Lee Anderson 💚🏳️‍⚧️

For those too sick to attend the protests today, here’s Johanna Hedva’s now classic essay asking how you can throw a brick through a bank window when you can’t get out of bed. topicalcream.org/features/sic...

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows

if you purchase anything "Harry Potter" you are funding this.

I for one plan on unsubscribing from HBO/Max as soon her damned reboot is set for release...

The Best American Series The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of pri...

The anthology releases 10/21 everywhere books are sold, but you can pre-order a copy whenever you want: www.harpercollins.com/pages/bestam...

Extraordinarily grateful for the mentorship, support, and outpouring of love for this piece, and to Brevity (for initial publication), Jaya Saxena (series editor), and Bryant Terry (edition editor) for championing the piece.

The cover of "The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025" anthology. The title is at the top of the cover, with an illustration of a wine glass and green bottle full of red wine with the illusion of eyes in the reflections. "Edited by Bryant Terry" in a green box at the bottom of the cover.

Big, big news -- my essay "From Scratch" (brevitymag.com/nonfiction/f...) was selected for the 2025 edition of Best American Food and Travel Writing!! There aren't enough words to say how honored I am to be part of this one.

DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...

Listen up. The Department of Homeland Security is scraping your social media for "antisemitism." If you have posted anything in support of Palestine and you are on a visa, have a green card, or are undocumented, take steps. This is serious. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

They buried this on the day after the tariffs

gordon cole from twin peaks says the following: and when you became denise, I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die

today and always

In ancient Ireland, attaining the highest level of poet entitled you to wear a cloak of crimson feathers and carry a wand.

...just in case anyone is looking for a mid-career pivot.

Cis allies, here's a super simple way to support trans people - and you don't even have to talk to anyone on the phone!

Just add a public comment saying medical care for transgender people is essential and should not be banned from ACA plans.

space mermaids. we need to hear more about them

no cheating, post the last photo of your pet

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

I love this piece we ran last year about HRT and the joy of having your literal tastes change www.eater.com/24180730/hrt...

Google Maps image of “Chuckle Head Conservation Area” in Tasmania

I found where they’re conserving you

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.

S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.*

short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵

legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

i like being transgender i think it's good

In happier news, today is my secondary birthday — 5 years on T! & all the happier for it 🥳🩵🩷🤍

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

New criteria for NEA grants. 🤬

Scroll down to “Assurance of Compliance” section: www.arts.gov/grants/legal...

Whale Songs Obey Basic Rules of Human Languages Humpback whales learn their haunting melodies in much the same way humans learn words

A delightful story about how humpback whale song follows some of the basic laws that govern all human languages. Biology and evolution are amazing. 🧪

If you are not already, pay attention to increasing attacks on porn even if porn is something you do not care for. The attacks, architected and carried out by zealots, are intended to broaden the classification of "porn" to include all sorts of speech determined "subversive" by zealots. This is what has drawn me to this community and fight. I'm not a porn super fan. "Obscenity" is long where this battle has been fought and sex workers are on the front lines of that fight. *Their* free speech battle is one you benefit from, fellow artists.

Don't get me wrong! I don't mean to distance myself from love and appreciation for smut, subversive art, literature, trash and more. I am a true fan of all of the above (in no small part because I also know and appreciate its role in the history of this struggle). But one should not feel they have to be a fan to appreciate what this fight means for the freedom of speech (especially speech including queer and feminist perspectives, which have often been grouped together as "subversive" and "dangerous" texts in the name of state censorship).

Pay attention to the newly accelerated war on porn.

According to a senior CDC official, some of the pages that were removed on Friday have been reinstated due to backlash from the scientific community and the public. Keep speaking up, it matters!

living the life i was always meant to (buying concert tickets while waiting for a show to start)

this is why so many trans adults are puddles and buckets of tears over these EOs: we may have access to hormones and bathrooms for the time being but we are mourning because we know kids are going to die.

we are all those dead children.

I understand that this is an overused image, but if not now, when.

We are not even a week into the second Trump administration and the President of Colombia is telling Trump that he will never shake is hand because “I don’t shake hands with white slavers,” which, to be clear, is a bar

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