At some point over the last half century, Senators decided to stop being legislators and let the courts take over the hard decisions — The conservative majority spent the last few weeks of their session rewriting the law to suit their whims, from striking down the legal right to privacy in Roe v Wade to placing themselves above the executive branch in agency regulation. It’s perhaps the most radical few weeks in the entire…

The Biden administration said yesterday that they didn’t want to take action to protect abortion rights in the wake of Roe v Wade’s demise because they thought doing so would be “politically polarizing” — There have been two schools of thought on what Democrats should do now that Roe v Wade has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The moderate side claims to represent political reality and focus solely on turning the SCOTUS decision into an election issue, while progressives suggest that Democrats should…

Gender critical activists claim they are fighting for women, but their quest to control trans lives depended on wiping out the right to bodily autonomy — Last Friday, the US Supreme Court wiped out the constitutional right to abortion for American women and trans people who can get pregnant. The ruling threw the American political scene into chaos. In some red states that had trigger laws banning the practice upon a ruling overturning Roe v Wade…

I’m moving back to New England soon and I couldn’t be more excited, but it also comes with a distinct sense of failure — Yesterday I gave my notice to move out of my current apartment after my corporate landlord emailed me an “offer” to stay in my current roach-infested place for an extra $280 a month. It was the final straw in a slow build towards pulling the trigger on a move. I…

My favorite solo video game has consumed thousands of hours of my life. Here’s why I often tell people that Europa Universalis IV is the most complicated video game ever made. It’s also my favorite solo game. Set between the historical years of 1444 and 1820, the game allows you…

Over the weekend, reports emerged that President Biden is frustrated with his lagging approval numbers. He should try doing something — This past weekend, President Joe Biden apparently expressed frustration with his dipping approval polling. This came amid a trip to Uvalde, Texas in the wake of yet another horrific school shooting that resulted in the murders of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers. …

The anti-trans side is winning on the sports front, but it’s emotion, not science, winning the day for them — Few war issues have had such an immediate political impact as the trans athlete debate. Over the last several years, conservative state governments in tk states have succeeded in banning trans girls and women from girls and women’s competitive sports. But the science on this issue is largely inconclusive at…

After marriage equality was made the law of the land by the US Supreme Court in 2015, trans people have been, to varying degrees, a political issue in both the US and UK. It started with bathroom bills in 2016, and the infamous fallout of North Carolina’s HB2, and has…

In an age when reactionaries need increasingly sinister conspiracy theories to thrive on, their obsession with trans people will only get more dangerous Earlier this wee a controversy erupted on right wing social media about The Trevor Project, a long-standing LGBTQ suicide hotline that has helped countless young queer teens…