Album cover for the album βDays of Future Passed β by The Moody Blues
Nights in White Satin
Album cover for the album βDays of Future Passed β by The Moody Blues
Nights in White Satin
I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.
1. The New Hampshire House has passed a public building bathroom ban that says it is a violation of the state civil rights act for a trans person to "assert" their identity gives them access to a bathroom.
It bans them from public bathrooms across the state.
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1. Yesterday, Joe Rogan called transgender people perverts and school shooters to his audience of tens of millions of people.
It was his most overt display of transphobia yet.
Democrats wanted to court this man and his listeners.
The latest from our journalist, S. Baum.
1. Missouri appears to be forging ahead with 3 bathroom bans in public buildings across the state.
They heard 3 bills in a single night on the topic.
Lawmakers are worried that we could see what happened to Kansas happen there too.
The latest from our writer S. Baum.
The level of misinformation spread by proponents of youth gender medicine, many of whom have a professional stake in it and many of whom have fancy letters and affiliations affixed to their names, is really demoralizing. Jack Turban MD @jack_turban O ..β’ This of course runs counter to the recommendations of all major medical and mental health organizations, as well as all existing
Jesse Singal now appears to be siding with Ken Paxton on forced mental health conversion therapy for trans youth.
1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus.
Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts.
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Lmao get fucked
In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I donβt know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kidsβor of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kidsβthey arenβt saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britainβs foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facilityβs work, βthere would be no gay people left.β A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a childβs gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Brilliant!
1. In a major move, AG Letitia James has given NYU Langone 10 days to resume trans youth care, or face legal consequences.
Now many are asking: Will Mayor Mamdani follow suit and take action to protect trans youth from the Trump administration and capitulation?
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If you haven't been aware, Physics Girl (Dianna Cowern), @thephysicsgirl.bsky.social here on BlueSky, has been sick with long COVID, and specifically COVID-induced ME/CFS, since 2022.
Here is her first science video in 3+ years.
Here's how solar neutrinos work!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3...
Excellent news
Seems bad
Scenes from a personalist regime
Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born. It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft.
A screenshot of an article header from The Atlantic's "Ideas" section. The title reads "IN DEFENSE OF EFFEMINATE GAY BOYS" in large, serif capital letters. Below it, a subheader in a smaller font says, "If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I donβt know how I would have responded." The byline at the bottom identifies the author as Ben Appel.
Babe, wake up. The Atlantic is doing the "they're transing the gays" conspiracy theory.
BREAKING: SCOTUS shadow docket decision rules in favor of forced outing of trans students, reinstating a lower court ruling against California's law prohibiting forced outing. Also references forcing teachers to misgender trans students. Horrific precedent.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both
Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill How many Americans have to get Allahu Akbarβed before we realize Islam is a problem?
The way sitting politicians can say this stuff about Muslims while facing zero consequences is an indication of just how entrenched Islamophobia still is in our institutions and culture.
Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."
*Just in the LAST WEEK*:
- Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them
- Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license
- Scouts agreed to ban trans kids
- Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids
- SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents
The same is true for the subclass of parents who object to those policies on due process grounds. Under long-established precedent, parentsβnot the Stateβhave primary authority with respect to βthe upbringing and education of children.β Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510, 534β 535 (1925); accord, Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U. S. 390, 399β 400 (1923). The right protected by these precedents includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their childrenβs mental health. Parham v.
Again the only consistent principle is the one that hurts trans people. Does this parental right not apply to the parents of trans youth to direct the treatments for their children? Under this court, of course it doesn't. It's differential treatment cloaked in formal legalism.
SCOTUS in Skrmetti specifically avoided ruling on the claims by parents based on the 14th amendment due process clause. They did so because ruling against those parents would weaken the conservative parental rights movement. They wanted their cake and to eat it to and they got it. This is the result
1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:
Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.
Its a horrifying escalation.
A recent statement from the American Society for Plastic Surgeons advised against surgery, HRT, blockers for trans youth.
Now members and experts that were sidelined at the org are demanding answers after evidence shows it may have been politically influenced by the Trump admin.
Read our latest.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social New poll shows Dems problem is NOT being seen as too liberal but too weak. Sounds about right IMHO.
π₯βNo president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump. He's attacked 7 nations, 3 of which β Iran, Nigeria & Venezuela β had never been targeted by US strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in 4 years.βπ₯
America First was always about bigoted and belligerent unilateralism. Pacifism never had anything to do with it, so could journalists please stop repeating Trumpβs framing as if it was real? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
βSo called international organizationsβ¦no stupid rules of engagement.β We are a rogue murder state now, and positively proud of it.