Alejandra Caraballo
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🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷 Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her. Read my work at thedissident.news
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"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams at us the loudest." -Mon Mothma (Andor)
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Oh, so now bomb threats are bad. She didn't seem to give a shit when she incited them against schools and Children's hospitals.
Her profile Pic was smiling holding a print copy of USA Today blaming her for bomb threats against schools. Then she made her Twitter account header a bomb logo. It's all a fucking game to her.
EXCLUSIVE The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”. Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity.
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
They can just rename them as form fitting sports bras and the feds can't do anything about it.
The Epstein Files, everybody!
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Sulzberger imposed a biased, anti-trans political agenda on his news coverage I told him many times history would not judge him kindly It won’t. Disinformation and discrimination are his legacy. But in the meantime, real ppl, especially young ppl, are suffering irreparable harm Sulzberger owns it
One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
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At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
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They never mention that key figures driving these bans are all connected to a global far right and reactionary movement to roll back gender rights. SEGM is the respectable face of this movement they use to undermine access to care. SEGM members have driven the bans on GAC in Europe and the US.
This is what NYT and particularly Azeen Ghorayshi do. They lie by omission by highlighting particular things that support bans and care while omitting crucial context and contradicting evidence. When challenged, they'll resort to Mott and Bailey tactics and say, well it's true!
I'm looking forward to 2029 when we remove and destroy every aspect of Trump's name on federal property like US forces taking down everything with Saddam Hussein on it. That's the bare minimum any Dem should do. Leave no trace of his existence.
If these idiots want to debate provocative questions to further their reactionary movement, I propose we have a similar set of debates like "should we toss billionaires into volcanoes" or "should we launch the oligarchs into the sun?"
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
**brought to you by the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Center for Eating the Rich.
It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.
The Trump administration is attempting to force a new term for gender affirming care to call it "sex rejecting procedures." This term was literally made up this year by the far right group Ethics and Public Policy Center in a comment submitted in April 2025. It is now being used widely by HHS.
All the anti-trans stuff this week (really, this whole year and the past several leading up to it — but especially this week) has taken a real toll on me. I feel so sad, scared, and angry. I feel like I don't belong in this world, and that really sucks.
The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
This is why you rarely see the anti trans side going after Hunter Schafer or Kim Petras. They went on puberty blockers and transitioned as teens. They're massively successful and living happy lives. They don't want to highlight that.
The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
Every word of this about the Republican war on trans people "This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead." prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
Mogul run through thin cover dodging sharks from earlier today at Stratton.
I really hope that Brown student who was targeted by far right influencers and falsely accused of committing the mass shooting sues them all for defamation.
BREAKING: Suspect in Brown University shooting found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound at New Hampshire storage facility - Fox
Someone walked into a classroom at Brown in broad daylight and committed a mass shooting that killed 2 people and got away. Now, the suspect has been linked to the murder of the MIT physics professor. No one knows who did it and the FBI is completely incompetent and can't catch this person.
THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T HIRE PODCASTERS TO LEAD THE FBI, PURGE EVERYONE NOT LOYAL TO TRUMP, AND REDIRECT ALL REMAINING RESOURCES TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT.
Hi Senator, excuse me for jumping in, but... while I agree with you that this is really damaging, I couldn't help but notice YOU VOTED FOR THE FREAKING BILL THAT GAVE TRUMP THIS POWER (which some of us warned you not to do). www.senate.gov/legislative/...
First Paramount / CBS and now TikTok. Trump wants to hand over even more control of what you watch to his billionaire buddies. Americans deserve to know if the President struck another backdoor deal for this billionaire takeover of TikTok.
You voted for the tiktok ban. You helped make this happen.
First Paramount / CBS and now TikTok. Trump wants to hand over even more control of what you watch to his billionaire buddies. Americans deserve to know if the President struck another backdoor deal for this billionaire takeover of TikTok.
They buried it because it blamed the same exact consultants and orgs that scapegoated trans people and "the groups" for the loss. They can never accept any responsibility for their failures. The Dem establishment can never fail, it can only ever be failed.
