"I was offered an untenable bargain: Don’t make trouble. Take the insults [from those] who asked for my assistance in private and then signed the orders to erase people like me…
"Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures. [T]hey find a tiny group of people, make them the enemy within, and rally the country against them. This is how it’s gone in Iran. Hungary. Russia. I wrote PDBs about it. This will not stop with trans people. It never has." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/trump-white-house-transgender-mike-pence/688284/?gift=O5Ggl5tYvHa8OTR4hjxSy49FNRzMEUXGaNxWYIoR5GY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
John Mark Ockerbloom
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