F. Staab
@fstaab.bsky.social
Composer, Sound Designer, Recording Engineer
Theater, Podcasts, Video
Brooklyn, NYC
German, American, Queer, Runner
Keeper of small human
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Theater, Podcasts, Video
Brooklyn, NYC
German, American, Queer, Runner
Keeper of small human
🏃 🏳️🌈🎭🎹🎧🎤🗽
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This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
A really important read on the DOJ…
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
A really important read on the DOJ…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Please share this widely. We need as many people to submit comments supporting access to this care as possible.
The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving.
We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share!
www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
July 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Please share this widely. We need as many people to submit comments supporting access to this care as possible.
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I've said before that the thing that seems to work with normies is to point out the NYT position on trans people aligns with the fake hate organization with 200 members trying to pass itself off as the American Academy of Pediatrics - instead of the position of the 67,000 doctors in the real AAP.
June 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I've said before that the thing that seems to work with normies is to point out the NYT position on trans people aligns with the fake hate organization with 200 members trying to pass itself off as the American Academy of Pediatrics - instead of the position of the 67,000 doctors in the real AAP.
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this report from media matters is fucking wild. fox news has aired 424 segments about trans athletes since feb 5.
the week democrats vetoed the GOP trans sports ban bill, they aired 59 segments.
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
the week democrats vetoed the GOP trans sports ban bill, they aired 59 segments.
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
Fox News aired more than 400 weekday segments mentioning trans athletes over just four months
www.mediamatters.org
June 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
this report from media matters is fucking wild. fox news has aired 424 segments about trans athletes since feb 5.
the week democrats vetoed the GOP trans sports ban bill, they aired 59 segments.
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
the week democrats vetoed the GOP trans sports ban bill, they aired 59 segments.
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
This! 💯
There's one quote in NYT's podcast about trans healthcare that perfectly illustrates what's wrong with how media organizations frame this kind of coverage. www.readtpa.com/p/the-quote-...
The Quote That Reveals What's Really Behind Anti-Trans "Concerns"
"I think this whole debate ... is hard to solve when people aren't on the fundamental same page about the existence of a trans identity and the fact that it is a valid identity."
www.readtpa.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This! 💯
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It's also not true that RFK Jr has identified a real problem but proposes the wrong solutions.
The "problem" he's identified is that Americans are unhealthier than we've ever been (false) and that prescription drugs are making kids sad, autistic and trans (deranged).
The "problem" he's identified is that Americans are unhealthier than we've ever been (false) and that prescription drugs are making kids sad, autistic and trans (deranged).
I am really tired of these "well, you gotta hand it to them..." pieces.
It is hard to find anything accurate in the MAHA report, and the quality is appalling.
They are correct that the evidence supports that a far greater fraction of Americans' diet comprises hyperpalatable ultraprocessed foods.
It is hard to find anything accurate in the MAHA report, and the quality is appalling.
They are correct that the evidence supports that a far greater fraction of Americans' diet comprises hyperpalatable ultraprocessed foods.
June 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It's also not true that RFK Jr has identified a real problem but proposes the wrong solutions.
The "problem" he's identified is that Americans are unhealthier than we've ever been (false) and that prescription drugs are making kids sad, autistic and trans (deranged).
The "problem" he's identified is that Americans are unhealthier than we've ever been (false) and that prescription drugs are making kids sad, autistic and trans (deranged).
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Huxley (1936): “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
April 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Huxley (1936): “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
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What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't
February 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't
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Courage and honor come in many forms.
February 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Courage and honor come in many forms.
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THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US.
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US.
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
An important piece about how the cruelty is the point….
I appreciated this piece – it addresses important points about what drives Trumpism that many ppl on both the center & left (& especially mainstream Dems) don't seem to get...
wrote a long piece about how fascists justify cruelty. It works a lot like John Wick or James Bond; you create a story about evil bad guys who deserve whatever happens to them. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-righte...
February 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
An important piece about how the cruelty is the point….
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Federal workers are being asked to report on colleagues who are involved in after-work groups for LGBTQ employees: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge
"They’re not asking people, ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?'"
www.motherjones.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Federal workers are being asked to report on colleagues who are involved in after-work groups for LGBTQ employees: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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When I landed in SLC, I used the bathroom despite an anti-trans bathroom ban.
Nobody cared. Nobody ever does.
