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This succinctly sums up what the trans kids, and I stress the word kids, who are trying to join a team are facing in Utah.

NCAA changes transgender women in sports policy to follow Trump's order The new policy limits competition in women's sports to those assigned female at birth.

I'm no sports expert, but allowing 10 trans folks to play on college teams vs. Preventing what happened to Imani Khelif and those Utah athletes is a no brainer. www.axios.com/2025/02/06/n...

Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

This will put a lot of people in dangerous and potentially deadly situations

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

How is Brandi Carlisle's singing voice not a national treasure yet?

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

More details on this shockingly sloppy episode.

like, this is just fucking insane. the government is pretending that it passed the Inverse Civil Rights Act overnight and everyone is acting like it's a real law.

Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as Trump's health chief after a close Senate vote Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been sworn in as President Donald Trump’s health secretary. The Senate on Thursday confirmed him, voting 52 to 48.

Kakistocracy - a government led by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens

do i roll my eyes at a lot of DEI stuff? yeah, i wrote a whole essay about why i thought it was bullshit back in 2020. but trump et al aren’t saying, “corporate DEI policies mainly exist to protect corporate interests from discrimination lawsuits.” they’re saying “get the blacks out”

It's also notable how manufactured this whole panic has been. DEI can be a little silly but it's been a fixture at American corporations since the 1990s. The only reason we're all talking about it constantly is that right-wing media decided to pretend it was left-wing tyranny.

At this point, I’m running on equal parts caffeine and anxiety. Anyone else?

Yet to truly defeat fascism we must create... movements so vibrant and relevant to everyday people that the allure of fascism is eliminated.

Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you.

Do something

Just submitted to my first short story contest in a while. It was fun. Take that depressing political landscape. You're not stealing my joy today.

*talking to myself* Calm down. They want mass panic and fear. Pick a cause, read up on it, then fight like hell.

Watching silly Thai BL to "research" writing a comedy for a short story contest this week