Amber Briggle

What a surprise to see my family mentioned here. Thank you, @lgbtqnation.com, for spotlighting these fearless parents in this inspiring article.

PS Must be nice to do that on the taxpayers' dime instead of needing to set up a gofundme me like countless friends of mine. #wastefraudandabuse

PS Must be nice to do that on the taxpayers' dime instead of needing to set up a gofundme me like countless friends of mine. #wastefraudandabuse

Kristi Noem: “I don’t feel safe in my own home.”

Also Kristi Noem: Made South Dakota so unsafe and unlivable for trans kids that they had to literally flee.

Anyway, thoughts and prayers, Governor. Sending you the exact amount of empathy you gave them: zero. 🫶

Greg Abbott: "Texans don't run away from a fight"

Texans who ran away:

Pretty rich for Paxton to spend years writing + defending policies meant to define trans inclusive families as "sinful" while his own family falls apart for "biblical reasons", then ask for "privacy" when he's repeatedly sought access to trans kids' medical files.

Thoughts and prayers, buddy.

PS- As if I'm not salty and petty enough, here is a playlist I created a while back to celebrate the absolute karmaaaaaa he keeps getting into.

Enjoy the schadenfreude, babes. Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum.

open.spotify.com/playlist/1dh...

Read my pinned post at the top of my profile page. There's a Washington Post oped I wrote somewhere in there that explains it a little bit more.

If you liked that, then please enjoy this very fucking petty Spotify Playlist that I made a few years ago. 🤟

open.spotify.com/playlist/1dh...

I didn't know them and they weren't campaigning. Here's a little backstory in this Washington Post oped that I wrote a few years back (in a longer thread about how we got here if it's helpful)

bsky.app/profile/mrsb...

I mean, if the crown fits... 👑

He never said he'd protect him. We asked him to keep our son in mind when shitty legislation was discussed. He said he seemed like a good kid, and then he left.

We had hoped for more. And I don't regret the dinner. We tried. We will ALWAYS try.

As for me, im thriving out of sheer fucking spite and my son is living his best life. And we're all still together... unlike the Paxtons. 💅

(Too soon?)

*He* penned an opinion accusing me of child abuse, then sat back while I fought to keep my family together. *She* repeatedly votes in favor of laws explicitly designed to harm my son.

They have worked for *years* to tear my family apart. May EVERYTHING they've tried to do us return to them tenfold.

Idk wtf that means, but excuse me while i raise a glass to their embarrassment and misery. 🥂

Today, his soon-to-be ex-wife Angela – who joined us that evening and even brought a homemade dessert still warm from her oven – filed for divorce on "biblical grounds"

In 2016, Ken Paxton had the audacity to sit at my table and break bread with my family knowing full well that my son is trans, then SIX YEARS LATER wrote an opinion stating that families like mine shouldn't exist. Within days, a CPS investigator was in our home threatening to remove our children.🧵

I'm obsessed with a single i heard on @npr.org today by an artist named #EphSee called "malachi the uber driver" and I can't find it on Spotify and its driving me crazy! The song and the story behind it are stuck in my head and im kind of obsessed. Where can I download and listen? Thanks!

Perfection

The evil at your door The deportation action as regime change

This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them.

Absolutely illegal!

Via @timothysnyder.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

It's not hard. This is unacceptable. They won't stop at him.

Gov. Gavin Newsom faces backlash over comments he made about transgender student athletes The California governor, once hailed as a protector of LGBTQ+ rights, premiered his podcast by interviewing and agreeing with far-right transphobe Charlie Kirk.

This podcast episode left out facts about inclusion in sports. The truth is, young people learn many life lessons playing sports: leadership, confidence, self-respect, and the value of teamwork. No one should be denied the opportunity to play sports just because of who they are.

Maybe he should stop trying to become a dictator and instead focus on what he said he was going to do!

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

Oh, Adam, this is SO good! Thank you for this important piece! Excellent job!

Congratulations, @abriggle.bsky.social ❤️ This is more timely than ever and I'm proud of you. You're a great philosopher and an incredible dad.

Now more than ever.

thanks for the boost. i ended up just making a whole entire thread this morning! i appreciate the amplification. trans kids deserve so much better!

remember this the next time a law or policy is passed that is BLATANTLY discriminatory. don't just stand idly by while the most marginalized are sacrificed, because you think "it could never happen to me" or "that would never happen here" because (GESTURES WILDLY OUT THE WINDOW)

GET TO WORK.

instead, people have forgotten the "united" part of "united states of america" and thought that if a policy didn't affect them, they could just let it slide.

"why don't you just move?" they've asked. while i've been asking for YEARS "why don't you just help?"