hello bsky I am still here and still not a bot. it's just a) this site causes a lot of anxiety bc I get trans and anarchist news here and we are understandably terrified and depressed, and b) I don't love public posting and don't have a critical mass of friends here yet
honestly assaults against officers (a charge which is almost always bullshit, like you kick an officer while they’re tasing you) is a much better metric of officer aggression than it is of aggression towards officers
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.We now know that an “830% increase” is an increase from 10 assaults in 6 months to 93 assaults in 6 months, at a time when DHS has *massively* increased at-large arrests and officers deployed in the community. For comparison, NYPD is averaging 194 assaults on officers per MONTH.
Anti-LGBTQ orgs have explicitly stated they USE sports as a "gateway drug" to undermine trans people's rights. They've also said this is how they eventually roll back all progress on LGBTQ rights. Newsom falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
Julie Rei Goldstein@julierei.bsky.social · last yr.On a recent podcast Gavin Newsom tells Shawn Ryan how the Trans sports issue opened the door for him to change his mind on GAC for Trans Youth. As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office. There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
Today's newsletter is my big takedown of Rahm Emanuel and his anti-trans BS. www.readtpa.com/p/the-smalle...
The Smallest Room in the House
Rahm Emanuel says Democrats focus too much on bathrooms. He's wrong about which party is obsessed...and about everything else.
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Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last yr.The list has expanded. He REALLY loves this talking point. And I'm going to explain why he's full of shit.
This article is going to be shared with a fuck ton of posturing into the void. We all agree that ICE are genocidaires who have forfeited their humanity. Mocking their whining has no consequence. You want to know the internal divisions and tensions of the gestapo because the goal is to DEFEAT them.
Nick Miroff@nickmiroff.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: I spoke to a dozen current and formers about low morale at ICE amid the Trump admin's relentless push for more and more arrests. Officers and agents aren't complaining or looking for sympathy but they're facing public anger & political pressure from above www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
DOJ 10 Jul 25 -- The DOJ has subpoenaed confidential patient records from 20+ doctors and hospitals providing pediatric gender care. This follows letters in May from the CDC to 9 hospitals demanding data on care provided, regret rates, and care-related income. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children
WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children.
justice.gov
But that's the point. The UK is basically being run by Maya Forstater her hate group, Sex Matters, when it comes to trans issues. Their explicit goal is to create so much discrimination on the theory that trans youth won't transition.
In a just world transition medicine would be considered a miracle because of its extremely high rate of success for those who need it, but even outside of that context it should be fucking astounding in what it reveals about how much the body can evolve at a physical & biological level.
People in Ashland, Oregon disrupted a 4th of July parade today to bring a message against genocide and ICE repression. "The protestors were dressed as monarch butterflies and held giant poppy flower puppets to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and the escalating ICE kidnappings in the U.S."
You can read more about my friend Becky, a West Virginia teen at the center of this upcoming Supreme Court case
Meet the 13-year-old West Virginian suing to join her school's track team
Becky Pepper-Jackson’s case is one of two against restrictions on transgender students playing school sports that could end up before the Supreme Court.
nbcnews.com
ACLU@aclu.org · last yr.BREAKING: The Supreme Court announced it will hear two cases challenging state laws banning transgender students from participating in school sports. Lower courts were right to block these discriminatory laws, and we will continue to defend the freedom of all kids to play.
Here's the site for the FTC workshop. Their full list of speakers isn't up but their agenda is. I didn't recognize names until I got to Laidlaw. So. @erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @katelynburns.com www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
The Dangers of “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors
This workshop will focus on unfair or deceptive trade practices in “gender-affirming care” for minors.
ftc.gov
Viridian Lakes@viridianlakes.bsky.social · last yr.I need to read more about what this workshop is about, but if it is what this article claims, this could effectively open up the FTC to go after potentially any kind of treatment, but most particularly psychiatric treatment. Not a great precedent.
