Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

Remember how Trump's SOTU included a line about how he'd stopped eight wars, including Israel v. Iran?

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

A lot of people see politics, and reality, as narrative. More than one thing can happen at once, and does.

i just want to say that this king went to redhot ranch after saving the baby which means he gets what is good on a spiritual level

"There's a specific kind of lie that powerful men tell when the walls start closing in: the minimizing lie, the "it wasn't what it looked like" lie, the "I was barely there" lie. Bill Gates tried that last one earlier this month. www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

GALADRIEL (selectively editing the backstory): and three rings were given to the elves, who were barely involved

Caved in and finally started watching Heated Rivalry

I can't emphasize this enough: .08 is way drunker than you may think.

alternate title to Stephen King's IT

precisely 10 years ago today, the concept of "transgender social contagion" was first invented on the now infamous anti-trans parent website 4thWaveNow. a full timeline of how the concept spread (not unlike a "social contagion") can be found here: juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/orig...

Give @bebopott.bsky.social a key to the city

if you’re mad that i profiled will instead of writing about what “really matters” in minneapolis, may i direct you to my 6,500-word feature on the mutual aid networks there: www.theverge.com/policy/87710...

Every day there's some new horror. Forcing trans people off their hormones is just absolutely sadistic.

miracle on ice (women)

*touches earpiece* getting reports that this also has to do with lesbianism

you need to MOGG (Meditate On Great Genres of literature)

this game is not for the directionally challenged

Turns out the headline the editor chose for my report on the location of the proposed ICE detention center in Hutchins, Texas was wrong. A massive public uproar followed our reporting and the owner said they will not be selling the warehouse to ICE as of today. www.dmagazine.com/micropost/br...

The idea that the brain is locked in by age 25 is a myth, an oversimplification of neurology. This is not how brains work. And based on this conversation, we can only deduce some brains never develop at all

BREAKING: @councilmember-amr.bsky.social and Toshiko Hasegawa spoke to the Stranger about new their new policies to impede ICE in Seattle and at the Port. www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...

Oh my

I will admit this was one that I had to both click through and then search for myself to believe it's real.

This is like an I Think You Should Leave character

This is a believable, extraordinarily avoidable failure from SPD. These Christian supremacist (the correct term, really) groups are not subtle--they broadcast their message all over the internet.

How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad. In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with: "Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated." www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

"But it’s not better than nothing. It’s worse than nothing. The face Grok produced isn’t a face it found under the mask. It’s a face it made up." It's soooo important people realize this tech is not what they see on crime shows, where blurry footage can be "fixed" with the touch of a button.

The Atlantic is Atlanticking extremely hard this morning

“Are you effing kidding me?” said St. Paul Council Vice President Hwa Jeong Kim. "They’re going on car chases, going 80 down residential streets, to do what? How do they know that’s even the person that they’re looking for?”

Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge. Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today styleguide.transjournalists.org

The decision “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.” sureeeee thehill.com/homenews/med...

This is so dumb -- rotisserie chickens are cost effective and a time saver for people who are busy working. It's not immoral to enjoy a meal?

when it beats me

"I think that the goal of Tom Homan switching out for Gregory Bovino is purely optics and damage control. It's not actually a change in their tactics of intimidation and indiscriminate apprehension,” said Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne.

Suspected political message lol

Fucker Bowl

They are saying Kid Rock handed his Grammy to lil’ Kyle Rittenhouse during the halftime show. (Not true. Kid Rock has never won a Grammy).

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

After a month and a half break from print, the Reader makes its debut as a monthly. Thank you to everyone who supported the paper last year when we were scraping by week to week, and all the ups and downs before then. Thank you to everyone who picks up a new issue, it means the world.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

The short answer is: we don’t know. ICE has stopped posting detention data, despite being mandated by congress to do so. That data we do have, suggests a large number of children inside. Here is our Marshall Project analysis of last year’s data. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Sincerely love that the chuds think this is all based on folks in Minnesota reading the works of Uncle Ho, rather than being built on the same social structures that organize the annual spaghetti fundraiser