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they/them

[Rian 🇹🇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @21violins]

broke: going by the name your parents gave you
woke: choosing your own name based on how much you like it
bespoke: choosing your own name based on whether the domain name is available

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

BREAKING—Court orders Rumeysa Ozturk to be freed from ICE detention.

She was detained by the Trump admin six weeks ago for cowriting an op-ed urging Tufts to follow student resolutions to acknowledge genocide in Gaza & divest from companies tied to Israel.https://t.co/eVxKLVz7G8

[Adam Kuhr @AdamKuhr]

This is @PeteButtigieg with the only acceptable answer.

[Mek @mekarpeles]

⏰ "The Countdown to Save US Libraries"

4⃣ days left before courts deliberate on the future of libraries

✊ I wholeheartedly support @aaronsw's @openlibrary, the @internetarchive, and believe in @library_futures

📚 My take:
https://t.co/Cx97jGQkAJ

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

North Carolina Republicans just voted to advance a bill that would ban anyone from wearing a mask in public—even for health reasons.

It would even apply to cancer patients and people with weakened immune systems.

https://t.co/JVbtkhUDqu

[Dr. Ufuoma 🛰🌍 @ItsUfuoma]

🧵 This thread is dedicated to answering the common question: How do we keep ourselves safe without police and prisons?

The encampments and wider anti-genocide protests on campuses around the world reveal very helpful answers. ⬇️

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

When Hitler rose to power as German chancellor in 1933, he enacted policies to rid the country of Lebensunwertes Leben, or “lives unworthy of living.” His targets included Jews, Roma people, disabled people and communists—but also specifically homosexuals and transsexuals.

While many are familiar with haunting images of the first book burnings in Germany, which took place in May of 1933, most aren’t fully aware of their origin story.

The books and texts that provided the fuel for that first bonfire came from the library of the Institute for Sexual Research, founded in 1919 by Magnus Hirschfeld, a gay, Jewish doctor. As Scientific American notes, the Institute was “full of life everywhere” and provided incredible and groundbreaking gender affirmation care to trans individuals. Its mission was to provide a center for “research, teaching, healing and refuge” that could “free the individual from physical ailments, psychological afflictions and social deprivation.”

In other words, the first book burning in Germany, which led to copycat bonfires around the country, was an attack on a trans care institution. There are echoes of this today: The far-right has specifically chosen to target trans care centers in America, including repeated bomb threats to Boston Children’s Hospital, for providing gender affirming medical care.

[Ricky Smith @Rickonia]

Call me crazy but having the space to put homeless people in jail and not into homeless shelters seems like the problem here.

[swm @sheathescholar]

say the “MASSACHUSETTS” bit louder for the folks in blue states who think censorship, surveillance, and fascist rhetoric isn’t problem in their backyards.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Lowest level in 60 years but the propaganda has been so effective no one knows it.

[Wolfy🌈 @WolfyTheWitch]

reposting my favorite jesus drawing

[Aurora Chang 張瓊方 🌻🍉 @aurorachaang]

i know there are many brilliant mandarin translations of refaat's poem already, but i wanted to contribute mine to add to the tapestry.

with love from taiwan 🍉

(i'm not v good at this but i love how all the mandarin versions i've seen have different "accents", this is mine)

[Sera Koulabdara @SeraKoulabdara]

YES

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

God damn. What a start to the piece the Harvard law review refused to run.

[Sarah McGonagall @gothspiderbitch]

If only we had a name for the widely-condemned historical precedent of the entertainment industry blacklisting people for holding left-wing beliefs or speaking out against fascism…..

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

A thread about our depraved healthcare system, and a plea.

In 2021, my friend Carole was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer. A single parent with two kids, she had just turned 43. In 2017, she had watched her brother Chris die of the same cancer. He too was in his 40s.

[missfalasteenia @missfalsteenia]

this.

[M 🇵🇸🇵🇸 @ismonshuokay]

Just read this on "queering the map"-
My heart is so broken rn and i just can't stop crying