My takeaway is that we have not been mean enough to the New York Times this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

It’s like searching for non-straights at the LGB Alliance meeting.

My semi-libertarian philosophy on gambling is that it should be legal in small dollar amounts, not a massive for-profit industry.

We love to not understand the context of being snarky at the New York Times for writing a piece about cis women taking transmasc levels of T, like it’s a fun new trend, while providing 29 citations for the Skrmetti decision.

God forbid I be a little snarky about the New York Times, a paper that has all but ended youth gender-affirming care in the US, writing pieces about cis women taking transmasc doses of T like it’s a fun new trend. Yes I am aware that these people are not necessarily trans and/or dysphoric.

Does dude do basic research before he craps this stuff out? She’s tied in COH with her opponent right now. Mutual aid is an incredibly strategic investment to try and insulate her from the carpetbagger attacks. Not to diminish her values, but if we’re talking pure strategy, it’s good strategy.

Congressman Troy Carter from New Orleans gave out free meals every Thanksgiving for almost 30 years before he ran for Congress. It was a huge part of the brand that got him elected. Kat is not the first person to do this stuff. It’s not practical in every district, but when it works, it works!

Also, I’m the author’s age. Who told him and all these other white dudes that tenured professor, Hollywood screenwriter, or journalist at a prestige publication were realistic career goals. “Shoot for the moon, sure, but have a backup plan.” Apparently the backup plan was blame minorities.

Currently reading that Lost Generation piece, and if I ever meet this Jacob Savage guy, the first thing I’m going to say to him is, “Learn how to code.”

Currently watching movie previews and apparently in 2026 Hollywood is still making the exact same “Haha, men are incompetent parents, right?” movie that they’ve been making since the 90s.

Also, if the objective was to please Trump so that Ellison can buy Warner Brothers, I don’t think she acted incompetently. Very possible if wasn’t about censoring the story, it was about showing Trump she was willing to.

Birthright citizenship in the US is an accident of history due to a shitty court decision around birthright citizenship helping to spark a civil war that killed 698,000 people. Likewise, European social democracy probably doesn’t happen without WWII.

It's a fitting allegory for our times that the first Mission Impossible movie was about how the CIA stores their sensitive information on computers that aren't connected to the internet, and the last movie was about AI being able to launch the all of the nukes.

I listened to this episode of Maintenance Phase, and the takeaway I got from Michael and Aubrey was you should use GLP-1’s if you want to, they seem to be effective with few relatively few side effects compared to other weight loss drugs. Their issue is people touting it as a “cure” for being fat.

Lincoln followed the rule of, “Never let a crisis go to waste,” and used the war to abolish slavery. Obama blatantly signaled that he’d flip on gay marriage eventually by opposing Prop 8. I don’t believe Yglesias wants a slow trans rights strategy because he doesn’t actually support trans rights. /1

Really don't think this happens without Zohran

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

People hear this once and think it’s endemic. In 2020/2021 while still presenting as a white dude, I was told occasionally for certain jobs that they just weren’t gonna hire white men right now. But also I was getting interviews, plugged into opportunities, everyone would take my call. /1

What’s wild about this is that as much as these people rail about the “lack of evidence” there were zero published studies on hormonal therapy for trans adolescents in 2010. Doctors started offering it anyway because there was clear medical necessity, and the Dutch were getting great results.

I’m genuinely curious if there is a single recorded case in human history of a trans boy under the age of 18 getting phalloplasty with testicular implants.

Notably, we haven’t had a trans woman with a voice drop, who began their career post-transition, achieve anything close to mainstream success. Ethel Cain is maybe the biggest name who went through T puberty, but she had some kind of condition that prevented her voice from dropping.

For shits and giggles I looked up what you need to do to get a wheelchair escort on Alaska Airlines: 1) Call ahead 2) Arrive 2 hours early 3) Bring somebody with you or ask somebody to go inside and request your escort. 4) Wait around for your escort.

