Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights:
“I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote.
Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas.
Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check!
And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
'The new system, mirroring labels announced by the Pentagon in recent weeks, removes most casualties in July from the tallies of “Operation Epic Fury,” and puts them instead in a new category, “Overseas Operations.”'
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Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com
so look. my advice to anyone who would be tempted to argue things like "well if you only comply" -- look at it like this. imagine the guy they killed is a man. and imagine the police who shot him are women and the bullet is an accusation of sexual assault. so he's entitled to due process right
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show!
Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
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Pride month is coming up and I cannot tell you enough, cis people, that the best thing you can do right now is stand up for trans people financially, publicly, and in any way you can think of so this witch hunt ends, once again, with bigots on the wrong side of history.
⚡️Update: Ukraine requests emergency meetings of UN Security Council, OSCE to respond to Russian terror.
"Putin is trying to intimidate Ukraine by attacking civilians and destroying residential buildings...He is also trying to intimidate the world by launching IRBMs against peaceful cities."
Good time to speak up about this, at the same time Cornell's President is also facing scrutiny for, you know, hitting a student with his car.
Cornell desperately needs new leadership.
Just out: A group of Cornell alumni w/ academic and legal backgrounds has written up the ways that Cornell's $60m "deal" w/Trump also creates ongoing dangers for student data and privacy--& affects future applicants, too.
Read more here:⬇️
www.cornellcourage.com/media/press-...
So much talk over the last six months about "what if it's two Republicans" people have really been sleeping on how crazy a Steyer vs Becerra general election would be
It's official! I am launching my own YouTube channel
It's meant to be a pretty lowkey companion to my newsletter. Please don't put in the newspaper that I'm a YouTuber.
This morning I went on a bit of a rant about the 22 foot golden statue of Trump that hit the news last week! youtu.be/zBHcwjm-W1g
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
Mike Johnson: Tonight we have created a new award. We are going to do something we've never done before. We will honor him with a new award. He is the first ever recipient of the America first award. That is this beautiful golden statue here, appropriate for the golden era.
Exclusive: US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on February 28 but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation reut.rs/40b19JN
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker
This was never about woman's sports
Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.
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By Aisha Wallace-Palomares