Lauren Levin

HELP KTOWN VENDORS STAY SAFE ® HOME DONATE NOW to love your neighbors & help them resist ICE TAMALE BUY-OUT! LET'S GO! Venmo: @AndreinaKniss

Organizers in LA are raising money to do tamale buyouts from local tamale vendors who are unable to safely vend on the street due to ICE kidnapping vendors. The tamales will be distributed to unhoused neighbors. Please consider donating — I personally vouch for this one: venmo.com?txn=pay&audi...

"Joshua Clover is present in the revolt""
Memorial graffiti painted during the May Day demonstration in Santiago, Chile for Joshua Clover, a radical author & poet from the US who passed away this week

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months

turning a big dial taht says "Transphobia" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care (Gift Article) A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in ...

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.

Donald Trump’s Executive Orders Aim to Create Jim Crow for Trans People The Trump administration has dismissed public pleas for mercy for transgender youth and instead launched a full-scale attack against trans people.

Slate [Feb 2] -- Purpose of Trump multiple Executive Orders is to "create Jim Crow for trans people" by "fully disenfranchising them from society on a scale not seen since Jim Crow" (e.g., the legal racial caste system mostly in South from Civil War to 1960s).

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Union strong!

Years ago, ACT UP protested at hospitals cutting off LGBTQ+ people from their care.

They didn't stand for it.

At least we still have baldur's gate 3. Maybe I'll start a new run while I have the flu

it’s wild how quickly all of society breaks down when the people in charge ruin everything intentionally

This is how to do it. Thank you CA Dept of Ed!

Hospital systems I can confirm:
- Childrens DC
- Denver Health
- NYU Langone (new patients only)

Hearing reports but no confirms yet:
- UPMC
- VCU

I am getting spotty reports of hospital systems in blue states cancelling gender affirming care appointments for those under 19 years of age.

If true, this would be a major problem, as systems comply with illegal EOs in advance out of fear of DOJ weaponization.

Please let me know if yours has.

I've been feeling the same way. I follow your journalism and value it. I know it comes at a cost and a risk. Thank you so much and know that yr work means a lot to me and many others even when it feels meaningless to you. We need each other the most in dark times.

Just renewed my drivers license for RealID. I advise every transgender person, just as I did with passports, to not wait to renew your ID. Get that done now - many states let you do it online, schedule appointments, etc.

Don't get caught flat footed if/when Trump turns RealID against us.

Trump-Education-EO

BREAKING: Trump signs an executive order that attempts to restrict all schools that receive federal funds from protecting trans and nonbinary students or supporting diversity measures, while at the same time purporting to advance "patriotic education." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Alejandra loves this person!

These folks are heroic.

Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

Not a great sign when Wired says it won't name at least two fo the people Musk has installed to run the Office of Personnel Management because they may be minors www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

At least there won’t be any EOs for awhile

Imagine the tulip craze, only instead it's literally the most insane fantasies of human history -- escaping death, limitless energy, God-like intelligence, the end of history -- happening all at once. That's our current moment.

Guess we'll see!

A cute scruffy dog sitting on a person's lap and looking back at the person.

A few hours of IV fluids later, this sweet little guy is recovering from a scary bout w/pancreatitis yesterday. Please send him good thoughts and virtual pets for continued healing 💙

With fascism the tragedy is the farce (& vice versa).

When grown-ups think they can thwart kids on tech I remember the time kid3 evaded our no-texting-after-8pm ban and phone conversation by using Alexa to send texts and an old FitBit to receive them

Many reasons why I started packing my bags at the other place, but this felt like the last straw.

Judge in Seattle blocks Trump order on birthright citizenship nationwide Washington Attorney General Nick Brown had sued to block the executive order, calling it “unconstitutional, un-American and cruel.”

Federal judge blocks Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship nationwide, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.”

“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is.”

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

How ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Made the Perfect Teen Angst Movie Soundtrack “Teenage angst is a very earnest, potentially even embarrassing space to occupy exactly because of how sincere it is; that feels not unrelated to my queerness.”

we're all rightfully stressed about The News; on a dif note — been thinking a lot about the lack of awards recognition for I Saw The TV Glow despite its long tail of influence. sharing this profile I did of the film's music, talking to Jane Schoenbrun, Frances Quinlan of Hop Along, and Sloppy Jane

His fruit offering also impressive!

Title card reading "TWIN PEAKS Visual Soundtrack MUSIC COMPOSED BY ANGELO BADALAMENTI"

External shot of a wooden building with a prominent sign reading "BIG EDD'S FAMILY DINING"

Two men fishing in a river with a Japanese subtitle reading (italicized) "あなたの微笑みを見た時"

Nine slices of pie (cherry in the middle)

Due to recent events, this week's laserdisc rip is the Twin Peaks Visual Soundtrack. A Japan-exclusive disc from 1992 featuring Angelo Badalamenti's score set against a bunch of B-roll that a Japanese film crew captured of various places in Snoqualmie, Washington