Reactionary centrism is basically grievance culture for people who feel like voting for Obama twice should’ve entitled them to lifelong acceptance in progressive circles.

One thing re: bans on gender-affirming care is that for all the hand-wringing about procedural expense, capacity, and physical safety, these bans explicitly allow and encourage similar procedures to be used without consent on intersex kids. We wrote about this: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Big, if true

The Hill’s headline writer was clearly not in the mood for bullshit yesterday.

Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...

Deep Space Nine is the story of how men will literally become Emissary of the Bajoran Prophets before going to therapy.

Had a really fun time talking with The Stranger about Sara Nelson’s incredibly bad “transparency” bill. I think there are always good conversations to be had about stronger ethics, but a notoriously unethical lame duck councilmember with a grudge is not the person you want leading them.

I’m honestly confused as to why every member of the caucus didn’t demand that a provision be inserted that attempts to prevent Trump from doing war crimes in Venezuela. Even in the minority, you can, in fact, message on big appropriations bills.

I’ve rallied with Brad. I’ve protested with Brad. I’ve seen his leadership and humanity up close. He’s the real deal and I’m supporting him fully in this run. Let’s go. ✊

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

I realize that calling out ideological inconsistencies with these people does not change their minds. Nonetheless, if their logic is that “biological reality” dictates there are only two genders, then the term “girl boy” is both fictional and certainly not protected speech. Also, girl boys are rad.

Society really needs to grapple with the fact that elected civilians don’t entirely control their police forces. In a democracy it should be as uncontroversial to fire the police chief as it is to fire the SDOT director.

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

So anti-woke that they’re going after something that 99.9% of people who unironically consider themselves woke had absolutely no idea about. Double secret anti-wokeism.

It’s okay guys, they’re just doing Best practices for public records retention.

“If I’ve lost Laura Loomer, I’ve lost Middle America.”

I know a lot of women who have fallen for shitty men. I know very few (if any) who have done insanely unethical things that harm others for said shitty men. Usually the harm is self-inflicted.

I've been a victim of the messed up PREA policy but as a trans woman in a men's facility it was my only protection at times. I have contact with over 20 trans girls in PA State Prisons as part of an advocate org. They are scared for their lives at this latest BS! Sending you Strength in Unity, Sis.

The fact that they're even hearing this is ridiculous. An unsigned order on the shadow docket saying, "This has been settled by previous cases, it's blatantly in the text of the 14th amendment, fuck off, and stop wasting our time," would've been appropriate here.

Spend five minutes talking to someone who has survived what these policies were designed to stop and you’ll never be the same again. PREA is imperfect and often weaponized, but it’s often the only protection trans/intersex prisoners have. Everyone involved in this should never know a moment’s peace.

Always love having this convo Me: “It’s a housing problem, if we just gave everyone homes, nobody would be homeless.” Them: “But Lexi, this is America. We don’t just give homes to deadbeat addicts who refuse to work.” Me: “Ok then, it’s still like 90% a housing problem, even by your standards.”

This should be illegal for anyone under the age of 19 until systematic reviews show high quality evidence benefit and 50-year outcome studies show zero percent regret rates.

Oh cool, now we’re doing “trans social contagion” but for literally all of mental health.

Going out on a limb and saying that if you find accommodations helpful enough that it was worth the effort to get diagnosed, you very likely have a learning disability.

There are far more concerning ways that people game the top ranks of the education system. Fraternities keep folders of previous years’ exams for popular classes. Saw far more of this in college than people getting extra time.

There were some incredibly based cis women allies in the 1970s.

Since the Hatch Act isn't real anymore, the Dem nominee for President could do the funniest thing and send out an email saying, "Anyone who contributes $20 or more is entered into a drawing to do the honors of crow barring Trump's name off the Institute of Peace on day one of my administration."

This could’ve been an Onion headline like a year ago.