Mike De Socio
@mikedesocio.com
📍 Americano in Milano 🇮🇹 Author of "Morally Straight" 🌈 I tell true stories about social justice and solutions, to show that a better world is possible ➡️ linktr.ee/mikedesocio
Thrilled to be hanging out on the homepage of @scripthealth.bsky.social, the new queer health site from the folks at @xtramagazine.com!
My fellow sl*ts, read all about it! We explain when to take DoxyPEP and how to use these antibiotics to prevent STIs: www.script.health/article/what...
My fellow sl*ts, read all about it! We explain when to take DoxyPEP and how to use these antibiotics to prevent STIs: www.script.health/article/what...
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Thrilled to be hanging out on the homepage of @scripthealth.bsky.social, the new queer health site from the folks at @xtramagazine.com!
My fellow sl*ts, read all about it! We explain when to take DoxyPEP and how to use these antibiotics to prevent STIs: www.script.health/article/what...
My fellow sl*ts, read all about it! We explain when to take DoxyPEP and how to use these antibiotics to prevent STIs: www.script.health/article/what...
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For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights
Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
www.msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Bravo, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social, for this excellent piece in @xtramagazine.com about why queer community still needs places for public sex. (Because, well, it’s not just about sex. It’s about so much more).
The queer community still needs places for public sex | Xtra Magazine
Sex party promoters, kink community leaders and educators refuse to shy away from the more explicit aspects of the queer experience
xtramagazine.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Bravo, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social, for this excellent piece in @xtramagazine.com about why queer community still needs places for public sex. (Because, well, it’s not just about sex. It’s about so much more).
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Trans trailblazer Miss Major Griffin-Gracy died yesterday. In 'Miss Major Speaks' the elder, organizer, Stonewall veteran and mother discusses her past and the community's and the struggle for Black, trans and queer liberation.
Miss Major—legendary activist, elder and Stonewall veteran—tells her story | Xtra Magazine
“Miss Major Speaks” is part biography, part interview and full of Miss Major spitting truths and laying it down like it is
xtramagazine.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Trans trailblazer Miss Major Griffin-Gracy died yesterday. In 'Miss Major Speaks' the elder, organizer, Stonewall veteran and mother discusses her past and the community's and the struggle for Black, trans and queer liberation.
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1. If you've scrolled social media lately, you've likely seem Democrats cheering for Gov. Gavin Newsom for trolling Trump relentlessly.
You've also likely seen trans people terrified of a Newsom 2028 run.
I explain why trans people are not feeling Newsom.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
You've also likely seen trans people terrified of a Newsom 2028 run.
I explain why trans people are not feeling Newsom.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom
We have seen this song and dance before.
www.erininthemorning.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
1. If you've scrolled social media lately, you've likely seem Democrats cheering for Gov. Gavin Newsom for trolling Trump relentlessly.
You've also likely seen trans people terrified of a Newsom 2028 run.
I explain why trans people are not feeling Newsom.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
You've also likely seen trans people terrified of a Newsom 2028 run.
I explain why trans people are not feeling Newsom.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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From @atlassian.bsky.social and @mikedesocio.com - I'm a great believer in #SystemsThinking and this is a good way of tackling #burnout: www.atlassian.com/blog/product...
Burnout isn’t just a "you" problem - Work Life by Atlassian
Systemic factors also play a major role in workplace exhaustion.
www.atlassian.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
From @atlassian.bsky.social and @mikedesocio.com - I'm a great believer in #SystemsThinking and this is a good way of tackling #burnout: www.atlassian.com/blog/product...
I’m so excited for this!
The May selection for the Out of Your League book club is 'Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts—And America' by @mikedesocio.com.
Register here:
Register here:
OOYL Book Club: May Selection
'Morally Straight' by Mike De Socio
www.thefrankiedlc.news
May 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’m so excited for this!
