EmJ
@bassoonemj.bsky.social
she/her/hers, musician, Trekkie, activist, medical zebra
Thou shalt come together to defeat the fascists and win the midterms. After that thou shalt replace Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, who are terrible at their jobs and care only about their donors.
The Trump administration just finalized its rule stripping gender-affirming care from Medicaid and CHIP. Advocates say there's still time to fight: it takes effect in October, and federal courts have already struck down two previous attempts to do this. The latest from our journalist S. Baum.
Trump Issues “Finalized” Anti-Trans Medicaid Rule, But Human Rights Groups Say There’s Still Time
“Despite this being called a ‘final rule,’ we have time to fight back. Nothing will change overnight.”
erininthemorning.com
Estradiol shortage in the US FDA: nothing to see here. Administration: anything to screw over anyone who's not a straight white Christian male. Now imagine if men couldn't get Viagra a for a month. It'd be a damn national emergency. #Women'sHealthcare #HealthcareIsaHumanRight
Today, during the court hearing we posted about earlier, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan pressed the Justice Department over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and whether the Trump administration has actually complied with his previous court orders.
It's not the smoothest writing but if you're looking for a sci-fi series based on science with some dystopian elements and you like complex world building this; this is a series to check out. 📚 #BookSky #SciFiBooks
So many people who can reasonably be described as “that little shit” are in charge of so much of society.
Iran launched ballistic missiles at gulf countries. The Supreme Court doubled down on racism and allowed a Black district in Alabama to be eliminated via the shadow docket. CBS News fired Scott Pelley from 60 minutes. All in the last two hours.
One of the most useful mythologies of modernity is the idea that there is an economy which exists totally independent of interested parties. Who is saving this money? Does “the economy” just store it under the mattress?
The sexual abuse of women and girls is a load-bearing beam in the structure of male supremacy. Many men even bond over it, and both men and women often excuse and enable it. We understandably focus on gender—but challenging the hierarchical power dynamic is as important if we want to create change.
The US-Israel war is costing US tax payers an average of 2 billion per day; if you extend that to 365 days, and that's nearly $730 billion a year, roughly the entire US defense budget on a single war. And that's just the direct US military spending.
The US blockade of Cuba has no legal basis under international law. An island without an air force or modern artillery is not a security threat; it's a neighbour. If the United States genuinely believes otherwise, the UN Security Council exists for exactly that purpose.
Remember how I said, just a few hours ago, in response to critics insisting I should support the war in Iran because it will help Iranians, that in fact Donald Trump plans to pick the new leader of Iran and Iranians will have no say in it? Me of several hours ago, meet just now:
🙋🏻♀️ if you saw this coming abcnews.com/US/pro-trump...
Pro-Trump attorneys push executive order that would give Trump sweeping power over elections: Sources
A group of pro-Trump lawyers is circulating a draft of an emergency executive order that would give President Trump sweeping power over voting, sources tell ABC News.
abcnews.com
I've noticed that I spend less time mindlessly scrolling when I make a conscious effort to read instead. And as this article points out reading is more fun.
Ellen Starsmore@ellenstarsmore.bsky.social · 7mo ago"We aren’t just writers. We must be literary emissaries. Bookish ambassadors. Reading lifestyle advocates." ⬆️ This! 📚🪐 💙 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ writerunboxed.com/2026/02/25/t...
The amount of people losing their shit over a gay Klingon wearing a skirt is ridiculous. Personally I think Jay-Den is rocking it. #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #TrekSky
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
For Trump’s second term, Vought’s Center for Renewing America created plans that included invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to U.S. cities to put down protestors and freezing billions in federal funds without congressional approval. (Published Oct. 2025 with @newyorker.com)
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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Trump LIED when he said he had nothing to do with Project 2025. He LIED when he said he wouldn't execute its agenda. Now, ICE/DHS- at his direction- is carrying out Project 2025's anti-immigrant, anti-rights agenda line by line. Surprising? I think not.
And unfortunately we will probably sit by and let this happen
Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · 8mo agoI'm a journalist and attorney, not an activist, so I've no answers on what Americans should do right now. I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.