Fucking stupid excuse for a city, can’t keep buses from getting stuck 3 days after a snowstorm

HAPPENING TONIGHT: We’re hearing from Minnesota leaders and mobilizing our community to hold ICE accountable. Join us at 6 pm ET for a community action call, where we’ll cover how you can take action and protest tips for the weeks ahead: hrc.im/jan28

The cat distribution system works. It is beyond questioning. This is their kitty cat now.

“the district,” January 2026

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I should have learned by now that it is not worth writing things and putting them on the internet.

Donald Trump must fire Kristi Noem immediately. Or Democrats will initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.

“The detainment and now the order to deport Victor Acurio Suárez is morally bankrupt,” Congresswoman Sarah McBride said. www.advocate.com/news/sarah-m...

we’ve had one vindman, yes, but what about second vindman?

While their untrained, vicious, violent ICE agents brutalize Minneapolis, the Trump administration takes aim at Minnesota’s kids over policies that treat transgender youth with dignity and respect. We stand with Minnesota.

It’s our constitutional right to record ICE and other federal agents. Join us and @indivisible.org TONIGHT to learn how to protect yourself and your community from rampant abuses of federal power: https://www.hrccommunityhub.org/?nd=community_home&community_id=96&community_event_id=5459

His dying words were asking about the safety of someone next to him Hero

so this snowstorm seems like kind of a dud? only 2-3" outside in DC

When ICE terrorizes our streets, NO COMMUNITY IS SAFE. We stand with Minneapolis.

Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

To repeat: Abolish ICE.

Iran is one of 12 nations that still execute queer people. But that’s not stopping the Trump admin from deploying ICE to endanger our community’s lives. It’s the same terror that murdered Renee, imprisoned Andry, and continues to force LGBTQ+ people to live in fear. Do not let this go unnoticed.

there's new noiselund and it made me cry (bop bop bop)

trans folks: you are all well-acquainted with the public notice & comment process now go forth & do it for the sea otters:

I just think she's neat

Fox reporting the Trump admin. is moving to expand the global gag rule, barring recipients of aid from even discussing trans people or issues, under the umbrella of "gender ideology" This puts medically necessary health care at risk for people around the globe in service to a culture war agenda.

Important meeting happening today at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), where they are expected to roll back anti-discrimination and anti-harassment guidance to companies.

Costco is, in fact, America's single greatest export, so this seems pretty reasonable

For All Mankind is great because as it has gotten dumber and worse, as a TV show, it has also started exploring some of the most interesting science fiction ideas on TV. It's like gas leak The Expanse. I love it very much.

leaving this here for no particular reason

fun fact: the same woman who wrote “Measure of a Man,” one of the best hours of science fiction ever put to film, wrote the insane Space Irish episode where Riker washes a lady’s feet

Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.

oh no it's time to update truenas again

It’s 27 degrees in DC and I’m in my shop, trying to warm it up enough to do epoxy work on a coffee table It’s important to have things outside of advocacy

No Kings means No Kings

god everything is awful but this is one point of bright beautiful light that I get to watch tonight

McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring

Exclu: New @hrc.org data shows how Trump’s return is impacting LGBTQ Americans ➡️ nearly half report “being less out somewhere in their lives” ➡️ 30% say social acceptance has declined over the past year ➡️ 2/3rds of trans & nonbinary adults reported difficulty accessing health care First to @ms.now

I'm gonna say this with all the kindness in my heart: you aren't going to survive if you don't let your life have room for other things. This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.

For no reason in particular, sharing this article from 2020 where I spoke about the dangers of the indiscriminate use of tear gas on people's reproductive health:

I think one of my biggest gripes re: new Trek is, in an era where all of our values are being interrogated every day and the world is falling apart, I don't want to watch a deconstruction of the thing that brought me joy and comfort - I just want to watch more of it, in new combinations.

Sure Will Stancil might be "outside", "doing his best within his limited means to interfere with ICE operations" but that pales in comparison to my strategy for fighting fascism: staying inside and posting about how much I dislike Will Stancil and find him annoying.

If this can be stopped, it must be stopped. Congress must act.

Worth a read, and if you forget now, it'll be in your inbox as part of HRC's "A.M. Read" later this morning we try to get it out while it's still the A.M.

It's not enough that trans people are having our health care and rights denied to us. They won't be happy until we're denied even the most basic level of respect and dignity, too

Important thread on the oral arguments taking place right this moment at the Supreme Court, in cases whose importance goes far beyond just sports:

huh. did anybody know they made a sequel to "To Sir, With Love"? like literally it's To Sir With Love 2 and it's set in Chicago

honestly for my money the best niche celebrity cameo I've ever seen is Nicholas Meyer in the Trial of Tim Heidecker

I cannot believe I am saying this but I am looking to hire someone to create a retro-style t-shirt design of Bill Kristol for a... thing. reply or dm with your rate?

Renee Good should still be here. She was a beloved child of God, with inherent value and infinite worth. She was murdered by her own government in broad daylight in what is supposed to be the greatest democracy on the planet.

NEWS: Five transgender service members from four branches Trump forced to retire were honored in a historic ceremony led by retired 4-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal. “We need the talent that shares the courage, commitment, and character to serve,” he said about them. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

more and more people are saying that radical social democracy with RAND corporation characteristics is the wave of the future

maaaaaaan martinis are really Good