3 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- The UK's new political party--the left-leaning Your Party founded by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn-- voted at its first convening to enshrine trans rights and “trans liberation” in its platform. Labour take note.

Did a massive update to my website recently, and now I have a full section just on hiring me for things. Put me on panels! Let me do presentations! I cover everything from librarianship to critical AI literacy to books and reviews. bookjockeyalex.com/professional...

Family separation is a tool of genocide.

So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.

Larry Summers has been banned for life from the American Economic Association, a professional organization for economists, with more than 17,000 members, over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Gerrymandered to double point GOP advantage Congressional District in Tennessee Special election in an OFF YEAR Behn and TN Dem activists brought it within 5-6 points That’s hard work and a WIN and a great indicator And Behn should absolutely run again in 2026 (if she hasn’t said so yet)

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

The Free Black Women’s Library is a social art project that features a collection of over 5000 books written by Black women & Black non-binary writers, a free store, a period pantry, a Reading Club, and more Read more on how to support literacy power www.thefreeblackwomenslibrary.com/new-page

My wife and I both hold multiple masters degrees and the labyrinth of getting aid for our disabled kids puts any masters degrees to shame

Working for my university’s library and seeing the wonders that ILL can achieve has made me believe in magic

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Want to help immigrant children facing deportation alone? Give to the Young Center for #GivingTuesday! ALL DONATIONS MATCHED UP TO $45K TODAY! Last year we worked with 2,000 children in federal detention, fighting for their release to family & immigration/asylum claims. I'm gonna share how. 1/

When people ask how our forebears managed to get by without all these modern pills and injections and doctor visits my fave response is "They died, Becky! Most of them just DIED!"

You will receive a lot of entreaties today, all of them worthy. I just want to bring your attention to Hope for Haiti, which does amazing work. My dad is on the board and one of the best things about HfH is that in the ground it is run by Haitians hopeforhaiti.com/givingtuesday/

Our researchers are committed to producing rigorous, independent research on LGBTQ issues. Independent data matters because the people behind it matter. We count because you count. Support the Williams Institute this Giving Tuesday by visiting bit.ly/WilliamsGivingTuesday

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Debunking myths about Mother Rosa Parks, an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and (as we knew her growing up) a great Detroiter. 💐

If you've got some coin, toss some in the plate of trans journalists telling trans stories from trans perspectives, because the institutionally transphobic corporate media sure as fuck isn't going to.

“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”

So hey. Pez is the GOAT, and things aren't going so hot for her right now. She could use some of our help. www.gofundme.com/f/putting-th...

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

Every socialist idea begins with the same simple truth: humans flourish when we care for each other. Everything else (the theory, the policies, the struggle) is just logistics. #SocialistSunday

Trans youth deserve to live as their true selves in school, on sports teams, at home, and everywhere else.

Help the Trans Youth Emergency Project: they need it more than ever now 🏳️‍⚧️💙 southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/forms/60

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda. And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.

Last week, A4TE filed a brief in both cases, using historical examples of discrimination to show how current anti-trans bans are unconstitutional. We're proud to speak out for trans youth everywhere—ALL students deserve a chance to play. www.them.us/story/suprem...

An annual reminder: The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize. There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing. Thanksgiving doesn't change that.

Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out

This novella is fabulous!! Grab it while it’s a bargain today and then you’ll have a fun reward waiting when the turkey coma hits. :)

This #Thanksgiving, the table debates might get a little spicier than canned vs. homemade cranberry sauce. So, while you’re prepping your hot side dishes, don’t forget to arm yourself with cold, hard facts about abortion to shut down any steaming piles of misinformation.

I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.

PSA to anyone with a Kpop Demon Hunter superfan in the house: the Huntr/x ladies are performing during the parade tomorrow, and Derpy and Sussie are getting balloons. We just saw a practice video of them singing Golden and kid 2 got so excited they went flappy for a minute ☺️

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.

Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?” Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."

i didn’t think karoline leavitt could be more despicable, but finding out she says the shit she says about immigrants and knowing her nephew’s mother was part of DACA is a new level of sick.

Not. How. Our. Messed. Up. Healthcare. System. Works. Infuriating.

Statement from President VanDassor on the actions of HSI in St Paul this morning

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

I have been saying I wanted to write about this, so I am glad that I was able to just spend two solid days working on this story, basically without interruption. I haven’t had much of that since January, but it’s important, and I hope folks who appreciate it subscribe if they don’t already!

Saw Wicked For Good yesterday. Enjoyed it. Gorgeous movie. For Good wrecked me. This one seems to be Glinda’s story. Her bubble song and scene was maybe my favorite, right after For Good. Truly, every scene w G & E is magnetic.

wtf

Thinking about this today. “It also means more than simply living. It means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living— that the change that gender-affirming care makes possible isn't just about life or death, it's about a vibrant life instead of the absence of one.”

Trump is a creature of media before anything else and I suspect one thing we're seeing in this (wild!) Mamdani meeting is that nothing impresses/intimidates him like someone capable of generating a competing media phenomenon

for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era bsky.app/profile/self...

It's so rare to see the old world dying and the new world struggling to be born in the same room together

hassle induced by someone else's shame is still something one can work with!

type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’