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BREAKING: Congress just gave final approval on a budget bill that guts Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, and supercharges funding for ICE.

We the people will bear the brunt of these harmful policies — and we won’t forget who caused this devastation to our health, rights, and dignity.

Protect Trans Care Now As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.

Politicians shouldn’t be putting themselves between families and their doctors.

Tell Congress to take action and protect trans rights.

I don't think we talk enough about how dignity is also a human right.

Food, water, shelter, education, health care, representation...all of those are human rights that everyone should receive regardless of who they are. But it's also a right to not have to beg for them.

They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.”

So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances…

It was always a lie.

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

First shelf: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School (Reyes), Learning to Fall (Morris), I Love You S'more (Desombre), She Gets the Girl (Lippincott & Derrick) Second Shelf: All That's Left in the World (Brown), Caught in a Bad Fauxmance (Rose), Heartstopper Vol. 1 (Oseman), The Darkness Between Us (Schaeffer) Third Shelf: Going Bicoastal (Adler), Where the Dark Stands Still (Poranek), Never Ever Getting Back Together (Gonzales), Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute (Hibbert), Flowerheart (Bakewell) Fourth Shelf: Hell Followed With Us (White), I Wish You All the Best (Deaver), The Sunbearer Trials (Thomas), Dead End Girls (Heard), The Sacrifice (Chupeco) Fifth Shelf: Loveless (Oseman), Icarus (Ancrum), Summer Bird Blue (Bowman), Radio Silence (Oseman), The Weight of Stars (Dow), Sawkill Girls (Legrand) Bottom Shelf: I Kissed Shara Wheeler (McQuiston), Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Albertelli), Nimona (Stevenson), Forget Me Not (Derrick)

A customer told me she couldn't believe this store would put up a Pride display, because what if children see it??

Anyway, it was my display, and I'm proud of it, and you (and your children) should all see it. #BookSky 📚💙

Target's bold "Pride" collection this year features a colorless hoodie with the words "Out Loud & Proud" written teeny tiny only the string.

Companies that kept DEI commitments saw higher reputation scores in 2025 nclear corporate values or a lack of conviction, most recently seen through mass DEI walk-backs, can hinder reputation.

💥 NEW: Companies that kept DEI commitments saw higher reputation scores in 2025

Patagonia
Microsoft
Costco
Apple
JPMorgan Chase
Coca-Cola
Procter & Gamble
Kroger
Netflix
Delta Air Lines

@axios.com reports: www.axios.com/2025/05/29/d...

Amen.

I can't remember the last time I felt safe here.

I'm not always terrified, but I've long existed in that gray area between the two states: I'm not safe, and I'm not necessarily in immediate danger.

I want to live somewhere I feel safe.

I kinda think everyone deserves that.

Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on the Future

my column/essay this week is on the administration's war on the future, what that means, and the obligation anti-trump americans have to articulate a robust vision of an egalitarian future in response. read/share/etc.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles? Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.

looking at the photo that headlines this piece i think i know what the university of austin means when they say they don't tolerate "DEI" quillette.com/2025/05/16/i...

💥 "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is not only a responsibility, it is a business driver and a key enabler for our success in the coming years. Strengthening inclusion increases the sense of belonging and our competitive advantage.”
Lapo Civiletti, CEO, Ferrero Group (Keebler, Nutella, Baby Ruth, etc)

According to a directive issued by Hegseth, active-duty trans service members who have been diagnosed or “exhibit symptoms consistent with” gender dysphoria must identify themselves for “voluntary separation” from the U.S. armed forces by June 6.
Reporting: Them

Mother's Day is a complicated holiday for many, myself included. My mother is still alive, for which I'm grateful, but our relationship is strained over the fact that I'm a queer, trans social worker and she is a -phobic, racist Trump supporter. Plus, being a transmasc parent makes the day weird.

Stop using "felon" as a pejorative.

I have known A LOT of people charged with or convicted of felonies who were good and decent people. When you have 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's prisoners in a racialized police state, "felon" isn't predictive of anything, character-wise.

It's easy to feel alone, overwhelmed by the grief of watching the country step backward and pull chunks of the world with it.

But there are so many who feel it, and deeply, and this is the strongest defense we have: knowing we are not alone.

In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect.

This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.

www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Seriously!

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

The way Bukele was treated in the oval vs. Zelenskyy is all you need to know.

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

I woke to the sound of rain, and it was lovely.

I have been listening to the musical soundtrack on repeat (again) and I have such strong feelings about the show, especially Spike and how well and poorly Buffy's depression in season six was handled. I hate Joss Whedon for having such good emotional beats and shitty patterns.

Truuuue.

He's one of them but idk which

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