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Looking at you, SCOTUS👀
You can't be like, "the Bible *implies* trans people shouldn't exist," but then also be like, "unless a right is specifically enumerated in the Constitution, it doesn't exist."
Like, come on, at least get your talking points to agree. (And read the 9th amendment while you're at it.)
Like, come on, at least get your talking points to agree. (And read the 9th amendment while you're at it.)
December 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Looking at you, SCOTUS👀
You can't be like, "the Bible *implies* trans people shouldn't exist," but then also be like, "unless a right is specifically enumerated in the Constitution, it doesn't exist."
Like, come on, at least get your talking points to agree. (And read the 9th amendment while you're at it.)
Like, come on, at least get your talking points to agree. (And read the 9th amendment while you're at it.)
December 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
You can't be like, "the Bible *implies* trans people shouldn't exist," but then also be like, "unless a right is specifically enumerated in the Constitution, it doesn't exist."
Like, come on, at least get your talking points to agree. (And read the 9th amendment while you're at it.)
Like, come on, at least get your talking points to agree. (And read the 9th amendment while you're at it.)
December 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Your yearly reminder that St. Nicholas is the patron saint of sx workers. How did he help sx workers? Not with punishment, but with bags of gold coins.
Be like St. Nicholas: instead of supporting policing, give your money to wh*res 💰💰💰
Be like St. Nicholas: instead of supporting policing, give your money to wh*res 💰💰💰
December 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Your yearly reminder that St. Nicholas is the patron saint of sx workers. How did he help sx workers? Not with punishment, but with bags of gold coins.
Be like St. Nicholas: instead of supporting policing, give your money to wh*res 💰💰💰
Be like St. Nicholas: instead of supporting policing, give your money to wh*res 💰💰💰
We've been fighting for our rights since this country's age could be measured in decades. This movement and its arguments are foundational to who we are as a nation - who gets to be seen? Who gets economic autonomy? Whose labor counts? Who is allowed to exist in public space? These are our questions
"A pr*st*tute has the right to walk the streets" - an argument from Matilda et al, 1855.
In the 1830s to 1860s, sx workers in NYC organized against incarceration in what may have been the first American sx workers' rights movement.
In the 1830s to 1860s, sx workers in NYC organized against incarceration in what may have been the first American sx workers' rights movement.
December 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
We've been fighting for our rights since this country's age could be measured in decades. This movement and its arguments are foundational to who we are as a nation - who gets to be seen? Who gets economic autonomy? Whose labor counts? Who is allowed to exist in public space? These are our questions
"A pr*st*tute has the right to walk the streets" - an argument from Matilda et al, 1855.
In the 1830s to 1860s, sx workers in NYC organized against incarceration in what may have been the first American sx workers' rights movement.
In the 1830s to 1860s, sx workers in NYC organized against incarceration in what may have been the first American sx workers' rights movement.
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"A pr*st*tute has the right to walk the streets" - an argument from Matilda et al, 1855.
In the 1830s to 1860s, sx workers in NYC organized against incarceration in what may have been the first American sx workers' rights movement.
In the 1830s to 1860s, sx workers in NYC organized against incarceration in what may have been the first American sx workers' rights movement.
The term "streetwalker" is just a way of policing who gets to access public space.
December 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The term "streetwalker" is just a way of policing who gets to access public space.
Crackdowns on sx work occur not just out of a desire to erase or abolish is, but out of a desire to capture our labor for markets the state can profit from. Whether those be via incarceration or "rehabilitation" through "appropriate" feminized service work.
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Crackdowns on sx work occur not just out of a desire to erase or abolish is, but out of a desire to capture our labor for markets the state can profit from. Whether those be via incarceration or "rehabilitation" through "appropriate" feminized service work.
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of the new media organizations that are absolutely worthy of your support, i think the unpopulist should be on your list
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Right-wing extremism is well funded. That means liberals can't afford to hold back if they want to win.
www.theunpopulist.net
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
of the new media organizations that are absolutely worthy of your support, i think the unpopulist should be on your list
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New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
December 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
If you run an arts fund, an lgbtq+ scholarship, or any benefit for minority groups, now is not the time for respectability progressivism (if there ever was). Don't center the middle, center the most radical. Center sx workers, felons, artists against the state. These are the real resistance leaders
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If you run an arts fund, an lgbtq+ scholarship, or any benefit for minority groups, now is not the time for respectability progressivism (if there ever was). Don't center the middle, center the most radical. Center sx workers, felons, artists against the state. These are the real resistance leaders
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Trust me, little old ladies have seen shit.
December 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Trust me, little old ladies have seen shit.
This is what Cheryl Harris identified as the property value inherent in whiteness. Her 1993 article is so relevant today: harvardlawreview.org/print/no-vol...
December 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is what Cheryl Harris identified as the property value inherent in whiteness. Her 1993 article is so relevant today: harvardlawreview.org/print/no-vol...
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Assertions of white victimization have been central to backlash rhetoric since the Reconstruction Era. JD Vance’s claim at the Turning Point convention that “you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore,” fits into this tradition.
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Assertions of white victimization have been central to backlash rhetoric since the Reconstruction Era. JD Vance’s claim at the Turning Point convention that “you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore,” fits into this tradition.
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This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
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Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
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I say this ALL THE TIME
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I say this ALL THE TIME
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Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
There has ALWAYS been sexualized media. People claiming an "explosion" of it (looking at you Gail Dines) are just noticing the explosion of media generally. There is more of everything now. To claim this is about sx is ahistorical
December 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
There has ALWAYS been sexualized media. People claiming an "explosion" of it (looking at you Gail Dines) are just noticing the explosion of media generally. There is more of everything now. To claim this is about sx is ahistorical
Wow wow wow. I just read something where academics researching sx work called themselves "the other sx workers" and I cannot. Just no.
December 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Wow wow wow. I just read something where academics researching sx work called themselves "the other sx workers" and I cannot. Just no.
The key to understanding this moment is understanding the federalist society. This 2024 4-part series by @fivefourpod.bsky.social is an excellent place to start: open.spotify.com/episode/4Z9x...
The Federalist Society, part 1: Immodest Origins
open.spotify.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The key to understanding this moment is understanding the federalist society. This 2024 4-part series by @fivefourpod.bsky.social is an excellent place to start: open.spotify.com/episode/4Z9x...
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Makes me proud every time!
Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!
Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!
December 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Makes me proud every time!
Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!
Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!
Sorry not sorry but calling SCOTUS members psychopaths is an insult to psychopaths
December 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Sorry not sorry but calling SCOTUS members psychopaths is an insult to psychopaths
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I don’t understand the purpose of publishing pictures of billionaires and heads of state abusing girls and women other than titillation. Those pictures invite us to participate in the abuse.
December 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I don’t understand the purpose of publishing pictures of billionaires and heads of state abusing girls and women other than titillation. Those pictures invite us to participate in the abuse.