This forthcoming book by my comrade and friend @lewispants.bsky.social is so good and it's so timely. People should pre-order 2 copies one for yourself and another for a friend or ask your local library to purchase it. www.beacon.org/Radical-Unle...

September 15 at 3 PM ET: If you're a journalist or media maker concerned about criminalization, join us and IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social at our next online space to share strategies, connect, and build networks of support: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/m...

If you're a journalist, media maker, or communicator looking for one-on-one support or thought partnership, we also offer Abolition Media Office Hours (available on Wednesdays and Thursdays this fall) staffed by @lewispants.bsky.social! Learn more and make an appointment:

Really interesting new research from Pew about how U.S.-ians view journalists. I'm fascinated by the tension between "advocating for communities" and "political beliefs"...https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-do-americans-think-journalists-should-act/

This is a book for our times! I am so proud of what Lewis had created and cannot recommend this book any more highly! Preorder this book. You will not be sorry. Ask your public libraries to do so too.

Everything might *feel* terrible, but we absolutely have the power to create change in our own communities. That's what Radical Unlearning proposes, and demonstrates through contemporary stories of people changing their minds (and ways) against the odds. Order now! allgoodbooks.com/item/VdT28uS...

I have been learning and unlearning from and with @prisonculture.bsky.social for over a decade; I'm so grateful to have her endorsement of my latest endeavor, an in-depth inquiry into what creates the conditions for people to let go of deeply held beliefs and ideologies. Pre-order now!

Ever had that "make it make sense?!" feeling when you're reading the news? Yeah. Me too. Conceiving of journalism as political education -- as the @kcdefender.bsky.social does so well -- is one solution and way forward. @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/08/make...

I did go away. Now I am back. And starting a PhD program in history! And still working at @interruptcrim.bsky.social of course, offering office hours (free!) Wednesdays and Thursdays for movement journalists, communicators, anyone with a liberatory journalism question or problem.

"The kinds of articles that really help people are not PR releases for organizations but real breakdowns of tactics that have and haven’t worked, real descriptions of the ins and outs of a given strategy or approach. With stories like these, we don’t need doomscrolling." — @lewispants.bsky.social

Super cool!

Finished recording the audio book of Radical Unlearning! Cruising towards October publication...preorder now (a big help to getting the book out into the world)! allgoodbooks.com/item/VdT28uS...

As a former President of a law school chapter of the Federalist Society, I just want to say how important it is that we are naming the lower-level functionaries in government and pinning their unethical and immoral behavior specifically to organizations like the Federalist Society.

A new strategy from Federalist Society lawyers at the DOJ uses “false claims” to target trans health care providers. They are already serving subpoenas to intimidate people out of providing this care. @wallace.bsky.social @interruptcrim.bsky.social @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/doj...

Join us online for this resource launch and discussion with IC co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social and Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, @catachresis.bsky.social of @convergencemag.com, and Vivian Anderson of Every Black Girl. Learn more and register:

Without the performance of objectivity, we can create journalism that is purposeful and even inspiring. Honored to interview @erininthemorning.com @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for @objectivejournos.bsky.social about how it's done objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/stor...

"The objectivity myth in mainstream journalism requires journalists to pretend their stories exist for no particular purpose other than truth; movement journalists can be more realistic and exacting." - @lewispants.bsky.social in @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/stor...

🗓️This Friday, July 25 at 2-3 PM ET: Join IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social and our friends at Muslims for Just Futures for this conversation about fighting back against the criminalization of solidarity, hosted by The Opportunity Agenda. Register: bit.ly/nrl725

I am seeking a volunteer to help organize some things for @interruptcrim.bsky.social's journalism fellowship (me!) during the coming 1-2 weeks. Should be a few hours of pretty fun computer work requiring a bit of spreadsheet know-how. Anyone interested?

Another terrible day in the news. I've been interviewing movement journalists and community journalists over the last few months who are thinking together about how journalism can be a source of strategy, inspiration, and political education. It's not everything, but perhaps a small antidote.

It's been so wonderful spending the last few years asking everyone around me what they are unlearning right now, and how. It turns out unlearning (letting go of ingrained beliefs) is really common, NOT impossible, and often liberating! What are you unlearning, or hoping to unlearn?

Let's keep our sources safe! Today we @interruptcrim.bsky.social launch a digital security and doxxing prevention checklist designed for journalists and media makers to share with sources and collaborators who may be at risk. Download, share! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

"Amid political upheaval, trans people continue to live full, complex lives...While not representative of all, [these stories] reflect a shared resilience in the face of uncertainty and a persistent reach for joy." Read this, by IC Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social: translash.org/wire/trans-v...

