“I am the author of my own story. No matter how difficult life gets I will remember this is just one chapter and I will continue to keep going. I have so much good to do and beautiful places to see. My story isn’t over yet.” ⁂
Monday, May 26
This though: why would rapists bother to pretend to be trans in a culture that treats rapists better than trans women? ⁂
“The Trump admin deported three children this weekend who are legal U.S. citizens from an ICE facility in Louisiana. One of those children was a 2-year-old. Another has metastatic cancer and was deported without their medication. If you’re cheering for US.-born children with cancer being deported, ask yourself how it improves your life.” ⁂
"It has no greater purpose beyond LOOKING ruthless ... "
AverageSalt_Miner: “There’s something uniquely perverse about cruelty performed by people who will never experience the consequences of their own ideology. Unlike the Somali pirates or the Taliban—groups operating in extreme conditions, driven by survival, ideology, or desperation—the architects of modern American cruelty live in comfort. They do not suffer. They are not struggling for food or security. And yet, they choose cruelty, not as a necessity, but as a luxury. (continued)
xxclusionary: I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data. ⁂
Deeply Southern Women Talk Shit in the Nicest Way Possible 🪭 ⁂
Sunday, May 25
jwz: “If Roko’s Basilisk is real, then wouldn’t it be a certainty that you would already be being tortured in a Hell Dimension? It would be infinitesimally unlikely that, out of the billions of copies of your mind, you’d be experiencing the one that was not. Oh. Oh. Oh no.” ⁂
“The 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan is hereby rescinded. The Strategic Plan contains goals and objectives that bear no connection to FEMA accomplishing its mission. This summer, a new 2026-2030 strategy will be developed. The strategy will tie directly to FEMA executing its Mission Essential Tasks.” ⁂
The Army will be on the hook for damages incurred by massive tanks rolling through the streets of Washington, D.C., during {…} Trump’s birthday. ⁂
Yuri Ushakov, the Russian leader’s foreign policy adviser, said the tone of the two-hour conversation was so friendly that neither {Trump nor Putin} wanted to be the first to put down the phone. ⁂
A Republican state representative from Michigan known for championing anti-trans legislation was left speechless on Thursday, after his Democratic colleague, Representative Mike McFall, asked him a supposedly simple question: “Are you trans?” ⁂
“[Per a court order, HHS is required to restore {this webpage detailing trans mental health survey for children} ]as of 11:59 p.m. ET, February 11, 2025,” the site notes. “Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it.](https://www.advocate.com/health/hhs-trans-kids-mental-health)" Man, they really hate us. (continued)
Hubble just discovered something massive coming out of Uranus ⁂
The Army will be on the hook for damages incurred by massive tanks rolling through the streets of Washington, D.C., during […] Trump’s birthday. ⁂
A federal judge on Wednesday reversed the Trump administration’s efforts to fire board members from an independent agency tasked with overseeing how the intelligence community complies with civil rights laws. ⁂