Christopher Wiggins
@cwnewser.bsky.social
Washington, D.C.-based Senior National Reporter at The Advocate.
I love sushi. Cilantro tastes good to me, and not like soap. My opinions are mine and obviously always correct. 🇩🇪🏳️🌈🇺🇸🕷
Politics nerd and big fan of democracy. (he/him)
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I love sushi. Cilantro tastes good to me, and not like soap. My opinions are mine and obviously always correct. 🇩🇪🏳️🌈🇺🇸🕷
Politics nerd and big fan of democracy. (he/him)
Signal: cwdc.98
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Just a reminder that transgender people are not causing Americans to lose their retirement savings.
I need more Kip.
December 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I need more Kip.
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Call me a nerd, but yesterday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania cited my reporting in a ruling against the DOJ in a case challenging Trump-era actions targeting transgender people.
A reminder that this work really does matter.
A reminder that this work really does matter.
December 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Call me a nerd, but yesterday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania cited my reporting in a ruling against the DOJ in a case challenging Trump-era actions targeting transgender people.
A reminder that this work really does matter.
A reminder that this work really does matter.
Call me a nerd, but yesterday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania cited my reporting in a ruling against the DOJ in a case challenging Trump-era actions targeting transgender people.
A reminder that this work really does matter.
A reminder that this work really does matter.
December 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Call me a nerd, but yesterday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania cited my reporting in a ruling against the DOJ in a case challenging Trump-era actions targeting transgender people.
A reminder that this work really does matter.
A reminder that this work really does matter.
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CBS and 60 Minutes may not bring you the CECOT story that aired in Canada, and I can understand why the Trump admin wants it memory holed.
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
Andry Hernández Romero on surviving CECOT: 'They told us we would die there'
<p>“I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,” the gay makeup artist told <em><em>The Advocate</em></em> in an exclusive interview.</p>
www.advocate.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
CBS and 60 Minutes may not bring you the CECOT story that aired in Canada, and I can understand why the Trump admin wants it memory holed.
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
CBS and 60 Minutes may not bring you the CECOT story that aired in Canada, and I can understand why the Trump admin wants it memory holed.
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
Andry Hernández Romero on surviving CECOT: 'They told us we would die there'
<p>“I want the world to know that being Venezuelan is not a crime,” the gay makeup artist told <em><em>The Advocate</em></em> in an exclusive interview.</p>
www.advocate.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
CBS and 60 Minutes may not bring you the CECOT story that aired in Canada, and I can understand why the Trump admin wants it memory holed.
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
What happened there is horrendous and shamefully done in the name of the American people.
I interviewed a CECOT survivor.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
Frohe Weihnachten! 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Frohe Weihnachten! 🎄
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NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Just more normal covering up happening.
December 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Just more normal covering up happening.
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Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment”
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment”
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
They’re scrambling to explain Trump’s repeated appearances in the Epstein files.
Totally normal for the DOJ to do.
Totally normal for the DOJ to do.
December 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
They’re scrambling to explain Trump’s repeated appearances in the Epstein files.
Totally normal for the DOJ to do.
Totally normal for the DOJ to do.
This is pretty sick.
I can’t imagine that the family of the Officer Brian Sicknick is thrilled to be associated with insurrectionist Ashli Babbit and other Trumpers who died of various things during the January 6 attack.
I can’t imagine that the family of the Officer Brian Sicknick is thrilled to be associated with insurrectionist Ashli Babbit and other Trumpers who died of various things during the January 6 attack.
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is pretty sick.
I can’t imagine that the family of the Officer Brian Sicknick is thrilled to be associated with insurrectionist Ashli Babbit and other Trumpers who died of various things during the January 6 attack.
I can’t imagine that the family of the Officer Brian Sicknick is thrilled to be associated with insurrectionist Ashli Babbit and other Trumpers who died of various things during the January 6 attack.
The 60 Minutes episode that Bari Weiss didn’t want you to see has been leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The 60 Minutes episode that Bari Weiss didn’t want you to see has been leaked.
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This case is especially egregious because many of Jamie Reed's claims turned out to be untrue and many others were never corroborated. These claims contributed to trans youth in the state losing access to vital health care.
The next year, Weiss ran this first-person piece, by a woman who worked at the Wash U Transgender Center in St. Louis.
She made many serious allegations. There was no evidence that they tried to contact the center, or the woman’s colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-...
She made many serious allegations. There was no evidence that they tried to contact the center, or the woman’s colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-...
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.
www.thefp.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This case is especially egregious because many of Jamie Reed's claims turned out to be untrue and many others were never corroborated. These claims contributed to trans youth in the state losing access to vital health care.
Totally normal for the U.S. government to be driving its employees around in German luxury cars.
Who doesn’t need a fleet of BMW X5s?
Who doesn’t need a fleet of BMW X5s?
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Totally normal for the U.S. government to be driving its employees around in German luxury cars.
Who doesn’t need a fleet of BMW X5s?
Who doesn’t need a fleet of BMW X5s?
I’ve interviewed one of the men who was sent to CECOT, Andry Hernandez Romero, and this seems super sus.
December 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I’ve interviewed one of the men who was sent to CECOT, Andry Hernandez Romero, and this seems super sus.
Super sus
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Super sus
Totally normal
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Totally normal
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Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.
Why do a lot of Republicans like T.W. Arrighi have no lips?
December 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Why do a lot of Republicans like T.W. Arrighi have no lips?
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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Vandalism, but make it narcissistic
December 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Vandalism, but make it narcissistic
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Here’s my last story of the year.
“They are trying to do something that CMS simply isn’t empowered to do,” a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official from the Biden administration told me, about limiting medical care of trans kids.
www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...
“They are trying to do something that CMS simply isn’t empowered to do,” a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official from the Biden administration told me, about limiting medical care of trans kids.
www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...
Health policy expert to RFK Jr.: You can't ban trans youth care this way
“They are trying to do something that CMS simply isn’t empowered to do,” a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official from the Biden administration told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Here’s my last story of the year.
“They are trying to do something that CMS simply isn’t empowered to do,” a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official from the Biden administration told me, about limiting medical care of trans kids.
www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...
“They are trying to do something that CMS simply isn’t empowered to do,” a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official from the Biden administration told me, about limiting medical care of trans kids.
www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...
Wtf
And why is he always “honored”?
And why is he always “honored”?
Trump: "Trump RX dot gov. Trump RX dot gov. And I didn't name it that. Somebody named it that. And I guess they assumed that was--- did you name it Oz?"
Oz: "We all named it together"
Trump: "Ok. Well, I'm honored to have the name."
Oz: "We all named it together"
Trump: "Ok. Well, I'm honored to have the name."
December 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Wtf
And why is he always “honored”?
And why is he always “honored”?
They are wasting no time defiling the Kennedy Center by affixing Donald Trump’s name to the building.
It’s happening right now, per NBC Washington.
It’s happening right now, per NBC Washington.
December 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
They are wasting no time defiling the Kennedy Center by affixing Donald Trump’s name to the building.
It’s happening right now, per NBC Washington.
It’s happening right now, per NBC Washington.