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I want to be clear: gender affirming care remains available in Massachusetts for all who need it. My office and I will continue to enforce our state laws to ensure families can access it without fear of discrimination.

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

Don't know if this will mean much but to my trans friends overseas, you're already recognized and accepted by so many of us. I won't lie and say it isn't tough and bleak but you keep fighting to be you ya hear? Being kicked down can have meaning as long as we get back up 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

😢 heartbreaking

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 27 days ago • 1664 comments

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... WTF! I am seeking advice on how we protest this outrageous decision. I will fight this in any way I can.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

A very smart colleague just pointed out the grim truth that the U.S. leaving the WHO may ultimately be a win for the rest of the world. Why? Because without a vote, “the US can't block WHO actions like vaccine programs, disease surveillance, contraception, etc”. Man, that is daaaark, but accurate.

submitted 27 days ago • 146 comments

In a world full of Donald Trumps, be a Mariann Budde. Choose mercy. Choose kindness. Choose strength. Choose inclusion. Choose love.

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

No Australians aren’t trying to solve it. We are trying to melt it. Australia is the 2nd largest fossil fuel exporter and 5th largest producer. If we want to stop Antarctic glaciers collapsing it’s pretty f***ng simple. Stop new fossil fuel projects.

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

The only thing stopping Dutton’s obvious plans to Trump us - is you! #auspol

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

Olivia Troye wrote a solid piece recapping Felonious Tyrant 47’s first week of his 2nd stint as “President”, and he he has ruined America in less than a week.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Entire town in New Zealand for sale at price of an Aus house. I think all us trans peeps should buy this and call it Trans Town. search.app/dNzg14ZctX34...

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Trump’s Dept of Justice lawyers, previously at the firm of Dunning, Dunning, Dunning and Kruger, are being compared to Ernest Shackleton. At least Shackleton tried to go back and rescue people which is more than these dillberries will.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Look, we tried to warn people. At this point, the only way out is through. Trump will precipitate a collapse and only then can we rebuild towards a better future. Our goal is to minimize the number of people we lose along the way. Build community, help others. Resilience is all we have.

submitted 30 days ago • 89 comments

The AUKUS spend 👇

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

to recap: — Trump was for the TikTok ban — which the GOP Congress passed — and the GOP Supreme Court upheld — and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway — so that Trump could "save" it — and the media fell for it we really do live in the dumbest fucking country

submitted 35 days ago • 616 comments

What are you talking about "workaholic"?? Anyway, I made this.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

As an optimist, I tend to believe that my most spectacular failures are still ahead of me.

submitted 38 days ago • 13 comments

Many of us working at tech companies are having to make moral and ethical decisions when it comes to where we work, what we work on, and what we speak up about. It's super difficult to know what to do, or even what your options are! 🧵 with resources

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

😂😂

submitted 45 days ago • 7 comments

Trump has now threatened to hit Denmark with tariffs if they don’t hand over Greenland. I'm looking forward to the in depth reporting #abcnews will soon provide on implications for rules-based international order & on whether he's stark raving mad or just a narcissistic bully. #auspol #worldpol

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

Thank you Greg Mullins, ex NSW fire commissioner & my ild Forest High school mate for naming climate change as one of the major causes behind these catastrophic fires in LA IN WINTER on abc news.

submitted 46 days ago • 36 comments

the public will no doubt end up underwriting the insurance markets… but really it should be the fossil fuel companies.

submitted 46 days ago • 16 comments

Australia’s approach to gender-affirming care seems sensible, evidence based, and compassionate. We could learn so much from this

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Wtf?

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Australians who lived through the NSW 2019 Bushfires -19 million ha burned; 3 billion animals perished; 3,500 homes destroyed; 26 lives lost -were told: "Now is NOT the time to talk about #climatechaos As we all know, it is WELL PAST time!!

submitted 46 days ago • 18 comments

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

submitted 47 days ago • 121 comments

What a lovely article. . “I believe we all just need to be who we are.” Absolutely.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

New original reporting on bias at the New York Times: Evan Urquhart has the story of @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, once an editor on the NYT international desk, and how she tried, and ultimately failed, to improve the paper's coverage of trans issues from the inside.

submitted 47 days ago • 31 comments

"Really it [the RBA] should be meeting either in the next two weeks or at the very latest, in the first week of February. Households really need a rate cut. It's time to cut and it's time to cut now." @grogsgamut.bsky.social spoke to WIN NEWS #auspol

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking thehardtimes.net/culture/mark...

submitted 47 days ago • 760 comments

Meta abandoning fact-checking leaves voters further exposed to misinformation ahead of the election. It's time for truth in political advertising. My ‘Voter Protections’ bill ensures transparency and accountability—because freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to lie. #StopTheLies #SmartSolutions

submitted 47 days ago • 11 comments

In 🇦🇺 a Royal Commission found it was the Christian ⛪ such as the Catholics & Hillsong & “NOT” the drag queens, trans women, Muslims, boat people, African Gangs or Aboriginal People that sexually abused thousands of children in their care & systematically covered the abuse up for decades.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Dear World, We’re sorry. Sincerely, Sane, Decent Americans

submitted 47 days ago • 1089 comments

hi, cis folks! meet HB28. it's a sports ban on trans athletes. but actually, it's the first step to something much worse—see below. 45 sec call scripts for democrats & republicans in congress follow. if you've been saying you'd stand with trans people, now's the time.🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/HB28...

submitted 48 days ago • 118 comments

I don't know why, but the randomness of the bot's obsession with nice mushroom pictures is sort of entertaining.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

This is so unbelievably cruel it makes me physically ill.

submitted 48 days ago • 13 comments

Musk trying to make the real world into a RW sewer like Twitter. He needs to be treated like a rogue state. Some travel bans and embargoes. Remind him that he too is dependent on other people and other countries. His meddling in other countries is reckless and dangerous.

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

Really? I can tell you what many Australians DO NOT FAIL TO GRASP ie: Zionist Israel's ongoing CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY in the form of GENOCIDE being carried out on the Palestinians BY ISRAEL. Australia's genocide of First Nations IS NOT OK. The Holocaust WAS NOT OK. And Israel's genocide IS NOT OK.

submitted 49 days ago • 37 comments

So, the @Washington post tried to stop the world from seeing a political cartoon critical of its owner, and as a result, they’ve lost tons of subscribers, the incredible cartoonist who drew it quit, and it’s created such an uproar, that WAY more people saw it than otherwise would have. Brilliant.

submitted 49 days ago • 506 comments

If little Norway can, surely any country can.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

A strong, independent media is one of the only things that can prevent the complete destruction of democracy under a would-be autocrat. These media owners have chosen to look after their own $$$ interests, and in doing so have decided democracy isn’t worth the trouble. “Democracy dies in the dark.”

submitted 51 days ago • 15 comments

So well said!

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

This is so well written. As someone who has worked in the medical research field all my life, I love it when someone is able to offer such clear explanations. @drandrealove.bsky.social has done a brilliant job here explaining terminology. "Curing cancer" cannot be described in a single bucket.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Given the way men and patriarchy have treated women since time immemorial, it is remarkable how we have survived. Weaker sex? To quote Giselle Pellicot, time that description changed sides too. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

submitted 51 days ago • 13 comments

How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk? You treat him and his companies like any other criminal enterprise: investigate and prosecute. There are no shortage of angles to work, all you need is the political will.

submitted 51 days ago • 19 comments