Love this podcast and they celebrate 🥳 "Decemberween" youtu.be/1-eXTFAv2HM?... @eedapod.bsky.social

Sam has been admitted overnight for supportive care. Cause still unclear. Hopefully by tomorrow he'll have recovered, but he's also being seen tonight by a critical care vet. Since a company owes me money right now, I'm doing this emergency care fundraiser: www.gofundme.com/f/help-sam-c...

"We want people to be off Substack so we need to support people off Substack. This means sharing newsletters, like mine and others, that are on Buttondown or Beehiiv or Ghost or wherever else they end up. It means sharing Patreon links. It means sharing podcasts."

sigh. you might want this

@theinfophile.bsky.social‬, an amazing writer, podcaster, and librarian, speaks about using Buttondown to create an inclusive community with her newsletter, The Infophile: Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. https://buttondown.com/stories/patricia-elzie-tuttle

this is excellent work & contains call/email templates at the end with callouts for the specific legislative mechanisms democratic senators could use to kill this part of the bill. read the piece. make the calls. there’s no earthly reason any senator’s phone should stop ringing in the near future.

Sharing this again because I am seeing way too much "we're cooked indefinitely" or "we're doomed" bs going around. Being honest about the dangers we face also means being honest about the fact we can fight/survive and we are not the first to do so. History offers hope as it does warning.

New episode of @eedapod.bsky.social today! Overachiever Syndrome: The Endless Pursuit of Doing More eedapod.com/overachiever... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

They keep willfully misunderstanding the issue to confuse good people. Trans people don’t think this series will be loaded with JKR’s bigotry. We KNOW the money from this series will be funneled by JKR directly into attacking the trans community in the media and courts.

This isn't a real government, it's a monster energy drink and a copy of Mein Kampf in a trench coat

There's a line from 1984 that I think about a lot--to the point that I will probably someday get a tattoo referencing it--and it's probably not the one you think. (cont'd)

ICYMI I just started my pre-order campaign for LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER! If you send me your receipt, after the pub date you'll get a PDF with deleted scenes and an alt ending for All the Birds in the Sky — plus the first 10,000 words of the sequel in progress, All the Seeds in the Ground.

💩We want to ban trans women from women's spaces 🧐Aha but that would mean forcing passing trans men into women's spaces, the thing you claim to oppose, checkmate! 💩We also want to ban trans men from women's spaces, and from men's spaces, and trans women from men's spaces 🧐B... but THEY DON'T CARE

was initially shocked the last few weeks as more & more ppl have said they didn't think Trümp would "go this far" or "be this bad" – I mean, this was all in Project 2025 & his speeches! but now I get it: what they really mean is they didn't think *they* would be harmed by his admin. it says a lot

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

FYI, just checked in and: you'll be able to watch my talk online through the link below live *and* it'll be archived there to watch at anytime. Afterward I'll make a full transcript with links/citations and my slides available online, too.

New by me. Reporter note: I specifically asked the Trump admin if its new relationship with Meta meant data sharing, and if (like in 2016) still felt companies with unbreakable encryption (like Apple) should be 'forced or punished'. They had one chilling response. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

More Cephalopods, because I love them. 🐙✨🌿

so, things are getting really bad for trans ppl in the US, here’s some resources in case you’re considering moving/potentially seek asylum translash.org/articles/tra...

New [free] newsletter today! EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 8: Credible Sources, Sitting with Emotions, and Organizing 101 www.theinfophile.com/archive/eeda...

This is the kind of energy I'm looking for from Democrats right now

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors. Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts. Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.

One FULLY INTENDED effect of transphobia is to remove Black and other racialized women from the category of "women" and restrict womanhood to cis white conventionally attractive women who can bear children. It's all part of a white supremacist project.

I cannot, in good conscience, recommend people visit the United States under the current regime. It's not safe. www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

Black history is only offensive if you side with enslavers, segregationists, and other racists. It slaps if you have morality.

When you share this image, you are blindly repeating one of the most unapologetic, vile pieces of transphobia ever uttered on television. Spitting on Brandon Teena's grave for Internet points. I'm posting this because I still see it randomly posted without any context.

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism. A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer. Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore. They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

Ken Klipperstein leaked full passport guidance for trans people: - X markers will be a focal point - Existing unexpired passports will remain good - No guidance on confiscation, but it doesn’t seem like they will - Renewals less clear but it looks like they will use “a preponderance of evidence”

Look at this speech by Sylvia Rivera in 1973. You could make this same speech for trans rights today. She talks about prisons, poverty, and health care! The issues and policy goals in the trans rights movement haven't changed in 50 years. youtu.be/Jb-JIOWUw1o?...

How am I meant to sit down and read and write and reflect on how trans people have been oppressed throughout the decades when all I can hear are their desperate pleas, right now. Writing a paper about arson in a burning house.

redesign of the piece that has gotten me restricted/suspended at least 4 times 😇

Well, food is about to get a lot more expensive, and I manage stress by info-dumping, so I'm gonna share some of the survival strategies I learned spending my first 30 years food-insecure: First: Cooking in large quantities and freezing some for later is more cost-effective than cooking every day

if you, for whatever reason, decided to start some basic home preparedness today, and can only get to a few stores, here's what I'd tell you to get: -walkie talkies for everyone in your family -little portable power packs, one per phone -a print road atlas [...]

I'm trans and have been a journalist for over two decades. Absolutely do not ever, under any circumstances, for any reason talk to a journalist about DIY HRT.

I have the same advice today that I’ve had for years: never talk to a journalist about DIY HRT

yo can we please stop saying "convicted felon" as a reason trump can't be trusted? the sheer fact of having been convicted of a felony is not a deal-breaker for worth as a human; and the fiction that it is destroys a lot of lives.

Not to be that wellness girl, but as the increasingly terrifying war of annihilation on trans people and many other communities continues, it is absolutely essential that we continue to practice the skills of spiritual & emotional resilience, if only to keep from turning on one another.

You can print out information and simply distribute it to everyone you know, and no one can stop you. I got 50 copies of this and 2 of them laminated to give to people I know run worksites. Who can you provide this information to?

In yesterday's newsletter I wrote, "Your American friends are not okay." If this is you, here is the most grounding thing you can read right now: www.theinfophile.com/archive/eeda...

DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral. www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep... She was and is a real hero.

3/ But here’s the thing: every morning you get out of bed, you’re already winning. Existing as yourself—laughing, loving, living—is the most powerful defiance against people who want you to disappear.

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

the best part about making this a social norm is that suddenly everyone you know is REALLY COOL and also everyone thinks you're likely REALLY COOL too.

People keep looking for rules and consistency in oppressive logics, but as I have screamed myself hoarse on here repeating, conservative thought, morality, speech, worldview--DOES NOT VALUE CONSISTENCY. It values being able to mobilize power in whatever way is most convenient to harm the target.

If you aren’t reading Patricia’s newsletter/listening to her podcast, you are missing out on some great information and resources.

theyve tried to erase queer people before. they literally CANNOT succeed. we have always been here. we always will, until the sun swallows the earth.