i’d like to just say the popular social media generating CSAM is also the leading platform for bigots to claim without evidence that trans people are a danger to children

A joint investigation by ProPublica and FRONTLINE identified more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.

Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.

This is unfortunately standard behaviour when authority exceeds its bounds and its agents are given permission to behave as horrifically as they want. It’s also a sign that anyone in Palestine solidarity is also an unperson with no rights, like the Palestinians themselves are.

ICYMI, my horror short 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2, Nightfire), now free to read as a reprint. A woman in her 30s is dragged to a late night winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & regrets it even more than expected. Here be monsters, mundane & not:

Did someone say 'boxing'? 'The Boxer' (1933) by Russian artist Konstantin Somov. 🥊🌈🎨 Happy Boxing Day! #BoxingDay #Christmas #queer #lgbtq #art #arthistory #1930s 🗃️

From c. 3,600 years ago, an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a hedgehog curled-up in a ball! 🦔❤️ Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me

You will be visited by three spirits… who have such sights to show you

20 hours and 27k likes, pathetic. There is no audience for this shit, none at all. Bots, non-US-based fascists pretending to be trump voters in Pennsylvania, junior high boys who think it triggers the libs. Nobody likes these people and they’re going to lose, merry Christmas.

This should be a clear signal that hospitals and other institutions should not capitulate to the administration’s lawless anti-trans demands. Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.

every day I wake up and try not to sound like a conspiracy theorist and every day this world tests me harder

the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.

So we’re still in the process of getting estimates but it’s beginning to look like getting the house foundation fixed is going to run upwards of $100k So uh We’ll be okay, we’ll figure it out, but I do have a sexy horror book you can preorder lol

man when you read the history of race science in the 19th century especially it is a wild fucking ride because they were really deeply anxious about all of this and what it said about the bible and morality, like constantly totally wigged out

My other top two favorite books of 2025.

One of two fave books of 2025.

Culture wars are only "a distraction" when you're not the one the war is being waged on For everyone else, it's absolutely a direct attack

This is a truly wild decision to make. It's insulting to all the writers and past winners/nominees.

Drop Fortnite

I assure you, it is quite easy to find conservative-leaning lawyers who aren't absolute freaks with deeply-held views so creepy most people don't even know such views exist. But this is who they nominate instead.

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

Since I shared this, Bluesky deleted Ahmad's account, then deleted the account he made to replace it. Please share & give to help him in the face of this platform's hellish treatment of genocide survivors.

A Blue Jay giving a mid-flight glance over his/her shoulder while showing those beautiful blue feathers.

The Trump gold card

It is astonishing how much the most powerful government in the world hates this one individual guy.

I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.

It sounds at first like they got nothing from the deal, but this is essentially a test case of "will this be cheaper than paying animators while still working out for us?" They're going to lean on that scale since Mouse animators have loathed their animators for at least the past 25 years

We are now living in a 1.5 degree warmed world—with no end in sight (at least not based on current policies or practices). www.ft.com/content/9e0e...

If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan. If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION. If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.

This is the last week that I will be uplifting our toy drive to ask for online donations since we want gifts to arrive by 12/19. Teen Gifts: amzn.to/4rDn7BG Toys: bit.ly/48pJUrK If you are in NYC, you can also drop off toys & gifts directly on 12/18 & 12/19. Thanks so much for the support.

Be weirder and more unsettling

Ron Cobb, 1968

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

Melania and Barron Trump have dual citizenship (US and Slovenia). Elon Musk has citizenship in the US, South Africa, and Canada.

There are supposedly serious people who have argued that this *isn't* a white supremacist regime and they should not be taken seriously ever again.

Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.

December 1. 2025. World AIDS Day. For those gone and for those who fought so the rest of us could live. We remember you.

If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened

If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best www.thenation.com/article/soci...

IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms. "fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.

AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!