On left: Barry Weiss on Monday: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera." On right: Alfonsi on Sun: "If the standard for airing a story becomes 'the government must agree to be interviewed' ... we go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state."

The recent trans rights cases--Skrmetti on health care, the shadow docket passport order, and the pending athletics cases--should be seen in this context, as vehicles for chipping away at the promise of equal protection

I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...

The House passed a bill banning gender affirming care nationwide tonight. Call your Senators.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

A former immigration judge alleged to DOJ that Trump fired her bc of her sex & national origin DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Absolutely furious that a student made a pun in their exam answer that I set up yet didn't think of. How dare they be funnier than me.

As a scholar of masculinities, next time I want to murder a man I'm describing him as a pugnacious [height under six feet]

I make a great faculty advisor.

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

May this be as successful as the D.A.R.E. program was in my day.

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

Shipwrecked and not using any communications equipment. This is a crime against humanity. Everyone involved should be prosecuted for murdering stranded civilians in cold blood. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

SCOTUS really not helping with my winter break project of "figure out how to teach constitutional law questions without saying this is all pointless it's what the six worst people in the world want the result to be"

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.

I can't think of a more racist rant from any American in public life, let alone a president. How are all of these journalists and other people just standing there, saying nothing??? And no response. No follow up??? WTAF.

When I was 17 I said to a guy I thought was cute that I think stay at home parents are great but I don't think I could myself be one. He said oh man I'd love to be a stay at home dad, I could bake pie all day. Anyway I'm in my office right now and he's with our three kids at ballet class.

Pure unadulterated white supremacy. Dirty, deadly, dead end.

You know how this became utterly predictable and inevitable? When absolutely none of the people responsible for the previous thousand family separations were punished in any way

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

Not to be immodest, but I think I would be outstanding at not coaching college football well. Probably even better at it than these guys. And yet where are my millions.

He was up posting over 150 deranged things on Truth Social last night, then started right back up again posting more at 5:48 AM this morning. bsky.app/profile/atru...

My mom made this panel of the AIDS Memorial quilt for nine of her friends who died. Kenny was my beautiful, funny friend and roommate; he died in 1990 and I still think of him so often. Silence = Death.

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

If you thought I was insufferable before, just wait till you meet "I'll just pop out to the garden for the fresh herbs did I mention I grew the green beans?" me

My very favorite Thanksgiving book. Actually it's a banger no matter what time of year.

Remember when the National Inquirer would publish Nostradamus or whoever's predictions for the future

One thing about RFKuzzi is that I feel like we all need to recognize these cloying “personal” details as signs of simpering sycophancy. When a reporter breathlessly says he was at RFK Jr’s side when he heard the Kirk news, we should think: “Oh, I get it. This reporter is a huge piece of shit.”

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Hegseth’s reference to “this nation’s Christian faith” at the end is notable. America is NOT a Christian nation, just for the record. It’s a nation in which everyone is free to worship however they want.

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

Everything from pension funds to 401ks will be wrecked by all of this popping at the same time because they got exposure to the AI industry through data center debt while the tech companies skate by unscathed when the bubble pops.

They're offloading all the debt onto special purpose vehicles (SPV) that are legally distinct entities propped up by promises from meta for decades of demand in compute. The banks take all the risk, Nvidia gets the equity and revenue, Meta gets the stock bump without the downside.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Great piece by Amanda Shanor and Serena Mayeri.

A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers. "Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns." It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...

Buddy I need clothes that let me move in case my plane crashes and I need to run for my life

I don’t know what her next act will be but please keep in mind you do not ever have to hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene

Great news.

The government, in going after Penn to "fight antisemitism," has asked for "a list of members of Jewish-related campus groups and the names of employees in the school's Jewish Studies Program." We do not believe that turning over lists of Jews is helpful to the fight against antisemitism.

They line up perfectly.

It certainly appears that the United States government is run by neo-Nazis.