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Leslie Feinberg

submitted 122 days ago • 8 comments

Major news: Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth. It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades. Shameful.

submitted 123 days ago • 284 comments

1. Iowa governor Kim Reynolds is pushing a new bill that would remove transgender people from the state civil rights act. Another bill would classify trans people as disabled. Attacks escalate in state legislatures. Mira Lazine writes the latest. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 123 days ago • 104 comments

"A downstate Republican lawmaker is urging Illinois prison employees to secretly send her information on undocumented immigrants who are behind bars so she can pass the information on to federal immigration authorities" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/24/s...

submitted 125 days ago • 27 comments

Every day I am heartbroken and infuriated by what this country has done to these families

submitted 126 days ago • 15 comments

An incoming White House official invoked a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech while announcing President Trump’s executive order dismantling federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

submitted 129 days ago • 78 comments

Major news breaking from NOTUS on Trump’s trans passport ban: It will not be retroactive. Very glad I and others encouraged people to get their passports in the lead up to Trump’s inauguration. Now hopefully this EO is defeated in court. www.notus.org/whitehouse/t...

submitted 129 days ago • 144 comments

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

submitted 129 days ago • 1168 comments

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

submitted 130 days ago • 55 comments

"your validity is not dictated by an executive order" is probably a reassuring sentiment for people whose needs begin and end at validity, but are unlikely to soothe people who need things like "legal protections" or "access to health care"

submitted 130 days ago • 15 comments

Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it. You can find it here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 130 days ago • 191 comments

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

submitted 132 days ago • 373 comments

one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.

submitted 134 days ago • 1644 comments

My door is always open if you want to stop by and fix my door

submitted 138 days ago • 64 comments

The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires health plans to provide no-cost preventive care, including cancer screenings, immunizations and contraception, to millions of Americans.

submitted 140 days ago • 852 comments

They’re challenging PREP?! Jesus Christ.

submitted 140 days ago • 10 comments

the policy here really is wild. the entire concept is functionally to declare that gender and sexuality are not protected classes, that their legitimacy is a valid question

submitted 141 days ago • 14 comments

As @katelynburns.com notes, the sports aspect of this is a bit of a smokescreen for what this bill would actually do...

submitted 144 days ago • 31 comments

direct line from calling writing, videos, music, art, etc. "content" to the legitimization of AI slop producers

submitted 148 days ago • 9 comments

Texas--with one of the country's strictest abortion bans, highest maternal mortality rates, and the most women without health insurance--faces an "epidemic" of abandoned babies, some being found in ditches and dumpsters wapo.st/3ZXDbks

submitted 154 days ago • 81 comments

Excellent overview of how and why the Supreme Court's trans healthcare case could impact sex discrimination and gender inequality writ large. "Tennessee’s argument would call into question the longstanding freedom we all enjoy to live our lives as we wish, regardless of sex."

submitted 157 days ago • 58 comments

Finally went to H Mart for the first time and got some things i've been wishing i could find locally.

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Hotels, short-term rentals and event ticket-sellers must advertise prices to include service fees, cleaning fees and resort fees — often characterized as “junk fees” — in the totals that are advertised to consumers, the FTC announced on Tuesday. Here’s what to know.

submitted 162 days ago • 133 comments

What are the rules of litigation? The conservative justices on the SCOTUS are shredding what we’ve known. What I heard in the Skrmetti (gender- affirming care case) oral argument. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 162 days ago • 31 comments

I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

submitted 162 days ago • 534 comments

Health Insurance CEO Reveals Key To Company’s Success Is Not Paying For Customers’ Medical Care theonion.com/health-insur...

submitted 164 days ago • 276 comments

this is how they rationalize the disconnect between the false claim that trans kids don’t know who they are and the fact that transition regret is ridiculously rare

submitted 169 days ago • 1 comment

Gotta say it’s wild that every time Democrats win an election Republicans form an unbreakable bloc on every issue they prioritize but when Republicans win, Democrats go “oh yeah, mass deport, f the queers, defense of democracy what?” It’s a frustrating feature of American politics.

submitted 169 days ago • 107 comments

Amid this reckoning over the inhumanity and dysfunction of the American health care system keep in mind you're being asked to believe the same system is treating trans people too efficiently

submitted 170 days ago • 29 comments

god please let the AI bubble burst soon, i know it's going to take half the economy with it i'm just sick of every tech product i use begging me to try their shitty fucking AI content generation

submitted 170 days ago • 120 comments

Sometimes you need to step back and look at everything happening at once. Today I examine three pieces of excellent journalism that dropped on December 10. @jael.bsky.social @journo-beth.bsky.social @jbendery.bsky.social www.readtpa.com/p/one-day-in...

submitted 171 days ago • 6 comments

i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists. please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)

submitted 172 days ago • 44 comments

15 activists, including Chelsea Manning @xychelsea.tv and Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com, were arrested for occupying a women’s bathroom across from Speaker Mike Johnson’s office in protest of his and Nancy Mace’s proposed federal trans bathroom ban, calling on Dems to “grow a spine” and fight it

submitted 176 days ago • 33 comments

the clear sign that they just don’t see these kids as real people is the endless concern over hypotheticals and the indifference to the reality that actual children are more likely to kill themselves because of these bans

submitted 178 days ago • 483 comments

North Carolina will be sued.

submitted 179 days ago • 1216 comments

Here's a guy saying the quiet part out loud: this is about decreasing the number of living trans people

submitted 182 days ago • 24 comments

do you think if I sigh loud enough my problems will all go away

submitted 184 days ago • 12 comments

stir fry

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 186 days ago • 81 comments

I’ll leave the messaging tactics aside, but I have seen no evidence that Republicans’ anti-trans politics are a “distraction”—unless by “distraction” you mean in 4ish years, Republicans passed laws banning hormones and blockers for minors in half the states, while many, many Democrats ignored them.

submitted 187 days ago • 13 comments

My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...

submitted 190 days ago • 54 comments

I've been thinking a lot about Phyllis Frye who organized the first Trans Lobby Day in 1996. Trans people have been going in and out of the Capitol building--including its bathrooms--for a very long time

submitted 189 days ago • 11 comments

This is genuinely great from Gessen if only because it takes something pretty basic about anti-trans politics (it's part of a broader reproductive regime akin to the eugenics of fascist cults) and explains it to an audience still convinced this has anything to do with fairness in women's sports

submitted 190 days ago • 33 comments

whoa are you telling me that the trans panic is bad for cis people too ?? whoOOAOAHAHH!OOOOOOHHAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! time to care about it i guess

submitted 191 days ago • 23 comments

This is how they cover up what abortion bans do — fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm. Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

submitted 191 days ago • 53 comments