ev nichols

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...

NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...

I decided to put out some words of encouragement for these incredible students and their teacher
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LA students wanted to protest ICE, so a teacher let them out of school. Then he was fired A teacher's dismissal has spurred protests and raised questions about whose responsibility it is to ensure safety as students exercise their First Amendment rights.

This charter school bullshit in the name of STEM education 🤬 🧪

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hi, cis folks!

if you’re in kansas, please call & tell your state senator & representative that revoking trans people’s documents & setting bounties on trans folks using the bathroom is fucked. tell them to support a veto—yes, even republicans.

contact info: reps.fyi

find talking points in the QP

I have major ethical concerns about the Adolescent and Young Adult Gender Dysphoria Outcomes Study (AYAGDOS) pseudoscience in the making

ive seen warnings going around about ayagdos, a study of trans adolescents and young adults run by three anti-trans researchers with histories of major ethical lapses. plus it's funded by a tech mogul with ties to eugenics and race science

info to contact the irb and share your concerns 👇🏻

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

im so sorry :(

HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.

The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.

www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...

important to add that studies of queer and trans health is also being censored - at rates comparable to work on vaccine hesitancy

How Trump is rigging immigration courts against Somali migrants During a December 2 cabinet meeting, President Trump unleashed a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants.

1. Trump has launched a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants, calling them "garbage" and demanding they be kicked out of the country

Now, the Trump administration is rigging the immigration courts against them

We've uncovered the details of the scheme

In a "ugh now I have to research yet another topic that is probalby bunk": finger digit ratio.
It was also used in gay conversion therapy iirc
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_r...
James Smoliga calls it pseudoscience
medicine.tufts.edu/news-events/...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Fucking hell! The meme that had me looking at my fingers going "whaaa?" was from the incoherent ramblings of the serial rapist who typed all his emails one-handed?

I feel sick. 🤮🤮🤮

Been thinking a bit about the way that John Brockman acted as Epstein's scientist collector and would organize dinners where Epstein would just happen to show up and I think a lesson here for *white scientists* is if you're being invited to all-white events, that might be actively intentional 🧪

LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

hm that’s odd. this one shouldn’t have a content warning!

I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report.

It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.

The Death and Rebirth of the Queer Bookstore Hi! Before we get started… Right now, you can get a Humble Bundle including everything Annalee Newitz and I have published with Tor for just $18 (plus...

Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything!

Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns.

My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop:

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“jeffrey epstein helped invent the 4tran brainworms” is a sentence that sounds insane (and is insane) but is at least somewhat true

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i was able to put together the timeline of the epstein/trivers relationship and wrote it up. in 2015, epstein bragged to chomsky that he was trivers' main funder. the next year he explicitly funds trivers so that he can pursue "transgender biology." trivers publishes the digit ratio work in 2020

so glad you liked it! just messaged you :)

Former Stanford professor Nathan Wolfe ’92 planned sexual behavior research, described interns with Epstein The Daily investigated correspondence between virologist Nathan Wolfe ’92 and Epstein in which the two men discussed interns’ attractiveness, “female viagra” and sexual research projects.

Virologist Nathan Wolfe sought funding from Jeffrey Epstein to study whether sexually transmitted infections increased women’s sex drive.

He planned to conduct this study among female undergraduate students.

thanks for sharing :)

This is a terrific overview of Robert Trivers, the central figure in Epstein‘s circle of anti-trans academics. And the best part is that Ev includes *links to the source documents* not just screencaps. I encourage everyone else to do the same when posting here or elsewhere!

in between, trivers shares his sexual obsession with trans women which you likely have seen the screenshots of and markets his work to gender critical audiences. frankly the whole story is even more bizarre than it may seem...

i was able to put together the timeline of the epstein/trivers relationship and wrote it up. in 2015, epstein bragged to chomsky that he was trivers' main funder. the next year he explicitly funds trivers so that he can pursue "transgender biology." trivers publishes the digit ratio work in 2020

HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”

SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology"

The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders:
www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

omg this is wild! some people just love to ask the most dehumanizing scientific questions i guess

As a small-handed, long-ring-fingered cis woman I went to a reputable animal behaviour conference in 2018. When I saw that at least one of the talks concerned the Digit Ratio, I yiked so loudly; why can't those weirdos leave us alone to talk about cute, otherworldly bugs and worms and furry things?