Harry Eskin

Bureau of Prisons: February 19, 2026 PURPOSE AND SCOPE To establish professional guidelines for the mental health evaluation and treatment of inmates meeting the diagnostic criteria for Gender Dysphoria (GD) to assist their progress toward recovery, while reducing or eliminating the frequency and severity of symptoms and associated negative outcomes.

This week it was uncovered that the Trump regime is trying to "cure" trans prisoners of being transgender, while doing everything they can - from labeling our mere existence as explicit to stripping us of our legal documents - to ensure we *all* end up imprisoned in their ever-growing camps.

Best first views, February:

Il fiore delle Mille e una notte
The Chase (1966)

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

A frame of 35mm motion picture film with the title “Director of Photography: GARY GRAVER” over a shot of a swimming pool in front of a house

The words we love to see

So what was the deal with Frederick Wiseman apparently not allowing Shirley Clarke’s The Cool World (which he produced and held the rights to) to be re-released/distributed on video?

UCLA’s **faculty unions** said no, and the govt is backing off. Its admin was so ready to comply the might have already set up an autopay for the wire transfer bribe money.

this also seems extra friendly to the sex criminal’s favorite bit of rhetoric, ‘i didn’t do it you can see they’re just trying to destroy my life’

As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.

Everyone’s Valentine posts are lovely and I am happy for you all, but still…

Image from The Simpsons: Ralph Wiggum crying at his desk with his empty Valentine box

Happy Valentine’s Day

Frame of 35mm motion picture film showing Robert De Niro and Christopher Serrone

Frame of 35mm motion picture film showing Lorraine Bracco and Ray Liotta

Frame of 35mm motion picture film showing Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Paul Sorvino

Frame of 35mm motion picture film showing Lorraine Bracco (in a wedding dress) and Ray Liotta

Happy birthday, Barbara! Love and admiration, always

"C'mon kids, I know we own homes you couldn't dream of. We've even grandfathered in our property tax rate so we only pay 20% of what you'd pay in taxes - if you could ever afford to buy.

But won't you please think of the millionaire boomers?

Can't you pay higher taxes so we can take even more?"

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

Shmuel Rodensky with gray hair, a receding hairline and a mustache, wearing a suit and tie, holding a blue folder in his left hand and pointing to it with his right

Simon Wiesenthal (balding, gray hair, mustache) in front of a section of a map of Europe

Shmuel Rodensky as Simon Wiesenthal in The Odessa File (1974); the actual Simon Wiesenthal in the documentary The Final Solution, a.k.a. The Yellow Star (1981)

gee whiz it would be really great if the opposition party smelled blood in the water right now and went on a full offensive to harness this spark of momentum

The pro-Palestine people are why we're in this shit. And now the ones in MN are in the FA of their FO of their staying home or voting for him. And now they can't even take responsibility for their mistake and always argue in bad faith.

"If YOU had only accepted the genocide we were funding and stayed quiet about it then I wouldn't have to see that same chain of violence drawn in closer to home"

Our point is not to hide the chain but to break it

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

SCIENTISTS QUARREL OVER MARTIAN WOMEN One Says Ladies Have Two Thumbs and X-Ray Eyes ANOTHER SAYS BIG EARS --The Commercial Appeal, 22 Oct 1928

We used to do real science

Oh sweet! Dad remembers wandering off to get a better view and winding up by the rafters where a sound/engineering guy was. Or I think that’s what he told me

YouTube video by Elaine Oliveira Grateful Dead - 4/15/78 - William & Mary Hall - Williamsburg, VA - sbd

Seems like this is probably the Grateful Dead show my dad went to. Virginia, April 1978: youtu.be/VpYOHxpdlSA

Happy birthday Henry!

Half of a fortune cookie with the fortune paper in front of it. The fortune reads, “You have an unusual magnetic personality”

What are we thinking, is this accurate?

Best first views of December:

We Can’t Go Home Again
Marty Supreme
Avatar: Fire and Ash

KEEP TELLING BULLIES "FUCK YOU, MAKE ME"

Can’t see what could go wrong with the chatbot that tells people to kill themselves also pushing DraftKings