Also, this will inevitably be used in the worst way possible by bad actors claiming that helping unhoused people is a waste of money. It is absolutely not a waste of money. The solution is to relentlessly punish and shame the abusers who get into this space to have power over vulnerable people.

A few paragraphs into this article, it becomes abundantly clear that this city-funded “shelter” is a cult. They love-bomb you when you enter, scare you into compliance for fear or being kicked out, and forbid you from talking to people who were kicked out. It’s exactly what Scientology does.

I was reflecting last night on how it is indeed fucked that white privilege often determines whether a trans woman’s murder gets noticed. They all deserved to be noticed and more importantly all deserved not to be murdered. You can talk about this w/o diminishing the current situation.

Gonna call the detransition clinic and see if they’ll pay for one of those $150,000 penis surgeries and extra if you want testicles.

Family put out a statement using they/them, roommate gave an interview using she/her. If I learn they had a preference for they/them I’ll use it, but absent that I’m going to err on the side of she/her because dead trans women get de-gendered by the media.

cis reporter talking about a cis girl getting murdered: she was just a girl, she was a beautiful woman, she was a small female with innocent she/her pronouns cis reporter talking about a trans girl getting murdered: officials say a trans individual stopped living, raising questions about identity

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

This is one of Julia’s best reads. And one add I have is that I have observed the moment trans women start transition, nearly every force around us teaches us to be small and take up less space. It’s like going to boot camp to rapidly absorb some of the bad parts of being raised as a girl.

A complete aside from the Wilson situation, but when I ran Lorena’s race there were people who asked me if I wanted to be her Chief of Staff if she won. My response was that as a political advisor it would be malpractice for me to suggest appointing someone who knows fuck all about city government.

As an aside from the tea here, Mayor’s Chief of Staff is the worst job, and I don’t think you could pay me enough to do it for more than about 6 months.

Mississippi has 4 congressional districts and 38% of the state voted for Harris. Espy pulled almost 47% of the vote in the 2018 runoff. These gutter racists are showing their gutter racism, but they have to know that cracking Thompson out of Congress is a horrible idea.

When I was an undergrad my school paid Newt Gingrich a bunch of money to speak. His speech was like a tiny fraction as bigoted as it was nonsensical. Dude literally said, “The government can’t find illegal immigrants but UPS can send them packages, so we should hire UPS to find them.”

Bigots, welcome on campus. War criminals, welcome on campus. Covid deniers, welcome on campus. 9/11 truthers, welcome on campus. But the platform we’re offering you is being questioned by a panel of skeptical professors in front of an audience. That would be my “free speech” policy.

One of the things I’ve always found remarkable about the this debate is we talk about the prospect of Ben Shapiro not speaking on campus as though we still live in an era where thousands of hours of Ben Shapiro’s views aren’t available on a device that everyone carries around in their pocket. /1

"If this university is truly committed to free speech, future speakers should be required to listen to You're Wrong About and If Books Could Kill episodes about their work and provide the student body with good faith rebuttals to these arguments before delivering their remarks."

help help my mind is being coddled!

Here’s an actual “one neat trick” idea, though. The next Dem nominee should say that racial and economic diversity are both important, and also Americans are fucking tired of the Ivy League dominance’s over our society, so I’m filling my cabinet with people who went to state schools.

This piece would’ve been interesting if he’d said class-based admissions are politically defensible, achieve a legitimate policy aim, and can help with racial equity in a legal environment that no longer allows prioritizing it explicitly. But reactionary centrists just have to blame the left. /1

My Jewish opinion about this is that it’s fine to write about your second circumcision, but this is an unbelievably cringe way to write about it. It feels like he’s doing it entirely for the bit, especially when he describes the mohel as, “Danny Devito in curls.”

Garth Brooks wrote an anti-racist song promoting gay marriage in 1992. NBC tried to back out of airing the video during the Super Bowl, and he forced their hand by threatening not to sing the National Anthem. I think it’s time for the wokes to reclaim “Friends in Low Places”.

This is true, but also there’s a couple of unproblematic songs in that 100 that are genuine bangers. “Beer Never Broke My Heart” is one of my favorites, largely because it knows it’s cliche and thus doesn’t take itself that seriously.

Do Bailey and Zucker at any point in this article explain how one might use CBT to treat gender dysphoria? No. Do they cite even a single case study where it was effective? Also, no. They do manage to get in a rant about Andrea James, though.

Western Washington is a literal paradise, aside from the big dark, and more and more people are going to slowly come to that conclusion as things become less and less hospitable in other places.

It’s fun how people like Schultz keep insisting that they pay the taxes that fund Seattle’s social services, as though the need for these services at current scale wasn’t fueled, in large part, by rapid growth of these companies in a city that wasn’t ready to absorb it at such a rapid pace. /1

Honestly it’s good that Oz is in the administration. He could do so much more damage as a go-to pundit on Bari Weiss’ CBS to say, “Well I think RFK Jr. might have been inarticulate when he said that Tylenol causes autism, but he has a point and let’s talk about why.”

