8. Trump’s policies have weakened women’s protection under Title IX. His prior administration introduced more barriers for sexual assault survivors on college campuses, and limited the jurisdiction of colleges to intervene when a student reports sex-based violence.

I almost forgot to post this, and it's the perfect day for it.

The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!

The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.

Handful Of Hospitals Complying With Trump's Illegal Order To Stop Trans Care Under 19 Years Of Age A small handful of hospitals nationwide have put fear of President Trump over the needs of their transgender patients, and are withdrawing trans youth from care due to a recent executive order.

1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care.

While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.

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In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.

But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.

Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.

Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.

And don’t stop at masking: we can clean the air! We can have a better, more accessible world.

You have to choose to build it. Dream it. Fight for it. Rather than just leave the disabled people behind. Like David said:

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE.

David Lynch spent the last portion of his life in isolation. He said it was due to being high-risk and unable to risk getting COVID.

He’s not the only person with disability or illness who’s been left behind.

Everywhere you go without an n95 is a place you’ve decided disabled people don’t belong.

Recommendations for modified isolation of symptomatic farmworkers.

Farmworkers have avoided bird flu testing bc they don't have paid sick days. Rather than offering to cover that loss, health departments have modified guidelines so that they can work while sick.

From the CA dept of public health:

And the URL doesn’t work?

this is a dril tweet

Number of dairy herds infected with bird flu in the country where you can <checks notes> feed chicken waste to cattle:
876

Number of cattle infected with bird flu in countries where it is illegal to feed chicken waste to cattle:
<checks notes again>
0

Covid is surging across the country, we are in an ongoing pandemic and Biden has dismantled ALL airborne disease mitigations and public health protections, and people believe they're getting sick from looking up at drones. Not, you know, huffing virus-laden air.

“Uh yeah if it was my goal to platform men I would own a house” @jamieloftus.bsky.social @coolzonemedia.bsky.social omg 😆

I mean I want you to do it but you are the one who gets to live with the consequences 😋 so you have to ask yourself

this only suggests to me that everyone needs to keep being meaner to those in power. the wealthy elite need to be scared

Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.

You can get sent to jail for stealing toilet paper but if you hire a dozen children to work overnight shifts at your slaughter house your company pays a fine

ah shit they’re returning fire