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1. News has emerged that Israel bombed a transgender wing at the notorious Evin Prison in Iran.
Over 100 transgender people are presumed dead.
An Israeli official called the attack on the wing "an act of liberation."
The latest from S. Baum.
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Over 100 transgender people are presumed dead.
An Israeli official called the attack on the wing "an act of liberation."
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Over 100 Trans People Missing or “Presumed Dead” After Israel Bombs Iranian Prison
“The Israeli attack on Evin Prison — carried out in broad daylight, in front of families and visitors — is clearly a war crime,” says Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.
www.erininthemorning.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
1. News has emerged that Israel bombed a transgender wing at the notorious Evin Prison in Iran.
Over 100 transgender people are presumed dead.
An Israeli official called the attack on the wing "an act of liberation."
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Over 100 transgender people are presumed dead.
An Israeli official called the attack on the wing "an act of liberation."
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Video clip of hundreds of folks leaving protest at DC Children's National Hospital earlier today.
This past week the hospital abruptly stopped providing gender affirming healthcare for youth under 19 years old, to preemptively comply with the Musk/Trump Administration's illegal Executive Order.
This past week the hospital abruptly stopped providing gender affirming healthcare for youth under 19 years old, to preemptively comply with the Musk/Trump Administration's illegal Executive Order.
February 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Video clip of hundreds of folks leaving protest at DC Children's National Hospital earlier today.
This past week the hospital abruptly stopped providing gender affirming healthcare for youth under 19 years old, to preemptively comply with the Musk/Trump Administration's illegal Executive Order.
This past week the hospital abruptly stopped providing gender affirming healthcare for youth under 19 years old, to preemptively comply with the Musk/Trump Administration's illegal Executive Order.
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The text on the front banners say 'We are the Firewall'. Massive demo in Berlin today against right-wing extremism.
February 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The text on the front banners say 'We are the Firewall'. Massive demo in Berlin today against right-wing extremism.
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7. Those who genuinely support the transgender community must resist, not capitulate, to Trump’s executive overreach. History will remember this moment, and those in positions of influence must decide whether they will stand in opposition to tyranny or enable it through silence and compliance.
February 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
7. Those who genuinely support the transgender community must resist, not capitulate, to Trump’s executive overreach. History will remember this moment, and those in positions of influence must decide whether they will stand in opposition to tyranny or enable it through silence and compliance.
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
January 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.
Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.
Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.
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These are the same picture.
February 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
These are the same picture.
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I have never seen anyone flip as quickly as Robert F. Kennedy did on the question of whether a woman has the right to control her own body.
January 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I have never seen anyone flip as quickly as Robert F. Kennedy did on the question of whether a woman has the right to control her own body.
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My read on the act: This will likely be challenged in court very quickly, but Trump is going to use every tool at his disposal including investigations, the FDA, FGM laws, etc. to ban transgender youth care nationwide.
It remains to be seen if hospital systems comply in advance.
It remains to be seen if hospital systems comply in advance.
January 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
My read on the act: This will likely be challenged in court very quickly, but Trump is going to use every tool at his disposal including investigations, the FDA, FGM laws, etc. to ban transgender youth care nationwide.
It remains to be seen if hospital systems comply in advance.
It remains to be seen if hospital systems comply in advance.
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I’m directing this at the people who made the ban:
January 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’m directing this at the people who made the ban:
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I want to note that most of section 8 does not have an age limit.
January 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I want to note that most of section 8 does not have an age limit.
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Woke up to this news. At a minimum, the government is defining trans people as dishonorable liars.
And nothing yet suggests we should expect the minimum from this admin. The use of "dishonorable" in a military context suggests the US may attempt to dishonorably discharge trans troops.
And nothing yet suggests we should expect the minimum from this admin. The use of "dishonorable" in a military context suggests the US may attempt to dishonorably discharge trans troops.
Everyone should be aware of the line that has been crossed in the Trump trans military EO.
No longer is this about "evidence," "science" or "protecting kids."
Now, explicitly, black and white, it's about trans people being "liars," "dishonorable," "false."
It's a big step towards very bad things.
No longer is this about "evidence," "science" or "protecting kids."
Now, explicitly, black and white, it's about trans people being "liars," "dishonorable," "false."
It's a big step towards very bad things.
January 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Woke up to this news. At a minimum, the government is defining trans people as dishonorable liars.
And nothing yet suggests we should expect the minimum from this admin. The use of "dishonorable" in a military context suggests the US may attempt to dishonorably discharge trans troops.
And nothing yet suggests we should expect the minimum from this admin. The use of "dishonorable" in a military context suggests the US may attempt to dishonorably discharge trans troops.
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The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws.
Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.
We must stop him.
Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.
We must stop him.
January 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws.
Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.
We must stop him.
Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.
We must stop him.
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This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
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WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7
January 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7
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In the new Trump presidency, we have got to remain focused. We can’t panic.
