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A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

Ken Paxton is going to take some classes on how to be more ethical He could use some tips.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has officially announced that he is running for Senate. So here's everything you need to know about him—if you care about reality.

Let's start with the fact that he had to take literal ethics classes after he was indicted for securities fraud. (1/5)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13, 2025 CONTACT Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon. The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen. “Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.” “Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…

In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide. On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals. "Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse. “The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…

Incredible news!

The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order.

The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care.

ACLU statement here:

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Turmoil inside USAID: DOGE reps take over offices, senior officials placed on leave Amid ongoing turmoil inside the U.S. Agency for International Development, sources say that Department of Government Efficiency staffers have moved to take over offices.

DOGE staffers took over USAID offices as senior officials and other employees placed on leave, sources tell ABC News

Big national media outlet still failing.
Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID.
*Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves.
*Not conveying illegality.
*Not communicating constitutional crisis.

Trans Woman Sues After Being Notified Of Transfer To Men’s Prison One of the women sued the Trump administration, alleging the order violates her constitutional rights and puts her “at an extremely high risk of harassment, abuse, violence, and sexual assault.”

NEW: Trans women in federal custody were placed in solitary and told they were going to be moved to men's facilities days after Trump's exec order. Other trans folks have issues accessing HRT.

Advocates fear this is just the beginning.

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A picture of Hatsune Miku making the shh gesture. Text: A real fujoshi Never speaks ill of yuri

Good night lovelies

paul and moppu ^_^

#petscop #sanrio

it’s so insane to me that people work for ICE like did you watch star wars and think man i want to be like the guys in the plastic white suits who can’t aim for shit

Fanart of Hatsune Miku. She's holding the surgefire SMG from Fortnite and standing on green grass with a blue sky in the background. Behind her is pink japanese text, obscured by her body, that reads "welcome to fortnite miku." She is looking upwards and right offscreen. Teto is in the background, falling down on a default glider and screaming! Above Teto in the distance is the battle bus. The illustration is cel-shaded with solid black.

HATSUNE MIKU?!

Flug with a assortment of different colored flugs!

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

UnitedHealth found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%

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Mac from its always sunny as the US government: Why are you downloading an even more Chinese app after I banned the last one. Dennis' as Americans: BECAUSE WE HATE YOU.

"hang in there" glug is hanging on monkey bars!

Celine Haidar, the Lebanon player struck by shrapnel, wakes from coma Lebanese footballer Celine Haidar has woken from a coma nearly two months after the 19-year-old suffered a serious head injury during an Israeli airstrike on Beirut. On November 16, Haidar was fleeing...

Nearly 2 months after an Israeli airstrike left footballer Celine Haidar in a coma, she was able to register her family’s voices, squeeze their hands, write the names of her nurses. More help is needed, but her family are elated.

Story on @theathleticfc.bsky.social

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Fast-moving wildfire erupts in Pacific Palisades; entire community evacuated The entire community of Pacific Palisades is being told to “evacuate now” due to a rapidly spreading wildfire in the Los Angeles area.

The entire community of Pacific Palisades is being told to “evacuate now” due to a rapidly spreading wildfire in the Los Angeles area

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Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon?
Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist?
Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property?
Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?

Happy Anya Mouthwashing

Doodle of a woman with red hair labeled “ redhead” and a person with an open book for a head labeled “read-head”

an important distinction

glorp

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my dodgers are World Series bound :D