Sandy Ernest Allen
@sandyernestallen.bsky.social
author & journalist, covering mental health/gender. trans guy. tired.
📝: Believer, Eater, Esquire, The Cut, TAL, 99PI ...
📖: akomp.info (Scribner)
https://whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/
https://www.sandyernestallen.com
https://linktr.ee/hellosandyallen
📝: Believer, Eater, Esquire, The Cut, TAL, 99PI ...
📖: akomp.info (Scribner)
https://whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/
https://www.sandyernestallen.com
https://linktr.ee/hellosandyallen
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cis folks, i'm curious for you to share answers, if you want:
what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.
what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.
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Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
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CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
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If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
it's just so hard to like, stay functional, day to day, with this calculus going on in the background ...
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
it's just so hard to like, stay functional, day to day, with this calculus going on in the background ...
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This holiday season, between the recent upending of SNAP benefits and increasing economic uncertainty, people are hungry. Queer groups are stepping in to make sure their communities get fed.
Really proud of this piece from Priyanka Bansal. I hope you'll give it a read.
Really proud of this piece from Priyanka Bansal. I hope you'll give it a read.
How Queer Organizers Feed Their People, from New York to Atlanta
About 42 million Americans depend on monthly SNAP benefits. Halting those electronic payments hurt childhood nutrition and distressed family budgets
rewirenewsgroup.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This holiday season, between the recent upending of SNAP benefits and increasing economic uncertainty, people are hungry. Queer groups are stepping in to make sure their communities get fed.
Really proud of this piece from Priyanka Bansal. I hope you'll give it a read.
Really proud of this piece from Priyanka Bansal. I hope you'll give it a read.
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If anyone has questions re: hosting for larger groups or cooking and such, you can ask me on here and I'll try to answer (today) ... Reposts welcomed ...
Hey early morning crowd! From yesterday ... New WHT ... a Recipes Club focused on hosting Friendsgiving type gatherings .... whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/hosting-ad...
Hosting Advice for Colder Seasons
Sandy's Recipe Club #3, advice for Friendsgivings and such ...
whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If anyone has questions re: hosting for larger groups or cooking and such, you can ask me on here and I'll try to answer (today) ... Reposts welcomed ...
a public service tbh
I read the Cheryl Hines book so you don’t have to www.patreon.com/posts/144407...
What is Cheryl Hines thinking? Nothing, apparently | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz
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November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
a public service tbh
fascists are petty, cruel shitheads ...
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
fascists are petty, cruel shitheads ...
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Inbox: The independent union at Blue Bottle Coffee, @bbiunion.bsky.social, is on strike. “As of today, we have gone out on the picket line to combat Blue Bottle's bad faith bargaining and ensure fair wages and protections for baristas.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Inbox: The independent union at Blue Bottle Coffee, @bbiunion.bsky.social, is on strike. “As of today, we have gone out on the picket line to combat Blue Bottle's bad faith bargaining and ensure fair wages and protections for baristas.”
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if you're like me and also looking for more stuff like this, i can strongly recommend @flaminghydra.com and @defector.com, which are two of the best subscriptions i pay for
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
if you're like me and also looking for more stuff like this, i can strongly recommend @flaminghydra.com and @defector.com, which are two of the best subscriptions i pay for
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Chappell Roan as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Chappell Roan as well.
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Pedro Pascal also uses his platform to basically bash transphobes
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Pedro Pascal also uses his platform to basically bash transphobes
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Sorry to sound like Ezra Klein but there is one person who does politics (celebrity politics) the right way in this country and that’s Sabrina carpenter
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Sorry to sound like Ezra Klein but there is one person who does politics (celebrity politics) the right way in this country and that’s Sabrina carpenter
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Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
LOL love getting a rejection to something I barely remember applying to. thanks so much.
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
LOL love getting a rejection to something I barely remember applying to. thanks so much.
If anyone has questions re: hosting for larger groups or cooking and such, you can ask me on here and I'll try to answer (today) ... Reposts welcomed ...
Hey early morning crowd! From yesterday ... New WHT ... a Recipes Club focused on hosting Friendsgiving type gatherings .... whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/hosting-ad...
Hosting Advice for Colder Seasons
Sandy's Recipe Club #3, advice for Friendsgivings and such ...
whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If anyone has questions re: hosting for larger groups or cooking and such, you can ask me on here and I'll try to answer (today) ... Reposts welcomed ...
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When anti-trans news outlets describe the 17 yr old victim in the linehan verdict as an adult, they are participating in an age old tactic used to dehumanise minority children.
lets talk about the right wing tactic of "playing magical age"
🧵THREAD /1
lets talk about the right wing tactic of "playing magical age"
🧵THREAD /1
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
When anti-trans news outlets describe the 17 yr old victim in the linehan verdict as an adult, they are participating in an age old tactic used to dehumanise minority children.
lets talk about the right wing tactic of "playing magical age"
🧵THREAD /1
lets talk about the right wing tactic of "playing magical age"
🧵THREAD /1
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The "acceptable debate" according to Bari Weiss.
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The "acceptable debate" according to Bari Weiss.
listen to each their own!
I love all these guys, but in terms of TYPE Guillermo totally has my heart 💙
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
listen to each their own!
anybody who thinks that until now the FDA has been following the data, I'm sighing LOUDLY as a psychiatric journalist ...
The FDA bypassed its typical process and overstated the science behind menopause hormone therapy, experts told me – with troubling implications for future drug decisions
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doctors respond to ‘data-free’ decision over menopause hormone therapy: ‘It’s not true’
Physicians say FDA panel conflated two issues and made baseless claims about unproven health benefits
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
anybody who thinks that until now the FDA has been following the data, I'm sighing LOUDLY as a psychiatric journalist ...
coming out as trans indeed comes with (at times unbearable) joy, it's true ... pass it on ...
my boyfriend started calling me his boyfriend at work and it kind of feels like someone lifted an enormous boulder off my entire body and i can suddenly move. coming out as trans and living it is an extremely intense experience and there's a lot of pain and also so much joy it almost hurts too
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
coming out as trans indeed comes with (at times unbearable) joy, it's true ... pass it on ...