“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Medicaid-funded services are their lifeline—and make their work possible. But the Trump cuts to the program could change it all.
Meet Audrey and Jeremy, who went viral for talking about how the GOP's Medicaid cuts could devastate their everyday.
Exodus 8:4.
@johnmoe.bsky.social In addition to Pop Song Correspondences, I was wondering if there could be Pop Song Awkward Parent-Child Talks. When Fiona Moon puts on a 90s Spotify playlist and hears a song about her mom, Mary, she’s going to have a lot of questions.
Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC?
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I have been thinking about the story of Honesty Bishop for days. I truly wish everyone could understand that this is the violence wrought at the intersection of transphobia, health misinformation, mass incarceration, etc.
The reporting here is excellent and important.
CW: sexual assault and suicide
This breaks my heart. This is sexual harassment. This is traumatizing. TERFs and transphobes and everyone “just asking questions” for “women’s safety” (this happened to a cis teenager) should be ashamed for the rest of their lives.
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
What Newsom is selling about trans people is what Trump is selling his base about trans people: "your life will be better if trans people's lives are worse."
It's not a purity test; it's about rejecting a politics that sells you empty promises in exchange for other people's misery
I keep thinking about how Trump, during his first term, talked about building an alligator-filled moat to use against immigrants, and few really took him seriously, and now he talks about sending Americans to CECOT and it gets brushed off the same way
In WWII, the US kidnapped thousands of German & Japanese civilians in Latin America (who committed no crimes) to exchange them for US POWs — to send them to countries we were actively bombing. Once they stepped foot on US soil, they were charged with illegal entry and interned. Some until 1947!
i think this new york centric worldview helps explain why these people see national politics the way they do. parochialism of thinking that politics everywhere is the same as it is in manhattan.
They're literally doing the meme
For more than a week, conservative media and politicians have worked themselves into a frenzy over a spectacle manufactured by a fencer who refused to compete against a 19-year-old trans woman. Here is the target of that hate campaign, finally, in her own words.
Spicy Moon at Bowery/Houston. Mapo tofu and everything else on the menu. Could not recommend more strongly.
A lot of people will argue themselves into supporting things they know are wrong as long as it’s happening to someone who annoys them and the disappearing of student activists in a country that’s spent the last decade making it fashionable to resent them is banking on that
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
Interior of literature from @nycalamaunited which says “We are striking because Alamo: Illegally laid off over 20% of our coworkers, affecting 70 different households who had no time to prepare; Canceled the health insurance of our coworkers and denied them severance; Are purposefully understaffing to keep more money in their pockets, which hurts staff, the customers, and the quality of service. An injury to one is an injury to all! We demand that Alamo negotiate with the union in good faith and stop putting corporate greed ahead of people and their families! Cancel your season pass. Don’t cross the picket. Spread the word. Locations listed: Brooklyn (455 Albee Square West), Manhattan, Nassau & Liberty Street.
A beautiful sunny day for @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social to undo its layoffs and start talking with
@nycalamounited.bsky.social about understaffing!
i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.
Valentine was the doctor. The proper name for today is Valentine's Monster's Day.
Trans people threw the first brick at Stonewall. Now, the Trump administration is trying to write us out of that history. We will not let them.
(Current page on the left, 2/1/25 version on the right)
The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”
There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.
“I Think You Should Leave” sketch where man in hot dog costume is taking clothes off a rack at Brooks Brothers. Overlaid text by user reads “essays, modern day Gore Vidal, stuff like that”.
I’m really sorry that happened to you. That was seriously terrible thing for him to do.
Just gonna sneak right past you and announce the birth of your Lord and Savior.
Vital thread illustrating the cumulative strategy of deny, defend, depose is drag out til death 👇🏽
Literally the second I get out of bed. The Oreo dogs are somehow sharing intelligence.
