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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

submitted 4 days ago • 190 comments

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped monday. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

"my perfidious enemies have force femmed shrek" would be an incredible shitpost if these people weren't 100% serious

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable. 2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.

submitted 2 days ago • 513 comments

CALL YOUR FUCKING CONGRESS PEOPLE RIGHT NOW. IT'S A SATURDAY. YOU GET TO JUST LEAVE A MESSAGE. SCRIPT I'M USING IS BELOW:

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

PSA: All of David Lynch's features have just dropped at archive dot org, including Industrial Symphony No 1, Hotel Room, and the Duran Duran concert

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

Department of Education launched a DEI snitch portal if you want to flood it with spam. enddei.ed.gov

submitted 4 days ago • 110 comments

new orleans boos the department of homeland security

submitted 4 days ago • 378 comments

HOLY!! SHIT!!! HOLY!! SHIT!!

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

DOGE is canceling government contracts that help veterans. Records show among the 875 contracts were arrangements to help medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors, and provide burial services to veterans.

submitted 5 days ago • 572 comments

I'm guessing 0 people will turn out at airports to protest Trump's trans travel ban.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Trump's funding cuts are putting Oregonians in the literal line of fire. Wildfire prevention and mitigation groups across the West are having to lay off staff and close doors just ahead of fire season, all so Republicans can give another tax handout to Elon Musk.

submitted 6 days ago • 104 comments

Thank fuck. Lets hope they give up on this attempt at torturing people

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

another big update from me! i've been sitting on this for a week, unsure of how to write this up.. but i've gotten the total cost for my top surgery, which is $19.6k. i can't raise this money alone, even with all of the work i do, so i've made a gofundme. gofund.me/954d116c

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

I love boneless wings :3

submitted 7 days ago • 97 comments

Have to admire the “okay but cable news is bad” people because no matter what they have their arguments and they’ll be damned if they consider whether a bad institution can be made worse by something like openly removing Black people from the airwaves.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

It's past midnight, and Senate Republicans are voting NO against every Democratic-led amendment to PROTECT HEALTH CARE for our families. Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 10 days ago • 109 comments

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

submitted 7 days ago • 542 comments

“You can come up with a lot of ways in which this goes sideways very quickly for mountain communities, for forest communities and for anyone who lives in the wildland urban interface.” Everyone should be reading @aprilehrlich.bsky.social reporting on Forest Service cuts & what it means for Oregon.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Never, never, never, never surrender. #aiart Messages like this mean the world.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

There is no Republican party. There's just Nazis.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

You are witnessing the normalization of fascism right in your face. You are seeing the media’s “unbiasedness” sanitize fascism by giving these people the benefit of the doubt. These are not “Nazi-like”, these are Nazis. Beware the rhinoceros, before it’s too late.

submitted 9 days ago • 40 comments

In case you haven’t read Joe Sacco’s short but good online comics about Gaza from 2024, lemme recommend them: www.tcj.com/topic/the-wa...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

I felt obligated to upload Squeepoo.mp3 to Youtube because I have tricked a LOT of people (by accident) into believing that this is the real name of this sound, which has no name I'm aware of!! I make amends by making the term more searchable. youtu.be/JLf1_AVQRn4?...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

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Planning a longer-term stay in Japan? Some hotels can get expensive, while others are specifically designed with short-term visitors in mind. Luckily, today, there are tons of options - from capsule hotels to Airbnb to share house programs and even homestays.

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Did you know we have a YouTube channel? There you'll find numerous in-depth videos on Japanese history, language, media, and more - and we have a brand-new, full-length history video coming out in just a few days! So, never a better time to subscribe. www.youtube.com/@UnseenJapan/

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 11 days ago • 206 comments

Trans allyship means fighting for us, not just affirming us. Yes, telling trans people we’re valid can sometimes be comforting. But real support means calling out transphobia, pushing for legal protections and ensuring trans people have access to healthcare, housing and safety.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

In my first piece for @theguardian.com, I told the story about how a Portlander used social media to spark a movement that’s sweeping the nation… and why a similar movement in Portland over a decade prior didn’t have the same reach.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Oregon U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz faces questions over Elon Musk and federal employee cuts during a recent town hall in Eastern Oregon.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

"In interviews with OPB, almost a dozen current and former Forest Service employees said they feared this loss of workers will be catastrophic for the fire season ahead."

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible news! More hospitals have returned to offering gender affirming care after Trump's executive order was blocked. Moments after publishing our story on hospitals returning, Childrens National DC announced a return to care. And JUST now, Colorado Children's is back to giving care! AMAZING

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

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 12 days ago • 137 comments

Vance Day — who once made headlines for refusing to wed gay couples, and for hanging a picture of Hitler in the courthouse — has been hired by the Trump administration. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

We don't misgender anyone. Not even people we don't like. Not even people who misgender us. We don't treat being gendered correctly as a reward for good behavior. Ever.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments