It’s amazing what a country can achieve when its accountability mechanisms function without fear or political interference.

I just want trans people the world over to be able to live in peace, and I don't think that should be an unreasonable ask or expectation.

I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years

Cw: suicide
This article is devastating.

Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.

Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.

Wikipedia: Lia Purcell Smith (March 7, 2004 - October 18, 2025) was an American student at Middlebury College who died by suicide on October 18, 2025, at the age of 21. She was reported missing by her father on October 19, 2025, and her body was found by the Vermont State Police near Middlebury College's organic farm in Cornwall, Vermont, on October 24, 2025. Smith had been a member of the Middlebury Panthers women's swimming and diving team but left the team in 2023.

middlebury college student lia smith killed herself one month ago after facing harassment for being a trans athlete

you will not hear her name once on cable tv

don’t let them erase her

#TDOR #TransDayOfRemembrance

Been doing a lot more night driving lately since moving apartments and having a longer work commute, and I gotta say, what's being proposed here is the moderate position imo

"hey, I lied to make money, and this lie has directly led to thousands of death" why have you not been tried, sentenced and executed for mass murder? because you are a mass murderer, Andrew

it still boggles my mind that Andrew Wakefield is allowed to...live?

nuremberg trials is no longer the moderate position. the scarecrow trials from the dark knight rises when bane takes control of gotham is now the moderate position

it is frankly a *scathing* indictment of the White House press corps

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

Learning how churches use their food donation and charity work as a way to basically hold a gun to peoples head for conversion has reminded me why I’m not just an atheist but an anti-theist like holy shit

A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene

The party can burn in hell

in fact, part of the reason why you should be against prison is because "the state should not have the ability to enslave and murder you" is a pretty obvious moral and logical stance to take because...it is...bad to be enslaved and or murdered

No.

Centrist pundits who pretend Harris lost because her campaign catered too much to the Left (be it on immigration, or identity issues, or basically anything else) are either amnesiac or full of shit. Either way, they have zero credibility talking about how Democrats should run their campaigns.

Progressives indulge irrational hostility to sabotage young people’s rights and any hope of a future Right-wingers don’t care what I say. So, I direct my ineffectual rage at progressives: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

"Progressives’ crude hostility against young people and eagerness to suppress their internet access at every turn is among the most baffling, self-destroying bigotries of our time."

huh, okay. noted. thanks for the correction/corroboration!

There's no indication the MTC tattoo was there in the bar photo, just the 1919.

I could be wrong? But it's a *very* weird layout that I've never seen before, and on no one else.

It's a sus explanation from someone making sus statements and sus history.

Behind the weasel words and prevaricating euphemisms, Britain's politics of immigration are rooted in an antipathy to the presence of negatively racialised people in this country *on any terms*. If we'd confronted that reality decades ago, and faced it down, we wouldn't be where we are now.

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

Jacob Bernstein Reporter | 59m ago Last month, I hopped on a plane from JFK to see Olivia Nuzzi in Malibu. We went hiking and ate at diners together. I spent hours sitting shotgun in her Mustang, listening to great music and having fascinating and meaningful conversations with her. She is a writer's dream and a writer's nightmare. Both because she is a very good writer herself and because she is a startling, complex person.

You don’t hate the press enough.

That man will sell out every last one of us in pursuit of his dream of a conservative applauding for him.

the 1919 tattoo on his arm was also kind of a giveaway

I have started responding to any complaints with “I have to google whether I can use the bathroom in a state before I travel, but sure that sounds hard too” when I’m annoyed.

Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”

It would make America a banana republic to investigate the very obvious crimes of the former president that he is extremely guilty of

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

It seems like basically every election for the past 15 years has been decided by "do non-lunatics stay home or not" and you don't get people to go to the polls unless they *want* something.