That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.
12.02.2026 04:54 — 👍 757 🔁 387 💬 13 📌 32@renjender.bsky.social
Queer writer-performer/producer making a film, writing at NY Times, NPR, Village Voice and Slate. 2021 National Critics Institute Fellow. *Deeply* petty. CDMX/Boston Gmail: njender Insta: renjender. https://renjender.contently.com
That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.
12.02.2026 04:54 — 👍 757 🔁 387 💬 13 📌 32So fucking predictable.
02.03.2026 18:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Grace is a good one. You can trust her to be kind and valiant with your story. 💙
02.03.2026 18:18 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0My fellow white people, please stop embarrassing yourselves by claiming other white people voted for Trump for *any other reason* besides racism and misogyny.
02.03.2026 18:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For my newsletter this week, I wrote about why corrupt news betting sites like Kalshi and Polymarket should be illegal: www.burnsnotice.com/the-iran-war...
02.03.2026 17:46 — 👍 103 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 0There was a real grassroots movement to improve it some years ago, but the terrible white-lady founder/editor was left in place so...
02.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Guys, guys (and I do mean "guys") no one has taken Autostraddle seriously for years.
02.03.2026 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This is exactly what it sounds like: a plan to implement tapering and discontinuation of HRT for any trans person in prison, regardless of how long they've been on it or what surgeries they've had.
This is medical torture, and will kill people.
Dear lord. Some DACA recipients have been here since they were toddlers.
02.03.2026 17:46 — 👍 328 🔁 150 💬 12 📌 4We have been here before. The NYT lied about WMD to support Bush/Cheney's bullshit rationale for the war. www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/f...
02.03.2026 16:23 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0He thinks Iranians are Arabs and that all Arabs are a monolith. That’s all you need to know about his brain
02.03.2026 16:25 — 👍 155 🔁 29 💬 8 📌 2I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous
02.03.2026 16:01 — 👍 1502 🔁 338 💬 27 📌 9this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying
02.03.2026 08:50 — 👍 1667 🔁 646 💬 2 📌 0The people supporting this bombing are the same people who spout canned justifications for lynching, school shootings, police brutality, and ICE building concentration camps. They do not have compassion, empathy or human decency to appeal to in way. They enjoy the suffering of others like a meal.
02.03.2026 13:12 — 👍 263 🔁 87 💬 3 📌 1
Media Matters analyzed a year of NYT coverage of anti-trans bills and found that 66% of the time the paper didn't quote a trans person. Further, it found that the paper often quoted right wing sources without mentioning their histories of anti-trans rhetoric.
So "right-wing rag" is pretty accurate.
An endorsement from the New York Working Families Party can make or break a progressive campaign in NYC, but the endorsement process has been opaque to outsiders – until now.
For the first time, City & State is revealing which nonprofit groups and unions actually call the shots inside the WFP.
these smooth brained idiots really think it's just islam vs christianity.
02.03.2026 15:48 — 👍 100 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0
I was 1000% all the way in on Platner and when the news about the tattoo came out I was like lol nope sorry Nazi shit is a bit of a red line for me buddy
If you didn’t drop him then, for whatever reason, you absolutely still can! You can ditch the guy right now!
Trump is so fucking stupid, he doesn't realize that Iranians aren't Arabs.
02.03.2026 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has barred the U.S. from using Spanish military bases for attacks on Iran.
02.03.2026 13:45 — 👍 3831 🔁 747 💬 53 📌 126Yeah I’m writing to @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov today to tell him I agree he should definitely investigate this deal before it’s allowed to go through.
02.03.2026 15:20 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Last week the city opened $30/hour snow clearing jobs and they filled fast.
Now what if we had a municipal jobs guarantee? Livable wages. Union benefits. Stronger communities.
Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.
02.03.2026 15:24 — 👍 3770 🔁 649 💬 61 📌 35will never stop being incredible to me that the son of a lawyer (and grandson of an architect) who went to hotchkiss (hotchkiss!) gets graded on a curve cause he’s “working class”
02.03.2026 00:44 — 👍 334 🔁 49 💬 9 📌 9If you were OK with “Substack, the Nazi Bar,” maybe “Substack, a front for the gambling on life and death casino” might convince you.
02.03.2026 14:52 — 👍 441 🔁 233 💬 6 📌 7Hannah Spencer said she wouldn't accept the victory without "calling out politicians and divisive figures who constantly scapegoat and blame our communities for all the problems in society”
02.03.2026 15:00 — 👍 86 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0Frida Kahlo is a famous disabled artist. Her art explores her disability. When she had the accident that disabled her, she painted from her bed in her casts. Many artists in history have been disabled. Many are now. You will not find them fighting to have AI take their creative process from them.
02.03.2026 15:02 — 👍 418 🔁 116 💬 7 📌 2