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Thank you to @mikedesocio.com for this delightful recap of our FREE Electric Coach course (which you can also take)!
Mike, you were a wonderful student!
Mike, you were a wonderful student!
I’ve been writing about climate for @cnet.com for years, but recently I decided I could do more. So, I became a certified Electric Coach with @rewiringamerica.bsky.social. Wrote about why I did — and why you should too: www.cnet.com/home/energy-...
I Care About the Environment, So I Became a Certified Electric Coach
I've been reporting on decarbonization and the environmental issues for almost four years. Now I'm choosing to do more than write about it with this free electric coach course.
www.cnet.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Thank you to @mikedesocio.com for this delightful recap of our FREE Electric Coach course (which you can also take)!
Mike, you were a wonderful student!
Mike, you were a wonderful student!
I’ve been writing about climate for @cnet.com for years, but recently I decided I could do more. So, I became a certified Electric Coach with @rewiringamerica.bsky.social. Wrote about why I did — and why you should too: www.cnet.com/home/energy-...
I Care About the Environment, So I Became a Certified Electric Coach
I've been reporting on decarbonization and the environmental issues for almost four years. Now I'm choosing to do more than write about it with this free electric coach course.
www.cnet.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I’ve been writing about climate for @cnet.com for years, but recently I decided I could do more. So, I became a certified Electric Coach with @rewiringamerica.bsky.social. Wrote about why I did — and why you should too: www.cnet.com/home/energy-...
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To be a journalism nerd for a second: this piece includes a) a source in his 80s—rare, and b) a historian who happened to work at a bathhouse in a past life. Queer journalism/being our own experts FTW. xtramagazine.com/love-sex/bos...
Inside the history of Boston’s bygone gay bathhouses | Xtra Magazine
From sexual health support to discreet gathering place, bathhouses were once a small but important part of the city’s gay community
xtramagazine.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
To be a journalism nerd for a second: this piece includes a) a source in his 80s—rare, and b) a historian who happened to work at a bathhouse in a past life. Queer journalism/being our own experts FTW. xtramagazine.com/love-sex/bos...
I wrote a super gay and fun story about Boston and its (tragic!) lack of gay bathhouses for @xtramagazine.com!
It’s been more than 25 years since Boston has been home to a gay bathhouse. @mikedesocio.com writes about when and why Boston lost its bathhouses for good, when other American cities managed to keep them.
Inside the history of Boston’s bygone gay bathhouses | Xtra Magazine
From sexual health support to discreet gathering place, bathhouses were once a small but important part of the city’s gay community
xtramagazine.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I wrote a super gay and fun story about Boston and its (tragic!) lack of gay bathhouses for @xtramagazine.com!
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"Trump has instructed the US Forest Service & Bureau of Land Management to increase logging targets and for officials to circumvent the US’s Endangered Species Act by using unspecified emergency powers to ignore protections placed upon vulnerable creatures’ habitats."
Unspecified emergency powers.
Unspecified emergency powers.
Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"Trump has instructed the US Forest Service & Bureau of Land Management to increase logging targets and for officials to circumvent the US’s Endangered Species Act by using unspecified emergency powers to ignore protections placed upon vulnerable creatures’ habitats."
Unspecified emergency powers.
Unspecified emergency powers.
It’s true! I will never stop shouting about this: If you have high heating bills (even as a renter), get yourself a home energy audit!
After getting a $500 heating bill, @mikedesocio.com got a home energy audit, which led to free insulation thanks to energy efficiency programs in Massachusetts. As a renter.
www.cnet.com/home/energy-...
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My Home Had No Insulation. A Free Energy Audit Changed That
Some states and utilities offer free insulation and improvements, which should make that $500 heating bill a thing of the past.
www.cnet.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It’s true! I will never stop shouting about this: If you have high heating bills (even as a renter), get yourself a home energy audit!
