BREAKING: The Supreme Court just weakened the Clean Water Act's limitations on raw sewage discharge into our water in a 5-4 ruling.
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
Greenpeace is fighting for its survival but this is really about more than Greenpeace www.theverge.com/climate-chan...
This is brilliant
everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky
Brazil is home to Sistema Unimed, one of the largest cooperative networks in the world. Its 339 co-ops are owned by 100k+ doctors and physicians to provide health services and insurance to 20 million people. Unimed has proven itself to be a viable alternative to profit-based healthcare.
If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
HB 1038: Prohibits puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and certain surgeries (e.g., hysterectomy, phalloplasty) for youth under 18 when used to alter sex characteristics.
-Except intersex conditions, urgent medical needs, or tapering off existing treatments. 5/5
HB 1027: Inmates convicted of a sex offense against someone of a certain biological sex cannot be housed in a facility primarily housing that same sex if the inmate’s own “biological sex” is different.
-This means an offender whose birth certificate says female cannot be placed in a mens prison 4/5
SB 5136 “Given Name Act”
-Schools can’t use a name/pronoun different from
birth certificate without a parent/guardian’s permission.
-Teachers/staff do not have to use chosen pronouns if it conflicts with their religious/moral beliefs.
-Parents can lawsuits if these rules aren’t followed. 3/5
H. B. 1699 at a glance:
• What it does: Lets schools ban trans girls from female sports teams.
• Verification rule: Allows officials to demand medical proof of a student’s “biological sex.” 2/5
Washington bills introduced to watch.
A 🧵 1/5
#transrights #washington
To early in the morning, to unpack this Spotify…
Sleepy Coyote Thought: When the times are grim - dream bigger than you ever have. When hate lays snares, love bigger than you’ve ever loved before. Not every fight is won with fist.
You are good enough.
Shine on.
So if Musk doesn’t run DOGE, and DOGE isn’t a real government agency, then no one has to listen to Musk or do what the DOGE bros tell them to do, right?
NEW: Trump’s USDA admits it "accidentally" fired "several" agency employees working on the federal response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak—and is now scrambling to undo the damage.
Costa Rica and Panama have reached an undisclosed agreement with the US to serve as “bridges” to countries in the deportation process. The US is paying for the process, and IOM is overseeing it. ground.news/article/cost...
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
*looks directly at camera*
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
🙌
1. Major trans news: Corewell Health, Michigan's largest healthcare provider, becomes the first hospital to resume care for trans people under 19 years of age after pausing it.
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If you needed something positive today, here it is.
“My death as a member of the third gender and transgender population does not mean you won.
It solely marks the end of our association.
You are not the land of the free.”
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com/p/vet-found-...
It’s been a journey toward understanding this and I’m happy to share.
White supremacy’s only goal is total annihilation. When we try to make ourselves “small” to be fit in and not be a bother or whatever, we’re actually doing white supremacy’s job.
Particularly interested in absenteeism. Working with folks who experienced trauma and compromised health issues makes me wonder why this report doesn’t address how this could be impactful #Covid #education educationrecoveryscorecard.org/wp-content/u...
This is America, 2025
In one weekend (!!), one New York Times photographer, Doug Mills, travels from Gitmo to the Super Bowl to take two unforgettable images of where we're at as a nation
ASL interpreters who work in the arts (concerts, opera, theatre, etc) deserve to be valued as artists too. it takes so much skill to be this good at capturing the FEEL of music beyond just translating the meaning of the text and it’s an invaluable accessibility service