This dude could’ve spent the rest of his career being America’s top medical grifter and instead decided to do this.

The thing I’ll say about Millward’s response is that it played incredibly well to the studio audience, and there are times in politics where taking down a bully like that is a big win. There are other times when there’s nobody to take down and you should speak with straightforward clarity.

This Millennial Song discourse is killing me. Your generation's music shouldn't be defined by what was big when your generation's median member was in their pre-teens. It should be what was big when they were old enough to actually appreciate music.

I'm will die on the hill that "The Millennial Song" needs to be by a millennial artist. The Killers I'll nominally allow b/c Brandon Flowers barely makes the cut. But we literally have been charting since the late 90s/00s w/ Britney, Avril, and Beyonce. We have Taylor Swift for god's sake! /1

Watching There’s Something About Mary and marveling at how even this gross 1998 movie that lazily punches down in every way imaginable still knew that the R-word is bad.

Any strategic collaboration with Marjorie Taylor Greene that happens (and I don’t see much of it really happening) is like the US-Soviet alliance in WWII. As soon as the enemy is defeated, you will go right back to conflict, and everybody knows it.

Thanks today and every day to all the moms of trans youth out there fighting like hell for their kids. When the stakes feel like they're rising by the hour and everyone tells you you're wrong no matter what you do, thanks to those who stand between their kids and a world that doesn't deserve them.

Some days I think I’m trying too hard to speed run bottom surgery recovery. Then I read a Reddit post from a woman who claims she was walking 5 miles a day as soon as she was released from the hospital, and I’m like ok I feel more responsible now.

EV’s have to get way cheaper for people to internalize this in the traditional sense because for most people energy cost is the price tag on what you pump into your car, not the hidden price inflator of literally everything you buy.

It might be because I have such low expectations for 1990s teen movies but this one feels like it really holds up. Woman-centered, shows cheer is a real sport and not just eye candy for the football team, and has a real deep cut about white people blatantly stealing Black peoples’ art.

I love this cast, I love that the writers aren’t afraid to be camp, and I love that it’s honoring so much of Trek that came before it. But if it’s going to hold up, it needs to decide that it wants to say something and not just be a setup for Kirk to take over the Enterprise.

This episode tries to re-do what DS9’s Hippocratic Oath (a standout episode) did. But the tragic parable about the enemy’s humanity was also a major development in Bashir & O’Brien’s friendship. And again that was back when they had way more leeway to not make every episode count.

Absolutely losing my shit that SNW has an episode where Ortegas is stranded on a planet alone, and they don’t do anything to explain the backstory of the only character we don’t have one for. This isn’t the TNG era where you have 7 seasons w/ 22 episodes each. You’ve gotta make every one count.

Oh god it ends with Starfleet is great, actually! 30 years ago DS9 did way more questioning. Insurrection, the lightest of the movies, was like Starfleet is corrupt as hell, but it works because they have Picard as a moral bastion to save the day.

My issue with this, “What if Starfleet is a bad, actually?” episode of Strange New Worlds is that it would be more compelling if they weren’t all blindly following orders in ways they don’t normally. Have them nominally disobey orders as usual, only to discover it still produces an immoral outcome.

The Virginia decision is dogshit, but it's not a fatal blow to the midterms. Luria is probably going to get VA-2 back and VA-1 is seriously competitive, so this could cost as few as 2 seats. Dems need to put it back on the ballot for 2028 to secure those 2 and get the other 2 next time.

Darkly funny timing considering the FDA just controversially rejected an application for a treatment-resistant melanoma drug.

It’s also not as though trans men haven’t delayed (or foregone) T and played high level women’s sports before. This is not what is fueling the panic about trans women in sports. Them wrote a crappy article that’s void of details, but this sounds like a dude trying to have a career.

Most of these events are about as fancy as a high school prom, and the food is usually pretty mid. The reason they look glamorous is because celebrities show up. You could have a bbq instead (my preferred option), but for some reason the gala aesthetic makes people open their wallets more.

My reaction to this is that fashion is art and also that the men in this picture (and the others I’ve seen) deserve way better art.

Hmmmm, who do I trust more to look out for women, Smith College or a Trump appointee currently being sued for covering up years of sexual abuse?

It’s actually eminently reasonable to blame the previous administration for current problems in circumstances where the evidence warrants it. The reason nobody buys it is because both parties have always had an incentive to exaggerate somewhat and now Trump literally does it 100% of the time.

SEGM also didn’t do any original research here. The American College Health Association did the survey that came up with the 4.7% figure. @nytimes.com, regardless of what one thinks of SEGM, your citation doesn’t credit the people who did the actual work and should be corrected.

The biggest issue with SSRIs is they just don’t do all that much for a lot of people. The second biggest issue is the sexual side effects. The people experiencing both of these are perfectly capable of deciding to stop taking them without RFK Jr’s bullshit.

Just to recap: – The Trump DOJ can't find qualified lawyers – Half of Trump's cabinet is doing two jobs because no one wants to join it. – And right-wing media audiences are a fraction of claimed The "silent majority" seems a whole lot more "silent" than "majority."