AVM
@avmead.bsky.social
Nonprofit grants manager in financial policy/advocacy. Recovering educator & librarian. Former host & producer of I Don't Know Her Podcast & 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow. Opinions are my own. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
BREAKING: We joined @legalvoice.org, @washingtonea.bsky.social, and TransFamilies to file a lawsuit on behalf of a coalition of Washington parents and educators to stop the implementation of I-638, a discriminatory law that bans transgender girls from participating in girls’ school sports.
Look, I get that a person with a high profile (or high-ish) doesn’t want to respond to hundreds of comments, but if the average engagement on your posts is one or two comments, it stands to reason that *occasionally* liking or replying to people w/genuine responses is warranted.
“for the first time in our nation’s history” 🤪
Nate Raymond@nateraymond.bsky.social · yesterdaySenator Chuck Grassley says he is rushing to advance Trump's judicial picks in the lame duck. "Some Democrats so despise President Trump that for the first time in our nation’s history they’re planning to stonewall a president’s ability to appoint judges," www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Except in good old blue Washington state, which is passing a trans sports ban by a shamefully large margin.
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · last wk.hundreds of millions of dollars on anti-trans advertising being proven totally irrelevant- not positive, not negative, just a proper heat check that normal people simply don't care and it's lighting money on fire to try to politicize my identity- is so, so liberating
I am thrilled for the many great outcomes tonight, but WA state is currently passing a trans sports ban by a fucking wide margin. It’s despicable and shameful.
I know we’ve been in the late stage capitalism for a bit, but does anyone else feel like the last two years it has accelerated? Like really hit the gas.
We just got a certified letter from the IRS stating they’re going to seize our private property because we haven’t paid our 2025 taxes. Here’s the thing: WE DID! We paid them the entire amount in May. They deposited our check & then LOST OUR MONEY. They never applied it to our account.
This is absolutely fucked & every powerful person with a backbone needs to say that with their full chest.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 4w agoThe federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9
My Republican Rep (Baumgartner) occasionally sends out one-question “polls” to his selected people on his email list (I am not selected lol). Last week the question was about Gaza. I guarantee he wasn’t expecting nearly 36% of respondents to declare Israel is committing genocide.
Montana State losing to Idaho by one point & plummeting them in the rankings is ruining my weekend.
ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.
Literally, I had never heard OF this song or this singer until Friday, when NPR said it was the longest running song on the Billboard charts or something. I have truly never heard this song—even now. I even made a comment to my wife about how this exemplifies the loss of monoculture.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 2mo agoYoung people in general and white people of all ages are obsessed with their imagined ubiquity. Shut the fuck up.
I mean, most schools don’t have students read whole books anymore, so this isn’t that unique. That’s the curriculum that’s been pushed on public schools for the last 10 years & most have adopted it. My last admin actively discouraged teaching whole books in English class. It’s bleak out here!
Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo Alpha School students read books? According to my student sources, the answer is simply no, they do not.
![Not a single one. I had one English class where we were told to read a book. No one did. I just read the Spark Notes.
Not full books. We read some poems, because I asked to.
We never had a curriculum of books to read. Never a full book, only passages [on the software app].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:igq7ccju2a4uzz5uma7ewav7/bafkreigvw4vllela6ie3invjoeaohwq5p7ntdbjeynabztdzim2sbbwkdm)
Washington state folks—have kids who would want to talk to a journalist about these initiatives?
Erin Sellers@merrywanderer.bsky.social · 2mo agoHoping to talk to actual teenagers/students about the Parents Bill of Rights and trans sports initiatives in Washington. Do I have any followers on here with school aged kids who would be down to talk to me?
Echoing Evan here. This essay is so, so good & is a damning indictment of our education system, especially in NYC. As a former educator, I saw glimpses of my own experiences trying to push against a system designed to fail.
Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 2mo agoReading this story devastated me in the way only the best writing can. It is personal and specific, but also national and even global in scope. It's about one family's deciisons, but also about the loss we're all feeling, seeing our hopeful strivings for justice pushed back.
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
Yes—which is also why trans people’s insistence that Ds stop backpedaling & throwing us to the wolves for mythical unicorn centrist votes is not just bad for us, IT DOESN’T WORK. No one wants to vote for the “I have no spine & will never stand up for you” party. Get your shit together, Dems.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2mo ago"when I listen to Democratic voters, they’re not asking for ideological recalibration or even policy specifics. ... Instead, the Democratic voters I’m listening to are almost universally asking a different question: Why aren’t you fighting harder?"
Case in point: when the WA progressive voters’ guide endorsed a centrist over a legitimate progressive bc they thought he had a better chance of winning in the general, THEY WERE FUCKING WRONG. He lost BY SO MUCH in the primary. This is not a winning strategy!
AVM@avmead.bsky.social · 2mo agoI don’t live in a swing state, so my vote doesn’t really matter in the long run, but I would rather walk over a bed of broken glass than vote for anyone who is willing to throw me to the wolves for a centrist mythical unicorn vote.
I don’t live in a swing state, so my vote doesn’t really matter in the long run, but I would rather walk over a bed of broken glass than vote for anyone who is willing to throw me to the wolves for a centrist mythical unicorn vote.
I just want to say, the fact that so many Dems are coming out and saying shitty things about trans people in the last two weeks is a case in point of what I have been working so hard to sound the alarm on. I've been so hard on each individual dem who breaks for years now. I feared this.
Watch out for this patent misinformation here & elsewhere. The WA state bill literally says girls have to do a chromosome test (which insurance won’t cover/would be costly & not-at-all timely) OR—the more likely & accessible option—a fucking GENITAL INSPECTION.
Your Festive Ad Here@cooluser354.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere's currently a disinformation campaign being run on bsky. Gender Critical Republican bills/initiatives are being pushed around the country, such as in Washington, to subject children to genital exams. However, there's a coordinated effort to pretend it isn't the case; accounts like...
This could have been me, my wife, my house. Except we don’t have a small flag, we have a giant one + a No Hate in WA State sign in the upstairs window (vote no on genital exams for kids!). Our elderly neighbors, who have a trans son, also display their flags. Now I have to worry about them too.
'I just fought for my life on my front lawn': Transgender man attacked with hatchet at South Hill home
A 25-year-old Spokane man is facing a felony assault charge after police say he damaged a transgender man’s South Hill home and then attacked him with a hatchet, fracturing his skull.
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Omg, I remember this from my childhood! I had no idea it was Rita Moreno.
Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙@blabalino.com · 3mo agoFound this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
@sammullins.bsky.social has done it again! Somehow I missed he had a new show, but I just finishing bingeing “The Expert Witness.” If you’re interested in true crime & skeptical of AI in law enforcement, you should definitely listen to it. Now I’m off to find out if my local PD uses Cybercheck.
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