A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir)

On Intersex Awareness Day, shout-out to all the women athletes with intersex conditions who have become collateral damage in anti-trans culture wars

Trump's Office for Civil Rights stopped making pending school discrimination investigations public. So @propublica.org sued for the case data, and now we've made it available to all. www.propublica.org/article/civi...

The most perfect summary of America to ever exist

Platform signs said Santa Monica-bound train. Signs on the outside of the train said Not in Service / Do Not Board, but lots of us did...and then i saw the interior screens showing Long Beach line stops and hopped back off as the doors closed. Please get it together, @metrolosangeles.bsky.social

Fantastic news from Aotearoa New Zealand - trans healthcare professionals have won their court case against the government, overturning the country's ban on puberty blockers. Huge respect and congratulations to everyone involved in this fight.

The spectre they're trying to manufacture is that the evil trans menace is going to steal your children in the night - which is rich given Ken Paxton really, actually did attempt to remove trans youth from their parent's custody

Advocates for survivors of domestic violence say they've seen an alarming rise in the number of victims being detained and deported by ICE after calling 911, spurred in part by a Trump order eliminating legal protections for undocumented women reporting such violence

Now just 2 more shows, but well worth checking out if you can get to Sherman Oaks on the 23rd or 24th!

Appreciate LAT covering this but it's weird and unhelpful to dismiss the harm reduction benefits of hybrid vehicles

No matter what WNBA team you root for, at least we can all bond over hating the refs and the Indiana Fever. #wnba

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The 📐🌃 domain is for sale, else i would accuse ESPN of participation in a phishing scam

Trans Shift by Kenneth Noland, 1964 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137741

What a long strange trip it's been

no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

Ben Shelton's shirt looks like a thermal paper receipt left on top of something warm

@espn.com Those of us who follow Chelsea Women and/or the WSL in general... and click on your push notification about, say, a Lucy Bronze goal... should not have to scroll through pages of men's soccer content to get to what we care about.

It's not about "fairness in women's sports" any more than it was about "ethics in gaming journalism."

Wow what a u-turn in my emotional state. If you are queer you need to remember that you have an invisible meter of queer interactions and when it gets low you take massive stat debuffs across the board. Don’t forget to be gay!!!

There are so many outrageous qualified immunity decisions out there - but this one, ruling officers who pinned a woman down on a hill of fire ants while handcuffed were entitled to qualified immunity because there was no other case in which officers were so depraved, is beyond the pale.

Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned

Jesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.

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fun fact! Musk's fossil fuelled data centres almost certainly emit more climate pollution than is saved by all Tesla vehicles ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...

Lori Lindsey, i love ya, but i think up 4 in the 79th minute it *would* behoove this team to take some risks

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

I talked to a man who got stuck in an elevator, a wheelchair user who had to go on his balcony and shout to ask for food, a woman who had to sleep in her chair because she couldn't use her COPD machine. The crisis in Gary is the product of structural neglect and racism, but also climate change.

“This case stands out as an example of the enormity of the tragedy pregnant women and families are facing because of the Trump administration,” Cho said, of Monterroso Lemus’s experience. “The bottom line is: No one deserves to be treated like this.” theintercept.com/2026/08/27/t...

Brick wall. Angelina Anderson is #AngelCityFC's Player of the Match for #LAvGFC. Once Upon a Farm | Player of the Match

Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.

Starting to sound like a matter for @badlawyerpod.bsky.social... Commentary: The LAX people mover wasn’t ready for the 2026 World Cup. Will it even be ready for the 2028 Olympics? www.latimes.com/business/sto...

1) All the meds involved in a transition (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, GnRHs) are generic so not really moneymakers for anyone involved 2) If you're worried about the profit motive in health care distribution then I have an idea you'll just absolutely love

We fought back, and the court’s ruling means this care can — and in many states must — qualify for the ACA’s financial protections, ensuring transgender people have an equal opportunity to benefit from the ACA. Everyone deserves access to health coverage. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

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that’s fucking right

Trump's Education Dept. has "indefinitely frozen" dozens of investigations into civil rights violations - including reports of racist abuse of Black students and sexual assault of female students - so the Office of Civil Rights can instead focus on banning transgender athletes

A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.

I would rather have pronghorn antelope and bighorn sheep and elk and purple sage and four wing saltbrush than data centers and so far no one in tech has presented a compelling vision for how to have all of those things, they just seize more resources for the plagiarism engine.

TFW a large queer event in 2026 California offers only binary-gendered restrooms

i wanna know which extremely online lawyer made sure to require the post be pinned. genius.

"Worm-like creatures" is the new "racially tinged remarks"

Abigail Spanberger announced she is restoring the voting rights of about 66,000 people with past felony convictions, reversing the course set by Glenn Youngkin. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...