New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online
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Imani Barbarin
Disabled Loudmouth. https://www.canva.com/design/DAFjqA7WtS0/11YO6Ql6Yl9J792_jipiwQ/edit?utm_content=DAFjqA7WtS0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Big update: $25/$250 My mom had to be taken to hospital due to not being able to breathe due to her cancer! Pls we need that whellchair TODAY! Pls help us! @bfitzinar.bsky.social @decolonizeunions.bsky.social @olivebrinker.bsky.social @trance.bsky.social @imanibarbarin.bsky.social
Ellie Noctis 🏳️⚧️🩷🇦🇷We were not expecting to keep asking for help this month but my mom’s wheelchair got damaged while coming home from hospital! This is one of her basic needs and we are trying to buy a new one (cost $250). Pls helps us this week to get my mom a new wheelchair! www.paypal.me/KevinMoondust
“DHS’ office for civil rights has two employees right now” Horrifying story via @juliametraux.bsky.social
Julia MétrauxA recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I’m really excited to be presenting new work at Brandeis next month! If you’re in the Boston area, come check it out. Also, since I’ll be in Boston for five days, I’m welcoming suggestions on cool things to do: feminist/queer bookstores, sex shops, cafes or art spaces, fun non-stuffy museums, etc.
ChaeRan Yoo FreezeJoin us for three amazing events on queer crip pleasure, art, and activism with @drsamischalk.bsky.social, our speaker for the prestigious Mandel Lecture in the Humanities.
Can we help out please? giveahand.com/fundraiser/d...
For one last time I beg your help, I need to pay this today at 2pm. This is our last chance to get my mom her cancer treatment this month $227/$970 pls share❤️ @trance.bsky.social @dgmeek92.bsky.social @olivebrinker.bsky.social @imanibarbarin.bsky.social @mayawest.online @jskylerinc.bsky.social
Ellie Noctis 🏳️⚧️🩷🇦🇷Waking up to my mom dying at the hospital. Her lungs are failing and cancer seems to be spreading faster than we thought. We still need money for her treatment since that is the only thing keeping her alive pls we beg anyone help! Any donation helps ko-fi.com/ellienoctis/... Save my mom’s life
Anyone picking the centrist path is a Republican. Jig is up, baby. Clinton Wing of the Dem party is done. Go that way and die. If you want to win a seat, get on the side of the good guys. Or run as a Republican.
Amanda KatzAnd this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise
"If careerists had not been so easy to bribe and blackmail, ordinary people would not have to suffer under this group of sadistic oligarchs and politicians. Our era is the culmination of complicity." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
Remember when I said I think our sense of time is being f’d with by these platforms - here is a great example from @imanibarbarin.bsky.social educating us on asynchronous communication www.instagram.com/reel/DUIyx7N...
How do you write a whole story about the safety of trans youth in CA without mentioning the existential threat that is Gavin Newsom.
"Right now, the Democratic party and its leaders are trying to tell you 'oh, it can be reformed. Oh, it's this version of ICE that's the problem, but the reality is fascism is a virus and if you don't fucking treat it, to eradicate it, it will always be there to sicken and fucking slaughter you" 🔥🔥🔥
Imani BarbarinDems treated both viruses, covid and fascism, the exact same way. youtube.com/shorts/U9DHa...
If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.
Andrew SolenderNEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207 7 Democrats voted YES on the bill: - Jared Golden - Marie Gluesenkamp Perez - Henry Cuellar - Tom Suozzi - Laura Gillen - Don Davis - Vicente Gonzalez One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
Once when we wanted to show the ineffectual dithering of The Good Place Committee, we had one of them say, "There are rules, procedures. This is The Good Place -- we can't just *do stuff.*" We almost didn't include it, because we thought it was a little on the nose.
Aaron RuparWELKER: Massie and Khanna say they are looking at options including impeachment and contempt for DOJ officials. Would you support those steps? KAINE: I think that's premature