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CDC takes down more than a dozen webpages on sexual and gender identity, health equity Some health equity advocates say removing such resources could create gaps in access to critical health information, especially for marginalized groups.

Information on sexual and gender identity and health equity is now being erased.

Oh no

Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

Good morning.

Stop using AI, Volume 73

CBS axes ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ following host’s criticism of Trump settlement The most recent ratings from Nielsen show Colbert as winning his timeslot, with about 2.417 million viewers across 41 new episodes.

The most recent ratings from Nielsen show Colbert as winning his timeslot, with about 2.417 million viewers across 41 new episodes.

Netflix Lays Off Mostly Women Of Color Staff As Stock Plunges | Essence Twenty-five writers and editors, mostly women of color, lost their jobs at Netflix without warning and only offered 2 weeks severance pay.

Thought the article would mention this

Netflix has done the thing where they hired a lot of interesting people, receive positive coverage, and then fires them for cheaper teams to execute - damaging the careers of people involved

www.essence.com/news/netflix...

PBS is Punk Distressed Tee Official licensed merchandise. ‘PBS’ and the ‘PBS logo’ are trademarks of the Public Broadcasting Service and are used with permission. All rights reserved. PRE-ORDER INFO: This is a pre-order item, a...

Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK

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Breaking: Trans, nonbinary passport protections remain in effect, judge rules Judge Kobick denied DOJ's request to allow the State Department to enforce Rubio's anti-trans/anti-nonbinary passport policy after the SCOTUS Skrmetti decision.

BREAKING: Trans, nonbinary passport protections remain in effect, judge rules.

Judge Kobick denied DOJ's request to allow the State Department to enforce Rubio's anti-trans/anti-nonbinary passport policy after the SCOTUS Skrmetti decision.

New, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trans-nonb...

This is patently false.

DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry.

But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone.

This lawlessness must stop.

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Lux is such a kind hearted human, who puts a lot of themselves into supporting all of us and our causes. Please, if you’ve got anything to spare, consider helping a wonderful friend to the community.

Update: Still getting rejections left and right, but now I'm being threatened of getting kicked out if I don't have anything in a month

I’m gonna be straight up with you: please buy my game so I can have the funds to move out of this country before it kills me. That’s why I’m pushing so hard! Trying to move my entire trans household out of here and it’s very expensive. If you have the game, please leave us an honest (5words) review?

To those of you going to Anthrocon this weekend, wear a fucking mask.

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If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice suffering and ecological destruction remember that a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you

I needed this today

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

tweet from elon musk: @elonmusk Call your Senator, Call your Congressman, Bankrupting America is NOT ok! KILL the BILL 2:50 PM · Jun 4, 2025 · 2M Views

the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. can't have too may enemies.

My patreon is at 722 paid subs right now. My goal is to hit 800 by the end of Pride month. Can you help me out with a quote tweet/vouch?

Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses.

Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment.

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We were so goddamn close.

ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill

the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now

but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely

please read on

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Action Alert: Protect Our Healthcare Now! Congress is moving forward on a bill that would end Medicaid coverage of our healthcare. It takes two minutes to send an email to your senator!

Easy form help for emailing your senators to beg them to stop the medicaid cuts that will effect Trans people.

action.transequality.org/a/stopmedica...

U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China Authorities in Hong Kong say COVID-19 levels are the worst in at least a year.

I know y’all don’t care about this but there’s a pretty fast spreading Covid variant going around and there’s gonna be a summer surge whether you like it or not. You can, of course, avoid this by getting vaccinated and wearing a mask but you won’t do that.

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Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.

Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.

This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.

Take it here:

DB Express 2025 A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.

Today we embark on what I’m sure will be a super fun 24 hour journey with @desertbus.org Express! Things kick off at 4:00PM Pacific, and I’ll be rocking the overnight shift!

Check it out at DesertBus.org

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