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The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

Favorite film in haiku: Morpheus told him To follow the white rabbit Now he knows kung fu

And as soon as tomorrow, Judge Talwani may also issue a TRO against the new rule the USPS issued Friday night to implement the EO. In other words, this is a small win for the Trump administration, but *not* a ruling that fully clears the way for Trump to mess with mail-in ballots come November.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Dem. appointees, #SCOTUS has *granted* the Trump administration’s request to freeze a district court injunction that had blocked the mail-in ballots executive order. But Trump’s EO remains blocked by a different injunction in a different case—at least for now:

respect this dinosaur

My dad: died just before COVID. Nerd. Taught be all about computers, watched ST:TNG and X-Files with me. Thought he was okay growing up, but learned more after he died. In his defense, he had untreated mental health issues. Step-dad: alive, intellectual, funny, great grandad to my kid. Me: am dad

We already know that architects will be horrified but it will somehow also manage to baffle topologists

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

Good job, New York Times. Directly calling Trump's case for war with Iran based on "false" claims that "do not hold up." In the headline, top of the homepage. And no hedging with "critics say." I don't think they ever did that in the lead up to Iraq, and rarely do anything like it for Trump's lies.

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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Disgraceful

Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.

“abolish ICE” was always the correct position

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

A quality thread about the water pig, who is happy in water

Wtf this is my word every year

American SCOTUS: The president is god-king when we like him, you shall bow to Him. Canadian SCOTUS: check out our adorable owl mascot.

Politicians introduced 96 bills targeting transgender student athletes in 2025. That’s more than 9x the number of trans people playing college sports nationally.

Computer, enhance

Gonna put down my marker on this: doubt it. There were similar rumblings about Pam Bondi and the nitwit who added a reporter to the war planning Signal chats, but nothing happened then. The staff in Trump II appear to be way more entrenched than in Trump I

Gender-affirming care saves lives

The most harrowing, yet most correct, NYT headline

Woke up today to the news

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

blocklist here. Feel free to add screenshots if you think I should check anyone out to add them.

You fucking cowards

Trans-rights are increasingly unpopular because Republicans have made eliminating trans-rights a core part of a 24/7/365/4 information war, not because of anything trans-rights activist did to advocate for their cause.

Every study about vaccines that comes out is like "this vaccine is 97% effective at preventing this disease & also 3 other diseases & it somehow helps you play the violin beautifully" and antivaxxers are doing their own research that's telling them they can cure measles by eating polar bear liver.

Unexpectedly scientific look into why so many AI company logos resemble... ::ahem::... velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

Alright, raffle time! I’ll be offering the winner a choice of 1 of 3 styles of art for their OC/character of choice. 1. Paper cutout, 2. Japanese-style, 3. Bluey. Rules are: follow, repost this, and comment w/character ref and what style you want (1, 2, or 3). Winner picked 3/18. #artgiveaway #mlp

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

Just a reminder: as a lawyer you don’t have to do immoral things for the client. You can quit.

Trump gets in bed with the Chinese owners, and suddenly Tik Tok isn’t “evil CCP compromised” anymore. These people believe in nothing. What Trump decides today is what they believe in today. Which changes tomorrow if Trump makes a deal with someone else to enrich himself.