a state has the right to regulate ethical guardrails for licensed therapists as it sees fit. if its regulatory body can just be overruled by a first amendment override then every state licensing body for psychotherapist or counselors has just been rendered inert with the standard now being federal

Synthesizing with Skrmetti, the Republican justices’ position is: “When the State decides to hurt trans people, that’s just good medicine. When it tries to help them, it’s viewpoint discrimination.”

happy trans day of visibility to all the "lgbtq+" newsrooms that don't have a single trans woman on staff and won't even give interviews to highly qualified doll candidates

Verso royalty statement received. In the interests of transparency: across my 8 titles, we sold 3730 books in 2025—not bad for an out-year.

Rather than Trans Day of Visibility how about Trans Day of Leave Us TF Alone? Photo Sunny Leerasathanah for Fire Island Artists Residency.

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we need to start naming organizations things like “Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics” again

«Trans Amazone» étant l’histoire d’une vie, McKenzie Wark apparaît très différente selon les pages et les époques. Sans doute faut-il tout additionner. Lecture signée Mathieu Lindon :

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Mathieu Lindon critique mon livre *Trans Amazone* dans *Libération*. Article payant www.liberation.fr/culture/livr...

Sensitivity readers are good, actually.

Being edited is the best thing that can happen to your writing

In conclusion: it's good to have a space where old churchy black ladies are walking around with their "No Kings But The Lord" and interacting with transsexual anarchists. That's my left unity. No Nazis need apply

i saw the most mediocre minds of my generation "yes, anded" by ai chatbots into delusions of being the best minds of my generation and then destroyed by madness

Trans rights, ending ICE, and freeing Palestine all got huge cheers at my local No Kings protest. These are mainstream positions for the Democratic electorate. The party needs to fucking catch up.

apparent to the only thing more reliable than people turning out to protest is the array of guys telling people not to bother

Canadian at a protest: One King

No Kings (Philadelphia)

2/ Delta's CEO called Trump's election a “breath of fresh air” because he so hated the Biden consumer rules. Delta even made a rare donation to the Trump inaugural-- a whopping $1M! Then the Trump tariff's hurt airline bookings and now the TSA mess... www.nbcnews.com/business/tra...

On Nov 2024, airline execs were giddy about trump winning so that Biden era consumer protections could be reversed, etc. None more so than Delta’s CEO. Now Trump’s reckless war may ruin them, even put some out of business.

TRANS AMAZONE reviewed by Mathieu Lindon in Libération. I'm never getting reviewed in the Times or NYRB and don't much care, but cracking this literary citadel makes this provincial outsider happy. Love Lindon's books. (Semiotext(e) has two in translation.)

don't think of it as getting "muted" or "blocked" think of it as having your presence curated

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6. Raving de McKenzie Wark Aunque se me coló otro libro "sobre Nueva York" justo después de haber leído Mercurio Retrógrado, Raving es magistral. Da cátedra sobre la necesidad de los estados de disociación —o "resociación"— en el contexto de la cultura de […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

well i dunno who i trust more on this, the most prestigious medical association on earth or four dipshits who asked claude to sum up some cherry picked papers

So we’re gonna destroy Pax Americana because a few billionaires don’t want to pay their taxes. Cute, cute.

It’s infuriating, but also just so depressing. *No one* in charge of any part of our educational infrastructure seems to understand why it’s important for people to…read things that are difficult.

Alice Maio Mackay's THE SERPENT'S SKIN is opening in select theaters this Friday. If it is playing near you I hope that you'll go see it. I wrote about it here and got into why movies like this one are so important for young trans people. curtsiesandhandgrenades.com/index.php/20...

i hope folks pay attention to what's going on with Bushwick City Farm in Brooklyn - this space was a trash-filled lot before activists broke in 15 years ago and built a community farm that feeds hundreds of families every year. now it's been padlocked by the landowner after years of bureaucratic bs

It's more Latent Destiny than Manifest Destiny these days. Just as bad, or worse, of course.

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

I regret to say that I fell for it on this occasion and I will do better

Sorry to hear he has passed. That was both a really good book about a particular era of computer business and a really good example of nonfiction writing.

"In the language we made up one night, the word for lover was the same as the word for neatly folded manuscript you don’t look at for a year. There are many manuscripts." - Bhanu Kapil

when i was organizing in higher ed a decade ago, i would tell skeptical workers that the the same patterns of exploitation that had hit K12 were coming for universities and we needed to be prepared. much of what is currently being attributed to technology is better understood as part of that plan.

No slop for oil. No oil for slop.

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

men will make trannies a psychosexual obsession and try to remove our right to exist before going to therapy

Being a powerful, wealthy person "unwilling" to speak the truth publicly and going further to actively lie is pretty much the definition of "not a good person."

Trump says that he will not approve TSA funding unless it's tied to passage of his voter suppression law, also known as the SAVE Act — or the SAVE Trump's Ass Act. He knows that he and Republicans are doomed in the midterms, and the only way to combat that is to make it harder for people to vote.

Imagine if we took some of the billions we spent on these goons and used it to hire air traffic controllers instead.

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

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Approximately 950 non-tenure track faculty at New York University walked off the job on Monday, after their union and the university failed to reach agreement on raises and better job security. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...

On the picket line fighting for a fair contract for NYU faculty

BREAKING: Nearly 1,000 faculty members at NYU are on strike. The union for non-tenured faculty, @CfuUaw, was optimistic about reaching an agreement this morning. But after giving the university a 3 hour extension, the two sides could not agree, and the strike is now on.

TSA: working, not getting paid and expected to keep showing up ICE: notably overfunded, to the tune of ~$200k agent salaries. assignment is to stand around, menace, or kidnap. We've recreated the plantation at the airport. How very America. Happy 250!

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now