This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

I will *immediately* block you, my bros. Zero problem.

I do notice the reply guy energy gets especially bad if one seems to criticize the broader Pod Save universe ...

Just wanna share, in case it's of help to anyone ... here's an older post of mine with advice about like, finding mental health support that suits you ... and yeah, this country doesn't make it easy, esp financially, accessing such (is the shit truth). whatshelpingtoday.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

agreed

I did LOL

I'll just leave this here.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Braids are a great way to keep your hair out of your face, especially when ICE teargasses you. Also they don’t get caught in a respirator. 10/10 would recommend.

Half of Americans oppose lawmakers banning or restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth, our new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll finds. People don't like politicians targeting this health care, although only 37% support trans minors ability to access the care.

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Yeah I appreciate it. Just sucks that if one is trans (and writes or speaks or posts on here or whatever; I unfortunately do all the above), some strangers will just take time out of their days to say rude shit directly at you ...

"Elon Musk to Island"

Felt like there's way more transphobic trolls and bots on this website lately. Bums me out. @safety.bsky.app

this is fucking epic, and i do not use that word lightly. holy shit. @sadqueer4life.bsky.social

I keep as my pinned post the viral 'cis allyship' thread that's discussed on the episode of @yoweishaw.bsky.social 's podcast ... and her own answer ... To this day, the most common response remains, as here: friends! (At least so it's seemed, from my vantage.) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

Sex Change & The City was made as a sort of defiant response to living in hell world and it's an honor to be in Hell World about it!!!!!!!! thank u luke!!!

the DV survivor in me wonders like, how that gets categorized as well, that violence, those deaths ... according to such sometime attempts to classify

great thread

11/n As a psychologist who studies terrorism, that last point is a bigger one for me. It suggests a rather simplistic view of people who engage in terrorism. They're not automatons that either fall into "ideologically motivated" vs. "personally motivated." It's always a mix. But I digress...

6/n The central contention, that “2025 marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber those from the far right” only holds true within a VERY narrow conditions, especially in terms of how violence from the far-right is considered, coded, and counted.

7/n One serious error in the data, in my view, undermines their central claim. The authors have chosen to exclude contemporary school shootings, many of which now clearly include elements of right-wing sentiment and ideological influence. Messy? Yes. Complicated? You bet. But present? Absolutely.

Definitely definitely definitely yes.

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

I just always can't help but notice which deaths are acceptable to this polite/liberal public and punditry ... and which aren't. As someone who studies "schizophrenia", I'm someone who's aware of our society's choice to fail everybody who needs actual mental health care for example ...

Yeah it's not a 'sane world' ... i dunno what other liberal delusions you've bought into ... but that's certainly one.

Real good newsletter by @lyz.bsky.social whose newsletter is often good but this one especially so open.substack.com/pub/lyz/p/an...

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Mitch McConnell, a despicable person for unrelated reasons, still suffers from the effects of childhood polio.

They nonetheless gave me the second place awards, as I like to recall into the void sometimes. Kevin Roose, my classmate, same year, same major — who already had done a semester at Liberty University and was well on his way to book one — got the first place usually.

One of my mentors (in college, the phenomenal critic Richard Eder) had had polio as a kid and was like, disabled for the rest of his life as a result.

Dems abandoning trans folks has now allowed for a million dollar ad buy for this disgusting ad by American Principles Project in NJ and VA casting trans people as school shooters and violent threats to children. It was never about fucking sports.

and/or too scary. again. they fear like, actual discussion of reality might mean their own (or their loved one's etc) meds are gonna be threatened, because that's what the eugenicists have trained them to think ...

many editors at magazines consider discussion of actual psychiatric harms like ... too niche, seemingly. which i dunno, sure puzzles me (and also doesn't at all).

I started reporting my magnum opus on ECT/electroshock in 2017, properly, and the idea was rejected by, like, everrrrrrry major publication ... for years until it finally found a wonderful home in The Believer ... so! all to say, I don't give up. my strongest pitches at least, i can never give up.

If you're an editor who wants me to be bothering you with my pitches (about gender, about mental health ... about both!) please let me know and I'll happily start sending ideas ... www.sandyernestallen.com/contact

Amazing how masks aren’t an infringement on their civil rights when they do this mess.

my sense is deep down editors are like, scared or whatever, that somebody like me is saying 'your psych meds are bad!' wanna underscore: that's NOT what i'm saying, ever. that's not what anyone on this side of this discourse is saying ... we're saying: patient choice. we're saying: human rights.

only reason I'm putting "psychosis" in quotes to be clear: It's a term I'm not really using these days, personally. I prefer like "fully disassociated" and such. But it's also: Extremely what book one and also book two are about.

Oh! Speaking of ... I have my own little collection, but, what are the *worst* AI related stories you've encountered? Curious for others to share. Either worst in the journalism sense or like, scariest in the world sense ...

they wanna publish like AI IS CAUSING PSYCHOSIS ahhhhhh because that'll get clicks they don't wanna understand "psychosis"... a topic I've written one-going-on-two books about ... www.akomp.info

This is one problem for sure! That and no cis editors will buy my pitch re: transmasc loneliness ...

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters: • Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza • Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023 • 60% oppose more military aid to Israel • 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

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