Kai Cheng Thom

Hard Feelings The Iranian diaspora is fracturing in real time, across dinner tables, on WhatsApp, and in the silence of blocked numbers.

A must read article by Narges Bajoghli on Iran and the Iranian diaspora. nymag.com/intelligence...

I don't recommend #1!

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

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A screenshot of a mobile Google search results page in dark mode for the query "Kansas trans". Under the heading "News about Kansas," there is a list of four news articles: ​An article from the Kansas City Star, published 13 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday". The thumbnail shows a sample Kansas driver's license. ​An article from The Independent, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas sends letters to trans drivers demanding the immediate surrender of their licenses over birthright law". The thumbnail shows small pride flags on desks inside a legislative chamber. ​An article from The Topeka Capital-Journal, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas invalidates IDs and birth certificates of transgender people". The thumbnail features a close-up of colorful pride flag stickers. ​An article from Erin In The Morning, published 16 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses". The thumbnail is a nighttime photo of a state capitol building illuminated in pink and red lights.

A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas.

This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people.

This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

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This is a half baked thought but the older I get the more I notice the cultural differences btwn trans women who primarily came through a primarily "gay boy" community and those came through a "straight boy" one. Not better or worse. Just different, with somewhat different outlooks & priorities.

waking up and checking the polls to see if I'm considered a human being today

I'm launching a Trans Woman & Trans Fem somatics project with my friends Emmy and Zoe! Please support our fundraiser if you can - the money will go towards launching a trans fem somatics retreat this summer, as well as future healing and practitioner training dreams! chuffed.org/project/1684...

What does it mean for trans women to be strong? On transfemininity, self-defence and who is allowed to be dangerous

“What would [it] mean, to be ready to defend ourselves [as trans women], especially as communities of disabled people, chronically ill people, of people whose bodies are constantly subjected to the criticism of being 'weak' or 'unfit?'” @razorfemme.bsky.social's new column is now live at Script:

It has been confirmed by media that the murderer in question is Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old trans woman with far-right ideologies. I've been able to confirm that they had Nazi symbols on their Twitter profile, including racist tweets and death threats towards Indians. Van Rootselaar's behaviour in no way reflects the behavior of trans people as a community, and we unequivocally condemn both her actions and attempts by far-right and right-wing media and social media to blame trans people, as a group, for the fact that this shooting occurred.

Difficult conversations will have to be had in the next few days. We, as a community, stand with Tumbler Ridge, and stand in solidarity with each and every one of the persons injured in this senseless, heinous act, and the families of each and every one of the persons whose lives were cut short. We equally reject any attempts at instrumentalizing this shooting to blame a minority group, already the targets of countless heinous acts and B.C.'S first-and-only ever use of the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, for this act.

We stand with Tumbler Ridge.

“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.

Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

NEW Intro to somatics for social transformation course with me, Nazbah Tom, and Fayza Bundalli coming up in April! Info & registration here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

Shooting mothers, nurses, while arresting priests and toddlers - this is what comes of that. Their terror campaign is completely backfiring on them. People aren't backing down, they're just getting enraged and radicalised.

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

Close up of a black graphic on a white shirt. There is a illustration of a woman in fetish wear including gloves, corset, boots and a garter belt. She is holding a flogger and stomping on a swastika which is broken apart from the impact. Under the illustration is block letters saying “SEX WORKERS AGAINST FASCISM”

Sex Workers Against Fascism

Donate to Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE, organized by Jac Kovarik I have been involved in rapid response in the Twin Cities area since the b… Jac Kovarik needs your support for Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul

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no need to imagine. we have years of evidence already.

A Shareable Resource for Grassroots Crisis Support & Mutual Aid Flocking Towards Justice, Support Pods In Action

I made a resource on how to use Mia Mingus' "Pod Mapping" strategy for grassroots community-based crisis intervention and mutual aid

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God, Carney really said the quiet part out loud eh? Shamelessly like, "the old order of exploitation and war crimes was working well for us so we were pretending to believe in 'human rights' and 'international law' but now it's not, so let's uhhhhh make a new order and forget about all that stuff"

I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal. One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter seeking classified state documents. Nothing she wrote about could be considered classified. They simply want to suppress dissent via intimidation. Don't let them. Here is what she wrote. Please share.
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Very rarely in human history can you definitively say you are fighting on the side of Good but by god this is one of those times, we are going to defeat ICE and the Border Patrol change this wretched world into one where borders no longer kill

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

I don't quite understand why so many leftists and liberals keep saying they are "shocked" or surprised by the US attack on Venezuela or the kidnapping of Maduro. Like, it's horrible, yes. But they've been signaling that they were gonna do it for months. We shouldn't be surprised?

Shout out to every writer and artist I know who still has deadlines to hit and has gotta work somehow despite The Everything

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

2026 was the year that we took our power back from the billionaires & supremacists. The year that we rediscovered the practice of revolutionary & radical love. That we stopped trying to punish ourselves into being better people. 2026 was the year we embraced the end so we could find the beginning.