A big reason this is bad is it could let the Future Forward Super PAC escape any accountability for the 2024 loss. It had hundreds of millions of dollars in donor money, and the DNC report was reportedly going to fault them. Now this will remain undisclosed: newrepublic.com/article/2045...
And I wouldn't be surprised if they also found that their stance on Gaza depressed the youth vote and part of the base. They would never admit that either and would bury the report instead.
I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
Crazy how Trump is flailing, Epstein files are coming out, the economy is going to shit, and Republicans are defecting and the first thing his admin does is pivot to attacking trans people. It's all they know. Just distract everyone from what's important by attacking a vulnerable minority group.
Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.
The death cult running America cares about the lives of trans as much as it cares about the lives of the rest of us -- not at all.
I’m at HHS headquarters where RFK Jr. is announcing new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors by spouting pseudoscience and political misinformation that goes against every major medical association.
it's extremely strange to me that there was like, a six-ish year period where acceptance of trans people happened extremely rapidly and access to care expanded and now it's being pulled back even faster
6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.
It's a whole of government effort to eradicate trans people from society. This is just the first step. They're coming for all of us.
I speed read the rule and this is extremely weak and subject to legal challenge. It's ultra vires, coercive to states under the spending clause, violates the APA, and villages states 10th amendment rights to regulate medicine among other legal deficiencies. This will be enjoined in court.
The issue is that the admin will certainly appeal all the way to scotus on the shadow docket and scotus will certainly stay the injunction and allow the rule to go into effect. It's a matter of time before that happens and clinics need to get creative to circumvent the rules.
This would not have passed if those chickenshit Dems Davis, Cellar, and Gonzalez had not voted for it. They voted to put the parents of trans youth in prison for ten years. Primary them all.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.
Waiting for the "live from New York, it's Saturday night!" to kick in because this speech is bananas.
Trump said the military is getting a Wario dividend.
I haven't been in the pediatric trans healthcare system since 2019 and I can barely look at these headlines without wanting to puke. Can't imagine the fucking damage this is doing to trans kids today.
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.
Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
1. Transgender Rep. Sarah McBride railed agianst GOP attacks on transgender people and incoming bills today, joined by Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Johnson. "They are obsessed with transgender people." Read my latest, watch the video here, and subscribe to support our journalism.
Hey , what's up with this? Her office number is 202-225-3536.
When I asked Marie Gluesenkamp Perez if she would vote against the Trans care ban for minors, she wouldn’t give a straight answer
Whatever you do, do not use an AI agent to automate this process and create realistic sounding locations with AI generated photos of fake people in bathrooms. That would be really unethical and wrong.
Katsas and Rao strike again. This is honestly insane.
every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
The White House is now just explicitly stating its intent to kill and maim non-white people here and around the world and white men are *still* insisting they are at a societal disadvantage
They gutted the DOJ and the FBI and placed the bulk of the remaining agents and attorneys on immigration raids. They don't have the capacity to do what they want right now. All they have left are scare tactics and it's frankly pathetic.
"The students are facing potential discipline that could range from a private reprimand to being required to withdraw from the school" Instead of removing the guy who was buddies with a sex trafficker, they're investigating and going to discipline students who drew attention to it? Insanity.
Harvard officials are reportedly secretly investigating two students for their roles in drawing scrutiny to the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Larry Summers
How is it possible for Harvard to get it this wrong? These students will potentially face more consequences for bringing pressure against Summers than he has faced from Harvard over any of this. It's infuriating.
They hit the nail on the head. Puberty blockers are typically prescribed for cis youth to alleviate the mental stress of starting puberty before their peers. Most of the time, there's no actual physical issue with early puberty unless it's extremely early.
New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers. This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).
New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers. This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).
The student they're targeting is a queer Palestinian student. It's all over X and they are spreading baseless lies he committed the shooting and conspiracy theories that Brown and Providence police are in on it to cover it up.
Brown University released a statement about a Palestinian student that's being smeared online as the shooting suspect. Not going to share his post because it includes the student's personal info but one of those spreading this harmful rumor was the spokesperson for Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet.
