In a sworn declaration filed today, the State Dept stated that it intends to revoke and replace the passports of trans people who obtained gender marker changes under the current injunction if it is overturned by a higher court. They're maintaining a list. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“There is no clear precedent for what DeSantis and the president are doing." Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges.

Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges

"The use of military courts to hear civilian cases is the essential component of martial law."

motherjones.com

READ THE COMPLAINT: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

Thank you @mintopia.net for sharing her story with me. Thank you @katymontgomerie.com for making me aware of her ordeal. My latest article published on @northwestbylines.co.uk northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Horrible NHS experience when wanting to donate blood

Trying to donate blood was a very humiliating experience for Jessica, as the NHS decided to use male reference ranges for her as trans woman

northwestbylines.co.uk

Do you ever come up with a cissona cover story in case you ever need it for anything? Mine is Mike or Bob or Dan or something and his favorite movies are Joker and John Wick 3

Normally it's called a ride along if reporters are with cops. Embedded is what reporters are in times of war. We are in a war. 😞

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.

So Fox was embedded on this insane militarized show of force which also seems to have signally failed because activists got out word in advance and there was basically no one or very few people when the mounted ICE/CBP agents showed up for the dressage event.

Everyone who on some level never needed me in their life has realized this is their chance to break it off

LittleMxSurly@littlemxsurly.yharnam.singles · last yr.

For me there are basically three eras. 1996-2008 - we don’t exist outside of certain communities. 2008-2020 - much visibility! Token trans friend! 2020-now - you horrible fucking pervert why was I even friends with you?

For me there are basically three eras. 1996-2008 - we don’t exist outside of certain communities. 2008-2020 - much visibility! Token trans friend! 2020-now - you horrible fucking pervert why was I even friends with you?

"As a preteen [girl], Ziz grew depressed. She saw puberty as 'evil,' ... and was horrified at the idea that she would be 'killed-overwritten' by a new self. She began to feel 'like the world was a hypothetical'" Basic literacy on dysphoria and depersonalization at puberty could have prevented this:

She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started.

nytimes.com

This is the sort of thing that should never, ever be allowed to happen again. The elite transphobes are MAGA in spirit and frankly should be hounded out of any decent institution that wants access to non-MAGA money. I wish a Democratic elected official would say this.

It has nothing to do with trans people defending or not defending themselves in sympathetic or unsympathetic ways.

The expansion of American transphobia from a minority position is almost wholly astroturfed (more like astroTERFed) by a few writers, editors, and capitalists at the Times, the Atlantic, and maybe NYMag.

It’s quite competitive but it’s probably the single most disgusting thing elite liberals have done since supporting the Iraq War.

There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.

I said this app has a dogpiling problem. You won’t believe what happened next!

Velodus✨@velodus.bsky.social · last yr.

What is the thing you said that made people the maddest at you on Bluesky?

This is hard evidence that Wes Streeting’s “new” GIDS for children are basically just Conversion Therapy centres. @niagriffith.bsky.social unless your bill to ban Conversion Therapy includes stopping what Streeting is doing here, it will be worse than nothing, it will help these child torturers.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · last yr.

These sections from the final version of my puberty blocker ban paper. They clearly show CT in the “new” GIDS…

This whole process philosophy thing means I'm going to have to revisit and reconceptualize whatever earlier work of mine treated gender identity as merely a discoverable object

Print still hits.

The Republicans are doing this shit, and the Democratic Party elders are doing everything they can to stop the most exciting young politician in the country in favor of either a disgraced sex pest granny killer or a walking corruption magnet

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last yr.

"Right now, 90% of people in immigration detention are in a facility operated by a private detention corporation. GEO Group and CoreCivic are the two main corporations, and we’ve heard from their earnings calls that they’re very excited about getting more money & expand detention."

Ahahahahaha

Axios@axios.com · last yr.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: President Trump's Justice Department and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a "client list” or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios.

so to be clear, Microsoft is using a tool it's embedded into its operating system and many (all?) of its softwares to promote conversion therapy against trans kids, disguised to fool their parents into thinking it isn't purely anti-transition

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · last yr.

Since the release of the HHS report, both Copilot and ChatGPT have begun to reference "gender exploratory therapy" as a "first line approach" for gender dysphoria by elevating the Therapy First website to the top of the SEO food chain.

Sometimes I feel like the only thing that can bring humanity together at this point is some kind of universal catastrophic threat that requires us to unite for our survival, then build a series of giant humanoid combat robots

Everyone stop, this is important

The government has made it very clear they see us as expendable. They aren’t coming to save us, they’re rooting for our demise. We must save each other. We must work together to ensure no one gets left behind. We must refuse to see anyone as expendable. www.disabledginger.com/p/heat-waves...

Heat Waves, Wet Bulb Temps and Wildfires

Extreme weather events put disabled lives at risk. We are generally more susceptible to temperature fluctuations, power outages, supply chain issues and more. How can we protect one another?

disabledginger.com

the paper of record, theybies and gentlethems

Semafor@semafor.com · last yr.

🟡 NEW: The New York Times pushed ahead with its story about Zohran Mamdani’s application to Columbia University to avoid being scooped by Christopher Rufo.

Seems like a real problem that much of the media and literary elite in this country is convinced that the most serious and respectable intellectual position is Nazism.