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I just sat back down to work after bringing Porkchop back inside. After we both settled back into our spots, he just let out a long little moan. Me too, buddy, me too.

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does anyone know of grants/fellowships/money opportunities for arts or journalism in Michigan or Illinois or the Midwest? looking for a small pot of money for our podcast about trans and queer elders in prison and putting this out there in case y'all have any good leads <3

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

we need to face a worldwide sports boycott, but also we are just own-goaling it anyway

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THIS PART

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The U.S. health system is a machine for producing profit, financial suffering, & premature death. Care is the myth it tells while it extracts & abandons. Health communism offers an answer: care as collective liberation, a commons, a praxis, not a commodity to be bought & sold or fixed with reform.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

This Juneteenth, you can help by giving to REBUILD, the ONLY service that provides free therapy to those impacted by the criminal legal system--including formerly incarcerated people, their family members, and those formerly held in immigration detention. Give: www.mightycause.com/organization...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

some good news!

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

(and not for nothing, but as pointed out by @erininthemorning.com the New York Times published 6 stories after yesterday's Skrmetti ruling with misinformation about trans healthcare, after their work was repeatedly cited in the state bills banning trans youth healthcare. you could read this instead)

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

if you haven't sent anything yet today (or this week, depending on your circumstances), please send a few bucks to Imad. things are so desperate in Gaza, we can at least let people know we are thinking of them. see comment below for how to get free stickers 🍉 after you donate

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

expand the image to see what happens when you log on for the best writing group ever!

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more of this please!!!

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

you can help Hala AND get a pack of Free Palestine stickers from the lovely @caw-shinythings.bsky.social what's not to love? feel free to comment and let me know you did it to inspire others to do the same! bsky.app/profile/caw-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

i’ve spent a lot of the last few years working in collaboration with queer and trans people inside. patricia has been a friend and comrade since 2020 and if you subscribe to our patreon, you can hear our interview with her!

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For those who think evacuating Tehran is possible based on #Israel’s warnings, which are nothing but a performative act. It would take weeks if not months to evacuate Tehran. What’s represented here doesn’t even come close to capturing the full size of #Iran’s capital city.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

among many other things wrong with this (and i'm glad he got enough pushback to delete this!) -- is that the fucking decision RIPS HEALTHCARE AWAY FROM PEOPLE

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so much this.

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i decided to turn my day personally around by releasing the pilot of my podcast, A Place Out of No Place, cohosted with @666ofswords.bsky.social ! it's just for patrons today but this interview with our trans elder Patricia Trimble will be public soon <3 patreon.com/APlaceOutofN...

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This is not good for pregnant people either. Or people who want vaccines. It’s all connected. One of MANY reasons (including the humanity & dignity of trans youth, adults, parents, & providers) we need to fight in solidarity with trans youth. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

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Anyway I literally just wrote a whole memoir explaining why SCOTUS is wrong and trans kids know who they are, on account of having been one. So if you want to know a firsthand account of why trans kids don't just grow out of transness and why it's not an outside influence, consider reading it.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Today is a particularly good day to support trans mutual aid as a concrete way to fight back against the fuckers trying to take their healthcare and other rights away. 🧵 of a few groups, campaigns, and individuals you can donate to:

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I refuse to respond to Skrmetti by breaking up our community. It doesn't matter if you medically transition, socially transition, both, or neither. It doesn't matter if you're binary or nonbinary or genderqueer or agender. I see you. I love you. We will get through this. And we will undo this.

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In light of SCOTUS's ruling in Skrmetti, @brittneymac15.bsky.social asked doctors what trans youth and their families need to know about navigating this. @teenvogue.com experts advise continuing to talk to affirming healthcare providers if you have them and exploring options for care out-of-state.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

not a surprise but still a blow.

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The antifascist that was shot by a 50501 protest marshal, and then arrested for the death of the other person shot (and killed) by that yellow vest pos, could use commissary funds.

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Today we are highlighting Nema and her children, who need only $400 to eat. If you donate to them, or anyone else, and send the receipt, you'll get a sticker pack

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hey chat, is complaining that things are performative... performative?

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Police don’t keep us safe. They do not stop or prevent violence. The cops usually just show up after harm has already been done. And in fact, even by their own metrics of ‘solving crimes,’ they consistently do a terrible job.

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“The buzzing of drones and military aircraft above our heads doesn’t stop. For 20 months we heard these sounds in videos from Gaza. Now they’re above our heads. … Our story isn’t separate from theirs.” -Mitra, in Tehran (Interviewed by @alexshams.bsky.social) truthout.org/articles/im-...

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"[A]dults in custody argue that the reintroduction of standard Android features and word processing software would empower them to write essays, learn applicable real-world computer skills, maintain journals ... and read e-books, all of which can contribute to personal growth and rehabilitation."

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