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Efforts to criminalize trans people and the medical care many trans people rely on continue to escalate at the state and federal levels. Adam M. Rhodes takes a look at what trans people, their loved ones, and medical providers can do to protect themselves: theappeal.org/trans-legal-...

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Brookline for Everyone is proud to endorse the following candidates for Town Meeting in Precinct 11.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

submitted 67 days ago • 1308 comments

#handsoff My niece in Boston.

submitted 69 days ago • 68 comments

Boston is turned out against ICE today--Rumeysa was illegally sent to an ICE detention center in Louisiana despite a court order against moving her! Come for one, face us all.

submitted 79 days ago • 28 comments

@joshuajfriedman.com Can you make this news tech a larger audience? I’m not seeing enough posts about it.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Nice that Robert rebuked T*ump today and all but I’m not seeing enough attention being paid to this???? This made me shake and sob. #SegregationIsOkayAgain

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

submitted 95 days ago • 222 comments

The KOOP Radio interview with STARMAN director Robert Stone: www.lightscameraaustin.net/robert-stone... The documentary — about NASA engineer, sci-fi novelist, and UT alum Gentry Lee — screens today and Saturday during #SXSW. #Starman #GentryLee #SXSW2025

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Someone generously shared this template of a handout they were inspired to create for their local community with me. Here's a canva link if you'd like to adapt it for your communities: www.canva.com/design/DAGgN...

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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

submitted 102 days ago • 725 comments

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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"The failure of the system’s rehabilitation programs are starker when considering that many of us serving long-term or life sentences are passed up for these programs almost entirely."

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Given the current government's aversion to medical facts it's great that the AMA is stepping into the breach with updates on YouTube. You can subscribe to them there

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Just got off the phone with Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), who said Elon Musk's DOGE team is "actively dismantling" federal Department of Education programs today. "They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts."

submitted 122 days ago • 150 comments

“We are right on the law, and people deserve to feel that their rights are being defended in every possible way. That is how I continue. It feels absolutely worth it every single day to me.” - @aclu.org’s @chasestrangio.bsky.social in a new Law Dork video discussion: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-anti...

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”

submitted 131 days ago • 219 comments

Buford Highway, #ATL, deportation protests

submitted 132 days ago • 17 comments

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

submitted 133 days ago • 322 comments

Out today in @foreignpolicy.com: I wrote about what will happen if there is an H5N1 pandemic with Robert F Kennedy, Jr. in charge of safeguarding the health of Americans. If H5N1 begins spreading human to human, the deaths will be counted in millions.🧵👇 foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/r...

submitted 134 days ago • 28 comments

Trans kids and their families can now apply for up to four (4) $500 grants annually for aid in accessing gender-affirming care. If you are looking to financially support a good org, donate here to the Trans Youth Emergency Project >>> southernequality.org/tyep/

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Congratulations to all the Democrats that voted for the Laken Riley Act.

submitted 135 days ago • 3 comments

If you’re someone who only wears their mask indoors, this is an excellent argument for keeping it on outdoors too “I’m certain that we’re seeing clouds of dust with bird feces in it. then on windy days it blows with the dust and you inhale it. I think we’re going to see the same thing with H5N1”

submitted 139 days ago • 18 comments

Truly, primary every single Democrat who supports the MAGA agenda. Incomprehensible. Also ask them why they hate dogs.

submitted 139 days ago • 119 comments

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

submitted 142 days ago • 316 comments

Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Nonbinary people are nonbinary.

submitted 144 days ago • 17 comments

A large group of Proud Boys are marching in DC right now, per video on x by @scootercaster.com . Cannot stress how significant this is — DC has been perceived as a no go zone for the far-right since J6, particularly for the Proud Boys x.com/scootercaste...

submitted 144 days ago • 34 comments