Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

In recent years I have seen some trans people I know via online circles choose to move to the UK/Fl/Tx. It feels like serious failure in judgement/self-preservation An influencer is running out of T cuz UK waits, despite history of years of T. Made me want to vent Be safe. Plan ahead. Know risks.

That Lupita Nyong’o’s looks have made some of the most powerful men go completely insane and fight over her inclusion in this movie only goes to prove that Nolan casting her was absolutely correct bsky.app/profile/dail...

How old were you when you first learned that JFK didn't kill himself? Tune in this Thursday for more undeniable truth.

Pierre. Dude. You're at a stampede podium in a whimsical all white cowboy outfit. What is this tonal whiplash? 😂 Poilievre is such a weird dude.

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

For a very long time, the standard was whether or not the (male) doctor would want to fuck you.

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

What a weasely little liar dude

This seems likely a violation of the charter of rights and freedoms...

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

7. According to the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey, which had over 92,000 participants, roughly a quarter of transgender people whose identification documents do not match their gender identity reported experiencing verbal harassment, assault, or denial of services when showing their IDs.

As Trump Threatens Genocidal Attack, House Democrats Rebuked for Dragging Feet on War Powers Vote ​“Inaction from House Democratic leadership is complicity," said an organizer for the National Iranian American Council.

yes, please do not fedpost but also it is incredibly infuriating that the president of the united states can threaten to destroy an entire civilization with impunity and the rest of us have to say <redacted> a lot

Anything else is just sparkling brine-cheese

I like how you to go half way down the article to confirm that it was Israel bombing the UN.

My girlfriend vocal training by reading the communist manifesto ,😂💃🏳️‍⚧️⚒️

I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop. www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...

Fox News and Newsmax anchors say that anyone who opposes the Trump/Netanyahu war in Iran is antisemitic. TikTok Groypers say that the war is part of a Jewish banking conspiracy to flood America with refugees. For busy right-wing extremists, it can be hard to know who to trust.

So let me get this straight, @aaron.bsky.team perma’d a rape victim, and the account for her podcast supporting rape victims on the word of a hate campaign that credibly threatened to email said victim’s rapist after days of suggesting she was lying about her rape.

Well that's only mildly terrifying

🧵 This is so true. The US obsession with fantasy & the movies is astonishing to me. Whenever I touch on political culture & the post takes off, there are inevitably US comments relating to movies or TV shows. I still can’t get used to seeing adults … [1]

My partner has been looking for work for 10 months. Her status as a trans person has come up in most of the interviews she's had. I know the job market is shit, but the discrimination is pretty transparent.

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

All my qualms with the Catholics, I respect this. Power move. Also good for securing ongoing Catholic support in South America/Africa

If you ask a Mexican person if the food they're eating is spicy, you cannot trust the answer. You might hear "a little", "it has spice", or the classic: "No, it's not spicy at all." For years, I thought this was a national inside joke. The truth is much weirder and retrospectively obvious (1/x)

oh my god??

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...

Actually we don't talk nearly enough about conversion "therapy" or how evil it is or the fact that many people who go through it never fully recover. So many people, even cishet allies, think it's just like ineffectual talk therapy and that misconception is so dangerous.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

"guys ICE has terrible PR right now and everyone hates us, it's a huge problem" "I know, let's cause massive disruption at the biggest sporting event of the year"

1. In a major new federal rule, Trump is attempting to attach billions in international aid to recipients agreeing to impose anti-trans restrictions. This includes social transition "at any age," attempting to export transphobia globally. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I want to say this too: this victory was won because we had observers EVERYWHERE. ICE and CBP couldn't set foot in our city without cameras rolling. Much of the nation seemed determined to ignore our plight for weeks, but the avalanche of documentation we produced dragged the nation to us.

What he says here about liberal critiques of the culture war - "as if the terms of a fight can be determined by the person getting punched" - captures 98% of discourse about trans rights activism. "You're losing public opinion" no shit sherlock, do you have a spare $200m a year to even the scales

He-Man and the Pronouns of the Universe

Unpopular opinion, but if you’re the type of person who would see an unlikeable cartoon pfp dweeb say the most insane, easily debunkable, barely coherent nonsense about being trans and then let it control your life, you deserve what you’ve got coming.

Damn that's sad, kinda symbolic of the times tho.

When billionaires are gone, I guarantee we will see a decline in right wing/queerphobic comments on the internet to a ridiculous degree. The twitter fiasco that showed nationalities was really revealing about just how much astroturfing goes on in social media.

Oh good, I'm seeing "say her name" discourse again about the ICE shooting of Renee Good. 🙄 Abolish ICE

Looking at various (far) right forums it really seems like their reaction to Renee Good is to make it their own “kirkification” meme (i.e. you made fun of one of ours dying so we’ll do the same). and I can’t help but imagine that culturally they’re overplaying their hand

God this is all a game to these people DON'T TAKE THE BAIT, THEY'RE PLAYING 4D CHESS, IT'S A DISTRACTION FROM THE REAL ISSUES A woman is dead. A queer woman was shot in front of her wife by masked men. That's the reality. If you're trying to spin this to be about anything else, shut the fuck up.

By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.

When the Globe and Mail editorial board is warning that the Venezuela invasion represents a threat to Canada you know how serious the menace is from the gangster fascist regime.

Here's former UK PM, conservative Liz Truss pal'ing around with the "dark enlightenment" guy. Ya know, with people like Trump, Elon, Thiel, etc... and then this fight over Fuentes... I increasingly feel conservatism is drifting into moustache twirling villain territory and it is kinda surreal.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.