We need more people if you are in NYC!

Hi! We are fighting this tooth and nail and have been for years even though we lost a major foundation funder because of our vocal and effective opposition to KOSA. Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/

There are 9 specialist autism-focused health and education centres in Cuba 🙄

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

“I felt powerless”: In Kenya’s newsrooms, young women face sexual harassment – and perpetrators often go unpunished. 42% of women surveyed said they were first harassed during their time as interns.

Your regular reminder that there's a profession where the employees are so violent, so untrustworthy, that they are required by law to have personal video supervision every time they interact with the general public, just so there is any sort of factual record of what occurs.

VT just closed its religious studies department.

The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education is outraged by UC-Berkeley admin's decision to simply turn over its constituents' personal data to the Trump Department of Ed. We support our Berkeley colleagues and call on CUNY not to repeat this mistake Add your voice here: forms.gle/Kd2PGNagHoLM...

La fascination de la droite française pour Charlie Kirk nous renseigne utilement sur ses projets.

"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

Doesn’t seem good this Democrat feels professionally secure in calling for more racism.

More good news I missed: the two Metro bus drivers who’d been fired for speculating about how they’d resist ICE have been *reinstated* after public outcry.

In Nicaragua, longtime regime loyalists have been purged, shoring up Rosario Murillo’s power, likely to help her fully take over if her husband, longtime President Daniel Ortega, resigns or dies. I spoke with Frances Robles from the @nytimes.com about the crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...

If you want to influence actual normal people you need to make very normie plain speak policy explainers for Instagram. Period! No normal human knows who Chaya Raichik is!

DC could not be lovelier. Well … except for getting the National Guard out of here and abolishing ICE.

They are TERRIFIED and flailing around in their gated communities. Meanwhile the people MOST AT RISK are once again taking the biggest risks.

Been a rough week for Good Ole DC with lots of unnecessary, unwanted, and undemocratic congressional meddling. Ending the week with good news as Reps. Vasquez (NM), Pou (NJ), and Riley (NY) have added their names as cosponsors to the #DCStatehood bill. That's now 203 cosponsors! Keep calling!

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just finished The Loves of My Life by the late Edmund White. horny and honest and if it wasn't honest you can't ask him anymore so who cares. recommended

70+ worshippers at the Al-Safiya Mosque in El Fasher were killed in an RSF drone strike today, Friday, when Jumah services means mosques are full. The UAE, which backs the RSF despite it being accused of genocide, continues to face no scrutiny from its western security partners, including the US.

I can’t make it, please go and raise hell for me

It’s not for me to say what DGA should do but just as a matter of power analysis I think Dell and Boots are right on this.

I'm from MO, I spend a lot of time in STL with family, and I dread the possibility of this amendment becoming enacted. Successful ballot initiatives in MO in recent years have protected abortion access, reaffirmed the agency shop for unions, expanded Medicaid, mandated paid sick days & c.

“We’re gonna keep showing up till they stop abducting our neighbors” - @bradlander.bsky.social echoing his words @jfrejnyc.bsky.social gala once more after his arrest today. Great clip

I’ve been reporting on influencers for more than seven years now and today I had an academic decline to do an interview about them for the first time out of fear of government retaliation.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

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they’re companies so if the only financial pressure they face is to be complicit in shredding rights, that’s what they’ll do. suggesting they should "stand up" is counterproductive. there is no moral realization coming. this just dissuades people from learning to leverage their own economic power.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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by karl rove am i being pranked here

NEWS: The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill allowing anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription, which have been requested recently due to changes in federal vaccine recommendations. (And some D.C. residents have had to go to Maryland or Virginia.)

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

NIH’s RECOVER study found vaccines reduce risk of kids getting a chronic illness from Covid by 61%, but only for the first six months—by 18 months protection was down to 11% “so getting the vaccine every year is important to prevent Long COVID.” recovercovid.org/publications...

Just a reminder that I'm a good writer and editor who hits deadlines, if you have any freelance or part-time work you wanna throw at me.

In case you wondering, we continue to not use ChatGPT at WIRED to write our story drafts.

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The kind of thing you’d expect the “birth rate crisis” people to be trying to implement universally, if their concerns were sincere and not barely-veiled eugenics.

Inside Beirut’s Fight To Save Its Reading Culture longreads.com/2025/09/16/b... (from @newlinesmag)

Does Succession get better in later seasons?

idk i guess if so many pundits think they and charlie kirk were doing the same job, we should believe them

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

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The hospital refusing to isolate me during recovery after surgery is how I got COVID. And Long COVID brain damage.

I dunno it just feels like important information that this person eventually wrote The Argonauts! Anything can happen!

You shouldn’t have to worry you’ll get Covid from seeking medical care. It’s absurd tbh.

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