Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...
The tin of Mystery Fungal-Looking Stuff at the top left seems especially healthful and delicious.
You won’t find a better or safer environment for effeminate gay boys to freely be themselves than a community where trans kids are affirmed.
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
He wishes.
Fortitude. Because you know you need it! By Sandro Botticelli, whose day is today, in 1470.
Okay, but the situation may be a bit different for someone traveling in the US in 2026.
There's a brilliant moment (I think it's in The Honourable Schoolboy) where we see Fawn's reaction to Smiley possibly being in danger. Barely there, just a mention, but it suggests a whole inner world.
I read Casey Means' book last year and wrote about her "salvation through orthorexia" ideology so you don't have to. This woman being Surgeon General will entail enormous amounts of harm buttondown.com/theswordandt...
I know I'm about the millionth person to say this, but a system where computers do the learning* and the writing and the painting and the music while humans sweep the floors of the data centers** is not freedom.
* They don't really learn.
**All the worst work is mysteriously hard to automate.
It's only science if it comes from an online forum of transphobic parents. Otherwise it's just sparkling gender ideology.
Le Carré is the king of homoerotic yearning. (If you're still in a Le Carré mood after finishing the spy novels, I recommend his deeply strange, DEEPLY homoerotic non-spy novel The Naïve and Sentimental Lover.)
Noem said that federal agents had “detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home, and while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself.”
theintercept.com/2026/02/23/k...
Chest binders are a common first step to explore gender identity. Restricting them could push people back to unsafe DIY methods.
Yes! Topped with crushed saltine crackers, I hope.
John Le Carré is so good! I put off reading him for years because I thought the books would be James Patterson-type stuff, but they're really excellent.
Wow, claiming that a stigmatized minority is actually a secret cabal controlling the economy! That's definitely good journalism and not pure bigotry and lies!
Looking right at you from the center of her ravishing lace collar: a woman, painted by Frans Pourbus the Younger. Today was his day.
What a marvelous face, with a hint of laughter in her eyes.
Maybe I'm weird, but I care about kids suffering and dying from vaccine-preventable diseases due to their parents' bad choices.
I don't miss much about living in DC, but I do miss Teaism sometimes
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Nobody's going to change their gender to inherit a title, just like nobody's going to change their gender to win a women's sporting eveng.
Sir Ewan Forbes legally changed his birth registration to male in 1952.
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Can we not demonize some medicines, especially in the name of defending others?
I take a GLP-1 for my diabetes and it's been extremely effective. But the level of scaremongering and shaming around these drugs made me deeply reluctant to try them.
"Ozempic bad" is not actually very helpful.
I now want Musk and JD Vance to fight to the death over whether the Scots-Irish are degenerates (Vance, per Hillbilly Elegy) or a shining citadel of whiteness (Musk). Regardless of outcome, there's one fewer creepy weirdo.
Updating the tracker and I came across this fascinating story of trans and/or non-binary trans life woven into the Catholic practices of Naples, Italy.
For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/ital...
