Casting notice for UK trans women! I've been working on this passion project with my friends & mentors for years, and we are now looking to cast a young trans actor for one of the lead roles. This is an incredible part, one I hope to help make a future star.

Many believe it is "natural" for men to be sexually attracted to girls from puberty on, and that stigmatization, even of acting upon it, is an arbitrary social construct (eg variable "age of consent" laws). It's frowned upon, but understood, because it's "natural".

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

And also with you, queen

In this case, ADF “cited several scholars to support its argument that conversion practices should once again be permitted. Two of those experts, however, told the Guardian that ADF had ‘profoundly’ misrepresented their research, which discussed the ‘psychological damage’ of conversion therapy.’”

And there it is. The entire attack on Netflix is just a grift for far right influencers to promote a religious streaming site.

I love seeing that I haven't liked an artist's most popular song on Spotify and then liking it only to realize I already liked five other versions.

Hey friends, I dusted off my brain and wrote an essay for the first time in many years. Here's a piece about my experience at the June 8th protests in LA, state violence, solidarity between communities, and bearing witness to the truth: www.them.us/story/lapd-i...

NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE. Inside one day on LI: theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...

The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well. www.latimes.com/california/s...

We are getting reports of clinics shutting down that provide care to trans youth over the latest CMS letter threat. If your clinic has shut down or you work at one, or your child's clinic has shut down, please send us a DM - we are putting together a big story on this.

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

I'm not a political scientist but if you're advice to the Democratic Party is pushing out unions, immigrants, and queers then I think there's already a party for that

Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February. He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."

Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it's all being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who has dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built his "political project". 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.

the audiobook edition of ONE OF THE BOYS is OUT NOW!!! i am beyond honored to have the lovely and incomparable Jen Richards (@smartassjen.bsky.social) read my little book😭 please pick it up if you, like me, love reading books with your ears!!! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

This Hacks Andor crossover is hot.

And we already know that speaking out against slaughter of civilians is considered supportive of terrorism. They've laid the groundwork for trans people simply existing to be terrorism ("gender ideology"), or fighting for women's bodily autonomy, or resisting ICE, or collective organizing, or ...

Rahm/Newsom/Cuomo: Dems spend too much time talking about what bathroom people use or what sport team they play on The GOP:

One thing that Trump will not tolerate is the heads of agencies saying publicly that their agency should exist.

What Trump learned long ago as a private citizen is that you can easily ruin someone’s life with frivolous litigation even if you ultimately lose in court. And that was when he was spending his own money to harass and intimidate people. Now he’s spending yours.

The judges who looked at this case previously had to chastise the White House lawyers because the evidence they presented to prove that trans inclusion hurt military readiness showed the opposite. They hadn't even read their own evidence. It's ideology over evidence. Pure animus.

The world is maddening, but I just sipped rain water from the nasturtium leaves in my garden and for a moment I felt whole and human again.

This is a clear, true, & important distinction that many people refuse to make. The same is true of "fancy city dwellers condescending to hard workin' ruralites." The same is true of "wokesters forcing you to use pronouns." These are RW bogie men. RW hysteria exceeds actual examples 1000/1.

The biggest mistake Dems in red states make is NOT CALLING THEIR REPUBLICAN reps. Calling your rep - ESPECIALLY if they're Republican, is *critical*. Otherwise they just hear from supporters and think they're doing a great job. americansofconscience.com/faq-calling-...

I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such

North America in three quotes by heads of state.

It is not clear that the president has the authority to make such orders to CPB under the law. From @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

I'll repeat this till I'm blue in the face, we're facing a full on resegregation movement. This is a neo post reconstruction political project to reassert white men at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy.

Notice how this works. A year ago, the subhead here would have said “which is expressly forbidden by the constitution.” But Trump floats a crazy assertion and then WaPo retreats to saying “which most legal scholars say..” Stop he said/she saiding truth. It is expressly forbidden. Period.

"Trump’s cognitive abilities and overall competence have always left a lot to be desired, but these interviews show a president who’s no longer capable of even the veneer of mental acuity. Meanwhile, his cabinet and even congressional Republicans behave like courtiers to a mad king."

The HHS releases its report on medical care for trans youth today. Make no mistake, it's simply another piece of propaganda designed to support the conclusions the administration and their right wing backers bought and paid for. Its ONLY intention is to eliminate trans people.

Someone once described Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, composed during Soviet rule, as the sound of rejoicing. He corrected that it's the sound of being beaten with the directive, "You must rejoice, you must rejoice."

The White House seems to be making moves to outlaw trans affirming care for all Americans under 18, claiming they and their right wing, religious extremists know more about what's good for trans kids than the kids, their families, and their doctors all working according to established standards.

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

This is it, right? The constitutional crisis we've been hurtling towards? Trump v the rule of law? The Supreme Court, in an unanimous decision, directed the government to get Abrego García back and Trump isn't going to. Lawyers will argue and Trump will wink & nod, but that's the bottom line, right?

People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.

I'm no economist, but what if rather than hope manufacturing comes back to America and provides economic stability to countless communities decimated by globalism ... we made companies already here like Amazon pay livable wages and provide decent benefits and let their employees unionize?

I hope we're on the edge of elected reps and corporations learning the hard way that Trump & Co. do not represent a majority of America, that they've been in thrall to a small group of loud, greedy kleptocrats who weaponized the desperation of many Americans to their own ends.

The simple act of taking 24+ hours to lay out the magnitude and seriousness of the dangers this administration poses to American life, security, and democracy is profoundly affirming for all us who have been begging for leaders to meet this moment. Thank you @booker.senate.gov!

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

it's just gonna be a decade of slow drip of reveals of how the world's shittiest autocrats dumped money into America's flourishing right wing propaganda and contrarian trolling grievance echoplex (while consolidated, right wing media oligarchs simultaneously and brutally axe real journalism)

This would appear to be the same issue at least one attorney resigned over after being ordered to gin up charges, objecting that there was no evidence, and being told to do it anyway.