a lot of powerful forces are coming after life-saving healthcare for trans kids in america. if you don’t realize how enthusiastic an enabler of that part of trump’s project 2025 the new york times was, this is an excellent thread. stop giving NYT your money & time.

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Your reminder that the Purcell "principle" is "it is always too close to the next election for a ruling that would benefit Democrats, and it is never too close to the next election for a ruling that would benefit Republicans"

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.

“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”

Can't say how odd it is to hear one of the major medical professional organizations go to the mat like this in the political arena.

So we have a vindication of Farmer’s account of Epstein after 29 years, amid accusations that she made up the story, only to be met with…more power-serving denials from the White House

JFK’s niece: h/t @jamiegangel.bsky.social

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

Folks can submit comments opposing these transphobic proposed rules here:

“The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.” 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 www.foxnews.com/politics/eps...

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> @samsteindc.bsky.social

When you ask yourself, why would they go ahead and do things like this, changing signage when there's a question of the legality, you have to remember that it will cost money to undo it, and when people try to do so, they will be met with complaints that they're looking backwards and wasting money

Incompetent, politicized justice comes at a cost.

15 years after the ACA became law and Republicans STILL can’t come up with more than a “concept” of a plan.

Really appreciate the justified anger in this piece by @ryanlcooper.com. The GOP's narrative about trans people "is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."

A quick thread on Republicans packing state supreme courts in the past 10 years. They hate voters and democracy. 🧵

Senator Durbin has had this explained to him multiple times. Getting rid of 230 doesn't help this, but will make it worse. It will make it impossible for smaller sites to exist (like this one) and will give MORE POWER to companies like Meta and X. Why would Durbin want to do that?

Wait. It's real? I assumed it was satire. I ASSUMED IT WAS SATIRE! Is life... satire now?

Every new Trump Epstein revelation is somehow both shocking and not a surprise at all.

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

What in the absolute fuck is Republican governance. What are we doing.

1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:

yep bsky.app/profile/sesm...

congrats to every "moderate" who cheered on this cruel, unfounded panic. hope you got what you wanted www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

It's so jarring to see how truly out of touch executives and upper management are, not just with what the public wants and expects, but with what their organizations actually even do

We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.

Mifepristone is safe, the well-funded effort to persuade people otherwise is as antithetical to the factual record as “climate change is a hoax” — and if Brennan feels willing or obliged to bend the knee to her new corporate management, this seems like a telling sign of that.

Wow, this is fantastic news! Now we just need to kick the GOP out of power in the government so we can take advantage of this.

Another, more obvious and immediate, reason to get the GOP out of power.

An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science. Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.

The ECOA passed in 1974. My mom divorced my dad in 1975. These things are not unrelated. She was finally able to establish her own credit, buy a house, start her own business… all thanks to the ECOA. 1975 was the best year of my childhood too, when my abusive dad finally went away. #ProtectECOA

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...

Every American should feel daily shame that we have allowed ourselves to not only be represented by these people, but that they are using this position to destabilize the world, kill innocent people, and act as a rogue state. Let that shame be the fuel to act, to disrupt, and to defeat them.

The social contract is now approaching “Do exactly what Trump wants, on everything, or your state loses all federal funding.” This has always been a potential failure point in the federal system, and now it’s an actual one.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

sex criminals stick together

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's a day, & the president is illegally monetizing the office & stealing the power of the purse. Again.

NEW (but deja vu): Texas and Florida are suing the FDA over its approval and regulation of the abortion drug mifepristone. The states are asking Judge Reed O'Connor to declare the 25yo approval unlawful and yank mife from the market—but judges can't do that storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

The Trump Plan will give Americans the opportunity to pay for their healthcare. One problem has yet to be solved: The healthcare will be unaffordable.

The midterms ads write themselves

And so the cycle continues: Trump wrecks the market with his own policies, then uses taxpayer money to bail out the damage, and somehow sells it back to voters as a win. Truly exhausting.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.