No matter how many executive orders he signs or statements he issues, our goal is the same:
We must fight to create an America based on economic, social & environmental justice.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No matter how many executive orders he signs or statements he issues, our goal is the same:
We must fight to create an America based on economic, social & environmental justice.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What Trump didn’t say in his inauguration speech | Bernie Sanders
The simple truth is that Trump ignored almost every major issue facing this country’s working families in his first speech
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In the new Trump presidency, we have got to remain focused. We can’t panic.
No matter how many executive orders he signs or statements he issues, our goal is the same:
We must fight to create an America based on economic, social & environmental justice.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No matter how many executive orders he signs or statements he issues, our goal is the same:
We must fight to create an America based on economic, social & environmental justice.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The social security page has removed the instructions on how to change your gender marker at the SSA office: www.ssa.gov/personal-rec...
www.ssa.gov
January 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
The social security page has removed the instructions on how to change your gender marker at the SSA office: www.ssa.gov/personal-rec...
Has anybody told netanyahu about the inauguration or shown him clips? Is the USA no longer allies with Israel?
January 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Has anybody told netanyahu about the inauguration or shown him clips? Is the USA no longer allies with Israel?
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Trump is reportedly going to sign a piece of paper later today declaring that the federal government of the United States defines me as a woman.
If there's a better encapsulation of how stupid the whole "define woman" thing is and has always been I'd love to see it.
If there's a better encapsulation of how stupid the whole "define woman" thing is and has always been I'd love to see it.
Let's close with a picture. This is me, full body, no filters, no tricks.
January 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Trump is reportedly going to sign a piece of paper later today declaring that the federal government of the United States defines me as a woman.
If there's a better encapsulation of how stupid the whole "define woman" thing is and has always been I'd love to see it.
If there's a better encapsulation of how stupid the whole "define woman" thing is and has always been I'd love to see it.
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I am not a man.
Evan Urquhart is not a woman.
No matter what Trump's government said.
So much of what Trump wants to do targeting trans people will depend on cisgender people to enforce his policies and police our bodies and spaces we exist in.
So much can be stopped by people refusing to do so.
Evan Urquhart is not a woman.
No matter what Trump's government said.
So much of what Trump wants to do targeting trans people will depend on cisgender people to enforce his policies and police our bodies and spaces we exist in.
So much can be stopped by people refusing to do so.
Trump is reportedly going to sign a piece of paper later today declaring that the federal government of the United States defines me as a woman.
If there's a better encapsulation of how stupid the whole "define woman" thing is and has always been I'd love to see it.
If there's a better encapsulation of how stupid the whole "define woman" thing is and has always been I'd love to see it.
Let's close with a picture. This is me, full body, no filters, no tricks.
January 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am not a man.
Evan Urquhart is not a woman.
No matter what Trump's government said.
So much of what Trump wants to do targeting trans people will depend on cisgender people to enforce his policies and police our bodies and spaces we exist in.
So much can be stopped by people refusing to do so.
Evan Urquhart is not a woman.
No matter what Trump's government said.
So much of what Trump wants to do targeting trans people will depend on cisgender people to enforce his policies and police our bodies and spaces we exist in.
So much can be stopped by people refusing to do so.
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In about 12 hours the nightmare begins.
Hold your friends and family close. Try to protect your communities and your sanity. All empires fall and madness can’t reign forever. Work toward that brighter day as we walk together through this valley of darkness.
Hold your friends and family close. Try to protect your communities and your sanity. All empires fall and madness can’t reign forever. Work toward that brighter day as we walk together through this valley of darkness.
January 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
In about 12 hours the nightmare begins.
Hold your friends and family close. Try to protect your communities and your sanity. All empires fall and madness can’t reign forever. Work toward that brighter day as we walk together through this valley of darkness.
Hold your friends and family close. Try to protect your communities and your sanity. All empires fall and madness can’t reign forever. Work toward that brighter day as we walk together through this valley of darkness.
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The real gaslighting was all the gay anthems they danced to along the way.
Trump does the double jerk dance as the Village People perform "YMCA" live
January 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The real gaslighting was all the gay anthems they danced to along the way.
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No amount of money or power is worth going on national television and calling Donald Trump “Daddy.” I would spontaneously combust from embarrassment. I could never show my face in public again. I would exile myself in the Himalayas bruh this is flabbergasting
January 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
No amount of money or power is worth going on national television and calling Donald Trump “Daddy.” I would spontaneously combust from embarrassment. I could never show my face in public again. I would exile myself in the Himalayas bruh this is flabbergasting
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“I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position”
If “the United States” meant collective ownership by the people, that would be an incredible step forward.
Instead we will have the US government using 50% ownership to force feed us propaganda of their choosing 🙃
If “the United States” meant collective ownership by the people, that would be an incredible step forward.
Instead we will have the US government using 50% ownership to force feed us propaganda of their choosing 🙃
January 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position”
If “the United States” meant collective ownership by the people, that would be an incredible step forward.
Instead we will have the US government using 50% ownership to force feed us propaganda of their choosing 🙃
If “the United States” meant collective ownership by the people, that would be an incredible step forward.
Instead we will have the US government using 50% ownership to force feed us propaganda of their choosing 🙃