Mastodawn

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-18-2025-wednesday

"In 2025, as the Trump administration echoes those people [determined to preserve a government that discriminates], celebrations of Juneteenth are being cut back or even canceled. Corporate sponsors and local governments, as well as the national government, are pulling back their support for festivals and Juneteenth events."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/2

June 18, 2025 (Wednesday)

Tomorrow is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement in Texas on June 19th, 1865, that enslaved Americans were free.

Letters from an American

https://daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/no-kings-no-rights-the-unspoken-crisis

As Black commentator Danielle Moodie rightly insists, "All of us" includes trans people, who are now directly in the line of fire from Republicans and the Supreme Court dominated by a rabidly anti-LGBTQ right-wing Catholic bloc:

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/3

No Kings, No Rights: The Unspoken Crisis Gutting America

This deep dive reveals how political apathy, media complicity, and historical prejudice pave the way for escalating authoritarianism and violent extremism.

The DAM Digest

"The Supreme Court's decision to uphold a ban on gender-affirming care, coupled with the Trump administration's zeroing out of funding for a suicide prevention hotline specifically for the LGBTQ+ community, paints a grim picture. This coordinated attack on the most marginalized, particularly the transgender community, is not an isolated incident. It is a calculated strategy that, as history painfully demonstrates, inevitably expands to engulf other groups."

#Juneteenth #trans #LGBTQ
/4

"The historical thread of dehumanization runs deep, connecting past injustices to present-day crises. The same mindset that justified the subjugation of indigenous populations, the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, and the brutalities of Jim Crow, now fuels discriminatory policies against marginalized communities. ...

For a multi-racial democracy to truly thrive, the freedom of one must guarantee the freedom of all."

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/5

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/scotus-denies-gender-affirming-care

"Of course, the impact of this [Supreme Court Skrmetti] decision isn’t limited to Tennessee."

~ Joyce Vance

Just as Juneteenth speaks to ALL of us, what the Supreme Court and Republicans are doing to trans people involves ALL of us.

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/6

SCOTUS Denies Gender Affirming Care to Transgender People, Live with E. Jean Carroll, and More

A recording from Joyce Vance's live video

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/what-to-the-white-american-is-the

"Of course, Juneteenth has everything to do with us."

~ Robert P. Jones

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/7

What, to the White American, is the 19th of June?

Toward a Season of Critical Patriotism between Juneteenth and Independence Day

White Too Long by Robert P. Jones

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-trans-youth-skrmetti-tennessee

"That stance [articulated by the Supreme's right-wing Catholic bloc, that trans people can never constitute a protected class] could ripple out beyond this case, particularly if the other conservatives share it. Alito does explicitly in his concurrence."

~ Kate Riga

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/8

Supreme Court Lets Red States Deny Care For Trans Youth

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday that Tennessee’s ban on gender affirming...

TPM - Talking Points Memo

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-is-good-that-trans-people-exist

"We are all better off in a world where people can become who they are, even if who they become surprises their parents, friends, teachers, employers, and political representatives. We are better off in a world where human flourishing takes many forms, and where people are allowed to find the form and shape and life that fits them."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/9

It Is Good That Trans People Exist

They are a blessing, not a problem.

Everything Is Horrible

"We are all better off when we recognize that other people’s expectations and assumptions and rigid categories don’t define us, and that only we can define ourselves. ...

Fascists hate trans people because they hate diversity, they hate possibility, they hate joy, and they hate human flourishing. Fascists want to put everyone in a box—or I should say a cell—and shoot anyone in the head who dares to edge out of it."

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/10

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/us-supreme-court-gender-equality

"The court, controlled by career politicians in robes who were hand-selected for their loyalty to the rightwing and their willingness to be wildly intellectually dishonest in pursuit of Republican policy objectives, has ended the right to abortion, desiccated the Voting Rights Act, made state gun regulations nearly impossible and declared the president functionally immune to criminal law."

~ Moira Donegan

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/11

The US supreme court just undermined gender equality

The Skrmetti decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on transition-related healthcare for minors deprives children and batters the 14th amendment

The Guardian

"Many of us waited, with a mixture and terror and disgust, to see what cruelties the court would deliver for us in 2025.

The justices decided to start by attacking vulnerable children. ...

It is not hard to imagine Skrmetti, along with Dobbs, being the opening salvos in a broader legal assault on the status of women and queer people –"

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/12

"one that removes our rights one by one, making us more and more vulnerable, and sanctioning more and more of our derision, degradation and unfreedom."

If you sit by in silence while rights are stripped from ANY group, if you tell yourself, "Well, they're a minority and this doesn't affect me," you invite the same thing for yourself: you open the door to having your own rights stripped away.

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/13

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/us-strike-on-iran-it-wont-be-surgical

"We have watched Donald Trump and the Musk-minions as they have wreaked havoc throughout our government for the last three or four months, and folks, now we are about to see the national security price we will pay for all that cost-cutting and DEI firing and 'transgender for all' fear mongering."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/14

U.S. strike on Iran: It won’t be surgical, and it won’t be easy

Donald Trump held another top-secret meeting with his so-called national security “team” in the Situation Room to discuss “the war between Israel and Iran,” a White House source told Axios today.

