Fureigh

(I’m not a lawyer, just a person who wants you to be okay)

1. Please hang in there! ❤️‍🩹
2. Looks like you’re in New York…? If so, consider applying for an enhanced driver license. They’re issued by New York State, not the federal gov’t. If I understand correctly, EDLs allow border crossings by land or sea — not air — to/from Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Unsurprising, but:

Normalize asking what things mean

Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.

They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.

Like… people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution.

These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.

Open for public comment — with anonymous options — at the same link.

This is totally normal and fine.

Stand for something. Don’t abandon your constituents and their friends and families. Simple.

“I’ll take ‘things I verified are true that I wish weren’t true’ for three hundred.”

Always. 🪩🐌🎧

on the roove (or the roovtop), presumably!

THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME THIS SONG EXISTS 🖤💖

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure.

Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

Lavender scare is back.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The Right​’s Baseless​ Project to ​Link Trans People​ With Extremism A campaign for the FBI to adopt a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism” is less about law enforcement than politics.

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.

There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

Wednesday, September 24 5:45 'Autism Doesn't Need a Cure' The Trump administration's unproven claims of a link between Tylenol and autism has sown deep mistrust among those living with the disability.

The way the NYT covers this, while they helped to create a similar moral panic that preceded Skrmetti, might be the thing that drives me mad.

Well, that escalated quickly.

(I’ll see myself out.)

The way I view this is, we know inherently that the law will not save us but that doesn't mean you still can't use it to slow them down. Make them work for it. Do not give them power they do not have. Make them fight for every inch of power.

Republicans: "transgenderism must be eradicated."

Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us."

Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."

@snopes.com You reported that Mast published amendments on the 14th to remove section 226 of H.R. 5300:

www.snopes.com/news/2025/09...

Can you explain why official online records about the bill don’t reflect that? No updates there since the 11th.

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

The primary antidote to despair that I've found is getting engaged in local organizing and volunteering.

Find a group doing work you care about in your area - homeless advocacy and outreach, immigrant support, queer rights - and volunteer with them.

It's a tremendous counter to helpless despair.

I would never have thought to notice this, and… it’s wonderful.

…emphasizing the importance of being quick to take action.

And using available means for as long as they’re available.

@ecetemelkuran.bsky.social’s “How to Lose a Country” outlines seven steps.

That’s step six.

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