Looking toward the new year like:

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

I was really pleased when Veronica Esposito suggested this. I know that people who favor gun ownership in our community are very passionate and vocal. But, like Veronica, I really feel that trans people should be clear-eyed about the increased risk of suicide owning a gun brings with it.

Strongly agreeing with this. Losing 2A rights would be bad enough on its own, but all of us being declared criminally mentally ill would be a crystal clear sign of even worse to come.

That they are even entertaining it is spine-tingling.

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

Stop calling kidnapping and trafficking people to countries they’ve never been to “deporting.” It’s criminal behavior by a country with no conscience. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

At Law Dork, I wrote about that Oval Office visit — and what it means:

This is breathtakingly vile

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price.

Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

Why? Because Maine’s governor Janet Mills told him to his face she would obey federal and state law, not his bullying edict, and he snapped at her like he did at Zelenskyy and she said see you in court. So, being a thin-skinned hateful savage, he’s now collectively punishing/antagonizing Mainers.

NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research

Breaking: 10 NYT writers think trans rights are the least important and attacks on the trans community aren’t that bad.

Least surprising news ever.

I have to say it is a special kind of hell to have watched all of this anti-trans rhetoric and legislation build up for the last 5 years in states and to report on it today.

It feels like a nonstop hose of the worst things imaginable. There are dozens of stories I still haven’t gotten to.

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws

Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.

Gov Mills: See you in court

literally every trans person I know is labeled an "activist" just by virtue of existing and wanting to keep existing, and sure, everyone should advocate for others and better things, but it also means they'll dismiss anything you say because it's "biased"