if anyone even remotely suggests to me they won’t go after adults next, i’m going to just start shrieking in their ear like an exotic bird

NOTE! My train home got stuck in the tunnel coming out of NYC for about an hour (w/ no cell and spotty wifi) and I was working to get out my exclusive — www.lawdork.com/p/100-days-o... — and then I came home and now I’m resting for a moment, but I do know there is more yet to cover from today.

Assigned's mentions for this post are flooded with people who want to jeer at Biden so may I just say: When a Democratic former president makes a point of standing up for trans rights in a situation where he is absolutely not required to do so, for God's sake, just take the W.

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?

4. Now, newly leaked texts—published by a conservative source but confirmed as accurate from Gallego himself—suggest Gallego’s shift may not be a mere political calculation but a reflection of deeper, toxic beliefs that have become far too common in American politics. You can see the texts here:

Parrying is the worst thing in video games: aftermath.site/parrying-bad

Literally the only Dem on earth who stands a chance in this state. I'm in!

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing. However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

We made Trash Pandas happen. I believe in this community. Come on, y'all, the Galaxy of Lights is like the only nice thing about Huntsville besides Space Camp.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

This is just to say I have bulldozed the East Wing that you were probably hoping to pass down to future generations Well, fuck you it was in the way so inconvenient and so old

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

NPR has lost a singular, distinctive radio journalist: Susan Stamberg, who died Thursday. She was the first woman to host a national news broadcast and set the tone, pace, and scope of the network. n.pr/3IR4JUn

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on. Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights. Block, and move on. This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky. Block on sight. Protect your digital space. Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them. The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.

I was trying to find an old tweet about Hamlet and Ophelia. Google AI thought I was accusing it of killing my dad, and also screwed up the most famous line in The Princess Bride.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

Trans healthcare is not at stake in the government shutdown fight. Don't let Trump and the GOP fool you.

This explains Hackers, my favorite movie of all time, way better than I ever could.

NEWS: The full Eleventh Circuit, in an 8-5 vote, held that an insurance policy excluding transgender gender-affirming surgical care does not facially violate Title VII b/c — following SCOTUS's Skrmetti reasoning — "it does not treat anyone differently based on a protected characteristic."

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

This nihilistic meme maximalism had nothing to do with being trans. No ideological leftist screed no pronoun pins, it's most similar to the Rupnow shooting last December, and the white supremacist Black incel shooter from January. All heavily referential, contradictory, and intentionally incoherent.

To state the obvious, providing gender-affirming care to minors isn’t fucking illegal, and someone desperately needs to stand up to this genocidal lawfare and decisively establish that fact.

"if Democrats too decide that transgender people can be sacrificed for political gain—the result will not be a lesser evil. It will be a political consensus that our rights are gone, and that outcome could be even worse."

if you are ever tempted to write off the residents of a "red" (i.e., gerrymandered) state and say "set them adrift, let them secede, they deserve what they voted for", you are missing all the thousands of stories like this where the human beings in those states are pushing back every single day

This second bullet point in a USA Today article illustrates a big problem with LLM summaries— namely they cannot distinguish between claims and facts. This is the software equivalent of when Trump says “many are saying”. It allows writers to rhetorically distance themselves from their own opinions.

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

No, it's the right take. I literally have two kids in school dealing with these policies and it's absolutely about restricting access to information and the inability to document things happening at school. Our district made having a phone on your person the same level of offense as having a gun.

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

I think it's particularly salient that he mentions trans people here. Because trans folks have won miniscule victories in a handful of states, any form of modernized voting should be abolished - apparently. Weird that centrist dems seem to agree with this guy.

America is no longer descending into fascism. We are seconds away from impact Military occupation has come to DC. If and when military occupation comes to where you are, there are things that you can do. This article outlines some of them

The first Federal Cybersecurity Disaster that we *know* of!

Federal court refuses to block Alabama’s “divisive concepts” law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When I joined NPR almost 30 yrs ago as a complete outsider with no qualifications other than being a lifelong fan, nobody welcomed me more avidly and kindly than Susan. She loved what we were trying to do, and helped us do it. www.npr.org/sections/npr...

Thank you @valorievandieman.bsky.social for raising the alarm on what the implications of Trump's move to institutionalize homeless and mentally ill people could mean for members of the trans community. slate.com/life/2025/08...

I legitimately can't overstate how great @anyaustin.bsky.social's channel is, and I'm thrilled to read anything related to that.

Via @alander.bsky.social: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ordered the parties in a Louisiana redistricting case to brief them on whether majority-minority districts were constitutional. That could have major implications for Alabama’s current redistricting fight.

🚨 Breaking: A group of state attorneys general, led by New York, has filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of mounting an unconstitutional pressure campaign against gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

This is what the groomer libel by the far right was made for. They're going to use it to label trans people as "sexually dangerous persons" with "mental illness" and have them civilly committed.

Put the Epstein files on the blockchain. by Andrew Yang