Maura Hubbell

There should be tens of millions of Americans with a T on their forehead.

“law enforcement agencies that want an individual’s health records could go to Microsoft instead of multiple providers…A woman pursuing reproductive health care in a state with an abortion ban could be at higher risk”

I’d love to see Proud Boys try to cope with Latin grammar.

I’ve told Canadian co-workers not to do it. CBP is worse than ICE.

I’m pretty sure I read about this possibility back in the aughts or something.

the police officer's association has been calling me non-stop for a month or two now so I finally let them put me through and told them fuck you you murdered my friend two blocks away from my house and then they hung up on me lmao. crossing my fingers it sticks this time

This 100 percent. It's why it's so hard to place trans stories in many outlets that never took the NYT/Atlantic hard right turn. They don't want to actively contribute to sacrificing us, but they quietly want to see us sacrificed bc they think it will keep them safe.

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

A few months ago a woman I’d just met told me about all the good advice “[her] AI” was giving her. I said to her, “You know that’s all just statistics, right?” But she wasn’t having any of it. I haven’t seen her since.

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

@edithcharles.bsky.social There was a story on the BBC yesterday about teens on “fatbikes” tearing up golf courses in Australia. Naturally I thought of you.

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...

The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers.

Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.

(Published Dec. 2025 with @highcountrynews.org)

Gen Z men want trophies. Gen Z women know they’re responsibilities.

Bill Gates turned me into a girl.

Me: jellyfish.

Neighbors from China: [Cook, cut into strips, toss with chili oil, green onions, and garlic]

The whole cul-de-sac: Nom!

[skritching motions at phone]

They are. I have two of them.

A scanned image of the first page of a legal document on letterhead from Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, dated February 27, 2026. It is labeled "Opinion No. KP-0518" and addressed to Mr. Darrel D. Spinks, Executive Director of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. A portion of the first paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council."

A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex."

A scanned image of the third page of the Attorney General Opinion document. The text discusses various statutory and dictionary definitions of the terms "health care provider" and "health care". There are no highlighted sections on this page.

A scanned image of the seventh and final page of the Attorney General Opinion document, showing the "SUMMARY" section and the signature block for Ken Paxton. The entire summary paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "The definition of a “health care provider” in subsection 161.701(2) of the Health and Safety Code unambiguously encompasses the professions regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a child’s sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those efforts and, separately, risk revocation of their licenses to practice."

Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

We hold these truths to be self-evident.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

The top of the Space Needle appears to hover above Queen Anne hill, as seen down a street from a few miles away.

Aliens hovering over Queen Anne.

That’s a terrific book and Keezy is the stuff!

Some people simply need to be followed everywhere they go for the rest of their lives by a nice old lady from the American Friends Service Committee yelling "here is a depraved murderer in your midst"

Except as pâté.

Mental note: the next time I’m in the area, try a Hyphy Burger.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

We had Bill Clinton once. We can do better than another one.

Everything is better with nooch.

I often meet people from famously safe cities for trans people who sorta look down at red states as this lost cause where the only existence to be had there is a hellscape that you can only escape from. But we LIVE here, we have loved ones, communities, networks, all fighting to stay!

“Normal” is code for “bigoted”. Code doesn’t get the attention it deserves.