listen I don’t love Gaston either but he’s seemingly the only person here willing to murder an aristocrat

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

Ten years ago an anti-trans bathroom ban in North Carolina was met with widespread resistance! TEN YEARS!!!

Simply: "The argument for GAC has never been solely about its ability to stop death, it’s about the way it helps us build the lives we deserve. The argument for affirmation is that no one should be deprived of the opportunity to live their lives in such a way as feels the most true to who you are."

Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.

It’s finally nice enough to do weekend activities by bike again and I feel like I’ve been released from cryosleep

me when I got cold called in law school

Roses are red Foxglove can kill

If there's one thing wrestling fans really really love it's being told not to chant something. Works out every single time. See also: a decade of WWE fans chanting for CM Punk.

dang they tryna charge me another buck for the good version lol

*mayor pete, alone in a dark room, cigarette burning down to the filter, watching a zohran press conference on replay like the zapruder film* for too LONG. for TOO long. For too long. for too long. for too Long. for to

"But only the worker actually goes on strike. As such, the only people who should call for a strike are the workers who will be striking." open.substack.com/pub/tabithaa...

For Liam.

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Will Stancil chasing ICE agents on behalf of his refugee neighbors does the same thing to their brains that Crusader Kings III did to my old laptop

It's true that when a government becomes tyrannical it is the duty of the citizens to overthrow it and form a new one. It's just that the people who have been saying it in my lifetime have been saying it in response to stuff like the existence of Hannukah, and Black people, and the Spanish language.

It’s been a very weird three hours to be at a kids birthday party

I think this sentiment erases the tens of projects where a creator just stays extremely chill about covering printing and art costs for a game that's already done before crowdfunding. Maybe tens is pushing it.

How did a cluster of Bay Area families focused on support and socializing become one of the most successful orgs defending transition care for youth? New, original reporting from @evanurquhart.bsky.social on the group who won a reprive from Sutter Health. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I honestly wonder if he’s laying the groundwork to fill the post-Trump vacuum in the Republican Party

I've finally put my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine online in readable form with clickable links - check it out and GET HOOKED UP and ORGANIZED, friends! gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...

If you support Gavin Newsom, even in the slightest, even if it's just his AI slop social media posts, you're signaling you're as eager to get rid of trans people as the most rabid Trumpist. You just want it done with a frown instead of a laugh.

The @nytimespr.bsky.social has questioned my word before, when @assignedmedia.org reported on its trans-exclusionary hiring & assigning practices. Five years after I raised this issue w top editors, a year after the Assigned story published, nothing changed. You are what your record says you are

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

I finally started reading Earthsea

in this statement, Schumer says Trump lied to him THREE TIMES about this invasion. but Schumer's only concrete ask is for Trump to BRIEF CONGRESS. why? so Trump can lie again? IMPEACH. Call your reps and demand they IMPEACH. reps.fyi

Borscht Belt comic: Boy I tell ya, the manufacturing economy in the United States sure is dead. Audience: How dead is it? Borscht Belt comic: Why, these days they don't even bother to manufacture consent! *rim shot* (Comic is dragged off-stage by a big hook, deported to a black site)

It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.

even consent manufacturing has switched to a just-in-time model

say what you will about James Cameron but my kids have watched this video 500 times www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSGe...

I can’t believe they made me take exams about constitutional law

What’s most disappointing in reading this is the active role of the NYT science desk in spreading transphobic disinformation. Really shameful what Azeen Ghoryashi (used to respect her for covering sexual harassment in science) and Virginia Hughes did to twist science for their anti-trans campaign.

Picture of the staff who operate my Bluesky account

Silicon Valley billionaire responses to wealth tax proposals: “It’s illegal confiscation!” Property taxes go back to ancient times “We will move away!” Yes you lack loyalty to society “You’re just jealous of us!” ?? “We will buy new politicians to stop this.” Yes this is precisely the point

how did nobody tell me calculation of volume takes place on my birthday? now I feel overwhelmingly compelled to read it.

Remember the one day that democrats were allowed to point out what weird losers these guys are can we please try that again

Tech bro Adrian Veidt: I’ve named myself “Ozymandias”, after the character in the famous poem “Don’t Be Like Ozymandias”.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

This thread by a former NYT editor documents how the NYT came to push the Cass Review so hard over other reviews. It was dictated from the top by editors. They sidelined their own London reporter to put Azeen Ghorayshi on it.

Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again

Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

it's extremely strange to me that there was like, a six-ish year period where acceptance of trans people happened extremely rapidly and access to care expanded and now it's being pulled back even faster

they want trans kids to die

The so-called "Hercules Gene" is connected to much larger muscle mass and lower body fat. I'm sure this NYT article will denounce it as "unfair competition" and call for these "enhanced biological males" who carry it to be banned from all competitive sports. Oh wait...

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.