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The Vice Chair of the Ohio Pride Caucus has also posted a statement, where at the very end, she clearly calls out the Ohio Democratic Party and says "I'm posting this strictly in my capacity as a trans advocate" and telling ODP to "save yourself a phone call, because I will not be taking this down"

People don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors. They don't want warehouses being turned into detention centers. They don't want billions of taxpayer dollars spent on a rogue police state. They want healthcare. They want affordable homes. They want their basic needs met.

i will remember those of you who did not stand with taco bell in these trying times

a significant portion of transphobes who say they are lesbians are not actually lesbians. it's like the darkest shape that political lesbianism can take. and real TERFs also hate sex workers so like, they just suck in general, their transphobia isn't remarkable or interesting.

i have never stopped getting taco bell and i never will

Many conservatives online are pitching a fit about Elliot Page in The Odyssey. Having seen it, I want to be super clear ... he's not in the movie because he is trans. He is in that movie because 1) he is a good actor and 2) he is a good actor who Chris Nolan obviously loves to work with.

Cartoon by Monte Wolverton

"i'm defending wombyns rights, so pointing out any evidence to the contrary is unacceptable" meanwhile they've been searching for the thousands of patients who were harmed by youth gender affirming care that they are sure must exist out there somewhere but no you can't see them

After working to purge trans people from the military, Pete Hegseth now insists that our soldiers have low testosterone and the military should be providing them with hormones. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you the story in this week's TWIBS!

Taco Bell is really good and one of the most vegetarian-friendly fast food restaurants and the diarrhea jokes annoy me because it doesn’t deserve them, both because it was a supplier issue and they took action even before that was pinpointed and because the food is good!!

Read it and share it! Or risk causing more harm to transmasculine people by not doing so. The choice is yours.

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

Testosterone is a hormone surrounded in myths and misconceptions, which the Right loves to use to both demonize trans people as well as to fuel their weird beliefs about masculinity. Today, Jules Sherred dives into the science of testosterone and the reality of the effects it can have on the body.

A lot of people are doing testosterone explainers, but you should read the one written by a trans man.

we're very lucky that this illness can't be easily spread person to person, but let me tell you, the next serious illness with a high R0 is going to bring this nation to its knees permanently. we are somehow less prepared than we were pre-covid.

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

sure am being asphyxiated to death in my own home by wildfires

A reminder for Todd Blanche and any U.S. Senator who thinks he’s fit to serve as Attorney General.

Detainees held at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas report spoiled food, missed meals, denial of medical care, routine beatings, and near constant abuse. When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it.

Just going to say again, please stop with the “legally here”, “authorized to work”, “citizen”. You dehumanize people with this language. NOBODY should be abducted, abused or murdered. 🧊 staff do these things because they want to and because the people we elected are complicit.

People don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors. They don't want warehouses being turned into detention centers. They don't want billions of taxpayer dollars spent on a rogue police state. They want healthcare. They want affordable homes. They want their basic needs met.

Also recently contributed a piece on the Knicks and Pride in NYC. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I write a blog and am currently rewriting my pre-trans mystery novels from a T perspective. If you're in or close to the print publishing industry, say hi! callherallison.blogspot.com

a decade ago there was an entire movement dedicated to confronting the militarization of state power against its citizens Not only did you not listen... our political actors increased police budgets across the entire country Now military forces are killing White moms and nurses

“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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We passed 40 new members for the month of July this week, but our goal this month is 50 so let's keep em coming, journalism fans!

Nearly half of people using Buy Now, Pay Later loans have used them to help pay for groceries, according to Protect Borrowers. But Trump’s CFPB is nowhere to be found when it comes to regulating these predatory loans. Former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra explains.

this piece is excellent work and deeply relatable.

Seems like our site is down due to high traffic. We're working on it, sorry everybody.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero weren't murdered because of car pursuits. They were murdered because the men driving those cars felt comfortable recklessly killing. None of this ends until we shut down ICE completely.

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I see JK Rowling is at it again ... Re-sharing my long essay unpacking the Rowling problem, as a trans person and former fan of her books: lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

Alright. I've asked for help a lot before but this is the first time I've set up a GoFundMe. I have until the end of the summer to get on my feet and take control of my life, so I'm asking for help to try and ensure I have a safety net and can avoid being homeless. www.gofundme.com/f/help-morga...

Getting eyeballs on my YouTube channel is a bit of a struggle I've found, and I think I've narrowed the problem down to only extremely cool people have been reposting my YouTube videos. It's just been super cool, attractive, clever people, they're the only ones reposting my stuff. 🤠

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to those of you just learning woods is a horrible piece of shit: Welcome to the mountaintop

Say what you will about Lindsay Graham.

this is the lukewarm take of spineless goons too dimwitted to identify evil. too slow to understand that nothing actually divides our elected representatives because they all belong to the same class of wealth and see us as bugs to be squashed. you are glossy-eyed cattle chewing cud in the pasture.

maybe this is why kash patel said the FBI is investigating

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read: