Helen’s Had It

Increasing energy dependence on a volatile, globally traded commodity delivers neither energy security nor affordability. Hope that helps. 🫡

Have you no decency? At long last, have you no decency?

When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine.

It's the same court and lawyers.

I think, sir, that you have no idea what you are talking about, and that nobody should care what you think. The meds for trans health care are CHEAP, not money-makers, and the experience as well as the science is clear. You just don’t want to listen to people it serves you to demonize.

My reaction to Skrmetti? This country does not deserve the wonder and beauty that are Trans people. In the news is nothing but fear, hatred, killings and bombs, and the president says trans people are at the root of it all. It’s been said before and I’ll say it again: PROJECT MUCH?

Woohooooo! Charlie Jane’s authentamalicious SF readamathingy is BAAAACK!

i’m so tired

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Hey guys- White nationalists have helped a white woman in Minnesota raise $300k after she was filmed calling a five-year-old Black child the n-word.

The local NAACP chapter is fundraising for the boy and his family to get legal help. The least we could do is out-fundraise the nazis.

Donate here:

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

No, not ok. All people within the US are entitled to due process, during which one’s “papers” can be provided. @mattyglesias.bsky.social is making banal excuses for an unaccountable police state.

Listing slightly to port by

Reposting ‘cuz this amateur lawyer loves this kind of analysis:

I mean, isn’t Trump PAYING El Salvador to hold these people?

I am & You are & We are Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. He must come home.

Domestic Factory Plans Called Off As Tariffs Drive Up Manufacturing Construction Costs Factory projects face surging costs due to tariffs aimed at increasing domestic manufacturing.

Tariffs! To bring back manufacturing! www.bisnow.com/national/new...

Image: Graveyard of good things being destroyed by the Trump regime.

Today’s poster for #handsoff San Mateo:

Here’s a toast to the people of Wisconsin: thank you for electing Judge Crawford! Hope in dark times.

I could write a similar letter about the US. Substitute Reagan for Thatcher, and the rest just follows our headlines

transphobes don't actually have opinions on science, they just think they're so enlightened that their beliefs must be inherently scientific

Praxis, in a way, but Praxis nonetheless.

Who among us has not done this?

Yes. And you don’t care what happens to them.

What about the last clause allowing closure if an administrator can be found to authorize it? Doesn’t this fly against congressional authority?

I swear they are trying to trap us all here by making our currency worthless.

The “Pro-Life” party strikes again. It’s only life, apparently, if it’s pre-natal.

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...

But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.

ErinReed [Mar 10] -- 400+ pages of new medical guidelines from Germany, Austria & Switzerland reaffirm trans medical care & rebukes Cass Review for "not involving medical professional societies" & recommending "psychotherapy for the ‘management of GD distress.’"
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social You blew it, buddy. Stop trying to get ahead and get right by your people. LGBTQ+ Californians fought for you, and now you pull this with Kirk. The one going under the political bus is going to be you, not us.

If governing bodies are serious about creating better & more opportunities for women, their focus should be on the numerous, proven research which finds unequal treatment of women’s sports in participation opportunities, funding and resources, access to facilities & infrastructure, &media coverage.”