It’s a sad day for Indiana’s trans teens. Indiana’s legislature has fully passed a gender affirming care ban for trans youth. It is the 12th state to do so. The bill now heads to the governor’s desk. It even bans “aiding and abetting” care. It’s so cruel.

There’s a rally against the slate of hate going through Indiana legislature and I’m so glad that at least one of the speakers is a trans woman old enough to be my grandma. Thank the gods for those blessed years.

Really good thread. Iowa's child labor laws were already super permissive before this push. Why? "To protect family farms, which rely on child labor!" Those laws are how I wound up a teen field hand on a corporate farm. Where another kid on our crew got horrifically injured.

I know a lot of you wanted a technical breakdown of this meme so here it is! I don't think you will find this level of detail anywhere else so keep reading if you don't want to miss out.

NEW: A Texas man, 22, has been arrested for fatally shooting his 26-year-old girlfriend, Gabriella Gonzalez, after she traveled to Colorado to get an abortion. The man killed her in a Dallas parking lot the day after she returned. #txlege jezebel.com/a-22-year-old-…

Bombshell from court documents... Florida's AHCA and Surgeon General manipulated research to ban gender affirming care. They tapped a conversion therapy advocate to do it. An internal chart shows an end goal of "ban care" Subscribe to support my work. erininthemorning.com/p/florida-agen…

THREAD. I want to highlight two things about the ongoing authoritarian repression in Georgia. First, many mainstream Democrats in Atlanta have been either silent about or complicit in what is happening. Historically, this has been an essential feature of the rise of fascism.

Here finally is the untold story of how Biden administration helped dissuade Bolsonaro & parts of Brazil’s military from overturning the 2022 election. Congrats Michael Stott & team. A few thoughts follow ft.com/content/075335…

.AAUP Purdue is collecting feedback on faculty/student/staff concerns about Purdue. We want to get a sense of what the big issues are. The form is anonymous. We are not collecting emails. We'll share out what we learn. Please forward/RT. forms.gle/q9ucWdCdEmWVnc…

Hundreds are still missing and feared dead after a boat carrying migrants sank in Greek waters last week. Advocates say they’re frustrated the sunken migrant ship has garnered far less attention and resources than the Titan rescue efforts for 5 people. nbcnews.com/news/world/syr…

Love Hank but I think this is an early warning sign of something being ported over from Covid twitter: non-scientists engaging in discourse about why a graph looks a way it does, believing causation to be fuzzy and subjective (it is WAY less so in climate work)

“Saudi border guards have used explosive weapons to kill many migrants and shot other migrants at close range, including many women and children, in a widespread and systematic pattern of attacks,” new HRW report finds: hrw.org/news/2023/08/2…

One survivor described “himpathy” as a reaction to girls failing to just be girls: “There’s this puritanical aspect of it that tells us ‘good girls forgive’—that if you are filing complaints against him, you’re not a good girl,” she told Kylie Cheung jezebel.com/college-title-…

I read Chris Rufo’s book and spent an hour on the phone with him talking about it. I learned a lot about his dubious methods - and the illiberal project increasingly at the heart of the modern right vox.com/23811277/chris…

Reports emerging of beheadings and executions, including of children, by Azerbaijani soldiers in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan has sealed off the entire region from the world, so there is no way to know the scope of these or independently verify them.

Republicans were so insistent on allowing people to access ivermectin, they created a "right to try" law, using informed consent. That law undercut their own disingenuous argument against trans care. When we debated SB422, I noted that hypocrisy. I'm glad the court noted it too.

Over the last 5 years, Myanmar has become a dumping ground for the rich world’s trash. Despite intl & domestic laws banning waste exports, companies continue to quietly evade regulations & exploit loopholes. Frontier spent 6 months investigating this–here is what we found 🧵

A federal lawsuit has been filed against Purdue University for potential violations of Title XII of the Civil Rights Act due to alleged discrimination in the Nuclear Engineering Department. The trial is set to begin on Monday in Hammond, Indiana. purdueexponent.org/city_state/art…