God damn, what nice dash of hope this morning🥹

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

Remember, they hate trans joy, they hate gay joy, they hate Black joy, they hate Native joy, etc. they hate when we can laugh and love and live our lives in our own skin. They hate that we can find our way without their rigid rules. To find joy and thrive is a great act of resistance too.

The contradiction at the heart of transmisogyny has always been that people will insist they don't see us as women while treating us exactly like women, and specifically as women they are entitled to sexually exploit or brutalize.

Is that good

Let one thousand Piss Christs’ take bloom

"Although there is no evidence that ____, Democratic strategists believe that ____" could be applied to so many things.

Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd

The transgender rights movement did not "bet on SCOTUS." Transgender people are just people who are trying to live their lives in peace and happiness and the structures of power, including the legal system up to SCOTUS and media up to the NY Times, have chosen to abuse them for their own ends.

It’d be funny, if the effects weren’t so cruel. “Biological sex” means whatever you need it to mean when it comes to controlling other’s bodies. What it ain’t is some immutable construct delivered from on high, as evidenced by every time they pass one of these www.advocate.com/politics/gen...

My column from Monday. The Alabama Department of Corrections has failed in its basic mission. It cannot keep inmates or staff safe, and in the process threatens public safety. It needs to be replaced with a new agency with a zero-tolerance attitude prison violence, wherever it comes from.

Gender is mostly about doing bits

So far, Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias have come out against this piece which means you know with 100% certainty that Ed is correct and you should listen to what he’s saying

I don’t think you can summarize the fatal problem with modern liberalism any better than “My issue with the way people are being deported and disappeared is procedural.”

When the US began to strip trans people of rights, revert documentation, move trans women to men's prisons, censor research, and move towards healthcare bans, most cis people posted things like "the government can't tell you who you are!" They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.

whew

Improv Chattanooga gave Ram and I the most wonderful goodbye at the show last night🥹🥹 Some of the kindest and most talented people I’ve ever met, it’s an honor to call them all friends.

The difference between cis HRT and trans HRT reminds of the difference between getting an elective vasectomy vs. an elective hysterectomy. The former is met with little resistance, offered on informed consent; the latter is a last resort, met with a thousand are-you-sures or refused outright

Took me until “Senate minority leader Harry Reid” to realize that this was not written this week, but 19 YEARS ago😅😓

Spent the weekend in Chicago, and GOD it was nice being in a walkable city. Buses and trains showed up on time, the tracking app we used was easy to follow, just top to bottom a fantastic experience. Amazing how the auto lobby destroyed this kind of thing in most of the country

In the Joliet Area Historical Museum straight Reflecting it

if you are a democrat who is retreating on and abandoning trans people, you are evil and throwing all trans people under the bus won’t stop them for coming after you next

Deactivated my twitter btw. My only active socials now are here, TikTok, insta, and perhaps rednote someday😅

OK. I have decided, against all reason, to keep making things

Bold stance I know, but Emilia Perez was not very good

Got to be in a photoshoot a couple weeks ago! 📸: Math Wynnemer, Lauren Solomon

This is the kind of shit that’s going to be cited when the Skirmetti result drops later this year The Cass Review claimed it didn’t support conversion therapy — oops, now it does. medium.com/@notashley/t...

Bluesky gets a sneak peak at a photoshoot I was a part of yesterday😏

what are the steps you would only take if push came to shove? and what constitutes a "shove"? and how many shoves have you already gone through without noticing? the final Alt-Right Playbook is now live. it's called The South Bank of the Rubicon. youtu.be/0YFdwfNh5vs

Regardless of how this will actually be enforced, this shit bodes poorly man open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

From the vault: y’all already know who I wanna see in the rumble

I’ve roped my wife into watching wrestling, and she’s as into it as I am. I feel like unto a god

From the vault: based on a true story, hand to god Gonna start reposting the hits in case It™️ happens again😅

Thing is, it’s dubious that this is even “vibes” based anyway. Trump has for a while reversed his position on the TikTok ban. His 2020 action amounted to nothing. The ban comes from a SEPARATE action 4 years later by dems with R support. Dems really did own this, not Trump.

Dems shoot self in foot. In other news, water is wet

One of my favorite comments I’ve gotten on that Mandarin Plankton video is from transphobes being like “they wouldn’t call you a woman in China😏” Bro I live in Tennessee. Gov. Lee ain’t exactly my HRT hook-up lmao

The fact of the matter is that PART of why the Democrats are floundering on trans issues so often is not because they are too focused on them but rather that they've been trying to ignore them this whole time and so have no plan for counterattacks.

Not a bad run, all things considered. Hope they unban it, but for now: good night, TikTok🫡

Figured out how to post videos lmao

From the most recent on TikTok

Submitted that play script, but I won’t know if it got selected until March😭

So helpful, these lil fuckers

Been sending a script I wrote for a 10-minute play fest to some folks, and I’ve been getting some really good responses! Feeling good about submitting it!😁

Hey, Nosferatu was pretty good

just killed some guy who said merry christmas to me

Excellent read from Abi thorn transwrites.world/my-doctor-em...

Fantastic piece from Tarence Ray www.thenation.com/article/poli...

My wife and cats have surrounded me on the couch, all napping🥰 Life’s good over here