Mel DeSilva

The image background is the disability pride flag. On the bottom left and top right corners the background is a dark grey/off-black color. There are five stripes going diagonally through the middle, in these colors starting from the bottom left: Red, yellow, white, light blue, and green. The text of the image reads in large font: Disability Pride Month, July 2025. The Transhealth logo is in the bottom left in white.

Disability Pride Month is an annual observance in July that celebrates people with disabilities, promotes disability justice and visibility, and raises awareness of disability culture.

#DisabilityPride #DisabilityPrideMonth #NoAbleism #ADA

Statement from Transhealth - The US Supreme Court Greenlights Healthcare Discrimination for Transgender Youth in US vs Skrmetti

In the face of cruelty and fear, Transhealth will continue to offer healthcare, build community, and fight for a world in which every trans person—of every age—can thrive.

Read our full statement transhealth.org/transhealth-...

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Deplorable.

The point is that people are fully capable of accepting another person’s chosen name.

The whole world just up and accepted the new Pope’s chosen name. Just like that. So don’t let anyone tell you they can’t do it for trans kids.

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Why isn't Kristi Noem dressing up in her ICE cosplay outfit, going to Oklahoma, and apologizing to the family they incorrectly took out of their home, in their underwear, and took their money and belongings? You made a terrible mistake, Kristi Noem. Fix it.

I love oven birds. 🩷

Kurt Loder is 80

Bloody hell

Fact Check: Trump's HHS Review On Trans Care Filled With Lies, Pseudoscience The review, which was made possible by an executive order calling transgender healthcare "mutilation," reached its predetermined conclusion on its May 1st publication date.

1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare.

It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process.

My fact check of the Trump HHS review.

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Transhealth’s reponse to the unscientific attack on trans youth from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Report promotes dangerous and discredited conversion therapy by another name.

Read Transhealth’s reponse to the unscientific attack on trans youth from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services transhealth.org/response-hhs-report

Screenshot of XML information open in notepad, showing “Alex Byrne” under the creator tag..

If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne.

The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews.

Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

The arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan is chilling.

I’m so saddened by the number of people I went to school with who are now fascists.

The Heritage Foundation, who wrote Project 2025, and to whom Trump is beholden to keep him in office, is actually, really, planning on making us all CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS. They are already having certain agency employees report on one another for criticising CHRISTIANITY.

Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.

I thought we were supposed to be saving money. What a joke. Fucking unbelievable. www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

JD Vance sucked the life out of a frail Pope Francis like a Dementor didn’t he?

Bingo

Georgetown Law, Mt. Holyoke, Cornell: who else is on the list? Let's celebrate those who fight back!

They don’t care.

They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family.

They don’t care.

They think it’s funny.

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

“Prime, but with human beings.” JFC, what have we become?

A lot of the tariffs have been paused huh? Trump is clearly manipulating the global markets for his own financial gain and the financial gain of his family and friends. Beyond corrupt and immoral.

US Postal Service head DeJoy resigns | CNN Politics Louis DeJoy resigned from his role as head of the US Postal Service on Monday, leaving the independent government agency at a time when the 250-year old service faces calls for privatization and scrut...

Good riddance but I’m sure the next person in charge of the
USPS will be so much worse. www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/p...

Signal Chat Disaster: Trump Admin Hypocrites Crushed by Their Own Past Words YouTube video by The Bulwark

Hear, Hear! @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social lay out the hypocrisy, stupidity, and criminality:

Why aren’t the Democrats all over this Signal shit?

None of that should have been discussed outside of a scif. They should all be fired.