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#Freelance writers! We're holding a "How to Pitch Trails Mag" info session to share about what we're looking for, how we prefer to be pitched, and lots of thoughts on what makes the ideal Trails Mag story. Plus questions!
Feb 18 at 11AM Pacific!
Register at trailsmag.net/contribute!
Feb 18 at 11AM Pacific!
Register at trailsmag.net/contribute!
Contributor Information - Trails Magazine
The focus of Trails is on backpacking and other human/naturally-powered means of sleeping outdoors: bikepacking, canoe camping, even things like rafting or mountaineering are fair game. But remember: ...
trailsmag.net
February 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
#Freelance writers! We're holding a "How to Pitch Trails Mag" info session to share about what we're looking for, how we prefer to be pitched, and lots of thoughts on what makes the ideal Trails Mag story. Plus questions!
Feb 18 at 11AM Pacific!
Register at trailsmag.net/contribute!
Feb 18 at 11AM Pacific!
Register at trailsmag.net/contribute!
My first (of many) @cnet.com pieces about the impacts of Trump on all things EVs and energy. ⚡️⬇️
What Trump's Executive Order Means for Electric Vehicles
An executive order can't change the most significant EV policies: tax credits.
www.cnet.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
My first (of many) @cnet.com pieces about the impacts of Trump on all things EVs and energy. ⚡️⬇️
Hey, did you know I have a newsletter? It’s true!
The Prologue helps writers learn the skills they need to become (published) narrative nonfiction authors.
Today I sent out the first edition, about my own book publication journey. ✍🏻 Give it a read!
The Prologue helps writers learn the skills they need to become (published) narrative nonfiction authors.
Today I sent out the first edition, about my own book publication journey. ✍🏻 Give it a read!
How I wrote and published my first nonfiction book
It took five years, countless rejections and more than a few mistakes before I saw my book on a shelf.
mikedesocio.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Hey, did you know I have a newsletter? It’s true!
The Prologue helps writers learn the skills they need to become (published) narrative nonfiction authors.
Today I sent out the first edition, about my own book publication journey. ✍🏻 Give it a read!
The Prologue helps writers learn the skills they need to become (published) narrative nonfiction authors.
Today I sent out the first edition, about my own book publication journey. ✍🏻 Give it a read!
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Fire Weather was probably my favorite book I read last year, truly haunting.
“We’re going to have to let go of a lot of the 20th century. That’s what these events are telling us,” says @johnvaillant.bsky.social, the author of the book “Fire Weather,” of the wildfires in Los Angeles. insideclimatenews.org/news/1601202...
‘Virtually Any City on Earth Can Burn Now’ - Inside Climate News
In the superheated 21st century, the old rules for wildfires no longer apply. John Vaillant, author of “Fire Weather,” explains.
insideclimatenews.org
January 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Fire Weather was probably my favorite book I read last year, truly haunting.
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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A nice zag from Bloomberg Green: How to shop for vintage and secondhand holiday gifts www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How to Buy a Secondhand Gift Someone Might Actually Want
In search of uniqueness and affordable quality, shoppers are increasingly open to buying and receiving secondhand gifts — and it’s better for the planet.
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:17 PM
A nice zag from Bloomberg Green: How to shop for vintage and secondhand holiday gifts www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump transition team wants to kneecap EVs:
🔹 Eliminate $7,500 tax credit
🔹 End public charging expansion
🔹 Place tariffs on imported battery materials
Also, relax car fuel economy rules by 15% and emissions by 25%.
Carmakers don't want this. It's all Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
🔹 Eliminate $7,500 tax credit
🔹 End public charging expansion
🔹 Place tariffs on imported battery materials
Also, relax car fuel economy rules by 15% and emissions by 25%.
Carmakers don't want this. It's all Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Exclusive: Trump transition team plans sweeping rollback of Biden EV, emissions policies
Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump’s transition team is recommending sweeping changes to cut off support for electric vehicles and charging stations and to strengthen measures blocking cars, components and battery materials from China, according to a document seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Trump transition team wants to kneecap EVs:
🔹 Eliminate $7,500 tax credit
🔹 End public charging expansion
🔹 Place tariffs on imported battery materials
Also, relax car fuel economy rules by 15% and emissions by 25%.
