Looking at the county breakdowns for the anti-trans initiative results is....bleak.
Kat
@bondkat42.bsky.social
Labor lawyer, admin law lawyer, abolitionist, mutual aid believer, intersectional feminist, queer, sff con-runner, bibliophile, and many more flavors. Live in Seattle. Opinions are my own and not my employers.
And, we don't have to pass stupid bigoted anti-trans initiatives either WA.
Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · last wk.The new Senator from Minnesota. The new Representative from Indiana. We don’t have to scapegoat people to win!
Deb Haaland of Laguna Pueblo, a 32nd generation New Mexican, former congresswoman and US Secretary of the Interior, wins race to become the 108th governor of New Mexico
"we can win everywhere that we fight, and we lose in the places where we do not fight" would be a really good overall theme for the Democratic Party to come away with by the end of the night 🙏
I am so invested tonight in election results, and it is so not good for my blood pressure.
Congratulations to the incredible activists in Virginia who worked so hard to protect abortion rights and keep the state a regional hub for access.
A mild level of hell should be reserved for people who do calls on speakerphone on the bus.
Braking format for this long running franchise: every episode would feature the same hapless criminal charged with a new crime. Follow the chronicles of Josef K in Law and Order: The Trial
Otherwise I feel like all of this is just handing Lucy a football. If you don't think our institutions are in trouble right now, I have serious questions about your judgment.
The Ilhan Omar stuff is grotesque and feels worthy of impeachment by itself
I am feeling a brief period of political despair given the Cornell case (and UW case filed today) and what is happening to Rep. Omar is just....I have no words.
So. RFK is apparently bragging that his changes to HHS are permanent at this point. Which is probably not true. What is true is that the damage that was inflicted last year to all aspects and all agencies of the federal government is generational and will take at least that long to undo. (1/2)
At Town Hall again for a Seattle Arts and Lecture event with V.E. Schwab. Before the event even starts, I apparently have a new series to read as I've pre-ordered book 3 for the event. Not sure how adding to my TBR fits in with my make myself be social plans, but we'll see.
The amount of rage that flooded me reading this is really not healthy.
Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · last mo.Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
Lost Giants cider in Bellingham is quite fun. I walked in too late to join the trivia, which is too bad because I would have crushed the Buffy round.
I'm now trying to think of law firm specific things people should know: Lawyers can't do math Every lawyer has one law tv show that they inexplicably give a pass to while bitching about the inaccuracy of all of the others Lawyers can be defeated with silver
Attempting to brute force my way through depression and burnout recovery with making myself go to community events. Tonight is a talk at Town Hall with Mayor Wilson, Naomi Klein, and Astra Taylor.
Update on the condition of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at the South Texas Ice Processing Center. He’s being taken to the hospital. He is in tremendous pain and tells us that the bullet is still inside his left side. He can’t move the left side of his body.
I just made a simple syrup so I can try making myself a cocktail to celebrate all the labor I've done today at home.* I feel very sophisticated and like I'm going to screw it up. *Digging myself out of a 2+ year depressive cycle and figuring out my capacity with my autoimmune stuff
I was being really productive yesterday and for the first 2 hours of today, but I have hit a project that will, realistically, take an hour but my brain is saying "nooooooo".
Hello and hi! That magazine I've been teasing for funsies for like a year and a half is now mostly a real thing! soundandcolormag.com
Sound & Color
A digital interdisciplinary magazine of speculative fiction
soundandcolormag.com
Don't tell the 15 year old, but I'm really glad he's here to be tech support for the 18 year old when their laptop decided to not have Windows anymore. He keeps trying to convince them to install Linux though.
I absolutely guarantee you that in my postpartum period I could have cared less about anyone's penis not functioning properly, and I do not think that had anything to do with my fluctuating thyroid, postpartum anxiety, and other issues. JFC.
The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com · 2mo agoHHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility
HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility
HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED
Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.
notus.org
Clearly, I shouldn't clean because I just almost face planted after tripping over my vacuum cleaner.