I did not know who Adin Ross was before today and I wish I could go back to that time I didn't.

If you do not support trans people - by actively dedicating your time and money (if you have it) and voice to their cause - you are a failure of morality and humanity and you are not just a bystander but a culpable participant in one of the most violent attempts at eugenics of our time.

That anti-vaxxers and the climate change deniers have taken up anti-trans bullshit with such fervor should be a tell it's the same amount of bullshit, to anyone who still doesn't get it ...

shit like the ban on gender affirming care (and it is a ban and we should call it that) is why democrats cant be mealy-mouthed bigot lite on this issue. its why theres a problem with people like gavin newsom giving ground on this issue. this has to be a line in the sand.

Fuck the three Democrats who were the difference on this passing and especially fuck the Democratic leaders who made no effort to whip them into line and who will do nothing to punish them after the fact. I will never support a party who cannot pass the most basic tests of human decency.

"And so, having long debated what to do about this situation, I dug a fire pit in my backyard and burned my complete set of hardcover Harry Potters." I have a lengthy and long in the works piece live this morning, from @literaryhub.bsky.social Hope you all enjoy ... lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

A reminder for everyone getting Christmas presents… stay away from the HP merch!!! uk.news.yahoo.com/j-k-rowling-...?

US House of Reps has passed a bill to criminalize trans healthcare for people under 18. This bill can be still stopped in the Senate, call/write your senators & ask them to oppose. Californians: @schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/ @padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/

On a fundamental basis, a lot of people are realizing how much one or both parents did not love them, did not care or support them, and even outright abused them, verbally, emotionally and/or physically. Estrangement is not a decision made lightly.

Anyway, to anybody who's estranged ... I'm sorry. I'm sorry about what happened to you. I'm sorry about our cruel society that tends to not care at all. I'm sorry about our press that amplifies bullshit like this, rather than listening to abuse victims or taking us seriously ... Sending us all love.

As an adult who has been estranged from my father for almost a decade now, I just want to say that Elizabeth Bernstein can fuck off all the way to hell with this bullshit excuse of an article.

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

The news about Rob Reiner and Michele Singer is so heartbreaking. It's just so horrible. 💔

All the stuff you love about Reiner as a director - all the stuff you notice, & more importantly don't notice - is because he was a really good actor.

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

A shooting at Brown University targetting students and one at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach targetting the Jewish community... Just absolutely horrible.

for dick van dyke's 100th birthday, let's agree that that is actually how english chimney sweeps sound like, he nailed it, if you're an english chimney sweep and don't sound like that, you're doing it wrong

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke! There's nothing I can say to do this man justice, he's just amazing. I can just leave this clip here though! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRQ...

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

For all I know, letting Pete walk away MAY just be the right choice. But I've not known the Mets without him and this really, REALLY sucks. Thanks for the memories, Pete.

@aprilglick.bsky.social , just checking in. You doing alright?

i just hope david stearns saving a billionaire a couple million here and there is worth losing half the mets fanbase and counting, enjoy your casino I guess

not to be dramatic but if the mets don't bring pete alonso back then citi field is going to be a morgue next year and it'll be deserved

pete alonso deserves from mets what kyle schwarber just got from the phillies. they know he wants to stay in new york and they are lowballing him

THREE YEARS????? $69M STEVE COHEN YOU HAVE A CASINO GIVE ME THAT FA KING POLAR BEAR

Mets, I swear to God, if you don't sign Pete Alonso RIGHT NOW...

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

I'm just laughing my head of right now because when the RMS Lusitania was taking its final plunge, the ship's wireless guy was holding onto the railings of the stern... and he then PULLED OUT HIS CAMERA, turned to his colleague and was like "this makes a great shot!" 😭

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To that one person who voted for Rob Manfred for mayor of NYC... why?

do not talk to strangers like you’re their fucking boss.

WTF did they do to my beloved Mega Lucario!? I love a second Mega Lucario but what is THAT DESIGN!?

So I got my new Pokemon Scarlet game running for a second and came back to this.

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

I won't miss Brandon Nimmo, ngl. I felt conflicted whenever I saw him on the field given what his views were during peak COVID were and that he's a MAGA guy - I know they are everywhere in MLB nowdays, doesn't mean I have to accept them - and that I won't have to deal with that now feels kinda good.

There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.

OH I SWEAR TO GOD COHEN IF THAT POLAR BEAR ISNT BACK YOU ARE NOT SEEING HEAVEN

I mean, look at this face

Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City

Someone who knows inside baseball better than me explain what the hell is this trade exactly?

answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior

I got insanely obsessed with the baseball labor movement, more specifically the pre-free agency era stuff.

my phone blowing up this morning with everyone basically yelling the same thing and little videos of snow outside my friends and family members' homes and office windows, I love how snow instantly turns everyone into a big kid 😁

if you chose protecting your access over defending your profession, you're in the propaganda business and you might as well say it

Tom Terrific would have been 81 today. One of the greatest pitchers ever, extremely underrated and underappreciated.

I don't claim to speak for every asexual, aromantic, or aroace person who has ever lived but they all will probably agree with me when I say that this guy can go fuck himself.

JANNIK SINNER, OMG!!!!

Sinner and Alcaraz are just so much fun to watch, especially when they play against each other. It's an entirely different level of tennis.