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NEXT MONDAY, I'll be in Minneapolis with my dear friend @cassiusa.bsky.social! I'm SO hyped to chat with Cass, a SCHOLAR of trans media, about kind of the least scholarly things imaginable. I hope u can join us!!
RSVP required, limited space: www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
RSVP required, limited space: www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
NEXT MONDAY, I'll be in Minneapolis with my dear friend @cassiusa.bsky.social! I'm SO hyped to chat with Cass, a SCHOLAR of trans media, about kind of the least scholarly things imaginable. I hope u can join us!!
RSVP required, limited space: www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
RSVP required, limited space: www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
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Big VA-2 news as former Rep. Elaine Luria might jump in
Imagine last night’s results and possible Redistricting influences decision
Luria was first elected during the first Trump midterm in 2018
The party that has won VA-2 has been in House majority every election since 2008
Imagine last night’s results and possible Redistricting influences decision
Luria was first elected during the first Trump midterm in 2018
The party that has won VA-2 has been in House majority every election since 2008
Major Dem recruitment news out of VA from @jaaavis.bsky.social x.com/Jaaavis/stat...
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Big VA-2 news as former Rep. Elaine Luria might jump in
Imagine last night’s results and possible Redistricting influences decision
Luria was first elected during the first Trump midterm in 2018
The party that has won VA-2 has been in House majority every election since 2008
Imagine last night’s results and possible Redistricting influences decision
Luria was first elected during the first Trump midterm in 2018
The party that has won VA-2 has been in House majority every election since 2008
reading this immediately met my entire quota of "devastating things I can absorb on Wednesday" so logging off
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
reading this immediately met my entire quota of "devastating things I can absorb on Wednesday" so logging off
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"The wins come as the cost of electricity has become a major consumer issue. The defeated Republican incumbents had voted to approve six rate increases over the last two years, resulting in an estimated average increase of about $500 per year for the average household."
Public power is inevitable.
Public power is inevitable.
Democrats flip two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission • Georgia Recorder
Democrats have flipped two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission, which is currently an all-GOP panel. The PSC regulates Georgia utilities.
georgiarecorder.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"The wins come as the cost of electricity has become a major consumer issue. The defeated Republican incumbents had voted to approve six rate increases over the last two years, resulting in an estimated average increase of about $500 per year for the average household."
Public power is inevitable.
Public power is inevitable.
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ok sure. you hate andrew cuomo because he’s an unlikable slimy creepazoid with an adversarial relationship to the people he would govern…..but what if i told you a bunch of other slimy creeps with identical worldviews said to vote for him. does that change your mind
November 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
ok sure. you hate andrew cuomo because he’s an unlikable slimy creepazoid with an adversarial relationship to the people he would govern…..but what if i told you a bunch of other slimy creeps with identical worldviews said to vote for him. does that change your mind
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Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.
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Woke up early and jumped on grindr to message the girls that Dick Cheney is dead so that they learn in the funniest possible way
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Woke up early and jumped on grindr to message the girls that Dick Cheney is dead so that they learn in the funniest possible way
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today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
November 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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They are just fucking freaking out over Mamdani and it’s incredible, from, like, an anthropological perspective.
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
They are just fucking freaking out over Mamdani and it’s incredible, from, like, an anthropological perspective.
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If you are a Minneapolis-area transsexual, please join @cassiusa.bsky.social and I for a (free) discussion of trans media and heterosexual mating rituals and irreversible damage, followed by optional Hanging Out With Other Hot Queer People.
RSVP required: moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
RSVP required: moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
October 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If you are a Minneapolis-area transsexual, please join @cassiusa.bsky.social and I for a (free) discussion of trans media and heterosexual mating rituals and irreversible damage, followed by optional Hanging Out With Other Hot Queer People.
RSVP required: moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
RSVP required: moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
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Twin Cities transsexuals and you know, other weird folks, go see @tuck.bsky.social and @cassiusa.bsky.social being smart nerds on November 10
If you are a Minneapolis-area transsexual, please join @cassiusa.bsky.social and I for a (free) discussion of trans media and heterosexual mating rituals and irreversible damage, followed by optional Hanging Out With Other Hot Queer People.
RSVP required: moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
RSVP required: moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Twin Cities transsexuals and you know, other weird folks, go see @tuck.bsky.social and @cassiusa.bsky.social being smart nerds on November 10
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The best possible outcome for Trump on compacts is a record of 1-1-7. Relegation numbers in the fascism league table.
Vandy is late with their homework (deciding whether to accept fascism) and it reads like it. "Webster's defines acceptance as" type statement t.e2ma.net/message/tu4x...
email : Webview : Vanderbilt and the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education
t.e2ma.net
October 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The best possible outcome for Trump on compacts is a record of 1-1-7. Relegation numbers in the fascism league table.
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On Mon, Nov 10, I'll be at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in Minneapolis, chatting about Sex Change and the City with @cassiusa.bsky.social. Cass has never seen SATC but he has a PhD in trans books or something so that's fine right?
RSVP here: www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
RSVP here: www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
October 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On Mon, Nov 10, I'll be at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in Minneapolis, chatting about Sex Change and the City with @cassiusa.bsky.social. Cass has never seen SATC but he has a PhD in trans books or something so that's fine right?
