They’ll pry my nonbinary passport from my cold, dead hands

1. On Tuesday Night, Democrats won elections nationwide in a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics. From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

2026 Primary Woke Wave

That’s MY mayor (I live in Oregon)

THE PROPHESY HAS BEEN FULFILLED DAYENU

Hearing MSNBC say that you couldn't run Mamdani anywhere other than NYC because it's "cosmopolitan" is so frustrating. He could win in Chicago. He could win in Portland. He could win in LA. Bernie, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren are very popular among Democrats across the nation. Move to the left!

I am soooo frustrated to not be in NYC tonight. What’s it like?? Honking and dancing in the streets, party vibes, whaaaat?

Capitalism is now illegal

I live 3,000 miles away and have not felt this much hope in 10 years

Everyone applaud Judge Immergut for letting us have ONE WEEKEND OF PEACE in Portland JFC 😅

The feds are trying to argue that troops are desperately needed on the streets of Portland this weekend, immediately. I’ve lived in Portland for 20 years. You know what’s going on this weekend? So many Halloween parties that it’s impossible to try to go to everything 🤣

SHOTS FIRED (Important to remember Judge Immergut is also a Trump appointee—nice to know that occasionally does not exempt someone from following the rule of law)

Watching today’s hearing on whether the National Guard can be deployed to Portland 👀

Fun game: guess which country has untapped rare earth mining resources, the 3rd largest supply of lithium, and signed a mining agreement with the U.S. recently? (Hint: rhymes with Bargentina) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

It’s incredibly disappointing to learn about the gutting of the @nbcnews.com diversity verticals. Some of the best journalism today comes from reporters from marginalized backgrounds who have the unique cultural competency to truly understand the issues that are at play in this moment.

Now THIS is the Portland, Oregon I know and love

So glad the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security is in town to protect me from delicious food carts. This was such a harrowing walk through war-ravaged Portland.

My city is not a military target. We don’t want or need federal immigration enforcement or troops here. It’s the most ridiculously wholesome and peaceful place in the United States. This continued aggression is absurd. katu.com/news/local/h...

Good afternoon. U.S. District Judge April Perry just took the bench for today's status hearing in Illinois v. Trump, over deployment of the National Guard. A link to the complaint, for those who don't have it: t.co/yaknq55rr8

BREAKING: California joins Oregon's existing suit over National Guard deployment, both request Judge Immergut issue TRO against CA guard being sent to OR, argue Trump admin move is attempt to circumvent court order. Docs: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Harrowing day in Portland, Oregon watching adorable piglets race at a festive pumpkin patch full of families. Thank God soldiers are coming from California to put a stop to this madness.

After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now. We are taking this fight back to court.

Trump responded to a court order blocking him from deploying Oregon national guard by sending in troops from other states. Meanwhile I spent the day at a pumpkin patch filled with happy families because there is literally nothing happening here that warrants even thinking about military action.

HAPPENING NOW: Oregon asks Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) to block the Trump admin's federalization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to deploy to Portland. 🧵

Another harrowing left-wing threat seen on the walls of Portland, Oregon today

Anti-Defamation League decides that defamation is totally OK, actually jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...

I’m going to argue that the civil war started when Trump sent the “Department of War” to Chicago, but today he is officially directing the entire U.S. military to attack its own homeland.

To be fair to Oregon (where I live) my mom’s town in upstate New York did the same exact thing. The supposed dire threat of “busloads of antifa coming to attack you” really was a massively successful propaganda scare.

Welp, here we go…again

Ah yes, left-wing terrorism

Trans and nonbinary people don’t want to kill anyone we’re mostly just trying not to kill *ourselves*

This seems normal and fine via @aaronparnas.bsky.social aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-g...

Grindr crashed at the rapture

Did everyone forget that they shut down the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in July, the first time it was defunded since its creation six decades ago? Did we think that would stop with public media? Do we think it will stop anywhere?

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

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By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

First they came for the New York Super Chunk, and I said nothing…

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse." – @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Things I’ve seen today: the website doxxing anyone who posts public snark about Kirk’s shooting, several HBCUs responding to direct threats, misinformation claiming trans rights messages were engraved into ammunition found on scene. It’s going to be a wild ride from here.

The opposition to Zohran is a case study in “how not to” and it’s really fascinating www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj3a6gxy/