Truth is my love language.

If they’re looking to make a case for the importance of a strong social safety net, laying off hundreds of thousands of workers at once ought to do it.

This should be exceedingly obvious, but when Stonewall stays up while references to trans people come down, they will measure the silence of cisgender people as concurrence for whatever they plan next, and it still won't protect you in the end. So please get loud. Our mutual survival depends on it.

Part of the cruelty of taking away the TQIA+ and leaving just LGB is the cynical, tyrannical naming of the community FOR that community, defining and isolating from outside who belongs and who doesn't.

National Park Service removed the word "transgender" from the Stonewall Nat'l Monument page. Marsha P. Johnson, heroine of Stonewall, was trans. NPS now uses only "LGB" — erasing the T, Q, +, and everyone else. Tell them they can't erase trans people from history, LGBTQ+ community, or real life.

Not a surprise, but the violence of this is devastating. I know ACLU, HRC & others will fight it, and I'm again contacting my Congresspeople & governor to beg them to act.

Please follow & support @erininthemorning.com—she's doing crucial work.

See below for similar bill now in WA state.

My kid, trying to distract me from making him go to bed: “Wait, don’t you want to talk about the Chicago Manual of Style?” 🤣
#editorproblems

I ate your PLUMS and I cannot lie
I'm guilty and I won't deny
That when I found them kept in a pretty chilly place
yeah I put them in my face
and man, YUM, couldn't have enough
'Cause you know that my tum is stuffed,
But you were breakfast saving,
Your forgiveness now I'm craving

I literally just got out of meetings with members of Congress & used the bathroom on my way out.

Trans women are women—full stop. We're every bit as "biologically female" as cis women & Speaker Johnson's statement doesn't change the fact that women's spaces include trans women.

when the time comes & this bill has a number or is rolled into a rules package, we absolutely need cis folks to call reps about this. even GOP reps.

if 1 democrat lets this go without a fight, a national bill won’t be far behind. and if the GOP isn’t unanimous, there’s a chance they won’t even try.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I feel a burning mix of fury, heartbreak, and powerlessness over the Republican drooling viciousness toward Sarah McBride and her mild response to it. I trust that she’s doing what she needs to do. I will not hear any Republican speak to me of “civility,” EVER.

Here, America, I made you a playlist.

Please support @erininthemorning.bsky.social, who is doing crucial work to track, report on, and interpret the sweep of vicious anti-trans attacks across the country.

I posted this in December 2016, but here we are again:

Trump nominates Wolf for Secretary of Henhouse. Trump nominates Fire for Secretary of Ice. Trump nominates Nihilism for Secretary of Hope.

“You must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”

—Samuel Beckett, _The Unnamable_

"I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society."

—Carlos Fuentes, 1987