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The Trump administration has formally rescinded Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students nationwide.

Texas isn't a red state. It's a state held hostage by gerrymandering and voter suppression. Hell, earlier this week they announced they're shutting down half the voting centers in Tarrant County (that's Fort Worth, 2.2 million people) and kicked everyone out of the hearing who wanted to comment.

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

1.1% of the country is muslim 1% of the country is trans both have double the poverty rate of the average american apparently these 1% can take over the entire country but the 1% that holds ~37% of the total wealth aren't doing anything worth looking into

1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.

ICE murdered two people in less than a week. Claimed they were “ramming their vehicle”. They said the same about Marimar Martinez who they shot FIVE times. She survived. Went to court to get the body cam footage released. Proved them wrong. Every shooting since they’ve left no survivors:

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Meta contaminated Cheyenne Wyoming’s wastewater supply with a bacteria with a 31% mortality rate DEATH TO AI

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

Makes me feel insane how many people are like “here’s how this will affect cis people” as if the suffering of trans women, the actual target of this hate campaign and legislative oppression, is just an afterthought

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Well damn, Gil Thorp, alright!

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.

this is literally the fastest "write your representative" prompt ive seen, please share your thoughts

We had to travel to a different State to get married before it was Federal, and we wasted years not being married when we wanted to -- paying double taxes, having no work/health benefits for spouses, barriers to housing, no hospital visitations, zero protections.. Just fyi of how it was before.

the democrats are a machine the purpose of which is to keep democrats in just enough power that corporations keep cutting them fat checks, and the only thing that will stir them to passionate, ruthless action is the idea of someone actually trying to govern or help people

This puts the lie to centrist argument to "move to the center where the voters are"- This shift was not organic- young Republicans didn't shift like this on their own, it was driven top down from the movement influencers. That's why they're called influencers!

So the FCC is proposing that anyone getting a phone plan should be required to show a government ID, basically ending anonymity. @josephcox.bsky.social talks more about what we lose with that on today's podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP53...

none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful

1. Last night, UFC Fighter Josh Hokit called Michelle Obama "A man" after winning his fight at Trump's gladiator-like games. It is part of a right-wing conspiracy that several celebrities are actually trans and acting to subvert American values. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I cannot emphasize the degree to which a data center next to a zoo is a massive endless Endangered Species Act violation. If this happens it /will/ be the end of the facility. Air quality issues kill birds. Constant loud noise destroys animal welfare. Both decimate visitorship. The zoo will close.

I find it morally unacceptable for straight people to pass judgment on my relationship and gender

"2.5 billion gallons" sounds like a lot but is about 2 tenths of 1% of the amount of water (approx 5 million acre-feet per year) used to grow almonds just in California. www.c-win.org/cwin-water-b...

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

people are making Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny bits right now because of Chuck Norris's death and I think its important to note that today is also literally Mr. Rogers' birthday

Y'all remember the NSA warrantless wiretapping back in the early 2000s and how big a deal that was? This is gonna get maybe a fifth of the attention.

If you’ve ever complained about shipping prices, please take that energy and direct it to your elected representatives. Tell them to fight for more funding of the postal service! If we lose the USPS it’s absolutely inevitable that shipping rates will increase with all carriers. 😤

The constituency of Americans who see DEI as detrimental to the country is vanishingly small, the sort of constituency that can easily be ignored if politicians want to ignore it.

Don't be quiet because they're all black. Don't be quiet because they're all black. Don't be quiet because they're all black. Don't be quiet because they're all black.

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

doxxing is for like, message board anonymity it is not for pigs carrying the governments gun. entire administration of 4chan posters

Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career. What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line