Recent content by Patch

Congrats, Ungnome!

https://clearinghouse.net/case/47100/ This was brought to my attention this week. Gender affirming care providers, particularly those that treat trans youth, are being legally harassed by the federal government, and those that don't surrender are forced to burn money to defend themselves in...

More petty bullshit https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/05/nx-s1-5633282/transgender-rachel-levine-portrait-hhs

https://bsky.app/profile/qjurecic.bsky.social/post/3lrbrmdl5fn2p

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html "The official also said that the timing of the announcement - occurring during Pride month - was intentional." Intentionally flipping the bird to the LGBTQ community. As...

https://bsky.app/profile/evanurquhart.bsky.social/post/3lo4qjcozok25

Let's see if this embeds: https://bsky.app/profile/goodboy.bsky.social/post/3lnxl6ygl7k2v Edit: Hm. Not as well as I'd like.

I was tested for ASD around a decade ago and the person doing the testing, a clinical psychologist, didn't opt to diagnose me because, as an adult, the diagnosis was tougher to make (if I did have it, I'd already adjusted to it) and because he really didn't have treatment plans for someone my...

He'd never make it IMO. If he tried to go national you could more or less end him by bringing this up: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/gavin-newsom-french-laundry-california-governor/index.html

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-could-cut-ukraines-access-starlink-internet-services-over-minerals-say-2025-02-22/ Trump is mugging Ukraine while Elon holds the gun to their head.

Has to do with how they passed it - the budget reconciliation technique which allows them to pass it through the Senate with just 50 votes instead of 60. https://www.slowboring.com/p/congressional-republicans-coming

https://bsky.app/profile/magpie.tips/post/3li6xvkorak2e

And of course he's trying to follow Eric Adams's example.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-cbs-60-minutes-harris-interview-ac36372dd700c9d233eee78773473f49 I know this isn't the worst thing to happen this week by far, but geez, how petty do you have to be to still be pursuing this?

Someone spoke with a law professor about this and his take was that it's both unconstitutional (contradicts the 14th amendment) and unilateral (this is the same court that said forgiving even a small amount of student loan debt was a step too far for Biden's executive power). I think what we...