Gender is innate and immutable but also so fragile that it can be destroyed by drinking out of a straw 🤔

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

I talked to Crooked's Alex Wagner about Nick Kristof's column on the rape of Palestinian prisoners and the cynical and dishonest Israeli and pro-Israeli backlash:

Juniper Blessing singing Tom Petty’s Wildflowers at the New Mexico School For The Arts in 2024

An ICE detention contractor made $254 million in profit last year. The detainees doing the labor to keep these facilities running? They make $1 a day. Getting filthy rich off mass detention and forced labor IS the business model.

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Israel did prosecute the woman who leaked the recording though. the only free democracy in the Middle East, folks www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Every American should hear about this story. As millions lose health care, Trump is demanding $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars for Jan. 6 rioters and other allies. The most corrupt president in history, and you’re paying the price.

NEW in Bolts: Privacy activists in Wisconsin are celebrating Dane County’s decision to end the use of Flock cameras while also calling for protections that can stop the “revolving door of surveillance companies.”

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

"Our people are still there, resilient,” says Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada on Nakba Day.

"Long Covid is mainstream, yet invisible, with sufferers expected to self-manage" -

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

ICE raids kill a few innocent people a *month*. RIP Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Silverio Villegas-González. Police raids kill a few innocent people a *day*. Why would a Hispanic Dem, vote for a candidate that promises to increase ICE raids? They wouldn't. So why would a Black Dem choose SCORPION?

Texas is banning students from writing on LGBTQ topics and removing any references to gender identity and sexual orientation. You'll never guess what the author here hasn't covered but then immediately wrote this piece.

the story of how elon musk destroyed his public perception so he could bring about fascism and how that downstream has essentially ruined all of his businesses is so fascinating. all that he’s gotten out of this is a war in iran and he has to defend the epstein class now

I’m thinkin’ about it

We’re the FIRST state to ban dynamic pricing in grocery stores. Here’s why:

The fantasy of a university that is “cutting edge” without disciplinary basics and does football but not history and produces knowledge first but also profit first and makes expertise but improves nothing and saves the sector by cannibalizing it is incoherent, besides being a project of social harm

The one-weird-trickification of higher education.

American healthcare is so unbelievable. Today, for example, I have learned that when a tumor is in your jaw, only dental insurance covers it. But the second it comes out of your jaw, medical insurance covers it to the lab and beyond.

Yesterday morning, I wrote about how #SCOTUS keeps *choosing* to inject itself into politics. Then, the Court did it again last night—clearing the way for Alabama to re-draw its maps *this* cycle, even though it allowed Alabama to use old, unlawful maps in 2022: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Moderate Democrat Ruben Gallego comes out in support of packing the Court. Also popular with a plurality of Americans, including independents, according to our Strength In Numbers/ @verasight.io polling: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

adorable little expropriations of public property busy bee-ing themselves along pedestrian rights of way to create value for shareholders

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

Surveillance is not safety

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Most grateful to the estate of James Baldwin—headed by the nephew to whom he wrote the epistolary “The Fire Next Time”—for allowing the first words of “The Overseer Class” to be these words from Baldwin himself. These words have guided me in almost a decade of thought.

one in five. about 3 million people www.notus.org/healthcare/a...

Many older adults who died of COVID weren’t close to death before infection, study suggests In fact, 28% would likely have lived at least another 5 years if they hadn't contracted the virus. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/man...

The city’s Correction Department is set to renew a multimillion-dollar contract with a prison telecom giant that’s bragged of using recordings of detainees’ private phone calls to train its artificial intelligence model.

Literally the easiest money we spend is on SNAP. Instantly pays for itself financially and morally.

These people genuinely think they're better than everyone else because they have money, and are very used to being treated as such.

I’ve reached out to NY AG James’ office and Mayor Mamdani’s office to find out how they plan on responding to this gross overreach.

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

They're just all so fucking weird

Major breaking news tonight. NYU Langone has received a federal criminal subpoena over its provision of trans youth care. The subpoena originates from a grand jury empaneled in the Northern District of Texas. It's a massive escalation in attacks on trans poviders. Read our breaking story:

A University of Washington trans student was fatally stabbed in her campus housing building and the suspect is still at large. abc7news.com/post/seattle...

so how about that reconstruction 2.0

WIN: The 11th Circuit upheld the dismissal of a case challenging Georgia’s voter roll maintenance practices, ruling the plaintiffs lacked standing. The lawsuit sought to require the state to move voters to inactive status if they permanently left the state and failed to respond to a 30-day notice.

New from me: Thousands of stop-and-frisks by an aggressive NYPD unit didn't get checked for their constitutionality, despite a court order. It's the same unit, CRT, whose brutal behavior and political connections I've previously detailed. www.propublica.org/article/nypd...

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

When I die harvest my nervous system and use it to top a green bean casserole

Asked about if he would vote to approve future arms sales to Israel, Senator Cory Booker replies: "We have a long-standing commitment to Israel having a qualitative military edge. I will continue to support that."

a friendly reminder that "republicans can't steal an election" is more akin to a religious statement than it is one actually grounded in reality. republicans *have been* stealing elections but they're scared so shitless by upcoming midterms that they no longer care if they destroy their own optics.

Still waiting for AI to solve climate change :) www.semafor.com/article/05/0...

I don’t want the New York Times to outlast this regime.

We should absolutely be horrified and furious about this and raise hell. We should also take our existing antidepressants to remain calm and hope that capitalism will win out on this one.