If you’re a Democrat thinking about running for president in 2028 and you don’t believe calling to abolish ICE is a line in the sand for Democratic voters, you’re done before you even begin. This isn’t something that can be fixed. It’s broken and it needs to be torn down to the ground.

they’ll blame you for being in their way even when they’re the ones who invaded the neighborhood where your baby was sleeping inside your home

since it's behind a paywall now, I wanted to share this graph from "How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts" (Nature, April 2025). Say it with me: the anti-trans/LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-science movement: [article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]

This is an occupying force.

Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

every trans woman should be issued upon coming out: a bag of bloody testicles, a compound bow, a knife, a legion of militant, nazified academic feminists pursuing her through the wilderness,

"Fuck ICE" Seen in Oakland, California

Some character design choices happening here.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Monsters. Absolute monsters.

Parker Molloy got driven off of here because of… that? This is why we can’t have nice things.

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

Virgo: New year, new you. There is literally a new version of you out there hunting you down. Good luck!

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Kevin Drum was the first journalist to really get into the ties between lead and crime rates (not just serial killers) and I think it is one of the most important articles we’ve ever done www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Hmmm

They won’t leave, but also, like…. Go ahead. We won’t miss you!

Merry Xmas to the bisexual sculpture at the Embarcadero and to no one else

UPDATE I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss. Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

The Trump administration is trying to legislate trans people out of existence www.theguardian.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The Storytelling We Need to Rebuild Belief in Government www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/22/t...

The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity. facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:

Bari gets a heavily promoted 60 Minutes story that would be bad for the Trump administration killed:

“If cis journalists don’t step up to the task this year, it’s no longer a failure of their research. It’s a failure of their humanity.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/cis-...

Weird

it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

for all the people sharing this Colin "Swipe" Wright post today, you should also know that he's one of the most unhinged anti-trans conspiracy theorists out there: juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...

Ask folks in Hawaii about this. Lots still romanticize the cane era but it was a toxic nightmare for the residents as well as the land.

Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

Some of my friends think I’m being alarmist when I say this but they really are trying to eradicate us.

Next time you’re tempted to say anything nice about Nancy Pelosi, remember that Cuellar wouldn’t be there but for her campaigning against a pro-choice progressive who ran against him.

Federal ban on healthcare for trans youth passes the House. Horrific day, horrific precedent. We continue to hurtle toward genocide.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

since everyone's sharing/discussing that WSJ "pissed-off parent pushback" story today, thought I'd re-up this related essay on the Anti-Trans Parent Movement – these online groups actively radicalize parents against their trans kids (no-paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/understandin...

Alice Wong was the very best of us her legacy is enormous and will be lasting, but we were cheated of so many years with her

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...

This is not at all a thing you need an expert opinion on. As long as journalists are too scared to state even the most obvious truths we are absolutely cooked.

Goals

Ben’s lack of self awareness would be hilarious if he weren’t actively providing justification for lawmakers to use in service of passing bans that cause tangible harm upon Trans Youth.

I am also officially announcing that I’m stepping down as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, a job I also do not have.

Going to show this to every MAGA chud who talks about coming here "the right way"

I promise I will stop soon but I have to share this insane three-page sequence about immigration policy with a payoff you will absolutely not see coming.

The degree to which they want to inflict pure and wanton cruelty on people like me is really pretty distressing.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of kinks

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

48 years. That's how long trans women have been eligible to compete in tennis.