I think that Centrist activists are having their version of the Twitter heyday of 2011. All over Substack, writers I remember being medium ok intellectuals in that era are like Wait, What if heterosexual submission is radical?

Every time I read about the mergers in Hollywood I think about this scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktAb...

I hit on David Bowie at Lee's Palace.

since The Atlantic is apparently reviving the "a was a feminine gay child, but if I was a kid today they would have 'transed' me" trope, here's an essay I wrote back in 2020 explaining why this is not true & there is no evidence to support it: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

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Really intense episode of What’s That Smell in my Fridge today. Who knows what’s gonna happen.

*Taylor Sheridan pulling a slot machine arm* "Ok, we got... Kurt Russell... as a... Fire Chief in... Paducah, Kentucky" Paramount Exec: Sure whatever, here's $40,000,000. All of our parents: Prairie of Flames is the best show on TV

About one of the Trump accusers in this piece: “The interview [with the alleged victim and her attorney] was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.”

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

Is the school shooter even trans or is it just the far right jumping on it before someone is identified?

NEW: This was the last essay I was supposed to publish at the Washington Post. But they fired me. I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874. If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

In perimenopause adhd news, until today I thought Charlie Puth and Florence Pugh were the same person.

Coming this May, a rom com set in Prince Edward County. By my romance writing alter ego, Frankie Scott.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

I just read some of the Epstein files and feel like I need to shower for 50 years. Why isn't Trump impeached. I remember when Clinton was impeached for a consensual blow job, what is even happening

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

‘Gender critical’ transphobes are trying to build in opportunity to brow-beat trans kids into NOT taking puberty blockers. This is a conversion therapy practice. It’s the same tactic anti-abortion lobbyists use with their ‘crisis pregnancy’ centres! #TransRightsAreWomensRights 👉🏻 archive.ph/4orNj

What's worse than getting a grant rejection for an application you've been waiting on? Getting a grant rejection for an application you'd utterly forgotten about. Just out of the blue NOPE. Thanks OAC for the most humbling moment of my day.

Feel like this story should be A1, above the fold, big headlines: Attorney General Attempts to Blackmail Minnesota www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

“One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”

Alex Pretti's parents found out about his death when the Associated Press called them. They then had to make phone calls until they reached the county medical examiner. So heartbreaking. coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Trump has destroyed all of America's major alliances and we are likely headed for a new era of Western regional conflict if not a world war. But sometimes the BlueSky wine moms are just so cringe. I have never felt more politically homeless.

I love seeing videos of 22 year olds doing skin care regimes when my skin looked just as glowy and perfect at 22 on 3 hours sleep after five beers in a smoke filled bar, possibly splashing with water upon waking. I don’t even think I used daily face cream until I was 29.

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"Police officers who use their sidearm in the exercise of these duties will enjoy my support, irrespective of the outcome of the use of force. Officers who fail to make use of their weapon out of a false reticence, should expect disciplinary action.” - Hermann Göring, February 17, 1933

If Euphoria doesn’t end with all the women in a Faster Pussycat army killing Nate then idk what

i’ve never felt this patriotic in my life

Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here

Politicians are hoping to not just ban trans kids from playing sports with their friends but also open the door to all sorts of discrimination against transgender and other LGBTQ people. We'll be at the Supreme Court tomorrow to stop them.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Rhea Seaborne talk about the lesbian who got killed yesterday in an apocalyptic scenario given you play a lesbian in an apocalyptic scenario challenge. (Of course she didn’t. Right after Wanda did. The queerness on Pluribus makes no sense anyway, it’s so lazy.)

WANDA SYKES FOREVER.

Not surprised PTA is not a thank your wife type.

No one saying anything political on the golden globes is bumming me out. I can’t even make fun of people.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Having the very first experience of teaching a writing workshop and thinking all my students are brilliant angels. I’ve always been so ugh about teaching.

I've seen way too many dems and leftists throwing around "woke" and "virtue signalling" in the past week, and doing so in the exact same way the right does. Congratulations, y'all, you followed their music right into the sea.

She voted to confirm a Trump judge just yesterday.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Wish I could be as excited about anything as much as Netflix is excited about a 15 year old Whitney Cummings sitcom hardly anyone liked when it aired.

ICE has the right to shoot to anyone whose vehicle is driving erratically. by Elon Musk

They’re trying to cover up a murder that is playing on a loop on every phone.