when you don't have creative people involved we can tell

Missouri Republicans tacked on a gender affirming care ban to their abortion ban referendum to get voters to support the abortion ban. It's the same fight, the government overriding personal medical decisions to impose its ideological beliefs. missouriindependent.com/2026/03/17/m...

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

When the "here's how Congress can fix the Supreme Court, including term limits for jsutices and adding seats" op-eds are coming from relatively normie Democrats like Sean Casten, something is changing in The Discourse thehill.com/opinion/judi...

WHipS ASS => this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1At...

Tsubakineko, a white cat with a camellia on its head, is the mascot for Japan’s Goto City.

They canceled his citizenship interview and he drove in the winning run to beat the US. Eugenio Suarez is a gem.

Reminder: DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August. He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA. The grift continues.

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

I'd like to speak with trans adults (18+) whose access to transition care has changed due to state and/or federal policy changes. DM, email [email protected] or Signal joyurcaba.91

Students have more power than politicians want to admit. Your rent is here. Your tuition is here. Your vote should be here too. TOMORROW is election day, don’t sit this one out!

Hey here's a topic- Where should we go in Maine in the summer, mostly for photography of places and wildlife and old stuff? Off beaten path (remote or otherwise) always best but playing the hits is great too. I take photos like this:

In the last decade, the Atlantic has not platformed a single trans person to speak about issues affecting them or the broader trans community. Not a single one. Yet, they have monthly screeds by Helen Lewis and endless money to pay random transphobic grifters to pump stuff like this out.

Serenity

New Cartoon Cartoons short up on the Warner Bros. TV YouTube channel: "DANG! IT'S DRACULA" created by Levon Jihanian! #CartoonCartoons youtu.be/th8hKC9Y4Rc

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

The only good news right now is that this regime is going after SO many categories of people — women, POC, trans folks, immigrants, kids, Medicaid recipients, biz owners, federal workers, people trying to afford groceries, would-be voters — that there are a LOT of folks to lock arms with

People do what you pay them to do. You pay corporate executives to make stock prices go up, not to make better products. You pay politicians to get re-elected, not to govern well. You pay reporters to get a bigger audience, not to tell the truth. And so forth. Be aware of what you pay people to do

She fucking nailed it. 😆

This is fantastic! Robert Reich: How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

A child just told me something was AI that wasn’t AI and I asked “does AI just mean bad?” and he went “yeahhhhhhh” so there you have it.

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

About a quarter of all trans people in this country have moved states in possibly the largest internal migration of a particular minority group since the great migration. This is a full blown crisis.

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

It's got to incense them that any time someone searches for Jesse Singal's name or article, they'll get my fact check just under it. Thank you for helping me do what I do, folks.

Never forget that the primary tactic of this movement is distraction. They point to medical statements, procedural wins and tangentially related anecdotes because *they have no evidence of their core claim* If lots of kids were transitioning without assessment they would be talking about that.

As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that the Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025.

Merry Christmas. Trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax designed to enrich the wealthy and corporations while draining money for the middle class and the poor. Pass it on to a conservative family member near you.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.

In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

*self-promo time* Turns out I translated this huge RPG called Demonschool into LATAM Spanish??? And I'm looking for more work??? Poured tons of love into translating Demonschool and I would love to do the same for your game!

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

Not being contrarian for contrarianism's sake, but the fact that only three conservative Democrats from districts that voted for Trump voted for a trans care ban for minors should encourage trans people that they can make Democrats hold the line. clerk.house.gov/Votes/202535...

It's becoming increasingly clear that many of these events are orchestrated (either a-priori or post-hoc) to target trans people and generate widespread outrage. We all could benefit from the @onthemedia.bsky.social Breaking News Consumer handbook: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

I Heart radio has pulled an AI artist from the air and its chief programming officer has started an initiative called “guaranteed human.” He says this also applies to their podcasts. www.billboard.com/pro/iheartra...

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This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.