BREAKING: Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Louisiana's map is an unconstitutional gerrymander. Majority by Alito rules that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, "properly construed," can provide a compelling reason for race-based redistricting, but that did not happen here.

My smart husband's advice is good guidance for ALL media coverage of the rich and powerful: CRITIQUE, DON'T SLOBBER.

Indie Filmmakers! If I created a SELF-DISTRO workshop might you be interested? It includes but is limited to, developing, strategizing, and implementing how to get your film seen by as many people as possible - from festivals, theaters, community groups, and schools - while

A New York Times shareholder and mother of a trans teen confronted their publisher AG Sulzberger at a shareholders meeting over their years long biased reporting on trans people. Sulzberger was unrepentant and doubled down.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr EITM Texas Tech U notifies its five universities of a new campus "Don't Say Gay" policy barring professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics in core and lower-level courses, eliminating related fields of study, and requiring skipping textbook chapters on the topic. 1/2

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

"No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi could be the first..." "While city pools and splash pads consume almost 2 million gallons of water over the course of a summer, a single Exxon plastics plant consumes 13 million gallons per day." hmmm

I just made a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social call: Tell the Senate: Vote to Block Bombs to Israel. Make a call here: actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...

Yeah, feeling a little jealous of Hungary, tbh.

One day left to watch @heightenedscrutinydoc.com at home! Watch here, kinema.com/films/height...

(…the news industry being as institutionally hostile, exclusionary, and harmful to trans people *of course* is going to result in eroding trust that trans readers might extend to cis journalists…)

She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.

📣 Heightened Scrutiny is now streaming on Kinema! You can watch the film during our limited virtual screening window this week only (March 30 – April 5). Click the link to watch Heightened Scrutiny today! 🎥🍿 kinema.com #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility @samfeder.bsky.social

Perfect activity for (today’s) Trans Day of Visibility: Watch @samfeder.bsky.social’s brilliant doc HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY. and PlEASE SHARE. kinema.com/films/height...

Get ready! Next week, Heightened Scrutiny will be available to stream online. 🎥 Streaming March 30 - April 5 🎟️ Pre-order tickets: kinema.com/films/heightened-scrutiny-dzage Watch with friends, host a watch party, and help spread the word! #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility @samfeder.bsky.social

📣 WATCH #HeightenedScrutiny at HOME! 📆 ONE WEEK ONLY 3/30 - 4/5 on Kinema 🎟 Wanna join? Click the link below. 🎉 Hope to see you there kinema.com/films/heightened-scrutiny-dzage @samfeder.bsky.social

📣 Don’t miss our April 1 post-screening Q&A. After watching Heightened Scrutiny on Kinema, stay for a conversation with director @samfeder.bsky.social, Tre’Vell Anderson, and @petrinkae.bsky.social of the @transjournalists.org 📅 April 1 🎟️ Pre-order your tickets today: kinema.com/films/height...

If you’re looking for something meaningful to watch for Trans Day of Visibility: Heightened Scrutiny will be streaming on Kinema! 📅 March 30–April 5 🎟️ Pre-order Tickets (pay what you wish): kinema.com 🎥 Director @samfeder.bsky.social #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility #HeightenedScrutiny

Join us for a virtual screening of Heightened Scrutiny on Kinema in honor of Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ Stream the film March 30–April 5. Order a ticket and receive a link to watch anytime during the screening window. 🎟️ Tickets: kinema.com/films/height... #TDOV #HeightenedScrutiny

icymi: was in Chicago this past Thursday for a showing of @samfeder.bsky.social's new film Heightened Scrutiny, as well as a panel put on by the fantastic folks at @transupfrontil.com and @ctulocal1.bsky.social check out my coverage on @assignedmedia.org here: www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

The first state in the US to remove statutory protections for an entire class, gender identity, has just enacted a bill preventing local municipalities from having their own protections for trans people. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 15 Guardian Hilary Cass welcomes new UK DoE anti-trans school policies, asserting that social transitions can "lock [kids] on to a trajectory," agreeing schools must generally out trans kids to parents, and suggesting social media is turning kids transgender.

