SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

What's the fate of TCM if/when Netflix acquires Warner Bros.? DEADLINE reported Fri that TCM would be spun off w/ the other WBD cable networks in Q3 2026. (screen cap below) Then they edited their story to state that Netflix would own TCM. Are they right? In short, I don't think we know. #FilmSky

God tier

A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change. This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.

It begins. #hogfather

#skybrarians #librarians #lawlibrarians

Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies. Either way, never trust them again.

BREAKING 2.0: #SpringfieldOR has announced the termination of their #FLOCK contract and the cameras' imminent removal.

Happy Krampusnacht!

The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy. Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality. John Roberts > Roger Taney. Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.

We need to talk about the massive loophole that the Supreme Court just carved into election law over the shadow docket—giving states a free pass to enact patently unconstitutional voting rules within nearly *one year* of an election. A stunning new limit on judicial review. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Netflix wins the bidding war for Warner Bros.

The Olympics are (mostly!) due to take place in a county of over 10 million people. LA28 can & should find folks who don't back the government that has been destroying our families, our economy, and our justice system for nearly a year.

The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: the list of lawsuits against OpenAI grows, KOSA updates in the House, a vulnerability in Filevine allowed an unauthorized user to see 100K records from a law firm (now fixed), and more #lawsky #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...

Over on Whatever, I'm doing a series on movies I consider "Comfort Watches" - not the greatest movies of all time, necessarily, but some of the most rewatchable. I'm starting the series with easily the most rewatchable movie of 2025: K-Pop Demon Hunters! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...

Having just watched "Paris, Texas" over 40 years after its release ... [spoilers follow] #filmsky

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

"Q: Does the @librarycongress.bsky.social replacement of MEXICO, GULF OF and DENALI, Mount (ALASKA) as subject terms following a Trumpian decree represent a case of abrogation of professional judgment and autonomy?" preview of Sandy Berman's auto-interview coming soon to my website 📚 #sandynistas

A quiet army protecting immigrant families. Inside Los Angeles’ anti-ICE patrols Star contributor Katherine Laze Berz reports from L.A.

A growing number of GOP-led states are restricting student voting access, from banning campus polling places to making it harder to prove residency. Earlier this year, Indiana banned student IDs for voting.

How 200 New Yorkers Foiled an ICE Raid Before It Even Began time.com/7337578/ice-...

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

So what’s going on is that the federal government is running a massive domestic spying operation and getting local cops to do their dirty work once a car is stopped. They call this siloing of data “walling” it off from their true source.

Ultimate stamp of approval: spending 3 months researching a 40pg profile about an eccentric, challenging author--and getting a thumbs up from that author's fans when it's done. Read about Alan Moore's latest career moves at The Metropolitan Review! www.metropolitanreview.org/p/giant-of-t...

For example, one thing that Sen Schiff has done to stand up to attacks on his people is voting to confirm several Trump judges and members of his administration, as recently as an AL district judge on 10/24/25. “But amanda how is that standing up to attacks on his people” he does it while frowning

Would be a bit awkward given that the Trump administration has condemned millions of people with AIDS to death through their USAID cuts

My hottest take ever: Shakespeare in Love is a perfectly cromulent film and Stoppard earned his Best Screenplay Oscar. Full stop. Fight me.

Goodbye to a master. RIP to Tom Stoppard.

Thank you, Tom Stoppard, for showing us a way.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

Ukraine has not surrendered but the US in the form of Witkoff and Trump has.

“History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts, and the archive becomes a battleground where every saved photograph, flyer, email, playlist, program, and story is an act of resistance.” #archives #library 📚 www.commondreams.org/opinion/docu...

Folks with Diabetes! There is an urgent recall on some FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors because they are showing false low glucose readings. Check your sensor serial numbers at freestylecheck.com

I have a strong suspicion that someone used an AI summary here. The phrase “exceedingly limited” in this context appears in an article by Judge J. Michael Luttig, in The Atlantic. But the cite gets the context completely wrong. Here’s what Judge Luttig says:

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

Giving myself significant whiplash by going from Zootopia 2 to Hotel Rwanda. #filmsky

They are not wrong.

This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...

We've not spent enough time talking about this administration as unamerican, rather than cruel or wrong or illegal. This stuff just is not who we are.

The CA bar is extremely lenient with prosecutors (even more so than the usual kid gloves prosecutors get) but this really needs to merit severe sanctions.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: 1) Bajofondo Tango Club 2) U2 3) Janelle Monae 4) Gogol Bordello 5) Flogging Molly

Any other GenXers get strong Marilyn vibes from Mr. Fantasy during the #ThanksgivingParade? No, just me? Okay then ...

Cynthia Erivo turned up as the Fourth Doctor for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Excellent thread... 🧵👇🏼📜

it's here it's QUEER it's the 2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!! 🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