NEWS: Another 60 U.S. service members wounded in Trump's Iran war have been added to the Pentagon’s casualty count, bringing the total to 775: 18 killed and 757 wounded. The Pentagon has not said when or where the newly reported injuries occurred.

Inciting a coup against your own country is the very definition of TREASON, full stop. There should be a law that prevents traitors from running for office.

The Trump administration is weaponizing administrative subpoenas to demand that tech companies hand over the personal information of users who criticize the government online. Know your rights if your information is subpoenaed.

When the Government Demands Info About Your Online Accounts

The First Amendment protects the right to document and criticize government actions, including when doing so anonymously online. But the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ramped up efforts to surveil and silence critics using a tool called an "administrative subpoena" or "administrative summons".

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For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.

So apparently Trump actively and unconstitutionally tried to take over State elections by telling the Post Office not to deliver Ballots unless they were addressed to people on his federal "okay" list. Please don't tell me you still think he isn't fascist or authoritarian...

Transphobic bots have been deployed to take your guns... assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Swarm of bots post astroturf campaign in support of ATF’s anti-trans gun rule - Assigned Media

An ATF proposal to curb trans gun rights got thousands of supportive comments. 96 percent of them appear fake.

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Io Dodds, who you can follow at @iododds.bsky.social, was able to replicate the dodgy comments using a mere 60 lines of code. Her investigation is a real banger - the first of what we hope to be many breaking stories for Assigned Media. Support great journalism by and for trans people here:

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Support OurJournalism Our journalism is only possible through the support of our members! As a supporting member, you’ll receive a special edition of our newsletter, featuring bonus essays and insight...

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Before July 21 the response to the Trump administration's anti-trans gun rule was overwhelmingly negative. Almost overnight it changed. But 96 percent of influx of comments supporting the rule appear to come from bots. New EXCLUSIVE investigation by Io Dodds. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Swarm of bots post astroturf campaign in support of ATF’s anti-trans gun rule - Assigned Media

An ATF proposal to curb trans gun rights got thousands of supportive comments. 96 percent of them appear fake.

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The 2026 mid-terms will be a trial run. Like velociraptors testing the guardrails.

THURSDAY: A federal judge is opening a public phone line. You can listen….live…as Katie Phang’s suit against Todd Blanche over the Epstein files goes before Judge Sullivan. No spin. No panel. No press release. Just YOU, a phone, and a judge who isn’t taking DOJ’s word for it. Dial in.

Those of y'all marching out to meet folks who may or may not be actual LE on your front porch are out of your damn minds. Step 1. Locate attorney. Step 2. Refer to attorney.

To some people, the above seems obvious. To others, it sounds preposterous. To still others, it may even seem irrelevant, as it's possible Trump and MAGAism end America entirely in the next two years. But if it doesn't, what emerges can't—and won't—be America as it used to be.

The rest of your natural life—and then some. That's how long we'll be cleaning up the mess of Trump and MAGAism. The nation as it was before is lost. It won't return. What we seek to save now isn't what used to be. It'll be something else altogether. It'll be what we make it.

The only thing Trump’s document dump proved tonight was that there was Russian collusion. That’s fucking hilarious to me.

Boy he must have really been hoping no one would look at the documents he talked about tonight because they underscore what I've been saying for 6 years, which is that the Trump-Ukraine Scandal was infinitely worse than people thought from the facts revealed during Impeachment #1

CBS just cut away and dispelled all the lies. Total failure. Nobody cares.

What are you willing to do to prevent your younger loved ones from growing up in a variation of The Handmaid's Tale? Dig deep friends. Efficacy above all else is required now. Zero tolerance for any forms of activism that are likely to be a net loss. The stakes could not possibly be any higher.

You have to understand that the US government regards transgender people as having negative value when they aren't even willing to use them as involuntary drone catchers in a war. In past wars, the government was willing to use Blacks, Japanese people, Mexicans, foreign nationals as cannon fodder.

How Does It Feel When Your Government Wants to Eradicate You? Read On.

I have served my country in uniform and flown MEDEVAC helicopters to save the lives of people who think I shouldn’t exist. And none of it matters.

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It wouldn't shock you to know that a lot of the most vocally anti trans voices are secretly sleeping with trans sex workers. Trans women are just the societally acceptable outlets for their misogynistic rage and internalized shame.

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out

Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...

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BREAKING: The Federal Trade Commission and four states sue the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and other associations in ... the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look our for their neighbors and sometimes for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do"

Trump signs a historically disastrous surrender to Iran at Versailles and the first thing Vance does is "look, trans people!"

Despite not going to trial, my life and the lives of my codefendants have been completely upturned, emotionally, professionally, and financially. We’re still picking up the pieces. But that’s the point. The process is the punishment. That can lead to securing indictments by any means necessary.

“Congress's top bathroom sheriff Nancy Mace is on the ballot, and while not all of the votes have been counted yet, she is in a respectful fifth place,” Sarah McBride just said. “I don't like punching down and I believe in the politics of grace. So all I will say is happy Pride, Nancy.”

This is not that hard. The election is done not when people are done voting -- which happens on election day -- but when all the votes are counted. Someone who's vote is counted later is just as valid as someone who's vote is is counted earlier.

NEWS: The House has passed the Ukraine Support Act, 226-195, to provide new military aid to Ukraine and impose tougher sanctions on Russia. The bill advanced through a discharge petition despite Speaker Mike Johnson's efforts to block a vote.

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

America Is Going Backwards - and Falling Apart After the end of the voting rights era, the country is facing rapidly encroaching minoritarianism, vastly unrepresentative political institutions, and an escalating crisis of legitimacy. My new piece:

America Is Going Backwards - and Falling Apart

The country is facing rapidly encroaching minoritarianism, vastly unrepresentative political institutions, and an escalating crisis of legitimacy

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