The Human Rights Campaign Foundation found that LGBTQ2S+ consumers represent more than US $3.9 trillion globally in purchasing power.

At the MD Dems summit? Catch my breakout session at 11:10 on connecting with the communities who will deliver wins for pro-equality candidates

This is worth stopping to read. It describes a kind of ugliness that no one, whatever their politics and whoever their target, should even think of engaging in.

Culver’s is the real thin blue line

beat Godrick tonight after grinding enough FP to summon Knight Engvall dude is yoked (Engvall, not Godrick)

The myth underlying this is that trans people (trans women specifically) were ever "invisible." We were objects of fascination, scorn, mockery, and fetishizing long before 2014 (for about the entire history of mass media really). What really broke a lot of brains was the idea we deserved dignity

Republicans spent at least $215m on anti-trans ads in 2024 and remain obsessed with attacking the LGBTQ+ community. Voters aren’t buying it. New polling from @dataforprogress.org finds that American voters prefer pro-equality candidates over anti-equality candidates ⤵️

Outbox: We're rolling out a slate of key endorsements as we double down on our work to elect a pro-equality majority this fall, in a critical moment for LGBTQ+ people across the country.

This applies to all patients that accessed care as minors at all NYC hospitals (not just the ones that have publicly confirmed they received subpoenas).

BREAKING: Federal judge grants patients' request to block DOJ from seeking or obtaining patient information via grand jury subpoena as to any transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care in New York City (including NYU Langone). More to come:

fuck no we're not doing any of that AFFORDABILITY SHIT we're doing ELECTION FUCKERY and NOTHING ELSE

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

get in loser we're moving the overton window left

what does a girl have to do to get verified around here

brb destroying my own local ecosystem to pwn sam altman please don't fucking do this

great headline

“JUST IN: Bored Ape Yacht Club says NFT companies need hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue or else they’ll go bankrupt”

My lobster too buttery, it's destroying America

You could not waterboard this admission out of me.

wegman's still uses "Global Village Coffeehouse" graphic design everywhere, including on their store brand products, and no other creative decision has made me *feel* something while shopping before

This price makes sense in the current fucked up moment The bigger question is how Altman and Musk and their ilk are going to distract people with bread and circuses when the bread is $5 and the circuses machine costs more than many people make in a whole paycheck

"Valve is a bad company because they are not eating a massive loss on the Steam Machine" a take that only bluesky could make popular

I think this is actually a fair point, but that in itself contains the answer: his actions collapsed any coalition of supporters he originally had, from every direction. He failed to please /anyone./

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

Elden Ring update

true to form we're all hopped up on mountain dew

I was re-reading this old story and I had totally forgotten about this quote. “How long until we start to see right-wing politicians become emboldened to start questioning their opponents’ sex and gender?” Flores said in a text message. Welp. Not long at all, I guess!

Do u like my new mug

Anyway editors I’m pitching a broad story about this if you’re interested! (I also have specific angles within it if you’d prefer but I’m gauging interest and already sending specific ones to places I know want them). I think there’s a great meta story about this being the diaspora World Cup!

This is yet another attempt by a corrupt Trump administration to persecute transgender people instead of addressing any of the problems that our nation faces. NO ONE should have to seek permission from politicians to access medically necessary health care.

On #LGBTQIAEqualPayDay sharing how the lack of federal data on LGBTQ+ folks makes it harder to identify and address issues #PrideInYourPay nationalpartnership.org/lack-of-lgbt...

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you

INAUGURAL HRC FOUNDATION DATA: LGBTQ+ people hold more than $1.4 trillion in annual spending power. And companies retreating from DEI risk losing LGBTQ+ customers at TWICE the rate of other consumers. That's not symbolic. That's measurable economic power. The findings ⤵️

FINALLY some good news in 2026

A couple of the nebulous streamers upload their stream VODs to YouTube and yes I’ve spent all evening watching queer people play a boat game

america is an ideal worth fighting for

Rep. Brandon Gill: "We particularly need the left to tone down the rhetoric ... somebody is gonna listen and believe they are the next Dietrich Bonhoeffer and act on that and that's what we're seeing here."

con: another invasive species has arrived in the DMV! they're a giant spider the size of your hand! pro: they eat lanternflies

if I have followers who are bookers for shows, podcasts, etc., I have a big story coming next week at the intersection of repressing political dissent, anti-trans policy, censorship, and organizing against ICE, and am available to come talk your face off about it

MSG panic continues

fun to see that most of what is in cheetos you would find in any decently stocked pantry and that the more "exotic" ingredients are just a few starches and food colorings

Few things will shock you more than learning how widespread and dangerous kratom abuse is. It may not be on the scale of the opioid crisis yet but it is ruining lives

"I just hate how woke, how lefty, Star Trek is now. I miss back when I was a kid and it just wasn't political at all." The Offspring Star Trek TNG March 12, 1990.

"I just hate how woke, how lefty, Star Trek is now. I miss back when I was a kid and it just wasn't political at all." Star Trek: The Next Generation on March 16, 1992:

oh god the lanternflies have progressed to the next stage

Dark Souls doesn't need an easy mode, I need to make peace with the fact that Dark Souls isn't for me and stop trying

Ten years on, we remember Pulse, a name that belonged to a place of joy for queer Floridians but was tainted forever in one night by one man with a gun and hate in his heart. We all deserve to live in a society free from rampant gun violence. #HonorThemWithAction

I don’t understand how people with little gaming time can enjoy Elden Ring I get maybe an hour a night to game at best, I don’t want to spend it dying over and over. I just can’t do it. Trying it tonight was frustrating

good morning to everyone except SCOTUSBlog Groupie