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Anti-transgender legislation accelerates in early 2026 The scope and coordination of the state bills mark a new phase in a campaign that has been building for a decade, policy researchers say

“It’s very draining to never know what my entire life might look like by this time next week, just because of policies & politicians.”

Trans Legislation Tracker is tracking 645 anti-trans bills as of Feb. 2026, marking an escalation in a decade-long campaign, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.

We as a nation simply CANNOT allow the next Dem Administration to try to "turn the page" or "come together to heal" this away.

I've watched that nonsense play out since Nixon was pardoned - a grave mistake then, even worse now.

White, male, & wealthy cannot continue to be a get out of prison card.

ICYMI: @justsecurity.org created a searchable database of statements from Minnesota residents subjected by DHS agents to suspicionless stops and warrantless arrests without probable cause.

The declarations are from our @aclu.org Hussen v. Noem lawsuit.

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The media moved on when trump said he had a new tone because as the constitution states the president is the editor in chief of all news outlets

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.

“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.

But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

A t-shirt I made with a photo of a fork next to ice cubes. Get it?

“Let no one stir things up in a city believing that he can stop them as he pleases or that he is in charge of what happens next.” Machiavelli, The History of Florence

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings.
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YouTube video by Ben Palmer Kindergarten teacher wants kindergartener deported

Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported.

6 years old.

She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.

Today @cato.org published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew www.cato.org/white-paper/...

On trans Bluesky, there are many posts circulating describing Epstein's anti-trans views and ties to prominent transphobes.

Anti-trans politics fit neatly into all of this because the existence of trans people threatens the idea that men are naturally superior to women.

Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@rasmussenretorts) When I first moved to Canada, my first encounter with the Canadian medical freedom movement was when my husband & I took a walk & saw an anti-masker with a microphone on the Saskatoon riverfront. I ma...

Really worth a read. A vaccine expert on anti-vax fascism.

7 pediatric bioethicists: Proposed ban on Medicaid funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for minors is deeply unethical 7 pediatric bioethicists on what’s wrong with the proposed ban on Medicaid funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for minors.

7 pediatric bioethicists: Proposed ban on Medicaid funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for minors is deeply unethical

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

@davidfrum.bsky.social

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Graphic by Trung Le Ngyuen featuring a drawing of Liam Ramos with his bunny hat and Spidey backpack and a small smile. Text reads: "Comics 4 Liam / WE're asking artists to draw pictures for Liam Ramos that you think might make this particular boy feel happy and cared for. / Maybe drawings of things he might love; maybe pictures of Liam himself as you think he might like to be seen. / Please post your art with the hashtag #Comics4Liam and a link to comics4liam.com, which lists fundraisers for Liam and others victimized by ICE and links to organizations that support immigrants.

A few other guidelines: 1. Please avoid images of Liam in danger or sad. 2. Please avoid images that include violence or would otherwise by inappropriate for a five year old. 3. Please NO "A.i." USE AT ALL. 4. Please DO NOT POST YOUR IMAGE ON X (Twitter). Thank you!

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

My daily news diary for January, including: An IU Trident A price tag An empty vaccine syringe Three X logos A bag of money A peace protest sign A shattered ice cube Rama Duwaji's pointy black boot A Venezuelan flag A memorial candle for Renee Good An outline of Greenland A taco The Federal Reserve building A Golden Globe An oil tanker A steak A champagne bottle An Iranian flag A graduation cap A trans pride heart A cell phone with text thread Macron's sunglasses A thermometer and tear gas Liam Ramos's fuzzy hat Alex Pretti's hat and sunglasses Bovino's coat A Ring doorbell A snow shovel An airplane A wind turbine A stack of file boxes A protester holding an ICE OUT sign

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day.

One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.

That’s because nothing is right. You have to think like someone experiencing intimate partner abuse. Nothing will ever be right, even if they tell you what to do and you do it perfectly they will find something wrong and then they will beat you anyway.

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture ICE tear-gassed thousands (kids, families, elderly), at union march in Portland today. I was there.

#US #USA #trump #vance #MAGA #ICE #fascism #stopfascism #nazis #fcknazis #republicans #christians #men #incels #billionaires #hostiletakeover #democracy #politics #ChemicalWarfare

#ParkrosePermaculture reporting on the #Portland #Unions #ICEOUT #protest

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It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet.

(Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

A white sign with red writing and blood drips. It says: They Can’t Kill US All

My sign for today’s Ice Out protest in Concord, NH, 12-2 at the State House.

Dang. One way to tell if a mushroom is an edible blewit is by it’s telltale “orange juice concentrate” scent. No one’s going to know what that means anymore.

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

YouTube video by The Second City SCTV - Lola's Love Spirit

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread

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From Georgia‘s Facebook account — Bluesky is only allowing me to upload a short clip.

Everyone should start turning up wearing that Groucho Marx glasses/moustache combo.