April Arcus

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

it's not FOR us

I should get my kids an Apple II, a C64, and an iMac G3, and never let them connect to the internet.

what about .1, .2 etc?

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE AUGUST 29, 2025 Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season

THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

I agree with what Erin says here, but would add that Newsom's recent comment citing the age of 25 is especially scary, as that's well beyond centrist-sounding "fairness in sports" rhetoric – it is a hardcore anti-trans activist talking point! it's like he is actively consuming 4thwavenow/TERF posts

Transphobia, racism, and other hatreds are not occasionally inconvenient forces of nature that can be harnessed to do good work, like the wind and the tides. They are chain-reaction disasters, like a disintegrating ice sheet or a wildfire knocking on your neighbor's door.

Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.

Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader?

I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.

man aiming gun while crying

when the nice indie software begins telling you to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears

Inside the Democratic Effort to Kill the GOP’s Gender-Affirming Care Restriction in Reconciliation Democrats are having a hard time figuring out how to message on trans issues — but they quietly killed a provision in the reconciliation bill that would have restricted access to gender-affirming care...

so @oriana.bsky.social confirmed sarah mcbride played an integral role behind the scenes in stopping the medicaid care ban

thanks to a flood of calls and emails, she and a handful of cis allies in congress were able to get the momentum to strategize and stop the worst

www.notus.org/congress/dem...

this is literally what all the calls were for. this is good. this is what we wanted.

i’d *love* every politician to be a self starter working in broad daylight to champion trans liberation, but a few thousand folks pressuring people in power to use it for good is what we have. i’m glad it worked.

I am sharing this

a) for (Ashkenazi) Jews, because you may find it.. illuminating

&

b) if any non-Jews see this I hope it will help you make sense of some things with MORE UNDERSTANDING and COMPASSION and not condescension. And to be mindful re: lanes with regards to this topic. Thank you.

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

the nyt releasing an andrew sullivan op-ed that calls non-binary people a threat to the entire LGBT community as a whole on the anniversary of obergefell is just more evidence that you should never fucking cooperate with the NYT. Treat their reporters like cops.

NYTimes has a long history of holding conservatives—including its paid columnists, like Stephens here—to absolutely no standards whatsoever, but still worth noting the complete lack of ethics required to not mention how 99.99% of Iran's uranium stockpile was due to Trump withdrawing from JCPOA.

Anyway I keep trying to come up with something useful to say about how incredibly desperate the corporate media is to extinguish even the most basic, milquetoast speech against fascism, but I simply have nothing

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Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation… NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…

I won't be around today to read the HHS "Gender Dysphoria Report", but here's my comprehensive 2023 essay, "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental" (with over 100+ references) that will tell you everything that's wrong with it...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...

Speaking up for My Jewish Values: Why I am Running on the Hatikvah Slate in the World Zionist Congress - J Street At this moment, it is essential that American Jews ask how we can help Israel live up to its own aspirations.

“Giving up on Israel isn’t the answer. Offering the country’s leaders our wholesale support isn’t either. Rather, American Jews need to speak for our values.” Daniel Wittenberg on why he’s running on the Hatikvah Slate for the World Zionist Congress. 1/3

There is no strict Constitutional prohibition against sending four-year-old cancer victims with American citizenship to die in Honduras. So it's hard to see what liberals are so upset about.

by Jonathan Turley

The assumption here is that “working class” is an aesthetic subgenre of white people rather than an economic category; my construction worker relative isn’t because she’s a lesbian with a women’s studies degree; the guy who owns the company is because he’s a white man who drives a truck

a woman in a black jacket is walking down a hallway in a room . Alt: a woman in a black jacket is walking down a hallway in a room, wearing a chic outfit, including a pair of thigh high Chanel boots. Two women — one with red hair and one with blonde hair — stare at her in surprise. It’s a scene from the movie “the devil wears Prada,” in which Andie gets a makeover and wears “the Chanel boots” for the first time

“are you wearing the—?”

“the habeas boots? the boots in which I carry all my habeas petitions just in case I get disappeared to the gulag in el salvador? yeah, yeah I am.”

I will no longer consider them "centrists". From now on they are simply "mid"

I assume that ACLU doesn't want to make this argument yet because it would only protect citizens born in states whose laws allow birth certificate sex to be corrected, and permanently exclude citizens born in states which don't.

Legally speaking, Rhode Island determined and determines the fact and details of my birth.

Article IV Section 1 and its enabling legislation 28 USC § 1738 bind the courts of the federal government to recognize Rhode Island's determination. The courts must in turn bind the Department of State.

My sex is not a scientific fact, nor a moral or ethical fact. It is a legal fact.

It was established by court order under California Health and Safety Code § 103430. Rhode Island then corrected my birth certificate in accordance with this court order and 216 R.I. Code R. 216-RICR-10-10-1.37.

Lee Gelernt says it's "implausible" that they didn't believe they were bound by the statements Boasberg said in court, but even if they did, it was obvious that the only proper action was to go back to the court and seek clarification or turn the plane around and appeal.

DOJ is now arguing that this is a foreign policy issue and claims that the US would suffer if any TdA member weren't deported.

"I'm not calling into the question the government's foreign policy ... I'm just asking how you think my equitable powers do not attach to the plane ... ?"