T. S. Wurm
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T. S. Wurm
@thespecialworm.bsky.social
· Sep 16
I don’t have words for the two mass shootings targeting unhoused people yesterday. Our city is so unserious about actually doing anything to support unhoused people.
I'm struck by how most commentary frames the issue as violence within the unhoused community, as if to suggest lack of housing somehow begets violence.
Not once stepping back to think: maybe someone is targeting the most vulnerable among us.
Not once stepping back to think: maybe someone is targeting the most vulnerable among us.
Presented without comment: this is Madison Sheahan, Kristi Noem's 28-year-old 2nd in command.
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Presented without comment: this is Madison Sheahan, Kristi Noem's 28-year-old 2nd in command.
Ever if this WERE true, that figure would represent less than one-half of 1% of SNAP recipients.
Like who cares!? Let the dead eat cake!
Like who cares!? Let the dead eat cake!
Brooke Rollins: "SNAP is a broken program. SNAP is full of corruption. We found 186,000 dead people."
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Ever if this WERE true, that figure would represent less than one-half of 1% of SNAP recipients.
Like who cares!? Let the dead eat cake!
Like who cares!? Let the dead eat cake!
Fantastic!
BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stops the scheduled execution of Tremane Wood today, commuting his sentence to life without parole.
In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Fantastic!
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
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he’s a provider of access to money, connections and beautiful women and girls — everything that these people need to affirm their own status. being rich and powerful is a grift which requires other to bolster & buy in. That’s the service Epstein provided.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
he’s a provider of access to money, connections and beautiful women and girls — everything that these people need to affirm their own status. being rich and powerful is a grift which requires other to bolster & buy in. That’s the service Epstein provided.
I bet they did not. That reads like some post-5PM Friday fuckery from an incensed, daft executive.
Landon Thomas’s behavior seems to be embarrassing enough to the Times hierarchy that they had their spokesman go on record insinuating to the Post that he was fired for cause. I wonder whether legal signed off on that. nypost.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I bet they did not. That reads like some post-5PM Friday fuckery from an incensed, daft executive.
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NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
www.assignedmedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Might not be able to misgender them, but nothing stopping anyone from calling bigots bigots.
1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them.
Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.
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Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.
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6th Circuit Rules Cis Students May Bully Trans Students By Repeatedly Misgendering Them
The Circuit also seemed to suggest that trans students could not misgender their bullies in return.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Might not be able to misgender them, but nothing stopping anyone from calling bigots bigots.
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I almost can’t believe this. I spend an absurd amount of time litigating pre-enforcement standing in the 6th Circuit, which makes establishing pre-enforcement standing near impossible. *En banc,* the 6th Circuit just blessed pre-enforcement standing in a culture war case with wafer-thin analysis.
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I almost can’t believe this. I spend an absurd amount of time litigating pre-enforcement standing in the 6th Circuit, which makes establishing pre-enforcement standing near impossible. *En banc,* the 6th Circuit just blessed pre-enforcement standing in a culture war case with wafer-thin analysis.
Ultimately, the government is putting unhoused people into camps because they're mentally ill. Like the Nazis did.
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Ultimately, the government is putting unhoused people into camps because they're mentally ill. Like the Nazis did.
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NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.
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This is what you enabled with all your talk of groceries and a funny laugh, with all your talk of shareholder profits, with your eye on mergers, your obsession with deregulation, and your “both sides” excuses. You have betrayed the promise of this country.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It’ll be mostly White South Africans | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previo...
www.cnn.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is what you enabled with all your talk of groceries and a funny laugh, with all your talk of shareholder profits, with your eye on mergers, your obsession with deregulation, and your “both sides” excuses. You have betrayed the promise of this country.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
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davis points out to frey that IEs supporting him send mailers instructing voters how to rank their ballots and adds "i am running because i am tired of your inadequate leadership rooted in personal ambition, in moral blindness, in ideological purity."
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
davis points out to frey that IEs supporting him send mailers instructing voters how to rank their ballots and adds "i am running because i am tired of your inadequate leadership rooted in personal ambition, in moral blindness, in ideological purity."
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They kicked Lia Smith off the Middlebury College Swimming and Diving team for being trans and now, as the 2026 season kicks off, she's dead. Rest in power, Lia. The world is so cruel sometimes.
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
They kicked Lia Smith off the Middlebury College Swimming and Diving team for being trans and now, as the 2026 season kicks off, she's dead. Rest in power, Lia. The world is so cruel sometimes.
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In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...
'Jarring, frightening attack': Chicago homeowner describes immigration raid at his home
MSNBC exclusively obtained security footage of federal agents targeting construction workers at a home in the wealthy Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. Leo Feler, who owns the property, joined The Wee...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...
