This is the best encapsulation I have seen of what it means to be trans right now.
And how deeply it hurts to see the moment with clarity.
Read it.
""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."
Want some warm fuzzy trans news?
Read the feelgood story of how I spent 2025 unexpectedly adopting a trans son and ended up accidentally founding a transmasc social club together 🏳️⚧️🥹
So proud of Troy for taking the initiative to grow this into something massively important for our local community
And it's the first day of the Queer Liberation Network Fundraising Auction today! Tons of signed books, calls with agents, manuscript critiques and more! Including the illustrated edition of Murderbot, hardcover Witch King & Queen Demon, mass market Raksura:
www.32auctions.com/organization...
This Monday vibe is brought to you by ambient anxiety™️.
Ambient anxiety: when you can’t choose what global and local acts of state terror and incongruously mundane activities give you existential dread, choose them all, with ambient anxiety.
To everyone who needs to hear it: Trans folks have been saying this is coming for years, now. Anti-trans actors weren’t shy about their goals. We know our history and we know the next steps in the authoritarian shuffle.
Please listen to trans folks.
A nation of newspapers and newspapermen indeed. I guess "objectivity" is when you're such a smug and effortless propegandist you don't even notice how deeply sick you've become.
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.
it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.
it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Read this sentence slowly:
“Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...”
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
When you’re a UK trans woman, you roll invisible dice every day before work. All sixes, and a coworker with billionaire money will take your employer to court over you, you will be on the news, and when you leave the country, men with abuse allegations against them will call it a victory for women.
Today, we launched “Cancer in Confinement,” a series exploring why cancer is often deadlier inside U.S. prisons than in the free world. This is the big project I mentioned yesterday. I hope you will read and share.
Memo: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses in 2026, saying the political tumult in the US would distract critics from the feature's release (New York Times)
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This is a very good summary of the SAVE act.
The Trump administration is planning to terminate $600M of CDC grants to CA, CO, MN, and IL. We're publishing the full list.
They are using vulnerable communities as a weapon to dismantle public health, targeting partisan enemies, and manipulating media. 🧵 1/5
grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...
I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art
Illinois Republican State Sen. Andrew Chesney wants to use his SB 3842 bill to declare all trans folks legally mentally ill.
legiscan.com/IL/bill/SB38...
Your timeline sounds empirically better than mine.
::stares into the abyss::
This is just a reminder that it is totally valid if you opened a browser window, a text message, or a feed today and felt overwhelmed and depressed.
It’s okay to not be okay.
The hypernormalization of the moment is effed. Take care of yourselves and each other.
This hit so fucking hard today.
M Gessen: In case anyone still thinks they are immune, No one is safe. #Minneapolis Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
I will not argue with strangers on the internet during my lunch break.
I will not argue with strangers on the internet during my lunch break.
I will not argue with strangers on the internet during my lunch break.
I will not argue with strangers on the internet during my lunch break.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by
We seem to be bombing Caracas. There are 3 million people in Caracas. This is an unprovoked attack. This is a war crime. This is criminal. We are the bad guys.
Just here to wholeheartedly second this endorsement of @sabs.bsky.social and How Far the Light Reaches.
“Staff discussions on ad implementation have ranged from prioritizing sponsored content in the chatbot’s answers to adding a sidebar that shows ads related to the user's query.”
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
