Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class
@thrasherxy.bsky.social
Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. Fund for Investigative Journalism Fellow. Traveling the world writing on Palestine, HIV/AIDS & LGBTQ life. Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS (Celadon/Macmillan). Finishing THE OVERSEER CLASS (Amistad/HarperCollins)
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Palestinian Refugees in Syria See Little Hope — Even After Assad
“Even if they rebuild all of Syria, Yarmouk will remain destroyed,” said one Palestinian refugee.
theintercept.com
New from me and Afeef Nessouli in @theintercept: we report from inside the Yarmouk refugee camp, where Palestinian refugees see little hope in the new Syria theintercept.com/2025/06/17/p...
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NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
No matter how bored I ever get, I will never watch “Wicked”
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
No matter how bored I ever get, I will never watch “Wicked”
When I worked in film, I found it so weird that my producer boss had a NONTAXABLE $75/day, or $525 a week, meal stipend on top of his large salary. Meanwhile, I got no meal stipend and had to buy my food out of my $500 a week salary, which was taxed
Chump and RepubliKKKans Have
Been Fighting in Court To Stop
SNAP Benefits,While Receiving
More In A 1 Week meal allowance,
Than The Average Entire 1 Month SNAP Benefit.......
Been Fighting in Court To Stop
SNAP Benefits,While Receiving
More In A 1 Week meal allowance,
Than The Average Entire 1 Month SNAP Benefit.......
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
When I worked in film, I found it so weird that my producer boss had a NONTAXABLE $75/day, or $525 a week, meal stipend on top of his large salary. Meanwhile, I got no meal stipend and had to buy my food out of my $500 a week salary, which was taxed
Well no wonder I was petrified—the marabou stork has “the largest wingspan of any land bird, with an average of 2.6 metres (8.5 ft) and some recorded examples of up to 3.2 metres (10 ft)”
Am I at Makerere University or in Jurassic Park @zsw.bsky.social @andrecarrington.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Well no wonder I was petrified—the marabou stork has “the largest wingspan of any land bird, with an average of 2.6 metres (8.5 ft) and some recorded examples of up to 3.2 metres (10 ft)”
The great Karen Attiah captures my fury and anger at employed people when they say losing your job and being blacklisted is a "badge of honor"
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The great Karen Attiah captures my fury and anger at employed people when they say losing your job and being blacklisted is a "badge of honor"
Am I at Makerere University or in Jurassic Park @zsw.bsky.social @andrecarrington.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Am I at Makerere University or in Jurassic Park @zsw.bsky.social @andrecarrington.bsky.social
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READ: Now that there is a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinians have disappeared from the headlines, leaving us to wonder: to the world, did the genocide even happen?
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/pale...
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/pale...
Palestine Letter: Did the ‘war’ in Gaza even happen?
Now that there is a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinians have disappeared from the headlines, leaving us to wonder: to the world, did the genocide even happen?
mondoweiss.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
READ: Now that there is a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinians have disappeared from the headlines, leaving us to wonder: to the world, did the genocide even happen?
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/pale...
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/pale...
Another (candlelight!) gas station meal. The Shell station has become my favorite place to eat!
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Another (candlelight!) gas station meal. The Shell station has become my favorite place to eat!
Is this by Larry Summers or Larry David??
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Is this by Larry Summers or Larry David??
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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The ability to be "objective" or "neutral" about secret police disappearing kids would, in any rational system, be disqualifying. That the opposite is true is an indictment of journalism, and one reason that the mainstream media is distrusted.
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The ability to be "objective" or "neutral" about secret police disappearing kids would, in any rational system, be disqualifying. That the opposite is true is an indictment of journalism, and one reason that the mainstream media is distrusted.
It’s Sept 11, 2001. You’re watching George W. Bush recite the 23 Psalm from the Oval like a dear in headlights on CNN. Imagine I then tell you that one day Donald Trump will spray a former Al Qaeda general here with Trump perfume—just two weeks after leveling the East Wing like the Twin Towers
Some bizarre stuff going down in the Oval these days. After spraying the Syrian president with his Trump Fragrance he then asks him how many wives he has.
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It’s Sept 11, 2001. You’re watching George W. Bush recite the 23 Psalm from the Oval like a dear in headlights on CNN. Imagine I then tell you that one day Donald Trump will spray a former Al Qaeda general here with Trump perfume—just two weeks after leveling the East Wing like the Twin Towers
People are still talking about $15/hour???!!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
People are still talking about $15/hour???!!!!!
