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I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.
All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.
All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.
1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.
Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.
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Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.
Here is your shutdown guide.
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Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House
Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.
All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.
All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.
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be firm. threaten to take away their precious votes. make it abundantly clear that you would rather the govt shut down than throw trans people under the bus
"i saw on the news that trump is threatening to shut down the government unless democrats bend the knee on trans healthcare and i'm calling to say that i will never vote for [name] again if they do. i would rather they shut down the government." and they will say "thank you i'll pass that on"
September 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
be firm. threaten to take away their precious votes. make it abundantly clear that you would rather the govt shut down than throw trans people under the bus
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An essay about death threats, censorship, loss, and the silence of cis people. All of these events happened in one week. I'm exhausted.
www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...
www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...
Transgender Dystopia Blues
One especially dystopian week in the life of a trans person in 2025 USA. Things are getting worse.
www.rosalarian.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
An essay about death threats, censorship, loss, and the silence of cis people. All of these events happened in one week. I'm exhausted.
www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...
www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...
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remember to contact your representatives and yell about these bills and issues!
its so easy, trust me!
its so easy, trust me!
#SaveSpeech
Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc
Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc
Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
September 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
remember to contact your representatives and yell about these bills and issues!
its so easy, trust me!
its so easy, trust me!
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KOSA is now in red alert priority.
Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA
We need to turn out in numbers against this!
Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA
We need to turn out in numbers against this!
#SaveSpeech
Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc
Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc
Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
September 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
KOSA is now in red alert priority.
Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA
We need to turn out in numbers against this!
Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA
We need to turn out in numbers against this!
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also if your senator is Rand Paul: definitely give him some positive reinforcement cuz he was the only GOP to break from the rest and vote against the bill. the more repubs we can tear away from bad policies, the better.
for those with Fetterman + Catherine Masto tho, fucking yell at those losers
for those with Fetterman + Catherine Masto tho, fucking yell at those losers
October 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
also if your senator is Rand Paul: definitely give him some positive reinforcement cuz he was the only GOP to break from the rest and vote against the bill. the more repubs we can tear away from bad policies, the better.
for those with Fetterman + Catherine Masto tho, fucking yell at those losers
for those with Fetterman + Catherine Masto tho, fucking yell at those losers
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when you make your calls today, continue to hammer that trans healthcare cannot be thrown under the bus for the sake of business as usual, and that KOSA must be opposed
however, additionally, if your senator voted against the funding plan, I think you should tell them "thank you".
however, additionally, if your senator voted against the funding plan, I think you should tell them "thank you".
#SaveSpeech
Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc
Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc
Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
October 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
when you make your calls today, continue to hammer that trans healthcare cannot be thrown under the bus for the sake of business as usual, and that KOSA must be opposed
however, additionally, if your senator voted against the funding plan, I think you should tell them "thank you".
however, additionally, if your senator voted against the funding plan, I think you should tell them "thank you".
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you need to stop giving into to doomer impulses.
these are fights we can win. We've won some of them BEFORE, with LESS public outcry (tho do not let that engender passivity!)
quite a few of these dogshit bills have failed before! we can change the future!
these are fights we can win. We've won some of them BEFORE, with LESS public outcry (tho do not let that engender passivity!)
quite a few of these dogshit bills have failed before! we can change the future!
"My reps are all conservative and do what they want anyway so I can't call about KOSA"
This bill has died multiple times before and it's because people told their reps they don't like it, especially the red ones
This bill has died multiple times before and it's because people told their reps they don't like it, especially the red ones
October 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
you need to stop giving into to doomer impulses.
these are fights we can win. We've won some of them BEFORE, with LESS public outcry (tho do not let that engender passivity!)
quite a few of these dogshit bills have failed before! we can change the future!
these are fights we can win. We've won some of them BEFORE, with LESS public outcry (tho do not let that engender passivity!)
quite a few of these dogshit bills have failed before! we can change the future!
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CANADA, UK, AUSTRALIA!! y'all all have official petitions targetting paypros censorship!
IF YOU LIVE IN THESE COUNTRIES, SHARE THESE AROUND AND SIGN THEM ASAP. And verify by email!
CAN
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
AUS
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
IF YOU LIVE IN THESE COUNTRIES, SHARE THESE AROUND AND SIGN THEM ASAP. And verify by email!
CAN
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
AUS
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
CANADA, UK, AUSTRALIA!! y'all all have official petitions targetting paypros censorship!
IF YOU LIVE IN THESE COUNTRIES, SHARE THESE AROUND AND SIGN THEM ASAP. And verify by email!
