🏳️‍🌈 Megan McShea 🏳️‍🌈

It’s very easy to sign

Have you seen this petition yet? Cutting community out of Baltimore City Schools is wrong

Missed the sign on to oppose a bill that would cut community voices off from school governance?

Not too late to sign here ahead of March 11 hearing before the Maryland Senate Education, Energy, and Environment Committee c.org/YWPbb2Nbhz

Please share.

I'm already hitting my AWP saturation point and it hasn't even started yet. Also I'm not even going to the conference.

Evergreen post for our times

Me, all day:

help ana get out of kansas! she's close to her goal

Antenna Pod

I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.

A scanned image of the first page of a legal document on letterhead from Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, dated February 27, 2026. It is labeled "Opinion No. KP-0518" and addressed to Mr. Darrel D. Spinks, Executive Director of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. A portion of the first paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council."

A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex."

A scanned image of the third page of the Attorney General Opinion document. The text discusses various statutory and dictionary definitions of the terms "health care provider" and "health care". There are no highlighted sections on this page.

A scanned image of the seventh and final page of the Attorney General Opinion document, showing the "SUMMARY" section and the signature block for Ken Paxton. The entire summary paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "The definition of a “health care provider” in subsection 161.701(2) of the Health and Safety Code unambiguously encompasses the professions regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a child’s sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those efforts and, separately, risk revocation of their licenses to practice."

Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

to say nothing of the old guy saying "I heard it when I wore a younger man's clothes," which now becomes an adorable rom com post-hookup mix-up rather than an unbearably twee way of talking about aging

Such good news, and yet, this administration is such an affront to humanity it's impossible to celebrate

Dwight Hawkins' "relatives are organizing a protest at 4 p.m. Friday (2/27) in the 2800 block of Pelham Avenue"

Great🧵 from my @propublica.org colleague @nicolefoy.bsky.social 👇

His crime was using a curtain rod as a walking stick. His punishment was murder by Border Patrol. This is sickening.

@governor.ny.gov

Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a nearly blind Rohingya refugee, driven out of Myanmar by a brutal genocide by the Burmese Buddhist majority against the Muslim minority.

The Rohingya are some of the most oppressed people in the world in their native Myanmar - and now as refugees.
A short 🧵

Breaking: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

“I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

The judge in question: Judge Royce Lamberth.

Let's see how this goes.

www.lawdork.com/p/trans-inma...

Crying into the void with a repost...

Anybody else please (this is how bates got the gig in the first place)

If any #AWP26 attendees are still in Baltimore on Sunday March 8, you might enjoy our "Frederick Douglass’ Fell’s Point: Stories of Liberation in Black Maritime Baltimore" walking tour that evening...

It's 2036. What happened in the last ten years that you're most happy about?

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Joanne Bland, lifelong Civil Rights activist and founder of Selma's Foot Soldiers Park, dies Bland grew up in Selma and became involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a child foot soldier in the 1960s, participating in the historic Selma voting rights marches, including Bloody Sunday.

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72.

"By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

A lot of people have asked what this opinion means: Are ICE tactics likely to change because of the court's holding in this case? So let's talk for a minute about what the court is doing.

...and unlawful detention that has resulted in thousands of court rulings against them across the country. In several widely reported cases they have caused significant physical harm or death to innocent people. No one should be taking money from them to promote their activities."

See something, say something...

CBP is recruiting people on YouTube. I reported the ad with the following complaint:
"CBP has become a rogue agency that engages in widespread unconstitutional use of force ...

Go Jersey!

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