So the Justice Department admits in its own filings that the following groups are extremist groups. Can someone ask Patel and Blanche how aggressively DOJ/FBI are monitoring them, considering how dangerous they are? Are they screening gov employees for affiliations with these groups?
A dog stands on a table, posing next a basted peak lapel sport coat. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.
A dog sitting on the floor, posting next to a basted blue tweed sport coat with notch lapels. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.
A dog sitting on the floor, posing in front of a wall where three tailored jackets are hanging.
A dog poses on a table. He's surrounded by a tailor's measuring tape.
Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made.
IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s
I got one of these purporting to be from Sally Rooney
it was hilarious to ME, daughter of a software engineer who was raised to assume everything is malware until proven innocent, but you know someone's gonna fall for it someday and that makes me sad and mad
I was out at dinner on Thursday with my dad and stepmom and the lot was paid parking and there was a QR code. Debby and I were already seated and drinking our water by the time my dad stomped in after having to download an app and enter his payment info. for a parking lot he'll never use again!!!!
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr
When pseudoscience rules: WSJ op-ed page loved the disinformation in new Finnish study undermining effective care for trans kids [https://bit.ly/4mPd8XY] but then bemoans when Kennedy uses it to undermine effective new cancer drugs in US [https://bit.ly/4eAYIs8]
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr UK public libraries stocking book teaching parents to detransition kids: "I told my son males cannot be female, we would go back to his birth name: ‘I know that this is something you feel you cannot live without. But you will. And you will actually be happier.”
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr Advocate
Oregon officials will pay $295k to settle lawsuit from a transgender woman abused while housed in a men’s prison, where a judge later found she was likely subjected to repeated harm.
www.advocate.com/news/crime/o...
Me too. I've gotten to the point where I check FB about once a week (used to be multiple time a day) and then I navigate to 2-3 folks pages to see what they are up to and then log off.
The site has become harder to use and hides a lot of what I actually want to see.
A screenshot of a nested thread on X (formerly Twitter). The primary post is by Miffy (@miffythegamer) and reads: "I have this terrible feeling that TERFs will only be happy once they’ve hounded Dr Beth Upton to a point where she might take her own life. I say that in all graveness and seriousness. It’s a shame Dr Upton doesn’t sue @Martina NavRATilova for every penny she’s got." This quotes a post by Martina Navratilova (@Martina), which says: "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator..." Martina's post is quoting another post by Biology Rules Ok (@OkayBiology), which reads: "Official documents in New South Wales show him listed under the name Elisabeth Ruth Annikki Upton – and under sex it states ‘female." Attached to the bottom post is a screenshot of a news article. The article features a photo of a blonde person (presumably Dr. Upton) with the headline, "legal case registered as 'female' doctor in Australia," credited to Sian Maher on April 20, 2026. The visible article text below the photo begins, "THE trans medic at the heart of a changing room row which cost taxpayers more than £400,000 has..."
Even then, they still wouldn't be happy. They'd say she engaged in emotional blackmail and they're the victims because it made them look bad.
I am not your doctor, but just as a record of one experience: I requested a booster through the CVS app, went in, got it, barely felt it, left, and paid nothing. OBVIOUSLY your situation (especially your insurance) will vary. But if you’re interested, it might be easy to do.
Armies famously throughout history never suffered from ailments or contagious diseases that reduced their efficiency. 👀
There's no way this is true right. The "AI training" explanation is a fig leaf right. Automated tools are plenty good at clicking on drop-down menus already and it's well known that Zuckerberg has had a bee in his bonnet over leakers for years
So, my immigration folks may not know this, but there’s this MASSIVE annual fundraiser in which people donate to New American Pathways — a refugee-resettlement org turned immigrant-serving org — for the greater glory of college sports (or, if you prefer, Protect Trans Kids University).
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr
I interview historian/sage Susan Stryker for Assigned Media after publication of the third edition of her landmark book, "Transgender History: A Resource for Today's Struggle—and Tomorrow"
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
This is just horrific. The gender critical movement along with the British press bullied her out of her job at the NHS and now they doxed her after she fled the country and are continuing the harassment and defamation. These people are absolute monsters.
The difference between Tucker Carlson and your ex-conservative friend down the street regretting their support for Donald Trump is that Tucker Carlson spent decades making people like your ex-conservative friend hate Black, Brown, trans, Muslim, disabled, Asian, queer, and Jewish people.
We are about a week past Sam Bankman-Fried's deadline to declare who has been helping him write his “pro se” briefs. No filing has appeared on PACER.
After more than $250 billion in revenue and billions more in subsidies, Tesla has never paid taxes... that's thanks in part to tactics like pretending $18b in profits came from places like Singapore and the Netherlands
www.reuters.com/legal/transa...
The duty of confidentiality imposed on you as a law clerk is actually incredibly opaque.
I have a vested interest in this topic since my fucking boss used those duties to tell me I couldn’t talk to even a therapist about what he did to me.
you might be surprised by how often Tesla's data recording systems randomly break, fail to function properly, go missing, or are otherwise mysteriously unable to perform their functions precisely when they are needed most
then again, you might not be surprised at all
electrek.co/2026/04/13/t...
The history of how transportation decisions get made in Seattle—more often than not, to the benefit of drivers over everybody else—suggests pretty strongly that "one more study" isn't the move. /1
www.theurbanist.org/seattle-stal...
ABOLISH ICE/DHS
Great piece. I'll add another layer of complexity which is that what *Jews* Israel recognizes as part of its state is also a complicated question. I am Jewish enough to immigrate there but not Jewish enough to marry under Israel's religious laws.
I've noticed an increasing push by the right to use the same framing they used on trans people to go after gays.
"They're sexual predators out to abuse kids."
"Two men cannot biologically be parents."
"children of gay men are being deprived of their rights to a mother and father."
lol imagine being on a submarine right now
"Trump’s approval rating on the economy dropped to 30% in April from 38% in a March AP-NORC poll. A similarly low share of U.S. adults, 32%, approve of the president’s leadership on Iran, which is unchanged since last month."
The right wing media ecosystem on X is going all in on attacking gay parents and adoption. They're pulling the worst tropes straight from the 80's.
And it was all so predictable after they felt they'd "won" on trans issues and needed the engagement.
Andrea is wearing her favorite university of Maine sweatshirt and standing on the campus mall with Fogler library in the background.
Leaving my class tonight and off to speak with a student group about what it means to be a U.S. Senate candidate. I’m proud to be a @umaine.bsky.social alum, UMaine instructor, and Master Gardener through UMaine Cooperative Extension. I am excited to bring that Black Bear spirit to DC.
#mepolitics
The King County Council is voting to sign on a letter urging King County Assessor John Arthur Wilson, who has been charged with stalking, to step down.
