I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
Her campaign was for an extension of the same liberalism that allowed a specific demographic of Democratic voters to coast through life thinking of politics as something that affects other people and it’s no wonder that most folks weren’t buying it.
License plate readers. Cellphone location data. Social media monitoring. Now, real-time facial recognition on the street.
DHS is building a surveillance apparatus—and you're probably already in it.
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If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!
It looks like the Bluesky left in Iran is already trying to force woke purity tests on the next Ayatollah
The Grand Lake is really a special place - Oakland’s heart and soul, in some ways. I hope it’s here for another hundred years.
If someone had suggested that I might really be a girl a long time ago it would have saved me an almost infinite amount of heartache and sadness.
The defining principle of the political right wing in America these days is that it doesn’t matter if you are actually good at anything as long as you have raw power.
It's kind of funny that as he ages, Trump looks increasingly like the Disney Hall of Presidents robot from 2017 that I'm still convinced was originally a Hillary robot that had to be hastily refashioned after the election.
It’s 71 in San Francisco today and if you listen closely you can hear the men in the Castro digging out the summer tank tops
A grey hoodie with text which reads: “Buy a man eat fish, He day, teach fish man To a lifetime.”
Wise words
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
Evergreen
When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
Every New York Times column & Atlantic thinkpiece, every Guardian broadside led us here. Jesse Singal and Ben Ryan and all the others "just asking questions" led us here.
Every bit of coverage that's treated us as suspicious outsiders and punching bags helped speed this day.
You are responsible.
Wow! Weird how this KEEPS HAPPENING with Jesse Singal!
It's almost like he has some kind of agenda or bias. Isn't it interesting that a perception or assumption of a pro-trans bias disqualifies you from writing about trans health, but an anti-trans bias doesn't?
Jessica Fletcher giving an Ewok a piggyback ride.
Yub Nub, She Wrote
My proudest moment on social media (lifetime) was when I he called me “the sharia police of twitter” for calling out his transphobia
apparently today we get Jesse Singal in the New York Times with the "gender-affirming care is new & experimental" 🙃
We have the best ice skaters, the best food, and the best posting. Lesser cities could never. Oakland is everything, I love it here.
Anything that tries to divide gay, lesbian, and bisexual people from trans people is a psyop
2021 absolutely represented a generational fumble of our best chance to build a world that centered care and compassion. And for what, so a handful of billionaires could get richer?
With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.
The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.
Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.
among my favorite French Revolution details: the King's cousin, the Duke of Orleans, was so shook by the events of the revolution that he not only voted to execute his cousin but legally changed his name to Equality Phil.
I am 52 and I’m hotter now than I’ve ever been.
The town better throw her a parade when she gets back. A real one.
This is absolutely accurate.
“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.”
she did it! her! way!!
Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."
A society that allows this happen to children is a failed society
