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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
Guilty as charged 😬
How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?
April 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Guilty as charged 😬
Massachusetts...
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Massachusetts...
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Rep Connolly: There are about 20 other blue states that are also staunchly pro-trans rights, and they are not afraid to vote no on amendments and bills.
You vote no on the batshit things. You let them speak, have their say, and shut it down.
You don't play games with trans people's lives.
You vote no on the batshit things. You let them speak, have their say, and shut it down.
You don't play games with trans people's lives.
April 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Rep Connolly: There are about 20 other blue states that are also staunchly pro-trans rights, and they are not afraid to vote no on amendments and bills.
You vote no on the batshit things. You let them speak, have their say, and shut it down.
You don't play games with trans people's lives.
You vote no on the batshit things. You let them speak, have their say, and shut it down.
You don't play games with trans people's lives.
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Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...
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March 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...
March 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Attending a banned event will carry fines up to about €500, and authorities will be able to use facial recognition tools to identify attendees.
Hungary passes law banning Pride events in new blow to LGBTQ+ rights
Attending a banned event will carry fines up to about €500, and authorities will be able to use facial recognition tools to identify attendees.
l.euronews.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Attending a banned event will carry fines up to about €500, and authorities will be able to use facial recognition tools to identify attendees.
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Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN Business
Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
www.cnn.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
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Under pressure by many activists I personally know, Worcester Massachusetts is now a sanctuary city for the LGBTQ+ community.
Push your elected officials to stand up for their own constituents. It works.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Push your elected officials to stand up for their own constituents. It works.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Massachusetts city OKs sanctuary city status for transgender community
The Worcester City Council voted to pass a resolution to become a sanctuary city for people who identify as transgender.
www.cbsnews.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Under pressure by many activists I personally know, Worcester Massachusetts is now a sanctuary city for the LGBTQ+ community.
Push your elected officials to stand up for their own constituents. It works.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Push your elected officials to stand up for their own constituents. It works.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
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Another missing walking tour, this time for LGBTQ+ African American history in Boston. I'm stressed about whether this multimedia content is fully backed up anywhere.
"Their Dreams, Their Rights, and Their Love" LGBTQ+ History Audio Tour - Boston African American National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
web.archive.org
February 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Another missing walking tour, this time for LGBTQ+ African American history in Boston. I'm stressed about whether this multimedia content is fully backed up anywhere.
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It occurs to me that as an Armenian in diaspora I can say a few things about what to do when a settler colonialist state tries to erase all trace of a hated minority group from historical sites and public life.
But the fact that I'm standing here telling you that is proof aplenty: *there is hope*.
But the fact that I'm standing here telling you that is proof aplenty: *there is hope*.
February 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It occurs to me that as an Armenian in diaspora I can say a few things about what to do when a settler colonialist state tries to erase all trace of a hated minority group from historical sites and public life.
But the fact that I'm standing here telling you that is proof aplenty: *there is hope*.
But the fact that I'm standing here telling you that is proof aplenty: *there is hope*.
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Whenever the media or transphobes talk about mental health and suicide rates of trans kids, they are always deliberately concealing the fact that trans healthcare brings trans kids to the same place as cis kids on these things
January 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Whenever the media or transphobes talk about mental health and suicide rates of trans kids, they are always deliberately concealing the fact that trans healthcare brings trans kids to the same place as cis kids on these things
In case you are wondering what you can do to- speaking out is super important! Staying silent while the most vulnerable kids are being dehumanized is certainly a choice.
If you are a straight, cis person and you feel that fucking knot in your stomach about what the administration is doing right now to trans people and trans children, you have to at the very fucking least say out loud in front of your friends and peers in real life "this is fucked up."
January 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
In case you are wondering what you can do to- speaking out is super important! Staying silent while the most vulnerable kids are being dehumanized is certainly a choice.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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The trans community needs Americans to complicate your understanding of transgender healthcare (or just leave our healthcare alone).
There is not a single experience of transition, and no blanket policy can EVER capture all of our lived experience.
Below, I discuss as much on CNN this morning.
