Bird (he/they)

"Trans people are a tiny group with no power" This isn't true, and I hope my trans readers can internalize this. You are more powerful than you think. Trans and gender expansive people are 2.34% of the US population in the latest survey. That is more than enough to swing a race.

Sometimes when I hear the stupid scams people have fallen for in online dating I think about the Australian beetle that tries to mate with beer bottles.

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

The DCCC funding this means that the Democratic party itself, not individual politicians, is endorsing anti-trans policies as an electoral talking point

New: OutYouth, an LGBTQ+ youth program in Austin, says it's briefly closing for safety reasons because it was mentioned in the fake trans resource guide pamphlets that went out this week across Texas - www.chron.com/culture/arti...

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

This would be bad enough, but we are beyond even this now. We have entire blue states enacting anti-trans policy, and entire State Democratic Parties censoring their LGBTQ+ caucus from criticizing candidates on trans issues.

Albania's corrupt government secretly sold a popular nature preserve to Jared Kushner to be bulldozed for an exclusive resort, and Albanians responded by burning everything to the ground.

Just thinking about the Amyciaea crab spider. I don't generally think of spiders as evil, but this thing is an empathy predator. It lurks alongside weaver ant colonies, pretending to be an injured ant, and when gullible ants go to help out what they think is their sister, they get eaten.

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

I just think she’s neat

If the regime can remove elected opposition leaders, we have arrived at pretty much full dictatorship. There is no election we can hold that will restore free self-rule.

NYC officials call for Target boycott, say ICE staged at Marble Hill lot before shooting gothamist.com/news/nyc-off...

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Incredible

The statement inciting a race war last week in Minnesota + this abuse of power from the feds would be enough to tank any other administration

this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

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The absolute state of trans ally journalism

Yeah, so that is on Mamdani

matrix multiplication has more rights than trans people in this country lol

the abolitionist's dilemma

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

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