Per an email I recieved from a source at Angelo State University, faculty have been told they will no longer be required to refer to students by their name at birth. Pride Flags are allowed in "personal offices." LGB topics are allowed, but textbooks must "omit any chapters on transgenderism"

Violence should not be used against free speech, is the refrain.

So explain why they use ICE to violently detain any immigrant for speaking and steal them off the streets in front of their children.

The Republican Party has openly embraced violence against speech.

The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Vance Boelter, a Trump, GOP voting Christian nationalist, was radicalized in part by QAnon, the same conspiracy promoted by Trump and Republicans, even though they knew it had radicalized others to commit violence.

Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.

Outside the Japanese American Museum, one of the few places chronicling the internment of Japanese American citizens in WW2, and threatening internment again.

There are no words for how disgusting that is.

"Trans students in Asheville are under attack. Not from far-right vigilantes, anti-trans grifters or hell-slinging preachers, but from UNC Asheville, which claims to 'respect diversity' and 'work for inclusion.'” mountainx.com/opinion/lett...

Genocide is Disabling: Gaza Focused on During Disability Justice Panel

“We’re focusing on being sick from genocide because … we as a community have become sick from genocide,” said Sulwa Nubani, a Palestinian-American psychiatry physician.

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Age verification laws are spreading in the US. The tools are often easily beaten performative trash but they're still a danger as goldmines for bad actors, holding PII data from anyone who obeys these laws. The laws also invariably get weaponized against all LGBTQIA+ content.

Fight them as you can.

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Don't forget to stop by your local public library today! ♥️📖🏫

Exasperatingly frequently necessary reminder that the weaponization of ableism and fatphobia and homophobia and transphobia against your political enemies still works to NORMALIZE those things, thus SYSTEMICALLY HARMING your supposed allies.

The person who supposedly “assaulted Nancy Mace” was just a foster youth advocate who literally did nothing more than shake her hand.

Wow.

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1. Today, 81 Democrats voted for the NDAA, which pulls care from the trans kids of military service members, in what is seen as a betrayal of trans people by the Democratic party.

EITM has published a full, easy to read list of their names, and how to contact.