There is not a single experience of transition, and no blanket policy can EVER capture all of our lived experience.
Below, I discuss as much on CNN this morning.
January 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The trans community needs Americans to complicate your understanding of transgender healthcare (or just leave our healthcare alone).
There is not a single experience of transition, and no blanket policy can EVER capture all of our lived experience.
Below, I discuss as much on CNN this morning.
There is not a single experience of transition, and no blanket policy can EVER capture all of our lived experience.
Below, I discuss as much on CNN this morning.
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"Check on your trans frie-" No. Give them money. Hire them. Buy them a video game.
January 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Check on your trans frie-" No. Give them money. Hire them. Buy them a video game.
Finally Lithuanian Constitutional Court Rules “Anti-Gay Propaganda” Provision Unconstitutional
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/a-le...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/a-le...
A lesbian princess just helped rule Lithuania’s "gay propaganda" law as unconstitutional - LGBTQ Nation
The stunning high court decision all began with a fairy tale about a princess and a shoemaker's daughter.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Finally Lithuanian Constitutional Court Rules “Anti-Gay Propaganda” Provision Unconstitutional
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/a-le...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/a-le...
A very important reminder for us all
That guilt you feel about not being able to support every GoFundMe for folks who are suffering?
That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it
That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it
January 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A very important reminder for us all
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January 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Which is why “the voters voted for this” is not always the answer. Either we have a set of unshakeable core principles and values that undergird our democracy or we leave even the most basic elements of democracy and dignity up to a plebiscite.
Every time I see one of these appeals to the polls for policy arguments, I always remember than a majority of Americans didn't support Interracial Marriage until fucking 1997.
January 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Which is why “the voters voted for this” is not always the answer. Either we have a set of unshakeable core principles and values that undergird our democracy or we leave even the most basic elements of democracy and dignity up to a plebiscite.
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One lesson that this year reinforced is that murder, one on one, is bad, and mass murder by our enemies is bad, but mass murder, as long as it’s carried out by our state or our allies or our prison industrial complex or our corporations, is fine.
December 31, 2024 at 10:58 PM
One lesson that this year reinforced is that murder, one on one, is bad, and mass murder by our enemies is bad, but mass murder, as long as it’s carried out by our state or our allies or our prison industrial complex or our corporations, is fine.
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What are YOU doing New Year's Eve?
#Boston March for #Palestine 🇵🇸
12/31/24 at 5 pm
Meet up by JFK Federal Bldg. and Boston City Hall
#Boston March for #Palestine 🇵🇸
12/31/24 at 5 pm
Meet up by JFK Federal Bldg. and Boston City Hall
December 28, 2024 at 10:17 PM
What are YOU doing New Year's Eve?
#Boston March for #Palestine 🇵🇸
12/31/24 at 5 pm
Meet up by JFK Federal Bldg. and Boston City Hall
#Boston March for #Palestine 🇵🇸
12/31/24 at 5 pm
Meet up by JFK Federal Bldg. and Boston City Hall
This is aboslutely bonkers www.commondreams.org/news/kay-gra...
Congressional 'Gerontocracy' Worries Resurface After Member Found to Be Living in Senior Facility | Common Dreams
"American gerontocracy, on both sides of the political aisle, is an absolute embarrassment," wrote the journalist Mehdi Hasan.
www.commondreams.org
December 26, 2024 at 3:22 PM
This is aboslutely bonkers www.commondreams.org/news/kay-gra...
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The issue with Walmart isn’t DEI, it’s the fact that in nine states alone, Walmart had 14,500 employees on SNAP and 10,350 on Medicaid.
Instead of attacking corporations for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, people should be calling out the low wages.
Instead of attacking corporations for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, people should be calling out the low wages.
November 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
The issue with Walmart isn’t DEI, it’s the fact that in nine states alone, Walmart had 14,500 employees on SNAP and 10,350 on Medicaid.
Instead of attacking corporations for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, people should be calling out the low wages.
Instead of attacking corporations for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, people should be calling out the low wages.