ally™️: "what can i do to help trans people right now?"
us: "give us money."
ally™️: "wait,, really?"
us: "yes, really. a lot of us are struggling and direct aid is most impactful. i can send you some gofundmes...."
ally™️: "what *else* can i do to help trans people right now?"
The recent trans rights cases--Skrmetti on health care, the shadow docket passport order, and the pending athletics cases--should be seen in this context, as vehicles for chipping away at the promise of equal protection
Promotional flyer for Lawyers for Good Government. Text reads “Emergency Action Webinar: Protect Trans Youth from Federal Attacks — U.S. House Bill 3492,” with the date/time “Dec 16th, 1:00 PM EST” and a “Register now!” button. Bottom right lists speakers with headshots: Allison Chapman and Zane McNeill. Right side features a blue illustration combining a medical caduceus and balance scales on a light blue arch, with a navy-and-cream background.
🚨 US House of Representatives are voting on two anti-trans bills next week in an attempt to severely restrict gender affirming care for youth.
HR3492 would criminalize parents and providers charging them with felonies if they even attempt to access care.
Join us next week and fight back! Link ⬇️
Also #herps and #fieldbiologists, check out this job opportunity! If I was 10 years younger…. Wooo what an awesome job.
www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-...
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I know it’s not technically a tv show but Dispatch has episodes so I’m going count it
A fine black toad with bright white fingers, toes, and lips, and brown pustular blobs along its legs, resting on a dark green leaf.
A black and white toad on a green fern frond. The head and limbs are grey, and the body black.
A toad looking at the camera over a brown leaf, its black body splotched with yellow and white. It is very Halloween-core.
A black toad with huge yellow glands on its legs, head, arms, and parts of the back. Jack Skellington himself could hardly have painted a more Halloween-flavoured toad.
Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸
vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
Food pantries for pets: www.pethelpfinder.org/m/phf/35
“A screenshot of a webpage from fns.usda.gov showing a warning message in a brown box. The message claims Senate Democrats voted 12 times not to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), states there will be no benefits issued November 1, and accuses them of holding out for healthcare for illegal immigrants and gender-related procedures. The USDA Food and Nutrition Service logo appears at the bottom, along with a blue ‘Menu’ button.”
The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.
We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies.
Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.
This week on Boom! Lawyered, @hegemommy.bsky.social and I get into the anti-trans cases the Supreme Court is going to fuck up this term. The challenge to Colorado's conversion therapy ban in Chiles v. Salazar and the trans girls in sports case: Ms. Becky Pepper-Jackson v. W. Va. Dept. of Education.
Logo reading "Beyond X&Y" where the X and Y are part of the trans symbol. Beneath it reads "Trust the real science. Biology is nonbinary."
It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics
That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people
Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org
Just in case any of y'all thought they'd actually filibuster the appropriations bills coming with all the anti-trans provisions and shut the government down.
Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.
Please read MediaJustice’s report on Data Centers in South. Not only do these centers require an insane amount of water consumption that will impact our watersheds, but companies are getting discounted energy rates while every day families end up footing the utility bill.
alert: potential ban on federally-funded hospitals providing any trans health care is in the house hhs funding bill
Maybe the weirdest part -- and there are many -- is that this is just a thing some ants do. Like, this is not the only ant that does this. This one is just that much weirder because the other species this ant queen creates no longer lives anywhere near here. EXCEPT WHEN THE QUEEN CONJURES IT. 🧪
A digital graphic with a headline reading “BREAKING NEWS” in bold white and blue text. Below, large text says, “SC Abortion Ban… here they go again!” A smaller blue banner reads, “The GOP Senate is back on their bullshit. They are bringing their total abortion ban bill (S.323) back for a vote!” The body text states that on October 1st, the Medical Affairs subcommittee will hear testimony from South Carolinians before voting to remove abortion access in the state. It lists harmful elements of the bill, including: • No rape, incest, or fetal anomaly exceptions • Felony charges for doctors, nurses, and helpers • Criminalizes helping a minor leave the state • Allows civil lawsuits against abortion providers or anyone aiding in abortion • Allows lawsuits for “wrongful death” of an aborted fetus At the bottom, the text includes the handle: @PalmettoStateAbortionFund. The design uses blue and white with bold, urgent typography.
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At 8:30 tonight, the South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Committee quietly sent out an email announcing that on October 1 at 9:30 a.m., a subcommittee will hear public testimony on Senate Bill S.323.
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
Muslim person does something bad - All Muslim people are bad
Trans person does something bad - All trans people are bad
Black person does something bad - All Black people are bad
Cis white guy does something bad - He had mental health problems
things just got substantially more dangerous for every trans person in the US. the most vile people in the country have been *waiting* for something like this as an excuse.
“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” Mayor Jacob Frey said. “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity.”
www.advocate.com/crime/minnes...
Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.
This infographic describes the main results from a survey of members of 14 scientific societies. There is a pie chart showing that both academic (58%) and non-academic (42%) responded to the survey. It lists statistics: 85% of respondents reported uncertainty about the future; 71% reported federal training programs were "very" or "extremely important"; 83% reported negative impacts or irreparable harm on their field of science. There is a word cloud summarizing open-ended responses with the largest words "student research fund federal grant". Eight major themes in the responses are listed: disruption of research with societal important; concerns of closure of the USGS Bird Banding Lab; Early Career Bottleneck; Restricted Freedoms including travel and speech; Decline in Government Efficiency and Expertise; Concerns about Biased/Removed Data and Data Gaps; Concerns about the Ability to Meet Legal Mandates; and From Positive Impact to Irreparable Harm. There are icons for each participating society and a QR code for website and data availability.
Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
It's working, too; I heard about Bolton as soon as I got up, but it took until just now to hear about this production.
Trans Actual's report entitled 'Trans Segregation in Practice. Experiences of trans segragation following the Supreme Court Ruling'.
TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
UPDATE: A spokesperson for the NPS told me that the agency and the DOJ are pursuing administrative action against several Yosemite employees and possible criminal charges against several park visitors over displays on El Capitan since 2024.
Really important article to read as NC is a pivotal swing Senate seat in next year's midterms. Will NC Democrats risk their chances of retaking the Senate by continuing to abandon trans people?
Thank you @davidforbes.bsky.social for the excellent work.
Less than $700 left before Brave Space Alliance hits its 100k fundraising goal to support trans Chicagoans!
Surely we can get this in front of the eyes of some cis gays with money and push it to the finish line? 🥺🏳️⚧️
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
Salmon don't need any more problems, but African Clawed Frogs might be a new one. Our newly-published experiment shows that these frogs easily chow down on eggs, alevin, and fry from multiple salmon species
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
