scarlet was kicked out by family for being a trans woman, and her fiancée's health is deteriorating. she needs money for housing and gas so her fiancée can work. boosts + qrts on original post appreciated :)) gofund.me/7edeb1696

very few cis people grasp why we fight so hard once we're in a position to fight for the rest of us

Well, that took less than 24 hours, lads. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

These are the actions of a collaborationist party. There is nothing more or else to it.

this is a state sponsored children's torture camp

Found this post on reddit and the last bit nails it: “Please don't remember her for the horrific end to her life. Remember her for who she was, a true blessing. To everyone around her.”

the services sought for detransition are quite literally the same ones sought for transition. detransitioners work in tandem with us on advocacy. there aren't enough people to keep a detransition-only clinic busy. this should clue you in that this clinic will not be used for consenting detransition

a thing that's striking about the aftermath of the callais decision is that it (1) completely disproves roberts's "i don't see race" view and (2) a lot of the south just has not evolved at all from 60 years ago politically, which is horrifying

AOC: “It is time for the North to pull up to the South and let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice. They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant they just awakened. What they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo”

"we are going to be fine because Democrats are going to win in November" vs Democrats voting to ban their voters from bailing out protestors jailed for free assembly

the fact a user named "queer hand Luke" feels comfortable shit talking ACT UP is perfectly representative why we are in this mess. it's so pathetic and disrespectful of the people who got you here in order to defend a political party.

The only free healthcare we get is literally conversion therapy, clown country. Texas has some of the worst public healthcare in the country with no Medicaid expansion and millions of uninsured people.

it's really sad how we went from large gay orgs being unapologetically radical and calling out both parties for their bigotry, to today where the large gay nonprofits basically just function as arms of the Democratic party.

Last month, Aleanna Royal Bechdel, a 31 year-old Black trans woman who was a DJ, promoter, and artist, was murdered in a housing complex in New York, and a 54-year old man was arrested. There has been very little press coverage on this, including by queer outlets run by cis white people.

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

SCOTUS overriding the FIFTH CIRCUIT on a stay just shows how awful they are

Five House Democrats joined the GOP in voting for a bill to undermine consent decrees and other tools for courts to hold police departments accountable: Don Davis Adam Gray Val Hoyle Ted Lieu Marie Gluesenkamp Perez clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026173

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

I’m sure the timing of this announcement has nothing to do with the budget vetoes that went out yesterday 🙃

Meanwhile, our governor just cut budget items for Pre-K and foster kids and libraries and school transportation to pay for the corporate income tax cuts we passed this year 🙃

This special session to redraw our legislative maps is cowardly bullshit. If Republicans are more concerned about choosing their voters than letting voters hold them accountable, they should be updating their resumes because they aren’t fit to serve the people. 1/

Kemp has called a special session in Georgia for June 17, to do the same thing the other southern states are doing. It’ll be all hands on deck to try to protect Black voting power in Georgia.

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At least it's for 2028? The bar is in hell.

Sydney is legitimately the best trans femme reporter you could possibly find to report on trans athletes. Idk how much motion I still have with editors but please have her write for you. DMe and I will intro you to her.

Defrost Home Depot is partnering with an investment group that thinks Atlantans can make a real difference in their campaign to get Home Depot to break their contract with Flock Safety and make a public statement against ICE. We need YOU. 🫵 🧵

Trump can't take solar if he tried

In case this wasn’t already completely obvious in every possible way. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

We call on Georgians to condemn Kemp and legislators for the unconstitutional + racist election law HB 369, amplify the injustice, and say NO to the erasure of Black voices! Join us for a rally starting at the King Center at 6pm followed by a march to the Capitol. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblea...

Trump's hand now looks like a special effect in a horror film your cousin made in sixth form.

If you spend enough time researching Holocaust deniers, you find that one of the arguments they repeatedly make is that because Anne Frank died of typhus, she cannot be said to have been deliberately murdered or her condition exacerbated by the conditions of the camps.

Anyway, I always saw myself as more of a Squidward, but the governor’s budget vetoes have me looking like SpongeBob #GaPol

So the #GaPol Governor released his line item veto list yesterday (5/12) and it opens with what is a bunch of political speak for, “we couldn’t possibly have anticipated how all these corporate tax cuts would mean we’d have to cut funding for schools & libraries.”

Some people don’t know this, but the Governor of Georgia has the constitutional power to instruct agencies to “disregard” parts of the budget. This ultimately amounts to a line item veto, and basically means that all the bickering and dragging things to the last day can end up being for nothing.

The Make It Make Sense videos are particularly sad considering the huge swaths of editorial staff the paper recently laid off, including Lizzie Johnson, the paper's Ukraine correspondent who was working in a war zone "without power, heat or running water": www.the-express.com/news/world-n...

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

Reposting this. Gazans are still going through hell, and social media sites are banning more and more ppl from these regions. Any and all support goes a long way y'all

It’s all free and clear now. No preclearance, no effects test, and no partisan gerrymandering claims. Of course, this could still have other problems, but this is absolutely the kind of bullshit John Roberts and Sam Alito have been making possible.

would anyone be interested in either something written or podcast about the great transgender migration that's going on right now that no one is really talking about. i feel like no one outside of the trans community knows about this at all

Oddly enough, it was an open secret that until last month, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens could also handpick his interviewer from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the "newspaper" of record in the sixth-biggest metro area of the United States

Save the Big Red.

Still sadly hyper relevant: our Free Press study on how corporate media bends the knee to Trump in rolling back DEI and softening criticism of the admin on these topics.

There's been so much over 5 days, quick recap: —TN: GOP passed new map, erase Dem seat —VA: State SC struck down Dem referendum —AL: SCOTUS blessed GOP move to cancel ongoing elections, erase Dem seat —MO: State SC stalled veto referendum, allows GOP to end Dem seat —SC: Rushed GOP redraw derails

Time to repost one of the most chilling Georgia political stories in recent memory, again starring Brad Raffensperger: www.gpb.org/news/2021/06...

The Republican speaker of Tennessee's House of Representatives on Tuesday stripped Democratic lawmakers of all committee assignments as punishment for their role in boisterous protests during last week's special session on redistricting.

In related news, here’s a map of wildfires across North America.

It's comforting to know Jordan Campbell is just as incompetent at his DOJ posting as he was at litigating #DeTransLaw cases.

THREAD 🧵 Last week, AOC said she doesn’t trust Marjorie Taylor Greene – a documented bigot and antisemite and Islamophobe – on what’s good for Jews or Palestinians. In a bizarre twist, a wave of left-wing figures came at AOC, but not Greene. They're telling on themselves.

Here's the full statement from the Oglala Sioux Tribe about the victory against mining interests at sacred Pe'Sla. The People will remain vigilant because THE BLACK HILLS ARE NOT FOR SALE.