Casting notice for UK trans women! I've been working on this passion project with my friends & mentors for years, and we are now looking to cast a young trans actor for one of the lead roles. This is an incredible part, one I hope to help make a future star.

Many believe it is "natural" for men to be sexually attracted to girls from puberty on, and that stigmatization, even of acting upon it, is an arbitrary social construct (eg variable "age of consent" laws). It's frowned upon, but understood, because it's "natural".

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago ​(and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

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Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

And also with you, queen

William Shakespeare@shakespeare.lol · 10mo ago

Peace, good Doll

In this case, ADF “cited several scholars to support its argument that conversion practices should once again be permitted. Two of those experts, however, told the Guardian that ADF had ‘profoundly’ misrepresented their research, which discussed the ‘psychological damage’ of conversion therapy.’”

Sam Levin@samtlevin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF. Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

And there it is. The entire attack on Netflix is just a grift for far right influencers to promote a religious streaming site.

I love seeing that I haven't liked an artist's most popular song on Spotify and then liking it only to realize I already liked five other versions.

a woman is making a funny face and saying `` i just wanna . ''

ALT: a woman is making a funny face and saying `` i just wanna . ''

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Hey friends, I dusted off my brain and wrote an essay for the first time in many years. Here's a piece about my experience at the June 8th protests in LA, state violence, solidarity between communities, and bearing witness to the truth: www.them.us/story/lapd-i...

NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE. Inside one day on LI: theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...

ICE Agent Fled From Angry Residents Outside New York School — and Got in a Car Crash

Masked and unidentified ICE agents lurking near schools sparked fear, confusion, and a car crash in Latino-heavy New York suburbs.

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The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Children's Hospital Los Angeles halts transgender care under pressure from Trump

Children's Hospital of Los Angeles will stop offering services related to transgender care, according to a message reviewed by The Times.

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We are getting reports of clinics shutting down that provide care to trans youth over the latest CMS letter threat. If your clinic has shut down or you work at one, or your child's clinic has shut down, please send us a DM - we are putting together a big story on this.

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles

We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…

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I'm not a political scientist but if you're advice to the Democratic Party is pushing out unions, immigrants, and queers then I think there's already a party for that

Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February. He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."

Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it's all being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who has dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built his "political project". 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · last yr.

The Utah Report shows exactly what the people commissioning it didn’t want to see, that gender affirming care works. This article brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social

the audiobook edition of ONE OF THE BOYS is OUT NOW!!! i am beyond honored to have the lovely and incomparable Jen Richards (@smartassjen.bsky.social) read my little book😭 please pick it up if you, like me, love reading books with your ears!!! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

One of the Boys Audiobook on Libro.fm

Grace Woodhouse has left a lot behind. She used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a right foot set to earn her a Division I football scholarship—before she came out as trans. As...

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This Hacks Andor crossover is hot.

And we already know that speaking out against slaughter of civilians is considered supportive of terrorism. They've laid the groundwork for trans people simply existing to be terrorism ("gender ideology"), or fighting for women's bodily autonomy, or resisting ICE, or collective organizing, or ...

Rahm/Newsom/Cuomo: Dems spend too much time talking about what bathroom people use or what sport team they play on The GOP:

One thing that Trump will not tolerate is the heads of agencies saying publicly that their agency should exist.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Breaking News: The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Cameron Hamilton, is out a day after he said the agency was vital and should not be eliminated, disagreeing with President Trump.

What Trump learned long ago as a private citizen is that you can easily ruin someone’s life with frivolous litigation even if you ultimately lose in court. And that was when he was spending his own money to harass and intimidate people. Now he’s spending yours.

The judges who looked at this case previously had to chastise the White House lawyers because the evidence they presented to prove that trans inclusion hurt military readiness showed the opposite. They hadn't even read their own evidence. It's ideology over evidence. Pure animus.

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

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump's anti-transgender military ban to go into effect while litigation proceeds. The stay of the district court's injunction was issued with no reasoning and over the objections of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson. More to come: www.lawdork.com

The world is maddening, but I just sipped rain water from the nasturtium leaves in my garden and for a moment I felt whole and human again.

This is a clear, true, & important distinction that many people refuse to make. The same is true of "fancy city dwellers condescending to hard workin' ruralites." The same is true of "wokesters forcing you to use pronouns." These are RW bogie men. RW hysteria exceeds actual examples 1000/1.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last yr.

Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.

The biggest mistake Dems in red states make is NOT CALLING THEIR REPUBLICAN reps. Calling your rep - ESPECIALLY if they're Republican, is *critical*. Otherwise they just hear from supporters and think they're doing a great job. americansofconscience.com/faq-calling-...

I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such