Jose Fine

Many people marching in downtown chicago with signs celebrating trans people, including two people carrying a handmade American flag in pink, white, and light blue. Most faces obscured out of respect for people's online privacy.

Good day, good thunderstorms. 5,000 people making good noise. Organized by the mighty @transupfrontil.bsky.social

If DOGE seeks a solution for USPS’s financial stability, the Segal Report offers clear, common-sense recommendations to address decades of misallocated pension liabilities. Privatization or dismantling USPS would only jeopardize the universal service millions of Americans rely on.

ACTION: 3 minutes to fill out 3 forms

WHY: We must protect passport access for transgender Americans!

Let's go, allies! We need to step up for our family and friends.

Happening right now (March 13th): bsky.app/profile/gwyn...

The White House becoming an unelected billionaire’s used cars dealership was not on my bingo card.

⚠️Be careful: his cars start on fire!!

Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.

@rtraister.bsky.social 's definitive take-down of this popular, bad faith argument.

Centrists are treating trans lives like a sacrifice zone while trans folk and allies are making some of the strongest moves against this fascist wave.

It's morally *and* strategically atrocious.

Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in

We need to salute courage wherever it appears.

The official snow reporter at Vermont's Sugarbush, where JD Vance came on a skiing vacation this weekend, pointed out in her snow report this a.m. that the Trump team is ignoring climate change.

Her report was pulled down
kottke.org/25/03/jd-van...

🇺🇦 Today. 2:00 pm. Water Tower.

Effective boycotts take a lot of organizing and coordination. Tomorrow's boycott can't be a one-off, individual thing; we need to harness the energy and use it to help build the sustained momentum we need. Go here to sign on, learn more, and find out about future efforts: bit.ly/boycottcentral

(Please take into consideration your own personal risk tolerance before submitting any identifying information)
#protecttranspeople #protecttransrights #transrightsarehumanrights #passport #travel #calltoaction #transrights

DS-11 application for passport: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
DS-82 passport renewal: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
DS-5504 name change and corrections: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

It is important that we flood their system with calls to maintain fair guidelines including self-identifying gender for passports. The State Department is required to review all UNIQUE submissions, so it is very important that you type and submit your own comments and do not copy from anywhere.

Sharing this call to action from FB's Trans Up Front Illinois post. The State Department is allowing for a short period of public comment regarding the changes to THREE federal guidelines for passports.

Cash App fined $255 million in back-to-back settlements Most of it is going to Cash App’s customers.

The CFPB just won $120 million for CashApp users who were victims of fraud and who CashApp basically ignored when they needed help. The CFPB is like the most powerful Karen you wish you knew when a company fucks you over. Ask yourself why rich people want it gone

www.theverge.com/2025/1/17/24...

DC folks: Elizabeth Warren, Indivisible, the CFPB union and others rallying outside the CFPB building TODAY at 4:15