Laura Charles
@lauracharlesart.bsky.social
Artist, Illustrator & Curious Human
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hi again, cis folks!
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11.
context & guidance in the thread below. it doesn’t have to be hard; you can do it waiting for coffee.
13 days left, as of this post. please comment.
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11.
context & guidance in the thread below. it doesn’t have to be hard; you can do it waiting for coffee.
13 days left, as of this post. please comment.
hi, cis folks!
if we *are* going to talk ACA, RFK's HHS proposed a rule to remove *all trans care* from ACA essential health benefit status.
~25mil people are insured by ACA & if 1% are trans, that's 250,000 people who'd lose access to care.
that's bad! take 2 minutes to stand with trans people.🧵
if we *are* going to talk ACA, RFK's HHS proposed a rule to remove *all trans care* from ACA essential health benefit status.
~25mil people are insured by ACA & if 1% are trans, that's 250,000 people who'd lose access to care.
that's bad! take 2 minutes to stand with trans people.🧵
March 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
hi again, cis folks!
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11.
context & guidance in the thread below. it doesn’t have to be hard; you can do it waiting for coffee.
13 days left, as of this post. please comment.
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11.
context & guidance in the thread below. it doesn’t have to be hard; you can do it waiting for coffee.
13 days left, as of this post. please comment.
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BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
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so, things are getting really bad for trans ppl in the US, here’s some resources in case you’re considering moving/potentially seek asylum translash.org/articles/tra...
Trans Relocation Guide: Finding Trans Asylum and Safe Havens - TransLash Media
A guide for trans individuals seeking asylum, with resources for relocating within the U.S. or abroad, accessing legal support, healthcare, and community connections.
translash.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
so, things are getting really bad for trans ppl in the US, here’s some resources in case you’re considering moving/potentially seek asylum translash.org/articles/tra...
SO boss. The scene just before this with the Great Owl’s head spinning around catching all the cobwebs will stay in my brain forever.
March 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
SO boss. The scene just before this with the Great Owl’s head spinning around catching all the cobwebs will stay in my brain forever.
Ok so this is not productive at all, but it still made me laugh when I needed to.
March 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Ok so this is not productive at all, but it still made me laugh when I needed to.
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1. Major news in transgender care.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
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Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
1. Major news in transgender care.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Well shit, something I didn’t know.
This.
Some things that fascists that talk about "birth rate decline" know, but pretend that they don't:
There has been no big decline in birth rate for most white women.
There has even been an increase for older women!👍🏿
All of the decrease, is because fewer girls (not women!) are having babies.
Some things that fascists that talk about "birth rate decline" know, but pretend that they don't:
There has been no big decline in birth rate for most white women.
There has even been an increase for older women!👍🏿
All of the decrease, is because fewer girls (not women!) are having babies.
March 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Well shit, something I didn’t know.
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Ugh, I hate the move to unhealthy time, both the acute and long term effects.
Healthy brains need light to wake up and darkness at night to sleep well. 😴
I wrote about it here👇
nwnoggin.org/2021/02/21/o...
#scicomm #sleep #ditchDST
Healthy brains need light to wake up and darkness at night to sleep well. 😴
I wrote about it here👇
nwnoggin.org/2021/02/21/o...
#scicomm #sleep #ditchDST
March 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ugh, I hate the move to unhealthy time, both the acute and long term effects.
Healthy brains need light to wake up and darkness at night to sleep well. 😴
I wrote about it here👇
nwnoggin.org/2021/02/21/o...
#scicomm #sleep #ditchDST
Healthy brains need light to wake up and darkness at night to sleep well. 😴
I wrote about it here👇
nwnoggin.org/2021/02/21/o...
#scicomm #sleep #ditchDST
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A reminder that women’s sports are kept separate from men’s not to protect women from always losing to men, but rather to ensure that no man ever loses to a woman.
I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.
I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.
March 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A reminder that women’s sports are kept separate from men’s not to protect women from always losing to men, but rather to ensure that no man ever loses to a woman.
I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.
I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.
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I think when a lot of American Christians say they follow Jesus, they think of “follow” more in the social media follower sense where they occasionally like something he said but largely ignore everything else.
March 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I think when a lot of American Christians say they follow Jesus, they think of “follow” more in the social media follower sense where they occasionally like something he said but largely ignore everything else.
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1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills.
While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation.
Watch their speech.
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While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation.
Watch their speech.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana
Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills.
While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation.
Watch their speech.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation.
Watch their speech.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
These mice are so stinking cute, but also if you have seen the #StarTrek standalone tribble episode, The Trouble with Edward, you can understand why I am a little dubious. www.newscientist.com/article/2470...
