Nick Clawson

This is what the military is doing to trans members right now.

Very easy slam dunk issue for Dems that will be ignored because their consultants are scared of trans athlete polling.

I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational.

First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.

Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.

Exclusive: US Air Force denies early retirement for group of transgender service members The U.S. Air Force is denying early retirement to all transgender service members with between 15 and 18 years of military service, opting instead to force them out with no retirement benefits, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

Air Force service members with 15-18 years of service can be eligible for early retirement. The Trump admin just blocked early retirement for all trans folks in the Air Force leaving them without the lifelong pensions or healthcare they're owed for their service.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Trump Plans to Send Immigrant Detainees to Notorious Louisiana Prison Once known as the bloodiest prison in the country, Angola is a maximum security facility with a dark history—and a popular prison rodeo.

🚨Unconscionable: the Trump admin will be sending undocumented immigrants to Angola, one of the worst prisons in the country, a place where conditions are notorious bad and deaths are common.

WSJ reports that 450 beds there will be opened for use by ICE.
www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

WOW. The Trump admin is rewriting reality, erasing accountability for any nation with close ties to Trump — including Russia, El Salvador, and Israel.

The El Salvador report changes are egregious, totally erasing well-documented abuses. And the impact will be severe. Quick 🧵.

There are less than 10 trans athletes out of the 500,000+ in the NCAA. This “issue” is fictitious, and a lot of self-proclaimed liberals need to accept that they’ve fully swallowed right wing propaganda.

Pete Buttigieg Doubles Down on Comments About the “Fairness” of Trans People in Sports “I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."

Yeah, I'm never voting for Buttigieg even if he's the nominee. This is a bright line for me. You cave on trans issues and lend credence to bigots, it's over. I'm not letting the Dems go down the path of Labour.

www.them.us/story/pete-b...

If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.

Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Truly can’t put into words how poorly things ended for Rasputin (and the Romanovs, for that matter)

JD Vance and other pedophile protection party officials are holding an emergency meeting tonight over their strategy on the Epstein files.

This cover-up is a disgrace to Epstein’s victims. The American people deserve transparency and accountability.

Release the Epstein files.

Just a bunch of guys with ski masks, assault rifles & military fatigues jumping out of a Penske rental truck in a parking lot & grabbing people. Totally normal in 2025 America.

ICE OUT OF CALIFORNIA

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement “Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

I'm angry all the time these days, but it's actually unfathomable to me that one person has the power to halt scientific progress, doing *generational* damage. For literally all of our sakes, someone needs to do something. Get this man out of the government.

In a Democratic administration, the fact that the AG and FBI director were participating with the White House in an effort to fashion a "strategy" on a legal matter would produce outraged editorials in the NYT and WaPo demanding that they immediately resign.

My great-grandfather led a team of doctors that invented chemotherapy. He’s part of the legacy of breakthroughs in medical science that saved so many lives. And now we’re going to throw away years of groundbreaking research because we put a manifestly unqualified person in charge of public health.

Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner hosted by Vance | CNN Politics Top Trump administration officials will gather at the vice president’s residence Wednesday evening as they continue to weigh whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Deputy Attorney Gen...

The highest levels of the Trump administration are collaborating with the FBI and DOJ to cover-up evidence the President committed sexual crimes against children.

Unspeakably corrupt, and not a single Republican in Congress can be expected to speak out against it.

Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner hosted by Vance

The administration's handling of the Epstein case, as well as the need to craft a unified response, is expected to be a main focus of the dinner, three sources familiar with the meeting told CNN. The meeting will include White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Vice President JD Vance, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Blanche.

The WH Chief of Staff, Vice President, Attorney General, and FBI Director are having a meeting to determine the "political strategy" around the child pedophile case circling around the President???

Is that worse or better than when Bill Clinton walked across a tarmac? (Also bad, btw!)

Again, if you just keep an eye out for breaking stories about Republicans being convicted for pedophilia or, in this case, doing work to cover up for their pedophile friends and relatives, it quickly becomes an everyday thing.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Oh!

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

Statue of Confederate general toppled in 2020 to be reinstalled in D.C. The bronze statue depicting Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, which was torn down and burned by protesters in 2020, is being restored, the Park Service said Monday.

They are erecting Confederate monuments in D.C. because D.C. is under Confederate occupation www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

I should post this over here too.

Giannis was at a sports collectibles convention on Saturday. Discussing how he had to shorten his autograph because he wanted to have a 15–20 year career. Then, someone shouts: "all in Milwaukee!"

Giannis, with a wink and smile: "all in Milwaukee, baby."

Trump administration moves quietly to eliminate life-saving abortions for veterans The policy would prevent veterans and their dependents from accessing abortions following rape, incest, or life-threatening emergencies.

New @motherjones.com: The Department of Veterans Affairs quietly published a proposed rule on Friday to eliminate VA coverage for limited & lifesaving abortions for vets & their dependents.

Advocates say it could become one of the strictest abortion bans nationwide.

Oh good, more non-update updates that are worded in such a way that they can never be wrong. Why are WE made to suffer because Kuminga and the other RFAs can’t figure things out?