I was today years old when I found out that the Defiant CD player is a thing that exists

History is making fun of us

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

People claiming we need to define 'sex' purely by reproductive biology to save Title IX are missing the point. That narrow definition actually makes it harder to stop discrimination. You remove the broader gamut of gender discrimination in the process. Bostock didn't need a definition!

While losing the trans sports cases at SCOTUS is basically a given, I think SCOTUS is searching for the opportunity to do what For Women Scotland did in the UK. Take a narrow legal decision to "define sex" in a statute and use that as a broad mandate to push trans people out of public life.

The fact that the rightwing ghouls think that a tiny number of trans athletes would destroy women's sports tells you everything you need to know about what they think of women

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

ICE is engaged in a domestic war against Minneapolis. They have thousands of agents there outnumberring local police 5:1. They're pulling and person of color they see and abducting them. This is an ethnic cleansing campaign right out in the open and local political leaders and the media are silent.

These people will gleefully call peaceful protestors terrorists, but call an actual murderer who actually murdered someone a murderer and now you've gone too far. Jonathan Ross is a murderer.

I know it's hard to shock these days but Elon Musk going full Rhodesia defender and calling for the ethnic cleansing of the US should still shock you. These are neo nazi views that were only previously shared on explicitly neo nazi sites.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is going to hear West Virginia's effort to ban the state's only transgender athlete, 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson. Win or lose, I need your help making sure Becky knows she's a hero for standing up for what's right

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

FFFFFUUUUUUCCCCKKKK! www.ktvb.com/article/news...

ICE's use of force policy released under FOIA was almost completely redacted until it was accidentally released in court filing un-redacted. Read the full document here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

We need a new approach to the law that allows trans kids who have objections to their parents' religious beliefs to opt out.

After the mother of a 6-year-old was gunned down by ICE Laura Loomer made fun of the pronouns in her online bio. Today on Assigned, @billiejsweeney.bsky.social describes how contempt has been normalized by our media, enabling greater and greater atrocities. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Best of 2025 : peace and tranquility.

This is the ICE/CBP agent responsible for mudering a woman in cold blood. Source: @pabloreports.bsky.social

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

Multiple international crises with Trump taking a Russian Flagged ship, threatening to take Greenland by force, and kidnapping a foreign head of state. Now, CBP murdered a US citizen in Minneapolis. We aren't even a full week into 2026 and it's one horror show after another.

CBP just shot a woman "in the face" as she attempted to drive away in Minneapolis. Unconfirmed reports are that she's dead.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

Being at all involved in proposing genital inspections (of children) should get you on a list

1. Trump's recent pending rule change and a letter from HHS Secretary Kennedy threatening hospitals is resulting in hospitals ending trans youth care. Many trans youth are now forced to go without their medication. The threats are having a real impact. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Dear @nytimespr.bsky.social. Your press release re comments I gave to @transnews.network includes many errors but one assertion is true: “TNN featured an interview with a former editor on the International desk at The Times who was not involved in these coverage decisions.” That is the problem

Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine. No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment. Impeach. Convict. Remove.

Happy AGDQ week!

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

Every happy, successful trans person is a conservative policy failure. We must not just survive but also thrive despite all their attempts to stop it. Live your lives accordingly.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

This is the MO of much of the reactionary centrist crowd, supporting monstrous policies but pushing them with a veneer of civility.

The best of 2025 : Accountabiility.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Jan 1 2026 TruthOut: ACLU's Chase Strangio out with their 2025 reflections: "The swiftness with which the admin. has been able to do away with decades of meager but hard-fought protections exposes the limits of legal and policy work in securing meaningful protections." 1/2

🏳️‍⚧️Happy New Year!🏳️‍⚧️

You’ll see some comprehensive reviews of Trump’s all-out attacks on trans ppl in ‘25. I’m going ask you to keep the words below in mind. Think of them as an admission from his co-conspirator, the nyt: “To get on the wrong side of transgender activists is often to endure their unsparing criticism”

Another tech article credulously repeating the words of a technology guy who thinks AI are people (and incidentally thinks they shouldn't be given rights even if they are people because then we wouldn't be able to enslave and kill them on a whim): www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.

Imagine if this said judeo ideology. Maybe people would realize the genocidal nature of this headline.

HHS is trying to force Seattle Children's into doing a Sophie's choice of abandoning trans youth or see kids with cancer or other serious illness have their coverage and care disrupted. That's what this is about. Hopefully, the courts put a quick stop to this like the subpoenas.

I noticed a change in the last few weeks in how the NYT describes gender affirming care. They now use the term "gender related care" in their coverage. This term had only been used sparingly (4 times) prior to this year. Now it's becoming ubiquitous in standard coverage.

Not that we needed a reminder, but I guess we know the quality of education you're going to get out of Oklahoma now. To my trans sisters, brothers, and enbies in that state, I feel for you and hope you can improve your lot.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

1. The Trump administration last week made headlines with a new rule banning most gender affirming care for trans youth nationwide. Now, the ACLU is pledging to sue if the rule goes into effect. www.erininthemorning.com/p/aclu-pledg...

I wish journalists would stop calling the upper atmosphere tourists on the Blue Origin flights "astronauts"

Forcing kids to go through the wrong puberty is torture, and every person who voted for the anti-trans bills this week should be ashamed of themselves.

If they make a third Rio movie and don't name it tRio, I will be very upset

It's infuriating that people are getting rich lying about trans people being sex criminals while openly supporting actual sex criminals

Getting "oh one more thing"-ed a half dozen times in a work meeting ☠️

Justice for Ava.

Why is everybody's first question on seeing a Lego set, "How long did that take to build?"