just feeling more and more like it’s journalistic malpractice not to lead with the fact that the instructor in question is trans

Ultimately I’ve realized that one reason I’m so scared all the time is that there’s a lot in my life that’s still very tenuous, putting me and my partner in a vulnerable position.

There’s just been so much fear. I’m afraid of everything all the time. I get sometimes completely frozen up from fear. For months the thing I was mired in was despair and shame. Lately it’s been fear.

ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him. "We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say. "I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells. "Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have." Philadelphia, PA

Almost every argument against universal health care is just a guy who makes 200k a year sending emails saying "but the flea and tick lobby will be really upset if we give the dog a bath"

This is me every day. i don't believe a thing I see, the major difference is I also don't know if I'm wrong, so I just pretty much scroll past every image and video... which sucks, too.

Congratulations on patting your own back for only overcharging people by $1,000. Not many people would have the right mix of ego and slimyness, yet here you are.

One confusing thing about liberal media outlets like the NY Times and CNN is that they're extremely right-wing: open.substack.com/pub/thecolum... by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

For at least a decade I have been told that “the blockchain” was not just for crypto but was a transformative technology that would be broadly adopted for thousands of uses.

Drapetomania Sociopathic Personality Disturbance Oppositional Defiance Disorder Black Identity Extremism Trump Derangement Syndrome This country has a long history of weaponizing mental health diagnoses to combat societal changes they don't like. It isn't a new issue. It's a classic American value.

The judge also ordered that teachers have a right to misgender trans youth even when the parents know of and are supportive of their trans child. Just in case you thought this was actually about parental rights.

A coalition of 19 states and DC have filed a lawsuit challenging the Kennedy declaration seeking to ban gender affirming care for trans youth by fiat by creating a federal "standard of care" based on pure pseudoscience. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.

It's pretty obvious this is an attempt to appear neutral between the two sides but such fake neutrality only aids the oppressor here. The overwhelming force of the federal government being brought to bear on less than 1% of the population. It's a campaign of eradication and the NYT has chosen a side

I noticed a change in the last few weeks in how the NYT describes gender affirming care. They now use the term "gender related care" in their coverage. This term had only been used sparingly (4 times) prior to this year. Now it's becoming ubiquitous in standard coverage.

⚠️ BREAKING: Ontario Hospital Reinstates Mask Mandate as Cold, Flu, and COVID Cases Surge All visitors to an Ontario hospital must start wearing masks to stop the spread of respiratory illnesses.

One of the things I just want to caution folks about is that a lot of crazy untrue things get called into tip lines. Reports from the FBI could be full of them and everything should be approached with care. And the fact that one reported event might be false doesn’t mean unspeakable things didn’t

In the past week, I've seen stories of AI: - being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students - calling innocent people sex offenders - shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars - emitting more CO2 than New York City What the fuck are we even doing?

just for context, this appears to be a report that was generated based on a tip submitted online through a form on the FBI’s website. anyone can submit a tip. it’s illegal to submit false tips, sure, but “the president dropped my dead baby in lake michigan” sounds like someone who needs help.

did a lot of people do a lot of really unspeakably disgusting, evil things? absolutely. but investigative files are full of weird fake tips and they released all of those on purpose to flood the zone so you’ll take the bait 500 times, start feeling foolish, and either go tinfoil hat or give up.

perhaps if you wanted credibility on this issue you would have spent less time acting like the guiltiest people alive ah well, I’m sure it’ll be fine and everyone will trust you

I saw a couple of the sketches. There's no joke. It's just a "boy" saying "I want a vagina", going to doll stories, throwing away a gifted toy truck, all to raucous audience laughter. It's literally just making fun of the idea of a trans girl.

Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment” Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment” Student: “I didn’t do the assignment” University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask” some days I just want to scream and scream

these “christian nationalists” aren’t afraid enough of hell

roll a deception check with disadvantage

can we like not manufacture a war

i've procrastinated so hard with my anti-trans tipping point series but one of the failures of the mainstream trans rights movement imo is how trans healthcare is seen as something nebulous and irrelevant to the majority of americans instead of the anti-healthcare trojan horse

When alot of us were younger (I'm an older gen Z), we were given classes that taught us how computers work. I had computer lessons in Elementary School, Typing lessons in Middle School, classes in Microsoft programs (word, excel, PowerPoint, etc.) And...

If I hear one more person refer to Gen Z or Gen Alpha as digital natives when the students do not know: 1. How to use built-in Word functions like outlining and spellchecker 2. The different types of basic files 3. Interoperability 4. The issues related to uploading #EduSky #AcademicSky

#SaveSpeech if you're Canadian, you may have heard about a handful of bills that have free speech and anti-surveillance orgs worried, so ive made a cheat sheet of info about what makes each one worrying! We need to block these bills! please contact your reps! oncanadaproject.ca/findyourrep

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

They found a new way to do Blackness without Black people To use Black labor without compensating Black people

How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US: Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science

I’ve always disliked this framing. The conflict over Palestine is not two groups randomly killing each other because of hatred. Its one group killing another to support its fascist ethnosupremacist ideology, while the victims attempt to survive

Routine trips to the Texas Department of Public Safety for a driver’s license update have quietly been feeding into something very different: a state-maintained list of people who asked to change the sex marker on their IDs. hoodline.com/2025/12/texa...

Another disaster. This one has actual harmful consequences for trans kids and their families.

Spoke with Times Radio about the AI bubble, and how I think it might be bigger and uglier than the dotcom bubble (though the after-effects will be...different) youtu.be/C35bMFVDrlo

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

I will use any excuse I can to tell the story about the time Bongino threatened to kill me on Twitter because I kept calling him Danny Bongos.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

There's a kind of "support" cis people will give trans people (and queer people more generally) that amounts to: "It's well and good for you people to be the way you are, but not MY kid. My kid is normal and if my kid ever the idea of being anything but normal, it's YOUR fault." Abstract support.

I saw a laundry list of cis pants-shitting in the replies of someone talking about MTG's bill to criminalise giving trans healthcare to minors. "I thought puberty blockers were irreversible" (False). "I've heard of cases where parents make their kids trans." (Wtf). "Don't some people regret it?"

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I’m sick to my stomach over these efforts to eradicate trans kids. Make no mistake, the goal is to stamp a group of people out of existence. It’s horrifying and violent and a bunch of Democrats support it.

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

excited to read a longform article about the collapse of this project (est: 1-3 deaths) in eighteen months or so.

the lesbian experience is all about flirting with queer women and becoming friends