Theresa O’Connor
@tess.oconnor.cx
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As the judicial system continues to create incredibly specific carve-outs for trans people where laws and civil rights and common decency no longer apply, I want you to think very quickly and concisely about what the regime's endgame is here. Yeah, it's that. That thought you don't want to say.
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
As the judicial system continues to create incredibly specific carve-outs for trans people where laws and civil rights and common decency no longer apply, I want you to think very quickly and concisely about what the regime's endgame is here. Yeah, it's that. That thought you don't want to say.
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Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
![Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government's choice to display biological sex "lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group." Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigev37etpfwfdxjlnt3pz5qyueldxo3k6rfxw5ip477gp7inlrctq@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
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Throwing trans people under the bus is not a winning campaign strategy.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Throwing trans people under the bus is not a winning campaign strategy.
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star wars episode vii the force awakens
star wars episode viii the last jedi
star wars episode viii the last jedi
Name movie or tv universes that aren’t connected but should be.
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
star wars episode vii the force awakens
star wars episode viii the last jedi
star wars episode viii the last jedi
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
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Non-Trump Republican judges seem to be doing a better job recognizing the stakes of the present moment than the modal elected Dem.
As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.
October 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Non-Trump Republican judges seem to be doing a better job recognizing the stakes of the present moment than the modal elected Dem.
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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There are many great explainers on the diagnostic changes that have led to a shift in population estimates, but this article isn’t it. This over and again subtly reinforces that there is an urgent issue the administration wants to address, and totally elides the clear eugenicist worldview behind it.
October 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
There are many great explainers on the diagnostic changes that have led to a shift in population estimates, but this article isn’t it. This over and again subtly reinforces that there is an urgent issue the administration wants to address, and totally elides the clear eugenicist worldview behind it.
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As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.
October 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.
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I cannot express how tired i am of thinking about, worrying about, talking about, and stressing about whether it's time for me to flee the United States while I have the means and opportunity to do so.
September 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I cannot express how tired i am of thinking about, worrying about, talking about, and stressing about whether it's time for me to flee the United States while I have the means and opportunity to do so.
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cis people don’t understand trans people have been living with a gun to our head for nine months and every so often the guy holding it yells BANG and we’re expected to go on as normal
September 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
cis people don’t understand trans people have been living with a gun to our head for nine months and every so often the guy holding it yells BANG and we’re expected to go on as normal
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I think the reason Portland is such a bugbear to the right is that they are confused and upset by the idea that the whitest metropolitan city in the US hates them *that intensely*
September 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I think the reason Portland is such a bugbear to the right is that they are confused and upset by the idea that the whitest metropolitan city in the US hates them *that intensely*
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The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.
September 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.
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Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
September 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Posted two days after Inauguration Day.
Less than 8 months ago.
Less than 8 months ago.
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Posted two days after Inauguration Day.
Less than 8 months ago.
Less than 8 months ago.
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People legit yelled at me for 24 hours when I said it's extremely dumb to RSVP to a protest. Why hand your name over to a group organizing a protest/rally? Do you *want* to have to talk to the FBI?
Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.
Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.
Deputy AG Todd Blanche says ‘organized’ Trump protesters could be investigated
Blanche spoke as DOJ sought to walk back Attorney General Pam Bondi’s comments about "hate speech," which landed her in hot water with conservatives.
www.politico.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
People legit yelled at me for 24 hours when I said it's extremely dumb to RSVP to a protest. Why hand your name over to a group organizing a protest/rally? Do you *want* to have to talk to the FBI?
Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.
Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.
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Remember, they hate trans joy, they hate gay joy, they hate Black joy, they hate Native joy, etc. they hate when we can laugh and love and live our lives in our own skin. They hate that we can find our way without their rigid rules. To find joy and thrive is a great act of resistance too.
September 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Remember, they hate trans joy, they hate gay joy, they hate Black joy, they hate Native joy, etc. they hate when we can laugh and love and live our lives in our own skin. They hate that we can find our way without their rigid rules. To find joy and thrive is a great act of resistance too.
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Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs
September 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs
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Full credit to Golden State and those Valkyries fans. Very rare that teams manage to take their atmosphere to the backup arena, never mind that packed-house raucous atmosphere GSV have. Also, of course, just an incredible season. Expansion teams don't do this. Outstanding debut year. #WNBA
September 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Full credit to Golden State and those Valkyries fans. Very rare that teams manage to take their atmosphere to the backup arena, never mind that packed-house raucous atmosphere GSV have. Also, of course, just an incredible season. Expansion teams don't do this. Outstanding debut year. #WNBA
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You can still buy all their work. Being a rude, abrasive loudmouth while trans is the only unforgivable sin to these people.
September 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
You can still buy all their work. Being a rude, abrasive loudmouth while trans is the only unforgivable sin to these people.
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Some written constitutions work - see Germany, Ireland. Some unwritten ones are atrocious - see Israel.
But ultimately form makes no difference if there is no culture of constitutionalism. If the gatekeepers surrender and the checks and balances are unused, it is game over.
But ultimately form makes no difference if there is no culture of constitutionalism. If the gatekeepers surrender and the checks and balances are unused, it is game over.
September 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Some written constitutions work - see Germany, Ireland. Some unwritten ones are atrocious - see Israel.
But ultimately form makes no difference if there is no culture of constitutionalism. If the gatekeepers surrender and the checks and balances are unused, it is game over.
But ultimately form makes no difference if there is no culture of constitutionalism. If the gatekeepers surrender and the checks and balances are unused, it is game over.
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This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
September 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...