Grateful to have this short and, I think, unsettling? new poem in the current winter/spring issue of @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social. 🦊🖤 www.broadkillreview.com/post/by-cath...

A profound loss for the disability community. May his memory be a blessing.

Rest in peace Thomas Sayers Ellis www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Our latest issue is dropping a wee bit early. We will be pushing out links throughout the winter/spring! We open Jan 1st for submissions: poetry, CNF, micro, short story, translation, one act plays, ten-minute plays Enjoy our newest issue www.broadkillreview.com

Today, the D.C. programs that are teaching students how to play go-go music – and the history they are preserving by playing it. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

I used to be a professor, so I know many #academic folk spend their after-Christmas already planning spring courses. I wrote a book that talks about rise of #fascism from the roots, #LGBTQ and #science history. It’s accessible. It has back matter for students. And I have teaching materials.

Many grateful thanks to this wonderful lit journal on substack for finding a home for this poem! theorangebee.substack.com/p/wolf-and-t...

I loved working Xmas eve at Sam Goody/Musicland & Tower Records. Not so much in food service though. Big difference in vibe. Hope everyone is nice to retailers today.

Please please please collaborate!

I wrote about puppetry in Richmond! www.richmonder.org/celebrating-...

I added Broadway tunes into my holiday playlist and it's sublime.

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

Many thanks to the staff of Zoetic Press's Non Binary Review for including me and my poem "What This Fabric Could Tell" in their Erased From History issue. The issue is available for 5 bucks here: www.zoeticpress.com/branded-merc... List of authors here: www.zoeticpress.com/issue-42-era...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Gee, wonder why we don’t trust Dems.

Health policy expert to RFK Jr.: You can't ban trans youth care this way www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

All the anti-trans stuff this week (really, this whole year and the past several leading up to it — but especially this week) has taken a real toll on me. I feel so sad, scared, and angry. I feel like I don't belong in this world, and that really sucks.

Every word of this about the Republican war on trans people "This narrative 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." prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...

2) We will fight. I will publish commenting guides for all three NPRMs to help anyone who wants to submit a comment for the rule-making record maximize the impact of their comment with the goal of helping our litigators when they challenge these rules in court.

Trump Regime Moves To Ban Gender Affirming Care for < 18's 1) If you are responsible for the welfare of a trans or gender non-conforming child under the age of 18 and you have the resources to get that child out of the United States of America, my advice is run. www.patreon.com/posts/146156...

Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.

9. The full federal rule can be read in this document. An unpublished version is available here, with the official published version expected to appear Friday. Once published, the rule will enter a 60-day public comment period, during which members of the public can submit feedback.

Just a reminder that transgender people are not causing Americans to lose their retirement savings.

I haven't been in the pediatric trans healthcare system since 2019 and I can barely look at these headlines without wanting to puke. Can't imagine the fucking damage this is doing to trans kids today.

SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here: tinyurl.com/326xy2tm

Ditto Tim Kaine, ugh, what a disappointment

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An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science. Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.

There’s a lot of talk about the Hitler youth types who are turning in their professors and not enough discussion about the ones who are feeling intense despair because they're going to school with the Hitler youth types and immigrants are being kidnapped and trans people are facing genocide &etc

So down

“They’re building these data centers, they’re building the power infrastructure through our homes, and they don’t seem to care,” Subramanyam said.

A lot of journalists are writing stories about DIY now and I don't trust any of them not to scaremonger about it to build support for crackdowns. I've refused requests for interviews on this. Do not talk to the media about DIY.

Tubi 🏳️‍🌈 Christmas movies, an A plus decision today. Currently on Christmas with Love. Just finished A Holiday I Do....

Flapjack the cat snow gazing this am

If I had to say what segments of American life have taken the most serious blows, I think science, civil service, black women (and nondiscrimination law more broadly) and trans people might be my top four.

'Why did poetry have such a seductive effect on the bots? The scientists suspect it’s because these large language models have been tuned to recognize “prose-shaped” danger, and are less prepared for figurative, compressed, or metaphorical language.'

5 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Former Obama natl security assoc. Lucas Schleusener says group called STARRS & Trump advisor Laura Loomer combing thru fed employees' posts for anything showing they're LGBTQ+ & harassing them or getting them fired in a "Lavender Scare" purge like the 1950s.

The only reason not to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act is if you do not want to eliminate rape

🚨 BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster! The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+ 🖖 Will YOU be watching?

Our small town church blasts Christmas music from 5 to 6 every day in December till Christmas. Sometimes a day or two later.

Also www.dungleon.com a daily dungeon crawler guessing game and worldle.teuteuf.fr a daily geography game. Waffle is fun as well but I think that's an Amazon product now

If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

And notice: 11 stars—the number of states in the Confederacy. “Americanism” is the new fascism, as predicted.

""I'd heard of furries, but to be honest, I didn't think they were real. Then one filed to run against me for Congress," stated the email. "Samuel Smeltzer, whose furry name is Elyon Badger, announced he's running against me, in costume, on a far left progressive platform.""

RIP ...always enjoyed giving advanced theater classes his work...sad face