queen shit though. i love us.

Want to survive the end of the world? Want *humanity* to survive its own stupidity? Get better at caring about other people, both theoretically and practically.

The headlines and push alerts should be plain: Trump lies about causes of autism. No equivocation, no "here's what doctors say" Just "He lies. He's spreading a discredited conspiracy theory"

Unspeakable brutality. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/tran...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

This advert still hits. HARD.

The apparent success of the boycott in defence of an incredibly wealthy white man, who has an extensive resources, cannot be where y’all put down your pitchforks. Take the win, turn the momentum to the defence of Mahmoud Khalil. Free speech, right?

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

We need you to tell you friends, your family, heck, even your frenemies if they like doing art. We need ART for our ART CONTEST and we need your help to reach the ARTISTS so we can give them 500 DOLLARS!

This is one of those where something banal like, “All children are god’s children,” and then walk away, would signal the correct answer but also not give the Sears campaign the TV ad they want. Just don’t pull an Allred and backtrack on that.

I think you tapped into the "silent majority" of people who find a racist sexist transphobe bigot bully to actually not be that compelling of a figure, and who resent having his sainthood crammed down their throats.

Poorly drawn? It looks just like him.

It’s sort of funny how in the conservative “intellectual” mind the 2019-21 “peak woke” period was just the lower orders getting uppity and not itself a reaction to elite resistance to punishing sex crimes and a corpus of footage of police killings generated by smartphone adoption

Trump Says It Is “Really Illegal” for Journalists to Give His Administration Negative Coverage

Yep, I'm pretty sure this was my most genius idea ever. No further questions! I direct all further questions to the poorly drawn poster before you.

ART CONTEST!!! It's the Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day ART CONTEST brought to you by Assigned Media!! That's right, you heard us.

I needed to hear this today.

After the death of Charlie Kirk Wall Street Journal ran with an unverified law enforcement bulletin and amplified a right-wing narrative. I wrote about what they did wrong and why it matters for @objectivejournos.bsky.social. objectivejournalism.org/2025/09/wall...

I'm genderqueer w/a trans kid; I also teach LGBTQ Studies so I know tons of trans/nonbinary young people. The trans folks I know are brave fighters. The problem with the "begging them to protect us" perception, to me, seems to be (unsurprisingly) the media and social media. TL;DR, you're right!

A disorienting moment: Trump is consolidating autocratic power in areas where there's an easy path to do so. But in other areas he's facing deep institutional resistance and people are refusing to abandon the rule of law. Here he's weak and failing. Thoughts on that: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

bring out the old chants: "we're here. we're queer. get used to it."

this is a huge part of why mcbride and our org leadership being so shit is such an impediment

I want to underline that what I'm saying probably goes against a lot of your instincts. It's also unfair and hard. Consider it anyway. It's about becoming a symbol of defiance in people's minds rather than one more sad item for them to include on the list of Trump's outrages.

This message is very important to remind ourselves of and to share with other people.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

“Don’t tell me what to do” is so deeply American.

Re prt: the trick at the heart of all organizing is "do stuff, keep trying". Dont let activists make you feel intimidated all that "helpful" instruction that makws you feel like you need a masters to help someone is them gatekeeping their status as the only ones who care fuck that just do shit

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

Note: Stealth NYT edit. (Thanks to the eagle-eyed reader who saw that!)

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🧵More than three dozen professors, teachers and school staffers have been fired or suspended for posting about Charlie Kirk. One Illinois teacher was fired for posting Kirk's empathy quote. This is a map of where the firings have happened so far, with 200 more teachers under review in Texas alone.

It helps that the subject here lived his life in such a way that not even the most dedicated propaganda outlets could fill a 1-hour tribute with things he said that *wouldn't* immediately flip a normie into the "good riddance" column

Here's the thing: I ran the experiment. We have the results. You can no longer say that doing this would hurt the trans community, because I did it anyway and now we know that the right backed off while ordinary Americans vibed with it.

My normie friends are bringing this up in casual conversation

The Heritage Foundation is urging the FBI to see speech in favor of trans rights as an incitement to violence. Perfectly normal day in our great country. Plus, schools are finding out how cruel anti-trans laws impact their students, and an inspiring effort to help poor trans people afford hormones.

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Are Americans into their free speech? Asked and answered

I did not expect my essay defending free speech and openly celebrating Charlie Kirk's death to be all upside for me, but I will take it. I was primed to go hide with friends if the death threats got too bad, instead people keep finding it and commenting how much they agree with me.

This is best understood by recognising that this isn’t because *the public* have been wildly radicalising themselves to the far right for well over a decade. It’s politicians and media figures who have been roasting their own brains and egging each other on, with results that are all around us.

We were indoctrinated to love the US CONSTITUTION and hate NAZIS. Not like these kids today who can't appreciate the benefits of living in a representative democracy.

periodically I see the president doing things like “post crimes for his attorney general to do that were maybe supposed to be an unencrypted DM on his own personal social network” and I remember that he got elected in large part because of information security practices and I black out in rage

Well worth reading. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Quote below is from Jamelle Bouie.

The fact that they're sainting this hateful creep while trying to paint trans people as inciters of terrorism is beyond absurd.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.