"A hallmark of a home is that it is a place where you feel safe; if you don’t feel safe, it’s not home. For some, leaving the lives they built here is the only option. But I don’t want to leave. I have enough privilege to stay, and I want to use it to help."

1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry. A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't. Subscribe to support our journalism.

If Iowa says I have to be a man, I want to be a man like Ursula K. Le Guin: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Introduc...

In this thread, "community" is proposed as a solution to burnout. I agree, but have a few caveats. Avery Alder's The Quiet Year stands as a good argument for how communities function, often through politics of inaction and resentment, as much as there are also politics of mutual aid present. 1/12