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Guess I'm not going to the UK now.

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

My band is considering a European tour next summer. I will likely not go, as I'm not at all sure I won't be detained at the border trying to come back into the country. Fun times for a trans woman.

Fascist motherfuckers.

When DOGE cuts aviation safety and planes crash, when Medicaid is demolished and your community hospital closes, when trans care is banned through pulling funding, when Musk subverts democracy… These dems own it. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

1. OPINION: Governor Newsom’s Depraved MAGA Betrayal Mandates Mass Resistance From LGBTQ+ Californians. Newsom's transphobic rhetoric in his interview with Charlie Kirk is an attack on Californian democracy that must be met with resistance from LGBTQ people. www.madycast.com/p/opinion-go...

You've read the stories about Gavin Newsom throwing transgender people under the bus in sports, prisons, and gender affirming care for trans youth. Now watch the video and listen. It's as bad as it sounds. He betrayed trans people and threw us under a bus driven by Charlie fucking Kirk.

Everywhere I’ve ever been, you could always just walk in whatever bathrooms there were. It’s not like they card at the door. The social stigma against being a creepy pest is all that ever stopped you, and that doesn’t change because trans people exist and need to use the bathroom sometimes.

Shut the fuck up, Donnie. You're out of your element!

UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

l'etat c'est moi

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching *defenses* against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years

NOBODY ELECTED ELON.

TODAY: Meet @moveon.org and us at the Treasury building to rally against Elon Musk’s hostile takeover. It’s time to tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. 👇

Record your practice! Listening to playback gives time to rest and an opportunity to give feedback for improvement. Think what you'd tell a student if you had just listened to them play what you've recorded. Be your own teacher first and foremost! #tuba #lowbrass #gopractice #transgendermusician

You already know what time it is... time to put in the work! #tuba #lowbrass #gopractice #transgendermusician

🎵 on the road again...🎵 day trip to So Cal!

Gotta admit, I had intense fears of a second Trump administration but even I didn’t call Project 2025 UNDERSELLING his moves.

This is part of why I'm so visibly out and proud. I wish I had an example to follow when I was younger, so I'll just be that example now.

Clarke #5 on the docket today before heading to So Cal for a lesson with the sensei (John Van Houten) this weekend. Tuba studio to go!

Back to work! Have you done your long tones today? #tuba #gopractice #lowbrass #transgendermusician

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

In 24 hours we've gotten executive orders attempting to ban gender affirming care, ban recognition of trans youth in schools, ban trans employees in the federal government. It's a full on societal purge of trans people. They meant it when they said they wanted to eradicate us.

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.

Early morning practice session on the Schlipf cup mute. I can put in the work without annoying the neighbors! #tuba #gopractice #lowbrass

It is important to name this with the language of genocide and make the people enacting it confront and wear that language at every turn.

1. Yesterday, Trump's executive order crossed a new line. No longer are the NYT Op-eds, thin veneers of pseudoscience, and false claims about trans people needed to justify discrimination. We enter an era where our humanity itself is officially questioned. Subscribe to support my journalism.

I've decided I'm going all in on being a working musician. I'm available for lessons, coaching, and performing.

I have openings available in my tuba studio. Contact me if you're interested in lessons!

I'm coming around to the conclusion that after 30 years in the tech industry I am completely burned out on it. I can't imagine doing that sort of thing on a daily basis ever again. I'd rather starve.

My word of the day is "yet". I can't play this tune... yet. I don't like the way I look... yet.

Major news breaking from NOTUS on Trump’s trans passport ban: It will not be retroactive. Very glad I and others encouraged people to get their passports in the lead up to Trump’s inauguration. Now hopefully this EO is defeated in court. www.notus.org/whitehouse/t...

i didn't feel invalid prior to taking exogenous hormones i felt inhuman and like dying 24/7. i dont feel valid now i feel human and like living.

Can I ever relate to *this*!

Law Professors: The Constitution still exists and the Courts will protect us. Historians:

It's snowing in New Orleans.

Lapras chillin’ on the beach

If you saw what happened yesterday and still didn’t leave X, I’m sorry, idk what to say to you

I don’t recall this being in the job description, but I’m down for it. I’ve got access to my night house if I want to go inside, but my Siberian half seems to like the snow.