Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and I am so grateful to be in community with so many people who encourage me to be myself and to continue becoming. One of the most important things I've learned is that we are not one-dimensional or fixed in our selves.

I really enjoy Not Quite Quorum for its engaging look into Iowa City government through the conversations of councilors Laura Bergus and Oliver Weilein. This episode gets into ethics and moral courage, which made me very happy: open.spotify.com/episode/5mxq...

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

"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