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How it looks in the mirror vs how it looks on camera
October 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
How it looks in the mirror vs how it looks on camera
Yes. Mellon donated more to MAGA in 2024 than any other individual.
He really hates Black people, trans people, and women.
He really hates Black people, trans people, and women.
Ah.
“Mellon, the 77-year-old … who poured $30 million into 3 GOP super PACs in 5 months, wrote that black people were ‘even more belligerent’ after the expansion of social programs in the 1960s and 1970s and that Americans who rely on government assistance were ‘slaves of a new Master, Uncle Sam.’”
“Mellon, the 77-year-old … who poured $30 million into 3 GOP super PACs in 5 months, wrote that black people were ‘even more belligerent’ after the expansion of social programs in the 1960s and 1970s and that Americans who rely on government assistance were ‘slaves of a new Master, Uncle Sam.’”
October 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yes. Mellon donated more to MAGA in 2024 than any other individual.
He really hates Black people, trans people, and women.
He really hates Black people, trans people, and women.
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On Threads, the AP promoted this story with the caption: “Anti-abortion pregnancy centers offer much more than free ultrasounds and diapers. Here's why they're expanding as Planned Parenthood clinics close.” Do better @apnews.com
Once again, this kind of “both sides” coverage of crisis pregnancy centers is simply not going to cut it, because on one “side” we have medical and scientific consensus—and basic facts—and on the other “side” we have disinformation. Giving these perspectives equal weight is journalistic malpractice
Anti-abortion pregnancy centers are looking to offer much more than ultrasounds and diapers
More anti-abortion pregnancy centers have been offering medical services such as testing for sexually transmitted infections.
apnews.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
On Threads, the AP promoted this story with the caption: “Anti-abortion pregnancy centers offer much more than free ultrasounds and diapers. Here's why they're expanding as Planned Parenthood clinics close.” Do better @apnews.com
"Fuck them trannies" is not an important conversation for wealthy white men to be having.
Every conversation among these bros about helping MORE people devolves into an attack of trans people's basic right to exist.
Why is that?
Every conversation among these bros about helping MORE people devolves into an attack of trans people's basic right to exist.
Why is that?
This is an important conversation but I am struck that nowhere does the power of conservative media come up; indeed media is described as “progressive.” No mention of Rush Limbaugh and talk radio, Fox News, Twitter, or right-wing influencers with huge audiences.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...
Opinion | Can Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party?
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October 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Fuck them trannies" is not an important conversation for wealthy white men to be having.
Every conversation among these bros about helping MORE people devolves into an attack of trans people's basic right to exist.
Why is that?
Every conversation among these bros about helping MORE people devolves into an attack of trans people's basic right to exist.
Why is that?
For a flaming bag of shit like Bove, perhaps a bit longer.
JUST IN: Judge Emil Bove's dissent to 3rd Cir denying en banc in case striking PA mail-in ballot dating rule. Bove mocks impact: 'For a voter with a functioning pen, sufficient ink & average hand dexterity, this should take less than five seconds.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
PABallotDatingBoveDissent102425
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October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
For a flaming bag of shit like Bove, perhaps a bit longer.
Gambling is now the largest industry in at least half a dozen states, and almost without exception, those states have the highest rates of disability.
Gambling siphons off at least $500B in SSI, SSDI, and DIC payments annually.
Like a pipeline of despair.
Gambling siphons off at least $500B in SSI, SSDI, and DIC payments annually.
Like a pipeline of despair.
A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to the legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial.
How a 2018 Supreme Court decision paved the way for meteoric growth in legal sports betting
A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to the legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Gambling is now the largest industry in at least half a dozen states, and almost without exception, those states have the highest rates of disability.
Gambling siphons off at least $500B in SSI, SSDI, and DIC payments annually.
Like a pipeline of despair.
Gambling siphons off at least $500B in SSI, SSDI, and DIC payments annually.
Like a pipeline of despair.
These are perhaps 6 of the 12 the counties in the country with the largest Hispanic populations, outside of Texas and AZ.
Maybe I’m blind but I’m sure not seeing any rationale behind why these specific jurisdictions are getting scrutiny.
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
These are perhaps 6 of the 12 the counties in the country with the largest Hispanic populations, outside of Texas and AZ.
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absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.
The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.
The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.
Cocaine + alcohol.
How the hell does this happen, that's so far in??
From @metrotransitmn.bsky.social PD FB page, driver drove onto Washington Ave bridge last night.
From @metrotransitmn.bsky.social PD FB page, driver drove onto Washington Ave bridge last night.
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Cocaine + alcohol.