Alexander Perkins, Ph.D.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

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.

Realizing now that 232 probably includes the front matter. This remains one of the wildest things I’ve seen.

I couldn’t resist, so I sleuthed. This gets even more wild.

The books do have different content. But both were published on the exact same day. Both have the exact same number of pages

Here’s the mind bender: That number is 218. Neither has a page 232…

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A screenshot of two tweets from the Politico reporter Joe Anuta. The 1st: ".@NYCMayor elaborates on his comments yesterday that boys and girls should not use the same bathroom. He says he will review the policy of his own education department, which allows students to use restrooms “consistent with their gender identity” and potentially change it" 2nd: "He says students whose sex at birth differs should never be allowed to use the bathroom at the same time, regardless of gender identity"

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

The media was eager to turn Kirk's murder into a story about left wing political violence but when that flopped they shifted seamlessly to the "what went wrong with this nice white boy?" angle they do every time a mass shooting or high profile killing occurs. Utterly shameless.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

So @wsj.com are you going to apologize for endangering transgender people with your false reporting? Now that “transgender ideology” turned out to be a meme from a video game that had nothing to do with trans people?

Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

The memory holing of Charlie Kirk’s fascism and cruelty is astonishing.

As I’ve seen many say, it’s indicative that the networks lionizing him for “debating” can’t actually play clips of him speaking.

On top of that, the credulity of the media is 🤦🏻‍♂️. Shouldn’t we have a journalism of suspicion?

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Florida Reporter Suspended After Texting MAGA Congressman to Ask If He Still Supports Campus Carry After Kirk Shooting A reporter with a popular Florida political website was suspended after angering a Republican congressman with a question he texted in the wake of Charlie Kirk being shot.

You’re just not allowed to do journalism if it displeases MAGA

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

Just to be absolutely clear, I’m not sad (other than feeling empathy for his children, who are innocent).

I’m worried. There’s a hornets’ nest of the worst people buzzing now and they lack any sort of compunction.

He was not some nameless CEO of a greedy company, he was part of a movement whose members are hell bent on deploying fascist power to destroy those they hate and enslave those they view as inferior.

And now they’re galvanized.

Nothing good comes from this.

I’m not here to police anybody’s feelings, but it does make me a little worried to see people gleefully celebrating not death, but (apparently) targeted murder.

Charlie Kirk was a sophistic, cruel, vicious, man, but his star (and the garish light of his ilk) has been fading recently.

Thinking at the moment about an actual play podcaster describing growing anxiety within his character as “coils of rope slowly tightening around his heart” and thinking that feels pretty real right now.

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

Screenshot of two tweets from Matt Walsh’s verified Twitter account (@MattWalshBlog). First tweet (17 hours ago): “It’s time to have a national conversation about common sense restrictions on transgenders.” The tweet has 1.3K comments, 3.8K retweets, 42K likes, and 1M views. Second tweet (18 hours ago): “It wasn’t all that long ago that anyone who identified as the opposite sex would be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. Does anyone at this point seriously think that our current approach is an improvement?” The tweet has 666 comments, 1.9K retweets, 21K likes, and 362K views.

First tweet is by Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles), reposted by Christopher F. Rufo. It reads: “For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this delusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” The tweet has 816 comments, 2.4K retweets, 17K likes, and 379K views. Second tweet is by Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo), 20 hours ago: “The trans cult hatched such an enormous propaganda campaign, that, for a number of years, they were able to obscure an obvious truth: pumping kids full of synthetic hormones, while telling them they can change from boy to girl, will only end in tragedy or disaster.” The tweet has 878 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.2K likes, and 120K views. Third tweet is also by Christopher F. Rufo, 20 hours ago: “We should now put to rest the libertarian delusion that transgenderism is a matter of ‘personal choice,’ or ‘live and let live.’ It’s an ideology that has done grave damage to millions of Americans, and has unleashed a nihilistic wave of violence on our society. Enough.” The tweet has 921 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.6K likes, and 293K views.

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people.

These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

“Dark Ages” was never meant to mean “times were bad.” The term referred to the lack of sources from the time period. You’ve been told this by several people.

Nobody denies that the fall of a centralized governmental structure in Europe led to hard times in Europe. Water is also wet.

Few things are more unimportantly infuriating than a person smugly saying something ignorant as though it were common sense.

Besides beings full of shit and implicitly revealing racist ideas of “real, uncontrollable” DC residents…

I’m not sure how Stephen Miller can call people old when he’s spent the last 400 years feeding on the blood of the innocent 🧛

Andry Hernández Romero on surviving CECOT: 'They told us we would die there' “I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,” the gay makeup artist told The Advocate in an exclusive interview.

“‘I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,’ the gay makeup artist told The Advocate in an exclusive interview.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?