https://variety.com/2025/film/news/john-boyega-star-wars-white-fans-reject-black-heroes-1236352669/
John Boyega Says ‘Star Wars’ Is ‘So White That a Black Person Existing in It’ Is a Big Deal: Toxic Fans Are ‘Okay With Us Playing the Friend’ but We ‘Cant Touch Their Heroes’
By Zack Sharf
Mar 31, 2025 8:35am PT
“The govt's arguments are not persuasive, & it is not an especially close question…. The govt's unrelenting reliance on deference to #military judgment is unjustified in the absence of any evidence supporting 'the military's' new judgment reflected in the [#transgender] Military Ban—in its equally considered & unquestionable judgment, that very same military had only the week before permitted active-duty plaintiffs (& some thousands of others) to serve openly.
United States Court of Appeals for DC ordered the #Pentagon not to take action against any #transgender servicemembers while a judge's order blocking #Trump / #Hegseth's ban is appealed.
“The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal”
#law #military #bigotry #discrimination
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69800554/01208724672/nicolas-talbott-v-usa/
A thought I had today, while reading my sixth book by Albert Camus: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death. I am convinced Camus would have supported equal rights for my transgender daughter, because he truly strove to be fully egalitarian in his thinking about other people. Camus’ defense of human dignity is worthy of imitation in a world where it is not uncommon to see historical victims of bigotry discriminate against others without even recognizing their own hypocrisy. #Books #Reading #Camus #Absurdism #Philosophy #Bigotry #Trans
New filing by the plaintiffs in Talbott v. United States — the challenge to #Trump's ban on #transgender #military service members.
Last Friday, the DOJ asked the court to dissolve the injunction.
Plaintiffs also argue DOJ gave no legitimate reason for a stay pending appeal.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276845/gov.uscourts.dcd.276845.96.0.pdf
Useful term I found via internet searching: "conformist bigotry", a form of bigotry/hatred centered around not confirming to societal norms, expected "standards" (as defined by people, not necessarily official) of behavior, etc. See: r/FakeDisorderCringe
https://www.motherjonesmuseum.org/
Mother Jones, "I belong to a class robbed, exploited, jailed, persecuted all down the ages and...have an instinct to go and help break the chains."
#WomensHistory #bigotry
#Trans #Transgender #HarryPotter #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #JKRowling #Hogwarts #bigotry #HBO #HBOMax
I know you loved the books, but it's time to put that shit down.
"#AntiVaxx Mom Whose Daughter Died From #Measles Says Disease 'Wasn't That Bad'"
This is the weight of prideful #ignorance
People for whom the death of their child is not as painful as saying "I was wrong" or "I didn't know" or "I'm sorry"
It is weighing on society as well
This will be the death of us
From #climateChange to #bigotry to #cult obedience leading to #fascism
#americans are fucking stupid
they treat #voting as a joke
americans are removed from the consequences of living under #autocracy and #fascism, unlike other places that understand the stakes
#alienated and #entitled on a topic that will *personally* harm them, no need for glorious appeals to #society and #responsibility
they need to learn to fucking #vote
or not vote for their own impoverishment and rights removal under #bigotry and #plutocracy
they will learn
the hard way
fucking morons
@tshirtman @mloxton @tarheel @inthehands
agreed. in this regard, #socialMedia can be a force multiplier for good as well as what it is now: a force multiplier for #bigotry and #plutocracy
but that makes our communities a target
so we need something like #mastodon where we can squash the #trolls without the "fReEzEpEaCh!" #bigoted morons and #centralized #corporate social media indifference or tacit support for #ignorance and #hate
we need the #fediverse to grow
#Trans people, #women, people of color [#POC] are being erased
Across #Trump’s federal government, agencies have been busy scrubbing photographic and written references about women, people of color & members of the #LGBTQ+ community from their websites.
#law #USpol #RepresentationMatters #discrimation #bigotry #hate #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #misogyny
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5317567/federal-websites-lgbtq-diversity-erased
Trump admin moves to end federal HIV prevention programs. ‘Catastrophic’ consequences, experts say
https://www.advocate.com/news/hhs-rollback-hiv-prevention-programs
#HIV #AIDS #Prevention #Healthcare #CDC #Trump #Bigotry #LGBTQ
"The erasure of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from our military history is an attempt to elevate white men as the sole actors in our history. It is also an attempt to erase a vision of a nation in which Americans of all backgrounds come together to work—and fight—for the common good."
- Heather Cox Richardson
“Plaintiffs face a violation of their constitutional rights, which constitutes irreparable harm. Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of #transgender servicemembers have sacrificed — some risking their lives — to ensure for others the very #EqualProtection rights the #Military Ban seeks to deny them,” Reyes wrote, adding that “avoiding constitutional violations is always in the #PublicInterest.”
Reyes…wrote that such pronouncements that #transgender people are not honorable, truthful or disciplined are “pure conjecture.” The EO & #DOD policy “provide nothing to support Defendants’ view that transgender #military service is inconsistent with #military readiness,” she wrote.
Judge Ana C. Reyes issued the preliminary #injunction, barring the #Defense Dept from enacting a new policy that would’ve moved to remove #transgender troops from the ranks. The policy, issued last month, followed a Jan #ExecutiveOrder signed by #Trump that referred to being transgender as a “falsehood” inconsistent w/the “humility & selflessness required of a service member.”
Judge blocks #Trump’s order banning #transgender troops from #military service, ruling that the plan violated the #Constitution’s #EqualProtection clause.
#law #LGBTQIA #discrimination #bigotry
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/transgender-troops-military-injunction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=7D65BF46-0567-4212-A6FC-8EEBBE6BA217
the problem is not that a demented #plutocrat should be full of #hate and stupidity. that's almost a given
the tragedy, which we really need to get a handle on, is why his moronic #bigotry and #ignorance appeals to so many
"lol! #bigotry is new to you?"
no it's not new. but how it is goosed on #socialMedia for power so brazenly in cahoots with #plutocracy is a new and terrible wrinkle
yes, the #bigot-plutocrat #political axis is also not new
but it is supercharged now
