protecting women's sports... www.mediamatters.org/outkick/anti...

Days after the president's call for a "new" census, the top official overseeing the Census Bureau told employees that Congress, not Trump, has final say over the tally, NPR has exclusively learned.

A friend of mine asked for some help figuring out what is happening to their Medicaid coverage, so I wanted to share the information that I pulled together for them! FYI here's CAP's timeline on implementation that you can use to map out your access timeline www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Disparate impact provides protection 4 some of the most vulnerable, including disabled ppl & Black & brown ppl. Folx have become masterful at writing policy that seems equal, but disproportionately impacts folx who've been historically marginalized. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Supreme Court is extraordinarily unlikely to use this case as a vehicle to overturn marriage equality. The merits of Obergefell aren't even the central legal issue in the case. I understand the fear, but this is not a serious request. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...

Dropping a 2 year old interview between ContraPoints and the PodSaveAmerica guy for no reason whatsoever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7yc...

AI should have been called "automated inference" because that's all it is.