Ryan Thoreson

Someone should ask him his thoughts on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist.

Image from the Daily Express of Malaysian minister announcing that work stress may turn you gay

Heated Rivalry (2025)

Our daughter dropped my phone in the toilet this morning and honestly in 2026 it's the most loving thing she could have done for me.

That is reassuring and also with any luck we're about to start the clock all over again. 🥲

I made the mistake of reassuring our two year old I had “lots of activities” for our storm weekend and she’s responded by yelling “ready for a new actibity!” every time she gets remotely bored.

The fact that he calls a poster a billboard is how I know this man has never been to a protest in his life

unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time

Photo of a cardboard sign in the snow that states “WE SAW THE VIDEO. WE KNOW THE TRUTH. ICE OUT.” in Minneapolis, Minnesota

📍 Minneapolis

I like that we do New Year's instead of holiday cards but it's very difficult to write anything besides "I understand if you don't, but against all odds we hope you have a happy new year."

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

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

I’ll check it out! Ellie has a symphony book she loves and I think she’d really dig it, and it’d be great to catch up there sometime!

I get this ad all the time and was like “she looks so familiar” and just made the connection!!

Wow — Newly-released State Department documents show that the Trump-Vance-Rubio administration literally only abducted Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk because she co-wrote an op-ed urging Tufts to follow student resolutions to acknowledge genocide in Gaza & divest from companies tied to Israel.

As far as I can tell the Venn diagram of the people who said it was tyranny to regulate gas stoves and the people enthusiastically defending warrantless home searches and the arrest of critics is a perfect circle.

To clarify, what did I post that you think is portraying rape as a normal everyday high school experience?

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Two Iranian men, who are gay, told their lawyer Bekah Wolf with the American Immigration Council that they were set to be deported on the Sunday flight. Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death in Iran, which executed two gay men in 2022 and is considered one of the world's most repressive countries for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. "They're terrified," Wolf told MS NOW. One of her clients "calls every 45 minutes begging me to save his life." "We need a court of some sort to fully hear their claims before they're sent back to a country where being gay is punishable by death," said Wolf. She said her two clients have no criminal convictions and entered the U.S. in early 2025 on asylum claims. Both were in the middle of appeals though did not have stays of removal, Wolf said. Ultimately, Wolf said, "they did not have full hearings of their asylum claims in any meaningful way."

My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process.

They are terrified.

The only evidence right now that there is a just and merciful God.

a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the woman is screaming and the man is saying whoo excited Alt: Saved by the Bell GIF of Jesse Spanos saying I'm so excited I'm so scared

Kicking off our first day of Gender, Sexuality and the Law!

I’m sure the Convention on the Rights of the Child will be surprised to learn that we don’t actually need the advice and consent of the Senate to make treaties anymore.

*screams in US treaty avoidance*

"We had run almost $1,000 simulations, and between $9 and $11 is a fair number for a banana."

I'm supposed to be back in France over spring break and it'll be just like I'm 20 and in grad school again (pretending to be Canadian because I am ashamed of my country's war of aggression).

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Really can't stand the self-abasement of takes posing as the reasonable middle by conceding it'd be a sensible policy to purchase / annex Greenland so long as it wasn't by force, as if any of the nonsense reasons are compelling. Stop it. There is no reasonable version, that would still be idiotic.

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #168 in Spectrum WT v. Wendler (N.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00048) – CourtListener.com FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW (Ordered by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on 1/17/2026) (vls)

Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's LGBQT club to drag show ban, saying the First Amendment doesn't protect "self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine 'expressive conduct' absolutism envisioned" by the group. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation Alice Valentine of St. Cloud was pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors.

"It was the most miserable day of my whole life. But I would do it again because I think that people need to know how evil ICE is and that this is happening." - Alice Valentine of St. Cloud, pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Again, nothing could prepare me better for politics in the 2020s than my degree in gender studies.