This bill, literally called the “CHARLIE Act,” imports definitions from Trump's odious EOs on race (EO 14190) and sex (EO 14168) into the federal statute for K-12 funding. It's not savvy centrist politics, it will not get them more votes. They know; they're bad people who like these parts of MAGA.

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seeing "transwoman" creep back into the non-TERF vernacular is some crazy work

“leftists are trying to spoil elections by purity testing candidates over trans rights!!” no man our rights are being taken away so we want to vote for people who will stop it. Not everything is a 3D chess political masterstroke you GW flunkie, Beltway drunk driver, lanyard wearing, dork ass loser

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

k cups are great for when you are too tired to make coffee, really need coffee, and have no respect for coffee.

For @ms.now I wrote about Barney Frank. www.ms.now/opinion/barn...

never fucking forgive them for what they've done to the computer

If this was African and African Diaspora Studies being mandated we’d see entire issues of prestige magazines pondering the disastrous implications.

i just flew in from handjob island and boy are my arms tired

i truly hate it when bluesky does this to someone. chris had memories of barney frank that aren't as negative as the trans community feels about him now. chris is a standout advocate for us, and i would pay for his work were it not on substack. i wish him the best and hope to see him here again

i want no quid pro quo. it was a perfect call option

Hell of a week for the opposition: 8 Senate Dems voted to confirm a Trump judge who wouldn’t admit Biden won. A Dem governor pardoned an election denier who orchestrated a breach of her county’s election system. 8 House Dems voted for a bill attacking trans rights in schools. Feel represented?

a big part of the problem is that there's no way for this statement to reach the right people. they're watching people they trust, raging at straw people. how do you get hardcore fox news fans to realize they're being manipulated? asking for a mom

basically the whole thing is the result of a conspiracy involving less than 10 bilious transphobes, most of them at The Atlantic or the NYT bsky.app/profile/kiss...

Just saw a post from a Mississippi Gulf Coast high school deadnaming their trans salutatorian. The replies are filled with hundreds of students, locals and fellow Mississippians correcting/admonishing the school and calling him by his correct name. And this is in a very conservative county.

In case you've ever wondered what it's like to be trans in 2026: friends are texting each other today to be safe again, as we do every week, because the richest man in the world is yet again boosting false claims that neo-Nazis who attacked the Mosque were trans and there's a conspiracy to hide it.

we don't have a business model where tech workers have the leverage to demand this obvious win. my theory is that executives are obligate extroverts and cannot understand why an autistic engineer wouldn't want to work in their beautiful open plan pit

God, it's so annoying to see posts from people talking about how awesome he was when he literally used his dying breath to go after trans people, a continuation of decades of being an antagonist.

An example of how the term LGBTQ gets used in establishment media to flatten and obscure. Frank was notoriously hostile to trans rights, and wasn't particularly keen on queer communities broadly outside a swath of gentry white cis gays. The main trail he blazed was for his own power.

what officials do about disputes (that they fabricated) is, to my mind, the law itself

a conservative stands athwart history shouting I DON'T READ HISTORY

Playboy created a Bluesky account and their first post is to complain about AI. They already understand the Bluesky userbase better than the bluesky devs

The AI boom is unsustainable because the entire thing is predicated on cannibalizing the future. Is this a better way to search? Maybe! Will there be anything new for the AI to search if no one gets web traffic from Google Search anymore? There will not.

exactly one Jan 6th protestor received proportionate punishment and she received it on Jan 6th

i'm running for governor as a democrat. my platform is "better than republican." once elected i will veto any attempts to make the world a better place, and try to curry favor with republicans anyway. i don't sincerely hate you, i just think screwing you might make me president some day

i like to suck on men. i like getting railed by men. i do have some preferences, though they're flexible, but the main thing is to take my safety seriously and pay attention to what's working for me. anyway despite the ubiquitous availability of male attention i almost exclusively fuck trans girls

you'll feel dumb when they solve the fundamental problem with this technology and the rich are no longer in control

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

cis people are tired of hearing this and if they care they feel powerless. but when we say there's a genocide we are not using hyperbole. many are already dead and they want it at scale. that's the only reason to make these lies

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, at CAP event, on how House Democrats see this moment: “Either MAGA extremists are going to break the country, or we’re going to break them. And our goal is to break them. We will defeat them. We have to beat them electorally and then we have to break their spirit.”

i thought i had seen bureaucratic hell but then i tried to get a temporary no parking zone for a moving truck in Seattle

they killed the golden goose for AI, but also killed the smaller sites that made search useful in the first place. really never thought i'd prefer DDG on quality grounds but here we are

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

too soon

first 3 ketamine sessions: that felt better during, but i'm still depressed in between 4th session: experienced my own death, now i want to snap at everyone over everything

it's an indictment of the American character that a vicious dementia patient who single handedly doubled the cost of fuel and says shit like "you are all subhuman vermin lol" any time he's near a live mic still has 39% approval

"mmMm cis pEoPLe getting SURGERY or HORMONES is just gender affirming care!" feels spiritually the same to me as "did YOU KNOW transmisogyny affects cis women too???" empty gotcha that still forefronts cis experience, a glib workaround for just talking about how we deserve control over our own lives

transition has brought to my constant awareness how much i envy other women for what they have that i can't have; in turn i can provoke envy for what i have that others don't. i find it's best to solve these problems by completely isolating myself

that's not what concessions means

rockets famously operate like buses or trains, making stops to pick up passengers who are sufficiently prepared

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

I AM BEING SILENCED FOR MY CHRISTIAN BELIEFS! i mean, when i talk shit about other faiths people handle me with kid gloves. and when i share my beliefs in mixed company, people politely smile and nod. all i'm saying is the government should be christian and you should obey its teachings

also a tidbit they made me learn in partial was that emotional tears contain cortisol

this puts it so well. i concede that there are chemicals and receptors in my brain, and that i experience things differently when i take drugs that change them. this tells me almost nothing about my problems though (id: social media post about "releasing cortisol")

i hadn't heard about this and am thinking about why

you’re telling me every person in this big city sitcom ensemble is just walking around raw-dogging gender using nothing but the names and pronouns their mama gave them?? all eight of them??? AND everyone they work with and date? impossible. who would live like that