This means that HHS can no longer initiate investigations of gender clinics for trans youth based on the Kennedy declaration or try to terminate federal funding through Medicaid and Medicare.

This is an unequivocal win for the 22 states that brought this suit to protect access.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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Healthcare is a right.

You shouldn’t have to earn it.

It shouldn’t be dependent on employment or economic status.

It shouldn’t be something you have to fight for.

It shouldn’t be something that leaves you in debt for life.

Universal healthcare saves lives.

"... all for nothing more than co-signing an op-ed advocating for Palestinian rights"

A national disgrace.

If you kill your wife, you don't get to be a husband anymore Some lessons from the media coverage of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer's murders.

My latest.

I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer.

One way media can fight back against male violence:

If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more.

You’re her killer.

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Thanks to MUTHA magazine editor for mentioning A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE in this roundup! My memoir is forthcoming soon from
@uwapress.uw.edu 4/28/26.

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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Screen shot of Tamiko Nimura’s essay “Unsilencing History” at the AWP Writer’s Chronicle with picture of hills and a river.

Screen shot of Tamiko Nimura’s book excerpt from A Place For What We Lose from the AWP Writer’s Chronicle.

Thanks to editor J.T. Hill for inviting me to write about my research process for A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE, now out with an excerpt from the book at the AWP Writer’s Chronicle!
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BREAKING: A record-high 40 senators just voted to block weapons to Israel, up from 27 last July.

There is much more work to be done, but today was yet another statement that the movement for Palestinian rights is growing in the halls of power.

The Exorcist in maybe 4th grade? Terrified me for at least a decade.

40 points in just over a year

A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson, the "Hidden Figure" that sent man into space

A photo of Vanessa Wyche, director of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil service member

Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space.

And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history

The detained immigrant has now entered the fifth day of his hunger strike. He continues to face serious retaliations.

It was great to talk to Noel Gasca about the One Book One Coast program and my book for @kuow.org.
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TODAY ONLY: get 1 month of COYOTE for a mere $4!!! www.coyotemedia.org/local-news-day

Stop using this shit, please💥

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal

The correct response to this missive is Two Weeks to Impeach & Remove. Anything else is aiding and abetting these crimes.

heaving a sigh of relief tonight does not preclude impeachment, removal, and trials tomorrow. this motherfucker.

TRY BOOKS!

I see what you did there #loveshack

Funding jeopardy - Powell Tribune As the long process to restore and create an exhibit to display the historic root cellar at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center continues, the funding that made that and other projects possible is ...

The administration's proposed elimination of funding for the Japanese American Confinement Sites program will hurt places like Heart Mountain, Topaz, Minidoka, Manzanar and other organizations trying to tell this history. We're working to reverse it.
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Let's annotate.
1. Begins with a CLEAR statement laying out WHO the culprit is and what he is doing.
2. Specifically says what he thinks needs to happen next.
3. Calls out his own institution.

THIS IS THE BASEMENT in terms of a response & his colleagues are underground.

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Thank you thank you!

Very very end of the list—but I’m in @msmagazine.com!

April 2026 Reads for the Rest of Us The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in April 2026.

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Let This Radicalize You Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

I was going to write today, but until we know more, I don't have any new words for this moment. What I will say is that if you are reeling, and you know you want to be part of making things better, Mariame Kaba and I wrote a book for you. I hope it helps.

My university is too scared of its shadow to publicize the impact of my amicus brief in the birthright citizenship case, so I am grateful to my former dean Gene Nichol for this shout-out.

#lawsky #academicsky

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Grappling with her father’s unpublished narrative of Tule Lake incarceration, Tamiko Nimura constructs her own memoir of connection - International Examiner How does a public trauma become a family secret?   Sometime in the 1960s, a librarian named Taku Frank Nimura wrote a book, “Daruma: The Indomitable Spirit,” about being incarcerated in US concentrati...

What a gift: to be seen so clearly by a good friend and brilliant thinker, Vince Schleitwiler, at your joint publishing home, the International Examiner.
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We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration Book — Non-fiction. By Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura; illustrated by Ross Ishikawa. 2021. 160 pages. This graphic novel tells the story of Japanese American imprisonment during World War II, and the res...

Check out the graphic novel, “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.”

By @frankabe.bsky.social and @tamikonimura.bsky.social; illustrated by @rossish.bsky.social
#TeachTruth #TeachOutsideTextbook
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