No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in. 19thnews.org/2025/10/no-o... via @19thnews.org

No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in. 19thnews.org/2025/10/no-o... via @19thnews.org

No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in. 19thnews.org/2025/10/no-o... via @19thnews.org

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid It's racism all the way down

Fear caused by the Trump admin's turbocharged immigration crackdown is keeping pregnant mothers from the hospital. They are avoiding prenatal care. Others will give birth without their husbands and spouses, who have been deported. This stress caused by ICE makes pregnancy more dangerous.

We're so back

We're just over two weeks away from the Oct 13 deadline for @governor.ca.gov to sign or veto legislation. His office needs to hear support for our priority legislation. Today's ask: Call & ask him to support #SB59 — The Transgender Privacy Act — by @scottwiener.bsky.social#SB59 It's time to #SealTheDeal

I’m so excited to introduce Out Fits, my new queer athlete fashion column! We are starting with everyone’s favorite papi, Tash Cloud. Scroll to the end to get her look for yourself!

The joy of watching someone appreciate Natasha Hiedeman's "AUGH" [sic] tat for the first time

The secret to not being lonely is finding 2-3 buddies where you share one or two passionate things in common with and being able to listen intently when they go on about something you find inane and be happy for *them*. If you can do that you’re going to be more than okay, I promise.

The memo is a thinly veiled attempt to create a nonexistent conspiracy out of activists, nonprofits, and others pursuing equality and fairness for all — but we’re not afraid. We won't allow the government to scare us out of exercising our right to speak out.

I've seen a lot of people misunderstanding what this does and does not mean and Melissa does a great job explaining it's first and foremost a media strategy. Importantly, none of this is new and has been used against other groups and activists (Muslims/Palestinians, BLM, immigrants)

Even in the face of the SCOTUS decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor—the latest attempt to undermine the humanity of LGBTQ+ families—parents, students, & school leaders should know that California’s robust inclusive education & anti-discrimination laws remain strong. www.aclusocal.org/en/news/cali...

RFK Jr: The Amish don't have autism The Amish:

Way to capture the national mood, Willie! Everything, everything *is* bullshit. #FarmAid

Sorry it had to end that way, Valkyries. -- a fan of the Sparks, Liberty, and No Injuries BC

I may be American, but I’ll never be the Gestapo.

I stand with @carlscharles.bsky.social .

there simply isn't enough coverage of the fact that, as a matter of ideology and public policy, trump and his administration think domestic violence is good

Goddamnit. #nwsl #woso #fangrief

This is basic rule of law stuff: judges need to explain their decisions so the same standards are applied across the board, and lower courts are closer to the facts and should be respected. Stunning that this needs to be explained to SCOTUS, but it shows how far the Court has strayed.

Courtrooms are open to the public (unless there's a reason why specific proceedings are sealed) for reasons including but not limited to the 1st Amendment -- so livestreams of court proceedings also need to be open to the public. This morning I had to make like I was entering an appearance...

stop thinking about *your* use cases for technology start thinking about what are the use cases *for venture capitalists* we don't matter to them they are not making technology *for us* they are making it *for them*

‼️Tell CA Senators to end the privatization of public defense. California allows counties to privatize public defense via flat-fee contracts with private lawyers or firms, leading to worse representation, higher incarceration, and less safe communities.

Watch your muscles grow and your rights shrink.

Among other things this story neatly illustrates the use of "they" pronouns as a form of disrespect. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

We have way too many ways of criminalizing & even felonizing people—including & maybe especially kids—for just being either annoying or an inconvenience in a particular moment.

That's ten times what the federal government has ever spent on sex changes for trans people in prison btw

Add to dictionary: "decarceration"

There is so much context missing from the discussion of the Davis cert petition. People are understandably scared. It’s also incredibly dangerous to act like same sex marriage has already been overturned and much of the mainstream reporting is frankly irresponsible.

"We must center survivors, not panic." Great blog from @swopbehindbars.bsky.social about why freaking out about "sex trafficking" at major sporting events like the Men's ⚽️ World Cup is not just off-base, but actually harmful www.swopbehindbars.org/post/when-sp...

“youre goddam right im for ‘they/them’ theyre americans arent they?” its really not that hard to flip this shit right on its head if you actually want to

Mahmoud v. Taylor was an awful SCOTUS decision, an attack on the humanity of 🌈 families and on some of the basic premises of public education in a pluralistic society. But it’s not the end of the world or of inclusive education...

Untitled #14 by Agnes Martin, 1977 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137285

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

And *this* is why ppl being all centrist dad about age-verification really pisses me off. It's not that kids shouldn't be "protected" from harmful content, it's that the whole concept is problematic af & causes a shitload of secondary harm without solving things—teens will very much still find porn

Spotify putting AI-generated songs on the official pages of dead artists is a new and very low low www.404media.co/spotify-publ...

We need to start talking about the fact that Gavin Newsom is unelectable.

"I have total confidence that we will be okay. We will help one another. But we shouldn't fucking have to." -- parent of a trans kid losing access to care at CHLA

Sex work is migrant women’s day labor; massage parlors are their “Home Depot.” Street-based sex workers are street vendors. Like other precarious workers, they build safety networks to resist raids.

I'm really glad the anti-trans Medicaid exclusions were removed from Trump's billionaire bailout but a bill that still kicks 20 million (largely working class) people off their health insurance is still going to have a disastrous impact including and especially on trans people. Kill the bill.

It was the best of times for Medicaid inclusiveness, it was the worst of times

What’s striking about the SCOTUS stay here is not just (!) the risk that the govt will ship people off to countries where they may face serious danger, but that the Court is tacitly rewarding the govt’s repeated defiance of the district court

Love it when our president makes it clear that prices are no longer set by supply and demand, as they would be in a real free market, but by oligopoly, and the solution is not to break up too-large corporations but to shout at them in all caps.

The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.

Reading that piece you would think the bans were mountains that had always been there and advocates just mindlessly started an avalanche that buried us, when in truth we were dragged into an asymmetrical war overnight. The first ban in 2021 was so unthinkable it was vetoed by a Republican governor.

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Tonight!

Two things can be true: 1. Antisemitism is real. It upends people’s lives. It results in Jews dying. 2. Antisemitism is being exploited by the non-Jewish, antisemitic fascists running our nation to justify their agenda. They use Jews as human shields. 2 undermines our efforts to put an end to 1.🧵