Amanda Chemeche

Check out @dianamheald.bsky.social’s nuanced and thoughtful review of @sophiegilbert.bsky.social’s book, “Girl on Girl.”

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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

By @mashagessen.bsky.social

“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.

Utterly heartbreaking and terrifying for people with disabilities and their families.

The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.

The surprise Oscar nominee has a powerful, unexpected message about life under authoritarianism.

Meet the Trans Troops the Trump Administration Is Barring Officers and enlisted. Combat veterans and recent recruits. Transgender service members say their military experience has looked nothing like the portrayal of them in the political arena.

What happened to “support our troops”? @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...

This is so boss.

The @washingtonpost.com went from having an Opinions section to an Opinion (singular) section

I love being trans and having to spend my days waiting for a webinar to see if i, as a subhuman transgender, can get a passport, even after waiting (at this point) like 5 months to hear back about changing a stupid fucking letter on my stupid fucking birth certificate

BOMB Magazine | Sophie Madeline Dess by Amanda Chemeche A debut novel explores art, desire, and creative control.

For @bombmag.bsky.social I spoke to Sophie Madeline Dess about her debut novel “What You Make of Me,” which came out today! bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Opinion | A college president offers a class in standing up to Trump Wesleyan University’s president is advocating for values in higher education while others stay silent.

“Leaders in higher educational institutions should stand up for their values. Not to pick a fight with Donald Trump or JD Vance,” Michael Roth says. “We should stand up for our values because we’ve said we believed in them for the last many decades now.”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Words by @hughryan.bsky.social on the National Park Service’s erasure of the words “transgender” and “queer” from the Stonewall Monument’s website. slate.com/news-and-pol...

That’s beautiful

Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."

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I especially love their catch phrases: “What’s up Captain”, “Let’s split the baby,” “Cool beans,” “Top level…” the corniness paired with the abject immorality and soullessness of their “businesses” is just…macabre.

Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) shutdown protest:

"For every American who doesn't want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight."

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chris Murphy: "We have days to stop the destruction of our democracy ... we are taking back this country from Elon Musk."

I am thinking back to whipping Obamacare votes in the senate online. How tired I am of begging senators for my life and that of everyone in this country.

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

They are violating the constitution and if we don’t urge our representative to block this, many, many more unconstitutional acts will follow.

Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

One thing we've learned since 1/20 with painful clarity is that our institutions are far more fragile than we could have ever imagined.

thank you, senator @schatz.bsky.social

As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.

President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also aligning himself with those who are brandishing the term DEI as a catchall for discrimination against white people, and using it as a pejorative to attack nonwhite and female leaders as unqualified for their positions.

The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws.

Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.

We must stop him.

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.