I am revolted at just how little cis people care about trans lives.

1. New federal rules were released last week banning gender affirming care for youth at hospitals nationwide. Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now. But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately. Our latest story.

Fave pic of 2026

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

Ghost of Christmas Present: so yeah wherever you find love it feels like Christmas! Scrooge: Spirit I had no idea! Cratchett, Freddie, Belle, and basically every single person Scrooge has ever spoken to on or near Christmas: you gotta be fucking shitting me

Yeah they are just grabbing people off the street every day and putting them in torture camps if you have time to give a shit about this probably use it for ethnic cleansing they're attempting Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

mitt romney vs. gavin newsom is gonna be

Really appreciate the justified anger in this piece by @ryanlcooper.com. The GOP's narrative about trans people "is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."

NOW ON PATREON: XP Extra 28.5 We say goodbye to one of the K-OS team. Michael discusses his love for a very specific kind of acting. And then we remember to allot XP in the wake of the Cone War's finale. Listen now at www.patreon.com/posts/145488...

The reaction to this story and Michael’s thread is a prime example of how social media makes people coldhearted assholes

The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.

A reminder to the world as Star Trek Starfleet Academy is gearing up to launch: You can just choose not to watch it. You don't have to try to make like hell for young actors just to feel like your opinion matters. Also, it's gonna be pretty great.

So, yeah, uh, no. These are all also things that actually matter, save for Bongino.

I saw people who were watching this saying some of the crowd booed her - as she played against a cis man. But, you know, just protecting women's sports...

Still cheap for a little longer!

I contain multitudes. I recognize using they/them pronouns is a polite way to not assume people’s gender if you don’t know. And I also deeply internalize it and feel dysphoria when people use them for me.

Fun lore dump: A writing partner and I were approached to write for the Nickelodeon version and due to a miscommunication somewhere we got on zoom call that we thought was an information gathering convo and we were actually in a pitch meeting with several Nick executives.

TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN. We're not cosplaying. We're not pretending. We just...are women.

I hold no side in the war between Halloween and Christmas, I love them both. And I say this as someone who also quite enjoys pumpkin spice: Peppermint is such a better seasonal coffee additive.

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison. Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.

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The far right heuristic is "everything bad is done by a trans person."

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

Last night as I struggled for a solid ten minutes to open a pickle jar, I thought to myself “yes clearly going through male puberty three decades ago has left me with profound levels of unending strength”

Listen. I’m really good at judging the art separate from the artist, but JK Rowling (and her bigotry and funding trans oppression) is inseparable from Harry Potter Stop spending money on this franchise. It’s not worth it

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

I watched Spinal Tap II last night because it just arrived on Max and was on my watchlist anyway so I figured I’d bump it up to watch Reiner’s last film. But I just learned apparently there’s a third one that’s already been filmed too?!

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

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.

One of my favorite Rob Reiner moments is very random, but when he was roasted by the Friar's Club on Comedy Central (before they did their own roasts) they made him read Roger Ebert's review of North, which inluded multiple "hateds" in a row, and he was a very, very good sport about it.

I'm pretty sure Katelyn meant this as sarcastically as I'm taking it, and I am taking it very sarcastically indeed. If it wasn't for @erininthemorning.com and me, most trans news would get no national coverage, despite being among the top priorities for Republicans at all levels of government.

As much as following youth slang and jokes is a fool’s errand I’m truly amazed to be witnessing an era where 69 has been usurped as the number that makes kids giggle and go wild.

I spent 9 out of an 11 hour period today running or prepping D&D across my normal morning table and then our Winter Epic at the shop. My kids defeated an Ancient Green Dragon! What a blast.

This reeks of “Morbius is back in theaters due to online popularity!”

I already was obsessed with Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler but god do I love watching her just have the most fun as Carol.

I ran a D&D game for my boss’s family recently and his sister, who had never played before, asked “why do D&D players have so many dice?” and I just looked at my boss and back at her and said “cause they click clack and you roll them?”

I couldn’t be more hyped for this one. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is such a great comic.

The penultimate episode of our first season is here and it’s a doozy!

OUT NOW! Episode 28 - Sum of All Spheres: The Cone War ends. Chase rockets into action. BB stages a jail break. Trip crashes. Killsphere bridges the gap. Listen now at www.patreon.com/posts/143984...

A lawyer who helped lead Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election was also heavily involved in lawsuits seeking to ban trans women from sports. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social took a deep look at the strategies and coordination behind sports bans in one of our most read pieces this year.

Shout out to the cast of Love, Actually for remembering they’re in one of the most divisive Christmas movies of all time and thinking “oh we should definitely do AI commercials. That’ll really push the needle completely!”

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel

A toss by any other name... Catch up on the fun before our new episode this Wednesday at goodchaotic.com #podcastclip #scificomedy #teamwork

Congrats to all the writers on this list!

Before I go on Etsy, are there any laid-off game artists in my follower/repost pool who would be available for a custom DnD party art commission? Four characters, a few special requests, preferably by Christmas? DM me! I have money!

On today's advent episode, Emma's living her best life.

I just absolutely love Instsgram’s newish “add music to post” feature. Especially how it decides that even though you explicitly have sound muted on posts and your phone sound off, that it should play at full volume immediately when you click share. Not abruptly terrifying at all.

My bleep about how Riverbottom deserved to win the Waterville talent contest over Emmet Otter’s jug band inspired cool folks to do a podcast about the best Christmas special:

Pantone color of the year: