J. Magnolia Gilligan

Monstrous beyond all reckoning. The US is using remote sensing *designed for humanitarian purposes* for the opposite purpose, potentially drowning civilians en masse. Trump hates Somalis. His troops appear to be exploiting the weather to help slaughter them. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

If he had been alive then, I'm sure Matt Yglesias would have been awfully fun at parties in March 1933.

Anti-trans laws often make exceptions for surgeries on intersex children. Thea Hillman explains why both communities' rights are at stake.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

CHILD: Mom, do you love me? TECH MOM: lmgtfy.com?q=Do+I+love+...

Listen here, trans people, you NEED to VOTE for this shitbag who doesn't want you to exist because the REPUBLICAN will be WORSE because he will *checks notes* do the same thing but GOPier!

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

Okay if this is going to do numbers then watch the whole 15 minute interview here: kmbc.com/article/one-...

Students and faculty shared their thoughts on Vanderbilt’s opportunities in the arts following several program changes. Read more in story or link in bio. Story: Jenna Ng, Staff Writer Photo: George Albu

How do you fix American politics? Encourage union members to run for office! New research shows that union members connect more with voters and follow through with worker-first priorities when they're in office. #txlege

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Never forget that in the 1970s, the same kinds of fears about trans people in locker rooms that we're hearing today were deployed to keep gay and lesbian athletes out of locker rooms, and out of sports altogether. I www.youcanplay.org/post/when-di...

interestingly this interest in black voters doesn’t extend to the republican effort to deprive them of federal representation, nor do they seem interested in asking whether republican candidates are burdened by the fact that trump talks like a klansman

I'm a "left-wing transgender witch," thank you for asking.

"If university bots graded bots, you would no longer have a university. You’d have a tomb, an academic mausoleum in which digital phantoms murmured emptily" theconversation.com/friday-essay...

Modest proposal: Eat the rich instead of beef.

The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.

I’ve been on X the past couple days, posting a few things about Rowling, which drew “interest” from her fans. A few quick observations:

josh turek sucks, there is no reason whatsoever to be doing this other than a truly unacceptable level of personal bigotry

Turek’s stance is cruel, electorally misguided, and out of step with his own party. Most swing-seat Democrats *have* stood with us, but keeping the trans community’s trust requires Democrats—and, at a minimum, LGBTQ+ organizations—to call this bullshit out.

UPDATED: We reviewed the police reports in two incidents of alleged rape at UChicago frats. In one that occurred this month, a witness reported seeing 3-5 men watching and cheering an alleged rape of an unconscious woman. It’s not just Cornell...far from it.

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Rowling *never* writes about women’s rights, workplace discrimination or the threats to women from predatory men. I tracked her posts for five months: Well over 200 hateful transphobic smears. Not a single post about women’s actual concerns or needs None

Jesse Singal thinks there's a world of difference between "trans activists" and "ordinary trans people," and that the latter deserve respect & protection. He has never stopped to ask how "ordinary trans people" will ever get respect & protection without "trans activists" fighting for those things.

We can both stridently condemn the GOP's despicable use of Amy Acton's history as a victim of childhood sexual abuse to further abuse her and also condemn Acton for her choices to aggressively insult & demean transgender children and support laws to strip trans children of their equal rights.

A reminder: LGBT folks aren’t an “ideology” or “agenda.” We’re people. Some of us are talented. Some of us are nice. Some of us are weird. Some of us are annoying. Some of us do bad things. But we all deserve to thrive in a society that doesn’t force us to justify our existence or debate our rights.

I imagine him in the oval office, fidgeting with a fistful of ball bearings and ranting about strawberries.

OK, Donald. Let's talk about what Pete Hegseth's mother said about _him_. This should have precluded him from serving. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

It's bleak that Serious News Outlets will tie themselves into knots writing headlines that obscure the horrors of a story while @people.com just waltzes in and calls it like it is.

Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. These regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail other nations. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

“Vulnerable populations like students and retirees who live on a fixed income don't have a lot of flex in their budgets, and so when they get a surprise bill in the heat of the summer, it can be frightening." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/electricity-bills-americans-cut-back-food/

A Nashville has temporarily blocked Tennessee from requiring that Ryan White HIV/AIDS patients verify their citizenship/immigration status Nashville CARES filed suit earlier this week to block the state's effort to include this requirement in its contract tennesseelookout.com/2026/10/22/n...