middlebury college student lia smith killed herself one month ago after facing harassment for being a trans athlete you will not hear her name once on cable tv don’t let them erase her #TDOR #TransDayOfRemembrance

A ballroom legend, an aspiring model and a young athlete: Some of the trans people lost to violence and suicide this year

For Trans Day of Remembrance, I have made a donation to the Trans Lifeline. If you can afford a donation, today is a great day to support and organization that provides support and resources to trans people to help them thrive. #transdayofremembrance translifeline.org

🕯️ today is Trans Day of Remembrance. 🕯️ spend some time with the loved ones we’ve lost. www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam

The CDC amended its website to suggest that vaccines may cause autism. It now declares that experts “ignored” a potential link between infant vaccination and autism, and asserts that its earlier rejection of such a link was not “evidence-based.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...

Resorted to bribery today to get my toddler to wear her coat for the trip to daycare 😔 I gave her a snack bar with Grover on the package… She calls him “blue Elmo” and she’ll do anything for him #bribery #corruption

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

With the news of the repugnant Operation Charlotte's Web, I can't wait for Homeland Security to release their next programs, Operation Goodnight Moon (defunding NASA), Operation Green Eggs and Ham (defunding the FDA) and Operation Busytown (the worm in RFKJr's brain stages a coup against Mamdani)

🎄 #Ward4 families!   On Saturday, December 13th from 10am to 1pm, Events DC is holding its annual Winter Wonderland event at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.   My office has 20 tickets to distribute to Ward 4 kids, and registration is first-come, first-served. 🧵

RATATOUILLE really acts like the real problem with rats is that they steal food and not that they shit everywhere

Today my toddler has: stuffed food up her nose; cried to me that “it stuck” up there; sneezed the food out (thank god!); gotten angry at me for throwing the snotty food in the garbage instead of giving it back to her to eat

Thanks for the shoutout! We love @19thnews.org too - we even collaborated with them this year: 51st.news/what-its-lik...

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

““I was left without clothes. Without a bed. Without my daughter’s crib,” she said. “And they took my partner away from me.”” Just one heartbreaking detail from this story, from a woman detained in the raid who subsequently left the country with her infant daughter.

I don’t understand why so many people online put a space both before and after the punctuation at the end of each sentence. Why do people do this??? It’s so incredibly stupid looking and it’s annoying to read.

I would be friends with Scorpia IRL if I could #sheraandtheprincessesofpower

Absolutely loving my rewatch of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. I love Double Trouble but oh my GOD is Flutterina so annoying! Ughhh

Tricia McLaughlin now says there was no pepper spray deployed at all in that area, a brazen lie considering there’s video of it happening www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ladies, you do not need to get pregnant or become a tradwife. You need to unionize your workplace.

Notice: “work sucks” when directed at men means that we need better working conditions and higher pay. “Work sucks” when directed at women means that they should drop out and have babies.

BREAKING update to my lawsuit against DC Metropolitan PD for body cam footage from USIP raid — We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.

Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did! Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting

I am personally affected by the ACA subsidy ending and also my health insurance premiums are going way up next year. If you appreciate my work, there's never been a better time to become a paid subscriber. (Patreon gives me a better revenue split) www.patreon.com/posts/what-w...

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Just thinking again how Democrats asked people to accept short-term suffering in order to give space to prevent long-term, worse suffering and then said, "Thanks for suffering in the short-term. You'll get to suffer long-term too so that our Thanksgiving plans don't get disrupted."

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Hm, yes

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

The fact that it's even possible for our government to shut down has always been bizarre to me. I feel like if Congress can't figure out how to fund the government, we should either have snap elections or they should all have to stay in the Capitol building til they agree on a plan.

this regime is pure evil

Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.

Work sucks etc but they do not want you to be able to support yourself or pursue your dreams; they want you dependent on a man, so he can treat you as badly as he feels like without you having the option to leave.

do bitches just complain a lot? or are they busy shopping? ross douthat investigates.

This is a sickening story.

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

And that’s a resounding NO on putting sexual predators back into positions of power!

MAMDANI!!!!

"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'" apnews.com/article/chic...

My toddler has only figured out the pronoun “she” and refers to everyone that way, like a good Radchaai citizen #ancillaryjustice

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This magazine literally formed 90% of my personality in my early 20s. I learned SO MUCH theory from this publication.

It should be illegal for a meeting to last longer than an hour

Help is on the way for families who rely on SNAP/WIC benefits to help feed their families: the DC Government will use $30 million in contingency funds to ensure benefits are paid in November despite the federal government shutdown.

Dozens of people sounded off against MPD's cooperation with ICE during a D.C. Council on Thursday, but it's unclear what lawmakers will be able to do about it. My rundown on the hearing: 51st.news/dc-council-h...

I think about this post all the time. ALL THE TIME. When I get my hands on The Vitamin, it's over for you folks.

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