Lexi Koren
@lexikoren.bsky.social
Woman of Mass Destruction 👩🎤☢️ comms consultant, occasional freelance writer. AlexLKoren at gmail dot com
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I've been a victim of the messed up PREA policy but as a trans woman in a men's facility it was my only protection at times. I have contact with over 20 trans girls in PA State Prisons as part of an advocate org. They are scared for their lives at this latest BS! Sending you Strength in Unity, Sis.
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I've been a victim of the messed up PREA policy but as a trans woman in a men's facility it was my only protection at times. I have contact with over 20 trans girls in PA State Prisons as part of an advocate org. They are scared for their lives at this latest BS! Sending you Strength in Unity, Sis.
The fact that they're even hearing this is ridiculous. An unsigned order on the shadow docket saying, "This has been settled by previous cases, it's blatantly in the text of the 14th amendment, fuck off, and stop wasting our time," would've been appropriate here.
looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The fact that they're even hearing this is ridiculous. An unsigned order on the shadow docket saying, "This has been settled by previous cases, it's blatantly in the text of the 14th amendment, fuck off, and stop wasting our time," would've been appropriate here.
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Spend five minutes talking to someone who has survived what these policies were designed to stop and you’ll never be the same again. PREA is imperfect and often weaponized, but it’s often the only protection trans/intersex prisoners have. Everyone involved in this should never know a moment’s peace.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Spend five minutes talking to someone who has survived what these policies were designed to stop and you’ll never be the same again. PREA is imperfect and often weaponized, but it’s often the only protection trans/intersex prisoners have. Everyone involved in this should never know a moment’s peace.
Always love having this convo
Me: “It’s a housing problem, if we just gave everyone homes, nobody would be homeless.”
Them: “But Lexi, this is America. We don’t just give homes to deadbeat addicts who refuse to work.”
Me: “Ok then, it’s still like 90% a housing problem, even by your standards.”
Me: “It’s a housing problem, if we just gave everyone homes, nobody would be homeless.”
Them: “But Lexi, this is America. We don’t just give homes to deadbeat addicts who refuse to work.”
Me: “Ok then, it’s still like 90% a housing problem, even by your standards.”
HOMELESSNESS IS NOT A DRUG PROBLEM IT'S A HOUSING PROBLEM
I'm so sick of y'all in my mentions with this talking point, just stop.
PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD RENT. Half of renters are paying over 30% of their income on rent, another quarter are paying over 50%!!!
People need homes they can afford!
I'm so sick of y'all in my mentions with this talking point, just stop.
PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD RENT. Half of renters are paying over 30% of their income on rent, another quarter are paying over 50%!!!
People need homes they can afford!
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Always love having this convo
Me: “It’s a housing problem, if we just gave everyone homes, nobody would be homeless.”
Them: “But Lexi, this is America. We don’t just give homes to deadbeat addicts who refuse to work.”
Me: “Ok then, it’s still like 90% a housing problem, even by your standards.”
Me: “It’s a housing problem, if we just gave everyone homes, nobody would be homeless.”
Them: “But Lexi, this is America. We don’t just give homes to deadbeat addicts who refuse to work.”
Me: “Ok then, it’s still like 90% a housing problem, even by your standards.”
This should be illegal for anyone under the age of 19 until systematic reviews show high quality evidence benefit and 50-year outcome studies show zero percent regret rates.
Exclusive | Meet the men getting breast reductions — which is now the most popular plastic surgery among guys in the US
“It looked very much like [I had] a pair of women’s breasts,” one gynecomastia patient told The Post.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This should be illegal for anyone under the age of 19 until systematic reviews show high quality evidence benefit and 50-year outcome studies show zero percent regret rates.
Oh cool, now we’re doing “trans social contagion” but for literally all of mental health.
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Oh cool, now we’re doing “trans social contagion” but for literally all of mental health.
Going out on a limb and saying that if you find accommodations helpful enough that it was worth the effort to get diagnosed, you very likely have a learning disability.
I think filling the top ranks of our education system with people who got there in part by abusing a system designed to help disabled people will select morally deficient people for leadership positions in our society and is worth taking steps to avoid bsky.app/profile/padr...
I mean if the only risk is some kids getting extra time on tests it seems like not such a big deal
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Going out on a limb and saying that if you find accommodations helpful enough that it was worth the effort to get diagnosed, you very likely have a learning disability.
There are far more concerning ways that people game the top ranks of the education system. Fraternities keep folders of previous years’ exams for popular classes. Saw far more of this in college than people getting extra time.
I think filling the top ranks of our education system with people who got there in part by abusing a system designed to help disabled people will select morally deficient people for leadership positions in our society and is worth taking steps to avoid bsky.app/profile/padr...
I mean if the only risk is some kids getting extra time on tests it seems like not such a big deal
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
There are far more concerning ways that people game the top ranks of the education system. Fraternities keep folders of previous years’ exams for popular classes. Saw far more of this in college than people getting extra time.
There were some incredibly based cis women allies in the 1970s.
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
There were some incredibly based cis women allies in the 1970s.
Since the Hatch Act isn't real anymore, the Dem nominee for President could do the funniest thing and send out an email saying, "Anyone who contributes $20 or more is entered into a drawing to do the honors of crow barring Trump's name off the Institute of Peace on day one of my administration."
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Since the Hatch Act isn't real anymore, the Dem nominee for President could do the funniest thing and send out an email saying, "Anyone who contributes $20 or more is entered into a drawing to do the honors of crow barring Trump's name off the Institute of Peace on day one of my administration."
This could’ve been an Onion headline like a year ago.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This could’ve been an Onion headline like a year ago.
