If you are concerned about the piece Eric is quoting, please read Eric's thread. Eric is a real journalist, he knows the Hill extremely well. I trust his analysis AND it matches what I'm hearing from the Hill.

TL;DR, the current CR doesn't have any risks to gender-affirming care. But the upcoming spending fight will and it's important to differentiate between the two, especially when it's information for a vulnerable population. Our job should be to seek truth and report it and minimize harm.

Here is the text for the continuing resolution. It's a "clean CR," which just keeps spending levels as is and has no major policy changes. If you scroll through, you can see there is nothing related to restricting gender-affirming care for trans people. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Ok. So there's A LOT of misinformation about the government shutdown, the continuing resolution and gender-affirming care. There was one article in PinkNews that was VERY shoddy about what Trump said. So let's breakdown what's true and what's BS. 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/t...

fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this

Watch this chipmunk munching on an apple chunk. youtu.be/ZkN6Qkuix1E

This needs to become a huge story

This is long, but wow does the "medbed" thing get more wacky than you'd expect. m.soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo...

Going through some nearly 200-year-old correspondence. People don't write this beautifully any more. Click "Alt" to read the transcription.

Doesn't the Gov have every authority, even more clearly than the feds, to call out his NG in his own state?

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

A looming government shutdown, and Trump does what any president would do... promote an AI video pushing a conspiracy theory #ACloserLook www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8px...

for those who don’t remember, democrats already did this EARLIER THIS YEAR. they gave up their only real leverage for nothing. it was a predictable and resounding failure. party leadership has to go. NOW.

A law firm appealing a stalled case against Tylenol's maker, Kenvue, says people are calling to join the suit, alleging the painkiller caused autism in children whose mothers took it during pregnancy.

One consistent finding from administrative burden research is that as people rate their own administrative skills as poor, they tend to be less tolerant of the government imposing administrative hassles on others

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

The Reduction in Force of VOA staff announced by Kari Lake "is SUSPENDED and may NOT be implemented, effectuated, or completed in any way until this Court has ruled on the plaintiffs' Motion following the briefing submitted under Paragraph B of this Order." - US District Court Judge Royce Lamberth

Is NYT taking a position on something here?

Change in Abstract

As a disability reporter, I'm not looking forward to covering the drug shortages that tariffs will cause. Like, this isn't a systemic issue–just Trump being erratic.

once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them

Okay. I agree. We definitely need to have another study to truly find out if providing housing is actually a good response to homelessness. Let's try a big study this time. Say, 50 states. For a more extended time-frame. Perhaps coupled with UBI. Let's provide some taxpayer funding for it.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

Wow! Keep ‘em coming

Mr. Rogers has an adoption listing: please share with anyone in the Baltimore-Washington area who needs a big sweet boy! www.adoptapet.com/pet/45135778...

And today in #warravagedportland, I saw an attempted murder! (Of crows.)

Does your aardvark have lice?

I was watching a thing about the Monty Hall problem last night and still finding it hard to accept the math behind it so I made a little interactive proving that it's true. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry about it. pbump.net/montyhall/

Annnnnnd now this. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/t... Google is totally complicit in laundering this totally BS narrative 🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓

lmao

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

I think we all need some Birdie today

Emma Watson's recent comments about JKR were so polite as to be obnoxious to anyone who dislikes JKR, and yet this is how that nasty terf responds.

this is the most miserable woman alive. she’s alienated herself from everyone who ever loved, respected, or trusted her and sees any attempt at conciliation as an underhanded attack. she is in a mind jail of her own creation that will just grow more and more isolated as she marches to the grave

Your friend Dan is in Wired talking about thirst.

I thought the whole point of a government copyright registry was so you don't have to "opt out" with every individual asshole who wants to use your stuff.

OpenAI's new product requires that a copyright owner opt-out if they don't want their work included. The "startup began notifying talent agencies and studios over the past week about the product, which it plans to release in the coming days, and the opt-out process."

Listeria seems to get along by infesting things people think are ok to take safety shortcuts on. It wasn't the meat or the sauce... it was the noodles. www.cdc.gov/listeria/out...

Sometimes it's kind of fun to talk about poison and murder. Especially for stories like this!

platform isomorphism is crazy man. sitting at the head of a company supposedly stewarding world-historical technological change, still can't imagine anything beyond ad-supported short-form video

WHAT. ARE. WE. DOING.

Adding to the absurdity, many of those accounts are actually photoshopping the Trump logo off the picture and claiming that’s the real one. www.facebook.com/share/17EPFK...

X is currently full of large right wing influencer accounts accusing Swalwell of posting a photoshopped picture of the Michigan church shooting suspect wearing a Trump shirt. The picture is still LIVE on Facebook and can be verified by anyone. /

This headline from Politico is incorrect and feeds into anti-abortion scare tactics: doctors aren't 'anonymously' prescribing abortion pills - their name just isn't publicly visible on the pill bottle.

"FEMA officials arrived to go door-to-door to help residents apply for federal funds. But then they stopped as the administration canceled the door-to-door program. FEMA closed disaster-recovery facilities where residents could apply for financial assistance last week." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Kavanaugh stops

I regret to inform you that the new Supreme Court term is opening with a bang next week Tuesday's oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar will feature right-wing activists claiming the First Amendment gives state-licensed therapists a right to traumatize queer kids ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/conve...