The truth is, whatever anti-trans laws they keep passing, nobody actually gives a damn or wants to be the bathroom police.
This is the ultimate reason anti-trans hysteria will fail.
Nobody cared. Nobody ever does.
The truth is, whatever anti-trans laws they keep passing, nobody actually gives a damn or wants to be the bathroom police.
This is the ultimate reason anti-trans hysteria will fail.
February 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
When I landed in SLC, I used the bathroom despite an anti-trans bathroom ban.
Nobody cared. Nobody ever does.
The truth is, whatever anti-trans laws they keep passing, nobody actually gives a damn or wants to be the bathroom police.
This is the ultimate reason anti-trans hysteria will fail.
Nobody cared. Nobody ever does.
The truth is, whatever anti-trans laws they keep passing, nobody actually gives a damn or wants to be the bathroom police.
This is the ultimate reason anti-trans hysteria will fail.
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Today's extract from Serving the Reich.
What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?
What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?
February 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Today's extract from Serving the Reich.
What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?
What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?
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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
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As this article spells out, one tiny problem with "it's the wokeness!" is how Democrats crushed it when they were at their most woke. This was all in 2020 before the election.
Then in 2024 they backed away from it and lost to a bunch of the same people they beat in 2020.
Then in 2024 they backed away from it and lost to a bunch of the same people they beat in 2020.
February 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
As this article spells out, one tiny problem with "it's the wokeness!" is how Democrats crushed it when they were at their most woke. This was all in 2020 before the election.
Then in 2024 they backed away from it and lost to a bunch of the same people they beat in 2020.
Then in 2024 they backed away from it and lost to a bunch of the same people they beat in 2020.
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From Playwrights Center in MN: “What they call ‘DEI’ is what we call our values. We identify and uplift artists who have been historically marginalized, and we materially support their ability to create their world-changing work, full stop.”
Minneapolis theater group doubles down on DEI initiatives as federal funding is threatened
The theater organization says it recently received orders from the National Endowment for the Arts to stop promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion or be denied federal funding.
bringmethenews.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
From Playwrights Center in MN: “What they call ‘DEI’ is what we call our values. We identify and uplift artists who have been historically marginalized, and we materially support their ability to create their world-changing work, full stop.”
So many awful things are happening.
Therefore, it is more important than ever to know that mummies smell nice.
It brightens the day. 🤩
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Therefore, it is more important than ever to know that mummies smell nice.
It brightens the day. 🤩
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ancient Egyptian mummies smell "spicy" and "sweet", study finds
Rsearchers find nine mummies they examined all smelled "woody", "spicy" and "sweet".
www.bbc.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
So many awful things are happening.
Therefore, it is more important than ever to know that mummies smell nice.
It brightens the day. 🤩
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Therefore, it is more important than ever to know that mummies smell nice.
It brightens the day. 🤩
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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NPS [Feb 12] -- Natl Park Service scrubs "TQ+" from Stonewall National LGBTQ+ Monument in Christopher Park & the accompanying text. Monument to a riot launched by trans women of color like Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P Johnson reads "LGB."
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Getting word that a few hospitals are offering trans care again after the EO was blocked by a federal judge.
Please send the decision to your hospital, and PLEASE send me a message if your hospital has resumed care, as I’m doing a story on this.
Please send the decision to your hospital, and PLEASE send me a message if your hospital has resumed care, as I’m doing a story on this.
Incredible news!
The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order.
The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care.
ACLU statement here:
The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order.
The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care.
ACLU statement here:
February 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Getting word that a few hospitals are offering trans care again after the EO was blocked by a federal judge.
Please send the decision to your hospital, and PLEASE send me a message if your hospital has resumed care, as I’m doing a story on this.
Please send the decision to your hospital, and PLEASE send me a message if your hospital has resumed care, as I’m doing a story on this.
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A historic graphic of corruption.
The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies.
(📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)
The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies.
(📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)
February 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A historic graphic of corruption.
The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies.
(📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)
The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies.
(📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)
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Now more than ever.
February 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Now more than ever.
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whatever bespoke hypothetical thing you mean by "end social justice practices in the workplace", this version that they mean is the actual, concrete political project confronting labor and the left right now. move accordingly
Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law.
Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.
Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.
February 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
whatever bespoke hypothetical thing you mean by "end social justice practices in the workplace", this version that they mean is the actual, concrete political project confronting labor and the left right now. move accordingly