[tsuk1nny]

“Gris” (2018) reference

[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.

[inconjuncts]

“The rule was jointly proposed by 42 federal agencies—from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Defense to the National Science Foundation to NASA—each of which signed the document through its senior leadership. Signatories include Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at HHS, Kelly Loeffler at the Small Business Administration, and Troy Edgar at the Department of Homeland Security. It is the broadest interagency rulemaking effort of the Trump administration, and it is designed to ensure that no single agency can opt out or slow-walk implementation.”

I would really love every follower in the US to understand how fucking serious this is and to AT LEAST MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT. Please thanks

[monster1994]

happy june everybody i hope you get fucked and/or sucked this month

[kazokuhouou]

what if we don't wanna be?

[monster1994]

then i hope for peace

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[darkestbrook]

[sup-its-cat]

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME

THAT WAS LITERALLY MY FIRST THOUGHT UPON SEEING IT IN THE MOVIE

[notes-and-violets]

I had to xD

[houujin]

A relatively messy study/fanart for project hail mary, the last month has really awakened my inner space loving child again

Also fun fact, while drawing Man of war by Radiohead started randomly playing which i think is very veru fitting for this

[lutheban]

"i am your favorite teacher's favorite teacher😎" - Mark on his comment section probably just the image:

[mumblesplash]

if i had it in me to make gifs i would want to put together a compilation of every time ryland grace tries to say no to something and ends up doing it anyway bc oh my god it happens so many more times than you notice on first watch. it starts all the way back when he tries to ‘pass’ on the petrova line question during the first classroom flashback

[mumblesplash]

in probably-not-perfectly-chronological order as shown, off the top of my head:

beanbag is lava petrova line question (“uhh pass.” “you can’t pass!”)

his initial refusal to examine the astrophage sample

when he tries to chicken out of spacewalking to get rocky’s message capsule and gets launched out by the tether anyway

when he tries to back out of presenting his findings on the boat

when the blip-a tunnel reconnects to the hail mary and rocky tells him to take off his spacesuit helmet

when rocky says they have to watch each other sleep

the ‘we can’t just show up in a ball unannounced and move into someone else’s spaceship. there has to be boundaries’ -> giving up half the space on the mary to xenonite tunnels you build with your own two hands pipeline

just to be mean part of me really wants to include ‘just take the compliment. that’s an order.’

and, of course, “i’m not an astronaut”

[mumblesplash]

and it’s not even just that he can’t say no, it’s that when he caves he ends up going so far above and beyond what was remotely called for. he’s too scared to spacewalk but ends up taking a flying leap to catch the blip-c capsule. he tries to refuse to study the astrophage and ends up as eva stratt’s right hand man. he says they have to have boundaries and then lets rocky order him around for weeks. he says he won’t go to space to save the planet and then ends up saving two

[mumblesplash]

“thumbs up, baby 👎” is sort of grace’s whole deal, in a way,

[mumblesplash]

not nearly enough people talking about the way grace betrayed stratt too if you ask me. and tbf i get it, bc the implication is less overt (at least in the movie? still haven't read the book) but it's sooo much more interesting to me than the way she betrayed him.

bc like the way i see it she really did not need to pretend grace had a choice. those 3 hours she gave him were meaningless as far as the project itself and the fate of the world were concerned. and yes, it was in the hopes that he would come around on his own, but i don't think that was for grace's benefit. if anything, it probably would have been less painful for him if he'd never thought he had a say.

stratt wasn't asking for his consent, she knew it never mattered anyway. she was asking him to take some of the weight of his own death off her conscience, and he said no. no, i won't make the hard call for you just this once, not even with the whole world on the line. no, i won't acknowledge that you never had a choice either. no, i will not absolve you of the one sin it's in my power to forgive. that's gotta sting, even if she wasn't really expecting him to say yes, or even to recognize those 3 hours for what they were. she probably wasn't. she knows a long shot when she takes one.

[breadstickemporium]

Adding @mumblesplash’s tags

[perple-shruk]

reading the book, it's so easy to feel grace's anger and fear when he's recruited for phm, and as the reader it was especially easy for me to hate stratt in that moment on his behalf. but by the time he remembers, he understands why she did it. he's not happy about it sure, but it was the only chance they had. he was their only chance.

it took me a little while to realize that stratt wasnt doing cruel things because she herself was cruel. she was just doing what she had to, and it wasnt the first time she crossed terrible boundaries to make it happen. it probably wasnt the last, either, but it was likely the most wretched. she stole his agency and identity for her plan and it worked exactly the way she needed it to (with some hiccups of course).

i guess what made me realize that none of it was easy on her, either, is remembering that in the book, she talks about how she'll probably go to prison as soon as the mission launches. she knows exactly what laws she's broken and what lines she's crossed, but it was all necessary. she didnt do it for fun. she kind of parallels grace in that way - "if not me, who?"

for the stratt haters of the world, do you think she ever made it public, what she did to grace? i mean... she was going to prison anyway. what would be the point in telling the world how she had to force their hero to save them? but what would be the point in not doing it?

if she said nothing, grace would be remembered as a noble hero who saved billions of lives by laying down his own. his life would be celebrated. his achievements, likewise. he would be more than just a junior high science teacher.

if she did publicize how he begged and pleaded not to be sent on a suicide mission, but she took away his choice and put him on that ship anyway, what would that get her but more anger directed her way? she would still hold all of that blame on her shoulders... all of the responsibility for everything it took to make phm a reality would still belong to her. but now the world would know that the scientist charged with saving them from extinction didn't even want to do it, and that's how he would be remembered.

So. her choices boiled down to:

1) Stay quiet and allow her friend to be celebrated for the good person she knew he was

2) Tell the truth and tarnish his memory, but also be punished for his murder

Stratt's not going to come out on top either way. She knows that. It's a fact. But she could make good on a promise.

[perple-shruk]

sorry okay i just keep thinking about grace's last moments on earth being desperate and scary and traumatic dawg like i feel so much for him. the movie having it be a chase like he's the fox being hunted down by dogs is such an insane visual. and in the book it's just quiet and inescapable. crushing and hopeless for him either way and idk it's just so amazing to me how well that's portrayed in the book and movie

[perple-shruk]

reluctant hero in the sense that my agency and identity were stolen from me so that i would instinctually work to save my species from extinction and by the time i realized that there was any reason for me not to i would finish the work anyways because there is literally nobody else to do it

reluctant hero in the sense that i was the sole survivor of my crew who died under mysterious circumstances by shear luck so despite not understanding what was happening i continued to fight for my species' survival because there is literally nobody else to do it

reluctant hero + reluctant hero = good good good!

[perple-shruk]

it actually absolutely guts me that even though they had to chase down, tackle, and forcibly drug grace to get him on the hail mary, we still very briefly see how gentle they were with him and how carefully his things were packed away in the movie. like yeah, they couldnt injure him of course, but there was genuine care there that grace himself didnt ever get to experience until he became the earth's sacrificial lamb

[perple-shruk]

i like that the movie is more hopeful than the book. the book really gives a sense for grace's loneliness, desperation, and his sense of worthlessness. the movie feels more optimistic. like the hero's story being retold, i guess, where you believe in him just because you know he's the hero

[perple-shruk]

it actually absolutely guts me that even though they had to chase down, tackle, and forcibly drug grace to get him on the hail mary, we still very briefly see how gentle they were with him and how carefully his things were packed away in the movie. like yeah, they couldnt injure him of course, but there was genuine care there that grace himself didnt ever get to experience until he became the earth's sacrificial lamb

[sushiisiu]

ily (avaliable as a print in my pinned)