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ryan502.bsky.social
Kentuckian, LGBTQ+ health researcher, travel enthusiast, UofLWBB fan, parent of two teenagers and an elderly pit bull.
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Raise a glass to freedom Something they can never take away No matter what they tell you

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Respect www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

American companies quite literally lost one trillion dollars in a single day but on the other hand Dave from accounts receivable doesn't have to worry about using they/them pronouns when he sees Leslie in the break room

submitted 9 days ago • 167 comments

Sitting in the Montana state legislature today watching them debate anti-trans sports bans again. They have had more anti-trans sports bans bills here than there are trans athletes in the state of Montana.

submitted 14 days ago • 41 comments

What am I supposed to tell our international doctoral students right now? Our prospective students?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.

submitted 16 days ago • 441 comments

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

submitted 19 days ago • 371 comments

In the past four weeks, Costco, which has embraced DEI initiatives, GAINED 7 million shoppers… Target, which got rid of DEI, LOST 5 million shoppers! That’s the power we have as consumers. Remember that.

submitted 22 days ago • 473 comments

“The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research,” writes Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully”:

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

submitted 25 days ago • 174 comments

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

submitted 144 days ago • 483 comments

AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

submitted 50 days ago • 28 comments

I joined more than 350 LGBTQIA+ historians in signing this letter protesting the government attempt to erase trans people from history by censoring the Stonewall National Monument website. Erasing a word does not erase our existence--now or in the past. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

This is a big deal, in part, because it forces trans people to detransition, which is cruel and unusual punishment

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

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 58 days ago • 16 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” — Albert Camus This warning should chill all American who care about our nation.

submitted 57 days ago • 46 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 57 days ago • 2669 comments

If everyone stopped being complicit, the manchild would just be whining and ranting from behind an old desk. He really is only as powerful as the compliance he gets.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

submitted 58 days ago • 183 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 60 days ago • 415 comments

At my sleep med doc this morning, I described how I wake up with an anxiety jolt every morning around 5am. She (American Muslim) and I then discussed our respective contingency plans for leaving the country. There’s only so much medical & behavioral health can do when the environment is the problem.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 61 days ago • 477 comments

Our country was under attack on January 6th and it is under attack now. It is appalling to have people who are anti-government in charge of the government. They are systematically dismantling our most important federal structures. This only serves to destabilize our economy and society as a whole.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

submitted 65 days ago • 36 comments