Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me. Here's the speech I delivered last night: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

"Dominiert werden die Aufmärsche nach wie vor von gewaltbereiten sehr jungen rechtsextremen Teilnehmenden, die sich in volatilen digitalen Gruppenstrukturen miteinander vernetzen und radikalisieren."

Giving Jane the final word here. She got it!

Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈 ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals. The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do. #SpaceForAll

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

From last year, but evergreen, our package of essays from prominent trans people on why they're not giving up. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

In China hat man erkannt / anerkannt / beschlossen, dass Klimaschutz einen positiven Business Case hat. Also wird's gemacht ...

Now, give the man his mouth harp back. (Wonder about "The Band".) Anyway - Like.

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

In der kommenden Woche treffen sich in Berlin die Regierungschefs von Deutschland & Frankreich mit der EU-Kommission zu einem Souveränitätsgipfel. Ein zivilgesellschaftliches Bündnis stellt 4 Forderungen auf, um mit offenen sozialen Netzwerken unabhängiger zu werden. netzpolitik.org/2025/digital...

Nun, auch wenn es in Deutschland einige dieser Rechte gibt, so wird doch gerne dran geknabbert. (Siehe kürzlich die Schaffung von neuen "Listen", die erst via Bundesrat gekippt wurde.) Die DIskussion und Sichtbarkeit in der Diskussion ist auch bei uns wichtig. Blick in die Schweiz: Cool!

Critical thinking skills are essential for resisting harmful disinformation and countering hate and bias. #RefuseHate It's on us all to introduce media literacy concepts to children and young people. Revisit #LearningForJustice's resource to learn how you can help 🔗: https://bit.ly/3SmUzfg

Friend and colleague Ryan McGrady has an excellent piece in Tech Policy Press on Grokipedia. Rather than excoriating the new project for Elon worship (true, but hardly interesting), he looks into how Grokipedia redefines sources for encyclopedic knowledge: www.techpolicy.press/with-grokipe...

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Finally, some politicians dare to punch through the mist and lay out real world consequences beyond harming trans people. It's becoming recognised as a money issue -domestically and in international competition - and as an issue of intra-company peace (i.e. danger to productivity) Listen, anybody?

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election? Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official. Be warned.

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

7/ 🔗 Read the full UN experts’ statement on ‘Reaffirming the Centrality of Gender as a Tool for Advancing Equality and All Human Rights’: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

🧵 🌍❗ #Humanrights beyond binaries 📝 In a #jointstatement, 47 United Nations Special Procedures mandate holders reaffirm the universality of human rights by reminding us that gender equality measures must include the experiences of #trans and gender diverse people.

Very well put. Worth a share or two. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MclD...

New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING. It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment. It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

This is a really good article. It’s long, but brilliantly encapsulates what’s happening in the UK in removing trans rights. It clearly points out the massive legal overreach & how anti-trans lobbying is designed to elicit ‘disgust’ to drive centrists towards the authoritarian right. Share widely!

Please do check out my full story here, full of sweet & chilling details of trans life in 2025: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... And if you appreciate my reporting, subscribe to my newsletter! You'll get regular links to my work, plus cut content, personal essays, & more iosphere.beehiiv.com

According to an internal memo obtained by the Canadian Press, Alberta officials are being directed by Smith’s office to secretly assemble background information and legal implications related to invoking the clause.

Recommended to view: Nobel Peace Prize Winner (2021) Maria Ressa and Jon Stewart. "It feels like Americans are deer in headlights. But if you don't move and protect the rights you have, you lose them." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsb1...

Ich hoffe sehr, dass sich das ZDF robust hinter Theveßen stellt und nicht der massiven Schmutz- und Desinformationskampagne nachgibt, die gerade gegen ihn und jeden gefahren wird, der nur Kirks eigene Worte wiederholt. Meinungsfreiheit gilt bei MAGA nur für die eigenen Leute- nicht für den Rest.

"what you are teaching is illegal according to OUR PRESIDENT and the LAWS HE declared and against MY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS". said the student in class. the professor is now under investigation, the dean has been removed. this is GLEICHSCHALTUNG www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

This is terrifying. It's impossible to overstate what an immense threat to our human rights this Labour government poses.

A valuable piece by Joanne Lockwood on the current threats to trans people in the UK, referencing the TransActual report of experiences following the UKSC ruling in real life. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u... The Cost of Compliance: When Policy Becomes Violence open.substack.com/pub/joannelo...

The DSA doesn’t “censor Americans”. The people who’ve been pushing this BS the longest have been Michael Shellenberger, CBR Chair of Censorship Hoaxes at UATX, and Mike Benz aka Frame Game, who thought Hitler had some good points & wants to help his far right friends www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Well, it's not the law. It is an intentional decision where they can go one way or another. Question: Why? Did they feel forced? Did they feel threatened, e.g. by lawsuits or assaults in the press / social meedia? Were they pushed by their customer base? Or is that their deeply felt conviction?

Es lohnt sich sehr, diesen Text zu lesen und sich für die Union in Grund und Boden zu schämen, weil sie es selbst ja nicht macht: www.lto.de/recht/nachri...

“This incident is a case study in how transphobic ideology launders itself into public discourse under the guise of safety and dignity” - @joannelockwood.bsky.social Here’s what the headline should’ve read: M&S employee offers customer service. Customer projects bias. Media fuels anti-trans panic!

It's likely that M&S inboxes will be flooded by angry GCs in the next few days. The smartest thing we can do is send some emails of our own and make it clear to M&S that screwing us over isn't cost free. You can contact M&S on [email protected] Example template email:

If only someone had warned us about exactly this.

2/ 💼📈 We ask business leaders not to forego the European values of diversity and inclusion. Not just because it’s the moral thing to do, but because it makes good business sense. In fact, advancing practices of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility will open new markets.

The EU Commission has reversed its plan to drop the Equal Treatment Directive, just days after a petition signed by 33,000+ people was delivered to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu. A big win for equality, but the journey is not over. Now the Council of Europe must act www.ilga-europe.org/news/eu-comm...

Erster Schritt der BlackRot Evaluation des Selbstbestimmungsgesetz? Alle trans Personen dauerhaft bei anderen Behörden outen, denn Privatsphäre gibt es für Marginalisierte nicht. Der Entwurf muss abgeschmettert werden. Schreibt euren Abgeordneten! www.lsvd.de/de/ct/14811-...

Hours after Starmer issued instructions to public bodies to ban trans people from 'single sex space', the Lemkin Institute issued a "Red Flag Alert on Anti-trans and intersex Rights in the UK" This has serious implications for him and his government! www.lemkininstitute.com/_files/ugd/b...

hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵

The truth is bad enough folks! Let's not play the same games climate deniers were playing a decade ago with cherry-picked time periods and misleading trend lines www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

OK, I had a chance to do a read-through, write-through of my Law Dork report on today’s SCOTUS ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti, so this has now been expanded a bit. www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s...