dianeolsen.bsky.social
@dianeolsen.bsky.social
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This is exactly right
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 30
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. n.pr/4qFa1mY
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.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The Democrats have abandoned us
ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now
September 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.
July 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I hate it when people say age is just a number.

“Age” is obviously a word.
July 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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It is a man-made crises. Everything can be resolved. Do it now!
July 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Oh, look! They're celebrating the Fourth of July in France as well.
A new mural in France depicting Lady Liberty covering her face in shame was unveiled one day before America's Independence Day.
July 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Remember: Most Americans just have no idea that 99% of this is going on. It’s simply off their screens.
July 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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every institution in american life has utterly failed us
the courts
the congress
the universities
law enforcement
the military
the free press

every single one
July 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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June 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
June 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Vancouver-based artist creates Google Doodle for National Indigenous Peoples Day #Vancouver #MetroVancouver #YVR
Vancouver-based artist creates Google Doodle for National Indigenous Peoples Day - Metro Vancouver News
A Vancouver-based artist will have his art seen by a massive audience to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day.
www.castanet.net
June 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Unmask I.C.E.
May 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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#GOPPriorities

(H/T @LeftoverNews)
May 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.
Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.
May 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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May 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Trying to talk to MAGA
May 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.
May 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.

They graded it.

Bwahahaha.
May 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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April 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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OK, another cat post. The connection here is that most media coverage of Trump IS the chase of laser dots on the carpet.
April 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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April 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The Trump administration is defunding the suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, according to a leaked document.

The hotline has received 1.3 million calls and texts since 2022.
April 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM