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the argument that it's not life saving is literally that trans people, as an entire unit, cannot be trusted to report whether transitioning improved their quality of life

submitted 5 hours ago • 16 comments

I just want to stop feeling like a madman is going to unleash societal collapse on a whim, I don’t think that’s too much to ask for

submitted 20 minutes ago • 0 comments

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

submitted 6 hours ago • 235 comments

Democrats have to pretend that everything Trump does is just a distraction to justify why they are taking no action to oppose any of it

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

Wow. Lenacapavir getting approved for possible use in PrEP is the good news I sorely needed today. It is going to be expensive and mostly unavailable to those who need it, which is bad. I’m choosing to look at this as just one step to a much better future. I need something moving forward.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Wow. Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly shot that prevents HIV spread was just approved by the FDA. The problem? Due to government cuts to Medicaid, PEPFAR, and Global Fund, it's unlikely this game-changing drug will reach the many people who need it most in the US and globally.

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

There's something about a program designed to do a specific thing having a programmed response to apparently make excuses for when it cannot return the result it's programmed to. It can't "lie," it doesn't have "intentions," it isn't "learning." But it isn't programmed to say, "no results found".

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

submitted 5 hours ago • 47 comments

This deserves impeachment.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Keep remembering all the things that the Supreme Court found legal that were later determined to be morally-and often legally- wrong. Start with Plessy vs. Ferguson and legal segregation. The law is not the arbiter of rightness, it often hoards power. Protect trans people at all costs.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court. Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.

submitted 9 hours ago • 364 comments

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 7 hours ago • 120 comments

This is disgusting. Shame on the majority.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I’m not even 10 minutes into the Ezra Klein–Sarah McBride podcast and I’m already disagreeing with McBride. Maybe DC felt a false sense of security, but I never did. For several reasons. One, 2010s victories were court ones. Two, MAGA writ large. Three, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ rights were never all there..

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

What is even happening

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Good, more anger pls

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I have made the decision to join a new gym in the next week or so. It has been far too long since I’ve been a gym regular, and it’s dragging me down. Not looking forward to the part between now and me lifting 😪

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

If New Yorkers are wondering who will fight back against Federal overreach, we have visible evidence today that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander are the candidates that you should rank 1 or 2 Lander literally resisted federal overreach and Mamdani showed up immediately to have his back Fuck Cuomo

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts granted class status to trans people in the passport gender marker change case and extended the prelim. injunction to the class. Trans people will be able to update their gender markers on their passports immediately. ecf.mad.uscourts.gov/doc1/0951130...

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

four of Brad Lander's political opponents praising him and speaking out in his defense shows that not only does this crew understand the stakes but also the incentive structure created for candidates by ranked choice voting is dope

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Lander and Padilla have set the standard that absolutely every Democratic politician should meet or exceed if they don't want to get primaried.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I’m just so tired of having to live with what’s going on, with things getting worse each week, with the mainstream media sane-washing this shit, and with leadership MIA. So tired.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Today feels like a wash. Blahhh

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This photo. ICE is a gang.

submitted 1 day ago • 692 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 1 day ago • 546 comments