Jen Richards

We should ask anyone defending Epstein or Trump, like Megyn Kelly today, WHY they think it's okay for adult men to want girls, but not for adult men and women to want each other. Bring this attitude into the light and challenge it.

It's not hypocritical to think a trans or gay kid is a deviant, and Trump is a great man, because in their worldview all men are naturally like Trump, and only trauma, sin, or perversion is at the root of happily adjusted trans & gay people in consenting relationships

The difference, or course, is agency and consent. But again, in their worldview men "naturally" want girls and vice versa. Which is why all cries of hypocrisy fall on deaf ears.

In their worldview, the only real & dangerous deviations are homosexuality and gender variance. Or engaging with pre-pubescent children. They see those as unnatural. And aligned. Hence the constant conflation with natural sexual and gender variance with dangerous deviancy.

AND it's assumed that young women naturally WANT the attention and protection of older men. The only difference between Leavitt's 32 year age gap marriage and what Epstein & Trump engage with is an arbitrary legal distinction, one they want to violate as proof of their power.

Many believe it is "natural" for men to be sexually attracted to girls from puberty on, and that stigmatization, even of acting upon it, is an arbitrary social construct (eg variable "age of consent" laws). It's frowned upon, but understood, because it's "natural".

Trump Is Waging War on an American City The real threat to people in Chicago ​(and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

And also with you, queen

In this case, ADF “cited several scholars to support its argument that conversion practices should once again be permitted. Two of those experts, however, told the Guardian that ADF had ‘profoundly’ misrepresented their research, which discussed the ‘psychological damage’ of conversion therapy.’”

And there it is. The entire attack on Netflix is just a grift for far right influencers to promote a religious streaming site.

We are very much inside the logic of the paradox of tolerance. The right has been openly stoking violence against minorities for years, and their incitements have gone largely unchallenged. More hand wringing about civility and norms will do nothing. We crossed the Rubicon long ago.

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I love seeing that I haven't liked an artist's most popular song on Spotify and then liking it only to realize I already liked five other versions.

Hey friends, I dusted off my brain and wrote an essay for the first time in many years. Here's a piece about my experience at the June 8th protests in LA, state violence, solidarity between communities, and bearing witness to the truth: www.them.us/story/lapd-i...

ICE Agent Fled From Angry Residents Outside New York School — and Got in a Car Crash Masked and unidentified ICE agents lurking near schools sparked fear, confusion, and a car crash in Latino-heavy New York suburbs.

NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE.

Inside one day on LI:

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Children's Hospital Los Angeles halts transgender care under pressure from Trump Children's Hospital of Los Angeles will stop offering services related to transgender care, according to a message reviewed by The Times.

The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

We are getting reports of clinics shutting down that provide care to trans youth over the latest CMS letter threat.

If your clinic has shut down or you work at one, or your child's clinic has shut down, please send us a DM - we are putting together a big story on this.

SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.

ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.

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I'm not a political scientist but if you're advice to the Democratic Party is pushing out unions, immigrants, and queers then I think there's already a party for that

Maksim tells me he has developed a kinship with the transgender detainees in particular, who he says face brutal harassment from both guards and fellow inmates. “I’ve befriended several,” he says. “But here, especially for trans people… just disappear. One day they’re here, the next day, no one knows. Were they deported? Released? No one tells us.” In that landscape of indifference, Maksim has found a kind of resistance in solidarity. He is part of a small community of queer detainees who take care of each other. “I’d be happy if America wants to deport me,” he says. “Just not to Russia. Mexico would be fine.”

Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February.

He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."

Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it's all being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who has dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built his "political project". 1/
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Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.

One of the Boys Audiobook on Libro.fm Grace Woodhouse has left a lot behind. She used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a right foot set to earn her a Division I football scholarship—before she came out as trans. As...

the audiobook edition of ONE OF THE BOYS is OUT NOW!!!

i am beyond honored to have the lovely and incomparable Jen Richards (@smartassjen.bsky.social) read my little book😭 please pick it up if you, like me, love reading books with your ears!!!

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This Hacks Andor crossover is hot.

And we already know that speaking out against slaughter of civilians is considered supportive of terrorism. They've laid the groundwork for trans people simply existing to be terrorism ("gender ideology"), or fighting for women's bodily autonomy, or resisting ICE, or collective organizing, or ...

Record anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2025 Proposed laws tracked targeting LGBTQ+ rights across all U.S. states 575 533 510 180 154 77 42 51 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2025 (as of May 2024 Source: ACLU,2025 . Chart: Enrique Anarte The tracker covers bills introduced, advancing, passed Context into law or defeated

Rahm/Newsom/Cuomo: Dems spend too much time talking about what bathroom people use or what sport team they play on

The GOP:

One thing that Trump will not tolerate is the heads of agencies saying publicly that their agency should exist.

What Trump learned long ago as a private citizen is that you can easily ruin someone’s life with frivolous litigation even if you ultimately lose in court. And that was when he was spending his own money to harass and intimidate people. Now he’s spending yours.

The judges who looked at this case previously had to chastise the White House lawyers because the evidence they presented to prove that trans inclusion hurt military readiness showed the opposite. They hadn't even read their own evidence. It's ideology over evidence. Pure animus.