John Waters likes to complain that today’s activists don’t have a fashion of their own. Transit Riders Union (@seattletru.bsky.social) and supporters of Katie Wilson’s campaign for Seattle mayor (@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social) are challenging that.

Some photos from the election night watch party when progressive candidate Katie Wilson (@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social) surpassed moderate incumbent Bruce Harrell in the top-two primary for Seattle mayor.

“The body positivity movement… got co-opted by the wellness movement, and so people stopped using language like, ‘Oh, I’m doing this to be thin.’ And instead changed their language to: ‘I’m doing this to be healthy.’ But healthy was always synonymous with thinness…” — Jessica Grose via @nytimes.com

No shade on this episode, but: Nobody should accuse this Supreme Court—and especially its conservative majority!—as consisting of “Radical Feminists”, independent of how “Trans Exclusionary” they may be. We too often use the term “TERF” when “transphobic” or just simply “bigot” are more appropriate.

Was inspired to do my first political cartoon today, based on a NY Times photo I saw yesterday.

We won’t be surprised by this week’s news, as it was a top campaign promise.It’s nevertheless dispiriting. What I responded to eight years ago pales next to what we’re seeing today—what I ever even imagined!—though it’s the culmination of increasingly protectionist rhetoric over the last decades.