30 for 30: Protest Songs Day 2. Ohio, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 1970. Written in responce to the Kent State shootings

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio

#NoIce #dueprocess #NoKings #protest #music #CSNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9INnMMwvnk

"When the author of a book states that all sales of those books will contribute to an anti-trans fund, the only way we can choose not to participate is by not selling the books any longer. "

- #SanFrancisco bookstore #Booksmith on why they've stopped selling titles by #transphobic author #JKRowling.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/san-francisco-bookstore-stops-selling-jk-rowling-titles-due-harry-pott-rcna215255

Indian court rules #TransWomen are women and ‘legally entitled to recognition’

Written by Amelia Hansford, June 26, 2025

"A court in #India has decreed that trans women are women.

"In a landmark ruling for the country, after rejecting claims that womanhood was preserved only for those who can bear children, the High Court of Andhra Pradesh ruled that trans women were 'legally entitled' to recognition as women.

"Presiding over the case, justice Venkata Jyothirmai Pratapa decided that tying the definition of women to pregnancy was 'legally unsustainable' and contradicted India’s constitution, which emphasises equality before the law.

"Quoting a Supreme Court decision from 2014, which legally recognised the rights of 'third gender' individuals, Pratapa said that prohibiting trans women’s right to identify as women 'amounted to discrimination'.

"The case was brought to the high court in 2022 after transgender woman #PokalaShabana looked to use a section of the Indian penal code to seek protection from her in-laws, whom, she said, had been abusive towards her.

"Her husband’s parents petitioned the court to deny her use of Section 498A, which protects women from cruelty by a husband or relatives, arguing that it only applied to cisgender women. They claimed that trans women don’t meet the legal definition of women under Indian law because they cannot get pregnant and said Shabana’s allegations of harassment lacked evidence.

"However, the judge said that articles 14, 15 and 21 of the constitution, which guarantee a variety of discrimination protections, including the right to life and personal liberty, meant trans women’s rights to be recognised as women superseded the law.

" 'A trans woman, born male and later transitioning to female, is legally entitled to recognition as a woman,' he wrote in his ruling. 'Denying such protection by questioning their womanhood amounts to discrimination.'

"Trans activist and artist #KalkiSubramaniam told the Washington Blade that she was relieved and delighted to see the court 'upholding our basic human right to be identified as what we want.' She went on to say: 'For [the] #transgender community, especially #transwomen, this verdict means a lot.' "

Source:
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/26/india-trans-women-high-court-decision/

#Pride #TransWomenAreWomen #LGBTQ #TransMenAreMen #PrideMonth #TransRightsAreHumanRights

"Liberals think Republicans are violent because we own guns."

No we think you're violent because:
1. Your sign at CPAC said "We are all domestic terrorists"
2. 71% of extremist violence since 2008 has been explicitly right wing compared to 3% left wing
3. You staged a violent insurrection on Jan 6 which killed people
4. You tried to assassinate Kamala Harris not once but three separate times during her presidential run
5. You broke into the home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and beat her husband in the head with a hammer
6. You broke into the home of Representative Melissa Hortman and assassinated her, murdered her husband, and shot their dog
7. You broke into the home of Senator John Hoffman and shot him and his wife
8. Your president just bombed Iran for no fucking reason
9. You are currently in the middle of enacting a mass genocide of brown people

And... I'm going to hold you by the hand when I say this - WE OWN GUNS TOO. We're just not psychotic mass murderers like you are.

Cantwell on Senate floor: “The Medicaid expansion literally kept people alive. We should not reverse that.”

Cantwell shared the story of five-year-old Leda Winterrose of Richland, who depends on Medicaid for life-sustaining medical supplies and warned of higher premiums for everyone: “When you increase the cost of uncompensated care … you increase everyone's cost.”

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2025/06/cantwell-on-senate-floor-the-medicaid-expansion-literally-kept-people-alive-we-should-not-reverse-that/

#FiscalResponsibility #Insurance&Coverage

Hahaha well, I just got elected to be on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Astronomical Society. I'm also the co-chair of the light/satellite pollution committee for the American Astronomical Society. I think I have volunteered for tooooo mannnnyyyy thiinnngssss! (Good thing they're all full of truly awesome people that I'm excited to work with.)

Now I can *officially* yell a bunch about satellite pollution in TWO countries!