Public comment on Dr Oz's extreme anti-trans rule changes ends TODAY at 11:59 pm EST! PLEASE voice your opposition to these medically unsound proposals! Matthew Cortland has some great talking points on their Patreon! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Mental health care is essential for all. I’m grateful to our mental health professionals for fighting stigma and providing treatment to millions. I’ll continue to do all I can to support research and expand access to care.

Question of the day: Would you rather be this guy, or the guy who called the judge "honey"?

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

I think people should be allowed to vote from prison too

Happy MLK Day!

Just finished @mattielubchansky.com's uproarious, devastating, beautiful BOYS WEEKEND. If you like graphic novels, horror, the heady mix of gender dysphoria & euphoria, or [SPOILER] douchey tech bros, MLM scammers, and cultists getting what's coming to them, HIGHLY recommend. Onward to SIMPLICITY!

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

This is the same Adrian Vermeule who described conservatives as "The very first group for the camps." He later claimed the tweet was "a sardonic joke to the effect that if and when an extremist left-wing administration came into power," Trumpers and Never-Trumpers alike would be sent to gulags.

Wow! Beautiful and devastating with dark humor and a twist of sci-fi/magical realism. Do yourself a favor and take a few minutes to read this!

CHICAGO! The proposed city budget would cut 89 positions (more than 1 per branch!) from our already understaffed libraries and slash the book budget in HALF. Please take a moment to call your alder, ask them to reject this budget, and demand one that fully funds CPL! www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

now this is obvs gonna be v personal and youre ultimately gonna have to find your own shit but here are a select few trinkets from mine to get you started

if youre trans and youre struggling to justify why you as a person should be allowed to take up space in the universe just consider that by your sheer existence you make a lot of the worst people on earth mad enough that they will die early deaths from stress. so thats a p good reason

I’m so glad Red Panda has recovered and is back to performing undisputed GOAT of halftime shows

@thekylestarks.bsky.social I just read Karate Prom and Assassin Nation (major props as always to @ericafails.bsky.social) and they knocked my socks off! The way you write character interactions even (or especially) in the midst of ridiculous situations and over-the-top violence really gets to me =)

Friendship (2025)

bringing my fun quiz over from the other website: What Asinine Thing I Call My Cat Are You? I am PRECIOUS MAN

beautiful day for GUTTER

Love this book, highly recommend!

I just emailed Kwame Raoul asking him to enforce the Illinois Human Rights Act and compel the hospitals that have capitulated to the Trump administration's illegal, unconstitutional EOs against trans healthcare to restore that care. Please join me! forms.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/Forms/OAG_Co...

Another poem inspired by @thatguttershow.bsky.social! www.tumblr.com/haroldjaffe/... Just as the first one focused on Bodhi, Violet, and Scratch, this one is all about Otter and Dorinda ❤️

One of my favorite new podcasts and one of my favorite horror podcasts in general! Highly recommend!

Oh hey, guess what I’ve been up to: www.thepopverse.com/comics-dc-ha...

Just finished @thekylestarks.bsky.social and @ericafails.bsky.social's excellent shoot-em-up/whodunit action comedy Assassin Nation. Highly recommend, and hope they get to continue the story someday!

Please call and demand Governor Pritzker enforce the Illinois Human Rights Act and compel hospitals to restore trans healthcare! (Heads up, the area code for his Chicago office should be 312, not 313.)

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

Some characters from one of my favorite movies, Jane Schoenbrun's mind-bending I Saw the TV Glow. Also my first attempt at making an animated gif in years!

I just finished @ananthhirsh.bsky.social and @whoatess.bsky.social's fantastic and phantasmagorical graphic novel Greater Secrets and WOW! Beautifully intimate storytelling, heartbreaking one moment and can't-help-but-giggle funny the next, with hints of a wider world like lightning illuminating the

Some good news out of Kentucky.

i'm crying oh my god mamdanitimes.com

Keith David reacting to the announcement that he will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

homophobic oblivious mean girl friends who thought they were helping their friend bully a girl when they were actually helping them get together, but they realized this so late that itd embarrassing to admit to so they have no choice but to support their relationship and pretend to be allies

Downloaded this a couple of weeks ago and feels like it’s gonna get a lot of use

Highly recommend this beautiful, vulnerable, heartbreaking, hopeful essay 🥪💙

the swamp of despair (from 2018)

Please call if you live in one of these states find your senator's contact info > reps.fyi

Happy belated #makeaterriblecomicday2025!

Corporate media and PACs the minute it looks like a progressive might have a shot against their disgraced sex pest golden boy (Art by @dresdencodak.com, dresdencodak.com/2022/08/22/d...)

if you didn’t tap into the thread to find call or email scripts, you can find them here too. these scripts even lay out specific legislative mechanism they could use to kill the amendments they’re trying to use to strip healthcare from trans people.

eric has excellent news in the quoted post! progress on killing the trans healthcare coverage bans in the GOP budget. but pressure still needs to be applied! the link below contains call/email templates with reference to the legislative mechanism senators could use to kill this part of the bill.🧵

A TRANS PERSON MADE YOUR PUZZLE is LIVE !!!! donate at least $10 USD to an American trans charity and receive 10 puzzles by trans constructors edited by me and @cantorlope.bsky.social beautiful cover art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social happy pride :) tinyurl.com/transxwords

“Don’t get emotional, it plays into their hands” Counterpoint via the embroidery @marthamihalick.bsky.social made for me seven years ago:

@itsmigdalltime.bsky.social saw this skeet, immediately thought of you (: Still fondly remember you talking on NeoScum about the journalist who interviewed real yakuza about how realistic Yakuza 3 was (perhaps one of the greatest pieces of journalism of all time??)

The FAIR Act has passed through both chambers of the state legislature! Illinois will launch a statewide office of public defense in 2027! This marks the first time Illinois has significantly updated its public defense structure since 1949. endmoneybond.org/2025/05/31/i...

you can take 2 minutes to call your reps today reps.fyi

RADICAL

Just finished @renstrapp.com's How Could You. It is beautiful, funny, painfully familiar, hella gay, and broke my heart a little bit. Highly recommend! 👍👍 [alt text by @bitchesoncomics.bsky.social]

If I had a nickel for every time one of my favorite podcasting teams switched to the Call of Cthulhu system and then had a character wield a Desert Eagle, I'd have two nickels--which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right? @thatguttershow.bsky.social @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social

It should go without saying but let's say it anyways. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS