Harper Jean Tobin

Can we at least be honest and say “human rights” instead of “cultural issues”?

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Solemn marchers in the rain are seen from behind in a downtown artery against a grey sky, carrying or wearing umbrellas Palestinian and Iranian flags, some carrying umbrellas bearing the Palestinian flag.

Anti-war march, Ottawa

If you’re not sure how to feel about fights over the rights of trans youth and the rights of parents “concerned” about or opposed to their identities - our this describes someone you know - or you just want an explanation of this SCOTUS order - I think this piece is really helpful.

That’s good advice and I fuckin hate that it’s good advice

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

CBP kills

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.

Full stop.

"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name

We have to stop this.

theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws | KQED Requiring internet users to verify their ages before accessing mature content may sound reasonable. Shouldn’t we be doing a better job protecting kids from online vulgarities? But free speech advocate...

"Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws." We did not listen.

Tell Congress to oppose additional funding for DHS and ICE and their dangerous policies: hrc.im/dhs

We thank @aoc.bsky.social for speaking the truth about age verification in the House E&C hearing today! As she stated plainly, and we agree, age verification is a smoke-screen for censorship. It is NOT about kids safety!

You can use this tool to contact your lawmakers: badinternetbills.com

I'm challenging Congresswoman Clark because she will not fight to Abolish ICE or stop funding ICE. She's not serious about getting to the root of these problems. Instead, she insults your intelligence by pretending these reforms will stop the violence.

We need a bold vision. Not empty rhetoric.

Lete me telle thee the tale of the sándwiche carl.

To quote @melissagiragrant.com “I don’t mean to be legally normie but”

Courts and Tribunals Bill introduced to limit jury trial rights in the UK The lord chancellor will be authorized to create secondary legislation

My brothers in Christ-Across-the-Pond, let me tell you how much we’re appreciating the whole right to jury trial-as-hedge against authoritarianism part of our common law heritage right now. Not the time to be trimming back on the Magna Carta.

Should you be tho?

Link to the actual letter-writing page seemed broken for me, but I used the landing page to draft an email to my Rep and Senator!

Attorney General James Urges Congress to Pass Senate’s Kids Online Safety Act NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James and a bipartisan coalition of 39 other attorneys general today called on Congress to pass the Senate version

WTAF are “progressive “ state AGs like @newyorkstateag.bsky.social and @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov doing endorsing KOSA, which a lead sponsor has said will be used to drive info about trans people and abortion access off the internet?
Check out badinternetbills.com or just write them with your thoughts

It is frustrating how much i simultaneously related to both of these sentiments. Don’t know what that says about me. :P

Same girl

Recording and Documenting Police and Federal Agents The First Amendment protects your right to record and document law enforcement and federal agents performing their duties in public.

The First Amendment fully protects our right to record ICE agents, police, FBI, National Guard troops, and other government officials performing their duties in public.

Know your rights while filming, and what to do if you're stopped or arrested for recording.
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Nope. Privacy regulation and anti-trust yes - enabling Trumpist censorship, no.
230 is all that stands in the way of banning info about trans people and abortion access. @wyden.senate.gov is right on this one, @durbin.senate.gov is wrong!

This was always an obvious lie. Now we can confirm “clean capture” itself was always a fantasy. Even more important: Even if you *could* somehow “capture” all carbon from tar sands extraction, the whole point is to then transport and *burn* it. Tar can’t be “low carbon intensity.”
Shame on Carney.

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

the fact that the Iranian government ALSO murders lots of Iranians does not make being bombed constantly somehow less shitty. i know this is apparently a hard concept for some

the reality is that for many many people in the US, Iran is an idea––a comic book villain that has been integral to our national storytelling project for decades––rather than a country where almost 100 million people live. people with hopes, dreams, and complex lives just like ours. fucking hell💔

I think that’s a piece of it, for sure.

This is horrific. And 100% fascist. Surrender your driver's license if you're trans? WTAF! And if not, you can be arrested and tossed in jail with members of your assigned sex at birth?? Kansas friends, holy shit. This is NOT OK.

*why does (ugh)