It feels both that nothing is shocking, but it’s still important to go through the motions of acting like it is because otherwise where are we left.

For @truthout.org yesterday I wrote about how the government's lies about tylenol and autism reminds me a lot of the government's lies about trans people. truthout.org/articles/ant...

Two Eagles in Chicago? @byadamrhodes.bsky.social can you please explain? windycitytimes.com/2025/09/28/c...

new @byadamrhodes.bsky.social just dropped ..... leather daddy slap fight, anyone?

I love that my beat is LGBTQ+ rights and also leather daddy drama?

Less than a week after it was taken off the air under pressure from the Trump administration, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will return to late night on Tuesday, ABC parent company Disney confirmed.

It was a nice break from *gestures everywhere* to report on some really successful and groundbreaking activism around HIV criminal laws around the country. It's not every day I get to report good news about bipartisan compromise on public health issues. prismreports.org/2025/09/17/h...

After some states repeal HIV criminalization, activists hope to continue momentum, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports. North Dakota & Maryland became the fourth & fifth states to completely repeal laws that make it a crime to expose someone to HIV without their knowledge.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

customs and border patrol looks to be gearing up for an active day in elgin—with armored trucks, pickups, suvs, and a helicopter flying overhead. before dawn, agents reportedly raided a house on a residential street near elgin fresh market.

during cbp's early-morning propaganda raid in elgin today, agents briefly detained a u.s. citizen along with 3 other people. masked agents broke down their front door and smashed a glass patio door. the photos in this @chicagotribune.com story are jarring: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/16/e...

The TRiiBE is partnering with indie investigative newsroom @unraveledpress.com and alt-weekly @chicagoreader.com to document confirmed sightings of ICE and other federal agents in the Chicago area. thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...

With credible reports that there will soon be a major increase in federal immigration enforcement activity in Chicago, I want to once again highlight the Family Support Network - a rapid response resource run by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Use it if you spot ICE.

Last year, Idaho passed a strict law that forbids anyone from providing to a minor any service that could be construed as medical or psychological in nature without parental consent. Now, minors calling the state's suicide hotline are being forced to have a parent speak for them or hang up

still looking for more sources on the west coast for this! Do you work at a university that has not been in the news? Are you working to protect immigrant students or support the pro-Palestine movement? I want to talk to you for a Truthout story! email me at [email protected] or signal @freeze.16

"I’m honored to be the first Latine person, and first openly queer person to lead the publication, particularly in a time when both of those identities come under increased fire, not dissimilar to the attacks levied against the important journalism our members are producing."

Been sitting on this one for a min but I'm excited to say I'm the new editor of the @ire.org Journal! Honored/excited to take the helm of the publication in such an important moment. www.ire.org/adam-rhodes-...

Can't think of a better reporter than @kenschneck.bsky.social to tackle such an important, sensitive, personal story with the care it deserves. Christine's honesty here is a gift and will be a lifeline to queer Ohioans.

Last year, I wrote for @them.us about how far-right politicians and pundits keep spreading misinformation that mass shooters are trans — or that in the exceedingly rare chance that they are, the violence was motivated by gender affirming care. It's horrifyingly relevant after this week.

Despite a 2021 requirement, immigration officials have stopped reporting the number of transgender people in their custody, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports. Advocates warn that the decision hampers efforts to ensure queer people’s safety in the nation’s escalating immigration detention regime.

Texas is about to give more than $1 billion in public money to private schools. We found that they routinely engage in nepotism and enrich insiders in ways that would be illegal for public and charter schools. Just out @propublica.org @texastribune.org: www.texastribune.org/2025/08/13/t...

I had SOOOOO much fun on the latest episode of This News is So Gay! Hear me talk about conversion therapy, trans people behind bars and....the Gilded Age. I contain multitudes.

LGBTQ2S+ bookstores stand as bastions of community, information-sharing and activism, writes @byadamrhodes.bsky.social.

