I really need to stop forgetting this website exists

now please, and i’m so serious: take that anger and go buy some masks to wear in public indoor spaces so everyone knows how much you don’t fuck with eugenics. if you need low cost or free masks, or just don’t know where to start, check out covidactionmap.org and maskbloc.org for groups near you.

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · last yr.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s totally fine—good even—that the left is vocally mad about the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad with eugenics undertones.

You are not being snubbed, people find AI usage unethical and harmful.

Tanya Roth@drtanyaroth.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m a historian and a K-12 educator and I use AI. My Bluesky is full of people I respect, all regularly posting about how they dislike AI and the people who use it. Many are in higher ed and/or the larger history field. So - we’re just alienating K-12 teachers and others who are using AI tools now?

I really need to stop forgetting this website exists

The ban on gender affirming care for trans kids that the Court upheld as constitutional today in Skrmetti is so obviously *un*constitutional that John Roberts basically just writes 20something pages of buffoonery ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

Supreme Court Not Sure Why You Thought the Equal Protection Clause Meant Anything

A law banning healthcare for trans kids does not discriminate against trans kids, and other pearls of wisdom from the country’s sharpest legal minds.

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Mx. Yaffa, a non-binary Palestinian writer and organizer, is raising money to distribute to queer and trans Palestinians and front-line organizers: givebutter.com/iPxsAf

SAD MUTUAL AID FUND FOR Queer and trans Palestinians and front line organizers

By SAD and Pol's mutual aid fund for Mx. Yaffa and MASGD

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Today is a particularly good day to support trans mutual aid as a concrete way to fight back against the fuckers trying to take their healthcare and other rights away. 🧵 of a few groups, campaigns, and individuals you can donate to:

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, @jamesstout.bsky.social and Miriam talk about how to stay safe with danger all around. They talk health and safety basics for protests like security culture, protective gear, first-aid kits, and dangers like projectiles, tear gas, and pepper spray.(1/2)

this anti-surveillance protesting and direct action guide that I helped to organize and create in 2020 is still as relevant as ever, there's a plethora of tips for reducing risk before, during, and after actions, please use it to try to be safer. full site with resources: maskon.zone

Am I revising this poem or is this poem revising me?

Kinda worried about this not gonna lie, since it’s the same tactic used in Masterpiece Cake Shop which then led to the 303 Creative ruling which probably allows the precedent for this suit to be successful.

Ryan Boulding ❌👑@rboulding.bsky.social · last yr.

XX-XY Athletics, a Denver-based company, is suing Colorado over an amendment to the Anti-Discrimination Act that prohibits intentional misgendering and deadnaming of trans people. They're saying it restricts them from marketing their core message, violating First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

there’s no freedom for anyone unless police power is weakened

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · last yr.

Photos: NYPD Arrests Protesters Blocking ICE Vans Transporting Detained Immigrants

having this knowledge makes me :(

Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · last yr.

Oh I am not shitposting, folks. Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple. Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk. They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad

What the latest COVID vaccine changes mean for pregnant people and children 19thnews.org/2025/05/covi... via @19thnews.org

What the latest COVID vaccine changes mean for pregnant people and children

Can you still get the vaccine? Will insurance still cover it? The 19th answers questions pregnant people and parents might have about the recent change.

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For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die

My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?

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I know many people my age still have a lot of nostalgia around Harry Potter and might be tempted to watch the new HBO TV series. Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in. J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.

The Advocate@advocate.com · last yr.

J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” 🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk

I just want people in media and publishing to be safe and like any other industry it's a hot mess of institutions protecting serially abusive and harmful people for basically no good reason other than men in power looooove to do that shit

I just think it's so beautiful and sweet that you can out a serial abuser who personally harmed you and many others and instead of getting fired, the premier trade mag in publishing promotes him and gives him even more power... boys clubs that protect and defend violence are so cute huh

jaw dropped at the argument 'oh ho, you were upset that cops abuse Black people & foolishly thought journalism should interrogate injustice. now women journalists are upset that you abused them & are foolishly interrogating that injustice. serves ya right!' then I realized FP is Bari Weiss's outlet

Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman@samthielman.com · last yr.

I shit from a great height on this characterization

Utah Republicans accidently did an honest scientific and medical review of the evidence behind youth gender care instead of the overtly political reports done by the UK government and federal HHS.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last yr.

Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

Seeing a lot of confusion about the budget's provisions on trans care--it would strip Medicaid funds for trans care (which is awful enough) but it would NOT prohibit private insurers from providing coverage for trans care. It actually does something far more narrow and wonkier

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Under the ACA, plans sold on the individual or small-group Marketplaces have to provide coverage for certain treatments called Essential Health Benefits (EHB). Only a few treatments (like abortion) are prohibited from coverage as an EHB by HHS--but insurers are not banned from covering it altogether

hi hi hi my friend @literelly.bsky.social has had a helluva time with sars2— who can match my $20 to help them properly rest through recovery? gofund.me/59c029a9

Please help my friend Elly make ends meet! Elly is a multiply-disabled journalist and community advocate. Despite taking as many precautions as they could, they recently contracted COVID-19 and ended up in the ER. They are still recovering weeks later, and they are currently unable to work.

Elly Belle (they/them)@literelly.bsky.social · last yr.

I've had a tough time recovering from a severe case of COVID, am still symptomatic, and have been unable to work. I'm already disabled and this has been scary. I need community help to recover and am very grateful for all support, including sharing. www.gofundme.com/f/support-tr...

I've had a tough time recovering from a severe case of COVID, am still symptomatic, and have been unable to work. I'm already disabled and this has been scary. I need community help to recover and am very grateful for all support, including sharing. www.gofundme.com/f/support-tr...

Donate to Support disabled freelancer to recover from severe COVID, organized by Elly B

My name is Elly and I'm a multiply-disabled freelance journalist and c… Elly B needs your support for Support disabled freelancer to recover from severe COVID

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When I talk about the importance of granting students accommodations WITHOUT relying on formal paperwork this is why it matters. It is DANGEROUS for some people to have diagnoses on their medical records. 1/3

Alexander Tin@alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · last yr.

We're learning more about NIH's plans for Secy Kennedy's new autism studies NIH Director Bhattacharya says they're amassing a swath of confidential medical data to link together for first time, ranging from broader access to CMS records to smartwatch data www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

Arguments about whether or not someone has value can be linked to eugenics.