Jen Wang

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Many of you know I maintain a list of 32 Democrats who have embraced anti-trans policy or run ads against us. I am not even asking my readers to abstain from all 32. Some have improved, and some may not meet your line. But I ask my readers to draw a line and refuse to elect the worst among them.

Just read the first chapter of “Pachinko” and it broke me. Min Jin Lee is a language witch.

Sports are a foot in the door, intentionally so by the anti-trans organizations that push it. They know that if they can get you to accept an asterisk on who we are in one arena, they can get you to accept it everywhere.

The second the Democratic party starts accepting sports bans, I promise you, it will go on to do worse. And in fact we are already seeing it, some of the candidates also are opposing "trans surgery for youth." That easily becomes blockers and hormones, bathrooms and schools.

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

Okay but hear me out my black cat’s undercoat was actually just a very light gray, so her hair was super visible too. 😭 I miss her.

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Governments around the world are rushing to implement safety measures after AI technology found 'severe' vulnerabilities in a key programming language called PHP. n.pr/3TTRS9v

The Huntington invites you to “This Land Is ...,” a major exhibition that offers an open-ended exploration into what this land means to various people, past and present, using historical artifacts, manuscripts, and artworks. The full story: lataco.com/the-huntingt... By Hadley Tomicki

A friend found this in a thrift store. The slop has escaped containment. Remember that “with the uirire tat” wasn’t added until the 1950s.

I wrote for @thenation.com about why people need to stop acting as though the dramatically escalating bigotry on display in US politics is just an unserious sideshow.

Oh no

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

I really don't think folks who weren't there grasp just how much these generations really were shamed or even prosecuted for stuff that giant companies do all the time now like ffs, websites used to shame people for 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 images without paying the site that hosted it for their bandwidth!

legit scary how many supposedly A.I.-wary people just trust whatever Pangram tells them

Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, graduated with a law degree from Pepperdine University in 2011. But The Post could not find any active or expired bar admissions under her married or maiden names.

Easily my favorite detail:

😳

Good for him.

Crowds of protesters outer 26 Federal Plaza where ICE has its main offices now.

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"

My research has never primarily concerned AI, but the child choristers I worked with did occasionally bring it up, usually when thinking about (a) perfection or (b) soullessness. 11-year-old “Sam,” though, once got us all the way to Eden by way of Alexa. And doom. And shame. I remember this often:

happy for her

The long and strange saga of Missouri’s redistricting battle is over.

Hard to keep track of just how illegal this all is. DHS quietly updated policies to DELETE people with final deportation orders from databases--even while they are still inside US concentration camps. They also stopped sharing where people are held in phone calls with attorneys or family. #ICEOUT

Breathtaking levels of detail in this dive into the "Office of Remigration," which is paying autocrats millions to accept deported migrants from other countries. You can explore these agreements using this database by @abtran.bsky.social, including $ amounts. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”

"Edgar" is harvesting honeycrisp apples in WA State. "We earn $32 a 900 lb crate. Many days we don't pick more than 3 crates as many apples don't pass the required quality control. This type of apple is very delicate. We must be careful not to bruise the fruit." #WeFeedYou

Latest from me for @lataco.bsky.social x @lapublicpress.bsky.social: Los Angeles County Supervisors voted 4-1 to delay the vote on a motion that’d publicly identify deputy gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. lapublicpress.org/2026/09/lasd...

Parents, when your kids are old enough to go hang out for a few hours unaccompanied and you drop them off, what do you do? I went to a bookstore/gallery, had a tasty Shanghainese dinner, and am now sitting in the car with a half hour to go just kind of staring into space…?

The longtime far-right operator and troll, a UK citizen, is being held in a detention center about 200 miles from New Orleans. www.wired.com/story/milo-y...

Abolish ICE and salt the earth where it was allowed to grow

Right before the Minnesota ICE surge 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

This cat got a full sleeve tattoo!

Followed by federal immigration agents or asked to take down their zines, these artists are aware of the danger that comes with speaking out and still going strong. The full story: lataco.com/immigration-... By Amy Torres

My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”

Oh no