It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

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...

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

We warned y’all. Now, here we are.

Anti-racism isn't a luxury. Dismantling white supremacy is both a moral imperative and structurally required for the survival of the Republic. Transgender human beings are not disposable. Human rights are universal or they are not human rights.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd and yet Fox News is just going to let this guy stay.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

One can be crystal clear that political violence is utterly out of bounds, mourn a human being's death, mourn his children's loss of their father, condemn his murder, without actively sanitising the far right at a time when the far right itself poses a severe, violent threat to people everywhere.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.

Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say edition.cnn.com/2025... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Justice Department Considers Banning Transgender Americans from Owning Guns

Regular reminder that "pro-natalism" is a post-hoc rationalization for programs intended to force women and LGBTQ people out of public life, to retrench gender and racial hierarchies, and to promote eugenics.

Three active-duty Marines who were part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were retained. But the Air Force will not allow transgender servicemembers to have hearings before it discharges them. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

The Air Force is rescinding early retirement for long-serving, dedicated trans service members, opting to force them out with no retirement benefits. As if kicking them out was not enough, the Trump admin is denying these loyal service members the secure retirement they are entitled to.

Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

We do not go quietly. I'm so proud of the service members who continue to speak up about the indignities they are living through. www.military.com/daily-news/i...

to all of you in the comments bringing up 1930s Germany, look first to American history. At the Ugly Laws, for instance, which allowed the state to criminalize unhoused people. Look at the histories of forcible incarceration in insane asylums, workhouses, epileptic colonies and more across the US

BREAKING: JOINT STATEMENT FROM REUTERS, BBC NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS & AFP. Warning that their staff face death by starvation in Gaza. Horrifying and unprecedented.

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.

drop your pet pics 👇

Did that dork Elon let AI name his party?

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued a Red Flag Alert on Anti-trans and intersex Rights in the UK. “We see evidence of genocidal intent and actions targeting these communities.” www.lemkininstitute.com/_files/ugd/b...

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

This framing exists because the decision is instantly obvious as one of the legal atrocities of US history, like Dred Scot, the 1870s Civil Rights Cases, Korematsu. The Times doesn’t want to say “The Supreme Court stripped rights out of law” so instead it says “Here’s why they did it to themselves”

The NYT's anti-trans fear mongering was cited in a Supreme Court briefing that stripped away the rights of trans kids. They need to be fully blacklisted by queer people and their allies. Don't work for them. Don't use them for book press. Don't speak with them for stories. They made their bed.

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I need y'all to understand what the NYT, Dem donors, and centrists are doing here. They're pushing the narrative that trans people went too far and we deserve what is happening to us. It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.

Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

This is insane

An MSNBC anchor just definitively claimed Padilla didn't identify himself when video clearly shows he did. So fucking irresponsible. This is how lies spread.

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

Somehow the "We need to support policies that are popular" crowd never land on the very popular polices like "taxing big corporation more," "making health care more affordable," or "paying teachers more." It's always just "be 10% more racist."

If you are trans and a vet and want to march with me on D-Day to tell Trump to go fuck himself it would make this old-yet-shockingly good-looking Army Sergeant's day. I'm not ok today either, but we'll be there for each other and so we're going to be ok.

“No matter what you have done before,” Professor William McBride wrote to Annapolis’s Superintendent Adm. Yvette Davids, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

This feels like bounty hunting.

One of the reasons we have a United States in the first place is King George III was arresting people in the 13 Colonies, shipping them abroad without a right to see a judge, and then imprisoning them after sham trials in England. The men in CECOT didn’t even get sham trials!