The Chumblery

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.

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.

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"

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

there is no ingredient in any of these medications that is "a precursor to meth",

you're thinking of ephedrine/pseudoephedrine, 2 drugs which were largely banned (theyre technically legal just much harder to get) several years ago and replaced with phenylephrine, which does not work:

Two studies published in 2009 examined the effects of phenylephrine on symptoms of allergic rhinitis by exposing people to pollen in a controlled, indoor environment. Neither study was able to distinguish between the effects of phenylephrine and a placebo.

the FDA hired an advisory council in 2023 and came to an official conclusion and published a statement that phenylephrine does not work, does nothing, is at best a placebo etc etc but because this is america you can keep putting it in your drug store medications and claiming it works.

In September 2023, an independent advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously agreed that there is insufficient evidence showing that "orally administered phenylephrine is effective as a nasal decongestant".[33] The committee also unanimously believes that this does not need further study. The FDA responded to the committee, stating it would take its advice under advisement.[23][34] In November 2024, the FDA proposed to remove oral phenylephrine as an active ingredient that can be used in over-the-counter (OTC) monograph drug products for the temporary relief of nasal congestion.[24]

thanks to the ongoing drug war, the entire american drug class of "cold medicine" is essentially now just over-the-counter delirients that "work" by knocking your ass out so you can just get some much needed sleep. and sleeping is a good way to recover from infection so whatever, but the dementia effects are real and not good. aside from that and the antihistamine activity, which IS effective dont get me wrong, they do nothing to address the actual symptoms of the virus. you get better cough suppression from straight alcohol probably

It's common enough that young black kids are told to keep any identifying information on them at all times just in case someone reports a black kid breaking and entering by walking into the house they've lived at since they were born. Because that has happened.

When you add mental illness and the healthcare industry into the mix, things only get worse from there. To be clear, you don't need to be black or mentally ill to be treated poorly by a doctor or nurse that's decided they know you better than you do. But it sure doesn't make things easier.

And people have died as a result- or have we already forgotten the death of Adriana Smith who went to THE HOSPITAL SHE WORKED AT AS A NURSE reporting severe headaches and was dismissed as exaggerating and imagining the severity, only to be declared brain dead upon arrival less than 24 hours later and artificially kept alive to force her dead body to carry her baby to term- which couldn't even happen and they had to remove him via C-section anyway.

I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

That's what V-coding is. That is why they are so adamant about sending trans women to men's prisons, because sex trafficking trans women within the men's prison system is an essential part of that system. Being misgendered by this isn't even an issue that's on our radar!

if you get a new adderall prescription i am medically advising you to start your first dose at 5mg or below, same for ritalin. the entire idea of medication of this type is to titrate up slowly until you hit the homeostasis of your own tolerance, genetic metabolic factors, and use case. titrating DOWN from a dose thats too high is wasteful and unpleasant and puts you at higher risk of psychosis

i posted on here a few days ago the idle thought that i wondered if prescribing physicians are all on long term adderall tolerance anyway (based on the adderall usage stats in med schools) so they think their patients should be started at higher doses and one of my pharmacy industry mutuals replied to me privately and just said “yep” so keep in mind the entire field of western medicine as it exists today is practiced by functional speed freaks and adjust your expectations

yes, you are reporting what the doctors have been advised to do and which i am telling them not to do, which you can see the results of in the notes of this post from all the people who were started on either of these doses/formulation combos and had horrific side effects/psychosis. also a few people who did completely fine! 20mg XR and 5mg 2-3x/day is STILL too high a starting dose for many adults to be prescribed safely. i am one of the patients who would have been injured by taking my full prescribed 20mg/day IR dose and has been instead taking a much lower one, with zero tolerance, for over ten years. my case is not unusual. my OP was based on like the fourth or fifth personal friend of mine, just the most recent one, to have been prescribed 30mg as a starting dose of XR and, despite being twice my body mass and not psychotropic-naive, had a mood episode bad enough to interrupt their participation in a pleasant social event. this KEEPS happening to people i know. one friend had a full on psychotic episode, many others have had to learn through attrition to take fractions of their doses, sometimes through water solutes at home which is crazy

its not an antibiotic, there is no reason not to start patients on lower doses and titrate up except some sort of broad medical ignorance about it, or possibly it's a "if they cant tolerate big doses they dont actually 'need' it" punitive approach to prescribing. low starting doses and gradual titration (which can be fast if the patient is confident in increasing quickly) is in fact the only logical way to prescribe this medication, as there are no benefits to prescribing high doses first, it does not create a better clinical outcome and vastly opens the field for additional issues.

"paste the code we sent you via whatsapp" I can't.

"scan this QR code" I can't.

"type in the number shown on your device" I can't.

"have us call you instead" I can't.