I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

NYers, go see her & flood me with your photos!

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

The other day I was in a consignment shop in Oakland. A customer was trying on sweaters because ... She's a teacher & there's often no heat in her classroom. Y'all! So, I said from across the store, "Surely you give teacher discounts." And guess what new store policy was born that day?

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Just so we're clear, the producers of the BAFTA awards could have chosen to edit out the n-word being hurled at two of my favorite artists, but they chose not to?

Don’t let them get away with the narrative that Kyle Bassinga hanged himself from a tree in Fair Oaks Park, Marietta, GA. Justice for Kyle. Say his name.

I just finished the book Educated and I need a mental health day. Make that a week. Lord.

Listen, I’m excited about the homeTOWN hero Alysa Liu but can we please talk about Nina Pinzarrone’s whole Handmaid’s Tale thing?

say it with me: "WE ARE NOT LEAVING TRANS PEOPLE BEHIND!"

The Film Independent Spirit Awards was so fun, y’all! Elena didn’t win but there were cheers coming from all over that huge room!

Weird how the middle of the Venn Diagram of people who need media to be in their language and people who want sexual conquests to have immature frontal lobes and be procured for them is a flat Earth

I think bad men should be very worried that Galentine's Day is falling on Friday the 13th.

Can someone with a modicum of success as a screenwriter please give me permission to go to pages even if the outline I’ve been staring at for months isn’t all the way figured out? #ScriptSky

Is there an alternative to Ring that doesn’t partner with law enforcement?

TIL that the person who plays Dr. Mel King on The Pitt is Taylor Dearden … Cranston. Yes, that Cranston.

If there’s one thing we’re Great™️ at in the US, it’s building prisons

Listen, I'm not usually one for "I told you sos" but the way some of y'all gave me shit when I had a scene in my pilot script where protesters threw dildos at cops and are now celebrating the rad folks doing it in MN

THIS! Keep creating, beloveds

I know we're all excited about Bad Bunny, but I hope you can join me in being excited for LaRussell, who, like me is FROM THE BAY! He's been dropping these videos with Bay Area marching bands and color guards and it's been life affirming these last couple of weeks.

just got offered tix to Dave Chapelle in the luxury box with drinks provided and oh how the me of a handful of years ago would be so stoked but here we are

Now that we’re starting to keep score on Epstein pedo predators, can someone remind me how many drag queens we’re up to? Is it 0 or the zero with the diagonal line through it?

Y'all, I'm going to the Independent Spirit Awards with the film I worked on because writer/director Elena Oxman's nominated for Best First Screenplay!

Y’all, I woke up in the middle of the night LAUGHING. I wanted to live in that world forever. Has this ever happened to you?

whoa, being raised Catholic and breaking up with it as soon as possible, I did not have Catholics Challenging +rump's Visa Freeze on my Bingo Card news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

but like, nobody wants this could I interest the network in a life-saving bunch of misfit firefighting ladies instead?

Wonder Man was really fun. Who woulda thought the world needed Yahya and Ben together? There was also a really fun bottle episode.

ABOUT TIME. California AG Rob Bonta has sued Rady Children's hospital for illegally shutting down its gender clinic and discriminating against trans youth. More of this. They can't be allowed to violate state law and discriminate against trans patients. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

like, I'm glad we're finally getting some info about the past, but I want to talk about what we can do to keep the predators away from kids RIGHT NOW

If you need a dose of life affirmingness, may I suggest a direct action organized by youth?

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

but I wrote a part for Catherine O'Hara. like. how? Losing her the month after Rob? It's too much in an already too much time.

Monday, went to a funeral for someone I went to hs with. Tonight I found a hs friend was murdered along with her two kids by her husband. I’m just …

Are we Great™️ now?

do I have any moots who are novelists and who've used a sensitivity reader? I'm finally getting around to setting up that offer that, and I'd love to know more about going rates.

JFC

Lots of local businesses are refusing to cooperate with ICE, but the following are some that *are cooperating with ICE*, and should be boycotted on a national level: - Hilton Hotels - Enterprise Rentals - Best Buy - Home Depot - Target

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I've come across this list of mutual aid orgs one could support in MN linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

so, I have arthritis in my shoulder. I could have done without the notes on the x-ray that said, "degenerative."

This thread is life affirming. We see you MN. We’re taking notes.

Just when news couldn’t get more bleak, Prue’s stepping down from judging the #GBBO and I am bereft.

"99.9% of what’s called activism is really personal exhibitionism and brand maintenance in disguise." - Bugonia Written by Will Tracy

I'm thinking of doing something super brave & unhinged. I'm thinking of turning off my phone's autocorrect & predictive text. The perimenopause is what makes this so dicey. There're gonna be some wackadoo replies

As we're approaching the 10th anniversary of losing Prince, I'm probably gonna be insufferable. For now, I'll just say, I think he'd be so proud of Minneapolis right now. 💜🎸🎹🎤✊🏻💜

I loved Welcome to Derry. 🤡🩸

Journalists! Over on the other place I used to use #JournoRequest to find folks looking for my expertise. I'm now using Featured as an aggregator for that tag, but, wondering if it's really a thing here? I'm not going to the bad place.

I’m gonna watch the Golden Globes. Don’t @ me. I need a little sparkle & something to shake my fist at.

Really appreciate this. When I first started doing direct actions & even street medic-ing we were carrying Milk of Magnesia & teaching others to do the same. We were wrong. Bring a small bottle of water JUST for this.