Oh, thank the goddess. 2025 is awful enough. Wishing her the very best I can with her treatments.

Her trial can’t come soon enough.

A work update... and a start to my weekly Substack posting.

In what has been another poor showing from #DCU today in their final home match, the biggest positive has been a #FreeDC chant that emerged from the corner by where many of the Charlotte supporters are sitting. It didn't spread far, but the sentiment remains important.

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news *The corporate owner took down the story and edited it *The journalists resigned This feels like more and more of our media now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

I would genuinely like to know if it is possible to be less self-aware

Defunct, useless organization jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact." New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

Cheeto Mussolini’s speech is the definition of un-American.

War-ravaged Portland, 5 minutes ago

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

The American Gestapo in action.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Hulu/Disney+/ESPN+ package, adios. I don’t need to pay corporate quislings so I can watch The Handmaid’s Tale when I can watch it for free on the streets of DC.

It’s amazing how, in the 4 years since I first drew this, it went from stupidly obvious satire to totally normal talking points.

Introducing the new state sanctioned late night show host, Ri Chun Hi. You will laugh directly into the mounted laugh measurer at the right moments. If your laughter is not appropriate or the right loudness, you will be sent to a state reeducation joke camp led by Rob Schneider.

I'm hoping the fact that I can't login right now is the result of so many cancellations tonight crashing their site.

this is the goal. the kids and disabled people they're going to kill are as much a happy accident for them as anything else; the goal is government capture and really nothing deeper or more ideological

It hasn’t been said publicly but all the DCU SGs have agreed on no more drums, banners and flags (besides Pride tonight) for the rest of the season. They’re done. Jason Levien has also been made aware and was told this at the STM Q&A on Thursday night

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

This is so, so good.

Jordy is very excited by tomorrow's publication of The Nursing Clio: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice (by Rutgers Univ. Press.), in which my essay, "PrEP, The Pill, and the Fear of Promiscuity" appears, alongside plenty of other terrific essays.

Tapping the sign

Spoiler: He doesn't have that power.

"Every one of these people is taking with them skills and knowledge that will be difficult to replace. But there may be no single individual whose departure better captures what is being lost and destroyed than Demetre Daskalakis."

Bullies bully. It’s what they do. Leaders lead. It’s what they do. You tell me who is the leader and who is the bully. Don’t let anything distract from the fact that what is at risk is health not the fragile egos of men. Fight for health not for clout.

A great step, & it certainly seems like it's time for a states-rights movement for public health, inclusion & equity, climate change mediation, basic human rights & economic security, and all sorts of other good things.

Nice @citizencohn.bsky.social piece on DeSantis' efforts to erase "woke" street markings and the human impact that's having. "The safety defense would be a lot more believable if there were evidence that painted crosswalks were endangering drivers or pedestrians" www.thebulwark.com/p/desantis-d...

This. McGovern has it right. What’s the point of being in Congress at all?

CGE joins @humanrightsfirst.org in condemning the US’s move not to participate in its own Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council this year. This damages the US’s credibility on human rights and accountability. humanrightsfirst.org/library/huma...

Burkina Faso has passed a law banning homosexual acts. Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, the leader of the country’s transitional military government, should reject the law and ensure the rights to dignity, freedom, and equality are protected for all.

With the Trabi breaking through the Berlin Wall.

Says the guy whose family never told him the truth, who never learned anything, and now acts like a toddler. Ignoring reality never ends well.

Greetings from Berlin. And from Peak Ian.

Last night’s take-out ramen is now retroactively part of the global solidarity movement with Anti-Fascist Pasta Day.

Let's be clear. Today's Hse Judiciary Cmte hearing was a clear attack on vulnerable communities+the orgs that serve them. These programs have a proven track record of implementing restorative+lifesaving measures. Thanks @raskin.house.gov and @repjasmine.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/live/Ietm12B...

Again, the reason people feel the Dems are not coalescing around Mamdani is because the Dem Senate Minority Leader from NY, the other Dem NY senator, the Dem NY governor, and the Dem House Minority leader from NY have not coalesced around him, while in some cases saying he's an antisemite terrorist.

Boosting this urgent piece from my colleagues @juliedorfcge.bsky.social & Jessica Stern on the lessons we can take from Budapest Pride.

Friday's rally was wonderful -- and a particularly wonderful prelude to the hundreds of thousands of people who came out on Saturday to support Budapest Pride, Hungary's LGBTQI+ community, and democracy & civil society in the country 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Very glad the @nyamnews.bsky.social has published such a prominent profile of my colleague, @bishoptolton.bsky.social!

What to do when a majority of Supreme Court justices don't believe in the Constitution?

An evergreen classic from The Onion.

This is some genuinely impressive being-anti-Semitic-AND-Islamophobic-in-one-fell-swoop crap.

The real winner of the NBA Finals? Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

If you photograph people in toilets, you’re a walking red flag and the police should be coming to your door.