Watching this and being reminded that while the US has a gazillion bad things about it, especially for trans people, we do have the First Amendment, and it’s objectively awesome. And also worth preserving before it becomes meaningless.
The answer, in terms of 'what the Average Joe do to combat the attempts to oust trans people from society' is to just start new clubs that are renamed the inclusive womens institute, and let their crusty old clubs die with their members.
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Watching this and being reminded that while the US has a gazillion bad things about it, especially for trans people, we do have the First Amendment, and it’s objectively awesome. And also worth preserving before it becomes meaningless.
Severing ties with your national org to remain inclusive, when you’ve never even had a trans woman want to join your chapter, is gold star allyship.
The answer, in terms of 'what the Average Joe do to combat the attempts to oust trans people from society' is to just start new clubs that are renamed the inclusive womens institute, and let their crusty old clubs die with their members.
December 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Severing ties with your national org to remain inclusive, when you’ve never even had a trans woman want to join your chapter, is gold star allyship.
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I look forward to the customary 50 day wait for Speaker Johnson to swear in new members
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I look forward to the customary 50 day wait for Speaker Johnson to swear in new members
It’s not really that complicated. Girls in conservative and/or religious families are raised to believe that their value as a human being is to make babies. And honestly, girls with liberal upbringings are often raised to believe they need to do this AND also have a career to have value.
Yeah, I’d love to comprehend why women support MAGA….pretty soon they won’t be able to vote if they changed their name and don’t bring their marriage license, birth certificate and then will complain about he the libs stopped them from voting. Can’t make it make sense…cult mindset imo
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It’s not really that complicated. Girls in conservative and/or religious families are raised to believe that their value as a human being is to make babies. And honestly, girls with liberal upbringings are often raised to believe they need to do this AND also have a career to have value.
Behn’s path to victory (or being close) is basically through college-educated voters in classic white flight suburbs decide that enough is enough and break ranks. It has happened before, but not often.
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Behn’s path to victory (or being close) is basically through college-educated voters in classic white flight suburbs decide that enough is enough and break ranks. It has happened before, but not often.
After McCain lost in 2008, it was declared that we would never have a President who served in Vietnam. While probably true, I do not think the people who made this prediction were thinking we’d get a draft dodger, followed by a guy too old for Vietnam, followed by the return of the draft dodger.
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
After McCain lost in 2008, it was declared that we would never have a President who served in Vietnam. While probably true, I do not think the people who made this prediction were thinking we’d get a draft dodger, followed by a guy too old for Vietnam, followed by the return of the draft dodger.
Also, I obviously hope I’m dead wrong about this. The floor absolutely bottoming out a year before the midterms would be incredible.
Sadly, I don’t think Aftyn Behn pulls it off tomorrow night. But the margins will be close enough that you’ll see a flood of House Republicans announcing their retirements in the next few weeks.
December 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Also, I obviously hope I’m dead wrong about this. The floor absolutely bottoming out a year before the midterms would be incredible.
Sadly, I don’t think Aftyn Behn pulls it off tomorrow night. But the margins will be close enough that you’ll see a flood of House Republicans announcing their retirements in the next few weeks.
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Sadly, I don’t think Aftyn Behn pulls it off tomorrow night. But the margins will be close enough that you’ll see a flood of House Republicans announcing their retirements in the next few weeks.
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It drives me nuts how establishment media think ignorance is strength when it comes to transgender care.
fair.org/home/on-tran...
fair.org/home/on-tran...
On Trans Care, WaPo Rejects Experts and Invents ‘More Neutral’ Center
The HHS report on transgender care is a sham--yet at the Washington Post, it's a "dispute" among people with "strong opinions."
fair.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It drives me nuts how establishment media think ignorance is strength when it comes to transgender care.
fair.org/home/on-tran...
fair.org/home/on-tran...
Feel like I'm scremaing at a wall, but medicine is the one area where you should "third sex" trans people. Despite what TERFs claim, I do not want to waste anyone's time and money (especially my own) taking a pregnancy test. Nor do I want doctors to ignore my very real risk of breast cancer.
I would've written, "Medical providers are supposed to know your sex assigned at birth and your lived sex along with information about medical transition. Trans women can get prostate cancer (though the jury is still out on prevalence) and breast cancer."
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Feel like I'm scremaing at a wall, but medicine is the one area where you should "third sex" trans people. Despite what TERFs claim, I do not want to waste anyone's time and money (especially my own) taking a pregnancy test. Nor do I want doctors to ignore my very real risk of breast cancer.
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Pete Hegseth is violating international law the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Pete Hegseth is violating international law the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
The irony is that if there's if there's a single member of Congress whose appearance screams, "Sex, drugs, and rock n' roll," it's absolutely Rosa DeLauro.
4. Now, newly leaked texts—published by a conservative source but confirmed as accurate from Gallego himself—suggest Gallego’s shift may not be a mere political calculation but a reflection of deeper, toxic beliefs that have become far too common in American politics.
You can see the texts here:
You can see the texts here:
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The irony is that if there's if there's a single member of Congress whose appearance screams, "Sex, drugs, and rock n' roll," it's absolutely Rosa DeLauro.
The only thing I'll agree with is that 0/25 was harsh because you should get some points for turning in the assignment.
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The only thing I'll agree with is that 0/25 was harsh because you should get some points for turning in the assignment.
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"Neither Spanberger’s political momentum nor her authority were in any way blunted by the ad onslaught. It was, by any reasonable measure, a cataclysmic night for the transphobes and for the argument that transphobia is kryptonite for Dems." www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...
Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic
2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Neither Spanberger’s political momentum nor her authority were in any way blunted by the ad onslaught. It was, by any reasonable measure, a cataclysmic night for the transphobes and for the argument that transphobia is kryptonite for Dems." www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...