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POEM: Permanente Blue
It is a gift
Oct 17
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Ari Drennen
7
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A Washington State Ballot Measure Would Make Every Girl on a Girls’ School Team Get Her Sex Medically Verified - and It Doesn’t Say Who…
The ballot says “verification of biological sex by students’ healthcare providers.” It doesn’t say what that would mean for every girl on a girls…
Oct 15
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Ari Drennen
26
5
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A Montana Democrat Just Showed How to Answer the Anti-Trans Attack in a Trump District
Asked about trans people in a debate for Montana’s open House seat, Sam Forstag didn’t argue about bodies or label trans girls are “boys.” He argued…
Oct 15
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Ari Drennen
39
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Trans People Deserve to Be Boring
The Orr in Orr v. Trump on what gets lost when trans people are asked to make our hardest stories useful, and why the ordinary parts of our lives belong…
Oct 13
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POEM: The fire
The fire started in the kitchen,
Oct 10
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Ari Drennen
8
1
I Knew I Wasn’t a Girl at Four. No Propaganda Made Me Trans
Ayman Eckford grew up in a devout, pro-Russian family in Donetsk with no words for being trans. That childhood is exactly the one anti-trans activists…
Oct 8
37
3
POEM: Lover and Prey
Your talons caress soft skin and tendons
Oct 3
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Ari Drennen
10
September 2026
A Senate Republican Super PAC Is Blaming Sherrod Brown for a Surgery a 19-Year-Old Had in Texas
A Texas surgery, an Ohio Senate race and a claim PolitiFact already rated Mostly False.
Sep 30
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Ari Drennen
19
3
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The Right’s “Stolen Medals” Number Comes From a Site That Counts Middle School Meets and One-Person Races
Trump’s Education Department repeated the claim that over 2,000 gold medals were “stolen.” The group that built the number never said which of the…
Sep 29
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Ari Drennen
26
1
5
Right-Wing Media Made “Biological Male” Mainstream. It Isn’t Accurate.
The doctors who treat us dropped the phrase in 2017. Now it’s in a Senate hearing, a CBS standards memo, and a Democratic Senate campaign. The accurate…
Sep 28
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Ari Drennen
53
4
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POEM: Mammoth Lakes
I spent the dark of winter watching
Sep 26
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Ari Drennen
7
The Group Behind the Anti-Trans Attack Ads Says They May Not Be Enough. Its New Idea Is Charlie Kirk.
The American Principles Project told Republicans that attacking Democrats on trans issues may not win on its own. Then it oversold those attacks and…
Sep 25
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Ari Drennen
23
4
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