Tam J Guy, PhD (they/them)

"I’m not expecting every rapper to be an activist. You don’t have to read James Baldwin to be a good musician. But to go from poignantly telling your own immigration story to full-throatedly supporting MAGA is something else entirely."

Led my colleagues in calling on the IRS to release long-delayed data showing how Congressional Republicans H.R.1 impacted millions of people’s tax returns. The public has the right to know who is benefiting from this bill.

Audi’s CEO drew heavy criticism for appearing alongside US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in the battleground state of Georgia, with the head ‌of Germany's top union saying it violated the automaker's company guidelines reut.rs/4zdZlj0

This post reminds me that progressive Millennial fans of the 90s show and Gen-Z fans of the reboot '97 could be the voting demographic to pander to if we showed up to out vote the anti-empathy crowd.

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

Anthropic is trying to write its own federal AI regulation law. The major AI firms have all issued feeble proposals for how their AI will serve the public, in anticipation of their pending IPOs. It's all a reminder that we cannot, any under circumstances, let AI firms govern the future.

This is what happens when you teach your children that Trump is someone to admire

Hmmm. My gut instinct is that a successful tech company doesn't cut 60k workers unless they think they're about to lose a lot of money on some bad product(s) they pushed.

"Fox News hosts are professional propagandists. I think they looked at Zacharia as someone who was not capable of covering for Donald Trump when he gets in trouble, someone who wouldn’t be able to lash out at the media for daring to cover him, and they helped her off stage because of that."

this is a perfectly reasonable list, imo these four are all monumentally awful on trans issues and this is a more than fair place to draw the line, especially given how the elections currently look - three of them are in the house, where dems will romp regardless, and iowa can do better than turek

"The Republican BUILD America 250 Act would put more money into highways and less into transit, locking in even more car dependence." Being able to live comfortably without a car is a privilege in this country. It should be the default comfortable and accessible option instead.

it's amazing to get a job where you can just write the same thing for fifteen years and make probably like $200k a year doing it

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

In a discourse that is so eaten up by the binary of "we can't draw lines because it hurts the broader effort" on one side, and "we can't draw lines because who are you to say we draw it here and not there" on the other, there's a lot of care and clarity (not to mention bravery) in this piece.

10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Notice what is in that archive. Contamination records. Camp Lejeune. The receipts people need to prove they were poisoned and who knew it. You do not quietly schedule that for deletion unless the evidence itself is the problem.

#AltCitizen - We have a task! Please help archive The EPA information before it gets lost forever.

I am so sorry but also I laughed so hard at this. I’m sorry! It’s terribly annoying!

ChatGPT is basically a boomer giving your phone number to everybody at church because you have a degree and can help them get into college/get a job/talk to the doctor.

This seems less than great

KNOXVILLE: “This is the sound of Tennessee… and this is how it sounds under Jason Zachary.” 👀 Wow — Jason Zachary’s TN house opponent Lindsay Honaker dropped this 🔥 ad with (under-discussed!) facts about Tennessee under Republican *leadership*

New: "For the last 30 years, our institutions have propped up Bibi, telling us not to question, often refusing to heed even mainstream Israeli partners asking us not to do that. As someone who's worked my whole career to build bridges, I've resisted writing this piece. But– if not now, when?"

The 19th is looking for a reporter to launch their women's sports desk!!!! 19thnews.org/2026/10/spor...

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

Did you know that the ADA includes workplace protections for people with mental health conditions? Review the Employment and Mental Health section of our Employment Resource Hub for more information: https://adata.org/employment-resource-hub/employment-and-mental-health #ADA #MentalHealth #NDEAM

HEADS-UP, IRELAND. Another ICE flight headed your way. Based on info from human source, I expect this ICE flight — and/or another one tomorrow — to be unlawfully refouling Ukrainians through Poland.

Yes well it does require things like “empathy” and possessing a basic understanding that all of our lives are interconnected

in ohio this is basically like being shunned

Vivek Ramaswamay, The Great Unifier:

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Josh Turek made the calculation that he doesn't need the votes of trans people or our friends and allies, so I say we see if his calculation is right. But no one in their right mind would ever vote for a candidate that would take away their daily medication. You shouldn't expect it of trans people.

And if us AND OUR REAL ALLIES aren't enough of a force to bother with listening to, then the Dems will continue not to give a sh*t (or realize that us trans folks are merely the gateway to control the rest of you lot).

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.

It’s absolutely mind-boggling

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

It's almost like having a for profit medical system (whether technically provided by nonprofit entities or not) is a net harmful approach to healthcare for a nation.