Lucian Truscott Newsletter

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/trump-us-autocracy-authoritarianism

"A senator handcuffed, people snatched in public, military deployed – Trump’s slide towards autocracy has come quicker than critics feared. It reads like a checklist of milestones on the road to autocracy."

~ Robert Tait

#Trump #autocracy #fascism #HumanRights
/15

‘He’s moving at a truly alarming speed’: Trump propels US into authoritarianism

A senator handcuffed, people snatched in public, military deployed – Trump’s slide to authoritarianism has come quicker than critics feared

The Guardian

https://www.weekendreading.net/p/naming-villains-and-values

"[Melissa Hortman] was murdered because she actually believed in the premise of liberty and justice for all. …

"The MAGA regime fans the flames of violence, singling people out to bully because of our races and genders and trying to turn our government into a weapon against our people."

~ Anat Shenker-Osorio

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/16

Naming Villains and Values

On political violence, No Kings Day, and election postmortems with Anat Shenker-Osorio

Weekend Reading

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/its-clearer-than-ever-that-jan-6

"The cruelty remains the point. On the same day at the Supreme Court ruled against gender-affirming care for transgender youth, the Trump administration said it was ending specialized support for LGBTQ callers to the national suicide prevention hotline."

~ David Kurtz

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/17

It’s Clearer Than Ever That Jan. 6 Wasn’t The End But The Beginning

INSIDE: Alex Jones ... Marco Rubio ... Donald Trump

Morning Memo

https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/a-juneteenth-reflection

"Juneteenth challenges us to confront a difficult truth: that much of American Christianity was complicit in slavery, and that the legacy of that sin continues in our institutions, our policies, and yes—even in some of our pulpits."

~ Benjamin Cremer

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/18

A Juneteenth Reflection.

https://jacquilewis.substack.com/p/juneteenth-now-f23

"Why am I writing about Transgender youth on Juneteenth? Because we are not free until everyone is free. Because the surviving and thriving of humanity, the liberation of and justice for humanity are tied up together. Because I can’t be fully who I am intended to be until you are fully who you are intended to be."

~ Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/19

Juneteenth-Now!

Queering Liberation

Fierce Love

"I write about Transgender rights on Juneteenth because if this regime and the courts it has stacked to help put its agendas forth all believe that the equal protection clause does not put a demand on us to protect folks on the basis of gender and sexuality, it is also weakened around birthright citizenship, and it is also weakened about the civil and human rights of Black people."

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
/20

"I write because our movements must be intersectional. Our demand for liberation must be for all the people. We don’t get to decide upon whom the bright light of freedom should shine. We don’t get to be silent while human rights and liberation are eroded. We’ve got to stand up for all the people and stand up for love. Love liberates."

#Juneteenth #AfricanAmericans #trans #LGBTQ #HumanRights
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Jess👾6d ago

@wdlindsy I mean also, there's Black trans kids too.

M. Ní Sídach 6d ago

@JessTheUnstill @wdlindsy
Right. The families with trans children and youth most commonly shared in the media, the pictures and video interviews of loving, supportive families are white, perpetuating the false impression that trans children and youth are not part of authentic Black identity and culture.

#Juneteenth #Racism #Christian #USA

Zhi Zhu 🕸️6d ago

@wdlindsy

~ Benjamin Cremer

Racism was still being taught in Sunday School when I was still attending church. We were taught that "dark skin" was the Mark of Cain, and that anyone with "dark skin" was inherently evil.

Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog 6d ago

@wdlindsy the civil war started or restarted on january 6. it's just that the other side has decided to not fight back.

https://social.vivaldi.net/@cmthiede/114655903292955737

Randall Lee 6d ago

@wdlindsy his first failed term let the fascist test the system and found there was no firewall.

@BLTpizza Yes.

@wdlindsy Good place for a Sly Stone quote:

CM Thiede (@cmthiede@vivaldi.net)

"You couldn't have one moment where freedom went with the majority and one where it went with the money and one where it went with one skin color or another. Everyone had to be free all the time or no one was free at all." - Sly Stone from memoir: Thank You https://variety.com/2023/music/reviews/sly-stone-memoir-thank-you-falettinme-be-mice-elf-agin-book-review-1235759584/ #ThankYou #SlyStone

Vivaldi Social

MasterMischief 6d ago

@wdlindsy The people who need to see this the most DO NOT CARE. They want to see others suffer.

EndicottRoad59 6d ago

@wdlindsy It has been my experience that conservatives, with Fascists among them, want everyone to do as they're told.

Nazani 6d ago

@wdlindsy
Remember, it's the anti-science, religious, fascist crowd who believe there's something optional about being trans. Pre-natal brain development dictates gender identity & sexual attraction. They are just as compelled to be trans as others are to be straight.

GhostOnTheHalfShell 6d ago

@wdlindsy

My attitude towards these ghouls clothed in human flesh:

They are agents of the antichrist.