Please share: Transgender people and allies gathered on a street corner outside a dollar store in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood on Wednesday night for a vigil held in honor of Eryka Caldwell, a 41-year-old trans woman who was fatally stabbed in a nearby apartment on May 17.

Delighted to see NION women Australia launch overnight. Started by one of our UK team, who took it with her when she moved, and surrounded herself with good people. Please welcome @Nionwomenaus over on Instagram, share their letter and sign if you’re based there 🙌 actionnetwork.org/forms/nionwo...

Daffys very role is an unpopular opinion. Chuck Jones said that “Bugs Bunny is who we want to be but Daffy is who we are”: vain, self-centered, terrified at the world and the judgments of others, this plucky duck represents the very darkness at the heart of man’s soul as he struggles against entropy

The fact that a sizeable chunk of the US electorate fantasizes about killing the rest of the country is something that's going to be studied for centuries. More insulting is that they're really, really bad at it, even in their made up civil war.

Unfortunately this story has spread to more mainstream outlets and comments are full of “I’m a liberal but people should stop moving here/this is a waste of tax dollars/why do they want special treatment.” As long as liberal cis society maintains this degree of apathy, the crisis will continue.

They just found his body this morning. Another brother lost to the pogrom.

Today @polphilpod.bsky.social gives us a very important breakdown of what has happened to trans rights in the UK and what it means for the freedom of even cis citizens there. We published it because the UK press is completely captured on this topic. Please read & share with folks who live there.

It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

"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

Being a highly feminine boy, for example, doesn't lead to experiences that teach you the world is yours and to expect respect in it. You're taught to tolerate abuse, othering, sexualization. To see yourself as lesser, weaker, as wrong. You're taught to submit to boys who are more masculine than you.

Part of what drives me crazy about socialization discourse is, setting transness aside for a moment, how little it gets acknowledged that *if you are a gender variant person your socialization is different.* You get treated differently, have different experiences, learn different things.

Seeing all those posts about Juniper Blessing having gone out wearing a dress for the first time the day before she was murdered makes me both extremely sad and more determined to live my life authentically. She deserved so much better, and I will not let hatred make me live in fear.

Last month, Aleanna Royal Bechdel, a 31 year-old Black trans woman who was a DJ, promoter, and artist, was murdered in a housing complex in New York, and a 54-year old man was arrested. There has been very little press coverage on this, including by queer outlets run by cis white people.

reading some post and feeling the obnoxious need to point out anti-fascism is not a complete political ideology and historically has been a reaction made up of anarchist, communists, monarchists, liberals, and sometimes other, different fascists

I do think it's really funny how right-wingers will spend hours trying to run interference when he says something damaging. "No, he only meant specifically about the Iran war!" But then he'll just say "nah I meant it exactly how the left claims I meant it, and I'd say it again."

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

Also, how does nobility work in this world Who conferred the title on Nukem and where is his Duchy

sloth fishing from a turtle's back

"You can't be having all these trans women being murdered by men in the headlines when you're trying to convince the public that the safest thing would be for trans women to use the men's bathroom and locker room. "You run the risk of people seeing through the propaganda that way."

The Trump regime has released their 2026 counter-terrorism strategy, declaring their focus will be on "identifying and neutralizing pro-transgender groups", comparing them (us) to cartels and Islamic terrorists, in order to "defend the homeland".

rest in peace, juniper blessing, you deserved so much more from this world

a lot of Politics Big Brainery seems to basically be made by people who regard this sentence as somehow abnormal

I'm a political commentator and my political comment is "dude what the fuck"

the people in charge think their hands are clean because we don’t have pogroms. but on top of the loss of rights over the last year and change the ostracization of trans people and our exclusion from public life has been devastating and i don’t think even our allies understand

I don't know what I love about this comment more, talking about Eve like she was a real person or that I should be more mad at her for eating an apple

one of their new councillors is quite literally a holocaust denier.

The 'gender critical' delusion has fast become a disease akin to rabies. Made abundantly clear by the unhinged aggressive fixations on trans folk & obsessing over what genitals they have. There is no reasoning with a rabidly aggressive person as they are incapable of reason or critical thought.

Should have leaned into it and had a hologram of a 200 foot Tupac.

relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

been stuck in this m&s for ages because richard dawkins won't stop hitting on the self checkout machine

This is key. There really aren’t sensible “middle grounds” between full inclusion and exclusion because the exclusionists are never satisfied and inclusion breeds more inclusion. Cf gay marriage. Second class public unions vs “real” marriages is not a stable position.

"actually things are awesome" isn't working for him right now because things are decidedly not awesome, but as soon as he's out of office and people can blame the next guy, "actually things were awesome under Trump and you should have appreciated it" will start working right away

Our healthcare has been based on doing whatever we needed to do to get cis doctors to provide us the care we needed from day one. We let the assholes pathologize our existence so they could sleep better at night just so we could live and now they’re using that to attack us. Fuck ‘em all. Lie!

In 1995 Tyra Hunter, a trans woman, was severely injured in a car accident. When the EMTs discovered she was trans they stopped administering care. The surgeons who were supposed to save her went around the hospital to grab friends to point and laugh at her as she laid dying in the OR. Tyra died.

Transphobia is the lifeblood of American Fascism

I have told people this and they just flat out deny it. They say that it was fascist - even “Nazi” from the jump. Refusal to confront the ideological similarities to their own views relative to their own context is corrosive to clear thinking.

A lot of leftists are blindly reacting with anger to this post and in the process missing what is ACTUALLY wrong with it. Principled anti-colonialism was not common in the Western Left in the early 20th century. It is now. That's why the Left supported Israel then, and doesn't now.

For a more extreme example, Mao Zedong was history's greatest cottagecore influencer (extremely derogatory)

The Viking longcar was once the scourge of European roadways.

we were just talking about the knockon effects of DOGE cuts, including all the lost progress on the screwworm problem. boingboing.net/2025/05/15/f...

People really love to be the "bearer of bad news" the "reasonable one in the room" the ones that deliver the "hard truths" and it's always conservatism

I have no idea how to get the Will Stancil discourse off my timeline. I cannot describe in words how little I care about it.

There's also a very real and persistent sentiment amongst many cis people that the elevation of trans issues is trans people's doing, and that if not for our public histrionics and hysterics, the world would be happy to leave us alone. And GOD I fucking wish I lived in that world.

king crimson and the limson wimson

The "stick it to those liberals for ammuricah" ecosystem being somewhat funded by foreign interests looking to undermine America was something you already figured, but it's been surprising just how much the boat was being floated

checking out the local electronics recycling shop

thinking about the rod dreher illusion in light of the tucker carlson news. these guys only have the appearance of popularity because of a small number of rich patrons behind the scenes. they’re loud, they’re everywhere, but their ideas aren’t as popular as they’re made to appear.

"I can't believe that my friends, upon discovering that I'd set up and run a hate site with a Nazi for several years under a fake name, didn't want to be my friends any more"