Opinion | The Supreme Court’s Blindness to Transgender Reality

The Supreme Court’s Blindness to Transgender Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

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Illinois Gov. Pritzker acts against El Salvador over Kilmar Abrego’s detention Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has announced that the state will take punitive actions against El Salvador for holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia in custody, while a federal judge has ordered the Trump admini…

Governor JB Pritzker just announced that Illinois will be defunding investments in companies controlled by El Salvador to punish the country for holding American residents without due process.

More of this.

It can be true that both tariffs are bad and denying due process is also bad

Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Thank you Senator @corybooker.com!

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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

A reminder for these times.

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We need @joyannreid.bsky.social now more than ever. I’ll follow wherever she goes, but this is a sad night

Jane Fonda is a national treasure

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

He nails it.

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

I want every Democrat to sound like this. Meanwhile I'm listening to the sounds of (congressional) silence.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

That tracks.

We wanted them to have healthcare and a high paying job and a planet to live on and freedom. They want us to suffer. The parties are not the same.

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Attempting a Coup Brazil’s attorney general charged the former president Jair Bolsonaro with trying to overturn the 2022 elections.

Brazil charges former president Jair Bolsonaro with attempting to lead a coup after he lost the 2022 election.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Enough said ... Read it again and again. And then again. When I was in 7th grade, our teacher put on a video and told us to take notes. Ten minutes in, she threw the lights on and shouted at Steven Webb Sladki, telling him he wasn't taking notes and he should have been. But the thing was, Steve was taking notes. I saw it. We all saw it. The teacher asked if anyone wanted to stand up for Steve. A few of us choked out some words of defense but were immediately squashed. Quickly, we were all very silent. Steve was sent to the principal's office. The teacher came back in the room and said something like "See how easy that was?" We were reading "Anne Frank." I started to understand. I just thought now was a good time to share this story. Don't ever let anyone tell you that what you see with your own eyes isn't happening.

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

Image of seven of my books with Haymarket, Hope in the Dark (black), Whose Story Is This (violet), Men Explain Things to Me (blue), Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, coedited with Thelma Young Lutunatabua and including 20 amazing writers from around the world (green), No Straight Road Takes You There (yellow), The Mother of All Questions (orange), and Call Them By Their True Names (red).

Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.