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1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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And this is why it's so important to support independent journalism. Institutional journalism has become a plaything for the rich. Independent journalists are breaking the biggest news every day, beholden to nobody but their readers.

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StatNews [Feb 22] -- CDC will no longer track trans identity in its health surveillance systems, incl. HIV monitoring & its key Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance--the only nationally representative data on trans youth, used by states to develop/refine programs. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

History is repeating itself. There were more LGBTQ people removed from government during the lavender scare than were suspected communists during the red scare. They only really taught the latter in history classes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavende...

submitted 19 hours ago • 25 comments

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

submitted 20 hours ago • 151 comments

NEW: Fully leaked diplomatic cable directing the implementation of this policy at all US diplomatic and consular posts.

submitted 23 hours ago • 69 comments

THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 244 comments

1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry. A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 23 hours ago • 129 comments

This is classic. Legislator votes that "using incorrect pronouns" is freedom of speech. Gets pissy that he is addressed by "Madame Chiarman" www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/24/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

US judge rejects request to recuse from case over courtroom pronoun policy @nateraymond.bsky.social reut.rs/4i7nPSB

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JUST IN: Judge Lamberth has expanded his block on the Trump administration's effort to relocate some transgender inmates to men's prisons. (There are about 16 transgender inmates in women's facilities nationwide, per DOJ) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Anti-trans British feminists have financial and organizational ties to Mexican feminists who in turn successfully sabotaged self ID laws in Mexico. They were the fascist Trojan horse all along and many of us were sounding the alarm for years, getting largely ignored if not harassed.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Just so everybody is clear on Republican priorities: We put up an amendment to make sure nobody making over $500 million gets a tax cut. Republicans voted against it.

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

PBS Newshour gave a twelve minute interview to Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, who has called for the “eradication” of trans people from society

submitted 4 days ago • 113 comments

“We have an obligation to resist kings, we have an obligation to resist oligarchs.”

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 4 days ago • 2907 comments

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

submitted 4 days ago • 154 comments

What in the absolute fuck is going on at the University of Cincinnati? For the record, trans men are just as biological as any other sort of man. They aren't made of metal or something.

submitted 5 days ago • 179 comments

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

submitted 4 days ago • 124 comments

euphoria star hunter schafer says her passport now says male after she requested a replacement (it was stolen abroad) via @variety.com variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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Former NFL player Chris Kluwe was arrested at a city council meeting after speaking out against a proposal to put a plaque referencing Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan in a local library.

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Cuckoo star Hunter Schafer has reportedly been given a new passport with an M for the gender marker, outing her as trans to anyone she shows it to. The model and actress says her previous passport was stolen in Barcelona, leading her to apply for a replacement.

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments

"Well what if we just get rid of Section 230 and see what happens? What's the worst thing that could happen?" Ask a sex worker. The last time Congress changed Section 230, people died. www.thedailybeast.com/want-to-fix-...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration's mass federal employee layoffs can continue after a judge declined that he had jurisdiction to pause the actions.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Seeing a variety of takes on the Section 230 post, so let me clarify why this is a global issue for the internet, not just an American one. 🧵 If Section 230 gets dismantled, it's a pretext for big tech corps to make their TOS way more hostile to queer people.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

lol

submitted 6 days ago • 94 comments

"Republicans are the party of free speech!"

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DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

CISA controls the .gov domain registrar and the national public key infrastructure (PKI). This means Elon Musk has the ability to shut down any federal, state, or city government using a .gov domain. Musk can also now prevent .gov agencies and officials from registering their .gov BlueSky handles

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

This is how you actually fight back. Not by erasing trans victims of sexual assault.

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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

submitted 7 days ago • 241 comments

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

submitted 7 days ago • 96 comments

In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

submitted 7 days ago • 1193 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 8 days ago • 626 comments

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

”Trans people are not the reason you can’t afford eggs, afford healthcare, or buy a house ... I think they’re focused on the wrong 1%.”🥶 🎞️ and 💬 by @lavernecox.bsky.social 🎥: @theviewabc.bsky.social

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 8 days ago • 8259 comments

not to be all woke or whatever but this doesn’t seem like a great use of anybody’s time and money

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

It is shameful that RAINN, representing sexually abused people, erased trans people because they are scared of Trump. To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too. But we are all in this together.

submitted 8 days ago • 88 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

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🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 9 days ago • 288 comments