We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

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.

It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit

As trans people are under assault in this country — e.g., being falsely blamed for the Kirk murder — California is strengthening protections for them. Two bills I’m authoring (SB 59 & 497) to protect trans people’s health & court record privacy passed the Legislature & are heading to the Governor.

A truly remarkable legislator, wife, and mother of two--gunned down in her prime while police cowered scared outside her home.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters. Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers: "The First Amendment demands better."

Kirk didn't "engage" with others in "discourse" in any meaningful sense, and certainly not in a sense any of us should emulate. His every interaction was in bad faith. He viewed none of his interlocutors as moral equals in an exchange of ideas, but as mere means to advance is propagandistic ends.

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

And they wonder why fewer people are going to the movies:

All these people are rich beyond imagining. There's no reason to take this gig beyond making it clear they don't give a fuck about trans people.

What we're seeing is further evidence of the modern trend of paying lip service to diversity and inclusion because it looks good while personal actions reveal that it's actually all just about self-interest. variety.com/2025/digital...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Probably worth repeating on main: evangelical Christians have their own books, movies, community spaces, and organized events. They have a robust echo chamber and they build political power by getting folks to join it.

This absolute banger

One thing I find so frustrating is when a really interesting concept for a female character gets warped to hell and back in a vain attempt to make her romance with a very queer-coded guy mildly interesting

Can't pick just one

“Federal law enforcement asked the crews to line up to check their IDs, according to the firefighters. One of the firefighters said members of the crew were told not to take video of the incident.” DHS did this as flames actively raged. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

I’ve never been one to sit on the sidelines. I’m running for State Assembly. Let’s fight for the future we deserve. 🚀 ➡️ KluweOC.com/Donate #ChrisKluwe #CALeg #OrangeCounty

A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.

Someone I know asked for recommendations of historical or fantasy books that address the setting's material reality. Naturally I had to recommend WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON by @venessakelley.bsky.social, NO BETTER THAN BEASTS by @zrellor.bsky.social, and SO MANY BEGINNINGS by @bethanycmorrow.com.

I do not know why every Presidential hopeful decided they needed a professionally unpleasant social media army to repeat talking points and alienate people but literally none of the Dem candidates who adopted this "strategy" got elected

MPD, FBI, and others with non-agency specific gear arresting a guy for — get this — smoking weed on U Street.

DAILY MEMO: Agents Abduct a Pregnant U.S. Citizen, Use a Penske Truck as a “Ruse” to Get Past “anti-ICE” People and Raid a Home Depot, and More @eltragon.bsky.social

We are deeply troubled by apparent raids in Southern California, including one involving a Penske truck filled with agents descending on day laborers today. While more investigation is needed, we have serious concerns that the federal government may be in violation of the federal judge's July TRO.

This is a very good essay and also applicable to those of us who have written about gender in epic fantasy

Meanwhile, and this is truly beyond belief, the solution to famine in Gaza is RIGHT THERE. Which is what makes this starvation a deliberate and genocidal act. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Dear diary, My dog continues to elongate.

Those are just two examples and they're almost always combined with other directly homophobic slurs and insults that also demonstrate a misogynistic opinion about me and people like me.

Being born as a man doesn't even spare you from misogyny if you fail to be the right kind of man. The insults I get are *extremely* biased towards the ones typically used for women. I get called a bitch more than asshole, my voice is shrill if I speak forcefully or disagree.

That first bit is something that a lot of queer cis men have in common with trans men and transmascs and could be a point of solidarity between us all if more of us cis men would stop being transphobic. Misogyny doesn't care about your AGAB - queer or trans are both failed manhood to them.

MAY THE BEST MAN WIN is on this list, probably because it points out that teenage boys who fetishize the military are weird little losers with no friends (it’s the trans stuff actually)

If you haven’t already, now is a great time to start not supporting Gavin Newsome for president

"Yup, there's your problem. You've mistaken arbitrary norms specific to your social group for sacred immutable truths and it has driven you insane."

Today's newsletter is my big takedown of Rahm Emanuel and his anti-trans BS. www.readtpa.com/p/the-smalle...

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.

I wrote about covering the aftermath of the immigration raids in Venture County this week. Most of what’s on my mind in this piece is dark and angry—none of this should be normal. A man shouldn’t have died running for his life Thru all this, the community care in the county was a sight to behold.

🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car. They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor. Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is. (🎥 ABC 7 News)

Important to note that mpreg has been possible in the sims for YEARS it’s only ACCIDENTAL mpreg that’s the bug

At metro detention center DTLA , protesters are gathering, after vans with no license plate plates delivered women and children into the detention center. They were seen marching with heads down handcuffed. This is a TikTok live. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hPQjrw/

if you are a medical care provider giving gender-affirming care to trans kids right now, especially if you're doing it in defiance of this evil, you are a fucking saint. you are saving these kids' lives and there is no possible way to exaggerate that. 🩵🤍🩷

Not sure if most people realize that there are no release dates at CECOT. All detentions are indefinite

At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine. One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."

Border patrol now sweeping the park

I’m here in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, where military style vehicles have pulled up down Wilshire and Alvarado, amid rumors of an ICE raid in the park have proliferated since last night