Meagan Holman O’Reilly
@mhoreilly.bsky.social
Protect trans kids.
I dropped Spotify when Rogan was signed. NYT probably two years ago now? Follow me for early insight into corporations you should break ties with before they go full fascist!
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I dropped Spotify when Rogan was signed. NYT probably two years ago now? Follow me for early insight into corporations you should break ties with before they go full fascist!
Oh but keep posting your wordle everyday friends ffs
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Oh but keep posting your wordle everyday friends ffs
As a family, we have taken to ending group texts with THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. I’m happy to report that DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT will soon be joining. It’s how you raise teen antifa right!
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
As a family, we have taken to ending group texts with THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. I’m happy to report that DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT will soon be joining. It’s how you raise teen antifa right!
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When I say that I've learned a lot about the Holocaust by living as the parent of a trans kid in the 2020s, I don't mean that I think Republicans are Nazis. No. What I've learned is that Nazis were just the Republicans of their era, and of their system. #ProtectTransKids
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
When I say that I've learned a lot about the Holocaust by living as the parent of a trans kid in the 2020s, I don't mean that I think Republicans are Nazis. No. What I've learned is that Nazis were just the Republicans of their era, and of their system. #ProtectTransKids
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Visible, yet vulnerable: What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump’s first 100 days.
One big takeaway: Based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote trans people.
bit.ly/TJA_visible
One big takeaway: Based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote trans people.
bit.ly/TJA_visible
How journalists covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days
Trans perspectives were rarely present in articles about the consequences federal actions would have on their lives, according to an analysis conducted by Berkeley Media Studies Group in partnership w...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Visible, yet vulnerable: What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump’s first 100 days.
One big takeaway: Based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote trans people.
bit.ly/TJA_visible
One big takeaway: Based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote trans people.
bit.ly/TJA_visible
A short story about @shaheen.senate.gov ~2004/5. She’d lost a race so joined the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School as a Fellow, as one does. I was a pregnant grad student. I asked her advice about running for office as a mom. She told me to wait my turn. I never sought her out again.
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A short story about @shaheen.senate.gov ~2004/5. She’d lost a race so joined the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School as a Fellow, as one does. I was a pregnant grad student. I asked her advice about running for office as a mom. She told me to wait my turn. I never sought her out again.
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
No. Say it ain’t so, @baldwin.senate.gov
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
No. Say it ain’t so, @baldwin.senate.gov
The fact that seven of us just walked into our pharmacy, asked for COVID and flu vaccines, and received them immediately and free after insurance, feels like a stroke of luck.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The fact that seven of us just walked into our pharmacy, asked for COVID and flu vaccines, and received them immediately and free after insurance, feels like a stroke of luck.
Actual, real, happy tears.
Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
Democrats are currently ahead in 63 (!!!) races in the Virginia House of Delegates.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Actual, real, happy tears.
Here we go (again).
The Trump administration will soon be releasing two Medicaid rules that would ban medicaid funding for gender affirming care for trans youth and any Medicaid reimbursements to any organization that provides care to trans youth. This would be a de facto national ban
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
www.npr.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Here we go (again).
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newsom *could* be taking this moment to leverage state funds and ensure that millions of california residents don’t go hungry when SNAP benefits (CalFresh in california) don’t renew on 1 november
instead, he’s doing this.
(authorizing a one-time cash influx to food banks doesn’t replace CalFresh!)
instead, he’s doing this.
(authorizing a one-time cash influx to food banks doesn’t replace CalFresh!)
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
newsom *could* be taking this moment to leverage state funds and ensure that millions of california residents don’t go hungry when SNAP benefits (CalFresh in california) don’t renew on 1 november
instead, he’s doing this.
(authorizing a one-time cash influx to food banks doesn’t replace CalFresh!)
instead, he’s doing this.
(authorizing a one-time cash influx to food banks doesn’t replace CalFresh!)
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1. As SNAP benefits expire, 42,000,000 hungry people may turn to the USDA website.
Now, the website blames their hunger on transgender people and immigrants.
It's a cynical ploy, an an indication that anti-trans measures are a Trump priority for the shutdown.
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Now, the website blames their hunger on transgender people and immigrants.
