if thou could’st, blacksmith, glad enough would I lay my head upon thy anvil, and feel thy heaviest hammer between my eyes

Some Guild friends set up a fundraiser to help the illegally terminated employees while we fight back www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

This question is central to the way I approach covering trans issues.

now PBS. congressional reporters using exact same language to jam the deal through on behalf of lawmakers, i guess? it’s the job of the press to count votes and say if a bill has enough yeas. weird to launder this support through before it’s clear with NO sourcing info. sloppy journalism.

I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity

About a decade ago there was a viral video of a trans woman in Turkey recording herself on her phone before she took her own life. Through all the tears for the minutes the video went on she kept returning to, I'm paraphrasing slightly, "how are we supposed to live if they won't let us work?"

this is harassment. it's abusive. and it places a congresswoman's life in danger. i don't care what you think of mcbride herself or trans women in general. condemn this behavior. tell those we elected that it's time for them to publicly condemn this behavior, too.

conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions

The last few minutes of Umamusume S2E1 were better than any part of season one

Billie Jean knows what she's talking about. She was the primary source for this story on anti-trans bias at NYT we ran last year. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

After Houston removed an LGBTQ+ Pride crosswalk in Montrose, residents responded in color. “It’s something that people out there need,” artist Nicky Davis said. “They need to know that the community of Houston accepts everyone.” ✍🏻 Gwen Howerton bit.ly/43Nw7JX

Sad!

Over at @flaminghydra.com, I have a new interview with @jael.bsky.social about working as a reporter in DC and her band's new song "horseglue" flaminghydra.com/d-c-journali...

Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania. The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown. 🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

WOAH. Texas GOP Executive Director Jen Hall and another top party official just resigned. In her letter to party Chair Abraham George, Hall said she "cannot in good conscience continue to work this way" but doesn't elaborate. Hall and George are both longtime Tim Dunn allies. This is...interesting.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

An order from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy means a planned nonstop from Austin is one of 13 routes to Mexico that are now canceled. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-airport/trump-administration-order-cancels-new-nonstop-route-between-austin-and-mexico-city/

oriana confirms the New York Times and POLITICO invented the “Dems in disarray over trans rights” 2024 post-mortem

I smoked with Dick Cheney last night. He was telling me that he didn't think Future's discography was as strong as everyone says it is. I vehemently disagreed, but I was glad we were able to put our differences aside.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

I asked John Cornyn about this and he said about Paxton suing Tylenol’s company “He wants to line the pockets of every trial lawyer in the state. He ran off all of his professional staff, and now he has to hire trial lawyers, so and they're some of his biggest supporters.”

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.

A flight with a 40 minute layover in CLT? tbh I'd rather just walk there than have another layover in that accursed place

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

Unless the shutdown ends before Monday, Texans on SNAP will lose November benefits. WIC could also end later next month. Please consider donating to Central Texas Food Bank if you can: www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/get-involved...

Games for people who lack object permanence

Had another dream about baby last night 😊

good morning happy new music friday “horseglue” by ekko astral is available everywhere you can listen to music listen to it share it stream it playlist it tell your friends tell your enemies tell your dog tell your cat tell the politicians you yell at on bluesky

TCU has been under immense public pressure from elected officials in North Texas to stop teaching LGBTQ+ topics or offering gender studies degrees.

*heavy sigh*

lindsey byman at the texas tribune is looking for some sources for a story on trans identity in texas k-12 schools. she's a great journalist. Help her out if you know someone who can speak to this. she's not here, so here's a screenshot of her post. her email is [email protected]

Only thing I'll say about the tattoo discourse is that some pundits are woefully under-informed about what the SS was and did. If I had a time machine, I'd go back in time and watch Polish survivors beat Oskar Dirlewanger to death.

"money goes nowhere / but in my throat" 🔥🔥🔥

Any Texas attorneys/law profs want to chat with me about sovereign immunity?

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Austin ruled Texas' HB 900 unconstitutional. Again. TBD on if it'll go before SCOTUS, but here's my latest for KXAN about the 2023 law's two-year court fight: www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...

Bodies are so cool.

I don't want to be too critical of this report (otherwise good!) but I wish the authors had considered bills targeting transition-related healthcare as "anti-science"

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence” when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Blown away by this story from The Texas Tribune. Amazing work by the team over there, and I'm glad they let us republish it to KXAN: www.kxan.com/lgbtq/trans-...

NEW RESEARCH confirms: Countering far-right messaging by repeating it mainstreams extremist ideas and amplifying extremist terminology cedes the framing of the issues to the right. (I’ll add that social media “dunking” only serves to spread undesired content.) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability. www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

For many Latinx Texans, family comments about food and body image are more than just words: New research shows a growing mental health crisis, but also a path to healing. https://www.kxan.com/news/simplehealth/te-vas-a-comer-todo-eso-the-latinx-body-image-crisis-in-texas/ 

Early voting is underway! 🗳️ Find out what's on the ballot and lots more important info in the KXAN Voter Guide: https://www.kxan.com/news/your-local-election-hq/nov-4-2025-voter-guide/

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

So many of you get your authority by being white. That's it. You don't know any more than I do. You're not smarter than I am. You're just white and that grants you a level of authority that I am not granted without proving myself. You're trading in white supremacy. You should think about that.

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh