Phew!!
It’s gotta be “Me!”, right?

There’s been a lot of reporting that the capital bathroom ban is not in Speaker Johnson’s rule package.

It’s misleading: it doesn’t need to be in the rule package.

The speaker controls the facilities, and he is using that to enact the capital bathroom ban and has since it was first debated.

Thank you, Erin! Your work is so appreciated! 💗💗

A lot of people cannot grasp that their own personal and individual experience of the world is not universal, and they are totally comfortable showing immense cruelty to those whose experiences diverge from their own. This applies to so many issues that affect vulnerable people & it's a real shame!

Trump Has Promised to Build More Ships. He May Deport the Workers Who Help Make Them. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to increase the pace of U.S. military shipbuilding. But his pledge to also clamp down on immigration could make it hard for shipyards already facing…

A Navy report shows many shipbuilding programs are years behind schedule, largely due to worker shortages. Warship production is at its lowest level in 25 years.

Companies spend millions on recruitment, but “the domestic workforce is just not there.”

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I’d recommend everyone regardless of medical risk bring a mask on your airplane journey, a disinfectant wipe to clean the seat you’re in and hand sanitizer.

It’s going to be on you alone to protect your health.

Warning signs are everywhere.

Report: Hospitals Rarely Advise Doctors on How to Treat Patients Under Abortion Bans Doctors described hospital lawyers who “refused to meet” with them for months, were hard to reach during “life or death” situations and offered little help beyond “regurgitating” the law, according…

According to a new report, doctors in abortion ban states described hospital lawyers who:

•“Refused to meet” with them for months.
•Were hard to reach during “life or death” situations.
•Offered little help beyond “regurgitating” the law.

Exactly!!

Doing the lord’s work!

120 Anti-Trans Bills Filed Across The United States Before 2025 Has Even Started The number surpasses the number of bills filed in advance of 2024, a historically hostile year towards trans individuals.

1. Ahead of 2025, nearly 120 anti-trans bills have been filed across the United States, far surpassing the 80 bills filed by this time in 2023.

The bills target the ability of trans people to move, live, and exist freely as themselves in public.

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"Questions from a Worker Who Reads" by Bertolt Brecht: Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the name of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock? And Babylon, many times demolished. Who raised it up so many times? In what houses Of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live? Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished Did the masons go? Great Rome Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, Only palaces for its inhabitants? Even in fabled Atlantis The night the ocean engulfed it The drowning still bawled for their slaves. The young Alexander conquered India. Was he alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Did he not have even a cook with him? Philip of Spain wept when his armada Went down. Was he the only one to weep? Frederick the Second won the Seven Years' War. Who Else won it? Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? Every ten years a great man. Who paid the bill? So many reports. So many questions

"Questions From A Worker Who Reads" by Bertolt Brecht:

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Trumpy poo poo pants does not like it when people say Elon Musk is the actual incoming president.
He doesn’t like it one fucking bit.
In fact, he’s really, really, REALLY mad about it.

So, whatever you do — don’t tell everyone you know to say Elon is the one calling the shots.

Don’t tell a soul. 😈

At least it’s not just kids cancer research Republicans are trying to cut. It’s also $215T worth of cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, veterans benefits & nutritional assistance.

All while adding $5T more to our debt so billionaires can make more billions.

Is America great again yet? Did I miss the memo?

GOP*

Of course they don’t want us to know how many people the GOO’s abortion bans have killed!

Love JoJo!!

Great question! Trump for sure.

Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out. The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.

NEW: The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.

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Why aren’t more politicians condemning Nancy Mace’s vicious anti-trans stunts? | Jay Saper Lawmakers should break their silence about the escalating anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation in the US Capitol

“By suggesting trans women inherently pose a threat to the safety of cis women, [Nancy Mace] justifies all acts of violence committed against us, both physical and political.” Powerful op-ed by Jay Saper, a co-organizer of the Capitol Hill bathroom sit-in.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.

Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?

Texas is Coming for New York Abortion Providers 12.13.24

A few important things about the Texas lawsuit against a New York abortion provider:

1) Ken Paxton appears to be lying about the patient suffering "serious complications" that "required medical intervention."

2) We need to talk about how Paxton found out about this abortion

Shameful!

Every now and then it's nice to pick your head up from your book, reacquaint yourself with the world, take a hard pass and immediately go right back to reading. Balance is important.

At least the dumbest fucks on the planet don’t think they’re infectious disease experts or anything because that would be bad.

Oh wait.

For those that think Paxton's theories of out-of-state jurisdiction are something new and limited to abortion... as is so often the case, we see it used first to target trans people.

Paxton tried to prosecute Seattle Children's Hospital last year the same way.

I broke the filing doc itself.

😍 who’s this cutie pie??

Journal Club: An Investigation into Trans Joy — Assigned A 2022 paper digs into the inherent joy that comes with being transgender.

With all the negativity in trans news right now, it's important to remember that being trans is also such a joy.
Veronica Esposito dives into a paper about that here.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...