Just finished the wildest Zoom therapy session of my life. I looked so on edge to my therapist - was it the power threatening to go out? The banging on my door? The big ass bat that flew by my head? Or the herd of goats from the Book of Revelation that sat under my window and began screaming? 😆😆😆
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Just finished the wildest Zoom therapy session of my life. I looked so on edge to my therapist - was it the power threatening to go out? The banging on my door? The big ass bat that flew by my head? Or the herd of goats from the Book of Revelation that sat under my window and began screaming? 😆😆😆
Was feeling a bit overwhelmed this evening on my walk home, but I found the call to prayer at the local mosque to be calming
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Was feeling a bit overwhelmed this evening on my walk home, but I found the call to prayer at the local mosque to be calming
ChatGL1PT is a great name for a drag queen
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
ChatGL1PT is a great name for a drag queen
BlueSky is an example of you get what you pay for
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BlueSky is an example of you get what you pay for
I would pay for a social media platform that did the following:
- Posted things from people I follow in the order they were posted
That's it, that's the list
- Posted things from people I follow in the order they were posted
That's it, that's the list
Honestly, losing access to DMs on this platform last week for a couple of days, and seeing Kendzoir banned, makes me think: What am I doing? Relying on something I do not pay for that doesn't even have ads? Ofc there's not going to be customer service. Is this a folly to invest time in this?
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I would pay for a social media platform that did the following:
- Posted things from people I follow in the order they were posted
That's it, that's the list
- Posted things from people I follow in the order they were posted
That's it, that's the list
Honestly, losing access to DMs on this platform last week for a couple of days, and seeing Kendzoir banned, makes me think: What am I doing? Relying on something I do not pay for that doesn't even have ads? Ofc there's not going to be customer service. Is this a folly to invest time in this?
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Honestly, losing access to DMs on this platform last week for a couple of days, and seeing Kendzoir banned, makes me think: What am I doing? Relying on something I do not pay for that doesn't even have ads? Ofc there's not going to be customer service. Is this a folly to invest time in this?
My gut hunch: Kendzoir was probably not banned by a human for any reason, but by an automated computer process by accident, and BlueSky doesn't want to admit this mistake nor to open up that automation for debate. It wants the power to let computers do this w/o expending $ for human review.
@bsky.app last week my DMs were cut off. Moderation said I could not be trusted.
Hours later, you said it was a mistake.
Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.)
Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?
Hours later, you said it was a mistake.
Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.)
Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My gut hunch: Kendzoir was probably not banned by a human for any reason, but by an automated computer process by accident, and BlueSky doesn't want to admit this mistake nor to open up that automation for debate. It wants the power to let computers do this w/o expending $ for human review.
Trying to stop saying "I don't agree with them on everything" about people whose work I am referencing because I literally do not agree with anyone on everything, including the past version of my self that ended one second ago
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Trying to stop saying "I don't agree with them on everything" about people whose work I am referencing because I literally do not agree with anyone on everything, including the past version of my self that ended one second ago
@bsky.app last week my DMs were cut off. Moderation said I could not be trusted.
Hours later, you said it was a mistake.
Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.)
Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?
Hours later, you said it was a mistake.
Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.)
Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
@bsky.app last week my DMs were cut off. Moderation said I could not be trusted.
Hours later, you said it was a mistake.
Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.)
Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?
Hours later, you said it was a mistake.
Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.)
Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?
What is a drug store for? As @tomscocca.bsky.social is probably tired of me carping about, it’s not just that they locked up most items: in my Walgreens in Chicago, they locked up the entire STORE! You went to one window for drugs, another for everything else…now they won’t pay the workers?
Is this good? It doesn't seem good.
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout
Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
What is a drug store for? As @tomscocca.bsky.social is probably tired of me carping about, it’s not just that they locked up most items: in my Walgreens in Chicago, they locked up the entire STORE! You went to one window for drugs, another for everything else…now they won’t pay the workers?
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Donald Trump has sued the BBC for one billion dollars. The network should wait 40 days and then pay him the entire amount without a trial.
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Donald Trump has sued the BBC for one billion dollars. The network should wait 40 days and then pay him the entire amount without a trial.
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine