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This is the most swagged out a governor has ever been

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It took Peter Staley two weeks to build 200 full-sized coffins. The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers, fashioned them out of styrofoam, tape and velcro. On Thursday, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Home (for a couple of days)

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hahahaha what the fuck

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The entire AmeriCorps agency has been placed on administrative leave

submitted 20 hours ago • 72 comments

Reminder of when 2617 American biologists and scientists wrote a letter saying that Trump's claim that sex was an immutable binary was factually wrong And now the UK has tried to do the same. They cannot fight science forever not-binary.org/statement/

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...

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A note: It's not deportation when you're talking about a citizen. It's exile. Or worse.

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"engage on the implications of the ruling" What a cold, heartless, shocking way to respond to an unjust court decision.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Courts rule on what is legal but they do not have the power to declare what is right, or true, or moral. Trans women are women, trans men are men, and both deserve dignity under the law. Spoke briefly with Time Magazine about today's decision in the UK:

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In a devastating decision, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that trans women are ineligible for protections as women under their 2010 Equality Act. While this is a heartbreaking decision, the Court affirmed that trans people are protected under many of the U.K.’s nondiscrimination laws.

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We won't be erased.

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My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

There will come a day, I promise you, where trans women and trans men and all our non-binary kin across the world we share are offered the dignity under the law that we deserve. And where their ghoulish celebrating will be confined to a sad paragraph in a history book.

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The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds. Trans women are women.

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Terrible, terrible news to wake up to. All my love and support to my trans siblings across the pond today.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Straddles the line here but I think “people on Bluesky were right but extremely annoying” is too accurate of a take about all of us to be upset about

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

Advice from the Education Writers Association on how journalists can responsibly cover trans students at a moment when they are highly politicized — I was glad to offer my thoughts along other reporters and experts So grateful to @petrinkae.bsky.social for creating this resource

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GIGANTIC YELLOW WARNING: we don't serve transsexuals. HAPPY REGULAR WEBSITE: care. no matter what. can't make this shit up man

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

World War II poster.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

proud of her for beating our common enemy: the millennial pause

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 8 days ago • 297 comments

So we tanked the stock market on purpose for a week before folding without getting anything in return, do I have that right?

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

Instead of putting our dangerous President in check and tackling the American economy’s free-fall, House Republicans showed where their priorities lie - giving airtime to junk science and trying to pass more anti-trans legislation.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

is this what winning looks like? if so i am, in fact, tired of winning

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

feel like this country is currently living through the "wow, a gun!" scene from IT crowd, right down to the person in charge being enraged at the existence of trans people

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

i gave this segment a shout out on my timeline yesterday but i concur and also highly recommend it

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

As seen on @lastweektonight.com! Proud of this report we did at CAP using data and humanity to combat cruel attacks on trans kids. Also, the brilliant author @goldbergsk.bsky.social is available to hire!!! www.americanprogress.org/article/fair...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Just chatted with the Advocate about news that HHS is going to try to stack the deck against trans folks - tl;dr health care decisions should be made by patients and their doctors, not RFK Jr.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

the new looney tunes movie (which is great, you should see it) makes Daffy Duck canonically trans (he lays eggs)

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The President issued a statement this morning that trivializes child abuse by demeaning gay parents and slandering the hundreds of thousands of families who love and support their transgender children. This is particularly heinous coming from Donald Trump, himself an unrepentant sexual abuser.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

This is the most swagged out a governor has ever been

It took Peter Staley two weeks to build 200 full-sized coffins. The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers, fashioned them out of styrofoam, tape and velcro. On Thursday, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief.

Home (for a couple of days)

hahahaha what the fuck

The entire AmeriCorps agency has been placed on administrative leave

Reminder of when 2617 American biologists and scientists wrote a letter saying that Trump's claim that sex was an immutable binary was factually wrong And now the UK has tried to do the same. They cannot fight science forever not-binary.org/statement/

What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...

A note: It's not deportation when you're talking about a citizen. It's exile. Or worse.

"engage on the implications of the ruling" What a cold, heartless, shocking way to respond to an unjust court decision.

Courts rule on what is legal but they do not have the power to declare what is right, or true, or moral. Trans women are women, trans men are men, and both deserve dignity under the law. Spoke briefly with Time Magazine about today's decision in the UK:

We won't be erased.

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

There will come a day, I promise you, where trans women and trans men and all our non-binary kin across the world we share are offered the dignity under the law that we deserve. And where their ghoulish celebrating will be confined to a sad paragraph in a history book.

The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds. Trans women are women.

Terrible, terrible news to wake up to. All my love and support to my trans siblings across the pond today.

Straddles the line here but I think “people on Bluesky were right but extremely annoying” is too accurate of a take about all of us to be upset about

Advice from the Education Writers Association on how journalists can responsibly cover trans students at a moment when they are highly politicized — I was glad to offer my thoughts along other reporters and experts So grateful to @petrinkae.bsky.social for creating this resource

GIGANTIC YELLOW WARNING: we don't serve transsexuals. HAPPY REGULAR WEBSITE: care. no matter what. can't make this shit up man

World War II poster.

proud of her for beating our common enemy: the millennial pause

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

So we tanked the stock market on purpose for a week before folding without getting anything in return, do I have that right?

Instead of putting our dangerous President in check and tackling the American economy’s free-fall, House Republicans showed where their priorities lie - giving airtime to junk science and trying to pass more anti-trans legislation.

is this what winning looks like? if so i am, in fact, tired of winning

feel like this country is currently living through the "wow, a gun!" scene from IT crowd, right down to the person in charge being enraged at the existence of trans people

i gave this segment a shout out on my timeline yesterday but i concur and also highly recommend it

As seen on @lastweektonight.com! Proud of this report we did at CAP using data and humanity to combat cruel attacks on trans kids. Also, the brilliant author @goldbergsk.bsky.social is available to hire!!! www.americanprogress.org/article/fair...

Just chatted with the Advocate about news that HHS is going to try to stack the deck against trans folks - tl;dr health care decisions should be made by patients and their doctors, not RFK Jr.

the new looney tunes movie (which is great, you should see it) makes Daffy Duck canonically trans (he lays eggs)

The President issued a statement this morning that trivializes child abuse by demeaning gay parents and slandering the hundreds of thousands of families who love and support their transgender children. This is particularly heinous coming from Donald Trump, himself an unrepentant sexual abuser.

I think other reporters should point out that there is no other form of medicine held even close to this standard.

You there, boy! What day is it?

HELL YES