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Alex Berg
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· Nov 18
If you’re curious about all that is at stake for LGBTQ+ people now that Trump is elected and is empowering homophobes and transphobes with his cabinet picks, before the election I moderated this roundtable with leaders. It’s a good comprehensive overview.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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It’s a beautiful thing when people change, but demonstrating sincere change happens through accountability, naming harm and working towards repair, and showing change through actions over time. Until Marjorie Taylor Greene does that, proceed with extreme caution and healthy skepticism.
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It’s a beautiful thing when people change, but demonstrating sincere change happens through accountability, naming harm and working towards repair, and showing change through actions over time. Until Marjorie Taylor Greene does that, proceed with extreme caution and healthy skepticism.
Trump loves a photo op with a popular person and often functions as a weather vane with press and public opinion. This coupled with Zohran Mamdani's deft ability to find common ground as I expect he did in the meeting explains the reaction. Trump backstabs, so don't be surprised when he does a 180.
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Trump loves a photo op with a popular person and often functions as a weather vane with press and public opinion. This coupled with Zohran Mamdani's deft ability to find common ground as I expect he did in the meeting explains the reaction. Trump backstabs, so don't be surprised when he does a 180.
Next time someone says that drag queens are a danger to children remember that a cis white woman named Megyn Kelly was the one who justified Trump's connection to Jeffrey Epstein's predatory behavior because the victims appeared to be "barely legal."
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Next time someone says that drag queens are a danger to children remember that a cis white woman named Megyn Kelly was the one who justified Trump's connection to Jeffrey Epstein's predatory behavior because the victims appeared to be "barely legal."
In the host seat this morning on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social talking the latest on the Epstein files + more! Give the show a call or share your thoughts here.
Hello Monday! Joining guest host @itsalexberg.bsky.social: V Spehar of @underthedesknews.bsky.social, @kristincollier.bsky.social, Author of What Debt Demands + Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org!
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November 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
In the host seat this morning on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social talking the latest on the Epstein files + more! Give the show a call or share your thoughts here.
The spectacle surrounding the Epstein emails and feeling that many in the media are circling like vultures makes me sad for the survivors, the women and girls who faced sexual assault, violence, and surely irreparable harm. They’re real people.
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The spectacle surrounding the Epstein emails and feeling that many in the media are circling like vultures makes me sad for the survivors, the women and girls who faced sexual assault, violence, and surely irreparable harm. They’re real people.
Democrats having a great election night thanks an electorate energized by the prospect of lawmakers who actually stand up for their constituents then caving on the shutdown with a catastrophic impact on healthcare not even a week later is so Democrats.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Democrats having a great election night thanks an electorate energized by the prospect of lawmakers who actually stand up for their constituents then caving on the shutdown with a catastrophic impact on healthcare not even a week later is so Democrats.
Zohran Mamdani winning via a year-long grassroots campaign that started with zero name recognition and visiting districts that Trump won is a lesson that political fatalism born of this fascist moment is not fate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Zohran Mamdani winning via a year-long grassroots campaign that started with zero name recognition and visiting districts that Trump won is a lesson that political fatalism born of this fascist moment is not fate.
Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.
I’m happy for Gen Z New Yorkers who — probably for the first time — got to feel genuinely excited about a political candidate in Zohran Mamdani. Everyone should enter adulthood feeling like the world is full of possibility and that hope is a worthwhile emotion.
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I’m happy for Gen Z New Yorkers who — probably for the first time — got to feel genuinely excited about a political candidate in Zohran Mamdani. Everyone should enter adulthood feeling like the world is full of possibility and that hope is a worthwhile emotion.
Teen Vogue's politics section not only took young people — a crucial electorate — seriously, but allowed journalists like me to cover reproductive rights without the damaging and misleading bothsidesism of legacy publications. Another huge loss for media.
www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...
www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...
This Is What Later Abortion Really Is
Let's cut the myths and pseudoscience.
www.teenvogue.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Teen Vogue's politics section not only took young people — a crucial electorate — seriously, but allowed journalists like me to cover reproductive rights without the damaging and misleading bothsidesism of legacy publications. Another huge loss for media.
www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...
www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...
Zohran Mamdani just made a surprise appearance and speech talking about fighting for queer and trans New Yorkers at the Meow Mix 30th anniversary weekend. Meow Mix was an iconic lesbian bar that closed in 2004, and is a symbol of the fight for lesbian nightlife spaces. This is deep lez herstory.
October 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Zohran Mamdani just made a surprise appearance and speech talking about fighting for queer and trans New Yorkers at the Meow Mix 30th anniversary weekend. Meow Mix was an iconic lesbian bar that closed in 2004, and is a symbol of the fight for lesbian nightlife spaces. This is deep lez herstory.
The Trump administration is spending $250 million to build a new ballroom in the White House while Americans are paying for groceries with Klarna.
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Trump administration is spending $250 million to build a new ballroom in the White House while Americans are paying for groceries with Klarna.
