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If anyone would like to send multiple in-depth reports about your week to our pals in the federal government, here you go

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

Found an indigenous salmon vendor at the farmer's market so today is INDEED the day I try and ape the Sugarpine Drive's Smoked Steelhead chowder.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Here is a list of groups that have been doing the work of advocating for queer and trans people who are incarcerated. You can help someone with as little as being a friendly pen pal who is able and willing to listen and respond regularly. legacy.lambdalegal.org/know-your-ri...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

🗓️ NEW EVENT: Join Lambda Legal for Know Your Rights: Passports —a free virtual info session on Wednesday, February 26 at 3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT — to unpack the latest developments and hear answers to common questions re: federal ID policies. ✍️ RSVP today: lambdalegal.org/id-info-sess...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

Was gonna make a lemon curd tart but realized it calls for FIVE (5) (!) eggs.

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Something we all should remember, as we talk about worst case scenarios and ways to plan for and survive them: It's very much worth remembering that we collectively can and will survive them. And, we will build something beautiful on the ashes of their corrupt and childish violence.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

They cannot withstand four years of this. We gotta get real comfortable with radical annoyance. Get vocal. Get involved. Show up. They will buckle. Doesn’t have to be all of them. Just enough. McCain was enough for one vote. But it’s going to take unprecedented fortitude to salvage our democracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Favorite thing I heard at the gathering: "if they're smart, they'll keep me employed [at my federal job]. I can do SO much more mischief if I have a lot of free time on my hands."

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Question about firings at #CDC and re: nuclear facilities, saying they let ppl go & then had to hire them back, why is this so disorganized/chaotic? McCormick starts by saying "13k work at CDC"-- already displeased rumblings from the crowd as he tries to imply there are more than enough people-- 🧵

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Public comments are open for gender marker changes for trans people on passports. DS-11 Application for passport: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-82 Passport Renewal: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... DS-5504 Name Change and Corrections. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

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re: LRT: that post is a perfect example of an organization, in real time, asserting they consider trans lives "ungrievable". Judith Butler on ungrievable life as presented by PT: youtu.be/rLfzO7Sbdc4?...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 5 days ago • 152 comments

Boosting this action item: Section 504 protects disabled people against discrimination, especially in schools and healthcare settings. Please read about what's at stake and learn how you can contact your State AG urging them to defend this law!

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There's a moment in the radio version of The Martian Chronicles (Dimension X, 1950) where the narrator says, "she wanted to scream and never stop screaming". I think about that a lot right now.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

You don't say you're planning anything, you don't get chatty about CLASS WAR!! during voir dire, you don't say "jury nullification :D" You act normal and go through the process and then you just say "not guilty" during your deliberations.

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📣Hey journalists who want to cover the 3400 federal employees who just got fired📣 I’m developing a list of folks who were fired and who are down for interviews, primarily trails, river rangers and some folks who did collateral fire duties as needed (as of right now). DM me if you need sources!

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Why the FUCK doesn't bsky have more options re: notification settings? Nearly every other platform I've been on has the options mute a range of notifications (or ALL!) and it's insane that here I just have to get 30+ notifications every time someone I don't know interacts w one of my replies?

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 9 days ago • 519 comments

Erasing our history won't erase us. Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.

submitted 9 days ago • 165 comments

For the 79% of heterosexual married women whose legal married name doesn’t match your birth certificate or passport, get ready to have your voting rights frozen. Yes, read that again. No, that is not hyperbole. Act now.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

Folks outside the United States - if you want to help the Americans who didn’t vote for this nightmare, please petition your governments to place their most severe sanctions on Elon Musk and all his companies

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

NEW: ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.

submitted 11 days ago • 105 comments

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

submitted 11 days ago • 91 comments