i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

The Supreme Court could say the president’s allegedly illegal actions must be put on hold while the Court reviews it. Instead, they repeatedly say Trump’s abuses must be allowed to go forward while in dispute. That’s entirely a choice. There’s no basis in law. Made the opposite call with Biden.

White people can move the needle if they want. Y'all got Jimmy Kimmel back on the air boycotting, you can throw some of that expendable income to support the vulnerable through mutual aid, you can make some moves against fascism instead of performatively bemoaning what you think doesn't affect you.

Residents of Gaza City, the target of a major Israeli offensive, offer mixed opinions after a slate of Western nations recognised the State of Palestine. For Tawfiq Habib the move - condemned by Israel - means little. "I don't care about recognition while the killings are still going on here"

"UNGA resolution 37/43 removed any doubt ... The resolution reaffirmed 'the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle.'"

Not sure why anyone thinks the Board of Deputies of British Jews or the Jewish Leadership Council or the Council of Jewish Institutions of France or any such group ought to have a say over their government's policy of recognition of Palestine. Are our rights contingent upon Jewish consent?

Take your Kimmel protest energy and use it to freeze out that hateful JKR too! Maybe HP was a part of your childhood. Well now it's a slap in the face and a dagger in the back of people who just wanna live. Don't let her see a dime!

Republicans control the House, Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Presidency.

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

health reporters are generally in the business of trying to report the truth. political reporters at the NYT are hired to report what politicians say, and to deliberately ignore the truth (if they have any idea what it is.)

I can't promise I won't feel doom and gloom, but I will never give up. Like John Oliver said, "Fuck you. Make me."

Make them ride circuit. Cancel a Supreme Court term. No more clerks. And strip jurisdiction.

Grok's sexy AI "companions" are being powered by listening in on user's private conversations with chatbots, say former workers. "It made me feel like I was eavesdropping... like people clearly didn't understand that there's people on the other end listening to these things."

The regime has been overextending itself for a while, now. But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine

Yes, I wrote for it for years and it is house style, never breached except when a columnist retires. I no longer write for the Economist for a few reasons, but one is that they have routinely advanced an agenda harmful to the well being of trans people.

The theory is the Economist has a single editorial voice. Which of course means that in this case it has decided to align its editorial voice with Jesse Singal's, which isn't a surprise given literally all of their trans coverage in the last couple years

...FYI several ppl commented that The Economist doesn't name authors for many articles. which seems fine if it's a short news summary, but not in the case where it's one writer's interpretation of a study. especially when the interpretation is 180º different from the researchers' own conclusions!

...knowing Jəsse's the author (& that gender-affirming care practitioners are well aware of his biases & tactics) utterly changes the meaning of the last paragraph. without attribution, it makes it sound like the authors are suspiciously dodging the question. in actuality they know he's a bad actor!

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

And aside from everything else, the Trump admin calling acetaminophen "Tylenol" over and over again is exactly the kind of trademark erosion that corporations spend ridiculous amounts of time, energy, and money to prevent.

I keep thinking that companies who argue they don’t want to take sides in partisan politics are sort of missing the point. You don’t have to say, “we’re pro Democrats/Republicans”. You can just state your position on a few core issues relevant to your business and stand by them.

The antifa thing is a smoke screen. There is no "central antifa leadership." JD Vance gave the game away last week when he said this was about George Soros and Ford Foundation. The far right influencers will simply fill the narrative vacuum with propaganda and lies to justify the crackdown.

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Quoting a friend of mine (with permission) not on socials: “I’m pretty sure I have two autistic kids because I keep fucking their autistic dad raw.” Anyway autism is genetic hope this helps

As the esteemed progressive Harry Jaffa famously wrote, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

If I was going to have a rage stroke - which I’m not, because I am surviving through spite - I think watching an elderly serial abuser who has never and will never be pregnant get on national TV to lecture people who are about “toughing it out” without pain relievers would be the thing that did it

Tylenol is bad. It's not a safe pain medication. Cocaine has a wider safety dosage range. But it doesn't cause autism and it's fine to be autistic. Just another way to be a person. We need neurodivergent people. I can't believe the fash are making me defend fucking Tylenol.

i really have not seen yglesias et al reckon with the fact that kamala ran exactly the campaign they would have suggested and lost.

The more I learn about internet Christian evangelicalism the irrationally angrier I get TBH. Catholics are supposed to be the weird ones. Catholics are the ones with actual exorcisms but it's the internet evangelicals calling everything demonic.

Your favorite podcast grandma recently lost a leather bookmark she got in Ireland 30 years ago on a trip with her father. She is so, so sad about it. Hoping to replace it for her, but I've scoured the Internet with no luck so far. Anybody got any ideas? Similar to the ones in the photo (sold out 😓)

I had to explain *last night* to a family member who is a former journalist and well informed that Antifa is an ideology, and not a merry band of hooligans disrupting peaceful marches at every turn. Next time I think I will broach the, "actually you are Antifa, too, if you really think about it."

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The funniest part of this is acetaminophen is the (perfectly safe) drug. Tylenol is a *brand*, and by attacking the brand and not the drug, the US government has just given Kenvue a massive gift when this goes to court. Their lawyers are likely drooling right now.

Also the folks at MSNBC who had big mouth for Kimmel but were quiet about Joy Reid and Symone Sanders …. Yeah

I am an out bi woman. I co-founded a community org in my city by & for queer folks, including running our annual Pride festival, a month of events leading up to it, year long Queer-to-Queer Education series (Q2QEdu), regular political actions ranging from sponsoring debates to protesting city hall -

I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice

Ahmad needs a few more dollars to get his family to a safer area; help him out bsky.app/profile/ahma...

Israel is currently accusing the samud flotilla for being hamas affiliated. This accusation is what they use to justify killing kids, journos, men and women or any other innocent.

The idea that the Uncommitted movement called for people to withhold votes from Biden/Harris in the *general* election rather than the primary is one of those load-bearing falsehoods that it seems impossible to disabuse people of. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

Same thing with arming Israel. Same thing with militarized police against protestors.

love to have maternal health information doled out by a man who hates women, mothers, and children

So most Black folks trying to join Mastodon figured this out and eventually left. And the whites kept their wonderful decentralized utopia where hardly anyone ever complains about racism. There's still a few of us there, but just not that many.

White queers are especially guilty of this. They brand every nonwhite person who tries to critique their racism as homophobic/transphobic, and other white queers just believe them immediately. And if you're queer or trans yourself? They'll just say you're not queer or trans enough. Rinse and repeat.

The harassment is fairly simple to deal with-you just ban the person or block the server they're on. The problem is the person you just banned/the person running the server you blocked has a bunch of white friends will now start a harassment campaign accusing you of treating their friend unfairly.

Every time an effort was made to introduce safety tooling or build our own spaces, the folks involved in community building (including Marcia who is quoted in the original thread), suffered intense backlash and harassment from white folks. But that's not even the #1 problem with the space either.

As someone who has run a black queer Mastodon server since 2023, yes to this. Most users on the fediverse are hostile to us. There are a few people who are committed to doing the work as there are on Bluesky, but the difference is we never reached a critical mass of Black users. This was by design.