Abby Louise
@arizonaabby.bsky.social
Retired public defender/appellate attorney, trans woman and general rabble-rouser.
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NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Describing Trump as the "big, blubbery baby man" is perfect!
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Describing Trump as the "big, blubbery baby man" is perfect!
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It’s important that we recognize after all this time that Trump doesn’t believe in the concept of sex crimes. What’s more, he takes the idea of such crimes as a personal affront, an attack on how he has treated women his whole life.
Revealed: Trump White House intervened on behalf of another accused sex trafficker
www.alternet.org
Revealed: Trump White House intervened on behalf of another accused sex trafficker
twp.ai
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s important that we recognize after all this time that Trump doesn’t believe in the concept of sex crimes. What’s more, he takes the idea of such crimes as a personal affront, an attack on how he has treated women his whole life.
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As President Trump threatens to send troops into more cities, Congress must pass the Military in Law Enforcement Accountability Act to make clear that the military shouldn't be used to police people.
Safety comes from investing in our communities, not militarizing them.
Safety comes from investing in our communities, not militarizing them.
Congress: U.S. Troops are Not the President's Personal Police Force
Military troops do not belong on our streets and should never be used to police civilians. The Senate must protect our freedoms and pass the Military in Law Enforcement Accountability Act now.
action.aclu.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
As President Trump threatens to send troops into more cities, Congress must pass the Military in Law Enforcement Accountability Act to make clear that the military shouldn't be used to police people.
Safety comes from investing in our communities, not militarizing them.
Safety comes from investing in our communities, not militarizing them.
Didn't we all learn this in grade school?
The deal Senate Democrats made to “protect” the ACA may prove as futile as many suspected. Norman Ornstein explains why submitting to bullies rarely works in the long run.
When will Democrats learn that mollifying bullies is a fool’s errand?
The shutdown at least firmly established the blame for the healthcare debacle. But the way this one ended was cringewort
contrarian.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Didn't we all learn this in grade school?
JFAC! If you believe that, I have some beachside property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
JFAC! If you believe that, I have some beachside property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.
FUCK!!!!
Under Schumer's leadership, eight Democrats (Cortez Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, King, Rosen, & Shaheen) joined the Republicans in moving forward a bill to reopen the government without ACA subsidies—Dems' stated key aim—or any other real concessions from the status before the shutdown.
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
FUCK!!!!
And here I thought money damages was the exact opposite of irreparable harm. I guess I need to go back and tell my civil procedure professor that he had it all wrong.
The Trump administration tells the Supreme Court it can’t be compelled to fully fund SNAP because paying out the money would “irreparably harm” the government, while SNAP beneficiaries … *won’t* be irreparably harmed by going hungry? The balance of equities here is completely upside down.
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
And here I thought money damages was the exact opposite of irreparable harm. I guess I need to go back and tell my civil procedure professor that he had it all wrong.
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Great @gbbranstetter.bsky.social read on how throwing trans people under the bus is not a winning political strategy and in fact the opposite is true. Democrats have an opportunity here to not be craven cowards succumbing to transphobic messaging.
Democrats Can’t Blame Trans People for Their Own Failures
Despite the attempts by so many in the party's establishment to paint trans rights as a toxic issue, transphobia was soundly rejected across the country this week.
www.thenation.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Great @gbbranstetter.bsky.social read on how throwing trans people under the bus is not a winning political strategy and in fact the opposite is true. Democrats have an opportunity here to not be craven cowards succumbing to transphobic messaging.
We can only hope!
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We can only hope!
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"Winsome Earle-Sears, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in Virginia this year, spent 57 percent of her advertising funds on anti-transgender ads."
It didn't work.
It didn't work.
The GOP Went Big on Anti-Trans Ads This Year. And Guess What Happened?
Abigail Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57 percent of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Winsome Earle-Sears, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in Virginia this year, spent 57 percent of her advertising funds on anti-transgender ads."
It didn't work.
It didn't work.
Cogent analysis from constitutional law professor Steve Vladeck on the many defects in yesterday's SCOTUS decision allowing the government to implement its anti-transgender and anti-nonbinary passport policy.
"Beyond being the 24th consecutive grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration, the cryptic ruling in Orr is a reminder of just how bankrupt the Court’s proffered justifications are in these cases—both legally and in other ways, too."
Me on today's ugly #SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. Orr:
Me on today's ugly #SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. Orr:
189. The Breezy Inequity of Trump v. Orr
The Supreme Court's latest grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration illustrates in technicolor the direct (and ugly) consequences of the two different ways it keeps messing up "equity."
www.stevevladeck.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Cogent analysis from constitutional law professor Steve Vladeck on the many defects in yesterday's SCOTUS decision allowing the government to implement its anti-transgender and anti-nonbinary passport policy.
