BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

Remember this moment? Many waved this away as a silly propaganda stunt . This moment, however, was a premonition of the GOP’s future. bsky.app/profile/seth...

This year was crazy, by far the craziest of my life. Worked my ass off to make shit happen for myself. This is gonna be a thread of interviews I'm proud of from this year. Next year's gonna hit even harder. First up, Kristen Stewart: theplaylist.net/love-me-kris...

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A grave historical mistake that the leaders of the Confederacy were not tried and hanged.

Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

This is a man who presided over a govt currently kidnapping innocent immigrant + refugee children & families, putting them in horrific prisons, and then deporting them to dangerous places. Sometimes the hypocrisy is too much to bear.

Reflexively blaming bamboo with no evidence and no effort to address regulatory failures is journalist malpractice but it doesn’t stop there. Portraying living in a high-rises as a poor-people-thing, not a choice people gladly make, is the most condescending West-brained thing I’ve read in a while.

Two Indonesian domestic workers have died in the deadly fire at a Tai Po housing estate, the Indonesian government has said. In full: buff.ly/WkypluI

Lucky Lu and Mother Bhumi both took three prizes, including Best Actor for Chang Chen (Lucky Lu) and Best Actress for Fan Bingbing (Mother Bhumi).

Sally Rooney says UK prisoners linked to Palestine Action face ‘shocking mistreatment’

You do not have to hand it to the Catholic bishops. In the same meeting, they banned gender affirming care at all Catholic hospitals nationwide. www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...

genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

No.

I don’t know who this neighbor is, but I wish I’d seen them on Halloween and I want to be their friend. @katiehonan.bsky.social

Genuine question: do your students know how to write thesis statements?

NEW BLOG POST! I should probably have written this three years ago when it first came out, but Kate Beaton's DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS is a genuine masterpiece and you should all read it.

The Supreme Court not taking Kim Davis’ crackpot appeal doesn’t “indicate” a lack of appetite to overturn Obergefell—just that this was a ridiculous legal argument. Pathetic framing here by the Washington Post. There is absolutely a ticking clock on marriage equality. DO NOT CONGRATULATE

I know everyone is struggling right now but I’m in a really tough spot financially so if anyone has any freelance work please keep me in mind!

If you are a student who is going through something and you can either ask for an extension or use AI to generate a paper, please do the former

The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.

NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including: -Rudy Giuliani -John Eastman -Mark Meadows -Sidney Powell -Ken Chesebro -Christina Bobb -Kelli Ward -Jenna Ellis www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly) light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM

Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.

My favorite Stanley Kwan film ♥️

Truly moving film portrait of underground gay life in Beijing during the tense 1980s. Highly recommended & playing on @criterionchannl.bsky.social

When you’ve successfully persuaded people that being anti-racist is a Bad Thing called “woke”, you can go about your day being openly racist, doing racist things, spreading racist ideas, quite happily.

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@leungmingkai.bsky.social is currently cited in Merriam-Webster dictionary when you look up "cinematography." It's everything I love, all in one place! www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

ICE used Olivia Rodrigo's song as a background of a video advocated for self-deportation for undocumented immigrants. "Don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda." To which the admin threatened her and demanded she thank ICE. www.themirror.com/entertainmen...

Boston's Paisani Food Truck has announced that they will give a free sandwich to anyone who presents a SNAP card at the truck during the government shutdown.

I miss Amy Winehouse so much. A genius who sang about working people. We need her

When Republicans were all weirdly saying 'Daddy's Home', what they meant was 'Daddy's home and he says you have to like me'

Hi! Are you doomscrolling? You still deserve time to rest and recover. Max loves you.

Yeah I really can't believe he's still being cited. He's the Shaun King of public health

big believer in a big tent movement to fight for public health, but folks, watch out for eric feïgl ding. he has a long — and i mean long — history of spreading health misinformation + latching onto causes for clout and personal profit.

Collecting TikTok avatars of ppl telling me New York will be under sharia law in six months

Soooo it seems like the video has been taken down cause he raised enough money but Mamdani actually crowd funded his transition team money. There was a lot of criticism from the usual sources for "already asking for money" but transition teams are usually funded by hidden donors

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Today would have been Brianna Ghey’s 19th birthday.

Not sure why people don't post links. Here it is (gift): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

One month into Bari Weiss’s tenure as editor in chief at CBS News, staffers are weathering a flurry of layoffs, shifting resources and a cultural collision with Weiss’s ideas of how to tackle the news. Here’s a look into the evolving TV newsroom:

This is disability visibility. Mamdani listened. He didn’t pander or talk over the disabled journalist. He acknowledged his concerns and gave real responses about how he plans to fix them. 1 in 4 Americans has a disability, it’s a huge number of voters. Don’t ignore us!

There are no words for how evil this is