i ate miles and miles of the horizon

elizabeth (she/her). 29. ace lesbian. you are easy to love. #IStandWithAmberHeard

[orphismes]

you’re all i ever wanted

[cosilontano]

OLIVIA DEAN ⋮ THE ART OF LOVING — LONDON (© katie.oco on tiktok)

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[mortalfortaxpurposes]

the black velvet band - michael day cover

bonus:

[rageisinourveins]

[badgerswake]

I'm learning how to Live without you But these ruminations Are all about you It makes me tired So tired

[redlipstickresurrected]

Young Lee aka 영리 (South Korean, based Seoul, South Korea) - Flow No.10, 2025, Paintings: Acrylic on Canvas

[parabolabear]

Happy Pride my fellow Mets degenerates...too many beautiful moments and memes to capture in one post but I trust you'll all fill in the rest this month 🥰🫶

[likefolksongs]

lgm stands for lesbian gay mets 😌🏳️‍🌈⚾️

[ferine]

Visit Original Link

Here’s a hymn to welcome in the day, Heralding a summer’s early sway, And all the bulbs all coming in, to begin.

[leveragecentral]

every leverage dynamic ⮎ breanna casey & eliot spencer

this is a lot more smallville than i imagined your childhood to be. what did you imagine? mmh. gotham.

[koszmarnybudyn]

Colored it, these are not final they are incredibly messy, but like the concept you know? Aux is like the most how i imagined him colors wise, not 100% happy with atom, and slug is all over the place and i need to reign it kinda in, but hey they are something.

[what-isright]

eliot hair per episode: the mile high job

[creativereid]

Anhinga novaehollandiae

[caara-mia]

[bubblemoons]

if you could only listen to 1 album from 2025 tell me in the tags which one

[syn4k]

[talking about my favorite characters] okay so THESE two come in a bonded pair and if i think about them too hard i start taking poison damage

[comradekatara]

i will never get tired of drawing her