As you said, yesterday SCOTUS "put back into effect a Trump administration policy that requires all new passports to reflect the bearer’s biological sex at birth—even if they are transgender or non-binary," and even if the state has changed the gender marker on a birth certificate. 1/2
Even though it mustered only 356 words to justify putting Trump's spiteful anti-trans passport policy back into effect, #SCOTUS managed to show us two of the flawed analytical moves it keeps making *only* in Trump cases to provide cover for granting emergency relief.
My latest, via "One First":
My latest, via "One First":
189. The Breezy Inequity of Trump v. Orr
The Supreme Court's latest grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration illustrates in technicolor the direct (and ugly) consequences of the two different ways it keeps messing up "equity."
www.stevevladeck.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
As you said, yesterday SCOTUS "put back into effect a Trump administration policy that requires all new passports to reflect the bearer’s biological sex at birth—even if they are transgender or non-binary," and even if the state has changed the gender marker on a birth certificate. 1/2
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BREAKING: SCOTUS lets Trump administration implement anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy.
The Democratic appointees, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The ruling, which applies during litigation, effectively reverses two lower court rulings.
Today, at Law Dork:
The Democratic appointees, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The ruling, which applies during litigation, effectively reverses two lower court rulings.
Today, at Law Dork:
Breaking: SCOTUS lets Trump administration implement anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy
The Democratic appointees, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The ruling, which applies during litigation, effectively reverses two lower court rulings.
www.lawdork.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
BREAKING: SCOTUS lets Trump administration implement anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy.
The Democratic appointees, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The ruling, which applies during litigation, effectively reverses two lower court rulings.
Today, at Law Dork:
The Democratic appointees, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The ruling, which applies during litigation, effectively reverses two lower court rulings.
Today, at Law Dork:
Guidance on the impact of today's SCOTUS ruling allowing the government to implement its anti-trans passport policy. Unless you have to travel out of the US ASAP, hold off on applying for a new or renewal passport until this case is decided on the merits.
This fight isn't over. Our case challenging President Trump's executive order will still move forward.
In the meantime anyone who applies for a new, corrected, or replacement passport, or for a passport renewal, is at risk of having their passport issued bearing the sex they were assigned at birth.
In the meantime anyone who applies for a new, corrected, or replacement passport, or for a passport renewal, is at risk of having their passport issued bearing the sex they were assigned at birth.
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Guidance on the impact of today's SCOTUS ruling allowing the government to implement its anti-trans passport policy. Unless you have to travel out of the US ASAP, hold off on applying for a new or renewal passport until this case is decided on the merits.
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The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse
I'm doing my best! 🤣
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I'm doing my best! 🤣
LOLOLOLOL
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
LOLOLOLOL
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26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani.
Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money.
That is how we win.
Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money.
That is how we win.
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani.
Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money.
That is how we win.
Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money.
That is how we win.
Exactly!
To all the new dolls and questioning eggs who follow me: this is one of the truest statements I've ever read.
I've become much more aware of my past dysphoria once I accepted that it was worth trying a new gender. Having the freedom to try to be happier gave me space to recontextualize everything.
I've become much more aware of my past dysphoria once I accepted that it was worth trying a new gender. Having the freedom to try to be happier gave me space to recontextualize everything.
the reason you don't need dysphoria to be trans is because dysphoria can be impossible to realize without first accepting your own transness
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Exactly!
Simply what they deserve!
A few nyt journos are ok with this bias. It’s hard to imagine the person who wrote this recent lede not being fully on board.
“To get on the wrong side of transgender activists is often to endure their unsparing criticism.”
“To get on the wrong side of transgender activists is often to endure their unsparing criticism.”
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Simply what they deserve!
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The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.”
Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:
Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:
188. Five Questions About "Extrajudicial Killings"
There is no obvious legal argument to support President Trump's expanding campaign of strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. And the implications are even scarier.
www.stevevladeck.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.”
Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:
Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:
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The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
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Our local and state leaders must not voluntarily collaborate with the Trump administration's attempts to target people and groups that the president doesn't like.
These types of politically motivated federal investigations make our country less free, and need to be rejected.
These types of politically motivated federal investigations make our country less free, and need to be rejected.
How Governors and Mayors Can Protect Nonprofits from Trump's NSPM-7 | ACLU
President Trump’s new directive, NSPM-7, targets charities and advocacy groups under the guise of national security. State governors and local mayors can protect them by refusing to cooperate with pol...
www.aclu.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Our local and state leaders must not voluntarily collaborate with the Trump administration's attempts to target people and groups that the president doesn't like.
These types of politically motivated federal investigations make our country less free, and need to be rejected.
These types of politically motivated federal investigations make our country less free, and need to be rejected.