Brown University released a statement about a Palestinian student that's being smeared online as the shooting suspect. Not going to share his post because it includes the student's personal info but one of those spreading this harmful rumor was the spokesperson for Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet.
Capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. It inevitably results in unconscionable concentration of capital that buys elections with their ill gotten gains.
Bari Weiss has only failed upwards propped up by the oligarchs she sucks up to. The reality is that her politics are odious and people can't stand her. The political class giving her clout have their heads up their asses. No one likes this stuff. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
If it wasn't for the Ellison nepo baby and the tech oligarchs like Marc Andreesen and David Sacks who invested heavily in the FP, she would just be running a glorified opinion column with a substack.
MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed in his Brookline home. He was the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics. boston.com/news/crime/2...
This dude just walked into an Ivy League university and shot a bunch of people in the middle of the day and walked out and the FBI still has no idea who or where he is
The Providence Police Department released a new photo of a person of interest in connection with the shooting at Brown University. Follow live updates. trib.al/VaGNj9A
You ban gender affirming care, people will just get it from an online source. It's the same policy result as the failed war on drugs.
Hannah Barnes wearing a hot dog suit "we're all trying to find the person that did this."
Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Hannah Barnes wearing a hot dog suit "we're all trying to find the person that did this."
Yeah, she'll be out within the next few months. This is all a media move to distance herself away from the worst parts of the administration so she can get a comfy high paid lobbying gig again.
good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
It's always the most obsessed anti trans people who get caught with CSAM.
1. In Alaska, the right wing govt handpicked doctors to the Medical Board to ban trans youth care. A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn. The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased. Our latest wild story.
1. In Alaska, the right wing govt handpicked doctors to the Medical Board to ban trans youth care. A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn. The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased. Our latest wild story.
"You see, we need my kind of ethnic grievance against immigrants rather than the ethnic grievances of immigrants." Flawless logic /s
Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
When you've lost Marjorie Taylor Green on human decency...
It's always Katsas, Rao, and Walker. You'd be forgiven for thinking they're the only judges on the DC circuit despite it having 12 judges, 8 of which are Dem appointees.
Judges Rao/Katsas have iced Judge Boasberg's contempt hearings until at least the New Year. And they want to know whether he has the power to investigate contempt at all or must refer it to DOJ. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Spent the weekend skiing up at Killington. Despite all the horrors in the world, there is still so much beauty out there. We just have to find it.
This is absolutely deranged, even by Trump standards. Every time you think he can't go lower, he does.
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.
In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
I've been off social media a lot, for me, this afternoon, but catching up and what the actual fuck is wrong with some people. You can absolutely condemn the Israeli government for its genocide in Gaza. If you use that in any way shape or form to minimise the attack in Sydney you need serious help.
This is targeted state violence against the Somali community by the federal government.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Given that they can run plates, this was potentially targeted. This administration is completely out of control.
When Charlie Kirk was shot, he did a full oval office address. When it's college kids on campus it's "things can happen." What a sociopath.
Trump on the shooting at Brown University: “Things can happen”
There's an affordability crisis and Republicans brought a special session just to pass a bathroom ban bill. Tell me again who is obsessed with trans people and wasting everybody's time instead of focusing on the things that actually matter.
In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
This man is a hero who saved countless lives. He's the best of humanity during the worst of it.
Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers. Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.
What a horrific, hate-filled act at Bondi Beach, NSW. Me heart goes out to all affected.
Absolutely horrifying. This is pure antisemitism and hate. Keeping the Jewish community in my prayers.
SYDNEY TERROR ATTACK - Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach - 2 gunmen opened fire - Dozens of shots were fired - Bystander disarmed 1 attacker - 9 victims confirmed dead - 11 victims injured, some critical - 1 suspect killed, 1 critical - Police investigating possible IED
Another mass shooting, this time at Brown. 2 dead, 8 injured. MAGA & Corporate media waiting to ID the shooter but we know the drill •Immigrant—> Expand ICE •Muslim—> Expand Muslim ban •Black—> Expand prisons & police •White—> Troubled lone wolf with rough childhood And still 0 action on gun safety
BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed. The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week. This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...