U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Every jailhouse lawyer knows Dee Farmer’s name, even if they don’t know who she is. What most of them don’t know is that the person who paved the road for them was a transgender woman who filed her suit from a federal prison cell, in an era when her gender identity was considered a mental illness.

A few months ago I made a TikTok about what John Oliver's "trans sports" episode got right about the "trans sports debate" Feels like good watching material today, because we all know the media is going to be incredibly un-normal about this US Olympics news!! www.tiktok.com/@xtramagazin...

special shoutout to all my sweet friends who had to listen to me talk about this for literally years and did not judge me about it (to my face)

I'm so humbled that my investigation into anti-LGBTQ+ bias in the death penalty, published in The Appeal, was recognized by @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social with their Excellence in Legal Coverage award. theappeal.org/lgbtq-bias-d...

PREP4All's statement on approval of lenacapavir as an every 6-month injectable option for PrEP: "the path to access is more perilous than ever for the communities in greatest need of PrEP, and it is far from clear that innovation will triumph over the expensive price Gilead has set for lenacapavir."

"Military troops are strapping on their tactical gear and grabbing their weapons of war, awaiting orders against skater kids armed with little more than rocks and fireworks, who have committed the great crime of impeding traffic while fighting fascism."@tinavasquez.bsky.social in @prismreports.org 🔥

President Donald Trump, who sat by watching TV without taking action for hours when his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in 2021, has deployed at least 300 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to mostly peaceful immigration protests.

With everything going on, I wanted to something that felt more useful than just writing a story, so the good folks at @theappeal.org and I put together this legal resource guide for trans folks and those who love us. There are sections for trans people, parents and doctors. Please read and share!

I'm thrilled to announce the speakers for our June 5 panel, "Resisting the Rollbacks,” on trans rights in Chicago journalism: Chijioke Williams, @vimiller.bsky.social, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social & me. Join us at Medill’s downtown campus for this FREE event RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/1354173753...

A man incarcerated in Colorado cast his first-ever ballot in November, thanks to the state’s new law requiring in-person polling places in all local jails. “It would be one of my top five experiences, being able to vote.” boltsmag.org/jail-vo...

"the tenant trap" wins an ire award! thank you to @mdoukmas.bsky.social, @writeralejandra.bsky.social, and @injusticewatch.org for making this my first byline!

Every time I see a photo of me teaching I learn just how faggy (complimentary) I am and it give me such a lil giggle. So happy to see my good sis @jakewittich.bsky.social from @windycitytimes.com among the wicked smart journalists in this training!

Spending the day at @medillschool.bsky.social for a data journalism training with @byadamrhodes.bsky.social of @ire.org.

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My brain is melting trying to comprehend this.

Without lawyers willing to challenge the government, there is no freedom of the press. Incredibly proud to see @theintercept.com and @freedom.press take the lead on amicus brief in the Perkins Coie case. theintercept.com/2025/04/09/t...

Just a reminder that transgender people are not causing Americans to lose their retirement savings.

Breaking: Attorney General Pamela Bondi directs prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione. DOJ says the "murder was an act of political violence."

girl whatever

As Audre Lorde told us, “Your silence will not protect you.” The Center for Journalism & Democracy is hosting an evening of powerful dialogue about our eroding democratic and press freedoms with a powerhouse slate of speakers. Information is the currency of freedom. Join us.

My latest for The Nation: a look at attempts to roll back bans on conversion therapy and how the Trump administration could aid those efforts.

It's easy to think that the horrific practice of conversion therapy is a relic of the past. But as @byadamrhodes.bsky.social writes, Trump's return to power could help conversion therapy gain new ground.

We just published an in-depth investigation by @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social on the shoplifting panic-fueled buying spree that allowed police departments across the U.S. to purchase millions of dollars in new equipment in the name of stopping retail theft. theappeal.org/shoplifting-...