I'm incredibly sad to learn that NBC News has shuttered NBC OUT, a home for my work since its founding, along with all of the verticals that represented marginalized voices, NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, and NBC Latino.
October 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm incredibly sad to learn that NBC News has shuttered NBC OUT, a home for my work since its founding, along with all of the verticals that represented marginalized voices, NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, and NBC Latino.
Conversion “Therapy” is a harmful practice — disavowed by every major medical organization in the U.S. — that tells LGBTQ+ people we are fundamentally broken and must be “cured.” Queer and trans youth, in particular, will suffer when the court allows this.
apnews.com/article/supr...
apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court seems skeptical about state bans on 'conversion therapy' for LGBTQ+ kids
A majority of Supreme Court justices seem to be leaning in favor of a Christian counselor who is challenging bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights.
apnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Conversion “Therapy” is a harmful practice — disavowed by every major medical organization in the U.S. — that tells LGBTQ+ people we are fundamentally broken and must be “cured.” Queer and trans youth, in particular, will suffer when the court allows this.
apnews.com/article/supr...
apnews.com/article/supr...
I am currently in Portland for a photoshoot and the craziest thing that's happened is that our lunch was 10 minutes late because the delivery driver got stuck behind a train. Also, Blue Star Donuts is really good.
October 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I am currently in Portland for a photoshoot and the craziest thing that's happened is that our lunch was 10 minutes late because the delivery driver got stuck behind a train. Also, Blue Star Donuts is really good.
Thinking from a 30,000 foot view about Trump's disinformation about autism and Tylenol, the administration's plans to declare trans people terrorists, and go after Antifa...first, linking autism to a cause with a cure paints neurodivergent people as having something wrong with them — stigmatizing.
September 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Thinking from a 30,000 foot view about Trump's disinformation about autism and Tylenol, the administration's plans to declare trans people terrorists, and go after Antifa...first, linking autism to a cause with a cure paints neurodivergent people as having something wrong with them — stigmatizing.
The FBI's plans to target transgender people amount to criminalizing trans people for the act of existing. We've learned via other anti-trans bills that it would also target anyone who is gender nonconforming or deemed trans in the eyes of the state.
September 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The FBI's plans to target transgender people amount to criminalizing trans people for the act of existing. We've learned via other anti-trans bills that it would also target anyone who is gender nonconforming or deemed trans in the eyes of the state.
As Kimmel is pulled from the air, where are all the comedians who claimed free speech was under attack because they were criticized for offensive remarks about marginalized groups? If concerns about free speech were sincere, they would come as more than a justification to insult trans people.
September 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
As Kimmel is pulled from the air, where are all the comedians who claimed free speech was under attack because they were criticized for offensive remarks about marginalized groups? If concerns about free speech were sincere, they would come as more than a justification to insult trans people.
The demise of free speech is also brought to you by corporate interests and complicity that would rather acquiesce to the autocracy of the Trump administration than stand behind comedians, journalists, and voices they hire. Free speech for me but not for thee.
www.vox.com/politics/461...
www.vox.com/politics/461...
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.vox.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The demise of free speech is also brought to you by corporate interests and complicity that would rather acquiesce to the autocracy of the Trump administration than stand behind comedians, journalists, and voices they hire. Free speech for me but not for thee.
www.vox.com/politics/461...
www.vox.com/politics/461...
I'm honestly terrified for the retribution that will come next. If you truly believe "political violence has no place in our country" then don't stoke your base to go out and commit more of it. By the way, there was also a school shooting today.
September 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm honestly terrified for the retribution that will come next. If you truly believe "political violence has no place in our country" then don't stoke your base to go out and commit more of it. By the way, there was also a school shooting today.
The Florida lawmakers eliminating vaccine mandates under the guise of medical freedom and bodily autonomy are the same ones shutting down abortion access and access to gender affirming care. This is all about medical freedom for me, not for thee.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate all vaccine mandates
"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Joseph Ladapo said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?"
www.nbcnews.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Florida lawmakers eliminating vaccine mandates under the guise of medical freedom and bodily autonomy are the same ones shutting down abortion access and access to gender affirming care. This is all about medical freedom for me, not for thee.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The Trump administration's efforts to denigrate same-sex marriage are part of a continuum of anti-LGBTQ activism that follows pervasive attacks on trans people. The marriage equality movement in the 2010s ignored trans people; cis queer people fighting for marriage this time have to do better.
August 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Trump administration's efforts to denigrate same-sex marriage are part of a continuum of anti-LGBTQ activism that follows pervasive attacks on trans people. The marriage equality movement in the 2010s ignored trans people; cis queer people fighting for marriage this time have to do better.
Kim Davis, the clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses back in 2015 and who's now asking SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell, has herself been married four times. If anyone is cheapening the sanctity of marriage, it's her.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...
Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling
10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to all same-sex couples, it will consider whether to take a case asking it to overturn the decision.
abcnews.go.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Kim Davis, the clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses back in 2015 and who's now asking SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell, has herself been married four times. If anyone is cheapening the sanctity of marriage, it's her.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...