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Can empathy lead to sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice. Those Christians claim empathy can manipulate people into accepting what they see as sins, like abortion access ...

So much of recent history can be explained by the popularization of this idea that empathy and compassion are somehow gateways to evil. When our species dies out and this planet becomes a lifeless rock, it will be this ideology that got us there.

AP DONATE Signin LIVE: House vote Hakeem Jeffries The Mann Act Stock market tc POLITICS Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender -fffirming care for kids,a - setback for transgender rights

AP DONATE Signin LIVE: House vote Hakeem Jeffries The Mann Act Stock market tc POLITICS Supreme Court throws out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in 4 states

Supreme Court signals support for Maryland parents who object to LGBTQ books in public schools

AP DONATE Signin / LIVE: Housevote HakeemJeffries The MannAct Stockmarketto POLITICS Supreme Court will takeupanew case about which schoolsports teams transgender students can join

There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.

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Ice and police beat protester

"To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery”

Joint sleeping and washing quarters in massive cages for undocumented people

Trump and Noem tour newly built concentration camp in florida

"Go where you may, search where you will ... search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the every day practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival"

FD, 7/5/1852

When you're not in the room and no one is around to make excuses, this is the message your youngest constituents are left with. If you're okay with this, you need to rethink what you believe your job is.

Oh, you're on bluesky @massdems.bsky.social? I think you'll find that once you're off Elon and Zuckerberg's echo chambers, your constituents are a lot less forgiving when you don't stand with trans kids.

Miss me with the study order excuse. Any "strategy" that involves sidestepping a clear statement of direct support for trans youth at a time that they're being relentlessly denigrated and attacked is not only not good enough, it's cowardly and offensive. Do better.

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Host: You could call and get Abrego Garcia back.

Trump: I could

Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release.

Trump: I'm not the one making this decision

Host: You're the president!

"While at face it comes across as simply a giant blog for badly-written opinion articles, it has a much darker side than just vapid posts on “hook-up culture” ... Psychology today is host to an extraordinary number of conversion therapists."

United, undeterred and unafraid, trans people rally over court ruling Thousands gather in London’s Parliament Square to protest at judges’ decision The Observer20 Apr 2025James Tapper Stephen Chung/ LNP LEFT Crowds gather outside Parliament in a huge show of unity and solidarity. After last week’s supreme court decision, activists had been worried trans people might become fearful of going out in public in case they were abused. They weren’t afraid in London yesterday. Thousands of trans and nonbinary people thronged Parliament Square, alongside families and supporters waving baby blue, white and pink flags to demonstrate their anger at the judges’ ruling. The numbers seemed to take the organisers and police by surprise. Protesters from a hastily assembled coalition of 24 groups gathered in a ring against the barriers surrounding the grass and began speeches. But after the roads became clogged with people, a woman wearing a “Nobody knows I’m a lesbian” top ran across with her dog and soon the square was full. “It’s one hell of a turnout and there is a really strong sense of unity and solidarity,” said Jamie Strudwick, one of the organisers. “I think it’s impossible to compare it – it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before.”

Unexpected full page in today's Observer on yesterday's protests and it doesn't interview a single GC for 'balance'

I think he has a plan and it's nothing good..

This whole thread is horrifying.

The battle over trans youth in social services — Jessica Kant For many years, the social services have been an under-reported battleground in the fight over LGBTQ youth. Spanning adoption, foster care, and the systems most frequently referred to as “child protec...

Ever since Fulton was decided in 2021, the right has been accelerating plans to dismantle protections for LGBTQ young people in adoption and foster care. In 2023, this kicked into overdrive after Biden announced new guidelines. Now Project 2025 aims to repurpose these systems as tools of conversion.

Finding the courage to flee U.S. to save my trans daughter ‘My child has begged for her safety so I must go’

"I want to live somewhere my own government doesn’t want me dead."

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Marchers carrying signs in the shape of tombstones: MEDICAID CUTS KILLED ME, PLANE CRASH—NO FAA, RIP DIED ALONE OF ALZHEIMERS NO CAREGIVER.

NYC ACT-UP march is on the move toward the #TeslaTakedown.

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It's useful to watch changes in ADF priorities in real time by watching which meta ads they're running. New shifts highlight the way gender care was the onramp to abortion we all said it was as, now with Trump in office, their ads have switched from trans issues to abortion. And boy are they giddy.

"Not Exactly Consequential": NYT Dismisses Trump's War on Trans Americans After years of trans panic coverage, the paper now claims attacks on trans rights barely matter.

Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

"mandatory death penalty" ah yes very Catholic

Immigrants are about the same share of the population 2000-Present as they were from 1860-1930. I do not see this as a problem at all.

DHS Scraps Surveillance Guardrails for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity If you’re able to violate the civil rights of one person or community, then there’s no limit to it, one expert warns.

“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has scrapped privacy provisions which otherwise protected people from surveillance based on sexual orientation or gender identity alone”

I mentioned this above, but, just to hammer the point home:

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

Inauguration Day — Assigned Today, Donald Trump is inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States of America. It’s important that we acknowledge and remember who Republican lawmakers and the incoming President...

On this inauguration day, a simple point from Assigned Media:

Trans people are 1 percent of the population. The ruling GOP has made persecuting us their top priority.

Any talk of distractions or common sense must reckon with this. A defenseless minority, relentlessly pursued, because of hate.

“Restoring biological truth” is truly some Orwellian shit

8. 4(d) is the second REALLY impactful section of the EO. I read it as a federal bathroom ban. Others may read it differently, but I think that this is how this line will be implemented. It will take time to see agencies implement and to root out the specifics of it.

4. Probably the most impactful part of the EO. Directs passports, visas, global entry cards must match sex as defined in the law. Could open the door to revoking identity documents and replacing them with incorrect gender markers for trans people. We saw this in FL, TX. Terrifying portion of the EO.

“Defending” women while banning abortion, limiting recourse for pregnancy discrimination, engaging in a campaign to deport families, seeking to revoke birthright citizenship. Don’t be deputized to enact their cruelty.