I only wish this were an April fool: White House orders USPS to implement a plan to block delivery of mail-in ballots, unless they're to or from somone specifically mentioned on a pre-approved list of voters: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/ensuring-citizenship-verification-and-integrity-in-federal-elections/

This is blatant, large-scale vote suppression. (Even good-faith lists made as described would dead-letter many legit votes.) It needs to be fought in courts, in Congress and state legislatures, and by voters in this year's primaries & general election. #USPol

Here's the full text of Audre Lorde's 1979 conference talk "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House": https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/communication/masters-tools-will-never-dismantle-masters-house-oct-29-1979 (The text is from the collection _Sister Outsider_, and is posted at Iowa State University's Archives of Women's Political Communication, which I presume has the rights to post it there.)

And here's Tara Tarakiyee commenting on that talk, and how Lorde's argument is often misunderstood or misused in tech discussions, in 2026: https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/

We witness
We remember
Vote this spring
Vote in November
#NoKings

(Adjust as appropriate for your state's election schedule: https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/calendar/ ) #USPol #PAPol

Since some media are misreporting it, here's what the American Medical Association actually says about transgender care in minors.

2026: "AMA policy on gender-affirming care is unchanged. The AMA supports gender-affirming care as medically necessary per our policy." https://cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_term=3262026&utm_content=AMA_BoardNewsletter_Mar_032626&utm_campaign=MMX_Email_Newsletter_BoardChair&utm_uid=GENEM&utm_effort=GENEM#gender-affirming-care

2024 Clarification of Evidence-Based Gender-Affirming Care: https://policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder/detail/%22Clarification%20of%20Evidence-Based%20Gender-Affirming%20Care%22?uri=%2FAMADoc%2FHOD-185.927.xml

2021 opposition to legislation prohibiting or penalizing gender transition related care to minors: https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/ama-states-stop-interfering-health-care-transgender-children

This Defector story on "Why I Got Out Of The Gambling Business" notes that, while ganbling firms have some safeguards for gambling addicts, they generally don't kick in until a bettor is in serious trouble. E.g.: "Customers don't set limits on their accounts until after they have done something bad, if they ever set limits at all."

Among needed reforms is requiring safeguards from the get-go. E.g.: You *have* to set a limit as soon as you open an account: https://defector.com/why-i-got-out-of-the-gambling-business?giftLink=13ad49c3e90eaccf3bb08549957f0853