I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

That is just plainly not true. Your budget slashed help for people who buy Affordable Care Act plans. That's 22 million Americans whose premiums are going up - RIGHT NOW - by double digits directly because of a policy you passed.

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

Come on guys we have a chance to flip a seat in Congress. WHERE IS EVERYONE

Please call your reps. When you deny trans people human rights, you deny them personhood. If Dems cave on this, they’ll be telling the administration that they’re willing to negotiate on who in this country qualifies as a human being and who does not. Dems *have* to hold the line.

1. There's a lot of confusion about this out there. Let me make it easier: There are two ways to keep the government open: The full FY26 appropriations bill for the entire year, and a continuing resolution to keep it open for a few months at current levels. Both are part of negotiations right now.

ATTENTION!!!! Several members from the Dems women’s caucus will be holding a live AMA tonight at 7:30 PM ET !!!! So if you have questions about the shutdown, this is where you wanna be ! www.youtube.com/live/-L7KbzQ...

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.

Massachusetts trans people. There's a clinic in western mass that does not take any government funds at all.

A couple folks have called today and said they got through to people, which means we are not crashing the lines nearly enough. Call, y'all. Even if you're never called before. Especially if you have a democratic senator who you don't trust to hold the line.

hi, cis folks! that thing we kept warning about? it’s happening. and a lot of democrats won’t fight unless they’re afraid it will destroy them politically. US senators need to hear your voices. our healthcare isn’t a bargaining chip. contact info: reps.fyi tap in the thread for scripts & info.

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

I ALSO GOT THROUGH TO A HUMAN AT SCHUMER'S 202 NUMBER - 202-224-6542 Make those calls, friends! Tell them to vote NO on any bill that cuts trans health care - tell them that trans healthcare saves lives and defending this is worth a shutdown.

The person who answered the phone Schumer's office was legit great. They sounded sympathetic and said other people were calling and "you are not alone" and said these calls really do matter and the senator sees the reports about them every day. Call your senators and reps, y'all. reps.fyi

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

Five-alarm fire for transgender people. Call your representatives and senators. Cisgender allies, we need you badly. Here's my the call script I used with my Democratic Senator, if anybody wants a template to start from.

Call your reps and tell them no

oh look, it’s literally the thing i wrote about for @rollingstone.com happening in real time. as we speak. like exactly what i reported, like a carbon copy. as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time Klein: "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic." They lynched a kid last week.

Says CSIS, "the sudden decline in right-wing terrorism is both more striking and harder to explain" but actually it's not; right-wing kidnappings and attacks on civilian transports have increased dramatically but aren't categorized as "terrorism" because they now occur under the aegis of the state.

Fortune writes an entire story about Sinclair's effort to ban Kimmel "to protect communities" without making a SINGLE reference to Sinclair's long history of airing election fraud conspiracy theories and medical disinformation

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights! Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede... #TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

also TNC pushes him on the "let's abandon abortion rights" thing and says, abortion rights are popular in red states, and Klein's response is, "well it was just an example I hadn't really thought about it." and TNC says, maybe you owe vulnerable people better than that.

Stop for a second to notice that we have now crossed the "government agents breaking into homes without a warrant" line. We aren't *approaching* fascism; we are experiencing fascism. Resist ICE Abolish ICE Prosecute ICE

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Klein still seemingly cannot conceive of a world in which we do not pretend that right wing bigotry deserves respect and coddling.

What Klein seems incapable of comprehending is that fighting for ALL of our rights could actually be very POPULAR. The attack on trans rights "works" in part because a bunch of centrists like Klein have refused to wholeheartedly fight it and frame anti-trans busybodies as INCREDIBLY CREEPY.

He also remains weak on facts. When called on the fact that red states voted FOR abortion rights so his call for running pro-life Ds seems misguided at best, he handwaves it as if that specific call isn't the point. But it is! All of these specific calls to sacrifice others' rights are the point!

Making a pact with myself to acquire bigger boobs if I make it through the Dark Times.

A useful introduction to NSPM-7, focused on the threats to non-profits. But it's worth noting that the threat extends beyond them to many other organizations, and to citizens acting together or individually, in ways of which the Trump administration disapproves. www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspecti...

NEW: Some thoughts from inside a few federal agencies as the shutdown approaches. Fed employees don't know much about what's going on and want the fight that Dem leadership generally has not shown.

Display of the Constitution at National Archives extended due to public interest

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

This is a the next step in Trump's authoritarian playbook. It has nothing to do with cracking down on political violence & everything to do with Trump using the power of govt to lock up his critics. Our country is facing a lawless president & patriots must stand united against it.

Portland: Also "Real America" and people with a national platform should say this, just like they should say it for whatever city this administration targets next week

So I think moving to Seattle is off the table, so now the question becomes Maryland or New York. Connecticut as wildcard option.

Genspect has released a statement saying they are going to push for the Re-Psychopathologization of Gender Incongruence. This will happen to whole LGBTQIA+ community if we don’t fight. ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Feminists should probably be more willing to adjudicate who is a feminist and who is not. For instance, I think that those who are opposed to a political movement of women to end the oppression that they face because they are women are not feminists.

this is really, really bad btw. please send to your UCLA friends.

For @truthout.org yesterday I wrote about how the government's lies about tylenol and autism reminds me a lot of the government's lies about trans people. truthout.org/articles/ant...

Reading Klein's recent interview with Coates, I am left with the impression that Klein is mostly just stringing words together to get through to the end of the session.

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting The names of the dead and wounded Jose Andres Bordones-Molina Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

I’m out, I'm sore. I'll have more later, but right now I have to say a couple of things. First, walking out of there to learn about the kindness, support, and quick action from so many of you all has meant the world to me, my wife, and co-founder, Raven. Thank you.

Klein is also obsessed with solving Democrats’ “condescension problem” but it’s not condescending to talk about how your political opponents are wrong! That’s kind of how it works.

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

Good time to refresh this read from 2020. "DHS analysts recounted orders to generate evidence [that] would have served to legitimize President Trump’s false claims about “Antifa" [which] even his most loyal intelligence officers failed to drum up proof ever existed." gizmodo.com/donald-trump...

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1