One of my First Girlhood Principles is I will never ever gatekeep beauty and style. The most formative experience of my early transition was being in a 15k-member Facebook beauty/style group filled with cis women who wanted nothing more than to help me figure my shit out and I will never forget it

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

That’s actually kinda interesting

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

This ain’t really my business but once you learn about the gender anxieties attendant on questions of integration, diaspora, and Zionism among Jewish communities, you kinda see it everywhere.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Let’s Talk About Brianna Wu — Assigned Turns out the extravagantly wealthy mean girl scares easily.

Brianna Wu called our writer, the esteemed @alyssaur.bsky.social, "male brained" for engaging in some light online shit-talking.

Today on Assigned Media, Aly Gibbs has some more words for Brianna.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

If Rockford, Kankakee, and Oswego are getting Metra extensions I don't see why DeKalb can't have one

3 rows with each NYC mayoral candidate: (blue bar) Zohran Mamdani (yellow bar) Andrew M. Cuomo (red bar) Curtis Sliwa (wearing a red had)

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

I can never walk past a church without going in

To work out whether churches had a future, writer and Anglican priest Fergus Butler-Gallie delved into their past.

Might do readings of War and Peace on the Tube or Tok. Least a few chapters (which are actually pretty short) and see how it goes.

Every trans woman who is prettier and/or more traditionally woman-shaped than me is an ungrateful genetic lottery winner who has no idea what it’s like to really be trans, and of course every trans woman less pretty or traditionally woman-shaped than me is simply a slob who’s not trying hard enough

the way Trump and his administration keep going on livestreams and tv to laugh about this, I can’t really compare it to anything political that comes to mind, only thing that comes to mind rn is a serial killer who writes letter taunting family of their victim.

Your regular reminder that forced relocation of minority groups (and having to flee threats of being medically and socially detransitioned by the state is a forced relocation) is one of the literal textbook and legal definitions of a crime against humanity. It is a genocidal action in all cases.

From Haven to Exodus: Trans Americans Are Fleeing The U.S. As restrictions on trans rights mount under the Trump Administration, more transgender Americans are emigrating.

24 Oct 2025 -- TIME story on trans ppl escaping discrimination: "Rainbow Railroad which helps LGBTQ+ people escape state violence, received a record number of requests from US...& nearly half of trans adults have relocated or are planning to relocate to another state..."
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Ill go one further and say politeness will enable fascism

Me, holding a very large sheet of calligraphy in front of my face and upper body, so you can only really see my hands holding it. The text is very large, six words stacked on top of each other to fill the whole page. It reads: I refuse to be a man

These six words from @taliabhatt.itch.io's book Trans/Rad/Fem have haunted me since I first read them.

Good night blue sky

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

US Treasury Secretary meets Ukraine’s prime minister, pledges stronger pressure on Russia The meeting comes as a Ukrainian delegation — also including top presidential aide Andriy Yermak and Security Council Secretary Rustem Umerov — holds high-level talks with U.S. officials on defense, e...

⚡️US Treasury Secretary meets Ukraine’s prime minister, pledges stronger pressure on Russia.

The meeting comes as a Ukrainian delegation holds high-level talks with U.S. officials on defense, energy resilience, and sanctions.

Juicy?

Thanksgiving travel looms as shutdown risk, GOP leaders say They are citing flight cancellations and airport chaos amid their ongoing standoff with congressional Democrats.

Leaders in both parties are now looking to Thanksgiving — and possible mass flight delays — as a looming shutdown pressure point.

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

"If they could snap their fingers and eliminate the ACA marketplaces altogether, they would. And they haven’t arrived at a consensus on what the insurance system would look like in their preferred world, beyond a bunch of vacuous bromides about 'choice' and 'patient-centered care.'"

The last No Kings in Chicago was like 90 percent older female protest veterans who've been derided as normie lib wine moms for the past decade so maybe we could start nagging, like, "woodworking dads" or find a way to condescend to 30-year-old men for a goddamn change.

Pope Leo XIV was first mentioned in the Chicago Tribune when his mother died

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Should read dictionary of the Khazars.

New York accent will be the new “evil” acccent