I started taking progesterone about a month ago to get bigger boobs but the only thing it’s done so far is cure my depression. smh

“In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, I did what I have always done— and was expected to do — as a public voice and columnist on race, gender, and culture: I commented on America’s racial double standards in public discourse when it comes to political violence.”

NEWS: In September, the Washington Post fired me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. This week, after eight months, I'll be heading to arbitration against the Post to challenge my termination. karenattiah.substack.com/p/my-case-ag...

If I see one more press headline saying protestors “clashed” with police at Delaney Hall, when what actually happened was that state police in riot gear shot less lethals at protestors and press singing with their hands up, then kettled and arrested them, I am going to throw my phone out the window.

Rise and pride, nerds.

Oh my god this is a gay rainbow for Pride, not a rainbow bridge thing. It’s June 1 and I’m not dead fyi

🚨BREAKING: NJ state police tackle unarmed anti-ICE protesters while trying to enforce an ILLEGAL curfew on the press. "Hands up don't shoot!" protesters chant. Our Jon Farina & Will Allen-DuPraw report ⬇️

As much as I'm a keen green activist. We need to be careful not to have this happen twice with Zack Polanski. We saw outspoken support for the trans community by zohran before he got elected. And now he is mayor he hasn't engaged properly with this...

It's past midnight here, which means it's Pride Month, bitches!! 😘🌈

given the higher-ed gap, women may have more, uh, literal literacy

Ever notice how none of these business chuds want to make businesses more like universities, despite the latter inventing every single technology they have used to get rich? It’s not just that these dumb anti-intellectual demands on universities are self-serving, they’re also very stupid.

AI, the thing that famously allows you to produce something without the sweat, time, expertise, or practice, doesn't seem like something you use bc your literacy is higher on anything.

I agree, and I think it’s because we’re seeing the complicity of Democrats in upholding fascism entirely unmasked— because we’re seeing that it’s not just Trump who will enforce the protection of concentration camps with violence, it’s people we counted on too.

46 people, including press, were arrested tonight at the Delaney Hall protest. The rationale was because they had helmets, masks and shields. That’s not justification. That’s fascism.

I find it odd how much affection Columbo the show (and character) have retained. Not odd cos I think it is unmerited; Columbo really is great! It's just... I dunno, I feel like usually even very good day time TV of this sort is basically forgot as soon as it stops airing? Why did this one survive?

Out now from comrades at the Sussex Visibility Brigade, who have been on the ground at Delaney Hall from the beginning, is this scathing piece about how Mikie Sherrill has betrayed the very people we’re fighting for. Protests begin today at her home and office. open.substack.com/pub/sussexvi...

I want everyone to remember that what is happening at Delaney Hall right now is because Mikie Sherrill is defending a concentration camp. She is arresting people so she can defend a concentration camp.

I feel dumb even engaging this, but literally no one has argued otherwise. To say that the pool of acceptable men is too small is not to say that straight women have failed. The opposite. It’s to say our desire is legitimate. And men are the ones fucking up. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

Press are about to be arrested with protestors at Delaney Hall. State police just told them that if they don’t leave now, everyone is getting arrested.

Excellent 🧵 with nitty-gritty details on how scientists can band together + apply institutional leverage to fight back against the unlawful actions of unelected ideologues The key idea? Preload ammunition for federal judges + elected officials who have the power to foil Vought's plotting

If you think this looks like a threat to free speech you're wrong. Threats to free speech are when sex pests lose their jobs as magazine editors.

Ed Markey tears into Seth Moulton: "Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids." The crowd goes fucking wild.

Growing up poor carries with it these shards of trauma that are easy to ignore and difficult to lose. Like papercuts to dignity. Death by a million small losses. When I see a person selling flowers or used clothing on the side of a road I cannot forget the feeling of what $3 felt like in 1995

Separately today, Brodesser-Akner writes briefly about her takeaways from working on this "profile" and I think reading this first will help readers go into the feature with a more useful mindset for understanding it than the headline does static.nytimes.com/email-conten...

Update: the NJ state police plan to keep the road in front of Delaney Hall blocked to all for at least the next several days. They are not even providing the previously stupid “first amendment zone.” They will be requiring (or trying to require) protestors to stand instead at a busy intersection.

JUST IN: a rally is being planned by Indivisible in front of Mikie Sherrill’s office in Trenton NJ tomorrow at 2 pm to demand answers concerning her deplorable actions at Delaney Hall. Get there if you can. www.mobilize.us/cooperriveri...

Wonder what these numbers would have looked like if they'd said "move to the right" instead of "to the center."

honestly super weird how transphobes will assume that all trans women are white. I feel like this isn’t talked about enough, it’s an important part of the permission structure that allows otherwise “progressive” people to engage in transphobia (because their targets are all “really” white men)

Do men need a language of worth empowerment and identity? Absolutely But a man’s sense of self is not greater than a woman’s actual life Read it again

A fair amount of this conversation is not about how men can improve their abusive behaviors But rather how women can improve their response to abusive behaviors

Gift link: wapo.st/4vjYtXt

CALLED IT. Visitation is cancelled again.

"Eventually, though, what's left of the free press will have to reckon with the fact that the far-right fringe is now the modern world's governing elite — and openly declaring an intent to repeat the 1930s. That's a story."

The workers were right: The former Planned Parenthood building on Bleecker Street in Manhattan will become luxury condos www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

here's a gift link. it's a beautiful story: wapo.st/4vjYtXt

I love Brown culture 🤎

just re-upping. Newark and New Jersey governance are explicitly aiming to ease ICE operations at Delaney Hall. the dozens arrested and injured amid the protests outside are being depicted as “agitators.” this mimics what we’ve seen in many other Dem-run areas with anti-ICE protest/direct action.

HAPPY PRIDE

IIRC one of the NPR podcasts had a beautiful episode about her (maybe Codeswitch?)

I just broke out crying in my apartment while updating my tracker because I stopped to read this piece by @caseyparks.bsky.social on drag king Elsie Saldaña. This was so beautifully and sensitively told, if you missed it last week read it now. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

as usual the horse says it best

Why did they push over their own barricades???

New Jersey State Police push past barricades outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility

Woke up to reports that a press person was so badly injured last night at Delaney Hall that they were in a wheelchair and had to beg state police for five minutes to be let through the line, screaming in pain A friend who was there said “it’s a war zone and I can’t believe there aren’t fatalities.”

omg

The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.

I just wanna reup this take for, well, lots of reasons

Based on my work with PFLAG, I'd bet money it's because so many in the 18-29 demographic personally know a trans person and witnessed their friend's struggle these last few years.

it's pretty funny that tolkien *is* a conservative artist and the modern right *is* obsessed with him but they still absolutely do not understand lord of the rings

“The kids want liminal spaces!”