Hashtag Why I Do Not Live in the United States a land without substantive due process is no Land of The Free without the legal right to have a complaint heard by a judge, NO ONE has that right, because without habeas, THERE'S NO JUDICIAL REVIEW AT ALL they are already disappearing people w habeas

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: New from Haberman and Swan: Secret memos show that the Trump White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit a constitutional right — suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate mass deportation efforts.

I am fleeing the country because I have a court order requiring the Federal government to continue providing me with transition-related healthcare also not only are my lawyers scared to try and enforce the order but the EEOC is sua sponte defying its own orders and precedents out of anti-trans hate

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5mo ago

Listened to this at 6 minutes in or so. It’s not directly stated, but it appears the reason that Mamdani has not directed H+H to absorb trans patients is out of fear of the federal government. “It’s part of the game we have to play with the federal government .” It’s the EXACT logic NYU is using.

I am thrilled to take a bit of my pension to help support this endeavor; this is a kind of website I've wanted for over a decade now I definitely have some thoughts about gender and gaming that I might want to pitch but I need to get my brevity back; none of my legal writing was constrained by word

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈@midimyers.com · 7mo ago

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

*crawls out from under rock* *sees this nonsense* *crawls back under rock* somewhere around 2018 "the trans community online" hit a kind of critical mass; there are enough people willing to dogpile literally any trans woman for doing something "wrong" because someone will always find us "wrong"

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 7mo ago

The thing that's really hilarious about this is that Valens is apparently being harassed for being too pro-furry while Malloy was harassed for appearing anti-furry. It lends credence to the "trans women can do no right" thesis. But also, folks, we're doing this to ourselves.

stop being Good Germans, America the degree to which Americans have already normalized the machine of fascism /less than nine months into this presidency/ does not bode well for the future. there are already secret police abducting people as part of the day-to-day; the fascism is here and growing.

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Not sleeping tonight.

sure is a choice to go straight from denial of rights under the Due Process Clause to specifically next go after the practical means of self-defense (and I'm not here to talk about the ethics of gun ownership, so sod off). this DOJ move is a threat and pretending that it isn't will get people dead.

Malcolm P. Johnson@admiralmpj.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Can't wait for the NRA to prove how full of shit they are when they support this:

It's not even a leap of logic, more like a single step to the side, to go from "exploited laborers had it coming for not resisting their exploitation" into "POC had their oppression coming for being Lazy," or "trans people had their oppression coming for being Weird", or whatever else

Casting the exploitation of labor as a moral failing of the exploited laborer is, in a very real sense, the single most reactionary position possible. All other reaction flows out of the idea that victims "had it coming" for not being capable of resisting exploitation or abuse

people are seriously castigating a trans woman for "not billing enough for her work" because she was desperately trying to get people to pay her for her work. bona-fide trash. utter crab-bucket behavior with a side of transmisogyny, because most people seemingly can't help themselves from doing it.

This week, here's how Fox News attacked the new #Superman movie: They lashed out at it as "Superwoke," made jokes about "MS-13" being printed on his cape, and even mocked David Corenswet's name. Here's our story about the fake outrage, and Superman's history of facing such smears. @vanityfair.com

Can 'Superman' Win the Culture War?

A right-wing backlash erupted when James Gunn described the hero of his new film as an “immigrant” who models “kindness." But the Man of Steel has faced these attacks before—going back to 85 years.

vanityfair.com

Das Schwarze Korps newspaper of Berlin was irate over a Look magazine comic in which Superman ties Nazi cannons into knots and drags Hitler (and Stalin) off for trial. It lashed out at Superman writer Jerry Siegel as a "beetle" and ridiculed his Jewish last name. Here's the Look magazine spread:

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...

people don't need conspiracy theories about felon-President to understand he's a murderer all the trans people who've died from despair at the American Fuhrer's proclamations are also victims of murder by the hands of the government the deaths will not end until the illegitimate regime is ousted

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · last yr.

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.

to all the people who yelled at me for using delivery services to deal with my disordered eating, I'm sure you'll all be thrilled to know that there's much more friction between me and eating now! asking "do I really deserve this food?" every meal! often saying "no, I don't" your efforts paid off!

relatedly, how people are cooking their brains and hearts with genAI chatbots that encourage a kind of social solipsism, "talking" with a large-language-model that lacks anything epistemology would recognize as "knowledge," let alone any kind of interiority, in favor of further atomizing the user

Dr. Lina Prince St. Cameron@converselina.bsky.social · last yr.

I think people are cooking their brains and their hearts in the way that is depicted here as an assault; finding virtue in gorging on suffering only to fall to nihilism as a result. I don't know what to do about it but "observing and commenting on it" seemed a good start.

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last yr.

People on this app get really angry every time I point out that social media manipulation is a real phenomenon that we are all stewing in and that’s having real world consequences and I’m sure part of that is engagement farmers who do that manipulation not liking people talking about it

I just switched accounts and this was at the top of my feed and I don't need to know why because there have been good reasons to boycott the New York Times for this entire millennium.

mcc@dryad.technology · last yr.

Anyway, boycott the New York Times

*in which the lead author is a non-staff writer best known in recent times for “just asking questions”-ing trans kids’ health care all the way to obsession (it’s all he’s written about over the past two months at his newsletter except for one piece where he claims people are trying to cancel him)

one dozen rats at a keyboard@panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · last yr.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Five hundred and five pages of opinions. Five hundred and five pages so bad. Five hundred and five pages of opinions. How do you measure, measure a regime?

hiding from the general terror in the United States and posting elsewhere if you want to hear about performative gender and what Rock is a Lady's Modesty is saying as a work, it's not going to be here, not when so many people are looking for useful information about how things are going to hell

To be clear when I say “tested” I am not saying there’s any serious legal dispute - it’s made up. But the game here in intimidation, and the only way out of such pseudo-legal strongarm tactics is the expensive business of litigation. It’s just like the law firms and universities.

US institutions being “investigated” by federal agencies for providing standard-of-care medicine to patients need to lawyer up and fight back. Maybe they need to more financial backing to do so. Fed threats are completely baseless, totally disconnected from any law. They need to be tested in court.

trying to move off this account; if you want my long-winded spiels about media, you'll have to follow me elsewhere (you can ask ^^)

3. Likely by Monday, the ACLU will be posting important next steps on what you need to do to get your passport updated. They hope that the government decides to comply and issue guidance by then.

2. If you HAVE attempted to get your passport and were denied the gender marker, had it confiscated, or received the wrong gender marker, please let me know via DM, with your contact information, and I will pass it along. They are seeking people who were denied.

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.

I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people. Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.

I will be writing more tomorrow, but, for tonight, I send my support to all of the trans people targeted by today’s ruling. You deserve better. And, to all of the amazing trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people in my life, you have taught me so much. You bring me life, and I love you.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last yr.

Forward.

Some of Asimov's summer wardrobe <3

America is a failed state and a negligent homicide like this is just another dead body in the pile of all the unique and precious human lives that have been snuffed out under this false regime the utterly banal inhumanity of “a pedestrian died as part of the military parade. pedestrians die a lot 🤷🏻‍♀️”

Raw Story@rawstory.com · last yr.

'Dragged for blocks': DC senator blasts Trump parade after 'horrific' death

oh, Chekhov's Gun, you were mounted on the wall so beautifully, and yet mean so much less than one would have ever wanted

Dr. Lina Prince St. Cameron@converselina.bsky.social · 2y ago