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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 15 hours ago • 222 comments

1. The far right is falsely spreading that a new study shows that surgery "doubles depression" for transgender people. This is an egregious misreading of the study, which does not look at transgender people before and after surgery. Subscribe to support my journalism. Lets dig in.

submitted 15 hours ago • 72 comments

Poland experts release clinical guidance on trans youth healthcare. They define the Cass Review as of "low scientific value and credibility". journals.viamedica.pl/endokrynolog...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

A lot of people are going to die from this

submitted 2 days ago • 1220 comments

Iowa’s governor and state legislators are blatantly cruel. They don’t care that Iowans don’t want this. Over 2500 people protested at the Capitol on just on Thursday alone. They fast-tracked this bill through in a week. The purpose is to do harm.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Watching a new drag ban hearing in Montana and we have new definitions of drag. These are wild yall. Look at the definition of drag king. This would ban lots of butch lesbian singers lol.

submitted 3 days ago • 203 comments

Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

For her performance of "Strange Fruit" a song about lynching African American people, she would silence the crowd, a spotlight on her face. On the final note, all lights went out and she was gone.... Singer Billie Holiday,1947 #WomensArt (Image by D.Hagerman)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The Council on Social Work Education (@cswe.bsky.social) is a signatory to the American Council on Education letter in response to the February 14th "Dear Colleague" letter aimed at institutions of education K-12 through higher ed. #socialwork

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t believe that we are at the point where we need to constantly remind everyone that children aren’t meant to die from vaccine-preventable diseases.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

United Farm Workers just sued Border Patrol. The details in the complaint are harrowing www.aclusocal.org/en/press-rel...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

submitted 8 days ago • 221 comments

When we fight, we win. Judge Halts Implementation of Trump Anti-DEIA Executive Orders Nationwide The AAUP is proud to stand up & defend our campuses & communities against those attempting to squash civil rights & halt progress toward an equitable, multi-racial democracy. www.washingtonpost.com

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

A five-alarm fire for LGBTQ Iowans: Iowa House Judiciary Committee chair Steven Holt introduced a bill today w/many discriminatory provisions including removing gender identity from Iowa's civil rights act. www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/... (my post in progress but won't be done tonight)

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st.

submitted 11 days ago • 171 comments

If they gut Medicaid, and nursing homes close, guess who will be expected to provide care at home. Adult, female children/siblings. Except many non-white and/or lower-middle class women already do that unpaid labor. This is going to be a shock to middle-upper class, white women.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The National Park Service just took down Marsha P. Johnson's page. www.nps.gov/people/marsh...

submitted 11 days ago • 48 comments

“They will have drastic effects on all of us – this is not hyperbole, this is fact,” said Todd Wolfson, president of the AAUP. The orders “will kill” as advances in the treatment of diseases as diverse as cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes are delayed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Remember when you were in school and you read "The Diary of Anne Frank" and you thought of all the things you would have done to stop the Nazis? Do those things now.

submitted 11 days ago • 70 comments

“As a transgender teacher who works both within CPS and the union, I have witnessed the impact of gender-affirming care in my school community and others. When students feel loved and supported by their teachers and their communities, they do better in school and in life.” bit.ly/4i4Xc00

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

submitted 11 days ago • 29 comments

Act as if no one is coming to save you.

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

Public comments are open for gender marker changes for trans people on passports. DS-11 Application for passport: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-82 Passport Renewal: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-5504 Name Change and Corrections. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

A new Missouri bill would create a registry of pregnant women "at risk for seeking an abortion." If that wasn’t bad enough, the bill would also give people interested in adopting access to this registry of pregnant women. More in the newsletter: jessica.substack.com/p/missouri-b...

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

WATCH: Lola Petticrew's powerful rallying call for human rights in Northern Ireland after winning Best Actress in a Drama at the #IFTAs for their role in Say Nothing.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

It's good to know we still have people on our side and willing to fight for us in court. Article by Alyssa Steinsiek @alyssaur.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Disability is the only minority group you can join at any time. No one asks for it or expects it, it just happens It’s not a moral failing. You didn’t “deserve” it. Most people will experience disability at some point in their lives So why do we treat disabled people so badly? 🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Horrific. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

This is a terrifying prospect.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Can people please, PLEASE start wearing masks to protests. And everywhere else really but going to a protest unmasked is inadvisable for multiple reasons. The hospitals are full again y’all. I don’t know how much more clear we can be.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure why we’re assuming that gutting disability programs is an accident but I guarantee you this wasn’t a whoopsie of language use, it was a very intentional attack on the disabled.

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

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World Athletics moved toward adopting rules that would ban athletes assigned female at birth but who have higher testosterone levels

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism. A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer. Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore. They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

submitted 17 days ago • 38 comments

🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023. ja.ma/4aVchPn #MedSky

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

1000 probationary Department of Veterans Affairs employees fired. OIT, Procurement, and Veterans Benefits Administration. They are lying and saying it won’t affect support for veterans. news.va.gov/press-room/v...

submitted 18 days ago • 293 comments

💡🧪 what do we think about organizing and doing a nationwide teach-in??? Our students want to learn and be informed. @aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Bookshop.org is offering 20% off this collection of romances by black authors with code BHM25. We've talked about quite a few of them on the show, and two were Best of 2024 picks.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

I’m headed to Stonewall to cover a protest against the Trump administration erasing trans and queer people from the Stonewall National Monument website last night. See below from ACT UP, and AP coverage of the website purge. www.huffpost.com/entry/stonew...

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

There's a protest at Stonewall. (This didn't go well for the haters last time around.)

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

Everything is terrible so I want to post about my favorite dude, my Dad, and how he became an organizer in his 80s. My dad is head of the old folks' caucus (their name, not mine!) at church. As their rep, he attends the church elders meetings and he thinks he doesn't say much in those spaces. 1/

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 18 days ago • 518 comments

The National Park Service has removed "T" and all mention of transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument. Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed. 3 articles of clothing laws were why raids happened. Erasure.

submitted 18 days ago • 160 comments

The Stonewall Riots happened because trans people, particularly of color, rose up against state violence. You can’t even begin to tell the story without our trans ancestors and elders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 18 days ago • 22 comments

We knew it was coming, but RFK Jr, an anti vaxxer, being confirmed to lead HHS hurts. He’s a danger to the public. He could wipe away much of the progress we’ve made with respect to infectious disease & preventative care. Wear a mask. N95 or better. Protect your own health and those around you.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

🚨In a victory for trans youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration EO attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for trans people under 19. 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

NEWS: As The Washington Post reports, a TRO was issued today in the PFLAG case filed in federal court in Maryland against enforcement of Trump's anti-trans EOs restricting funding for medical centers that provide gender-affirming medical care for minors. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments