part time brooklyn doll

happy women's day to women and cisfems

Friends from outside Minnesota have asked me if there are celebrations in the street over Noem being fired. To anyone not in MN: no. people are still buying neighbors groceries and collecting for their rent and patrolling. If ice is abolished or trump dies, then mpls will celebrate

If you're curious about what it was like for trans people to be forced to access care through extra-conservative, cautious gender clinics OR obtain trans surgeries via medical travel to Southeast Asia, prior to 2010, read my book Mobile Subjects from 2018 www.dukeupress.edu/mobile-subje...

Members of the Oregon Education Association met Friday and Saturday for our PAC Convention and 75% of participants voted not to endorse a gubernatorial candidate. We are sending a message to our electeds and candidates: no longer will you be able to do the bare minimum and get our support.

"Only way to stop a bad guy with an LLM is a good guy with an LLM"

Coffee bags, one is Tom of Finland with a Tom of Finland image on it. The other is Moomin with a Moomin leaning on a blueberry. More details: in the photograph of two "Art Roast" coffee bags on the shelf of a store with prices in euros. One of the bags is large and black and says HEAVY DUTY dark roast coffee beans, exclusive blend by Robert [I can't read it, it's in script]. The other is blue and says Blueberry coffee.

ah yes, the two genders

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid...

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"israel has the right to defend itself" is going to go down in history as one of the most blood soaked, gut wrenching, evil conjuring phrases of this century. the same way "i was just following orders" was for a previous generation.

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A constant rhetorical trope has it that "the left" is always doing it wrong and someone else knows how to right it.

COMMENTING GUIDE: Opposing Two Trump Regime Rules Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Deadline 2/17/26 Creator profile picture Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland January 26 Edit I. Bottom Line Up Front The Trump Regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published two companion proposed rules designed to eliminate access to gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Together, these rules would: Ban hospitals from providing this care (CMS-3481-P) — regardless of how the care is paid for Prohibit Medicaid and CHIP from covering this care (CMS-2451-P) — cutting off funding for lower-income families You have the opportunity to help defend trans kids by submitting comments against these vile proposed rules. Because even if a state wanted to continue covering gender-affirming care through Medicaid, the hospital rule would prevent hospitals from providing it. The two rules use different regulatory mechanisms to accomplish the same policy goal: eliminating access to gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 (or under 19 for CHIP). You should submit your comment to both dockets. The deadline is 5PM ET on February 17, 2026.

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17

One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage

Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states

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my 4 year old literally says "sometimes i'm a boy and sometimes i'm a girl" every week, and doesn't seem aware that dolls or trucks would be considered gendered.

some of these people have just never genuinely listened to a child about anything.

what pension?

reads like Cookie Meuller writing about acid parties in Haight-Ashbury

It’s day 74 of the ICE occupation of MSP.

We know it’s not over yet.

Despite the promise of an end to the surge, what we see on the ground is ICE continuing to abduct our neighbors and terrorize our community.

Stay vigilant, and keep your whistles, phones, and rapid response networks ready.

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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

i'm reminded that for some cis* people who surround themselves with trans women, a perk is to have options when they need someone to blame for their problems

thinking a lot lately about how, by the time "t4t" stops being about craigslist personals its already a separatist ethos.

Sounds like the fascists just kidnapped another kid in Waite Park.

“Screenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: ‘Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18–25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.’ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text ‘TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.’ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a ‘Learn More’ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.”

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
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I heard that as part of the deal ICE agents will be required to complete Workday training modules.

This paragraph is incredible. What cruelty it paints. @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/letter-from-...

Ruthie and Craig: “Don’t just think about winning, think about what you’re going to do the day after you win”

Now is a great time to quit. If they don't like this, they're not going to like what happens next at all.

The future is unwritten and things are extremely fucking bad right now in so many ways. But when I look out at the streets of MPLS, and compare what it feels like now to what it felt like in 2009, we are so much more powerful, so much more organized, educated, and practiced in both care and combat

reading that Atlantic piece and just got to the part where the author casually categorizes Minnesota kids as "children of immigrants" and "their white peers".

cool cool cool

a black and white photo of a four-door sedan launched into the air by an explosion just out of frame

in 1973, basque separatists killed spain’s fascist prime minister with a bomb so powerful it launched the car he was in clear over a five story building. he survived the initial attack but died in the hospital