Lexi Koren
@lexikoren.bsky.social
Woman of Mass Destruction 👩🎤☢️ comms consultant, occasional freelance writer. AlexLKoren at gmail dot com
Michael Laidlaw compared youth gender medicine to the Tuskegee experiment, but yes WaPo ed board please go on about how these people are not ideological cranks.
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Michael Laidlaw compared youth gender medicine to the Tuskegee experiment, but yes WaPo ed board please go on about how these people are not ideological cranks.
I love how they don’t actually check the “One Hit Wonder” trivia list to make sure it’s not just based on vibes. Survivor had like half a dozen top 10 hits.
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I love how they don’t actually check the “One Hit Wonder” trivia list to make sure it’s not just based on vibes. Survivor had like half a dozen top 10 hits.
It’s wild to read AI trained on TERF arguments because there are only like 5 of them to choose from. Here we have, “Biological sex on your passport is necessary because you might have all of your flesh burned off in a fire and your skeleton won’t match your ID when they find it.” Amazing stuff…
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It’s wild to read AI trained on TERF arguments because there are only like 5 of them to choose from. Here we have, “Biological sex on your passport is necessary because you might have all of your flesh burned off in a fire and your skeleton won’t match your ID when they find it.” Amazing stuff…
My god, they literally did the thing.
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My god, they literally did the thing.
Welp, looks like Virginia is for they/them.
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Welp, looks like Virginia is for they/them.
I googled skeleton decorations just out of curiosity and most tend to have fairly broad shoulders. But also this one was on the first page and has that flared pelvis with a wide opening. No C sections for this one when it gives birth.
November 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I googled skeleton decorations just out of curiosity and most tend to have fairly broad shoulders. But also this one was on the first page and has that flared pelvis with a wide opening. No C sections for this one when it gives birth.
Just want to note that there are several candidates in this race who are neither 77 years old nor (as far as I know) have Nazi tattoos.
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• Natasha Alcala, fashion designer(1]
• David Costello, former deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment and nominee for U.S. Senate in 2024|39]
• David Evans, former Department of Defense policy writer 40]
• Tucker Favreau, cybersecurity professional [41]
• Janet Mills, governor of Maine (2019-present) 142]
• Graham Platner, Sullivan, harbor master 43]
• Jordan Wood, former chief of staff to U.S.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Just want to note that there are several candidates in this race who are neither 77 years old nor (as far as I know) have Nazi tattoos.
KUOW added two editor’s notes. The fact that they got this wrong is bad and has consequences, but reporters and fact checkers are human like all of us and make mistakes.
However, the fact that the network had to be publicly called out before doing anything about it shows really poor judgment.
However, the fact that the network had to be publicly called out before doing anything about it shows really poor judgment.
October 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
KUOW added two editor’s notes. The fact that they got this wrong is bad and has consequences, but reporters and fact checkers are human like all of us and make mistakes.
However, the fact that the network had to be publicly called out before doing anything about it shows really poor judgment.
However, the fact that the network had to be publicly called out before doing anything about it shows really poor judgment.
Assuming everything Katie is saying about how 990 forms work in this thread is accurate (and I have no reason to believe it's not), @kuow.org really needs to update the story accordingly. The part highlighted here is just plain factually incorrect.
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Assuming everything Katie is saying about how 990 forms work in this thread is accurate (and I have no reason to believe it's not), @kuow.org really needs to update the story accordingly. The part highlighted here is just plain factually incorrect.
There is actually something to this part, though. People care about the influence of big tech corporations over Seattle city government when Trump is in power (2019 and currently) but not so much in 2021 and 2023. Where I’d differ with Fryer is I wish they’d care regardless of who is President.
October 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
There is actually something to this part, though. People care about the influence of big tech corporations over Seattle city government when Trump is in power (2019 and currently) but not so much in 2021 and 2023. Where I’d differ with Fryer is I wish they’d care regardless of who is President.
Here you’re assuming that there’s not value in clearing the cases quicker. There is value in that Tavistock was full of gender critical clinicians doing Freudian nonsense trying to talk kids out of being trans during those 6 sessions. Read Spilliadis’ case studies. They’re frightening.
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Here you’re assuming that there’s not value in clearing the cases quicker. There is value in that Tavistock was full of gender critical clinicians doing Freudian nonsense trying to talk kids out of being trans during those 6 sessions. Read Spilliadis’ case studies. They’re frightening.
NYT comments section validating the strong correlation between testosterone levels and starting a podcast.
October 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
NYT comments section validating the strong correlation between testosterone levels and starting a podcast.
Look, I know the Supreme Court is going to rule that it’s unconstitutional to ban conversion therapy. But very curious where they stand on outsourcing your Freudian quackery to AI.
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Look, I know the Supreme Court is going to rule that it’s unconstitutional to ban conversion therapy. But very curious where they stand on outsourcing your Freudian quackery to AI.
Oh, they made a graphic for this back in the late 2010s.
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Oh, they made a graphic for this back in the late 2010s.
Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.
I’m incredibly biased, but I’d submit that there’s an obvious answer to your question in the County Exec race because one of the candidates very much wants to be Governor, and the other doesn’t.
October 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I’m incredibly biased, but I’d submit that there’s an obvious answer to your question in the County Exec race because one of the candidates very much wants to be Governor, and the other doesn’t.
Look, I’m as woke as they come, but no Google AI, trans women are not born with Skene’s glands. Nor is there any known medical procedure for us to acquire them, for that matter. Why in god’s name is this thing so bad?
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Look, I’m as woke as they come, but no Google AI, trans women are not born with Skene’s glands. Nor is there any known medical procedure for us to acquire them, for that matter. Why in god’s name is this thing so bad?
IDK, maybe because TERF rags like UnHerd are spreading transphobic garbage that leads to the loss of our rights and our safety? Just a theory, though.
October 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
IDK, maybe because TERF rags like UnHerd are spreading transphobic garbage that leads to the loss of our rights and our safety? Just a theory, though.
I realize it’s secondary to this excellent burn, but noteworthy that in 2018, National Review writers were open to the idea that a boy could become a girl… just not by merely saying so.
October 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I realize it’s secondary to this excellent burn, but noteworthy that in 2018, National Review writers were open to the idea that a boy could become a girl… just not by merely saying so.
Unbelievably bad reporting on the conversion therapy case from ABC. The therapist claims it prevents them from helping kids voluntarily “on their own free will”. Then gives an example of a parent who absolutely insists their kid is not trans, while the kid absolutely insists they are trans. /1
October 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Unbelievably bad reporting on the conversion therapy case from ABC. The therapist claims it prevents them from helping kids voluntarily “on their own free will”. Then gives an example of a parent who absolutely insists their kid is not trans, while the kid absolutely insists they are trans. /1