D.C.’s “sandwich guy” gave an exclusive interview to @jamieson.bsky.social

"Democracy isn’t held together by slogans or speeches so much as by a million small moments when people resist the urge to oversimplify one another" A wonderful new essay from @nickallison80.bsky.social that already has almost 1,000,000 reads on @HuffPost Personal www.huffpost.com/entry/vetera...

NEW: I interviewed @katmabu.bsky.social for HuffPost. We talked about free speech, ICE, political prosecution, the Trump administration’s attack on immigrants, fascists, Democrats, and yes, a bit about the indictment, too. I hope you will read: www.huffpost.com/entry/kat-ab...

My friend, Susan, had a twisted sense of humor and I miss her. #dying #cancer #deathwithdignity @huffpost.com @noahmichelson.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/friend...

After a loooooong hiatus, HuffPost's Am I Doing It Wrong podcast is gearing up for season 3 One of our most requested topics is making friends as an adult We've got an amazing expert lined up, so if you have a question about making friends as an adult, send it to us at [email protected]

Ever wonder about the #science behind public speaking anxiety? I wrote about it for the HuffPost! Big thanks to @noahmichelson.bsky.social.

I cried while editing this new @huffpost.com Personal piece and I've cried every time I've read it since then It's one of the saddest but most beautiful essays we've ever published and I'm so happy it's out in the world today But, once again, you've been warned: this one is going to hurt

Hey fellow cis folks We should be doing anything and everything we can to support trans people right now Donate Shut down transphobic bullshit wherever you see or hear it Talk to the people in your life who don’t know anything about trans folks Put your privilege in front of you and FIGHT

Whenever I see a stranger eating an ice cream on a random Tuesday afternoon, I wonder if it’s because something wonderful happened or maybe something awful, or maybe there was no reason at all, which is my favorite reason of all, and I take it as a reminder to look for less reasons and more pleasure

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

40 years ago today, the Golden Girls debuted, and it remains as smart, hilarious, political, heartbreaking, comforting, human and ahead of its time now as it was then Also… if you had to pick your favorite (and I know that’s a mostly impossible ask), who would it be? I’m going with Dorothy

A must read from @paulblumenthal.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/charli...

I’m vehemently pro life even for the men who have too happily made lucrative careers out of making sure that I and too many people I love live in fear wherever we walk simply because of who we love or how we look or the language we speak But forgive me if my tears can’t find a way to their graves

35 years ago today, Madonna performed this Marie Antoinette-inspired version of “Vogue” on the VMAs, and the world — and my then-12 year old little gay boy self — was never the same again

My latest @huffpost.com Personal essay. @noahmichelson.bsky.social

"No matter what the far right wants us to believe ... trans people are far more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators..." A powerful and necessary new piece on @huffpost.com Personal from @alimoss.bsky.social in the wake of Wednesday's horrifying mass shooting in Minneapolis

“We take way more psychiatric medication than any other nation on earth,” JD Vance said. “And I think it's time for us to start asking some very hard questions about the root causes of this violence.” OR MAYBE IT IS SOMETHING ELSE... OH I DON'T KNOW... THE GUNS? COULD IT POSSIBLY BE THE GUNS?

I haven't written this kind of personal essay in years, so it was interesting to revisit this one, originally published in 2018, that @noahmichelson.bsky.social asked me to update. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Bye, girl!

I asked typography experts and historians of Nazi Germany propaganda what they thought of the font choice and the visuals in a recent ICE recruitment post by DHS. “We have to look at what the symbolism is telling us, and that symbolism is an authoritarian patriotism."

NEW: Inside the culture of fear that has taken hold within Smithsonian museums in D.C., as White House officials wage an authoritarian-style censorship campaign to “ensure alignment” with Trump’s preferred version of American history. "Everyone is so scared." www.huffpost.com/entry/smiths...

RFK Jr.'s $500 million cuts to mRNA vaccine funding will impact cancer research, diabetes research, jobs and more. Here's what to know: www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-cu...

