I wrote for @slate.com about the tennis ban on trans women and girls, and the Renée Richards of it all

That Woody Allen/Steve Bannon pic

It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.

we are going to win. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Ah yes the hero grifters and fools were just weeks ago celebrating. Friends, fascists can reform—but it takes more than a spat between a-holes to prove that kind of personal growth.

Are you a student who has read all the books on the 2025 Booker and/or international Booker longlists? If so I want to hear from you for a fun reading project. Please DM me.

We also have an ongoing archive of resources beyond contract bargaining for organizing to push back on uncritical tech/AI adoption in higher ed: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

The past couple weeks as a professional romance critic begging someone to let me, a professional romance critic who wrote the sports romance list for the NYT and a Letterkenny fan for years, write about the gay hockey romance adaptation. Put me in, coach, I’ve trained my whole life for this!

Me, naming names in my head over and over like an incantation

Do they believe Times New Roman (created in Britain in the 1920s) is from ancient Rome?

"The authors marshal a compelling blend of history, statistics, and anecdote in support of a quietly radical argument: that mass car ownership, far from natural and inevitable, is a historical blip that can and should be reversed." 😍

Demonizing formula is, however, consistent with ongoing Republican attempts to make women’s lives harder and keep them at home

As a lapsed Catholic who loves locked door mysteries, I should have loved “Wake Up Dead Man.” I did not.

The great thing about GenAI is it saves a lot of time for people who don't think and don't give a shit and wastes an immense amount of time for everyone else.

While today’s waged care worker might be doubly burdened—caring within the home and beyond it—this means that unlike her housewife foremother she is not isolated. Within a workplace, there is the possibility of organizing and collective bargaining. @emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:

Today I attended a brief AFT-sponsored workshop on generative AI, during which the facilitator had us listen to AI-generated music, watch an AI-generated video, and tell AI-generated dad jokes to one another. It was the bleakest shit I have ever witnessed in my time in the labor movement.

"The Court’s order reimposing Texas’s racial gerrymander is best explained not by legal principle, but partisan preference and political power. The Republican justices ruled as they did because they want to help their allies." The MAGA #SCOTUS "showed its ass." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Everyone is Zeus but with less rizz

Hi … we don’t need to make the tent bigger for billionaires, because the whole point is that there are a minuscule number of them and a whole fucking lot of the rest of us.

For a story: I'm looking to speak to earlyish-career workers about their experiences working multiple jobs, whether it's multiple part-time/gig jobs, side hustles on top of full-time jobs, etc. Email [email protected], Signal rstauff.20, DMs open.

Confirmed: They're playing November Rain by Guns n' Roses ahead of Trump signing a peace agreement with Rwanda and the DRC at the US Institute of Peace building.

tomorrow! how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!

This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.

Fuck this. Fuck. This. I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C. People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.

Here’s a Spotify Wrapped for ya: If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300. Buy your favorite band’s records.

Of all the indignities and cruelties, today this is the one that got to me.

Posting this on December 3, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is a choice, @theatlantic. Feeding suspicions of accommodations and of the alleged "disability con" in general is the only thing you achieve with this piece. Aside from which its a lot of speculation and anecdotes.

Alright, real talk. Does anyone have any resources on writing a great personal statement for grad school applications?

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.

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job

I heard there was a secret verse That David used to make AI worse But you don't really want to pub that, do ya

“Since building materials cannot enter Gaza without Israeli permission, the UN-endorsed plan effectively ensures that it will be impossible to rebuild in ways that would benefit the vast majority of Palestinians.” —Sari Bashi

Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List

To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit. All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.

i read this essay as a wonderful unpacking of the material and political conditions that undergird relational, caring ways of doing language together, that underlines the need to collectively fight for these conditions

meanwhile blackjack is definitely right-coded because republicans love to hit anything under 21

i love spending 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year not using chatgpt

this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets

Just saw this and sighed. ...Fuck. www.heritage.org/sites/defaul...

Viola Fletcher, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

I wrote about the impact of seeing "The Harder They Come" in my new book: "The spirituality and street-level urgency were an extension of what I was beginning to understand as “punk rock.” There were outsiders everywhere, and there was an uphill search for affirmation everywhere." #jimmycliff

The correct use of ChatGPT is asking it to write lewd poems in the style of RFK JR. Trust me.

The official Department of Justice recruitment page is saying the quiet part out loud: they don’t care about law, they only care about deportations. Flagrant. False. Possibly illegal. This is why many of us have advocated for an independent immigration court for years. 

Suck it, Debra Messing

BUS RIDES IN CITES SHOULD BE FREE.

I read this as “Two Queens with opposing views” and it’s because of how you’re all posting

The SVU episode with Isabel Huppert being FRANCH and Sharon Stone using a dead kid as a stage prop is a RIDE.

Today in “Questions Literally No One Is Asking”: