I hope this makes it around to as many cis folks as possible. The amount of ignorance out there regarding what we're facing and how this moment feels for all of us is staggering.

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Costco announced they will not stock mifepristone in their pharmacies. Contrary to viral social media posts, this IS a big deal and it DOES mean that they caved to pressure from far-right MAGA anti-woman conservatives. Here I go over the evidence and what you can do skepchick.org/2025/08/cost...

Btw, I remember there being some anxieties around folks expressing their opinions during primaries. Besides being nowhere near a presidential primary at the moment, now is in fact the time for people to express certain lines they expect candidates not to cross. Protect trans folks.

Our new research estimates that 2.8 million people aged 13+ in the U.S. identify as transgender. This includes 724,000 youth (13 to 17) and 2.1 million adults 18+. bit.ly/TranspeopleUS

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

If there's one thing that getting yelled at all day for saying that I will not vote for Gavin Newsom in a hypothetical 2028 election has made me more sure of... it's that I will not be voting for Gavin Newsom (or any other politician who pushes anti-trans nonsense) in 2028 or any other year.

This means that Democrats will have to raise a point of order on this part of the bill. This would force a vote on the amendment that would require 60 votes. Republicans have 53 Senate seats, so it means they would need to pick off 7 Democrats for this. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

TIL r/steam and r/gaming and chocked full of Treatlerites who get mad that it costs a lot of money to pay workers to do nice things

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For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

@badambulist.bsky.social I’m really curious now, do you have an engineering background? “My bladder sent an interrupt to my brain” is a very programmer-coded way to put that 😅

Hey, go do this, please. I have health insurance through the ACA, and if this rule went into effect, it would mean that while I'd still be paying a ridiculous amount in premiums, the plans I'd be able to get wouldn't actually cover my health needs.

Hey is the market *supposed* to look like a damped wave?

Remember to spread a little joy, even if it will be fleeting

I do not like this info from Singal's byline

just keep washing your hands y'all i'm sure it'll get out eventually

it's also timed the day after HHS offically published their proposed rule banning trans care from ACA EHBS www.madycast.com/p/proposed-h... Nancy Mace was also recently calling RFKjr to... do something... about estrogen

If you get a poorly written text message claiming you have an unpaid bridge toll, DON'T click on the link. It's a scam. www.gigharbornow.org/news/transpo...

it would be sorta funny if Schumer can't actually bring 7 votes to the table for the CR

if you could change 5 things about Windows, what would you change?

Repost if you used an invite code to join this site

@benjanun.bsky.social curious what updated about the epub

Dude still got hit with tariffs on the iPhone

building a Jira epic for “take over the government and purge wokeness”

they made Gerald Witcher a girl in the new game, so I threw my Xbox out the window and it killed a small dog, and now everyone's mad at me for having an opinion

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

Civilians willingly accepting potentially deadly harm from armed agents of the state is literally how this shit works. The ppl who overthrew segregation in this country willingly walked into the path of water cannons, nightsticks, and killer dogs.

Gift-link. I remember this passing shortly after I moved to the US. It quickly made me aware that I had to pay close attention to politics for the first time. I hadn't thought about this in years, and very glad to see it down. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/u...

@coestar.live happy to see you’re still around and streaming. Coe’s quest got me into pc gaming as a kid

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For what's probably the third time today, I've just wanted to look up a website at a previous date and almost typed @archive.org before remembering that they're down :/ Get well soon, you essential internet librarians.

I’m sorry, this is insane. They are really no different than Netanyahu at this point.

As a sort of "big account" I asked them not to do this. I get the reasoning behind it because it can cause a lot of dogpiles and confusion, but it also causes a lot of wonderful stuff too like discovery and community. If they can't make a "hide from feed" toggle then it should be left alone.