@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr MoJo
Good long-form summary from Mother Jones on the Trump assault on affirming care to date and what could happen as it continues weaponizing Medicare and Medicaid against hospitals, which together cover early half of all hospital care spending.
The only reason given by Jeanine Pirro to vacate the seditious conspiracy charges is because she said so. "...because the United States has determined in its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of justice."
Hungary was the playbook for anti LGBTQ policy in the west. Don't say gay in Florida was modeled on policies adopted there, which they modeled off of Russia. Same with ending legal recognition of trans people. They restricted access to transition care in 2020.
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I think the Founding Fathers would have executed the entire administration 🤷
US Astronaut Christina Koch using an experiment facility on board the ISS
Here's a picture of Christina Koch using hardware I designed the electronics for and wrote the firmware of
As a trans engineer who left the space industry in order to feel safe enough to transition: oof.
The thing that annoys me the most is they will argue this devoid of any actual context. The anti-trans side spent years making bomb threats against children's hospitals, gay bars, and LGBTQ community centers. They call LGBTQ people groomers and pedophiles. They mocked trans teen's suicides.
Federal immigration officers shot a man six times during a traffic stop. They say he weaponized his car. Video suggests he at worst was trying to flee, and he says he was fleeing after they'd already started shooting. So far, they've been shown to have lied after nearly every one of these incidents.
Even if things stabilized overnight, when you factor in that the same 77 million cult members could support a rebranded version of this Nazi agenda again, it’s hard to see how any serious researcher or scientist would view a role in a government agency as a wise or secure career path moving forward.
It's been nearly five hours since the president of the United States posted a graphic snuff video of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer and there's no mention of it on the New York Times, Washington Post or CNN websites.
The Germans refer to it as "Hobbyloses Verhalten", or hobbyless behavior.
This really demonstrates just how transphobic the Guardian is.
EVEN the BBC reported that Hilton was on the board of Sex Matters
The Guardian report is inaccurate by omission.
People making jokes that women can't throw as well as men, due to the trans ban in darts, and I'm here to tell you that is exactly what they believe and the reasons they believe it are as stupid as you'd expect
ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues.
He had just asked to call his wife.
They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw.
Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious.
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Kavanaugh stops: "Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized a fellow member of the US Supreme Court for failing to grasp the real-world effects of an unsigned order last year that allowed immigration enforcement sweeps in Los Angeles to resume."
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A header graphic for an article featuring a "QM" logo in the top left. On the left side is a modified detail from Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper." One of the figures, leaning forward and pointing a finger, is wearing a red "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" hat. On the right side, against a dark, textured background, large text reads: "LESBIANS LIKE ME JOINED FORCES WITH CONSERVATIVES. NOW THEY'RE TURNING ON US" followed by the author's name, "Reid Newton".
The most predictable thing ever happened. Don't say trans people didn't warn y'all.
Another proud leopards eating faces party member.
For most of the history of international criminal law, proving a leader intended to commit genocide has been among the hardest things to establish. Trump posted it on Truth Social. New piece on the ten-year frame that's teaching us to ignore him. www.readtpa.com/p/take-him-l...
Testosterone needs to be degendered.
Stop talking about testosterone – there’s no such thing as a ‘true sex
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image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.
I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.
Labour, once again, refusing to do the right thing when it comes to queer people. They always have to be forced.
Jesus Christ
Slavery Reform UK would stop visas for people from countries seeking slavery reparations 1h ago
Reform are pro-slavery.
Labour to follow suit in 3… 2… 1…
IANAL but it seems to me that this is where Girlguiding are breaking the law. Banning trans women as volunteers but not banning cis men.
IMO It also demonstrates that the Girlguiding leadership is not just banning trans women because of legal threats but because it is transphobic.
After LGBTQ+ veterans were forced out of our armed forces, John Healy, the Secretary of State for Defence, promised that Labour would “right the historic wrongs.” But, of course, it hasn't.
So we're helping them sue. And we'd very much appreciate your support.
1. A new study claims trans care worsens mental health. It is fatally flawed.
It didn't measure mental health—it measured psych visits.
Even visits that stemmed from mandatory checkins, surgical pre-psych evals, or pre-treatment that was classified as post.
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Here’s the truth of it. Trump’s lunatic threats of war crimes committed against the Iranian PEOPLE won’t change a thing. They will only start WWIII. We must take away grandpa’s car keys. And we must do it NOW.
How should you participate in a society in which the 'health' system systematically harms your health, the 'human rights' commission removes your human rights, the 'justice' system refuses even to hear you and the 'independent' State broadcaster broadcasts lies about you?
A non-rhetorical question.
