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Time for Mayor Mamdani to live up to his campaign promises and ensure care is kept safe for New York trans kids.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp:

www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!

Screenshot of a wiki page that has the following sections: 1. Early Life 2. Career 3. Association with Jeffrey Epstein 4. Quotes 5. Bibliography

When you look at the Wikipedia of an old white guy whose books you read in college there is an unfortunately high probability it will look like this

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

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If there's one thing we love, it's suing politicians to protect our constitutional rights. 💘

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We’re suing Rady Children’s Health for violating its legal obligations to preserve access to gender-affirming care for patients under 19. 
 
Rady broke its promises when it decided to end access to these vital services in response to the Trump Admin’s illegal campaign against gender-affirming care.

BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another.

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A young Fred Korematsu

A photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu

Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

Disability groups are standing united for trans rights. That hasn't always been the case. Forty years ago, disability advocates abandoned the LGBTQ+ community in exchange for legal protections. Decades later, they are fighting a Trump administration rule to roll-back more safeguards for tr...

Last month, Secretary Kennedy had a press conference where he claimed that the original intent of the ADA was to exclude trans people. So I asked a bunch of experts and someone who was actually there.

The blowback of voting to fund those that are killing us on our own soil has only just begun.

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to
- create safe spaces
- protect schools
- get kids TO school
- check on neighbors
- deliver groceries
- help pay the rent
- let people know of danger
- feed the helpers, too!
- and on and on

This judge says:
- refugees must be released in the next 5 days
- Returned to Minnesota. Not released onto the streets of Texas, which is what's been happening.
- ICE must alert the refugees' lawyers so they aren't released into dangerous cold without someone to meet them

The massive government funding package just failed badly in the Senate, 45-55.

Needed 60.

Zero Democrats voted for it.

SEVEN Republicans opposed it:

Budd
Johnson
Lee
Paul
Moody
Rick Scott
Tuberville

(John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)

Image showing news where Sex Matters has lost (twice in a day)

Rough day for Sex Matters

Senate fails to advance spending bills as Democrats push for DHS reforms Senators blocked a package of six spending bills that includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats continue to push for reforms to immigration enforcement.

Senators blocked a package of six spending bills that includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats continue to push for reforms to immigration enforcement. n.pr/45zPhEi

"Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

gallego sucks (his position on trans issues means I will never trust him) but it's very good that a frontline, moderate-coded member of the senate caucus is calling for miller's head and hopefully it will help drag the rest of the squishes towards this position

You can only be the rebel alliance if you blow up the tool of the empire, not use it for yourselves, i hate you guys so much

Scotland sends baby box to New York after mayor Mamdani cites policy Scottish social justice secretary says pledge for the city shows shared ‘commitment to tackling child poverty’ New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has received a baby box from the Scottish government after modelling part of his election campaign on Edinburgh’s example of providing each expectant mother with a set of essentials. Scotland’s social justice secretary, Shirley-Anne Somerville, said it would help the city’s leader develop his own plans for a “baby basket”. Continue reading...

Scotland sends baby box to New York after mayor Mamdani cites policy

🚨👀 This is powerful.

Over 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND) orgs are asking Congress to "refuse to provide" one more dollar to ICE & CBP and "take action to revoke the tens of billions" given by the reconciliation (Trump's big ugly bill).

Key ask of the letter that just went to Congress. ↘️

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

bars

Fuck my analysis of the Bovino firing was that it would fail because Border Patrol would shoot someone else in a couple of weeks I didn't expect them to shoot someone THE NEXT FUCKING DAY

MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact

We Built a Patio at My Prison. It Has Changed My Life Incarcerated women built a patio, and we use it for Bible study, leisurely picnics, to engage in mindfulness or yoga, and to play cards or crochet.

"I thought the idea of a patio in prison was a useless and irrelevant gesture," writes Lisa.

"But I was wrong. This patio has changed my life."

not productive: "here's all the reasons you should be understanding about why I was wrong."

productive: "I was wrong. you were right. how can I help now?"

and then STOP trying to get people to stop being mad at you. they're going to be mad a while. that's okay. just eat it and try to do better.

Get off Twitter, it is the only way these oafs investigate anything. It is literally dangerous to your speech rights to be or appear on that website.