it is very weird to hear the inflatable costumes and such discussed outside of the long tradition of pranks and theater in activism

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

they spelled his name that way bc that's how the racists say it

Imagine being CBS and paying 150M for a blog and then giving the boss of that blog the reins to CBS News and she starts reposting shit from her blog

That’s a wrap for NYC’s Civics For All Comics Group at NY Comic Con! Gave away ~17,000 FREE educational comics. Hosted 7 panels on Educator’s Day including one with @georgetakei.bsky.social and held a bunch of signings, and met 1000s of incredible people! Thank you to all!

I want a James Gunn funny sexy throuple remake of FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

The recent trajectory, in broad strokes: - Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer - Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo - Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying. There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero. They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

All of this to give their creepy, incompetent failsons a job.

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

The fact that they are still doing the "Soros-paid protestors" bit is just an incredible testimony to the durability of certain tropes to negate the popular will, regardless of the lack of evidence.

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

What a fantastic night! Catch the whole interview on our Queer 101 podcast later this month! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh Anyway, back to toiling

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting. Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported. I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

Miles Taylor was the DHS chief of staff who in Trump's first term was "Anonymous" who spilled the beans about what was really happening around Trump.

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

With an unusually loud bang of his gavel Wednesday, a federal magistrate judge agreed to dismiss charges without prejudice against a Chicago couple found lawfully carrying guns outside an ICE facility. "Case dismissed." UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to strike down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy by licensed therapists practiced on minors — a ruling that could affect similar laws in nearly half the country and make life more difficult for LGBTQ children at an already perilous time.”

No no no dolly is the last seal before the apocalypse

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Yes. bsky.app/profile/greg...

For a year now, @peppermint247.bsky.social and I have been running a fabulous queer history book club for Allstora.com, and now we're expanding into a weekly podcast, where we'll be talking about queer culture, joy, liberation, politics - and, yes, history & books!

A lawyer representing the Global Sumud Flotilla activists said 150 were still being held by Israel, and 40 were on hunger strike to push for “medical treatment [for] all detainees,” reported the Associated Press. @teenvogue.com

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Within 24 hours of the Kirk shooting, top Trump officials and administration lawyers were drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for possible executive actions and prioritizing which liberal organizations and strongholds of the left needed targeting. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

If any other president was 57 minutes late to an event addressing service members, there would be wall-to-wall coverage on all 3 major cable news networks addressing whether or not the president cares about the military.

“Other polls say the opposite…” “Which one?” “Uh … I don’t know. But the poll you cited is clearly biased….” “How exactly?” “Uh … which poll was that again?” This is how it’s done. It’s very easy, and it gets results, so if an anchor isn’t asking basic follow ups, that’s a choice.

So nice of @amarimow.bsky.social at the @nytimes.com to give a gentle, both sides approach to conversion therapy. "Please, won't someone think of the bigots," the paper of record bravely asks. I thought it was called the Gray Lady because they didn't print in color, turns out they just hate queers

The US Department of Energy sent a memo to employees in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) instructing them to avoid “any terminology that you know to be misaligned with the Administration’s perspectives and priorities,” including “climate change.” by @dharna.bsky.social

“They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” Anadolu Agency reported Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik saying.

More than two million people brought Italy to a standstill, protesting in solidarity with the intercepted Flotilla crew carrying aid for Gaza. The demonstration shut down rail, air, and bus transport, as well as healthcare services and schools.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

At the newsletter right now: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

this fucking business

Kash Patel fired an FBI agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year. The trainee,who previously worked as an FBI support specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter claiming he had displayed an improper “political” message.

Just unbelievable stuff coming from independent journalists these days. Jack Posobiec, Roger Stone protege, was one of the biggest spreaders of Russian disinfo in 2016. Then Pizzagate, Macron leaks, election-fraud narratives in 2020. And it took til now to show he was voting fraudulently himself? 1/

The people who’ve been calling you baby murderers your whole life want you to turn down the temperature.