Jena Tesse Fox

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

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Thank you once again! I almost never use instagram so I'm not sure how this works!

Oh whew! Thank you!

Grr, trying to watch the @mincemeatbway.bsky.social livestream but I barely use instagram and I have no idea how to find it on the show's page. Any advice?

Beautiful. May his memory be a blessing.

if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good

Maybe not the worst but most annoying thing about this Kennedy Center debacle is going to be the thousands of people with little to no knowledge of how nonprofit arts orgs are managed or funded busting out their uninformed axe-grinding takes all over the barely literate news coverage.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

Maybe we're going to make it after all...

A photograph of Broadway star Chita Rivera in Kiss of the Spider Woman above a handwritten note that says, "Dear Jena, your note was delicious, thank you. I'm sure you will be good at whatever you set your mind to -- I wish you all the best. Be well, work hard + don't give up if you love it. Love, Chita Rivera"

Happy birthday to Chita Rivera, who sent me a thank you note for sending her a thank you note after she signed a photo for me. There will never be another like her.

Yes!! I was really hoping they'd get more love from the awards. Hopefully this is just the start of a great career. I seem to remember you liked their work at WTF this summer?

Oh, we need to discuss!! Eager to hear your thoughts.

Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way.

Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.

Or thins, to quote the film. :-)
A decent amount of the film-within-the-film is inspired by Lady in the Dark, including the unlucky-in-love fashion editor haunted by a melody who seeks out help from a therapist. I'm still not sure how LITD is supposed to relate to the main story about the prisoners.

White Americans keep looking to 1930s Germany for lessons on authoritarianism, but they ignore Black Americans who have survived it here.

Slavery, Jim Crow, and racialized state violence are forms of American authoritarianism.

A friend worked on the show and said they had a hard time adapting the old scripts because stories from New York in the 90s didn't work in modern-day UK with mobile phones and constant CC-TV surveillance.

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

You need to think much closer to home: the Venn diagram of men who abuse women in private and shoot them in public is a circle.

Sigh.

I think this may be the first English-language adaptation of the story that includes "Molinita." I choked up at that line. It's just one word, but it means so much.

Because U.S. intervention in Latin American governments has worked out so well in the past.

Five, four, three -- open sesame! Happy New Year!

The sun sets behind trees on December 21, 2025.

The sun rises behind trees on December 22, 2025.

Candles are lit for the final night of Hanukkah, 2025.

It is a little ironic that as the days reach their coldest, they also start to get longer. The longest night of the year is behind us, and we lit all the candles to keep things as bright as possible. Here's hoping summer gets here soon.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:

I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. 

Your health care is still legal and protected. 

I'll always fight for you.

Lighting the first Chanukah candles tonight, I'll be thinking about Ahmed al Ahmed and his bravery at Bondi Beach. May we all have such courage and compassion.

I’m dumbstruck by news of the death of Tom Stoppard—maybe because he hoarded all the words and knew how to use them better than just about anyone. I hope we savor his spectacular wit and erudition and argue about the politics of his plays forever. He was monumental, and also a kind and curious man.

The European Court of Justice has ruled same-sex couples married in one EU country must now be recognized by all member states #NOH8

“It makes me so happy. To be back at the beginning, knowing almost nothing.” -Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, zichrono l’bracha

"We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it, before we know that there are words, out we come...with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction and time is its only measure."
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.