Avery Donovan 🏳️‍⚧️

“I want to try something: pair it with autism.” … “It’s perfect!” 😂

Looks like Lula, and democracy, won in Brazil! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

“I am an ally but […]” No, you’re fucking not. You don’t get to demand that trans people support our own genocide and act as human shields to protect you.

I’ve already voted here in Minnesota and it was only for candidates that explicitly support trans rights. I treated staying silent on trans rights the same as openly opposing them. My right to exist is my single issue. It’s why I moved to this state.

Can we get a council-manager system here? People like Jacob Frey shouldn’t be in charge of a hotdog stand let alone city services for 430K people.

The Bay of Pigs fiasco was a discrete partnership with the CIA. It resulted in Cuba remaining a discrete country from the US.

Trans people hold our noses and vote for the “lesser evil” far more than cis people realize. Yet we’re all thrown under the bus just the same when one of us dares to ask for the “lesser evil” to support restoring rights we’ve lost. Cis people elected Trump. Y’all clean up your own house.

Darlings. When a disabled person in the United States posts that a place is inaccessible to them, stop telling them to report it. That is not a thing. The ADA is a law, not a service. All it does is ensure we can sue. It doesn’t mean we’ll win. In fact, these suits drag on for years.

this is decent, but we really just need to ban right turns on red lights in minneapolis entirely. they're equally unsafe for pedestrians at every intersection

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Weren’t you posting about coffee prices when ICE and CBP were terrorizing Minnesota last winter?

We have these kinds of bus stops in Minneapolis. I use a mobility aid and all I do is look both ways before crossing the few feet from the sidewalk to the bus stop 🤷‍♀️ And this is a city whose downtown is such a car sewer that they built the world’s longest continuously connected skyway.

Nothing quite like opening Reddit and scrolling down and seeing that somebody posted a picture of the, uh, closely-groomed back end of their cat in r/cats. I guess it’s a change from the “what’s this weird thing on my cat’s belly?” posts on there 🤷‍♀️

I did end up voting in-person today. Really annoying that I had to fill out an absentee ballot application again, despite being a permanent absentee voter already 🤦‍♀️ Can we just get Colorado’s system here in Minnesota? It was so much easier to vote there.

This seems excessive and retaliatory against the Councilman for daring to call out, on his personal Facebook page, an obviously racist personal attack directed at him. The Ethics Review Board needs to review its own ethics.

Hmm…

Minnesota’s absentee balloting is much more convoluted than it should be. I nearly had a meltdown when doing early voting in person in the primaries. Now I find out the ridiculous witness requirement means I can’t actually vote by mail. I guess they don’t want disabled people voting in this state.

Coach Tuberville just made these people sound way cooler. The next time I fly, I’m going to be quite disappointed if the captain isn’t wearing rainbow-colored wolf ears.

Very disappointed that @amyklobuchar.com has been silent on trans rights when she’s running to be governor of a state that’s a trans refuge. The gubernatorial selection on my absentee ballot will be as empty as her platform on protecting trans people.

Survey Finds 1 In 3 Americans With Health Insurance Have Medical Debt https://theonion.com/survey-finds-1-in-3-americans-with-health-insurance-have-medical-debt/

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

This is absolutely disgusting. Institutions that end pediatric gender-affirming care are intentionally inflicting potentially deadly harm on trans kids. Signing an agreement that allows the federal government to claim another victory in their anti-trans crusade is simply evil.

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“If the first obligation of a health care system is to take care of the sick, we are failing that test,” said KFF’s @drewaltman.bsky.social More in KFF’s new survey findings: on.kff.org/46l9Kwx

I don’t count Stancil as a trans ally, and that was even before his latest “the transes are being sooo mean to me!” posting binge. Talarico made his choice. In an election where turnout is key, he potentially sacrificed that to make a play for people that aren’t going to vote for him anyway.

two years ago, i was allowed to use the women's room at the airport no problem. now, the texas state government can fine the airport thousands of dollars if i use the women's bathroom.

It can’t be shouted enough that we *recently had* so many of the rights we’re demanding. My legal name and sex identifier change was done in Texas in 2023!

Taylor is too generous. We know the Frey admin doesn't care about bus speed because they chose to have a $60+ million BRT project (E Line) get stuck in traffic against the recommendation of their own staff and Metro Transit.

Beto O’Rourke lost to Ted Cruz by only 2.6% despite committing the cardinal sin of talking about banning guns in Texas. Colin Allred threw trans kids under the bus in response to Cruz’s attack ads and Cruz won by 8.5%. James Talarico has basically handed the election to Ken Paxton.

There just needs to be a dedicated (as in 24/7) continuous bus-only lane on Hennepin (and 1st Ave NE) between Uptown Transit Station and University/4th St SE. It’s like the E Line is successful in spite of really baffling and maddening decisions.

Taking the “full” version of this gives different, and I think more accurate for me, results than the “standard” version. I’m originally from Arizona.

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

HHS is officially promoting a propaganda piece that basically says supporting treating trans people like human beings is dangerous. Even just using our names and pronouns.

Make your favorite TV show sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Two friends and their landlady run a photo studio.

I believe in the native language of his people this guy would be referred to as a “wanker.”

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

Seconding. And I'll add that when I (years ago) suggested it was weird how little attention this is getting as a factor in our uniquely-American pedestrian fatality numbers, nobody wanted to engage with my point. Almost like it's a "well it's fine when *I* do it" sort of thing.

I’m originally from Arizona and lived in the southwest for 30 years, half of that in Colorado. Mountains are very familiar to me. The Appalachians have some of the most spectacular mountain scenery I’ve ever seen. Shenandoah NP and Great Smoky Mountains NP are 2 of my favorite national parks.