The Mundane Transfeminine

In Gaza, 15-year-old Aboud suffers from epilepsy & severe, sudden seizures that are becoming more frequent without medication. His condition is worsening, but his family cannot afford his expensive treatment. He urgently needs $160 for his Keppra epilepsy treatment💔 chuffed.org/project/1844...

Living in this country is amazing. Every year the same people insist that the problems are caused by "red tape" "wokeness" or "government overspending," while the papers scream for a new crusade against the Perfidious Turk and everything gets sold off and collapses.

If you believe in humanity, Don’t skip 👋🏻 Aboud suffers from epilepsy & severe, sudden seizures that are becoming more frequent without medication. His condition is worsening, but his family cannot afford his expensive treatment. Please help him get his medication💔 chuffed.org/project/1844...

Om Amir is living with severe retinal disease unbearable pain and worsening vision She urgently needs surgery outside Gaza but the crossing is closed I’m watching her suffer without the treatment she needs 👉🏻 chuffed.org/project/help... 👈🏻 Please help us get her care before she loses more of her sight

In Gaza🍉, a 15-year-old boy named Abood suffers from severe seizures while his family watches helplessly, unable to afford his treatment due to poverty and high medical costs. They urgently need $130 to help provide his medication & give him a chance at recovery. Donate⬇️ chuffed.org/project/1844...

Look at Elias and see your own son or brother.Gaza's cruelty stripped away his first eye, and now his last drop of light is dying.We have no money,no hope, only tears.I beg you on my knees:please,don't let my little boy sink into permanent darkness! Verified:molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/196611

"The leader of the Global Sumud Flotilla is in a semi-comatose condition and close to death as he enters the 39th day of his hunger strike inside Tunisia’s Mornaguia Prison, the organisation has confirmed to Novara Media." (1/x) #Gaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla #Israel #Palestine #News #Tunisia

Mohsen, whose family the below fundraiser's for, has asked if people could please follow his profile. Palestinians are ruthlessly deleted by Bluesky, which prevents them from getting funds to survive under siege. The more people follow an account, the better its chances: bsky.app/profile/mohs...

Is it time to post that paragraph from The Road To Wigan Pier? The one about how the desperate, pleasureless poor will always refuse to just spend their pennies on cabbage no matter how much you try and insist. This isn’t a thing you can make people do. It’s not how humans work.

Worth noting — as most coverage omits it — that Peggie called Dr. Upton "a freak", "a weirdo" and "it". Peggie said she would like to post bacon to a mosque. Peggie reacted to news of deaths in flooding in Pakistan by saying "What goes around comes around, they've been flooding Britain for years."

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A helpful summary of a long running project though: social media creating a credible risk that the public might impose their awful views upon their superiors by e.g. shamefully dictating which public figures are good and should be praised, and which behave badly and deserve contempt.

Or: if the right were just always greedy, looting bastards and venal reactionary psychos, then what exactly have we been playing at all these long, long years? And who are we supposed to compromise with now 😫

Turns out "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is actually slightly less scary than "I'm a rich pervert who wants everyone to die".

It should be said as many times as possible: fuck Gavin Newsom, and if you're advocating for him to run for president fuck you too.

it's so awesome that it doesn't matter if you're a radical leftie or a VBNMW type who just wants to see some basic consequences for the prez, and it doesn't matter how popular the demand you have is, these motherfuckers just don't care what you think regardless

love to witness the mass loss of privacy rights across the world and directly perceive a big part of it turning out to be for reducing legal hurdles to gambling advertising

great advice in general but doubly so if you're going to spend any significant amount of time on social media

It's so fucking bleak that there's so many more posts here about scene drama at a lesbian bar than there is the US government's border Gestapo shooting a guy in the back, kidnapping him, throwing him in a camp, denying him proper medical care, and then torturing him Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This is human trafficking on a massive scale.

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

There's a decent paycheck waiting for any cis writer who wants to write chin-stroking articles about trans 'issues,' but a couple of quarters and a cigarette butt for the trans writers standing on the media corner with the sign reading "Will write about my people for food."

Hodges out early with the first explanation of how none of this is the fault of people like him, because he’s never been wrong. You’ll be very stupid, for saying otherwise.

The BBC has effectively become the mouthpiece of British fascism.

Brown shouldn't be able to withdraw care unilaterally without patient or regulator consultation. We're asking you to write to her and tell her how you're feeling right now. actionnetwork.org/letters/rest...

And she did so with no significant evidence to support the decision.

Heartbreaking VIDEO for all my cis followers on here (please share with any other cis people you may know) It’s about Andy Burnham’s new Transphobic Section 28 in schools and the harm caused to one trans child as a result. I never say this but I will now; Please watch don’t scroll.

This was 10 months ago , BBC's framing of far right thuggery as protest expressing legitimate concerns , it's complete disinterest in the hostile actors who finance these protests & corruption in Reform, their hounding of Prof Jason Arday & their shameful coverage of the genocide in Gaza continues 👉

I just find today's BBC News so utterly maddening, I am not by instinct an anti-BBC person, but between having ChatGPT for a Political Editor and just really failing on reporting on the far right I am increasingly willing to just see the whole thing die

Andy Burnham says this whilst sitting on the most aggressive anti-protest laws of our lifetimes, which have been used to arrest and charge nuns for holding signs protesting a genocide.

Do we think anyone at Newsnight believes that Matthew Syed and Harry Cole are the most capable and well informed commentators available to discuss international affairs

Forcing people to vote for parties they don’t like, in a country where politics has got visibly uglier, nastier and more cruel every year for two decades, so that we can stunt the electoral system into empowering Sensible Moderates nobody likes or wants? What could go wrong

What’s going to be the wake up call here? It’s not the press doing Der Sturmer or regular fascist riots, it’s not a visibly decaying public realm, it’s not ludicrous corruption or the country baking in barely tolerable temperatures, or thousands drowning in the Med, it’s not war crimes and genocide.

The leader of the Tories made a Neo-Nazi criminal an anti-racism and anti-extremism adviser, because she’s so disastrously online she couldn’t see an issue with him having harassed an MP so horrendously that he was sent to prison for it. All the lads hemmed and hawed a bit, until it went away.

The @newstatesman.bsky.social which, upholds the exclusionary anti-trans consensus in UK mainstream media is so afraid of disagreement it doesn’t allow trans people to publish at all. Complaining about this while trans people remain a proscribed group in the media is hypocrisy writ large.

How is this working out for everyone, by the way? Surely fifteen years of standing behind the Tories, Farage, the Sun and the Mail while they demand our lunch money has done the trick, so there’s no need to keep saying “Yeah, do what he says” or “Do you want me to hold your jacket for you, Nige”.

Andy Burnham now presides over the return of Section 28. No mainstream news outlet has asked him about that.