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Scholar, Spouse, Parent, Justice Warrior, Therapist, PhD student of Cultural Sociology at nameless University in the Midwest. Needing a transfer to safer lands...Oh yeah, and trans guy. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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I’m sorry, WHAT?? apnews.com/article/supr... Supreme Court makes it easier to claim 'reverse discrimination' in employment, in a case from Ohio

www.naadac.org/advocacy-blo...

Call me crazy, but if AOC and Obama can fundraise crazy millions in $5 increments- why can’t we grassroots ourselves into some research and grad student support?

Folks, do you have ANY idea on a local level just how incredibly devastating this will be? Especially in more rural areas. Iowa, for example, already under a severe chronic shortage for MH/SUD professionals. Our schools have growing numbers of kids with mental health and substance needs. We have

Trans/LGBQIA2S+ folks are not alone in this...so many other groups know exactly how this feels. Many of us are impacted by several identities at once. We are SO TIRED of being tossed out with the trash.

My observation for the day: the powers that be have largely been successful at flooding the population with so much damage and turmoil that most groups are so busy bickering they can’t see things are being divided further. You don’t need DC Dems, we need each other, ALL of us. Some folks have been

JFC @nytimes.com you haven’t done enough damage yet?? It’s Pride month, we are under political and social attack across the country, and you think it’s time for you to pull another of your hits disguised as investigative journalism? Queer & trans ppl are DYING (murdered too), you ghouls.

Handwringing Dems, who seem incapable of finding a single spine, could get a dozen talking points from one hcrichardson.bsky.social piece alone. Then ask any internet influencer teen how to blast them out to the people that need to hear it. I refuse the substack, but appreciate the daily emails!

I spent the whole day gardening and trimming trees, making my yard look serene and beautiful. That was way better than watching the online shitshow debate about my existence. Self care, y’all.

NEW: This opinion piece in today’s Washington Post is one of the most important it has ever published. Shadi Hamid on the urgency of calling the Gaza crimes what they so patently are: a genocide. I don’t like violating paywalls, but make no apology for doing so for this. It’s essential.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/c... [gift link]

There are 100 terrible things in this bill. Focus like a laser on one or two of those things and start educating everyone you know on those one or two things. If each of us does that, then we'll be able to inform A LOT OF PEOPLE.

Listen, I'm a healthcare lawyer, and I have the leg text open in front of me: The Manager's Amendment to the House GOP Budget Reconciliation bill that's about to move from Rules Committee to the floor bans medicaid for paying for gender affirming care 1/