This has now become Important Context’s biggest story ever. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

So where is Bari Weiss, that great defender of free speech?

“For years, the political right has been ratcheting up eliminationist rhetoric against transgender Americans and dismissing their identities as ideology. At the 2023 CPAC, conservative commentator Michael Knowles called to “eradicate” so-called “transgenderism” from public life.”

Congratulations @samfeder.bsky.social and @heightenedscrutinydoc.com, announced yesterday as a nominee for Outstanding Documentary in the GLADD Media Awards coming up on March 5th! glaad.org/mediaawards/...

Chicago area friends, please join me this Wednesday 1/7/2026 at the Geneva Public Library for a free screening of this documentary! Thank you @heightenedscrutinydoc.com and @samfeder.bsky.social for their assistance, and @lillywachowski.bsky.social for the Chicago screening that inspired this one.

Now you can watch my current film @heightenedscrutinydoc.com. For one week only it will be available at, gathr.com/vod/9320a621...

ahoy! my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow! check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space! also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!

Pay close attention: the GOP and Trump are going to go hard against abortion rights. This maneuver on ACA subsidies is just the beginning. www.upi.com/amp/Top_News...

join me and my pals at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social where i'll be bringing my patented run-on sentences and cul-de-sac musings to this panel for new doc by the brilliant @samfeder.bsky.social tickets are limited!

Chicago friends - don’t miss @LillyWachowski.bsky.social, @SamFeder.bsky.social and friends at a special Heightened Security documentary screening and Q&A!

Just got the chance to watch @heightenedscrutinydoc.com by @samfeder.bsky.social at UW Simpson Center for the Humanities. @chasestrangio.bsky.social is a f-ing hero and the @aclu.org is doing kickass work even when the odds are stacked against us. Looking for shreds of hope.

I just left a screening of @samfeder.bsky.social’s movie, followed by a Q&A with him that included the lovely @lillywachowski.bsky.social. This a wonderful, important film. If it is screening anywhere near you make the effort to see it. If it is not, request it!

Just saw an important documentary at the Siskel Film Center—“Heightened Scrutiny.” Very much enjoyed it and the conversation afterward with its director, @samfeder.bsky.social

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

i’m gonna say it again and again: everything they do in Gaza is a test for what they want to do elsewhere, and eventually, here.

THURSDAY: @heightenedscrutinydoc.com Q&A screening. Join @samfeder.bsky.social at @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social in Pleasantville, NY! 🎟️: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/heig... #heightenedscrutiny

New: Israel is starving Palestinians, forcing them to beg for donations on sites like Bluesky. Their accounts keep getting flagged as spam. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Netanyahu prolongs Gaza war and Palestinian misery to keep himself in office and avoid prison on personal corruption charges. His moral rot happens to facilitate the goals of the racist right wing and religious zealots in Israeli politics. Who will stop the evil? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w...

Alyx, a 15 year veteran of the Air Force was approved for early retirement in May. The Trump admin suddenly revoked it on Wednesday because of the trans military ban. She'll lose out on healthcare and pension benefits as a result. www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

Thank you for making an excellent documentary.

"#Disclosure was a field study in representation that could be applied to any marginalized community, #HeightenedScrutiny is a field study that can be applied to the ways in which the media has skewed the public’s perception of all marginalized people." @samfeder.bsky.social

The Moveablefest interviewed @heightenedscrutinydoc.com's dir. @samfeder.bsky.social and producer Amy Scholder. Read: moveablefest.com/sam-feder-am... #heightenedscrutiny

Further proof that 99% of the time when a famous person talks about cancel culture, they mean “I suffered the indignity of a rejection and my ego couldn’t handle it.”

Stop the war. Free the hostages. Surge Aid. End the occupation. Find our way back to the humanity Judaism requires.

Harvard has officially closed its office for LGBTQ life. They folded it into the office of culture and community. There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women. Absolute cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I am also shocked that ppl are in shock about Pete. This is the guy I knew in college, the good, normative boy, following the traditional path to power (consulting, military etc). Why is anyone surprised by this nonsense?