Instead of celebrating the Fourth of July, @zachstafford.bsky.social and I decided to have a conversation with none other than Kiese Laymon.

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

This is cope. It was, in fact, *incredibly* radical and subversive to be an out gay person for most of American history. Casting yourself as a pick-me and publicly shaming other LGBT people for Doing Activism Wrong is not going to make the bigots like you. You are doing the bigots' work for them.

Ok, this is an elected representative. How can he be this stupid? It's been precedent for 150 years! 🤣🤣🤣😎

if you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Your kid is probably more likely to be trans than to get an athletic scholarship

We don’t need people learning how to use AI, we need more young people going to McFlurry Machine Repair school

You can’t own anything physical anymore, everything is digital, you can’t own anything digital now, storage is too expensive, you cant stream anything because they took it off the service once their parent company got bought out, you can’t get a McFlurry because the machine is broken

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

Theyve mobilized faster against this than anything in the past 10 years and to me that pretty much says it all and justifies what so many have said about them collectively for anyone willing to pay attention

Thrilled beyond belief to have written about my one and only Jackass for the lovely @lukeoneil47.bsky.social . Everyone subscribe to Hell World, your life will be enriched ten fold.

A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Aww man, of all the parasocial relationships I genuinely loved that dude. His episode of No Reservations in Cajun country is the best representation of our culture I've ever seen on TV. RIP to a real one.

Apparently, you're not allowed to post: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”

Everyone involved in the ai bubble must be held accountable once it bursts, and nobody is more responsible than Microsoft. They were the catalyst for this entire era, and the reason it kept going too. Satya Nadella may do more damage to the tech industry than Sundar Pichai in the end

There are two options: it does something horrific and terrifying OR it’s somebody’s grocery list from 79 AD

Are the people on Threads…okay? Like, I ducked out of there a while back and my friend sent me something so I redownloaded it to look and Jesus Christ that place is the wild fucking west

We have had moderates. We've had so many moderates. We've done nothing but moderate and compromise and contort ourselves to try and come to accords with fascists. The democratic party has been throwing out moderates as the solution to a radicalizing GOP the entire time. It hasn't worked.

I will just say, from Oregon, that to me a big part of why Mamdani and Lander blew up on a national level was that their shared values, mutual respect and solidarity across faith traditions (even while running against each other!) was like everything beautiful about both New York and America

I geniunely do not think this is true, and not just because I am closer to these candidates on some axises. The successful DSA insurgents have governed as more or less normal left-libs once in office. Mamdani and AOC have been affable institutionalists. Nithya Raman is a technocrat.

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

it's not illegal to be nude in portland if you're doing it as part of a protest so in our family the rule is if you're nude in the yard you have to periodically yell LEVITATE THE PENTAGON which i'm hoping the boys retain instinctively lifelong

It’s not enough to ban phones at concerts, I think we should resurrect Alexander Graham Bell, make him call backsies, and then put him in a wicker man

doing a reading tonight and might try reading from the rough draft of my novel in progress because i don't drink or smoke or do drugs anymore and i need something that might feel amazing but will also feel terrible and cause me to wake up promising to never do it again (i will do it again)

the restaurant where i worked in high school had this incredible meatball sandwich on the menu. they made the meatballs from scratch, sauce from scratch, etc. and there was something about the side of fries soaking up the extra sauce in the takeout container that just...hit different after a shift.

Man, I am all for children being allowed in public spaces, but can we all agree collectively that taking your three children under the age of five to a rated R horror movie is a bad fucking idea???

One of these days, they’re going to realize that literally everyone hates them lol

Mandate that teachers in a community get paid the same or more than cops in a community.

I'm a reasonable moderate (lower the age to 70, kicking off the oldest Republican)

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

I have chronic pain issues that make it hard to write or do anything at all, and I have disabilities that compound on those issues too, and I write all the goddamn time without using AI because I'm not also a fucking loser.

This is going in my treasured screenshots album and I‘ll post a link to my AI reference guide page for my CW students, on Canvas.

Bumping this in case you know anyone who can speak to the science in "The Body Keeps The Score" or works with patients who've experienced trauma. Thanks!

He looks like if you made a golden retriever evil, and then into a person and then tried to teach it math and it responded with hatred.

You should know. If you want to share a webpage URL, everything in a URL, from the question mark to everything following it, can be deleted. altitudemarketing.com/blog/questio...

man, I will never forget being, like, 10 years old and ending up in the Emergency Room with an asthma attack because my grandma and I sat too close to the smoking section (with the nice plants in between the booths lmao) at Pizza Hut

we all have our vices and i'm a hypocrite for judging them like this but "bringing back smoking" is an idea periodically floated by the dumbest people alive whose only real belief is edgelordism. i am totally unwilling to hedge on or reconsider this opinion

I have been fighting with Uber to get my account unlocked for over a week. No idea how it got locked in the first place but good lord their customer support is AWFUL. Starting to think I’m just never going to be able to use it again.

Things feel very scary right now! Almost everyone I know is trapped perpetually on the edge of panic. And yet for the last few weeks I've felt curiously optimistic. You can listen to me explain why on this special episode of It Could Happen Here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

why is it that literally any time a trans woman gets posted on the internet, a bunch of fucking losers come out of the woodwork to just say "*he" in the comments? like...could they all get a fucking life?

Consider this the next time Democrats (looking at you, Newsom and Emmanuel) track right on trans issues.

I'd consider making the "where are all the Harper's Letter free speech pundits?" joke again here except 1) we all know many of them were pro-transphobe to begin with & 2) they're probably all too busy at the moment trying to cancel Hasan Piker

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

The DRAMATICS! Cory about to do another 24-hr filibuster speech, this time about the beauty, no— the moral majesty of AI.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr Finally. At its annual shareholders meeting, a mother said its trans "reporting is deeply concerning to me as the mom of a trans teen. What steps are you taking to be accountable to concerns of the trans community, readers, and shareholders?" 1/2

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

No, her pronouns are they/them