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Today is Trans Day of Visibility. I'm on a metaphorical rollercoaster that ranges between hope/joy and fear/anger these days. I'm sure I'm not alone. I remind myself daily that they want us to hide in fear, and push against that instinct in myself. Happy TDOV to my trans/nonbinary siblings. 🏳️‍⚧️🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Watch this with Trump at his side, remember the dissents in the birthright citizenship case — www.lawdork.com/p/six-opinio... — and understand there are no limits, no places they wouldn’t go.

It’s a stain on American journalism that major media refuse to warn the public that the president is out of his mind.

A former Miss Switzerland contestant has accused Donald Trump of raping her at the Plaza Hotel in 1993. Now House Judiciary Committee Democrats are calling for an independent special counsel to investigate allegations involving Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

I saw Musk, Alex Gibney's documentary, yesterday afternoon. This is easily the most important documentary of the last decade. Watching it reminded me that over the last decade, exactly two publications have done a stand-up job of covering Musk: WSJ and Wired. The balance of US media has been AWOL.

The Kansas City Star sends a reporter to Roger Marshall's hometown and finds that the better people know Sen Marshall, the less they like him. And many of their comments are difficult to reproduce. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for Alaska governor Jose Javier Rodriguez for Florida AG Keisha Lance Bottoms for Georgia governor Jocelyn Benson for Michigan governor Amanda Janoo for Vermont governor Cindy Holscher for Kansas governor Jerri Green for Tennessee governor

bella bautista and bentley hudgins running for state house in georgia who are both trans candidates 19thnews.org/2026/10/geor...

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

Final pitch of the midterm elections The Democratic Party: Donald Trump is a racist dictator who is murdering and disappearing your neighbors, started a pointless war, and is making everything expensive for you personally Donald Trump: I Have Always Wanted To Be Featured In Homosexual Pornography

🚨BREAKING: Democrats asked a federal judge Monday night for a restraining order and temporary injunction to halt President Donald Trump and his administration from interfering in the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

The real unfair competition women are being forced into with men is having women's sports constantly separated off as a distinct event which is made to compete commercially with much better funded and socially and institutionally enfranchised men's sporting events & found inadequate by that standard

Some of us barely survived our childhood. And these parents have the nerve to victimize themselves. It is exhausting and I will never blame someone for going no contact

Yet another example of Consequences painted as a moral wrong. A great many people just want to be bullies and not have to deal with hearing what their victims think.

Maybe young adults are cutting off their parents, because their parents are abusive bigots??? www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

Hi, friends and followers! Please help Roxie any way you can!

“Before July 2025, one of the food bank’s locations served between 20 and 40 families per day, he said. Now, more than 260 families come in daily for help…”

Some wild MAGA on MAGA stuff going on

Cops being in the bathroom makes me uncomfortable, but we don't ban cops from bathrooms, and they have guns.

I was kindly invited to give the final plenary at this year's American Society of Bioethics & Humanities annual meeting—I discussed being a global health professor who engages in advocacy One thing I got asked is: should scientists or healthcare professionals remain politically neutral?

Has ANY Republican been asked to disavow Charlie Kirk’s racist sexist vitriol? Asking seriously. B/c UCLA illegally fired me for posting the truth about this disgusting buffoon. Could use your help for the next two months while my lawyers sit for mediation on my case. gofundme.com/f/waiting-fo...

i would like to stop having the Bad Thoughts

The rep I'm voting for, @wellmanformo.bsky.social should give them a lesson on how to actually talk about this shit and protect trans people while still running in a red state/MAGA district against an incumbent Stand up for trans people and point out what bullshit these culture wars are!

That’s the bare minimum. We need support outside of election season, too. Even after the elections are over, our communities still need help, resources, and solidarity. We can’t only show up when it’s time to vote and disappear when people are still struggling to survive.

Yes, but you know, how dare I, as a trans woman, question the Democrats? open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Horrible. This issue is before the Supreme Court in a different case, and I hope they disagree with the 5th Circuit.

NEW: Shortly after the DOJ filed a dangerous lawsuit preemptively challenging the results of Alaska's U.S. Senate race if the Republican loses, Trump had something to say. "I'm the one that said 'do it,'" he told journalists. https://demdock.com/47DOkLC

Did Trump feel this way when Elon spilled the beans about him being all over the Epstein files?

Trump on the Alaska election lawsuit: "I'm the one that said 'do it'"

Trump thinks he gets to decide who serves in his Congress. Let's disabuse him of that notion.

"A review of voter registration records shows that GOP operatives from states across the country used Presler’s home address to cast ballots in Pennsylvania during the 2024 election." Hmm, maybe the election-integrity folks should look into this.

Republican Bot Farms

Hamilton: "He just said the war in Iran is not the problem, the war in Ukraine is. The Ukrainians trying to defend themselves are why we have record diesel prices? Nobody believes that. This happened in response to the war in Iran. Roger Marshall supported that. I support the Ukrainians ... "

"The Immune System Is Not a Muscle" Source: x.com/wastelessme/...

The same DraftKings sponsoring CBS News election night coverage? Seems fine.

Another point I heard from women in sports, for all of the complaining about "protecting" girls athletics, there's almost no funding in comparison to boys athletics. Even at the pro-level the facilities are dramatically worse with less training equipment. They only care about harming trans kids.