never been a better time to read HEALTH COMMUNISM! www.versobooks.com/products/280...

It will be extremely interesting to see what institutions like Fenway Health and NYU Langone do now. The ostensible reason for their ending of youth gender care is now gone - will they resume care for all the trans kids they abandoned?

also worth remembering that ending a Lyme disease (borreliosis) vaccine was one of the first victories of the American anti-vaccination movement that's since captured the federal government.

Even for trans adults, care is hard to find: ‘I could not do it on my own’ State restrictions, Trump administration policies, and waning public support are further limiting adults' access to transgender care

A phenomenal story from @theresagaff.bsky.social about how access to gender-affirming care for adults, like with kids, is shrinking.

www.statnews.com/2026/04/20/t...

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.

www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

watching twin peaks: the return and the mets game back to back to produce emotions no human has ever felt before

restaurant workers fired and replaced by QR codes at daniel del prado’s cardamom chant “hey hey ho ho, QR codes have got to go outside the walker art center in minneapolis

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Watching the Dems try to use Zohran's "affordability" message without concrete plans like a rent freeze is going to make for a very painful couple of months

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They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

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happy 17776 day everyone

I understand that most of us
don't have the means to personally stop what's happening and there are many domestic victims of the US regime, but there's something very grim and galling about seeing Americans post "we must find moments of joy" every time our government murders children.

A screenshot of the subject line of an email from United Healthcare that reads "Notice: You have unused benefits for weight loss"

yeah and they are going to remain un fucking used oh my god. i get one of these like every few days

this is really good

‘The people have spoken’: Pride flags multiply as BU students, staff protest against signage policy Boston University community members protested against BU’s administration by placing pride and other flags in windows across campus after the University removed several over spring break and later ins...

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people. Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy.

The conversion therapy interest group profiled in this story with @hencarnell.bsky.social is cheering today's SCOTUS ruling. "Clients who have been forced to believe in LGBTQ ideology have faced irreversible harm in some cases," president David Pickup says. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Prejudice and the Unmarked/Marked Mindset YouTube video by Julia Serano

TDoV 🧵: trans visibility is a double-edged sword due to the Unmarked/Marked mindset: trans ppl face undue attention & scrutiny b/c we're marked. but we also face invisibility b/c ppl typically presume that every person they meet belongs to the unmarked majority (aka, cis)... youtu.be/xiU-G0mTYVY

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever.

www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Here are a few stories from the collection:

I’m Supposed to be Visible Today — But Why? Every year I wonder if visibility and joy are the same thing. And every year I am more and more convinced that the answer is no.

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us.

www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

Issue 120: Trans Cinema June 2023

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

We've just unlocked our Trans Cinema issue from 2023, guest edited by poet Spencer Williams. It is now (and forever!) entirely free.

What trans visibility looked like in the 1950s | Xtra Magazine Photos of beloved organizer Alison Laing show how trans visibility has persisted for decades

lately i've been obsessed with the photographs of alison laing, which span from 1956 to the early 2000s

for trans day of visibility, a new video about laing's life and legacy -- and the value of creating your own archive

In recent days, AMA communications to the New York Times have requested a correction on their part to reflect the actual language the AMA used in response to their inquiry. Additionally, a letter to the editor has been submitted requesting a public correction—this was neither a policy change nor was it an endorsement of a position taken by another medical society. In addition, during Congressional testimony in mid-March, I had the opportunity to set the record straight stating to the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that there has been no change in AMA policy with respect to access to and provision of gender-affirming care. This will appear in the Congressional Record.

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people.

cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawling networks. The impact on trans people's lives is devastat...

Crossing state borders for HRT. Insurance denials. Missed surgeries.

U.S. Catholic bishops imposed a ban on all trans healthcare throughout the church's massive networks. That's left working class trans people struggling even more.

Our latest, by @davidforbes.bsky.social are some of their stories:

With more older drivers on the road, states try to balance safety and mobility The number of older drivers on the road is climbing. Safety advocates want tougher rules for relicensing, but many drivers say they shouldn't be forced to give up their mobility because of age alone.

This piece is frustrating. The bulk of it is spent on the debate around licensing with a brief mention at the end of a major issue: Many older drivers live in areas without transportation options. Stricter licensing and more road tests are needed, but we also need to address car dependency.

Today I am barn raising for an $1800 March rent need for a family in Central neighborhood.

Can you chip in or share?

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If you're at an airport today, we'd LOVE to know what it's like interacting with ICE instead of TSA. You can DM me or find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82.

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op ed in the strib today from a roofer who is scared to return to work due to ICE. she brings up developers like united properties and DR horton not calling for an end to the ICE occupation, which was the target of the press conference in the below thread

www.startribune.com/mn-immigrant...

as a MA voter, moulton deserves to get absolutely piledrived at the polls for his shameful stance on trans rights (and he will)