Kris O (she/they)🍉🏳️‍🌈🏀

Unreal.

He was just, like, a guy. Not a politician. Not a statesman of any kind. Just some really mean guy. Flags at half mast. Yankee moment of silence. Whatever the shit this is.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Same-Sex Marriage Is Absolutely On the Chopping Block—Opinion Marriage equality isn’t safe. Don’t believe people who tell you it is.

🧵 We've had a decade of marriage equality—and that may be all we get. Just like I warned about Roe for years, I'm warning you now: Obergefell is absolutely on the chopping block. The same "history and tradition" test that killed abortion rights? That's their blueprint for same-sex marriage.

LOL

Good advice here:

This is the plan

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

I don't know the episode # but I've sent the episode where Sarah indexes Kate McKinnon as alien abductee talking about her downstairs parts to about 10 people.

100%

Yay!!

We finished The Residence last night (after Cory B stopped speaking) and then learned that Andre Braugher was cast as A.B. and filmed most of the scenes before his death. Love him so much! Excellent show.

LOL

It's taken a year off my life!

Unbelievable

A screenshot of a legal document from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The case is Nicolas Talbott, et al., Plaintiffs, v. United States, et al., Defendants, with Civil Action No. 25-cv-00240 (ACR). The document is titled "MEMORANDUM OPINION" and discusses Executive Order No. 14183 issued by President Donald J. Trump, which focuses on "Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness." The text states that the military’s mission is to protect the American people and that service by transgender individuals is considered "inconsistent" with this mission. It references the implementation of the order by Secretary of Defense Peter B. Hegseth on February 26, 2025, and mentions the disqualification of transgender troops from service without exemption. Footnotes clarify that the executive order does not explicitly use the word "transgender" but applies to individuals whose gender identity diverges from their biological sex. The document is formatted in a standard court opinion style, with citations and references to legal filings.

BREAKING: A federal court blocked Trump’s military ban on transgender service members, ruling it unconstitutional. The court found no evidence supporting claims of reduced readiness, citing the honor & excellence of trans troops.

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”

WOW. Planes in air must turn around.

A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

The eventual fate of the GOP

Amazing necklace!

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

Photo from a book

Photo from a book

This is from 2019, but could be from today. Michael Nava is such a wonderful writer.

Stella is over winter

Amy, I was at the ERG session at RMEQ yesterday. Thank you!

New T-shirt!

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

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Terrifying