It's a cynical ploy, an an indication that anti-trans measures are a Trump priority for the shutdown.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
USDA Website Blames SNAP Benefits Expiring On Trans People And Immigrants During Shutdown
The benefits, which are set to expire on November 1st due to the government shutdown, will lead to millions of people struggling to secure access to food.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
1. As SNAP benefits expire, 42,000,000 hungry people may turn to the USDA website.
Now, the website blames their hunger on transgender people and immigrants.
It's a cynical ploy, an an indication that anti-trans measures are a Trump priority for the shutdown.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Now, the website blames their hunger on transgender people and immigrants.
It's a cynical ploy, an an indication that anti-trans measures are a Trump priority for the shutdown.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This is big (and deeply frustrating) news for the small nonprofits in your community with limited if any staff and probably even less comfort with digital tools.
WARNING: GoFundMe is "growth hacking" - it's created 1.4 million "donation pages" for nonprofits without their consent and without any prior warning or contact. Now, this is conventionally regarded as charity fraud. Beware.
mastodon.social/@gvwilson/11...
news story: abc7news.com/post/gofundm...
mastodon.social/@gvwilson/11...
news story: abc7news.com/post/gofundm...
Greg Wilson (@gvwilson@mastodon.social)
GoFundMe has created 1.4 million "donation pages" for nonprofits *without their consent and without any prior warning or contact*. You can go to https://www.gofundme.com/s?nonprofits= to check if they...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is big (and deeply frustrating) news for the small nonprofits in your community with limited if any staff and probably even less comfort with digital tools.
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The @nytimes.com decided last year what the story was; Trump II was the righteous punishment visited upon their interns and junior staffers and grandchildren for being so annoying about MeToo and BLM, and once they understood that and repented, they could have democracy back.
October 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The @nytimes.com decided last year what the story was; Trump II was the righteous punishment visited upon their interns and junior staffers and grandchildren for being so annoying about MeToo and BLM, and once they understood that and repented, they could have democracy back.
Why Boston will always be home, no matter where I happen to live 💙
Mayor Michelle Wu at the protest today: “What scares them about Boston is that we are the America they say is impossible.”
Boston. Wow.
October 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Why Boston will always be home, no matter where I happen to live 💙
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do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for
October 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for
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One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.
It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...
It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...
Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents
The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.
It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...
It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...
The relative power Wisconsin has is especially scary when you consider how long we’ve been drastically underfunding public education as a state.
Gavin Newsom would take a puppy from an orphan, rip the puppy apart with his bare hands and eat it while the orphan screamed if he thought it would win him one vote in Wisconsin.
October 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The relative power Wisconsin has is especially scary when you consider how long we’ve been drastically underfunding public education as a state.
Honestly my actual speciality as a nonprofit consultant 🤷🏻♀️
Brooke Rollins claims the Trump administration has canceled "up into the billions of dollars" in grants for things like "transgender woke BIPOC food justice."
September 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Honestly my actual speciality as a nonprofit consultant 🤷🏻♀️
These are the things that give me strength for another day in these dark times.
1. A new The 19th/SurveyMonkey Poll finds that a majority of Americans are against trans youth care bans.
This includes a majority of Independent voters, casting doubt on the narrative that Democrats need to pull back on transgender people.
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This includes a majority of Independent voters, casting doubt on the narrative that Democrats need to pull back on transgender people.
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New Poll: Most Americans Oppose Bans On Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth
A new The 19th/SurveyMonkey poll reveals that most Americans oppose bans on trans care for youth, with LGBTQ+ people overwhelmingly opposing such bans.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
These are the things that give me strength for another day in these dark times.
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Democrats seem to believe that they can turn a big dial that says "transphobia" up and down with no consequences. But all they're doing is bolstering a fascist drive to wipe trans people off the face of the earth. It's disgusting and shameful and it needs to end www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.
www.thenation.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Democrats seem to believe that they can turn a big dial that says "transphobia" up and down with no consequences. But all they're doing is bolstering a fascist drive to wipe trans people off the face of the earth. It's disgusting and shameful and it needs to end www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
September 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.
Read the whole thread. But also please, call your Dem congresspeople to make sure they are holding the line here!
9. If these anti-LGBTQ+ provisions make it through, they would lock some of the harshest restrictions on trans people into federal law and hand Trump a stronger platform to target trans rights nationwide. Only if Dems stand firm for their trans and queer constituents will this outcome be stopped.
September 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Read the whole thread. But also please, call your Dem congresspeople to make sure they are holding the line here!
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I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.