your periodic reminder that trump does not in fact care about babies and is happy murdering them if he feels it's to his advantage. he tried to cut off healthcare for his very ill infant nephew to get an advangtage in an inheritance dispute.

Always read Eric on this topic

The thing to remind people is that all alternatives to 'winning' lead to the complete destruction of the biosphere and mass extinction events (including of hominids). So, yes, all near-term wins ought to be celebrated because each makes annihilation and intractable immiseration less concrete.

got a longish post on Sylvia Plath's happiest poem tomorrow. sign up and get it in your inbox, whoosh. (I'm also on patreon if you prefer that.) www.everythingishorrible.net/subscribe

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

health reporters are generally in the business of trying to report the truth. political reporters at the NYT are hired to report what politicians say, and to deliberately ignore the truth (if they have any idea what it is.)

it is so fucking depressing that the go to author on trans issues is the guy who (a) is not trans, (b) has no real expertise, and (c) frames trans issues as a moral panic for cis parents. 1

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

Yes, I wrote for it for years and it is house style, never breached except when a columnist retires. I no longer write for the Economist for a few reasons, but one is that they have routinely advanced an agenda harmful to the well being of trans people.

The theory is the Economist has a single editorial voice. Which of course means that in this case it has decided to align its editorial voice with Jesse Singal's, which isn't a surprise given literally all of their trans coverage in the last couple years

...FYI several ppl commented that The Economist doesn't name authors for many articles. which seems fine if it's a short news summary, but not in the case where it's one writer's interpretation of a study. especially when the interpretation is 180º different from the researchers' own conclusions!

...knowing Jəsse's the author (& that gender-affirming care practitioners are well aware of his biases & tactics) utterly changes the meaning of the last paragraph. without attribution, it makes it sound like the authors are suspiciously dodging the question. in actuality they know he's a bad actor!

...apparently he tweeted about it several days ago. it seems weird that The Economist purposely hid his name from readers. unless of course they knew that readers might already be aware of Jəsse's long history of bias on this issue...

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

Shanah tovah!

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

So now we know the company that owns Tylenol didn’t buy any Trump crypto.

I got to contribute to smol, a new journal of super short poetry! five words or less: -- too sick to write more -- smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/09/too-...

we are governed by charlatans

For fucking Christs sake.

I wonder if they all just got Tylenol confused with Thalidomide… an actual danger for pregnant women and fetuses that was never approved in the US because one woman at the FDA did her job and got backed up by her leadership.

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

Sexual assailant says what

absoulely serious question: how many trump associates were primed for this dip and have already profited from trading on it?

the kimmel thing really was not pushed mainly by mainstream media. NYT for instance really wasn't nearly as excited about Kimmel as about biden's debate performance or the plagiarism scandal at harvard. 1

A lot of journalists follow me, so let me just say that if you're at all talking about this deep dark bullshit in the coming hours and days, then Matthew Cortland is one of the people you absolutely want to be talking to.

When "culture war" or "identity politics" factions like "Disney Adults" can take billion dollar chunks out of a corporate bottom line, it makes sense to think about this as one angle with which to resist authoritarianism. Everything is in play.

"we strenuously reject the idea that we have principles, or even intentions. we are not actually sentient. help."

fwiw, I see a certain amount of grumbling along the lines of, "why jimmy kimmel rather than [insert other issue]" I understnad why people feel that way, but...I think it's kind of misguided? 1

anyway; good job disney adults. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/disney-adu...

"we spent the last few days watching our business being completely gutted, and have decided that we picked the wrong side towards which to spinelessly genuflect."

I share King here to make that point because it's clear that there is crossover occurring, and it has been since October 7th and Musk's takeover of X in particular. Deny it all you want, it's there and it's spreading. But most important here is that our debates on Israel have distracted from it.

Shaun King backing up Tucker Carlson that Jews killed Jesus. It is important to state this bluntly (I should actually write a piece about it): Antisemitism is close to getting mainstream. One thing preventing it on the right is Trump's support of Israel, but Carlson and others are pushing it.

On Friday, the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, shared the doxxing on her personal Twitter page in the midst of the onslaught of harassment, alluding that I would be fired from my role. Though I had been placed on paid, admin leave indefinitely.

Not bc of “performance” as they allege, but bc for the last 5 days I have been doxxed by MostlyPeacefull and LibsofTiktok, two known White Supremacist and Christian Nationalist accts on X. All bc I told my followers to block them after they doxxed a colleague.

Hi. My name is Ashley Jamieson. I am an attorney. And for the last 19 months, I have been working for @USDA in the Office of General Counsel in the Civil Rights, Labor, and Employment unit as a litigation atty. Fighting for the rights of workers. And this morning they fired me.

A lot of American Christians think it’s “cancelling” to point out the historical antisemitism in Christianity. And it’d be good if major Christian denominational leaders actually told them to STFU. (Some have, and props to them.)

Jews are in fact allowed to push back on the claim that Jews killed Jesus? like, that's an antisemitic conspiracy theory. saying "it's biblical" doesn't change the fact that it's an antisemitic conspiracy theory. it's kind of doubling down on the antisemitic conspiracy theory, in fact. 1

Also, RW grifts are evergreen. The “faith healing” preachers grift, got caught for fraud, then just came back as prosperity gospel grifters. Robert Tilton as a model.

oh how excellent. i absolutely did not have shaun king doing antisemitic biblical trutherism on my 2025 bingo card.

I was fired from my gig as a primary and middle school drama director on Monday. We live in frightening times. Take care of each other, and reach out to me if you want to talk 🧡

His speech at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service was interpreted as blaming the Jews for the death of Jesus; reasonable minds can disagree of course

Shaun King's been really slow to realize that there's more grift on the right than the left, but kudos to him for finally getting there, I guess.

autism isn't caused by anything except for the fact that different people are different. trying to get rid of autistic people effectively means forcing people to mask and hide, torturing people with bullshit "treatment", or outright exterminating us.

This is why I find “we all know Trump is racist” to be a very unhelpful response. It takes as a given something we should be much more critical about and signals that addressing it isn’t a particularly urgent task. If people believe Trump is popular because of racism they should just say that.

Part of what we’re seeing now is a result of people who we all know are in close orbit with the President never being held accountable for their words in a way that anyone else would be. People should work to change that practice particularly in the press.

Particularly amid budget negotiations in which he needs to get the votes of the party being targeted with this language.

Someone should ask Trump whether he agrees with an advisor using this language and displaying this disrespect towards a member of Congress. www.blackenterprise.com/jasmine-croc...

In 2022, Zohran Mamdani called for reducing the NYPD headcount through attrition, eliminating overtime and a hiring freeze – saving billions of dollars, which could then be redirected to social programs. That's a pragmatic, "non-reformist" reform consistent with abolitionist politics.

I often can't tell if someone is doing doomerism or if they're actualy maga.