I could only agree to end HLN by telling myself that this will help me create more work in the future. There's plenty I want to write about but I've been too burned out to actually get the ideas/words out of my head. I hope ending HLN will help me give me what I need to create whatever comes next.

We've both been running on fumes for years at this point because the need to oppose the anti-trans movement was & is so urgent. Deciding to end HLN has given us some space to reflect on what's worked for us & what hasn't & allows us to take care of psychological needs we were neglecting.

This was a hard choice to make & I resisted doing it until very recently because there's a lot of work I still want to do. But long discussions with my partner Lee made it clear that we needed to end our current project so we could continue working in the long run. We will find a way to go on.

It is with great sadness that we must announce the retirement of Health Liberation Now! in order to focus on rest, reflection, and reassessing future goals. Read our full statement below, along with a compilation of our resources: healthliberationnow.com/2025/03/15/a...

Schumer is trying to justify his vote on Jake Tapper right now, saying if they had let the government shut down "they could fire half the workers in the federal government." WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW CHUCK

I have lived in authoritarianism before, and participated in a popular movement against it. My political voice was born in it. I was just talking to a friend - this moment is *triggering* because it feels like so few people are reacting on the magnitude of what I know is coming.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Look it sucks that Canadian and German people are being detained by CBP. But I find it really hard to see people falling over themselves to denounce it when they didn’t say shit about months of people who weren’t white & rich being detained outdoors without food, water, or shelter

Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:

The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration. FBI ordered Citibank to freeze the group bank's accounts. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

Fuck Stella O’Malley & the other assholes at Genspect, fuck the Heritage Foundation, fuck Chloe Cole, Laura Becker & the other detrans fascists who betray both trans & detrans people for money & power, fuck Dan Crenshaw & the Trump administration, fuck all this shit. Detrans people deserve better.

I can only briefly comment on this fucking bullshit “amplify detrans disinfo day” during my lunch break, since I’m not being paid by likes of the Heritage Foundation to spread their propaganda, I have to work a real job, like most detransitioned people & people in general.

I’m also a survivor of ideological detransition/conversion practices. Having been in anti-trans detrans subcultures, I know from firsthand experience that they’re not representative of most people who detransition & how anti-trans activists work to control the public perception of detransition.

I’m a medically detransitioned re/trans person who fucking hates “detrans awareness day”. All it does is remind me of how well-funded fucked up right-wing cis people & conversion therapists have used their token detrans fascists to take control of the public narrative on detransition.

Fuck “detrans awareness day”, it’s a bullshit day that exists so conversion therapists & right-wingers can spread disinfo/propaganda about detransition, harming both trans & detrans people. Most detrans people are trans/pro-trans, anti-trans detrans activists are a minority amplified by the Right.

The point is being made clear: no criminal activity is required for them to deport you. You merely have to be engaging in speech this administration disapproves of to be made a target for deportation or rendition. This is secret police taking people in the night. This is an American Gestapo.

This is a thoughtful, easily digestible, read about ways we can confront threats directly but also ways that we can avoid inadvertently becoming a tool used to spread that which we hate. Being mindful in our actions can help shift outcomes towards our favor. Please consider reading and utilizing!

He is lying. I was on Columbia's campus the day Johnson visited, April 24. The congressional delegation spoke from the steps of the Low Library, hundreds of feet from the pro-divestment encampment. No one could even hear Johnson– only press microphones. He was heckled. That's all.

Today, people will demonstrate in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist at Columbia University. DHS has kidnapped him and revoked his green card. Some demonstrators will be distributing this flier. You can print out copies here yourself: crimethinc.com/zines/rememb... Resist.

NOTE: ICE has been detaining legal permanent residents and—yes, even citizens—at least since the Obama admin. The public only pays attention when Trump is president. But it's been happening for over a decade.

Hey does anyone want to explain why Kinnon MacKinnon was at a Genspect conference despite ample prior warning, both public and private, about their hostility to gender affirming care in all contexts?

A trans sex worker called 911 to report being kidnapped. LAPD officers shot and killed her www.latimes.com/california/s...

@naomiaklein.bsky.social your spanish language publisher is publishing books by a notorious antivaxxer, terf and antisemite - hate to reach out like this but if you feel inclined to tell them that this is not OK it would mean a lot 🙏

No matter your background and irrespective of whether you agree with his political beliefs or not, if you're not terrified that a US permanent resident could be subject to deportation and greencard revocation without due process, then you are in deep need of a history lesson.

We both tried to warn him. We gave him so many chances to change course before finally speaking out publicly about our concerns about him. It's a fucking shame he went GC because we could use some good research on detransition/retransition, instead of all the anti-trans crap.

In a leaked twitter space, Maia Poet/Abbruzzese disclosed that “detransition researcher” Kinnon MacKinnon has attended at least one Genspect conference. While concerning, those who’ve been watching Kinnon’s trajectory over the years wouldn’t find this surprising. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCRO...

The upshot of the Trump admin choosing the anti-trans group SEGM to be their medical authorities on trans folks is that it will increasingly be obvious that SEGM is a hate group. 1/

Hey does anyone want to explain why Kinnon MacKinnon was at a Genspect conference despite ample prior warning, both public and private, about their hostility to gender affirming care in all contexts?

We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

Earlier today at Jay Bhattacharya's confirmation hearing, Sen Bill Cassidy corrected @baldwin.senate.gov at the end of her remarks: "For the record, funding has not been cancelled; the meeting to allocated funding has been delayed." Funding has indeed been cancelled, as I report below.

#Entérate |Alrededor de 50 organizaciones de los Estados Unidos y México pidieron al presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, detener el tráfico de armas de alto poder a los cárteles mexicanos.

If this seems complicated, it's not really! Wear mask when you can. Spray before potential exposure, mouthwash after. Use an air purifier if available. These are all evidence-based measures against covid and other things like the flu too!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The end result of this is trans people can't travel to the USA without the risk of being permanently banned from entering the USA on grounds of "gender fraud". Already know trans folks in high tech fields who will be cancelling plans to give talks in America.

This is your regular reminder that government mandated backdoors for end-to-end encrypted comms are bullshit, make everyone less safe, and should be resisted at maximum volume.

Please understand me when I say that you cannot talk yourself out of criminal charges. You can, however, talk yourself into them. "I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present" is the ONLY thing you should EVER say to a police officer, EVER.

NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

Important lessons here for any psych professional who takes on a gatekeeping role for gender transition. Gatekeeping doesn’t protect anyone!

Like if we're gonna do this let's fucking do it. Give me a systematic review of what kind of parents use software to block their kids from contacting Childline.

It continues to frustrate me that anti-trans ideologues constantly pump out nonsense about the "low quality" of overwhelminnly positive evidence for the benefits of transition to trans people while pushing shit like "Gender Exploratory Therapy" that has no fucking evidence base whatsoever.

Every union should be echoing this statement.

Over 50% of trans people are sexual assault survivors. Rape is how patriarchy punishes violations of its rules. There is no way cutting the people most likely to be sexually assaulted from sexual assault services is "necessary" for the "greater good."