My friend Grace Pinson is a trans woman and jailhouse lawyer leaving federal prison next month after 23 years and needs funds to support her re-entry. She's a badass, but of course she shouldn't need to be to warrant support. Donate and share! @deanspade.bsky.social bit.ly/welcomehomegrace

I say it all of the time because it's true: Islamophobia in the U.S. is absolutely one of the most tolerated forms of bigotry. It's everywhere, routine and rarely challenged. It's not surprising that teenagers who swim in this water from birth would also be Islamophobic.

EXCLUSIVE My big behind-the-scenes look into how Gov. Josh Shapiro has courted Amazon amid the mounting backlash to data centers Complete with internal emails, memos, an “exclusive” offer for help with faster permitting and a NDA no one would explain to me. My latest for @heatmap.news 😌

Oh yes - cannot wait for this!

wrote a protest song so simple i can play it on most of the instruments i own ;-) evangreer.bandcamp.com/track/come-t...

Donate to Grace Pinson's support fund today. Incarcerated trans people are under such intense conditions - especially in federal prison. Grace has done so much for trans folks!

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Handed out flyers about upcoming ways folks can get more involved with stopping a data center and also rapid response in my small college town today for 2 hours. It was great!

I hope others will join me in a paid subscription!

Hey I want you to see what we did today kansasreflector.com/2026/03/10/c...

"Gender non-conforming children continue to get the strong impression… that they’d be better off being something other than what they are.” Like: yes! True. It's impressed upon them over & over again they should better conform to their gender assigned at birth. With social consequences!

I wrote another newsletter. I am continuing to experiment with how speaking to others about how I am attempting to live now may build more relationships and opportunities with people to respond together. To build solidarity and to survive. buttondown.com/howdowelivet...

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Today’s hat.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

An older woman in my community was arrested for keeping $20 she found at a wal-mart self-check out. It is fake and I refuse to take any of it seriously ever again. We know how this system was built and continues to work.

I watched Songs from the Hole last night and was reminded by this beautiful film of the powerful healing folks take up in the face of machines of violence. And how it requires folks caring for one another. Moved to continue to seek ways of doing this in my worlds. www.songsfromthehole.com

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

We must live now and sometimes fight and sometimes rest and sometimes grieve and sometimes have fun together, writes @leighhendrix.bsky.social.

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

“[The Federal occupation of the city] want to pick off a few people and bring them up on charges. That might still happen, but it will be a farce of a trial. If there’s a conspiracy, it’s the entire city conspiring to be free.”

“This is what it is like to be a trans therapist for trans people. To believe that trans people have a collective future and to be some part of supporting individual trans survival.” Read our collaborative article with @xtramagazine.com by @leighhendrix.bsky.social now on Script!

A 180-gigawatt data center would need as much power as 150,000 homes. Power consumption, noise pollution and water consumption rank high among the concerns — but so does the question of who calls the shots in towns where they are built. buff.ly/yy7umLO

Proud to have this with @xtramagazine.com about being a trans therapist right now. I have wanted to share this experience and appreciate the support from @tmziniuk.bsky.social in doing that!

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

The Democratic Party is not only not opposition they are in fact a core pillar of MAGAs legitimacy, perhaps the most consistent force (outside of the literally billionaire-purchased media) in normalizing Trumps regime. Schumer and Jeffries aren't "inept", they're collaborators, our Vichy

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

hence the iconic @prisonculture.bsky.social piece from peak 2020 (gift link)

When it collapses it will seem sudden, all at once. But if something doesn't change soon this regime is finished. Keep striking, keep fighting, keep pushing where you can, keep building resilience and mutual aid, keep caring for one another and building the world you want to live in.

They are extremely unpopular, unable to significantly expand their forces (they are already poaching local police for ICE and reassigning significant percentages of FBI/ATF toward enforcement), lacking in organizational resilience and one bum ticker/blood clot away from total movement collapse

I wish for a world where Minneapolis does not have to repeatedly be a flashpoint for the most grotesque acts of fascist state violence. My heart breaks for the people of a city that deserves more than taxpayer-funded knees on necks and federal bullets through windshields.

Great read from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social on how Zohran Mamdani represents the best tradition of NYC’s Jewish socialists. Big thanks for the mini-history lesson of the radical secular Jewish activists who fought so hard for the rights of us all. @bendthearc.bsky.social @jfrejnyc.bsky.social

I will take it.

There is so much we have to combat in the field to try and help trans folks get halfway decent care. I am not surprised about this but really worried about how much more we are going to see.

“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary? “If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”

The stakes are just higher and higher for trans people now. We are under assault in every arena and this demonstrates how ready everyone is to abandon us. They are looking for the opportunity. Maybe you are too.

This is extremely bad and worrisome for obvious reasons, but it's worth pointing out that this was obviously the student's goal She knowingly wrote a garbage essay for her trans prof's class and when she obviously got a terrible grade stirred up a media storm This was clearly the intended outcome

So gross to see this as my community gets ready to be harmed directly by Shapiro's AI BS. We don't want it!

“what if they change their mind later” is never asked about cis kids going through puberty, even though they might be trans, which reveals that cis people view transness as a defect

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. We honor and mourn the siblings who were fucking murdered this year. We do this every year. I guarantee, these lists of beloved dead are not the only lists we remember. We remember everyone who made us make these lists in the first place.

Today was Day Two of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. Members of our Safe to Work community patrols hit the streets early this morning and observed federal agents preparing to spend their day questioning grocery shoppers.

If you want to honor her and her work, mask more places, more frequently.

Donated today in memory of Alice Wong. I know many others are as well. Join us!

Just a few weeks ago a client mentioned they had returned to reading Disability Visibility as a support. Grateful for the work and the commitments from Alice and the clear love she shared with her comrades that we are witnessing today.