Virginia agrees not to fully enforce state law banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors apnews.com/article/c... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Virginia agrees not to fully enforce state law banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors
Virginia has agreed not to fully enforce a 2020 law banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors as part of a lawsuit settlement.
apnews.com
Ohio just passed it's budget that bans funding for MENTAL HEALTH therapy for all trans people in medicaid. This is what eradication policies look like.
Trump is building concentration camps in America, and the press hasn't caught on. So allow me: AMERICA IS BUILDING CONCENTRATION CAMPS TO GO WITH ITS SECRET POLICE. Trump and his supporters are waging war on innocent Americans. Never forget and never forgive the people who voted for this.
News: The most recent GOP reconciliation bill no longer has the provision to ban Medicaid from being used on gender-affirming care The parliamentarian had disqualified the provision, but Republicans had left it on the text — it now has been removed
Certain gay men and lesbians have grown paranoid that too much acceptance of trans people could lead to the over-medicalization of gender nonconformity, ie 'transing the gay away.' Let's talk about this. 🧵
just waking up one day and deciding to call us slurs is the easiest way to get handed a lucrative career i've ever seen but yeah, man, sure: the minority venmoing the same ten dollars around in a circle trying to keep each other housed has been running the show for too long. sounds super true.
“Fascism grief. It doesn’t roll off the tongue like the phrase ‘climate grief,’ but perhaps it needs, if not a name, to at least be named. … What if, by naming and honoring our grief under fascism, we see our way forward?” For full post, see IG @cindymilstein or: kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...
Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image Fascism grief. It doesn’t roll off the tongue like the phrase “climate grief,” but perhaps it needs … if not a name, to at least be named. To be acknowledged. To step out from unde...
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The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last yr.Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
THE TRANS MEDICAID BAN HAS BEEN STRUCK BY THE PARLIAMENTARIAN!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ADVOCACY AND NEVER STOP FIGHTING!!!! www.madycast.com/p/senate-par...
Senate Parliamentarian Strikes Trans Medicaid Ban from GOP Megabill
In a major win for trans healthcare rights across the country, the trans Medicaid ban provision has been removed from the GOP’s megabill after advocates pressured Democrats to invoke the Byrd rule.
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Ignoring the issue is what Democrats did last year, and it obviously failed and when it failed they blamed trans people for the loss. Democrats want a cycle where every time they lose, they can blame trans people and try to take away more of our rights. Anything to protect Israel lol
As the U.S. and Israel escalates their war with Iran, Israel is doing something else: annexing Palestine under the radar. Roads for settlers. Cages for Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/how-...
How Israel is using the war with Iran to accelerate its annexation of the West Bank
Israel is using the war on Iran to further its colonization and annexation of the West Bank, turning Palestinian communities into caged enclaves.
mondoweiss.net
How many more times will we wake up to this headline before going about our day?
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last yr.BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.
The trans movement is losing because we’re too nasty on social media. Please ignore how the successful side of the argument behaves, as it invalidates my argument.
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · last yr.Advocate 24 Jun 25 -- Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history has been forced to deactivate her X account with 1.9m followers after being dogpiled following her attack on anti-trans bigot Riley Gaines. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
you cannot just vote this kinda fascism away, folks.
Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · last yr.Here's shortly video of his detention, full video coming.
Protesters have chalked messages on the sidewalks on both sides of the building housing immigration court. Still no ICE today. This fits a pattern we’ve seen, where ICE skips a day or two at court after confrontations with protesters & subsequent media coverage.
There is a tremendous effort by donors to push the democrats to throw the entire trans community under the bus. It's a top down effort to collaborate with fascism under the deluded idea that it'll somehow win more votes.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.Democrats have largely held solid on transgender rights in recent years in terms of actual votes taken. There is a hugely financed movement trying to get them to stop, trying to build pillars to allow them to throw us under the bus. Interviews like this from Sarah McBride are in service to that.
Let's talk about lessons learned in the LA Counter-ICE Uprising, and what it might mean for the future: when-if.com/the-la-upris...
The LA Uprising
As of this writing, it's been one week of protests and riots against ICE in Los Angeles. A lot of why this matters is transparent: it's a moment of unity across many divides in a diverse community; it...
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