A service dog meets a group of dolphins at the Georgia Aquarium.

It's not even noon yet and feds (specifically Border Patrol and BOP officers in this caravan with Bovino) have fired tear gas, pepper balls, and bean bag rounds at people in Little Village and Cicero.

It's neat to explore detailed breakdowns of Mamdani's victory as more & more data rolls in Seeing that 84% of folks in my two-block area voted for Zohran got me all proud of my neighbors and shit lol and also curious who the 11 individuals are who voted for Sliwa 😂 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Imagine how much SNAP he could fund

Want to help with autism research? The Social Experiences of Loneliness of Autistic Adults (SELA) Project at the AJ Drexel Autism Institute is forming a Community Council of autistic adults (ages 18–35) to help guide a 5-year study on loneliness and social connection. Info in flyer and alt-text.

It’s a bad sign that I had to quickly look up the number of people killed in World War Two / the Holocaust, in order to get a bit of historical perspective on the harms caused by Donald Trump’s government. It’s also never good when a government has a death count so large you have to model it.

‘Diverse teams are essential for the development of solutions which benefit everyone, yet we might often struggle to name LGBT+ scientists and innovators. The 2026 theme… aims to highlight the contributions of LGBT+ people historically and today, and to raise awareness of the people behind them.’ 👏

#IntersexDayOfRemembrance, also known as Intersex Day of Solidarity, is when we come together to raise awareness of intersex lives and honour those who’ve experienced interphobic abuse, violence or discrimination. 💛💜

The Eradication of the Trans Community open.substack.com/pub/braggb/p...

"CBP have been forced to later release many people they have taken in, finding out they are US citizens or have legal protection from deportation. Noem said recently no citizens had been arrested, but at least one citizen has sued the admin for arresting him twice..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Every statement from DHS/ICE personnel should be preceded by a warning statement re to their propensity for lying. It's irresponsible to pass on direct claims, quotes, etc without caveat from sources or systems known for lying.

Every time I see the mother’s being pulled from cars—buildings—offices & see violence/death posts similar to this—I go look out my window at my neighbor’s garden—who brings over their grandkids from her Trump voting Family&ask the universe how they can sit in such comfort—the answer—NO consequences!

SNAP benefits are under attack during this government shutdown and food banks are picking up the slack. But they need your help. Here are the best ways to do that:

You can donate any food that your picky cat no longer is willing to eat! We did this last week and it was nice to get more space tbh.

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too. If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole. apnews.com/article/pets...

Nothing like stopping at a gas station and seeing a giant "NO MEN" sign taped onto the women's bathroom. That's a "no trans people" sign in case anyone was wondering. Luckily I did not have to use the bathroom. ><

I still remember all the “Your fears are dumb and it’ll never come to that because the Constitution blah blah.” Well, here we are, motherfuckers. I told you none of them read it.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

The people who voted for Zohran Mamdani and the folks who raged over “woke” Cracker Barrel have more in common than you may think. Let me explain.

Lastly there’s Emmanuel Garcia, a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing a month ago. Houston PD had his mother’s missing persons report, but chose to call ICE. He’s been in federal custody ever since, and his mother has not been allowed to see him www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old. He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...

There’s also Quinn Harberl, a blind protester in Portland who they dragged by his feet. Multiple agents grabbed the 4 foot 6 man and dragged him, nearly smashing his head into the ground bsky.app/profile/broa...

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

I was excited to share a write-up about my friend @nickantonson.bsky.social’s recent paper regardless, but especially once I saw this title! www.popsci.com/environment/...

If you can, contact your democrat representative and thank them for continuing to fight for affordable healthcare (and potentially ask them to stop other things too, like trans people getting their health coverage taken away!) -

Now they're screwing with air travel... youtu.be/MNn7wHAnHKw

Huge wins this week mean we have to start talking about how we get even bigger wins next year… act.link/gi-shalm youtu.be/6hMDmr1GUzc

If you’re a woman in America, you should know this is what they’re talking about… youtu.be/3ujc2JfiMRs

Proof (if we needed it) that algorithmic amplification is dramatically accelerating, and perhaps even driving, the unravelling of our democracies. Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause. on.ft.com/49LNvCy

COVID vaccination cuts risk of long-term symptoms in teens by over 1/3, data suggest. COVID-19 vaccine is unique in having this effect on progression to a chronic condition despite infection, Mass General researchers say. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

if you want to know why the caucus hasn’t folded yet it’s because even most of the squishy moderates look at this list of demands and go “uh we’re barely even asking for a dinner mint, what the fuck guys”

Vance and the USDA web page announcement are lying about this being over government healthcare for undocumented immigrants because their actual position is indefensible.

TAKEN AT HER COURT HEARING. To all those Americans deceiving themselves that ICE is only going after rapists and murderers, another reminder that’s a lie. They are targeting folks doing the right thing, because it is easier and otherwise they don’t have enough people to arrest. Wake up now.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

5. There is a 60-day public comment period ahead of any formal implementation. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

1. A new proposed rule at the Department of Homeland Security would institute biological sex DNA testing of immigrants and visa applicants if DHS has reason to believe it would be relevant to their immigration status. Read the latest from writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The idea that deadnaming someone "expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern" has to be among the most willfully ignorant and hateful things I have read this week

I admittedly do not have the energy nor the will to dive into the legal “justification” in this decision, but it’s indicative of a deep social rot that the justification in these decisions is anything besides “schools have the right to enforce policies to create a safe learning environment.”

that any legal professional is willing to entertain the concept of "biological pronouns" is a stain on the profession

Notable that FIRE (@thefireorg.bsky.social) filed an amicus in support of bullying trans youth. This is why trans people don't trust your transphobic organization, @aricohn.com. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates: -100% Washington state -100% Michigan -100% California -Partial Illinois -Partial North Carolina -1/2 Vermont (Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)

You can't even insult people's children to their parent's faces anymore, because of woke

TERFs love to tell a story where they made a completely normal conversation weird and then be like "Can you believe how weird and brainwashed everyone else is?"

one that is circulating now, derives from a single precursor virus called JN.1. Both variants are similar in terms of severity. Because vaccine manufacturers base their formulas on the circulating variant, it’s expected that the current COVID shots WILL stack up similarly to last season’s.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

This. In our name with our tax dollars. 

An important thread for understanding the conditions at Broadview immigration jail for those ICE / CBP is abducting. A court order was issued to improve conditions but nothing can reform this wanton disregard and care for people’s health, safety, and humanity. ⬇️⬇️⬇️