Our new analysis of police stops in California finds that officers were more likely to search individuals perceived as transgender compared to those perceived as cisgender. Read the full report: tinyurl.com/CA-Police-Stops
Lenny Lopatto
@llopatto.bsky.social
“you take the most cleansing breaths of anyone I’ve met” they/them
Nina Litvinova, granddaughter of Stalin's foreign affairs commissar, spent more than half a century helping political prisoners — carrying samizdat to those in Soviet internal exile, then writing to the inmates of Putin's prisons. In May, at 80, she took her own life. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
‘I tried to help them, but my strength gave out’. For half a century, Nina Litvinova stood with Soviet and then Russian political prisoners. In May, at 80, she took her own life. — Meduza
On May 12, the dissident and human rights activist Nina Litvinova died by suicide in Moscow. From the late 1960s on, she devoted her whole life to helping political prisoners, first in the Soviet…
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“What if the need for securitization of global supply chains, which was supposed to be one of the principal lessons learned from Covid, had not been learned after all?”
RUSI@rusi.bsky.social · 4mo ago'As a supply chain crisis, war shares common features with pandemics and debt crises, albeit potentially more severe. Shared features there may be, but from the beginning of the War, the Gulf appeared as different.' writes David Roche in the latest RUSI Commentary.
“For 10 years, federal transgender employees had an absolute guarantee that they could use the restrooms consistent with their gender identity. That guarantee has now been pulled out from under them and reversed completely.” https://bit.ly/4tuwx2Z
The EEOC Is No Longer Protecting Federal Workers From Gender Identity Discrimination
Recent decisions mean the agency will no longer process claims regarding harassment, the denial of bathroom use, or discrimination in hiring, firing, or promotion on the basis of gender identity.
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As of now, Russia's war in Ukraine is contained to just Ukraine. But along the Russian border, citizens live in the moments of in-between: monuments, museums, military training exercises, Victory Day concerts staged across a river, and more. border-line-war.longlead.com
I've been working on this for ages in various countries: the story of the intelligence buildup to Putin's 2022 invasion. How did the US and Britain find out so much, and why were Europe and Ukraine sceptical. It's a long one: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...
theguardian.com
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
arstechnica.com
The State Department instructed employees not to cite reports on human rights abuses from NGOs that don’t comply with Trump’s DEI or anti-trans stances. “Gender ideology and DEI ideology perpetuate practices categorized by the State Department as human rights abuses.”
State Department Bars Citations of Human Rights Reports From NGOs Promoting DEI
This guidance could deem groups like Amnesty International as not “credible” on human rights violations.
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A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers. "Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns." It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...
Heartbroken family of trans teen speaks out about how bullying led to his death
The family of trans Iowa student Miles Phipps has spoken out about bullying following losing their son to suicide. He was just 15-years-old.
thepinknews.com
Servicemembers deserve answers, and we're working to get them. We’re investigating a Trump-Vance admin policy that makes it more difficult for male veterans with breast cancer to access medical care.
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
propublica.org
New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
1/ Today Boston senior federal judge William Young has issued a clarion defense of the 1st Amendment rights of non-citizens which may go down as the most notable decision of his 47-year career. It begins with an unheard-of preface *above the caption* which reproduces a threat he received in chambers
Ric Grenell, Kennedy Center president, organized a claque of Republicans to heckle a musician critical of Trump. It's like junior high school www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...
Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian
Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.
washingtonian.com
Russian dissidents now pleading with Canada to let more of them in as the US conducts mass deportations to Russia www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Russian dissidents in U.S. warn of deportation unless Canada intervenes
ICE has already sent at least 80 people back to Russia this summer. Activists say a third mass-deportation flight is expected in the coming weeks
theglobeandmail.com
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
thetimes.com
“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. (Published June)
Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”
The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
propublica.org
NEW: The Trump administration is pushing its anti-trans agenda globally at the United Nations. U.S. delegates have objected to use of the word “gender” in U.N. documents during forums on topics as varied as women’s rights, science and technology, global health, toxic pollution and chemical waste.
The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations
U.S. delegates have objected to use of the word “gender” in U.N. documents during forums on topics as varied as women’s rights, science and technology, global health, toxic pollution and chemical wast...
propublica.org
A new lawsuit argues that the Trump administration is pursuing a backdoor strategy to restrict gender-affirming care nationally, while skirting state laws.
More than a dozen states sue to protect gender-affirming care from federal investigations
A new lawsuit argues that the Trump administration is pursuing a backdoor strategy to restrict gender-affirming care nationally, while skirting state laws.
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The 17 experts who were ousted from an HHS vaccine committee have published a commentary on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, saying that Robert Kennedy, Jr., and his self-picked panel are abandoning rigorous scientific review and open deliberation. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Why did National Geographic disappear its own documentary about a queer climate scientist? defector.com/why-did-nati...
Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector
If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping…
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Buried in Columbia's agreement/bribe with the Trump regime (and not reported by the news) is a section which agrees to segregate trans women from women's housing, sports, and bathrooms. Functionally, trans women are no longer welcome at Columbia University.
Thread from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on the latest in the case over the injunction blocking Rubio's anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy. tl;dr: The injunction is being followed now and passports are being issued to trans and nonbinary people with the appropriate markers for them.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last yr.Update on the classwide injunction blocking Rubio's anti-trans/anti-nonbinary passport policy in Orr v. Trump. Plaintiffs filed a motion to enforce the order, which appeared to press State into compliance. State started implementing the 6/17 order the days before its 7/3 response deadline:
Rolling Stone has located and interviewed my sleep paralysis demon
"For the life of me, I can't tell you what led me to reflect on the moment when Nicholas II lost control over a once-burgeoning empire due to widespread unrest that he himself had a hand in shaping."
I Have No Idea Why I’ve Suddenly Started Thinking About the 1917 Russian Revolution
So there I was, minding my own business, when, for some inexplicable reason, I found myself idly thinking about the fall of the Romanov dynasty. Fo...
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I spoke to four trans service members are being forced out of the military due to Trump’s ban “Nobody feels like this is voluntary. This is coercion. This is under duress.” For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
These trans service members are being forced out of the military due to Trump’s ban
Four trans service members who are in the process of separating said nothing about their decisions feels voluntary: “This is coercion. This is under duress.”
nbcnews.com
The Trump administration is shutting down services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide hotline. “This is a death sentence potentially to thousands of youth across the United States.”
The Trump administration is shutting down the national suicide hotline's program for LGBTQ youth
"This is a death sentence potentially to thousands of youth across the United States."
motherjones.com