CAN
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
AUS
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
IF YOU LIVE IN THESE COUNTRIES, SHARE THESE AROUND AND SIGN THEM ASAP. And verify by email!
CAN
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
AUS
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
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They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.
September 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.
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Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.
September 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale.
But they want us to think they do.
But they want us to think they do.
September 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale.
But they want us to think they do.
But they want us to think they do.
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“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”
Trump officials order removal of photograph of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
wapo.st
September 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”
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Oh hey it’s exactly the thing I fucking told you about and people said “you’re being alarmist” and its happening now
Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material
The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers
Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.
www.fox2detroit.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Oh hey it’s exactly the thing I fucking told you about and people said “you’re being alarmist” and its happening now
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Just in case any of y'all thought they'd actually filibuster the appropriations bills coming with all the anti-trans provisions and shut the government down.
Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.
Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.
Schumer on government funding: "Our position remains this: We want to keep the government open by engaging in bipartisan negotiation where we can address some of the grave harms Donald Trump has caused to our health care system and help Americans with the cost of living."
September 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Just in case any of y'all thought they'd actually filibuster the appropriations bills coming with all the anti-trans provisions and shut the government down.
Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.
Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.
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As far as I can tell, the law itself would be banned for even discussing issues like "group sex" and "fellatio."
I would ostensibly be facing a felony even for sharing this as there are only exemptions for "scientific and medical research or instruction or peer-reviewed academic content."
I would ostensibly be facing a felony even for sharing this as there are only exemptions for "scientific and medical research or instruction or peer-reviewed academic content."
September 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
As far as I can tell, the law itself would be banned for even discussing issues like "group sex" and "fellatio."
I would ostensibly be facing a felony even for sharing this as there are only exemptions for "scientific and medical research or instruction or peer-reviewed academic content."
I would ostensibly be facing a felony even for sharing this as there are only exemptions for "scientific and medical research or instruction or peer-reviewed academic content."
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The bill demands a massive censorship apparatus managed by the Attorney General, along with a tip line where people can identify trans, drag, GNC or "other pornographic content" for prosecution.
www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/20...
www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/20...
www.legislature.mi.gov
September 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The bill demands a massive censorship apparatus managed by the Attorney General, along with a tip line where people can identify trans, drag, GNC or "other pornographic content" for prosecution.
www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/20...
www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/20...
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News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that.
LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.
LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that.
LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.
LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.
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The bill would make it a felony to share, distribute or even host "prohibited" content — which includes not just trans info but any mention of masturbation, sex or even sexual "moaning"
Music, art, healthcare — even news coverage of issues sex or gender all banned.
Music, art, healthcare — even news coverage of issues sex or gender all banned.
www.legislature.mi.gov
September 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The bill would make it a felony to share, distribute or even host "prohibited" content — which includes not just trans info but any mention of masturbation, sex or even sexual "moaning"
Music, art, healthcare — even news coverage of issues sex or gender all banned.
Music, art, healthcare — even news coverage of issues sex or gender all banned.
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Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material
The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers
Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.
www.fox2detroit.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material
The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
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We cannot run. There are not alternatives or tricks we can use to avoid what is coming
We HAVE to fight. You need to call your reps and yell at them. Get your family to call. Get your friends to call.
The only way out of this is by fighting
We HAVE to fight. You need to call your reps and yell at them. Get your family to call. Get your friends to call.
The only way out of this is by fighting
Why should I have to accept a version of America where we are so afraid of porn that we have effectively banned it thru these laws? Why should I have to lose my job and passion?
Stop telling me to use a VPN or crypto and start fucking contacting people. Thank you.
Stop telling me to use a VPN or crypto and start fucking contacting people. Thank you.
September 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
We cannot run. There are not alternatives or tricks we can use to avoid what is coming
We HAVE to fight. You need to call your reps and yell at them. Get your family to call. Get your friends to call.
The only way out of this is by fighting
We HAVE to fight. You need to call your reps and yell at them. Get your family to call. Get your friends to call.
The only way out of this is by fighting
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Michigan lawmakers are proposing a total porn ban
The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" H.B 4938 would prohibit the distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts.
www.michiganvotes.org/legislators
www.congress.gov/members/find...
The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" H.B 4938 would prohibit the distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts.
www.michiganvotes.org/legislators
www.congress.gov/members/find...
Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers
Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.
www.fox2detroit.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Michigan lawmakers are proposing a total porn ban
The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" H.B 4938 would prohibit the distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts.
www.michiganvotes.org/legislators
www.congress.gov/members/find...
The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" H.B 4938 would prohibit the distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts.
www.michiganvotes.org/legislators
www.congress.gov/members/find...