Carmakers don't want this. It's all Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
🔹 Eliminate $7,500 tax credit
🔹 End public charging expansion
🔹 Place tariffs on imported battery materials
Also, relax car fuel economy rules by 15% and emissions by 25%.
Carmakers don't want this. It's all Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
"Elizabeth Payne ... said she used to sprint to catch a Blue Line train pulling in ... once tripping and falling on her face so hard she needed a Dunkin’ iced coffee to ease the swelling." (h/t @bostonglobe.com)
Icing your T-induced injury with a Dunkin is peak Boston behavior.
Icing your T-induced injury with a Dunkin is peak Boston behavior.
Riders had lost hope in the T. Then came ‘Train Daddy Eng.’ - The Boston Globe
Public perception of the transit agency has noticeably shifted as the system has steadily improved, and Phil Eng has become a rather unlikely local celebrity in the process.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:52 PM
"Elizabeth Payne ... said she used to sprint to catch a Blue Line train pulling in ... once tripping and falling on her face so hard she needed a Dunkin’ iced coffee to ease the swelling." (h/t @bostonglobe.com)
Icing your T-induced injury with a Dunkin is peak Boston behavior.
Icing your T-induced injury with a Dunkin is peak Boston behavior.
Excellent reporting by @erininthemorning.com, as always.
Amy Coney Barrett Surprised By History Of Cross-Dressing Laws Targeting Trans People
The justice is a potential wild card in the recent Skrimetti case around transgender rights.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Excellent reporting by @erininthemorning.com, as always.
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From my colleague Chase Strangio:
"My presence at the Court as a transgender lawyer will have been possible because I have had access to the very medical treatment at the center of the case. Though some doubt the lifesaving properties of this care, I know them personally. And so do my clients."
"My presence at the Court as a transgender lawyer will have been possible because I have had access to the very medical treatment at the center of the case. Though some doubt the lifesaving properties of this care, I know them personally. And so do my clients."
Opinion | The Supreme Court’s Trans Health Care Case Is About Normal Things That Make a Big Difference (Gift Article)
Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender adolescents has personal implications.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:09 PM
From my colleague Chase Strangio:
"My presence at the Court as a transgender lawyer will have been possible because I have had access to the very medical treatment at the center of the case. Though some doubt the lifesaving properties of this care, I know them personally. And so do my clients."
"My presence at the Court as a transgender lawyer will have been possible because I have had access to the very medical treatment at the center of the case. Though some doubt the lifesaving properties of this care, I know them personally. And so do my clients."
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Anti trans activist Benjamin Ryan previously reported on spurious accusations that Boston Children's rushed trans youth through assessment. The Boston Globe spoke with actual families and they completely contradict those blatant distortions. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...
A former director called the Boston Children’s transgender clinic ‘reckless.’ Families say that couldn’t be further from the truth. - The Boston Globe
The families shared their experiences — described in dozens of hours of interviews and substantiated by records shared with the Globe — as a counterweight to what they regard as unfounded concerns abo...
www.bostonglobe.com
December 3, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Anti trans activist Benjamin Ryan previously reported on spurious accusations that Boston Children's rushed trans youth through assessment. The Boston Globe spoke with actual families and they completely contradict those blatant distortions. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...
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What an incredible piece from Patrick Fealey, an award-winning journalist and writer, who became homeless last year. I often think about how wide the gaps are in Britain's social security net compared with Germany's. But America is truly in a different league.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:26 PM
What an incredible piece from Patrick Fealey, an award-winning journalist and writer, who became homeless last year. I often think about how wide the gaps are in Britain's social security net compared with Germany's. But America is truly in a different league.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...