Daily Boston affirmations
- The bus is only a little bit late
- I can feel my toes
- Happy hour is not necessary
- the snow IS melting
- my $14.50+tax+tip lunch bowl makes me feel full and healthy
- The green line is much faster than walking

Idc about Heated Rivalry because I’ve read the exact same story hundreds of times on ao3, but if it makes yall start liking 2012 gay fanfiction and 2005 Montreal indie music, then I support it 200%!!!!!!!

Has anyone done a 3 hour youtube deep dive of every overdone fanfic trope in heated rivalry explained

Watching people debate your rights is a soul-crushing process. Watching people do so who can't even be bothered to pretend to believe what they're saying is soul-annhilating.

How the Conservative Movement’s Anti-Trans Crusade Brought the Supreme Court to Heel Six years ago, the Court issued a landmark decision protecting the civil rights of trans people. Republicans set about making sure that that would never happen again.

This article is a must-read. It matches my own experience of seeing conservative judges go from often siding with trans plaintiffs prior to 2021 to being outwardly hostile. Judges don't live in a hermetically sealed chamber. They absorbed anti-trans propaganda.

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

You need to understand the heroism of these everyday people in Minneapolis minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/13/i...

I have screen shots with my star trib sub

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Kinda wanna go on the modest mouse cruise

Watch Rep. Sarah McBride's Powerful Statement on Republicans' Anti-Trans Obsession The first openly trans member of Congress made a rare, personal appeal as the GOP wages an all-out assault on trans youth.

Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...

"The Department of DOJ has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo obtained by NPR."

They want trans people raped.

I live as a man and am seen as a man. That is a verifiable fact whether or not I am "really" a man. Having a passport that outs me would expose my private life and put me in danger. The government shouldn't get to impose that on me because of some philosophical abstraction.

I really dislike this question of whether trans people are "really" women/men. It's the framing the anti-trans activists prefer, and as far as I'm concerned it's also completely irrelevant.

What many quotes seem to say is having identity documents at odds with your lived sex creates opportunities for discrimination and harassment.

The reporter heard about these practical concerns, but chose to focus her story more on what a trans person's "true" identity is and who gets to decide it.

What I dislike about the story is that the author presents the central tension as being about identity and validity: Are trans people "really" who we say we are?

The story claims that this is what many trans people told the reporter. Interestingly, none of the quotes from trans people say this.

New Passport Rule Sends Blunt and Sweeping Message to Trans Americans

I really disliked this piece on trans passports by Amy Harmon of the New York Times. It is, admittedly, an "old" New York Times story, one that makes a reasonable effort to cloak its biases and present itself as seeking both sides of a story ("new" NYT stories don't bother).

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Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

The Trump administration on price data:

Gay Halloween in DC this year is gonna be crazy

Nooo I forgot my lunchbox at home

Does anybody know if we gotta bring our backpacks to the rapture?

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Thanks!! I’m just worried if I submit for a data correction (instead of a new application), things might get held up, or denied (they could argue the data was “correct” at the time it was printed). But hopefully guidance is issued soon

I have kinda the same question bc I also got my passport under the Trump EO rule with the wrong sex marker—Should we apply for a passport renewal (DS-82), or data correction (DS-5504)?

an open manhole cover

a literal sewer tunnel with water in it

Average DC apartment listing: BRIGHT AND SPACIOUS GARDEN-LEVEL STUDIO - LIGHT-FILLED INTERIOR - AUTHENTIC EXPOSED BRICK - INCLUDES A SWIMMING POOL!!!!! $2700/month

JB Pritzker’s speechwriters:

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