i DEEPLY hate the term. it's patronizing, it's a stupid euphemism, it plays into the transphobic notion that cis people are humoring us, it's epistemological oppression to avoid saying the word trans, 90% of the shit cis people do isn't called "gender affirming", etc it's fucking trans healthcare.

US soldiers opened fire on a group of mostly unarmed women children and elders in the Wounded Knee Massacre slaughtering over 300 Lakota civilians. Survivors witnessed troops chasing down children running away to butcher them. Only a nazi regime would want to honor that

hi, cis folks! do you trust the senate to decide whether you can have healthcare or if you legally exist under the law or where you can legally wash your hands or pee? neither do we! please tap into the thread & tell senators our civil rights & lives matter—even more than the jimmy kimmel show!

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you don’t have to take these people seriously

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

The giantest, most epic Raichik rake-step yet. GWAR has pooped the bones of hundreds of people better than her.

🇮🇹BREAKING: Italy Sees Massive General Strike in Solidarity With Gaza Italy is seeing a powerful 24-hr general strike today, Sept. 22, as millions of workers across transport, education, logistics, and other sectors are expected to join protests for Gaza. The strike has... @ryangrim.bsky.social

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

Yeah, sure, okay.

CLEVELAND BROOOOWNNNNNS I'm sorry cheese heads but sometimes Cleveland gets it's due. Hahah

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m the only trans person who was out and in Adams’ Mayor’s Office. From Jan-Mar, my friends and I wrote stuff to support trans folx & immigrants. Adams minions killed every effort. NYT got wind. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n... Adams then funded TRANS HEALTH. We won. Don’t worry about him.

"Winners of 15 of their past 16 games, the Guardians are one game back of first-place Detroit in the AL Central after trailing by 11 on Sept. 4 and by 14 shortly before the All-Star break." Cleveland babbby

yeah, see, as suggested above, they need to be fucking afraid of the people they represent right now and you should call them and write them and tell them to not negotiate with the fascists who are trying to literally put their constituents in concentration camps and take their healthcare. reps.fyi

you know, related to this, i swear to god you absolutely do not need to quote dunk every single 48-follower account that says “but trans kids in sports polls badly, so logically…” you don’t need to debate them or take them seriously. you don’t need to shove them in every other trans person’s face.

in honor of christian-tok predicting the rapture happening next tuesday, i am watching left behind for the first time on the broadcast. tune in now to see what christian evangelical zionists believe sincerely! twitch.tv/hasanabi

hey, there's a thread linked below about why this shutdown matters for trans people specifically & why senate democrats need to hear that, yes, a shutdown is worth it & people only don't hate you when you actually fight for something. read @ericmgarcia.bsky.social; read the thread. make some calls.

hi, cis folks! trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too. we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi info & script in the🧵⬇️

the snip above is from HHS, but there's actually a lot more. h/t @lizsaila.bsky.social prison bans? yep. carveouts for abusive parents to foster trans kids & force them into conversion camps? yes. bathroom bans. yup! sports bans—despite their failure in congress this year? indeed. it's a lot!🧵

China's progress on renewable energy is breathtaking. In the first half of this year they installed more than twice as much solar as the rest of the world *combined*. This is what you can achieve when you can plan production around social objectives.

OOO some new Transit oriented development to fit more neighbors neo-trans.blog/2025/09/20/t...

Hey you! Go have some Ethiopian food as soon as possible.

New coaches are needed for Chicago-based Amtrak trains. These trains coming out of the Chicago hub are popular, and they're running out of seats. www.hsrail.org/blog/chicago...

don't snooze on tooze news

I figured there was some procedural fuckery going on but this is a whole other level. Also the fact that cloture wasn't required to pass this should tell you exactly how meaningless this was.

This is why just posting “everything is terrible and there is nothing we can do” is bad. We still have ways to resist that matter. GET LOUDER.

I need to once again emphasize to the doomers that in terms of public sentiment and sympathy towards this administration and its goals, it is only going to get worse.

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

you are not powerless, and don't let anyone fearmongering on here convince you you are

Hungary did not have 250 years of democracy under its' belt when they backslid. it had barely been a non-Soviet country for a couple of decades before Orban took over and backslid everything. There *is no* model for what's happening right now, and not just because they've been wildly unsuccessful

Protester acquitted of charges of assaulting a federal agent during protests against immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles despite the testimony of U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief

Always this. Be freely anxious and angry. Dismiss panic and resignation. And your cynicism isn't wisdom.

anxiety is a rational reaction to this, panic and resignation is not

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Equality Caucus Rep. Mark Takano calls on Speaker Johnson and GOP House leadership to reign in their party's extreme rhetoric in trans people per this statement that just hit my inbox:

living in a big city where being a trans woman is totally unremarkable and often does not impede my daily activities makes me kind of recoil at any sort of trans separatist / trans pessimist ideas about cis people

Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide. I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:

DSA-affiliated leader of Wisconsin Uncommitted will be trying to suceed Evers in 2026.

Do you have any thoughts on billionaire funded think tanks throwing queer people and the planet under the bus in order to help Dems lose elections more efficiently? Leave our new blue Koch Brothers friends a comment here! www.searchlightinstitute.org/contact/

a week of the entire political system canonizing you and the plurality are still like “nah”. brutal

I am now starting to suspect that people doom posting themselves into saying it doesn't matter that Trump is wildly unpopular because he is going to do a dictatorship are themselves an op. Dictatorships aren't stable by magic, they need people to buy in and go along with them. This matters.

Got my surgery done, everything went well, feeling pretty good other than feeling like I got punched in my non existent nuts.

relevant life lesson from comics on this one

Local Northeast Ohio labor struggles

Mahmoud Khalil is free right now because they don't actually have the juice to crack down on all dissent.

A student was lynched today at Delta University in Mississippi. Black people, please be safe.

The first US-born leader of the Catholic church singled out the Tesla chief as an example of the kind of wealth he said was undermining 'the value of human life, of the family, of the value of society' on.ft.com/4653oC8