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There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...

A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

wired.com

I finally sat down and wrote an email to the Talarico campaign. Doing nothing felt untenable. I encourage other decent Texans to communicate their disappointment. If this can help you get started, feel free to use anything that works for you

To

info@JamesTalarico.com

Disappointment

I hope I am just one of many communications you receive expressing extreme disappointment with the campaign's position regarding transgender children.

Just as it is unacceptable for the government to insert itself between women and their doctors, it is equally unacceptable for the government to insert itself between children and their doctors and parents. Supporting a bill to ban gender related surgery in children ignores the fact that this is not government's place.And coming out for exceptions to transgender children participating in sports is equally unforgivable. There are no safety issues with transgender children playing that aren't also there with cisgender children. Same with fairness issues. Accepting the premise that transgender children aren't just regular children is ceding ground to the fascists who wish to remove all trans 0 people from daily life. I am so deeply disappointed in Mr Talarico and the entire campaign for allowing this framing to stand unchallenged and for the stand he has taken against the transgender community.

You may still get my vote in November, but you will not get my labor in the very hard ground game that needs to be fought. I simply can't fight for a candidate that won't fight for all of us.

Sincerely,

Lisa Seger Waller, TX

My quotes in this piece land pretty well. Also, the Ohio dem strategist in this piece sounds like a republican. “There are plenty of people who … dont think an 11-year-old trans girl probably shouldn’t play sports with their 11-year-old daughter. That is a reasonable position to have.”

Key Democrats oppose transgender athletes in female sports as issue hits the campaign airwaves

Democrats say the goal is to “defuse” Republican attacks on the issue before they start and to keep their campaigns focused on affordability.

nbcnews.com

The first 4 chapters of Who Made the Lamb took a month in 2025. I returned to Lamb in 2026 and it took five more months to complete the first draft. So, roughly six months of writing against a backdrop of full-time work. Excited to see what I write with the freedom to focus only on writing.

Some congressional Democrats (or their staffers, I guess) follow me on here, so let me speak directly to them: The media isn't going to do this on their own. But if you make it an issue, they might just be shamed into forcing your GOP opponents into discussing the fat racist elephant in the room.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.

Just saw someone on X (doggirljesus, who I don’t follow, the post just got burped up by the algorithm) say there’s no difference between the Digital Circus fandom’s reaction to Jax being trans and the way parents ‘mourn’ the cis version of their trans kids, and I got fucking stunlocked. Yeah.