Can genetically engineered 'woolly' mice help bring back the mammoth?
Colossal Biosciences has altered several genes in mice to make them look more mammoth-like, but the company is far from its goal of fully resurrecting woolly mammoths by 2028
www.newscientist.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
These mice are so stinking cute, but also if you have seen the #StarTrek standalone tribble episode, The Trouble with Edward, you can understand why I am a little dubious. www.newscientist.com/article/2470...
On an unrelated note, does anyone know why Bluesky will add hyperlinks to random words in my posts/replies for no reason? For some reason, they turned the word “repressed” into a link, and I can’t really edit it now.
Vance is definitely repressed. I love a good suit, but if I was forced to meet them I’d wear my painting pants and my “fuck the Supreme Court” t-shirt.
repressed.love
March 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
On an unrelated note, does anyone know why Bluesky will add hyperlinks to random words in my posts/replies for no reason? For some reason, they turned the word “repressed” into a link, and I can’t really edit it now.
Cool cool cool
First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Cool cool cool
WTAF
1. Montana’s House has passed an indecent exposure bill that applies only to trans people.
It sets out one standard for cis people that requires intent, and another for trans people that does not.
Trans Rep. Zephyr delivered scathing remarks.
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It sets out one standard for cis people that requires intent, and another for trans people that does not.
Trans Rep. Zephyr delivered scathing remarks.
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"The Crime Is Being Trans": Montana House Passes Indecent Exposure Bill Applying Only To Trans People
House Bill 446 in Montana establishes two indecent exposure laws: one for the general public that requires intent, and another for trans people that does not.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
WTAF
If you aren’t actively standing up for trans rights, I’d better not ever see you quoting “First They Came”, because this is your chance to speak out, and history is just just repeating itself instead.
Being trans in the US is watching your community be genocided in slow motion as the media bounces between cheering it on and denying it, and elected Dems say they can't defend you because you cost them too many votes, and leftists say you divide the working class so they won't defend you either.
March 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If you aren’t actively standing up for trans rights, I’d better not ever see you quoting “First They Came”, because this is your chance to speak out, and history is just just repeating itself instead.
Yeahhh the more I look at arms, the weirder they look 😂
February 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Yeahhh the more I look at arms, the weirder they look 😂
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I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
February 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
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If this goes through my business is toast. There is no other affordable way to ship. If you want to get art from small businesses please please please call.
I know there's dozens of things to contact reps about every single day, but today please contact them about keeping USPS independent. Privatizing USPS would be devastating for so many reasons, but personally it would destroy my small business if I can't have affordable/accessible service. 5calls.org
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
February 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
If this goes through my business is toast. There is no other affordable way to ship. If you want to get art from small businesses please please please call.
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Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:
February 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:
Shocking.
I suppose it sorta makes sense that early humans traded off fur coats and physical strength for big brains that allowed us to create clothes and tools and now we’re apparently trading off those big brains for the ability to use hallucinatory auto-complete to write reports for us.
all signs point to cooked www.404media.co/microsoft-st...
February 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Shocking.
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Loads of people leaving Twitter from Netherlands.
Artist and Illustrator, Iris Compiet, completely nuked her Twitter account.
@iriscompiet.bsky.social
36K followers on X, growing quickly here, already on 14.4K followers.
Artist and Illustrator, Iris Compiet, completely nuked her Twitter account.
@iriscompiet.bsky.social
36K followers on X, growing quickly here, already on 14.4K followers.
February 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Loads of people leaving Twitter from Netherlands.
Artist and Illustrator, Iris Compiet, completely nuked her Twitter account.
@iriscompiet.bsky.social
36K followers on X, growing quickly here, already on 14.4K followers.
Artist and Illustrator, Iris Compiet, completely nuked her Twitter account.
@iriscompiet.bsky.social
36K followers on X, growing quickly here, already on 14.4K followers.
The stupidity is astounding.
“Grocery prices go up because of government spending.”
What?
What?
i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet
February 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The stupidity is astounding.
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The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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They’re back! The third volume of Ex|Terra, filled with a whole load of new #dinosaur drawings, is now available to pre-order.
Please share. Thank you!
igg.me/at/exterra3
Please share. Thank you!
igg.me/at/exterra3
EX TERRA 3
A New Collection of Palaeoart by Andy Frazer. | Check out 'EX TERRA 3' on Indiegogo.
igg.me
February 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
They’re back! The third volume of Ex|Terra, filled with a whole load of new #dinosaur drawings, is now available to pre-order.
Please share. Thank you!
igg.me/at/exterra3
Please share. Thank you!
igg.me/at/exterra3