Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad. It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context

Dumb as a fucking rock

Sucks for all those other daughters but I'm built different.

Lots of people online celebrating National Daughters Day by saying their daughter is the best in the world. That can’t be true, mathematically.

Impeachable offense

My most pragmatic parenting advice around all of these issues is to enroll boys in co-ed activities. If I’m being honest, I would recommend doing that exclusively. Gender segregation is the root of so many of these violent ideologies.

65,000 Palestinian people are dead, but sure, go off.

We still have Fat Bear Week, the only large-scale democratic institution left we can trust. share.google/VrBLYEG1pjni...

Why does “screed” need to have a negative connotation? Couldn’t I write a well-reasoned screed? A measured, respectful screed?

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Orna what the hell

We just won our lawsuit against the DHS after a judge ruled the department can't hold life-saving disaster relief funds hostage to advance its anti-immigration efforts. The federal government cannot prioritize its cruel immigration agenda over Americans' safety.

Monday’s press conference with President Trump, RFK, and other members of HHS leadership contained false and harmful information about autism, acetaminophen, and vaccines. Read our full statement in formal language and plain language here: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/09/asan...

It’s good Kimmel is back on the air. Patriarchy still runs Hollywood. @blaireerskine.bsky.social is the best and you should read this.

This. I'm seeing a lot of media coverage of this along the lines of "Trump and Kennedy are driving disinformation/are just ignorant" but its more; they are driven by a deep, obvious and abiding ableism--their contempt and dislike for disabled people are very clear and have been for years.

calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

Writing about this right now. We've had five-plus years of educators being ousted by MAGA. Can we go back and restore those folks' careers, safety, and peace of mind?

He was so excited - congratulating him, asking him how he was feeling, if he had any questions. He sat down with the guy & talked fatherhood for a good while - til we had to break it up for rehearsal. He just seemed way more interested in being a person than being a star. I hope he gets well soon.

Years ago, James Van Der Beek was a guest on a show I was working on. He was lovely, collaborative, & kind to everyone. At one point in the day he overheard a crew member mention that he just found out his wife was going to have a baby. Van Der Beek stopped in his tracks & beelined to the guy(cont.)

I still love you, Lynx

Chotiner: You've written a lot about the band Weezer over the years. Me: That's right. Chotiner: And The Blue Album is their best work as you've said. Me: 100%. Always has been. Chotiner: In 1996 in a letter to your high school girlfriend you wrote... Me: Can we go off the record real quick?

They need to stop putting games I want to watch on cable, because I do not have that.

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

"well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides" is the most gasp-inducingly ruthless thing I've ever seen in Interviewer Boldface, and I can't believe this guy just went "yeah lol"

Having spent a lot of time around old money types, it’s always been notable to me that the extent of their “social liberalism” is rooted in the fact that their children could always potentially be gay, but would never be black.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Tylenol moms are the new refrigerator moms. It’s misogyny and ableism all the way down.

if a conservative country like Kenya can understand that trans people deserve basic rights and protections, other countries REALLY have no excuse.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

This is not consistent with legal advice I have given.

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

It’s today! youtu.be/_hpU6UEq8hA?...

A’ja deserves MVP. Phee would have too. She’ll get at least one down the road.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

From the party that brought you "Doing nothing to codify reproductive rights for women for 45 years", comes Broken Record This greatest hits album includes the brand-new singles "Democrats Should Welcome Anti-Choicers" and "Your Transphobic Concerns are Valid"

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

There’s not a huge backlog of American doctors who want to work in North Dakota.

The 14 former N.C. State male athletes who filed a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by the Wolfpack's former director of sports medicine under the guise of treatment are also suing the school for negligence.

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

Men normalized and encouraged corset culture because they KNEW it was disabling women. The was the whole point of it. The point was to normalize societal abuse and subjugation of women and girls on a massive scale.

You mean to tell me that dozens of pages whining about how people are unfair to you isn’t quite a lawsuit?

Yes, one of the best pitchers of this generation, and a first-ballot hall of famer. But I'll remember Clayton Kershaw first and foremost as the dude whose response to Pride Night was to demand the team have a Christian night and to write homophobic Bible verse cites on his hat.

Men would rather punish a former host of The Man Show than get therapy smdh

The thing about accelerating authoritarianism is that it is deadly serious and also just increasingly absurd All of this, and more, because of that guy?

can’t wait to see what those crazy kids at snl cook up this week!!!!