gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

truly incredible that the ellison family apparatus exists to blatantly funnel as much money into the pockets of the trump administration as possible

Exclusive: Last year, she was demonized for grading a poorly written psychology paper. Now, Mel Curth is speaking out about being targeted by Christian conservatives and to correct misinformation she believes the University of Oklahoma allowed to spread. www.advocate.com/news/people/...

Very illuminating thread. However you feel about the “power of AI coding models” or whatever, I think it’s important to see that across the board there’s a trend of software deteriorating across the board. It’s good to talk about it! It’s not complaining. We are the customer.

Wes Streeting will give this map as one of his achievements as Health Secretary.

As big as this ruling is, do read my full report at Law Dork, which now includes this — but will also give you the context for what it means: www.lawdork.com/p/after-a-st...

Everything in between is also significant, but, here is McElroy's ending:

BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."

So happy Bloomberg did get a pic. I didn’t lie

additionally, you gotta expand the entire federal judiciary and pack this court specifically

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

I’ve already called my state rep to ask them to propose defining the GOP a terrorist organization and bar them from running in this year’s elections. They are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and triggered a war. That’s terrorist shit and we should be treating them as such.

Trump and his allies are doing everything they possibly can to strengthen the forces in the center-left that are urging Dems to embrace procedural Total War. Trump and the GOP are doing this to our country. Every last shred of damage that results from escalation is their fault.

Identity doesn’t give people a free pass but why is it that BlueSky seems to enforce the rules more stringently (or make new ones up entirely) when the transgression is by a trans and/or Black person? Aaron isn’t addressing this and that’s what makes it DARVO, yes.

The time for Democrats to protect voting rights was 2021 when they had the opportunity to do so. Now, it's too late. The Viringia SCOTUS appeal is actually terrible. [Gandalf voice] Lawsuits are no more use here. This enemy can only be defeated by voters. My latest in @thenation.com

It would be incredibly funny if I could pass the WaPo Opinion podcast's subscriber count on my channel's first day on YouTube.

it makes me sad when i see trans people talk about how they hate being trans. while it's been tough and made my life harder in ways, it's also been one of the biggest blessings in my life. the perspective on life i have, people i know, and who i am are informed by me being trans

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

Obama tinkered with the tax code to benefit workers and hoped they'd be rewarded. Bush and Trump both made sure their names were on checks sent to voters. One of those approaches worked.

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

It is ridiculous to pretend X moved to the right because people left and not because it got bought by a neo-nazi who deliberately runs it with the overt goal of promoting his views and suppressing those he dislikes.

Professional Democrats simply can't comprehend that they need to be an anti-fascist opposition party. Asking a party that routinely demonizes Democrats and Democratic supporters to "join us" is foolish and weak.

they are literally never going to join you. i will not support anyone who: 1) thinks we need a "Strong Republican party." 2) doesn't pledge to undo what Trump has done literally immediately. 3) does not support robust court reform to unpack the courts. End of.

They bombed a school, Katherine. Boiling everything down to the cost of eggs is making you sound like a sociopath. If the war was making everything cheaper it'd still be evil.

look at this messaging failure. its like they can't see the reality in front of their eyes. trump is the leader of the gop. everything he does has their blessing and support. but the dem message is still, after all this, "we can work with republicans." meanwhile republicans are calling to end us.

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

The Trump White House freaked out so much at the political disaster they created for themselves with Minnesota and other viral images of their roving, trigger happy crackdowns that they were forced to make their secret police force more secretive, but they’re still committing lawless abuses and…

NYU caved and ended care and they're still being hit with a grand jury subpoena. It's incredibly clear that no amount of preemptive compliance will stop this attack. You either fight or you will be destroyed by this administration. Caving will not save you.

Weak statement by the AG. She can go to court today and seek to enjoin these sham investigations. She should not leave it up to healthcare institutions to defend patient privacy when they wouldn't even defend their right to provide this care.

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

important thing to note here is dr oz cites a current american replacement rate of 1.5, which is not true. the american replacement level in 2025 was 1.79. interestingly, the white replacement rate is in fact at 1.5 though

NEWS --> Top Virginia Dems have decided against exercising a procedural end-run around the State Supreme Court ruling that cost Dems four House seats, the Dem leader of the state senate tells me. This will anger Dems who wanted an aggressive response. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

great post

To be clear, using language like “dominate” when talking about trans women athletes is coded & perpetuates transphobic stereotypes about trans women being huge, scary, & monstrous.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

the Democrats retaking the House and Senate, on its own, will not destroy the Republican project. The only way to do that is a broad, years-long cross-ideological commitment to break American conservatism's power base TL;DR congressional Dems must be forced into war with the used car salesmen.

McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

This is not a political party that is remotely capable of meeting the moment and we only have ourselves to blame if we don’t throw them all out of office

declining to complain about my boss berating me daily to hr because i “want to work within the existing system”

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

New: Colorado isn't taking the Supreme Court's meddling lying down. They've rewritten their conversion therapy ban to be viewpoint neutral, in a win for trans and queer kids. Plus: FTC harassment of WPATH stopped by judge and Ohio legislator introduces adult care ban.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May Advocate 11 families filed a proposed nationwide class action in federal court in MD to block DOJ subpoenas sent to children’s hospitals nationwide requiring names, addresses, SS numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, and treatment of trans kids.

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

the specific example here is Obama saying Ds need to talk like normal people, but...I mean, Ds are just obsessed with finding some perfect message for voters, when what we need is relentless messaging telling elites to fucking fight fascism.

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.