I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
21.10.2025 13:04 β π 7266 π 1995 π¬ 68 π 60
A person holds up a sign that says "We the people have the power." They're in a crowd of protestors holding up signs and American flags.
Two people stand beside each other - one holds up a sign that says "Democracy needs all of us." The other holds an American flag.
A person on a city street in a crowd of protestors holds up a sign that says "Protect free speech" around others holding up signs that say "We the People" and "This is what democracy looks like."
A person holds up a colorful sign that says "Hands off my children's future." Around them are American flags and a Palestinian flag.
From Maine to HawaiΚ»i, New York to California, and everywhere in between, 7 million people gathered across the country yesterday to make it clear: This is OUR democracy β and weβll pass it on.
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19.10.2025 22:25 β π 594 π 119 π¬ 7 π 0
Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing
The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.
1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.
Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."
Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.
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15.10.2025 21:21 β π 1825 π 606 π¬ 35 π 32
JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."
JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."
15.10.2025 21:13 β π 2311 π 713 π¬ 158 π 91
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"
Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
17.10.2025 17:43 β π 50364 π 10355 π¬ 1808 π 774
Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.
Why the delay?
Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
10.10.2025 20:30 β π 15306 π 4353 π¬ 588 π 230
Reminder, there is no rule that prevents Mike Johnson from swearing Adelita Grijalva into congress, even during a government shutdown.
08.10.2025 23:40 β π 1442 π 366 π¬ 52 π 8
Who thinks Mike Johnson should obey the law and swear in Adelita Grijalva immediately?
09.10.2025 13:38 β π 569 π 101 π¬ 27 π 17
New Journal Report: Cass Review βEchoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformationβ
While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australiaβs top scholars rebuked it.
1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.
It methodically goes through each problem in the review.
The latest from S. Baum.
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09.10.2025 21:37 β π 2167 π 743 π¬ 4 π 10
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest β using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trumpβs request to deploy California national guard to Portland
There is no left-wing violence in Chicago or Portland. It simply is not happening.
It's so not happening, in fact, that Republicans in Oregon took footage from two South American countries to create a hoax photo about Portland.
They have no actual violent footage to put forward.
08.10.2025 20:00 β π 1216 π 476 π¬ 20 π 14
9. Years of fearmongering have turned trans identity into a political weapon, with pundits and cable news fixtures painting trans people as dangerous or deranged. That rhetoric seeps into homes through television screens and fear-ridden articles and shapes how parents see their children.
08.10.2025 18:52 β π 282 π 20 π¬ 2 π 0
Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents
The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.
1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.
And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.
This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.
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08.10.2025 18:52 β π 1490 π 395 π¬ 49 π 60
Early life and education
Brunkow was born in 1961 in Portland, Oregon.[2][3] She graduated at St. Mary's Academy in Portland in 1979.[3]
Brunkow received a BS in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Washington in 1983.[4] She received a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1991, where her advisor was Shirley M. Tilghman.[5] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Expression and function of the H19 gene in transgenic mice (1991).[1]
Remember how the Trump administration raged about "transgender mice" because of studies involving transgenic mice?
Well, the woman who just won the Nobel Prize in Medicine wrote her thesis using transgenic mice.
07.10.2025 15:44 β π 1056 π 214 π¬ 19 π 6
A press release dated October 7, 2025, with the headline: βAttorney General Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations to Infiltrate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence.β The statement claims rising left-wing violence, referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and outlines Paxtonβs directive for undercover investigations. A highlighted quote from Paxton reads: βLeftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people.β The text further accuses the radical Left of fostering political violence, referencing incidents involving Antifa-like groups and a supposed assassin tied to transgender movements. It also notes that President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, with Paxton vowing sweeping investigations into radical leftist groups.
In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture."
This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.
07.10.2025 18:43 β π 1548 π 463 π¬ 64 π 40
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of β¦ complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, theyβre sniping priests for sport.
08.10.2025 02:14 β π 17414 π 9439 π¬ 889 π 729
In the last 2 weeks MAGA aligned people have done 2 attempted mass shootings of a gay bar and pride center in Arizona and Texas, murdered 2 teenage girls for mocking Charlie Kirk, and torched a judge's home.
Meanwhile, the government mobilized the military to go after the left.
06.10.2025 11:43 β π 2299 π 752 π¬ 23 π 30
Alt text: Screenshot of an article from The Cut titled βWhat happened at the South Shore apartment raid, exactly?β The article reports that on September 30, about 300 federal immigration agents stormed a five-story residential apartment in South Shore during an overnight raid. Witnesses said agents rappelled from helicopters, kicked down doors, used flash-bang grenades, and detained adults and children with zip ties. Thirty-seven people were arrested, including four U.S. citizen children. A resident, Pertissue Fisher, said she was handcuffed, had guns pointed at her, and held for hours despite being an American citizen. Photos from the scene showed broken doors, scattered toys, shoes, and food.
It feels crazy even saying out loud everything that they're doing but this is all really happening.
07.10.2025 00:19 β π 253 π 60 π¬ 2 π 2
A MAGA teenager was spurned by a teen girl so he sent pizza to her home to intimidate her. The police ignored it.
Then, he saw she mocked Charlie Kirk so he murdered her and her friend by ramming his truck into them at 70mph while they were riding their bikes.
He's now charged with murder.
06.10.2025 00:48 β π 2237 π 782 π¬ 82 π 101
βTerrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.β
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
04.10.2025 20:17 β π 17149 π 8044 π¬ 258 π 340
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
03.10.2025 19:18 β π 9854 π 4703 π¬ 848 π 938
Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters
Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.
1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.
If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
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02.10.2025 17:46 β π 3294 π 1397 π¬ 183 π 321
Trumpβs 2013 comments about government shutdowns havenβt aged well. π
02.10.2025 12:35 β π 1816 π 209 π¬ 42 π 4
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trumpβs FTC β Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
01.10.2025 14:44 β π 2712 π 1452 π¬ 31 π 139
"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," the pope explained.
"Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro life."
This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...
30.09.2025 20:51 β π 2894 π 670 π¬ 32 π 79
Letβs be clear: Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans forced a government shutdown tonight.
Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs.
What happened to the art of the deal?
01.10.2025 04:02 β π 8409 π 2023 π¬ 238 π 52
It's remarkable how much of the far right is openly saying they want to kill large numbers of people. They can sidestep and say it's not advocating for political violence because it's the state and there's a semblance of process but this is murder. It's what nazis did. Show trials and executions.
29.09.2025 23:05 β π 828 π 134 π¬ 9 π 2
Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog). He writes: "My solution to violent criminal sociopath lunatics is to convict them in a court of law and then kill them. This solution would have saved Irynaβs life. It would save hundreds of lives every year. You can just kill the worst and most dangerous people. This solution has been deployed to great effect by almost every civilized society on Earth for thousands of years."
Below his post is a reply from notsoErudite (@notsoErudite) dated Sep 28: "The right has 0 solution to this btw. Paranoid schizophrenic violent outbursts require an integrated care system to ensure he has access to and is taking his medication. Any they just defunded school lunches. They won't β¦"
The timestamp shows 6:15 PM Β· Sep 29, 2025, with 141.3K views.
Matt Walsh advocates for mass murdering people with schizophrenia by convicting them of who knows what and then killing them.
This is political violence btw.
29.09.2025 23:03 β π 1893 π 445 π¬ 120 π 93
Ok, we βsavedβ Jimmy Kimmel. Now can we bring that same energy to migrants, trans people, BIPOC and women? Or are we just reserving that for rich white guys?
24.09.2025 22:38 β π 3304 π 1104 π¬ 55 π 12
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