not really much of a nye party guy so i am spending the next day and a half in quiet meditation/contemplation. it’s been a tradition for me for the last few years. the new year’s cave

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

i need to do some writing, but a) my brain feels maxed out after work and b) gerald the cat is trying to rest his butthole directly on my face

incredible actor, man. what a loss.

i finally read this and i want to say to devon that if you sound like the doctor who gatekept me from transitioning 25 years ago you are actually my enemy at this point

A lot of people on here were steelmanning this exact sort of behavior just a year ago. Wonder what's changed.

Thanks to everyone who read and shared the piece I wrote that was published in the G & M. I had no gift links but if you want to read it and cannot access it, now you can. web.archive.org/web/20251228...

"Why don't the kids play outside anymore?"

i really don’t connect to a lot of transmasculine writing because so much of it is about What Masculinity Is and my take on masculinity is “it can be a lot of different things, plenty of them contradictory” and also i’m trans because … that’s just what i am

sorry, you’re not a hufflepuff, that’s actually not a real thing! you’re 34 years old, go get forklift certified

transphobia aside, it is crazy to me that there are adults who go to harry potter media for their entertainment.

also the family who founded l’oreal

i simply do not think we should ever listen to someone who charges a regular person’s yearly income for one speaking engagement

2010: we are pivoting to video, learn to use this flip cam and develop your Personal Brand 2016: why isn’t this working 2019: we have made a terrible mistake 2026: we are pivoting to video

being able to love someone for 20 years is a real gift

is everyone aware they don't have to share stephen miller tweets, we all know he's a gutter racist piece of shit already, just tell me when he croaks

I enjoy whenever an entire household is beholden to the whims of one cat This animal just standing in the living room, screaming, while the human adults explain "Sorry, Gibby likes it when we smack his ass with a cardboard tube for 10mins at 6pm every day, hold on". That is good to me.

rip mira bellwether

the one habit i successfully implemented this year was meditating every day, which is something i did consistently for a couple years in my early 20s and then fell out of doing and struggled to do consistently for the next couple decades

I'm a part of this collective as well, so my biases are what they are, but the one bit I'd add is that at $36 a year it is one of the really good deals out there in Things To Read Online. You can check out some free ones and subscribe at flaminghydra.com

one of the reasons i exercise in my house now (besides the fact that i don’t have to go anywhere) is that i can’t stand being patronized. the “keep it up” shit? don’t do that either

“tboy” bothers me so much personally but being referred to as one of the boys (in a group that can include other trans dudes) does not because the former feels specifically infantilizing. it’s hard to explain but there’s a thing there for me!!!

Genuinely heartbreaking

"your trauma made you stronger". no, my trauma made me traumatized. it made me weak, it gave me memory loss, and it gave me feelings i've never wanted. i made myself stronger by dragging myself out of a dark place and dealing with consequences that weren’t my fault.

Important thread from a former NYT staffer breaking down how the paper's genocidal anti-trans crusade is directed, top down, from the highest levels of the organization. Stop putting bullets in the gun that's killing us. Boycott the New York Times.

amazing photo on spanish wikipedia's chinchilla article

ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

I cannot tell you just how *tremendously hard* various volunteers have worked on this massive @unbreaking.org update: sifting through awful, terrible news every single day, identifying connections and themes, all to build a clear picture of the harm the federal government’s caused.

glad to see a post here identifying the source correctly because i have seen a million posts of this article and only like three correctly identifying that city journal is a manhattan institute joint. it’s not even like this is in a mainstream publication

i just called the DC office of Sen Dick Durbin who is generally terrible and cannot be relied upon 202-224-2152 his staffer answered after the first ring and was unfamiliar with the bill. he has not taken a position on it. if you live in Illinois, please give him a call.

it does take a toll on us, just being faced with this much hate (and it is not just online or abstract)

imo if all the richest ppl on the planet are at once begging you to lower your standards for art and media consumption you can bet that it benefits them more than whatever they selling your ass on and should consider the opposite of what's suggested

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

might be a go to bed at 8:30 pm evening

Rare survey done in IDOC shows at least 2/3 of incarcerated people experienced homelessness or housing instability in 3 years prior to entering prison. Illinois needs a statewide reentry housing strategy to ensure effective reentry into society, advocates say. chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...

Sure is a lot of asterisks for a constitutionally protected freedom we all have.

Support Pinko author, comrade and revolutionary intellectual Stevie Wilson on his coming release from prison. Consider donating to help him set things up outside. Free them all!

All care for all people means trans care for anyone who wants it btw. Free and not gatekept by cost, psychiatric authority, or age

CBP kidnapped a vendor Wednesday in Back of the Yards. His family is raising funds for legal fees. "Don Federico is 68 years old and suffers from heart problems as well as asthma. He is a hardworking man and has been living in the US for 30 years." www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...

listen im not very well spoken on this stuff we need help. the time for silence from supposed allies has long since passed and they are pushing things that will directly harm trans kids. they seek our elimination because we embody everything they want to take from everyone. freedom. choice. hope.

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

what if the world loved trans ppl

Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.

Guy really gives away the game here that this isn't about "children" when he straight up says that trans adults aren't real.

In the last 24 hours the New York Times has run two stories on anti-trans actions by the federal government which appear to *intentionally* not mention that you can change your sex, which is a scientific fact Instead “everyone transitions gender but can’t change sex” is now embedded in the coverage

personally believe children (and adults!) should be allowed to reject sex

I cannot stress how much this would harm trans kids in this country and is Hyde Amendment level bad for the country.

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

BINDERS YOU GUYS. BINDERS

One reason CBP hits this lot so often, besides essentially shooting fish in a barrel, is that it’s right next to their office. Didn’t meet quota for the day? Just go grab some Uber/Lyft drivers at the end of the day.