my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

YAY Lyz!

At a minimum, don’t give your name or contact information unless you see them do crime and then have gay sex with you. Anything less than that and you don’t have probable grounds to believe they’re not feds.

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

I also can’t stop thinking about how she’s white-lying about Ophelia story to make people read it. she wants people to catch her in her mistakes BY DOING THEIR HOMEWORK

HELL YEAH

YOU HEARD THEM

We are amphifa

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

Darlings, did you eat and take your meds?

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Mood.

Let’s help send Hammam a tent for him and his family.

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

The feeling of finishing up a long paper in the hours before it's due is an ELITE adrenaline rush that gives you the confidence of someone who thinks they killed god.

every young person should have the pleasure of this flash of self confidence. using AI is robbing yourself of yourself.

Wanna hear some good news? My college students are using gen AI way less this year than in previous years. They LIKE drafting by hand, and their typed work is full of human heart (and errors).

It's a huge shift. ❤️

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

boy is this a relevant observation

Do I know any VA employment attorneys?

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

'The Free Press' is not a news outlet. it's Thought Catalog for people who lose their fuckign minds when they see a pronoun in an email signature.