If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Democrats’ demands should be literally nothing - no ICE funding under any circumstances. Hell, Congress gave them such an appalling slush fund last year that it would probably only stop them expanding.

"Every day I watch the terror grow and every day I have to work, run errands, do chores -- how to describe that contradiction, and how to survive it. Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon." -Franz Kafka's diary entry, August 2, 1914.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).

Peak pomegranate season.

This was hard to get a good photo of but I'm pretty sure it's a tiny bird nest.

I'm sure this was just a children's activity. Encountering it when I did, in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection anniversary and the murder of a legal observer by ICE, it felt like a memorial to everything and everyone we've lost and are on the brink of losing.

this bears repeating: Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people. Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet. The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood

Sunlight through fog and a waning gibbous this morning. Temperatures above freezing this week mean my urban woods are full of birdsong.

Was reminded today of a reflection I like but had forgotten. Good for a new year, or a new week. Adapted from the original. Where did I/can I: Build relationship? Empower others? Learn? Experience my empowered self? Feel satisfied?

I'm having vacation withdrawal. Thank goodness for small pleasures. Also? I'm committed to the alt text, but some choices are just hard to explain.

I've been feeling a little at lose ends about how I want to think about the year ahead. Connie Schultz offers, as she often does, the blessing I needed. May 2026 surprise you in the kindest ways.

I was reminded this week that space to grieve can be restorative. We've all worked so hard this year, and some of what we championed failed. Some of us have watched work we're proud of unravel. And it's OK to take some space to just be sad about what's been hard and what's been lost. 🧵

I lobbied heavily on PREA c. 2009-16. It’s both true that PREA is largely a failure, and that rollback will likely escalate already-systemic torture of TGI folks. (State laws, unaffected, are also weak.) This is truly vicious. And. My PREA work taught me: The cause of prison rape is prisons.

I was today years old when I learned this story. I'm glad I did. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/07/17/f...

Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…

There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.

El-Mohtar and Gladstone's This Is How You Lose the Timewar is the first book in years, decades?, that I've read cover to cover twice just because I liked it that much. It's just the right balance of mystical, deeply embodied and relatable.

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years

This goes for all Democrats.

Find more information and register for the event at the link below. We hope to see you and your community there. action.transequality.org/a/tdor-gathe... (2/2)

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Attn Pennsylvania voters: A massive wave of texts is being sent from random numbers telling Democrats and Independents to vote “No” on the Supreme Court retention questions. These messages are fake and misleading, part of a coordinated disinformation push.

1. The anti-trans panic is losing steam, at least when it comes to elections. New polls in battleground races in Virginia and New Jersey show voters prefer Democrats to Republicans on trans issues by double digits. This as centrist groups urge capitulation. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I passed four of these spanning about a mile and two streets. I want to know the story.

I've never seen anything shatter quite like pyrex. I was way too busy cursing the situation to take a photo but it really was spectacular.

In Virginia, the governor and attorney general races are especially important. In Pennsylvania, remember to vote YES on the retention of the Supreme Court justices on the ballot. In California, vote YES on Proposition 50.

I'm a sucker for a good bridge view.

Intersex health, dignity, and consent have never been optional. Everyone, including those with variations in their sex traits, deserves affirming, knowledgeable healthcare and the right to make decisions for their own bodies. #IntersexAwarenessWeek @interact.bsky.social interactadvocates.org/faq/

I jog one of two paths several times a week and often walk the same paths in the afternoon. Sometimes I need novelty and mix up my routine, but mostly it gives me a chance to notice how the season and time of day effect the trees, water and light.

This just got better (worse?) the longer I read. At time of writing there are 250 people registered. www.washingtonian.com/2025/10/27/t...

There is no wrong way to have a body. Intersex peoples’ bodies just develop a little differently to the usual male/female binary paths–and that’s perfectly okay. #IntersexAwarenessWeek @interact_adv interactadvocates.org/faq/

When this stand of trees is this color, I still think about @andyeyeballs.bsky.social "For Our Beloved Transgender Descendants." medium.com/@AndyEyeball...

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.