Nick Offerman’s life is a circus. It’s also a rousing manifesto against AI We talked! Gift 🔗

This is 100% true. Your general knee - jerk libertarian bro doesn't like this. It's low priority for them because it's not happening to them or people they know, but they don't like it.

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years. Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism." Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Y'all, I went to the movies tonight and 2 guys TALKED THROUGH THE WHOLE MOVIE, yelling racial + misogynistic slurs at the screen. So I wrote about it and the rise of the Plague of Entitled Men who are everywhere now, emboldened and multiplying in terrifying numbers. Read it at LaneMoore.Substack.com

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Screenprinting to keep this live after LC deactivates (assume he's ok with that, if not let me know)

Delighted to be part of this package on the future of being trans online; thank you so much to ALL the trans comrades who helped shape this story. I hope I did y'all proud.

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

wrote about how Dr. Phil pivoted to wholesale MAGA punditry after leaving daytime TV to start his own company—and why his Trump friendship and ICE ride-alongs couldn't save his new venture from the bankruptcy proceedings that now have him tied up in court slate.com/business/202...

Yeah man, for sure

Debbie Brockman, the WGN producer who was violently detained by Border Patrol agents in Chicago while on her way to work, has hired a law firm and "intends to pursue all legal avenues" over her arrest -- which resulted in no charges. peopleslawoffice.com/statement-on...

these people know how extreme they are

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

Hello~ i wrote something for @theverge.com about the surreal horror of online transness in a fascist surveillance state. it’s time to change tactics and make ourselves less legible to this machinery of death — but *without* sacrificing our connection and community.

“Young” is clearly relative

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

When Politico runs what appears to be a negative Trump story

One of my quotes:

This from @janus.bsky.social is also really, really good and important:

join me and my pals at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social where i'll be bringing my patented run-on sentences and cul-de-sac musings to this panel for new doc by the brilliant @samfeder.bsky.social tickets are limited!

good movie! www.avclub.com/heightened-s...

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?" Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

I had to draw him

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Here’s the post https://open.substack.com/pub/margaretsullivan/p/the-media-is-largely-ignoring-the?r=1yc91&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

*struggling to remember Charlie Kirk's name* I think it was...

let’s share this and see how powerful bluesky can be for music, shall we?

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News! www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

[solemnly] let’s fucking go

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13. She was 78.... www.ebar.com/story/159150...

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Boo

I prefer audiobooks

I thought this was lovely.

Or if you're just a big fan of one of the greatest sports arcade games of all time

Co-sign. This is an excellent segment on the grievance troll Bari Weiss and her misguided bullshit journalism and academic ventures.

Today's newsletter is all about this brilliant ad www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

inspiring 💗💖

Did you know that the New York Times reporter who wrote the first fawning profile of Trump in 1976 also promoted the hoax about poisoned Halloween candy? Misinformation is contagious. The media helped build the Trump myth, and we're all suffering now. I wrote about it in my free newsletter.

Also she’s not reliable on anything, it is clear that 1 reason she is acting the way she is, not just on Israel, these days is because she was not given the blessings or the job offers from the trump White House in the past year that she wanted

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Appointed by Meta as an adviser on AI bias, anti-DEI campaigner Robby Buck has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, trans people, vaccines, crime & protests The Guardian repeatedly contacted Meta for comment but received no response

It's interesting that he's now publicly contemplating his own mortality a couple of times

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."