Tia Levings belonged to a church that says women shouldn't get to vote — and Pete Hegseth believes in its same tenets In this new piece for @huffpost.com Personal, Levings shares the chilling things her husband — and her church — claimed God wanted from her... and from all women

Today I spoke to a dozen really great high school kids taking a summer journalism course at NYU and when I left and I was just outside the classroom, I overheard them saying “that was so cool!” and I tell you nothing — ABSOLUTELY NOTHING — is rarer or feels better than teens thinking you’re cool

annual birthday tattoos: 1) conflicted cherries 2) knife post carnage thanks to Virginia Elwood, my partner in body crime for the last 15 years also: I highly recommend getting tattooed while a puppy sleeps against you

I have experienced a lot of trauma in my life and much of it stemmed from having to do the Presidential Fitness Test Merely hearing the words "sit and reach" still conjures a terror in me that even high grade anti-anxiety meds cannot banish Can we stop inflicting this nightmare on kids?

A powerful new piece from @alannavagianos.bsky.social

My latest @huffpost.com piece! @noahmichelson.bsky.social

"There are no sacred spaces in this regime of terror" @diptisbarot.bsky.social has a chilling new essay up on @huffpost.com Personal today about what her life is like as a doctor in the United States right now and it's absolutely terrifying

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”

I have a confession to make: Until very recently, I thought Ghislaine Maxwell's first name was pronounced "Jizzlane," like... "Grandma lives down on Jizz Lane" It never occurred to me that it could — or should — be anything else

Cynthia Ehrenkrantz had a secret illegal abortion 56 years ago She's never talked about it before, but now, at the age of 92, she's decided to tell the world about what happened and why Her powerful story is up on @HuffPost Personal today

Good lord. Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy wants to get rid of rainbow crosswalks because something something LGBTQ+ something something traffic dangers. He even notes traffic fatalities are trending downward. It's almost as if this isn't about safety at all. www.advocate.com/news/sean-du...

It's never too early to cancel Thanksgiving with your MAGA relatives It's never too soon to disinvite that one bookclub friend who is "just asking questions" that all turn out to be not-so-vaguely TERFy It's never too late to stop giving one more chance to people who support monsters

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

Some rare good news: In May, DJ Bracken shared an essay on @huffpost.com Personal about his quest to help vanquish student lunch debt He was shocked when HuffPost readers donated over $20,000 to his org and many asked him for tips on how to start erasing lunch debt in their own communities ❤️

This week feels even bleaker than the bleak weeks already piled up behind us, doesn’t it? So… Let’s: Donate a few $$ (if we’ve got them) to the people and orgs that need them most Go easier on each other and ourselves Go harder on the monsters who deserve it And watch some Golden Girls

Look who joined the family

I love Jason Cherkis and I love that he wrote this piece I'm still having a hard time seeing the New York Times publish pieces like this when they're part of the reason this country is as awful to queer people (especially trans people) as it is And still... I'm glad this is out in the world

Picture Day at work 📷: @rhiannonadam.bsky.social

The "misinformation" in question here is that gender-affirming care reduces suicides among youth. It merely reduces depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is one of my favorite pieces we've ever published on @HuffPost Personal It's about family, secrets, how the truth isn't easy to know or hold and how it can change depending on what you discover, and how, at the end of it all, love really is all that matters Happy Pride and keep fighting

Never doubt that inside the nightmare beauty still exists

People should do whatever they want or don't want to do... But also... I fully believe people like this are the ones who need to jerk off the most

OH FFS, NYT None of us have the time or energy for your bullshit Just start using headlines and push alerts like "We hate queer people and here's why you should too" and be done with it already

not the most important thing but i really wish the liberals on the supreme court would stop giving those speeches where they go "actually behind the scenes we all love each other and we just have different points of view." like your colleagues are evil, please don't try to convince us otherwise

The more these assholes try to erase queer people from classrooms and books and movies and streets and everywhere else, the queerer we have to be everywhere always, from now until forever, because not only have we always existed, and not only are we not erasable, but also because FUCK THEM

If I were a hero I think I would probably not be happy to know that my name had replaced another guy’s entirely because the secretary of defense hates gay people

Absolutely psychotic framing by the NYT: Basic recognition of trans rights is not "aggressive"! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/m...

ICYMI: Inside the terrifying 36 hours Minnesota abortion clinics feared a shooter could be coming for them. “Whole Woman’s Health is very well known. We had to operate from the assumption that we were listed or that we could be.”