Veronica Schanoes

Trump's attacks on immigrants continues to threaten NYers. On Thursday, two dozen unmarked ICE vehicles prowled the streets around East Elmhurst and Elmhurst. We DEMAND ICE out of our streets! #ICEOUTOFNY https://qns.com/2026/10/ice-agents-elmhurst-hospital/

I felt I really needed to write about Rowling's essay, not because it's new, but because it's so poisonous and ugly that it felt like sanitizing her not to acknowledge it on my trans news site.

This is absolutely monstrous. Child abuse at scale, shrouded in a sanctimonious facade of faux democracy.

This is a reminder that Moksha has a zero-tolerance plagiarism policy, and any author/email caught passing off another's work as their own will be permanently banned from submitting through Moksha.

People can have room to grow and evolve on their own time and dime, not sitting in office when they campaigned on removing people's rights.

If you’re running for office and say that you’re going to take away rights from a minority you can’t cry when that minority & people who care about them refuse to vote for you or give you money

Anti-Black racism in New York is something that needs to be confronted, and it is reasonable to expect the mayor to have a plan to confront it, and also, there is absolutely no reason to define it as opposed to fighting antisemitism, which is also part of the mayor's responsibility.

As a published researcher, I do not want to submit my unpublished work to a company that is going to run it through an AI. If I’ve spent months working on it, a peer reviewer can do me the courtesy of spending half an hour reading it. Anyone else feel the same?

I don’t care any more about the brains of managers who choose to write their emails and do their 360s with LLMs, though I feel for their reports. But you would think we had learned to be careful with children’s brains after the recent reading catastrophe, and yet. So much money to be made.

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

when i was in school, "revising a draft to make it yours" was called plagiariasm

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This is so appalling, heads up.

A very fun headline today: supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered Flávio Bolsonaro to hand in his passports and not leave the country while he's being investigated in a money laundering probe.

The city of Syracuse has known about its lead water crisis since at least the summer of 2024, when extraordinarily high levels of lead were found in drinking water. Yet city, state, and federal agencies have continually failed to take action to address it. Learn more this #NLPPW:

It's National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. New York State has a long history of lead usage, primarily in paint and water service lines. Exposure to lead can have severe and permanent health impacts - especially for children. In fact, lead is a potent neurotoxin with no safe level of exposure. 🧵

The real zinger here is that news media coverage of AI *is* favorable. It's absolutely sandbagging the entire industry; you wanna see media bias? Take a look at how anime and rap were covered in the '90s. It's just that the best possible angle on groups like Anthropic is still a bad look.

Me: I don't see any reason to use AI Slop peddlers: You know how you want to sell books but you hate writing? Me: No, I love writing. The only reason I care about selling books is so I can afford to write instead of getting a real job Slop peddlers: Oh. Well... You know how you hate your kids?

Owners of Elvis’ music rights are suing for $48.6 million in damages, and demanding that Anthropic cease the infringement of their copyright.  tinyurl.com/bdfhvtbu

I've got enormous respect for her work and legacy, the same way I have enormous respect for the work and legacy of Scorsese, Alison Bechdel, and Art Spiegelman. But I also believe all of them have failed the rest of us in the creative community by using generative "A.i." in their work.

In addition to this being just bleak as fuck from a human perspective, I gotta say, if you’re overwhelmed by the complexity of writing three nice things about your daughter, why should I want your opinion on literally anything important or complex?

This is fucking heartbreaking I’m not exactly neurotypical and nor are my children But the idea I need a fucking jumped up predictive text to tell me three ways my children are special is utterly insulting They’re weird, they’re beautiful and they deserve the world And I will fight for them

You all have seen Erin and I fiercely clash over tactics over the years, but this piece makes a wholly reasonable ask that I also endorse. The four in the header image especially suck shit.

I think the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity

yup.

On this day in 1916, police raided Margaret Sanger’s birth control clinic in Brooklyn, the first such clinic in the U.S. The clinic purportedly violated the Comstock Act of 1873, which prohibits circulation of “obscene” or “indecent” information. That act remains in place to date. #WeTheMen

Literally two of my three most pertinent character traits are “ADHD” and “vehement loathing of generative AI and the ghouls pushing it”

In my experience of life in this country, having 49 reasonable democratic senators and 2 that are bad meant almost nothing gets done and when you bring it up people shout “WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? WHAT COULD THEY DO??” for literally the next decade so I am wary of this assumption about the house.

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.

Amy fucking Acton LITERALLY refused to meet with trans Ohioans about her transphobic ads a couple of months ago, and members of the progress caucus resigned because of it. Stop telling me these people are interested in "working with us"

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

'When I asked Mayer if it’s somewhat depressing to imagine a frictionless future when birthday celebrations, holiday gifts and family vacations are planned by A.I., she seemed caught off guard. '“I haven’t really thought that through,” she said.' Yeah. We noticed. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...