I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Closely related, an institution is incapable of loving you back (ergo, never fall in love with the institution that employs you)

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

These fascists are getting me down, but I still make a point to look folks in the eye with a smile when I pass them on the street. Lovingkindness every day. Send good vibes. Be that light you want to see in the world.

UVa, if you sign this, you're signing your own death sentence.

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

If Isaac Chotiner asks you about your friendship with Henry Kissinger, you are already dead.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

the shooter was just a cis dude but even if he was the most trans person to ever trans it wouldnt justify rounding up all the trans people for crimes they didnt commit, really wish people in positions of power would be saying this

The entire centrist establishment writing fan fiction about how Kirk's life was dedicated to building bridges while assiduously ignoring the movement-wide conservative effort to incite a pogrom against trans people.

The goal of debating is to win (secondarily, to argue). Not to listen.

There are times and places for debating. I get in ridiculous arguments with my husband (for instance, asserting that we could not know if our dog was a dog FOR SURE) because we both like arguing.

Sorry, folks. Sounds like the civil war has been postponed due to white shooter

if they're calling it the Reichstag fire themselves doesn't that sort of give the game away

You want a tradwife, fine, build me a house. Fill it with solid wood furniture you made with your own two hands. Help the mare deliver her foal in the springtime. Catch tuberculosis and make me a widow at 32

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

Fantastic reporting from the NYT.

"JPMorgan ultimately processed more than $1 billion for him and warned senior mgmt abt his suspicious activities. But on at least 4 occasions over 5 yrs, the bank’s leaders overrode those objections and continued to serve Epstein."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

I would rather have Virginia be the Top State for Workers

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Note how blue no matter who is near exclusively used to support bigoted right leaning candidates while that energy disappears when a more socialist leaning candidate like Mamdani does well.

Same in Charlottesville VA

Would love to read your spy novel starter pack!

Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader?

I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.

Trump Targets LGBTQ+ History, Migrants, and More in Chilling Smithsonian Hit List The White House's 26-point bulleted memo includes Amy Sherald's painting of a transgender woman and an animation of Anthony Fauci.

In the wake of Trump’s accusation that the Smithsonian focuses too much on “how bad slavery was,” the White House released a list targeting “divisive” exhibitions and artworks to purge from the institution.