The problem with that "First they came for" poem is it makes a lot of unlikely assumptions. For example it assumes they would ever come for me

uneasy about the phrasing “extreme disabilities” firing around the media at the moment, as if it implies, if you have a “normal” disability that theoretically permits work in ~some~ capacity, even if it depletes your energy & every second off is spent recovering, then that’s fine

The more I see about this case, the more I understand it as performative cruelty to generate headlines. So far our democratic institutions have found themselves either willingly compliant with it or being played like fools.

In short, a trans person denies being trans out of fear of being harmed. Gets outed. Is immediately threatened, harmed and almost murdered

Cis people: “This is proof trans people have to out themselves always at all times!”

idk man how does anyone ever have time for anything

What do these freaks want us to do?

This is also very true in the UK - no one is angrier about Sadiq Khan than people who live many miles from London and have absolutely no intention of ever going there.

grappling with the implications of The Claims Adjuster turning out to be a hot Italian tech bro gym rat who went to Penn, seems to have had a pretty gnarly back injury, retweets anti-woke nonsense, and has read not one but two books by Steve-O