cant sleep thinking about the ~300 C.E. jewish mystical text that describes the precise length of god's fingers, philtrum, and space between his eyebrows en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi'ur_...

honestly Bluesky is really more like that anechoic chamber John Cage visited just before composing 4'33 where he could hear his blood circulate

this is what would happen when you took your effeminate son to the largest clinical study of childhood gender variance in the 1970s just by the way

hmm why not simply read and share my essay about how the construction of "healthy" homosexual masculinity sustained consistent malicious conversion efforts against trans youth instead of all those other essays where gay guys do that trickymothernature.com/littlemissdy...

could someone please inform the U.S. president that the enchanted Victorian gothic portrait which soaks up all the visible scars and distortions of his countless evil and profane acts has been malfunctioning

Trump’s “Operation Metro Surge” was a militarized campaign of fear that treated immigrants as criminals and weaponized the federal government against U.S. citizens. We need independent investigations, real accountability, and to abolish ICE. My op-ed:

Here's a full write-up on the judge tossing out Columbia's unprecedentedly harsh disciplinary actions against students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall in 2024: hellgatenyc.com/columbia-exp...

my beloved trans community: do you feel like you transitioned late? (whatever that means to you!) if so, I'd love to hear from you for an essay I'm working on 🙏 🐛 forms.gle/AMd8zWnWvEro...

bsky kinda sucks but i will say i have yet to encounter a single whiny detransitioner

quacking like a duck every time i encounter the name "Mahmood Mamdani" while reading Lorenzo Veracini's Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview

Maybe dying as a martyr at the ripe old age of 86 at the hands of a bunch of child-murdering perverts is actually exactly how Khamenei would have wanted to go out? If you wanted to cook up a scenario that would make the guy and his supporters feel more vindicated, what would it look like?

never been a better time to read this tremendous book by Roy Mottahedeh

essential information for all ladies youtu.be/WLIE1GKfluk?...

love the way recipes in every cookbook before like 1970 are just like "take some meat. rub some oil and butter on it. cook for i don't know, twenty, maybe forty minutes"

Dudes rock

thinkin bout the fully 100% supportive mom of a trans kid i got wine with today and when i asked if the kid had any medical interventions she said "no, thank god" and when i looked at her she was just like "i mean, they're really difficult"

this olympics changed the LGBT vibe bc why are all friends going to women's hockey games now

something i've become increasingly sensitive to over the years as a historian is how often some random guy 50-150 years ago writes "it may just be that Obscure Historical Figure wore purple" and today 98% of scholarship will be like "O.H.F. loved lavender polka dots" and trace back to him

The New York Times has essentially made news the loss leader to sell Wordle. News-only subscribers are down 65% from 2022 but bundle subscribers have surged 227%. More than 50% of the time spent in the NYT app is now on games.

I would highly encourage my fellow New Yorkers to read this, even if just to understand the Roy Singham/People's Forum connections

Something is awry in higher education. Indiana University agrees to pay the football coach more than $100 million, shortly after cutting hundreds of academic programs. www.espn.com/college-foot...

This story is actually crazy 1) open admission decline in chocolate quality caused by climate catastrophe 2) H.B. Reese campaigning under (literally) "Make Reese's Great Again" 3) LinkedIn "viral" meaning 250 likes 4) Hershey's corpos speaking like p-zombies it would be ethically neutral to kill

The reason people are aggravated with Zohran right now is not that we lack awareness of "the budget dance" or use of the preliminary budget as a negotiating tool but that this intent feels opaque despite his administration showing it has an extremely powerful communications team

swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century

whenever someone from brooklyn calls manhattan "the city" i'm like omg respect yourself

Zohran admin is guaranteed my good faith for exactly one year but every time they Bidenpost about nebulously "having trans kids' backs" I will deduct one month

never have i experienced a more severe reversal of opinion than the final two minutes of First Reformed... i needed to see the blood and guts of fatcat capitalists explode from their body in a valorized act of revolutionary violence but instead i got weird surrealist masochism

in NYC? when hospitals end trans youth care programs, it’s time to ask mamdani about his platform: “…hold private hospital systems denying GAC accountable—hospitals that continue to deny trans youth access to gender affirming care are in violation of NYS Constitution.” www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

One of the great ironies of anti-intellectualism in American life today is that teens with blue hair and pronouns at the liberal arts colleges currently under attack clearly recieve the closest approximation to a traditional classical Western education available in the U.S.

the Black Panthers were right

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

happy valentine's day, friends! i was asked to speak briefly about the blue valentine story of Liz Eden and John Wojtowicz (of Dogs Day Afternoon fame) here tonight if you can make it. I'll be quoting an unpublished letter from the Liz Eden Archives and more. mwah 💋

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Today @thesicktimes.org: Shielding Cournoyer reviews the book "Invisible Illness." "Though Mendenhall accurately acknowledges the harm of psychologizing illness, her thesis does exactly that." thesicktimes.org/2026/02/13/i...

“I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot? We’re the first ones whose lights are going to go out – not the tech billionaires.”

neal koblitz was on to something in "mathematics as propaganda" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

For the Interept, I reported from Uganda about the effects of USAID cuts on LGBTQ people, HIV prevention activists and sex workers—and tried to tell the story from the POV of these important but criminalized communities. Please read and share. theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

Portugal elects Socialist Party’s Seguro as president in landslide https://aje.news/ioo8cy

Horkheimer, 1942/44

oh, is the super bowl happening? i didn't even know, was too busy reading a book. actually i don't even own a tv. haven't eaten at mcdonalds in a decade

Please don't celebrate aimlessly. Instead, use your joy at improved prevention technologies to push for equally improved distribution among at-risk populations and especially throughout sub-Saharan Africa, using strong government funding, transnational collaboration, and/or cheap antipatent generics

I would strongly encourage everyone to read economist Lauren Melodia's criticism at the end of this piece, where she mirrors all of the concerns I've also expressed and expands on them. www.newyorker.com/news/new-yor...

the bog standard monogamous family is a historical sexual formation rife with incest, rape, and other expressions of inequality, but i think virtually all politicians and pundits understand this is an unpopular position to articulate openly

“…many see in ‘foreigners’ the cause of economic distress… This is evidently a stupid error…” Malatesta, The War Against Foreign Workers (1903) historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2026/01...

immigration judges are always like "the honorable" this and "your honor" that... get over yourselves

I think this is a terrible misjudgment and I'm barely holding back a lot of harsher words right now.

the only thing i would really like to say about the slow, embarrassing death of the Washington Post is that i think people in their 30s and younger should probably relearn how to be comfortable paying for news that is worth paying for, or it won't be

CYCLONE 超風, Philip Yung’s new film about a transsexual from China living in Hong Kong, is such a rich and complicated text. I’ll be thinking about it for a long time. It’s problematic, but at its best, it’s powerful & provocative: totally engaged cinema. Some preliminary thoughts: boxd.it/cYKE9Z

I encountered this concept recently as I started following some Spanish-speaking lit girlies. I liked this revision for consumer culture youtu.be/USxowpdsl4c?... "Yo también tengo libro pendientes... pero no intento disfrazarlo con palabrería intelectual para evitar admitir que es un problema."