Wednesday, July 16 6-8 PM ET: We invite journalists/media makers to join us and IC Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social in this virtual space to talk about ways of keeping our sources safer and reducing the risk of surveillance, doxxing, and harassment: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/r...

I was lucky to read an advance copy of my friend & colleague @lewispants.bsky.social's new book Radical Unlearning. I cannot recommend this book enough. FACTS do NOT trump BELIEF and this book helps explain why. But it does much more than that by sharing stories of people who have changed beliefs.

Hi everyone, pre-orders help a LOT with getting the work out there, please order Radical Unlearning now and you'll get 'er in the mail in October. Scorpio baby!!! allgoodbooks.com/item/VdT28uS...

Leaving #Socialism2025 with a strong and reassuring sense of how mass movement and internal and relational change grow each other.

If you’re a journalist or media maker, please join us and our Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social on July 16 for our latest resistance lab, on keeping our sources safe when reporting in a context of criminalization and surveillance: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/r...

We keep each other safe! Come through (on Zoom) July 16 from 6-8 p.m. ET to talk about how media makers can work with the people whose stories we tell to reduce the risk of surveillance, harassment, and doxxing. @interruptcrim.bsky.social www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/r...

1. A government official has informed us that the Trump administration is likely intentionally not complying with a trans passport ruling in an Erin In The Morning exclusive. One person was told, "We don't answer to courts." Subscribe to support our journalism.

Okay NYC I'm starting to get jealous, like how adorable is this? Politicians are NOT supposed to be adorable!

This is gonna be cute, in a take-down-authoritarianism kind of way. Come to Socialism Thursday to not miss us!

See you this week in Chicago?

Today we launch TransLash Wire, a new platform from TransLash Media that tells the stories of trans communities from the South and Plains states, focusing on resilience, joy, and the fight for equality. In the first piece, I profile six trans people from across the U.S. 󰴚✨@translash.org

Wildly stoked to have produced the very first article for this new digital platform focused entirely on trans people and with a mission of saving trans lives. Thank you @imarajones.bsky.social and crew for tapping me for this. Watch! Read! Absorb the beauty that is trans people's survival!

@bencollins.bsky.social is all of us right now: “[We] want Congress to understand that maybe they could fucking do something at some point in any capacity about the litany of horrors that we have been subjected to in the last six months.” 🙌🏼

Sometimes the moment in which journalism makes the most change is an intimate one. In my latest for @objectivejournos.bsky.social, I reflect on the responsibility of holding healing and catharsis as a storyteller. objectivejournalism.org/2025/06/a-fo...

"Black migrants make up 5.4% of the undocumented population." "[T]hey make up 20.3% of migrants facing removal based on criminal convictions." In ICE custody, "24% of the people in solitary confinement were Black migrants." #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

People need to realize that the New York Times is going to pivot to "self-ID" now, essentially to build up the next fight, a total end of all legal recognition for transgender people. A handful of states have already started passing these laws, and it is absolutely what they are going for next.

I'm full of feelings, my feelings are that you need to act now before whatever "rights" you took for granted are gone

Journalists: tell the stories of how people survive through collective action and mutual aid. Tell the stories of how people resist through not obeying dehumanizing laws. Tell the stories of how people act in solidarity, *especially* under the most threatening conditions.

1. After the Skrmetti decision, the New York Times has published 6 articles dancing on the graves of trans youth and spreading disinformation on care. It was cited 7 times in the ruling. Read my latest on what will be a black stain on the NYT for a generation. Subscribe to support my journalism.

I am working on a story right now about one of the people who has fought for trans care for literally decades. Decades of usually invisible, painstaking, gentle, hand-holding, thoughtful care work, being "debated" by people who truly don't care about us. Platforming that is shameful and misleading.

It's hard to describe how long, lonely, and painstaking the work has been to get trans care to where it is now. That the Right has fixated on us, sacrificing our lives for political gain, using us to have a scapegoat, exploiting the fears of parents and families, is mean-spirited and outrageous.

Gender-affirming care for young people saves lives. At 41, I am one of those lives. I'm just completely disgusted that people are fixating on this fake "controversy"

(I will be posting rabidly pro-trans content this week as I prepare for a panel at IRE on trans coverage)

"controversial debate" fuck off. how many times do we have to contextualize this for people? there is not a medical controversy. there was also not particularly a social controversy...before it was manufactured by media. listen to The Anti-Trans Hate Machine by @translash.org instead

"It is against free speech to stop us from fixating on the genitals." theonion.com/it-is-journa...

"Rainey's death is another in a long line of police murders that began with a mental health call or a person in crisis." Philadelphia "advocates are pushing to double the current funding level for mobile crisis response teams to about $20 million." #Pennsylvania #USA #Policing #Healthcare