It really needs to be reiterate in these plain terms. The grift is on the table, the rise in anti-trans panic is easily traced back, and yet the attacks on us haven’t missed a single beat. No pause. No reflection. They just continue doing what the perverts told them to do.

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

The reason you stand firm about sports participation and bathrooms is because it never stops with sports participation and bathrooms. And it never stops with trans people. As we've been saying the whole goddamn time!

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

I don't know much about Dani Welch and it's not my district but they are primarying the ATROCIOUS Tom Suozzi who absolutely needs to be defeated.

Unfortunately the reality is that cops have a history of killing people by dropping them off in inhospitable places. In Canada it’s called a “starlight tour” when cops detain an Indigenous person and then drop them off miles from home in the wilderness, sometimes causing them to freeze to death

Today it is snowballs. Tomorrow it could be F16s. Cops need more budget.

As I say in the interview, look at the oligarchs and the criminal networks more than at Trump. He'll die eventually. They're planning for that. Where will the money he stole go? Who are they planning to install in his place? Who does that person work for? What's the point of leverage? Start there.

I'm proud of Chuck Schumer for finally taking a stand last night. I just wish it wasn't a standing ovation.

Have we already forgotten what happened in Iraq? Over 8,000 Americans killed. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. Trillions of dollars spent. Nobody has explained how a war with Iran helps America. Because it won't.

What we allow defines us.

Don't let this distract you from the fact that the #SAVE Act would disenfranchise every woman whose last name doesn't match the one on her birth certificate. The next step is giving her vote to her husband. JD Vance proposed it, and now they're slow-rolling it. #SAVEAct #CivilRights #WomensRights

The drop in infant and child mortality over the last hundred years (due to the advent of vaccines, better nutrition, and antibiotics) cannot be overstated, and *that* is almost assuredly the reason there is no term for it.

The FBI can't even locate their own director.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

mowing through this book today at work #phish, guessing there isn't a ton of stuff im not already aware of but the 2024 retrospective on 4.0 to begin the book was quite nice 😀

Not so crazy when everyone else has imaginary friends they rely on now, is it?

SCOOP — Tom Suozzi has a Democratic primary challenger in the NY-3 congressional race. Danielle Welch (@daniwelch.bsky.social), a public defender, has officially declared her candidacy. Welch gave me this comment about launching her campaign:

And not to put too fine a point on it, but yes this is literally, literally how it starts. Before the T-4 euthenasia program, they were letting people actively die from medical neglect. That was also how they hid their murders, because deaths from pneumonia and appendicitis were common death lies

This is somewhere between 40-50% of deployable US air power (and it’s still growing). On a scale with the Gulf Wars.

A guy can hope.

ICE just bought a massive warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia for $128.6 million. Call it what it is: an internment camp expansion happening in town across the country. 1/2

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

ICE talks abt undocumented humans w/ a “criminal record.” Reminder that, as @prisonculture.bsky.social often says, many things are crimes that are not harmful & many things are harmful that are not crimes. & that trauma & oppressive systems force impossible choices & child rapists run the govt.

They aren’t spending billions of dollars on detention camps to leave them empty. They either aren’t planning on deporting people, or they intend to fill the camps with someone else.

I think we should be spending tax dollars on vaccines not luxury planes and vacations and grifters but I guess that makes me a fucking lunatic.

shaming people for appearances that don’t appeal to you ain’t the fuck okay—even if it’s genuinely evil middle aged white men you’re shaming!—because the stigma *doesn’t fucking stop with people whose politics you hate*. shame them for their shit fucking politics and evil, leave aesthetics out of it

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

This is a crime. If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment. This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.

Proposed cuts to libraries, parks, CUNY, housing + health, while keeping NYPD + Corrections intact; proposed real property tax increases disproportionately affecting Black owners + most tenants; homeless encampment sweeps. Why is Z proposing these regressive measures, and how best can we respond? 🧵

I believe in redemption, but not for this. Not for predators and the people who protected them. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/shipwreck-...

Whoever came up with “the Andrew Formerly Known As Prince” deserves a toast

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

The calls for trans people to be quieter as we're wiped out are only going to increase, and you owe it to your sisters and brothers to get louder and louder.

I’ll add that it seems perfectly possible to me that using Claude to do limited computer science work may be genuinely helpful while using Grok to create political content or using ChatGPT to mediate your understanding of the world is as detrimental as eating opium all day.

US is wilding again.

We’ve come full circle

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

Wow.

these two young white guys on IG go to an NYC restaurant each week to try food from a different country. they posted a video bringing together the owners of their first 12 stops & it made me cry bc it was simple & beautiful. just people from all over the world hanging & being pals. how it should be.

TSA could be completely replaced by AI. Help them complete their transition to stage and screen acting since they're all so well acquainted with theater.

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Crushing the mRNA industry in the US also probably destroys a bunch of cures for various cancers just as an FYI.

Brown hoodie kid could teach Chuck Schumer a thing or two.

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

Would you look at that.