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The reporting on the trans travel visa ban is criminal. It does NOT only affect transgender athletes. The cables CLEARLY say it affects all trans people. They can reject visas on point 6 of anyone who is requesting a visa that does not match their assigned sex at birth.

submitted 21 hours ago • 56 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 627 comments

1. The Washington Post picked up my story on RAINN/NSVRC and got some quotes from the organizations involved today. RAINN told the Post "the changes were made to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting trans people." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Our Trans Family and History WILL NOT BE ERASED 🏳️‍⚧️ Rally at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City in response to the current administration’s efforts to erase transgender people.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

We've been telling you it's not about "protecting women's sports" and this definitively proves it. Knew this shoe was going to drop at some point, just the latest thing I am not happy to be right about. Can't wait to hear the mental gymnastics to defend this from the "save women's sports" crowd.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

White House Communications Team Struggles To Write Press Release After Trump 'Bans All Pronouns ' #Onionheadlines

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“I’m looking at the medical literature, research that’s been done. I’m looking at real people in front of me. I’m not looking at some right-wing, religious ideologue who is referring to this as ‘gender ideology.’ It’s no ideology. They have the ideology. I’m dealing with science and medicine.”

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes, surely a clever acronym will stop him.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

"Although Bondi purports to be enforcing the...equal protection clause, her proposal clashes with other constitutional values, namely free speech & association. Federal courts have repeatedly [upheld private employers' 1st Amendment right]to promote DEIA & encourage workers to embrace its values."

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 22 days ago • 1278 comments

New from 404 Media: Employees working at DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Means DOGE will be even more secretive and unaccountable www.404media.co/doge-employe...

submitted 22 days ago • 92 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge in Maryland grants nationwide preliminary injunction against Trump executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee, says order is likely 'unconstitutional.' More to come....

submitted 22 days ago • 45 comments

Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action. If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.

submitted 37 days ago • 70 comments

These DOGE guys' phone numbers & addresses are easy to find, in case anyone wants to file a FOIA request for all their communications (including those on any personal devices used to conduct government business), or serve them with evidence preservation demand letters in anticipation of litigation

submitted 24 days ago • 71 comments

The Government Accountability Project has a very good handbook on whistleblowing and retaliation that some federal employees may find helpful right now: whistleblower.org/caught-betwe...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Hmm, could an ambiguous, hastily issued executive order about a pause in federal spending possibly have contributed to this issue?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 28 days ago • 1412 comments

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican. Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries. We are not going anywhere. Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.

submitted 28 days ago • 83 comments

I know you hate this advice. I know you hear it all the time, but for gods sake you need to be calling your congressperson. Now. Today. If you have a GOP representative, you need to call and ask if they approve of stripping congress of its constitutional authority. If they like being powerless.

submitted 30 days ago • 26 comments

On Jan. 30, 2025, the Transgender Unity Coalition is holding rallies around the US to show the solidarity of the transgender community. Already confirmed are rallies in the state capitals of Ohio, Colorado, California, Texas, Utah, and Georgia. More to come. transunitycoalition.org/contact-us/

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

I'm very curious how the free market side of the GOP is going to respond to state AGs telling them what policies they are allowed to enact in their private companies... 1819news.com/news/item/ag...

submitted 29 days ago • 69 comments

FLAG: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse released Russell Vought's responses to the questionnaire he submitted during the confirmation process to lead the Office of Management and Budget. He lies and says the 2020 election was "rigged." "I believe that the 2020 election was rigged."

submitted 29 days ago • 38 comments

Closely study this document. It provides a list of programs w/ major appropriations but expired authorizations -- so possible targets for reprogramming. On the list: - Major DOE programs (incl. loans) - NOAA - Violence Against Women Act - 21st Century Cures Act www.cbo.gov/publication/...

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

It will be mostly reported as a ban on GAC for minors, but this EO is even worse than that. It defines "child" as "under 19 years of age" & aims to block medical institutions who provide such care from fed funding. Seems this could include those which don't provide any GAC to patients <18.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

submitted 30 days ago • 97 comments

Among the >2,000 programs being "reviewed," forcing agencies document "any funding related to undocumented immigrants, climate... [DEI] or abortion": Head Start, cancer center support grants & one "covering the cost of caskets for deceased veterans with no next of kin." www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

submitted 30 days ago • 2072 comments

Would love to see political journalists writing for major outlets ask Trump administration plans to pay for this, or about ita detrimental impact on recruitment and national security.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone should be aware of the line that has been crossed in the Trump trans military EO. No longer is this about "evidence," "science" or "protecting kids." Now, explicitly, black and white, it's about trans people being "liars," "dishonorable," "false." It's a big step towards very bad things.

submitted 30 days ago • 120 comments

Hello Bluesky! I have written a ~2000 word story about social media managers & brand Twitter accounts, why is everyone still posting, etc. The outlet I wrote it for asked that I either not touch the Nazi stuff or try to pitch it elsewhere, so it's looking for a new home. [email protected] for info

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

Hundreds of hard-working people were raided last night in my city. ICE raid TIPS DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR You have the right to DENY ENTRY if they don't have a SIGNED warrant from a JUDGE Remain SILENT Record everything they do Call the hotline at 1-844-724-3737 wearecasa.org/know-your-ri...

submitted 34 days ago • 47 comments

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

submitted 34 days ago • 1264 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 35 days ago • 2539 comments

"Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates."

submitted 35 days ago • 93 comments

The Mayor of Newark says ICE detained citizens and a military veteran in a warrantless raid there today. www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

submitted 34 days ago • 483 comments

U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, says he will block Trump's "blatantly unconstitutional order" purporting to abolish birthright citizenship for many children of immigrants: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

It's so weird! When I Google Jamal Khashoggi, a State Department link about accountability appears but when you click on it? Hm.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

This administration (and its allies) are anti-civil rights and we need to start framing it that way. They've already started attacking bedrock civil rights laws with Trump revoking anti-discrimination protections for federal workers passed in 1965.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

submitted 37 days ago • 95 comments

There are several challenges already to Trump's Monday executive order seeking to restrict birthright citizenship. I go through them the ones I know about — which, at this point, are five of them — at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/multiple-l...

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

if you’re reading the news, you may be confused about what trump did to the wind industry yesterday. many have told me he just ended “leases,” a thing most do not understand. others simply that he only went after offshore wind. but… he ended ALL federal permits to ALL wind energy.

submitted 36 days ago • 4 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 37 days ago • 194 comments

I see the MAGA crowd is at "Oh, so everyone who gives a nazi salute is a nazi now!?"

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments