"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

Got anode heart, where the water tastes like wine, and mediterranean inferno myself! Thanks for all the hard work compiling recommendations!

It wouldn’t seem possible that we could be living through this rapidly unfolding autocratic takeover with overt, explicit suppression of speech by the state and STILL ALSO have to put up this feverish imaginary discourse about “the fragile left” and “college campuses.” And yet. And yet.

Supporting bathroom, sports and healthcare bans for trans people means signing on to a moral panic about problems that DON'T EXIST.

When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.