Very funny to me, also, that "The Arsenal of Freedom" is the name of an episode in Star Trek TNG where autonomous AI weapons killed an entire civilization and there's a sales hologram still on the planet trying to sell them. it was originally a commentary in the sale of F-14 Tomcats to Iran(!)

Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

As transgender Kansans grapple with a challenging new reality today, and the rest of the nation watches what’s happening in the Sunflower State, here’s a thread of @kansasreflector.com stories and opinion pieces about SB 244. (1/15) #ksleg #trans #lgbtq

i've included this talking point (usually in quotes) in my articles in years past but I don't anymore for all the reasons Melissa lists here. i'm interested in how many people are affected by these policies but that figure doesn't alter how bad the policies themselves are, which is to say, "very"

also, with love and respect for my friends and colleagues who do great work at large national LGBTQ orgs ...they do not need your money and they will not use it efficiently to defend the most marginalized queer and trans people plz panic-give to the frontlines & mutual aid orgs, not the big NGOs

as long as folks are enthusiastically donating to state level trans orgs today, figured I'd reup this list the @them.us team and I put together a few years back: www.them.us/story/orgs-f... (some info may be outdated, but use this as a jumping-off point!)

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

when I asked DOI for comment on this lawsuit, a rep gave me a statement about how NYC was a dangerous shithole and Mamdani and Schumer have better things to do. Neither Mamdani or Schumer have anything to do with the lawsuit filed against DOI/NPS Tuesday. when I asked again they stopped responding

not to be a huge downer -- because there are reasons to like this! -- but the TBOR is still a nonbinding resolution. even if it did pass the House, its function is to lay out jayapal's "comprehensive vision" rather than materially change the political reality for trans and intersex people

all I’ll add is Bondi, as Florida AG, used “fighting sex trafficking” to elevate herself—empowering cops at the expense of survivors. long before Trump she was like this

Hi folks. We're dropping our paywall on this story about the scourge of AI pitches for the day, so give it a read and share widely. www.coyotemedia.org/how-coyote-a...

the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"

it's illegal to be queer in nigeria, but queer people still exist there (as they do everywhere). nigerian reporter ebenezer mowete spoke to queer local gamers about how they do and don't express their identities when they play --> www.mothership.blog/queer-nigeri...

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that with Britta Curl on the U.S. Hockey Team, J.D. Vance & Marco Rubio are at the game sitting with the Lamoureux twins, who are noted transphobes and aligned with Curl wrt to their anti-trans advocacy in sport. Happy Olympics!

Please keep donating to my sweet friends; support Black lesbians in need and make this bad world even slightly better ❤️

It is so important, now more than ever, to protect and support trans lives. Every year I am in awe of the good work @tolariancommunitycollege.com does for @translifeline.org! I will be adding this sealed Cloud Colelctor deck to the prize pool. Pleade donate at give.translifeline.org/tcc

From my conversation on the Green Dreamer Podcast. Listen to the whole conversation wherever you get your podcasts. Solidarity not charity! You can find much more about this in my book Mutual Aid which is free on the Anarchist Library. I just wrote an updated edition that is coming out March 31.

love when I get into a band after one of the members comes out as a trans woman, and half the lyrics are about how masculinity feels like waiting to die alone in an inescapable prison

Children's Minnesota will pause providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to patients under 18 effective Feb. 27. If your family will be affected, I'd love to speak with you: [email protected] or @joyurcaba.91 on Signal.

Asymptomatic infection is occurring in up to 49% of cases of COVID. Asymptomatic does not necessarily equate to mild outcomes. This is why testing was important and because you can transmit via airborne route to a lot of folks in a shared air space. Many of whom might go into suffer serious outcomes

“We either want to protect and defend the conditions under which truth-telling and accountability are firmly-held and enforced values, which necessarily requires the humanity of trans people to be properly regarded, or we don't.” www.transjournalists.org/donate/

From TJA Executive Director Tre'vell Anderson: “The recent arrests of Black journalists for documenting threats to immigrant communities are an absolute threat to press freedom. We stand in solidarity with our sibling journalism organizations in condemning such actions…

Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

Just a reminder that at least 242 journalists were killed by Israel since October 7.

important reporting from my colleagues @rachelleingang.bsky.social @maanvisingh.bsky.social at an ICE raid, observer RM's car was gassed and windows smashed; they were taken to Whipple and forced to the ground by agents: "Agents yelled at RM, who is trans, saying 'Do you like the dirt, queer?'"

gotta say it's pretty rich for these douchebags to make such a big stink about "low quality evidence" for gender-affirming care to then turn around and be like "hey, your kid should try some of these pills we just found out about. our friend says he has a really good feeling about em"

i'm sure you'll all be shocked to learn that RFK Jr. is packing the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee with quack doctors, many of whom are also aggrieved professional "autism parents" www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

The fascism is expanding … not new.

meticulously labelling every bad thing the United States has ever done 'un-American' then bolting the gates of my Mind Palace with a gentle smile, secure in the knowledge that I live in the Good Country

The three journalists worked for a committee supervising Egyptian aid in Gaza and were documenting a newly set-up camp.

Please donate! This is personally important to me ❤️

a quick comic about jesus

Three years today. The cops are already killing protesters—it's not a line we haven't crossed, it's a thing already happening—but lots of people never heard about or paid attention to this one. So it goes

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

babe wake up, one of the "tradcath egirl summit" chicks is transvestigating sydney sweeney's neck

since it's behind a paywall now, I wanted to share this graph from "How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts" (Nature, April 2025). Say it with me: the anti-trans/LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-science movement: [article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]

One of the first neighborhoods and groups I saw targeted by agents during raids in Chicago were vice districts and sex workers on the blade and in massage parlors. The overwhelming response to that was laughter, indifference, or relief

U.S. citizen detained by ICE: “…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”

I encourage you to think of abolishing ICE not as an end in itself, but as a good start.

y'all may remember that Justice Amy Coney Barrett claimed to have no knowledge about how the government treats trans people, & said trans people had been subject to "relatively little" discrimination y'all may not know that her skepticism had legal significance.. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trans...

Bringing back this thread for everyone differentiating between ICE and the cops.

hey if you're a writer trying to unfuck your creative situation this year, getting coaching from Jay helped me with that a lot and you should consider hiring him to help you too

portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.

I-94 and Wilson, Chicago, IL

did my best to break down what we know, and how Trump officials have lied so far, about Renee Good and her murder today:

Everything We Know About the ICE Killing of Renée Nicole Good