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.”

Here are the names of every blood tribe Nazi member who marched recently in Little Rock. Please Fuck around Nazis I forgot how much I like making you people find out.

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.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

well, that's (another) dealbreaker for Josh Shapiro in 2028 www.eenews.net/articles/rgg...

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

I had pointed my politics obsessed 14 year old here as inspiration, not to mention what I have learned from Lex’s work and others. This is such a huge loss.

This is a bid to create division that does not exist and I know a lot of non-trans queer folk who just will not have it. The cis queer people in my life are showing up and throwing down for trans people. These losers are the outliers. Don't listen to straight people about queer life.

Just saw a video on fedbook of straight people having a pink pony club themed 40th birthday party. If this was not also a coming out event, I hate it so much. It’s truly wild how culture makers from marginalized communities can be celebrated while those communities are under threat!

It’s like taking a stack of hateful flyers you find in a neighborhood and then walking around and handing them out and adding, “Wow, did you see this? This is awful.” …But then they are still left holding the flyers YOU gave them.

I'm an unemployed, disabled trans woman surviving off donations and now without SNAP like so many people. Needing $300 for a grocery order as priority atm. Amz: shorturl.at/FaojU Kofi: shorturl.at/Z3mfJ CA: $LuciNevins Vnmo: @ Harland-Nevins PP: shorturl.at/S694j

Ideally money, to an existing food bank. I've seen tons of pop-up mutual aid efforts in my small city in the last week. While I applaud the desire to support neighbors in need, imagine navigating dozens of random Facebook posts and email accounts to find food when you need it. Let's make it easy.

If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?

The whole Charles is on T storyline on Only Murders is just… it is wild the ways the experiences of trans life are being picked up everywhere by cis culture as we are losing.

I have been using fedbook related to some local stuff more and now I am seeing the horrible way local news is reported and a lot more transphobic stories and comments. I can see how it shapes people’s view of the world.

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

Today in, "we tried to tell you, but you were too busy hating on the trans..."

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th! If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends. drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...