Alina B Baciu

Survey by a team at U Mass Amherst shows that “negative attitudes toward women and opposition to Title IX predict support for banning transgender women from sports that match their gender identity” … i.e., animus toward trans women ~ animus toward ALL women theconversation.com/are-transgen...

I had a sense of how corrupt Greg Abbott is but this deeply researched episode taught me so much more. Ugh. Rooting for Gina Hinojosa who’s running to end corruption that benefits billionaires and rewards data centers at the expense of regular people audioboom.com/posts/896863...

This evoked reading about Jewish communities that were decimated during the Holocaust. Read the whole thread. ICE cannot do its evil work without the cooperation of local law enforcement. And I say this with my full Jewish soul: Never again.

The plain fact of it is thus: the Trump administration wants to re-segregate higher education. It is a racist project straight-up-no-chaser. Accommodating any of this puts you on the wrong side of history, makes you a collaborator in this project. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

This is appalling, illegal, immoral, and 500 other things, by a private citizen who is not even in the same universe as the chain of command.

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

As an example of how vital Internet Archive is, I spent several hours today using it to recreate the Yale Integrity Project on trans healthcare. The original url & contents were scrubbed & replaced with a page listing just a few of the original publications. www.transgendermap.com/issues/group...

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Holocaust minimization, anti-Arab, and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Unacceptable anywhere, especially a college campus. The hosting organization (Georgetown College Republicans) was also reprimanded last year for tweeting, "Let’s Be Honest: Muslims have no place in American society."

It's extremely concerning that armed soldiers opened fire in a residential DC neighborhood. Reminder that initial stories about incidents like this are often wrong, sometimes intentionally. We encourage everyone to call for more information about what happened here.

There’s a disconnect here “Vance said: ‘If all the good jobs are overseas, then people here in Michigan can't spend money at your family business’ … He pointed to promises of new foreign investment in the United States” So is a globalized economy good or bad? www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vanc...

#NoKings still cannot access their Instagram account. bsky.app/profile/ezra...

“If this research finds evidence of harm, many will dismiss it as the work of a secretary who has long argued that vaccines are dangerous . . . If it finds none, patients will be told that the clinic was a sham. Either way, they are left with answers no one trusts.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

More than 3 dozen Capitol Hill neighbors gathered this morning to #VoteEarly at the Eastern Market ballot drop box. We chanted “Who are we?” #FreeDC ! and “What do we want? Statehood!” and enthusiastically clapped as each of us exercised our essential right to vote, in community! #NoKingsDC

It’s as if this was the Russians and Meta was the Russian troll farm “Internet Research Agency” trying to influence the 2016 election …

Masks have been off for a long time, really, but now they’re off, soaked in kerosene and being used to set a cross on fire. Just gutter racist trash. And he and everybody there should be remembered as such.

It wouldn't made it any less awful if this were not the case, but as it happens, the "Washington Post" photographer here is Jewish. It was always inevitable that sooner or later, Jewish nationalist fascism would turn against the Wrong Kinds of Jews.

An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."

DC folks, report National Guard sightings at ballot boxes to 866-OUR-VOTE. They are supposed to stay 50 feet away #FreeDC

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

WaPo published my letter, but first they censored it. Here’s the story . . 1/

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.

Rule # 1 of winning debates (and elections) is force your opponent to fight on your turf, don't ever wander onto theirs. Pedophile protector party has zero space to talk about people's lives & choices - attack your opponent not the people your opponent shames, blames and reviles.

25 days until the midterms:

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

@drannieandrews.com I just got an appeal for support from your campaign. Before seeing your cynical ad about trans women, I would have supported you. I want Graham to lose, but you seem to lack courage and values. You’re a physician: remember primum non nocere?

#FreeDC folks be sure to capture and share this sort of thing and consider reminding National Guard troops that US law bars them from voting locations. Oh, and remember to vote EARLY! 10/17 would be a great day to fill out, sign, seal, and drop off your ballot. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

A still from a video posted on IG by @brynodc.bsky.social Link: www.instagram.com/reel/DeQKdoK...

To every politician in New York: Do not tell the protesters to behave peacefully. Do not tell the protesters to disperse and go home. Instead, tell ICE to behave peacefully. Tell ICE to disperse and go home. Side with your constituents, not the Trump administration.

Damn. What an icon. RIP

As DC voters begin automatically receiving their official mail-in ballots this week, a friendly reminder that all 55 official mail-in ballot drop boxes become open and available beginning at *11am on Friday, October 9*! They’ll be accessible 24/7 through 8pm, Tuesday, November 3:

Worried about proposed changes to the US 2030 Census that would harm communities, families, and schools? You now have until Nov. 2 to submit comments. Here’s a template to use as desired and some rules of thumb. handsoffourcens.us/comment-guid...

You don't need a huge group to have a bike bus — just ask these parents. Read up ahead of National Walk & Roll to School Day on October 7.

Rabid hatred of all transgender people—including veterans!—is the point. And the Respectable Republicans™️ and Thoughtful Conservatives™️ are all on board with it.

Anti-ICE action for Loudon County (VA) residents (to ensure local law enforcement protects local residents and doesn’t serve the ICE mission to terrorize people) ayuda.com/loudoun-coun...

Another office of inspector general apparently doing their job … www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b...

Kind of amazing that some inspectors general are still in place/doing their job Voice of America Cuts Hurt ‘U.S. National Interests,’ Internal Watchdog Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

"I'm supposed to be tough. What happens if I faint?"- here's fun footage of Curtis Sliwa & Mayor Mamdani getting their flu shots together, including Mamdani offering to hold Sliwa's hand 😆 (Sliwa takes him up on it!) (Flu season is approaching and NYers can find free flu shots at nyc.gov/healthmap)