They have taken untold Billions
That they never toiled to earn
But without our brain and muscle
Not a single wheel can turn
We can break their haughty power
Gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong
#solidarityforever#peteseeger
Step kid 1 in middle school:
“I think I’m going to get kicked out of my graduation”
Me: “What? Why?”
“I’m thinking about not singing God Bless America but they said they will take away 5 minutes of recess AND not let us walk if they can’t see our lips moving”
The kids are alright
"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
Current reading: Gay Berlin
I always ask people WHICH books the Nazis burned
Many have no idea
Much of it was scientific literature on transgender people
Remember to #buylocal and support a local bookstore! #fuckbezos#fuckamazonwww.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/10065/...
We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
SO JUST TO RECAP:
1. The Supreme Court rules against Trump 9-0.
2. He flies in the dictator of El Salvador specifically to say he won't return Kilmar Abrego Garcia in front of the whole world. Is this supposed to be evidence for the Supreme Court?
3. The timing indicates a high level of concern.
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
I talk a lot about transgender people because I myself am trans
I am intimately familiar with the challenges we have in getting identity documentation and the violence we face
I know immigrants without citizenship, regardless of status are at even greater risk
It’s clear that transgender citizens will become undocumented and sent to the camps. We just didn’t know they would be in El Salvador.
Help pay for a trans person’s passport today and you might be saving a life
#MutualAid
This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
Trump wants to disappear even more people into prison camps and he wants to do it in El Salvador where the options to stop him are almost non-existent
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
#MutualAid
Consider hosting a #PassportParty for those most at risk. Sell plates, fundraise, and fill out passport applications and pay for their applications right then and there.
All yall cis people with a little bit of money to spare, we need your help
Please steal our idea and pass it on.
Cesar Chavez was born #OTD in 1927. A tireless advocate for workers' and immigrants' rights, he dedicated his life to justice and fair labor conditions.
In 2014, President Obama declared March 31 a federal commemorative holiday in his honor. #TheMarchContinues
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen faces one of the defining days of her political career on Monday, when a court rules whether she is guilty of embezzlement in a trial that could see her barred from the 2027 presidential race reut.rs/3DZbukp
If you want to support us on #TDoV and every day
Make your reps meet with you face to face and make them understand that anti trans laws negatively impact EVERYONE and they should make human rights protections a priority
A lot of reps don’t care unless a cis person makes noise
As the step parent of middle schoolers
I understand that anti trans laws may in practice force all children to undergo genital inspections at school to play in sports or participate in PE
Which is state-sponsored molestation. Full stop.
Not on our fucking watch
Anti trans laws hurt EVERYONE
I later got harassed at work as a federal contractor when I came out, for a year
They tried to get me to quit and eventually fired me
I won a settlement with the help of a labor lawyer and the EEOC
Those protections are probably going to be gone soon.
The price of visibility
#TDoV
It was almost funny
Toward the end my direct manager tried to get me to take PTO “off the books” and charge it to the US government
Sir that’s fraud and I’m not an idiot lmao
Unfortunately that was one of the few phone calls I wasn’t able to record (caught off guard)
Haha idiots
Even if they take away federal discrimination protections, most states have laws on the books
Document all the shenanigans!
Hold these jackasses accountable
I later got harassed at work as a federal contractor when I came out, for a year
They tried to get me to quit and eventually fired me
I won a settlement with the help of a labor lawyer and the EEOC
Those protections are probably going to be gone soon.
The price of visibility
#TDoV
If you want to support us on #TDoV & every day, please donate a few $ to transition gofundmes, even if you don’t know them
My top surgery was $14k out of pocket, I had to pay 100% up front
I was working somewhere transphobic and didn’t take any time off to heal & couldn’t share why I got surgery
Public services should not be discussed as if they were businesses
Libraries etc are services we paid for already with our taxes that improve quality of life
Anytime anyone says they’re not profitable…
please throat chop them
(Or do so verbally)
Conflicted about TDoV because I want people to not be in my business!
Leave us alone!
Being trans is heavily pathologized like being gay used to be, not to mention politicized and downright dangerous right now
it’s ok if you want to live stealth.
Anyway happy #TDoV
Exclusive: The best-known member of Elon Musk's US DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters reut.rs/3XxVWe2
Because of the pay gap, women have lost out on more than $60 trillion in wages since 1967.
Yes, trillion.
On an hourly basis, women were paid 18.0% less on average than men in 2024.
We must ensure fair wages for all.
Pretty damning for the US and opposition party that the morons on question were elected and already able to do so much damage.
So are we going to do about it? Keep rolling over for them?
You better run and organize locally because they’re handing shit over at the top
The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.
First they came for your due process rights, and you said nothing for you had not committed a crime.
Then they came for your right to privacy, and you said nothing for you had nothing to hide.
Then they came for your free speech rights, and you said nothing.