Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Five years ago, my sister @stahlidarity.bsky.social wrote about federal prisons like the one Maduro is being held in. In my humble opinion, it’s a piece worth reading. www.cjr.org/first_person...

Two and a half years after the NYT explicitly attempted to add trans reporters to the paper, the efforts never resulted in a hire. "This leaves an open question: Why?" writes the former NYT editor tapped to recruit. @assignedmedia.org www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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They turned trolling into a leadership style. Their supporters think it's fine because they have no integrity either.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Very sad to see NBC Out go down. I know journalists who have worked there and it was home to some of the best in depth reporting on LGBTQ+ issues out there from a legacy media outlet. Legacy media continues to abandon us, and it seems only we can tell our own stories these days.

NEW! After the initial introduction of intimacy coordinators to film & TV productions following #MeToo, the industry seems to have soured on the position. Do intimacy coordinators stifle creativity? Do they keep actors safe? Erica W Smith investigates:

Every single piece of research demonstrates that this is dangerously medically wrong. We’ve never had any reason to believe otherwise, medicine has always known this. In terms even the NHS can understand: people at highest risk of breast cancer all have one thing in common and it isn’t a uterus.

hey friends — if you haven't seen, The Verge is running a series on the future of being trans on the internet. it's got a bunch of very cool stories from talented writers! you should check it out www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Remember COINTELPRO? Or the FBI infiltration of AIM? The ex-director of Richard Nixon's presidential library says that Trump's vows to investigate leftist organizations + a Republican-controlled Congress + a cabinet of loyalists make Trump more dangerous than Nixon www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024. Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

Their reckless disregard for scientific expertise on topics like COVID 19's origins and trans healthcare was a key enabler that allowed this moment to happen.

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

100% The way this story was reported was... irresponsible and reprehensible.

There's plenty of complexity to the story of Ian Roberts, the Black Iowa superintendent arrested by ICE. But the way the @nytimes.com chose to frame this article is racist and shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children. That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The two most cynical people I've ever known are both in the news today. One of them, you've no doubt heard, is taking over CBS News. The other is this guy:

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF. Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says: "Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

From the people who brought you a fake case in 303 Creative and still got the justices to bulldoze protections for queer people………

If you have a trans kid, as a parent the one thing you want more than anything else in the world is to ease their pain. I was glad when my son transitioned because he became a much happier person. Any parent who tries to inflict pain on their child must be stopped. It’s that simple.

The only thing you really need to remember about Chiles v. Salazar is that ADF couldn't find any children harmed by not being able to find counselors who will practice conversion therapy— so they rely on anonymous complaints on Reddit. It's a fucking joke.

I've been writing about the war on drugs for more than 20 years. There are some cases that have stuck with me -- names that have never left my head. For the last couple years, I've been working with The Intercept on a podcast to tell their stories. It launches in a week.

The ADL thought it could fall in line with Musk and it would stop his attacks on them. Instead, it just made them complicit, legitimized Musk, and ultimately didn’t actually change him at all. This is how fascists work. Greenblatt tried being transactional: for fascists, it only goes one way.

if there’s one thing that’s good for morale it’s summoning your workforce from around the globe to call them fat in person

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If you're a student at Angelo State University (or know one!!) with thoughts on the school's new policy barring discussions of transgender identity in classrooms, I'd love to talk to you for a story I'm working on. DM me on here, or find me on Signal at kissphoria.57

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns. It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets. Via @heatmap.news

Totally outrageous, but/and thanks Ramsey Khalifeh for this reporting. gothamist.com/news/cruisin...

The most extreme example I've come up with is in #WESTVIRGINIA, where a 64-yr old couple earning $84,601/yr would go from paying $599/mo to $4,898/mo. That's over EIGHT TIMES as much as they're paying today. (The example here is based on them earning $90K): acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...

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Republicans don't want debate or compromise, they want trans people eradicated. That's the simple truth, they've openly stated that is their intent. Stop acting like this is a debate about tax policy.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

“We are indeed going to have to live with each other, barring apocalyptic violence—but we already have been for quite some time, and doing so has not required revisionist history of the sort we are now witnessing about one Charles James Kirk in particular.”

think of the cathartic joy we could experience if we could look each other in the eyes and know that we were all doing what we could to stop genocide and oppression from continuing, in our own individual, little - and collective, massive - ways.

Make sure you contact your senators here - Democrats control whether or not a budget with anti-trans provisions passes. There are many that would devastate the trans community. www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

And here's @theresagaff.bsky.social interviewing Gordon Guyatt (profiled in @motherjones.com story) - so critical to give context to what 'low certainty' or 'quality' evidence actually means and how commonplace it is in medicine www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/e...

the state of texas pulled a 13-year-old trans boy out of class and subjected him to the same questioning that kids get when they're molested because his parents accepted him. it's what's happening, and it shouldn't be considered activism to say it. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/...

This is such an important read from @davidkurtz.bsky.social Trump’s Retribution Requires a New Way of Covering Bogus Criminal Cases talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

critical reporting from @hencarnell.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Research conducted by @transjournalists.org “identified 43 outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast running with the disproven stories of a ‘trans shooter’ and ‘trans bullets.’”