RSVP here: www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
RSVP here: www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/38218...
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Hey at what point were you going to reveal that the woman who the story is based on is the Chief Marketing Office at a VC firm that is invested in a bunch of AI firms??????
www.canvas.vc/portfolio
www.canvas.vc/portfolio
October 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Hey at what point were you going to reveal that the woman who the story is based on is the Chief Marketing Office at a VC firm that is invested in a bunch of AI firms??????
www.canvas.vc/portfolio
www.canvas.vc/portfolio
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friends without kids: what's that magazine rack thing he's on
parent: it's called a Pikler it's for falling off of and crying
parent: it's called a Pikler it's for falling off of and crying
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
friends without kids: what's that magazine rack thing he's on
parent: it's called a Pikler it's for falling off of and crying
parent: it's called a Pikler it's for falling off of and crying
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FREE RESEARCH ARTICLE! Why did writers say Lara Croft was trans? What was her actual relationship to the “male gamer”? Look out for a guest appearance by Mario, and for the author’s own trans memories from the y2k era.
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
The Male Gamer and the Transness of Lara Croft
This article takes seriously two things: that Lara Croft is trans, and that I, a trans masculine games scholar and game maker, was a male gamer. Many scholars have rightly challenged the assumption th...
online.ucpress.edu
September 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
FREE RESEARCH ARTICLE! Why did writers say Lara Croft was trans? What was her actual relationship to the “male gamer”? Look out for a guest appearance by Mario, and for the author’s own trans memories from the y2k era.
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
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⁉️ Why? ⁉️
Retaliation and conflictual relationships with management drove tech co employees to see themselves as workers with the need to organize for stronger protections and better working conditions (2/2)
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Retaliation and conflictual relationships with management drove tech co employees to see themselves as workers with the need to organize for stronger protections and better working conditions (2/2)
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Tech Worker Labor Activism - JS Tan, Natalia Luka, Emily Mazo, 2025
Tech workers—professionals in the technology industry, such as software engineers, product managers, and UX designers—are not normally associated with labor act...
journals.sagepub.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
⁉️ Why? ⁉️
Retaliation and conflictual relationships with management drove tech co employees to see themselves as workers with the need to organize for stronger protections and better working conditions (2/2)
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Retaliation and conflictual relationships with management drove tech co employees to see themselves as workers with the need to organize for stronger protections and better working conditions (2/2)
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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📢 New article alert 📢 "Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Tech Worker Labor Activism" is out with @ilrreview.bsky.social
@js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social, and I find tech cos with political and social activism in the workplace saw 1.3x more labor activism in the next 6-12 months (1/2)
@js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social, and I find tech cos with political and social activism in the workplace saw 1.3x more labor activism in the next 6-12 months (1/2)
October 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
📢 New article alert 📢 "Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Tech Worker Labor Activism" is out with @ilrreview.bsky.social
@js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social, and I find tech cos with political and social activism in the workplace saw 1.3x more labor activism in the next 6-12 months (1/2)
@js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social, and I find tech cos with political and social activism in the workplace saw 1.3x more labor activism in the next 6-12 months (1/2)
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NEW: The Supreme Court will not hear a case over a Colorado school district’s alleged actions discouraging disclosure of students’ gender identity to the students’ parents.
The case was a bad vehicle for considering the issue, even Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch note.
The case was a bad vehicle for considering the issue, even Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch note.
![Cite as: 607 U. S. _
_ (2025)
1
Statement of ALITO, J.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. U. POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25-89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain concerned that some federal courts are "tempt[ed]" to avoid confronting a "particularly contentious constitutional ques-tion]": whether a school district violates parents' fundamental rights "when, without parental knowledge or con-sent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender or assists in that process." Parents Protecting Our Chil-dren, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S.
(2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certio-rari) (slip op., at 1-2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S. 57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that nearly 6,000 public schools have policies-as respondent allegedly does-that purposefully interfere with parents' access to critical information about their children's gender-identity choices and school personnel's involvement in and influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The trou-bling-and tragic-allegations in this case underscore the
"great and growing national importance" of the question that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting Our Children, 604 U. S., at _ (slip op., at 1).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiansfxpex3h3juafmpxljslk4ffpi2cpgtd3tdi6m4ush3p6sppse@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
NEW: The Supreme Court will not hear a case over a Colorado school district’s alleged actions discouraging disclosure of students’ gender identity to the students’ parents.
The case was a bad vehicle for considering the issue, even Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch note.
The case was a bad vehicle for considering the issue, even Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch note.
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This is just another higher ed hit piece, but I was dinged in my tenure case for not recording my classes. I don't record them for pedagogical reasons, but also because I don't want to go viral & receive death threats for saying that black people also deserve rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is just another higher ed hit piece, but I was dinged in my tenure case for not recording my classes. I don't record them for pedagogical reasons, but also because I don't want to go viral & receive death threats for saying that black people also deserve rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
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Teaching my racial capitalism class again for the first time in a few years, and crowdsourcing recommendations for readings on the following subjects:
1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE
2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.
1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE
2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.
October 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Teaching my racial capitalism class again for the first time in a few years, and crowdsourcing recommendations for readings on the following subjects:
1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE
2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.
1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE
2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.
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one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
newrepublic.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.