The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Kirk's murder is being weaponized to corral us into a smaller and smaller arena of speech, and it is our job to refuse to be confined, to keep speaking out, to keep making irreverent jokes, supporting progressive voices, chastising the high-profile cowards, and talking among ourselves.

I want those of us who are getting into our middle-aged years and beyond to understand that as cynical and sad as we might feel, we have a responsibility to ensure that those who come after us have the energy to go on, to be creative in their problem-solving, to believe change is possible.

The amazing @caroderobertis.bsky.social has written some brilliant fiction lately (including the transcendant Palace of Eros) but their latest is an utterly essential nonfiction book called So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color. <3

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.

I surround myself with peers, mentors and students who in all kinds of ways call out the best in me. I sit down with my students and want to be a bodhisattva FOR them. I learn from history and my elders what integrity feels like from the inside. This work can’t happen in isolation.

This. Times a thousand. Again and again.

Personally, I will not be continuing Charlie Kirk's work.

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Happy pub week to @charliejane.bsky.social ‘s absolutely delightful new novel 🎉

Good morning, folks. The sky says trans rights are human rights.

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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people. We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?

Comedians are a comfort and he can’t silence all of us. The ridicule must go deeper. Bruise and swell him from the inside. Thicken those ankles until they burst.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.

No one voted to kick 17 MILLION people off their health care. No one voted to RAISE the cost of groceries. No one voted to give handouts to BILLIONAIRES. Donald Trump and Republicans just sold out working people. This is a gut punch — but we will NOT stop fighting back.

Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.

"To be bent over like this. Naked. Pinned down. Spread wide. Taken. Slapped, whipped, called a whore—where did it all come from? Can it be feminist, she wondered as she spread her thighs, to want this?" Today's queer story is "Green" by @caroderobertis.bsky.social!

The media coverage around the Florida concentration camp seems familiar. From the NYT covering the opening of Dachau in the summer of 1933. www.nytimes.com/1933/07/26/a...

Well done!

We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.

My heart is with my Iranian friends and their families. May everyone live.

So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.

On KQED Forum, in the wake of the devastating Skrmetti SCOTUS decision, we had a rich conversation about trans histories—and futures

When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine. It's the same court and lawyers.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

Thousands showed up in Fayetteville, ARKANSAS! #NoKings #NoKingsinArkansas @jenpsaki.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @briantylercohen.bsky.social @emptywheel.bsky.social

No Kings but Drag Kings 👑👑🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙌🏼

There are nearly 100,000 people at the rally in Philadelphia. #NoKings

If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country. We will hold this administration accountable.

i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Very excited for this. After marching in protest in the streets, a celebration at a library — those havens of culture! — of queer voices, their presence throughout the fabric of time, our joyful insistence into the future. With the incredible Kate Schatz!

there's still time to not be this guy or stop being this guy

🌈📚 📖 So Many Stars An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by @caroderobertis.bsky.social intimate accounts of creating space for themselves & their communities in the world Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky

These are very brave people. Any one of them is braver than most of the Americans in the House and Senate and in our college presidencies. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Be safe. Let us know how those not on the ground can help.

Mass protest in LA today, 2pm, City Hall.

i'm either crying for those detained and in awe for those in the frontlines. LA has so much love

I have been, and will continue to post this often. Your Guard, Reserve and active duty family, friends, neighbors and coworkers are going to need it. Please share far, wide and often!

Thank you for this. That's why I'm stocking this (as well as many other books like it) in our free little library here in Raleigh.

the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got

Librarians, teachers, and bookstore owners are having a day of action tomorrow, 6/7! Support the teaching of history and the freedom to read. Learn more below; find an event near you here: www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...

The url is the same though! theguardian[.] com/society/2025/jun/06/ehrc-commissioner-calls-for-trans-people-to-accept-reduced-rights-after-years-of-lies

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Remember the end of “Jurassic Park,” when it seemed two giant dinosaurs were about to destroy the humans but in a happy twist they turned to destroy each other instead?

A PLAGUE