Jason Crockett
@muscadine.bsky.social
sociologist, sexologist, activist and scholar of social movements, gamer, queer, foodie. I have approximate knowledge of many things. he/they.
So what are faculty going to do about it?
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
So what are faculty going to do about it?
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As someone aptly pointed-out on another platform: the Epstein files aren't filled with trans people. They're filled with wealthy, straight, white, cisgender men.
December 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
As someone aptly pointed-out on another platform: the Epstein files aren't filled with trans people. They're filled with wealthy, straight, white, cisgender men.
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Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
December 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
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Found the CBS feedback form. Left a message about Bari www.cbs.com/showfeedback...
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www.cbs.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Found the CBS feedback form. Left a message about Bari www.cbs.com/showfeedback...
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You know who’s not in the Epstein files?
Undocumented immigrants.
Trans people.
Drag queens.
People who write books & create art with LGBTQ+ content.
It’s rich, powerful and mostly white men.
They want you to blame the “others” so you won’t blame them.
Undocumented immigrants.
Trans people.
Drag queens.
People who write books & create art with LGBTQ+ content.
It’s rich, powerful and mostly white men.
They want you to blame the “others” so you won’t blame them.
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
You know who’s not in the Epstein files?
Undocumented immigrants.
Trans people.
Drag queens.
People who write books & create art with LGBTQ+ content.
It’s rich, powerful and mostly white men.
They want you to blame the “others” so you won’t blame them.
Undocumented immigrants.
Trans people.
Drag queens.
People who write books & create art with LGBTQ+ content.
It’s rich, powerful and mostly white men.
They want you to blame the “others” so you won’t blame them.
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They want a national abortion ban. It’s why they went after Roe.
Banning it for veterans is just another step in removing our autonomy and controlling our bodies.
Reproductive freedoms are worth fighting for and veterans deserve better.
www.ms.now/news/abortio...
Banning it for veterans is just another step in removing our autonomy and controlling our bodies.
Reproductive freedoms are worth fighting for and veterans deserve better.
www.ms.now/news/abortio...
Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
They want a national abortion ban. It’s why they went after Roe.
Banning it for veterans is just another step in removing our autonomy and controlling our bodies.
Reproductive freedoms are worth fighting for and veterans deserve better.
www.ms.now/news/abortio...
Banning it for veterans is just another step in removing our autonomy and controlling our bodies.
Reproductive freedoms are worth fighting for and veterans deserve better.
www.ms.now/news/abortio...
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Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
This implies they ever intended to do anything. Which they didn’t.
Republicans couldn’t make a deadline they knew about all year.
Now families and workers are left with the life and death consequences.
More from @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/p...
Now families and workers are left with the life and death consequences.
More from @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/p...
December 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This implies they ever intended to do anything. Which they didn’t.
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Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
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4 Republicans voting against is significant. There's leverage there. Somewhere. There's concern that this isn't a winning move in swing districts. Echoes of the Virginia election.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
4 Republicans voting against is significant. There's leverage there. Somewhere. There's concern that this isn't a winning move in swing districts. Echoes of the Virginia election.
Proud that when I called the office of my rep @repdwightevans.bsky.social the response was that “of course” he would be voting against the upcoming anti-trans healthcare bills. Please call your rep’s office. It’s easy - took only a couple of minutes, if that, to get that response.
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1. Transgender Rep. Sarah McBride railed agianst GOP attacks on transgender people and incoming bills today, joined by Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Johnson.
"They are obsessed with transgender people."
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"They are obsessed with transgender people."
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December 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Proud that when I called the office of my rep @repdwightevans.bsky.social the response was that “of course” he would be voting against the upcoming anti-trans healthcare bills. Please call your rep’s office. It’s easy - took only a couple of minutes, if that, to get that response.
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
December 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
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Ashamed of TN's governor
I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Ashamed of TN's governor
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Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
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I have so much to say about that story that I don't have words. Parents who are so bad at being parents that their kids cut them off are not the victims.
since everyone's sharing/discussing that WSJ "pissed-off parent pushback" story today, thought I'd re-up this related essay on the Anti-Trans Parent Movement – these online groups actively radicalize parents against their trans kids (no-paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/understandin...
Understanding the Anti-Trans Parent Movement
And Recognizing the “Concerned Parent” Trope
juliaserano.medium.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I have so much to say about that story that I don't have words. Parents who are so bad at being parents that their kids cut them off are not the victims.
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“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
A good reminder that despite her conflict with Trump she’s still a monster.
1. In exchange for her NDAA vote, MTG has announced that her national felony trans youth care ban will go to the floor December 17th.
It is not expected to pass into law due to the U.S. Senate.
Still, it will be a terrible historic moment for anti-trans bills.
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It is not expected to pass into law due to the U.S. Senate.
Still, it will be a terrible historic moment for anti-trans bills.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
What To Know About Marjorie Taylor Greene's Felony National Trans Youth Care Ban, Which Will Receive A House Vote
Though the bill stands little chance of becoming law, it will be a major messaging vote for congresspeople on both sides of the aisle.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A good reminder that despite her conflict with Trump she’s still a monster.
It’s been my understanding the red turn of Miami is related to scare-mongering around supposed “socialism” of the Democratic Party - fear of falling into socialist dictatorship. What the Republican leadership may have misjudged is that the core concern is dictatorship/ authoritarianism.
December 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
It’s been my understanding the red turn of Miami is related to scare-mongering around supposed “socialism” of the Democratic Party - fear of falling into socialist dictatorship. What the Republican leadership may have misjudged is that the core concern is dictatorship/ authoritarianism.
Post a book you love from the 80s.
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Post a book you love from the 80s.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
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one of the main reasons trans healthcare moved away from strict gatekeeping and toward informed consent & GAC is that trans ppl who were denied the means to transition would simply seek it out elsewhere
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
one of the main reasons trans healthcare moved away from strict gatekeeping and toward informed consent & GAC is that trans ppl who were denied the means to transition would simply seek it out elsewhere