Mastodawn

In light of #RFKJr's announcement today of his plans to cut off life-saving #HealthCare for #trans youth, it seems appropriate to re-share this piece I wrote a couple of months ago. Real humans are going to be hurt by this, whether Kennedy and Trump understand them or not. https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/we-must-stand-our-trans-neighbors

We Must Stand with Our Trans Neighbors | Defend Public Health

Most of us have some hobby or favorite activity we do to keep ourselves sane amid the pressures of daily living and the increasing political madness that is the USA. For me, it’s performing in community theater, and that’s where I met Perry (a pseudonym). At 17, Perry was the youngest transgender person I’d ever known. Today, he and every trans person in the U.S. is in danger.

Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈5d ago

Important work. Please share. (Yeah, it's a Substack. I know.) https://www.crustnews.com/p/we-built-a-public-record-of-ice-because

We Built a Public Record of ICE Because They Refuse to Keep One

Tracking Immigration Enforcement as It Accelerates Under Authoritarian Rule

Crust News

Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈5d ago

Nora Reed

5d ago

republicans believe children should be forced to carry pregnancies to term and should be allowed to be pushed into coercive marriages by their parents because they see children as fundamentally sexually exploitable and i am tired of pretending their transphobia has some other angle

Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈6d ago

clara "parasocialist" sparks 6d ago

i unironically do want “transgender for everybody”

name changes that don’t mess up your credit. hormones and abortion pills over the counter. standards of “looking professional“ that aren’t patriarchal and white-supremacist. hell yeah

you don’t need to *use* transgender but you should be allowed to *have* it

Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈Dec 17

The Latest Kate Dec 16

It's worth sticking around, I think.

Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈Dec 17

AI6YR Ben Dec 16

I don't want a "modern AI browser", I want a secure, fast, privacy-conscious, non-AI ensh*tified browser 😢 #FireFox

Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈Dec 17

Transgender World Dec 17

The state is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver's licenses to help.

https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-12-15/texas-trans-transgender-drivers-license-id-list-privacy

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Texas is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver's licenses to help.

A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won’t say what they’re using the list for.

KUT

Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈Dec 17

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Nowhere Girl Dec 16

If you're really angry at Big Tech, you should be more concerned with taxing their vast fortunes out of existence, shutting down monopolies and intercompany collusion (e.g., "AI"), and forcing them to comply with the thousand other regulations they routinely ignore.

Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈Dec 16

E Rosalie Dec 16

We really need to talk about how much of the extreme antisemitism online is state-backed.

Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈Dec 15

Nat Dec 15

"Ninety thousand square feet, $300 million, underground construction at a secure government facility. I had heard about something like this before. Something with those exact specifications, that scale, that price point.

"It took me a minute to place it, but then I remembered: Oracle’s underground data centers in Jerusalem.... Ninety thousand square feet. $319 million. Nearly identical specs to what Trump just announced."

https://substack.com/@thedreydossier/p-181700087

Trump Isn’t Building a Ballroom

When Trump announced a $300 million ballroom at the White House, something went off in my brain.

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