Lexi Koren
@lexikoren.bsky.social
Woman of Mass Destruction 👩🎤☢️ comms consultant, occasional freelance writer. AlexLKoren at gmail dot com
Had a really fun time talking with The Stranger about Sara Nelson’s incredibly bad “transparency” bill. I think there are always good conversations to be had about stronger ethics, but a notoriously unethical lame duck councilmember with a grudge is not the person you want leading them.
Nelson’s Campaign Transparency Bill May Be up for a Vote
At face value, the bill isn’t especially controversial—more transparency around who is advising city leaders is a good idea. But the reason? Sara Nelson’s either changed her mind abo...
www.thestranger.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Had a really fun time talking with The Stranger about Sara Nelson’s incredibly bad “transparency” bill. I think there are always good conversations to be had about stronger ethics, but a notoriously unethical lame duck councilmember with a grudge is not the person you want leading them.
I’m honestly confused as to why every member of the caucus didn’t demand that a provision be inserted that attempts to prevent Trump from doing war crimes in Venezuela. Even in the minority, you can, in fact, message on big appropriations bills.
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’m honestly confused as to why every member of the caucus didn’t demand that a provision be inserted that attempts to prevent Trump from doing war crimes in Venezuela. Even in the minority, you can, in fact, message on big appropriations bills.
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I’ve rallied with Brad. I’ve protested with Brad. I’ve seen his leadership and humanity up close. He’s the real deal and I’m supporting him fully in this run. Let’s go. ✊
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I’ve rallied with Brad. I’ve protested with Brad. I’ve seen his leadership and humanity up close. He’s the real deal and I’m supporting him fully in this run. Let’s go. ✊
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
I realize that calling out ideological inconsistencies with these people does not change their minds. Nonetheless, if their logic is that “biological reality” dictates there are only two genders, then the term “girl boy” is both fictional and certainly not protected speech. Also, girl boys are rad.
December 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I realize that calling out ideological inconsistencies with these people does not change their minds. Nonetheless, if their logic is that “biological reality” dictates there are only two genders, then the term “girl boy” is both fictional and certainly not protected speech. Also, girl boys are rad.
Society really needs to grapple with the fact that elected civilians don’t entirely control their police forces. In a democracy it should be as uncontroversial to fire the police chief as it is to fire the SDOT director.
Hearing that mayor-elect Katie Wilson will announce today that she will retain the current police chief, Shon Barnes. More to come.
December 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Society really needs to grapple with the fact that elected civilians don’t entirely control their police forces. In a democracy it should be as uncontroversial to fire the police chief as it is to fire the SDOT director.
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You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
So anti-woke that they’re going after something that 99.9% of people who unironically consider themselves woke had absolutely no idea about. Double secret anti-wokeism.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
So anti-woke that they’re going after something that 99.9% of people who unironically consider themselves woke had absolutely no idea about. Double secret anti-wokeism.
It’s okay guys, they’re just doing Best practices for public records retention.
Kettle defends restrictions on accountability bodies' ability to subpoena records in misconduct investigations, saying the restriction "only" applies to personal records like text messages. Because no cop has ever used their personal phone instead of deliberately creating a public record.
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It’s okay guys, they’re just doing Best practices for public records retention.
“If I’ve lost Laura Loomer, I’ve lost Middle America.”
Loomer on boat strikes: ‘Fentanyl isn’t being manufactured in Venezuela’
Far-right activist Laura Loomer noted inconsistencies with the Trump administration’s justification of strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats off the coast of Venezuela. Loomer said Monday on th…
thehill.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
“If I’ve lost Laura Loomer, I’ve lost Middle America.”
I know a lot of women who have fallen for shitty men. I know very few (if any) who have done insanely unethical things that harm others for said shitty men. Usually the harm is self-inflicted.
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I know a lot of women who have fallen for shitty men. I know very few (if any) who have done insanely unethical things that harm others for said shitty men. Usually the harm is self-inflicted.
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I've been a victim of the messed up PREA policy but as a trans woman in a men's facility it was my only protection at times. I have contact with over 20 trans girls in PA State Prisons as part of an advocate org. They are scared for their lives at this latest BS! Sending you Strength in Unity, Sis.
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I've been a victim of the messed up PREA policy but as a trans woman in a men's facility it was my only protection at times. I have contact with over 20 trans girls in PA State Prisons as part of an advocate org. They are scared for their lives at this latest BS! Sending you Strength in Unity, Sis.
The fact that they're even hearing this is ridiculous. An unsigned order on the shadow docket saying, "This has been settled by previous cases, it's blatantly in the text of the 14th amendment, fuck off, and stop wasting our time," would've been appropriate here.
looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The fact that they're even hearing this is ridiculous. An unsigned order on the shadow docket saying, "This has been settled by previous cases, it's blatantly in the text of the 14th amendment, fuck off, and stop wasting our time," would've been appropriate here.
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Spend five minutes talking to someone who has survived what these policies were designed to stop and you’ll never be the same again. PREA is imperfect and often weaponized, but it’s often the only protection trans/intersex prisoners have. Everyone involved in this should never know a moment’s peace.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Spend five minutes talking to someone who has survived what these policies were designed to stop and you’ll never be the same again. PREA is imperfect and often weaponized, but it’s often the only protection trans/intersex prisoners have. Everyone involved in this should never know a moment’s peace.
Always love having this convo
Me: “It’s a housing problem, if we just gave everyone homes, nobody would be homeless.”
Them: “But Lexi, this is America. We don’t just give homes to deadbeat addicts who refuse to work.”
Me: “Ok then, it’s still like 90% a housing problem, even by your standards.”
Me: “It’s a housing problem, if we just gave everyone homes, nobody would be homeless.”
Them: “But Lexi, this is America. We don’t just give homes to deadbeat addicts who refuse to work.”
Me: “Ok then, it’s still like 90% a housing problem, even by your standards.”
HOMELESSNESS IS NOT A DRUG PROBLEM IT'S A HOUSING PROBLEM
I'm so sick of y'all in my mentions with this talking point, just stop.
PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD RENT. Half of renters are paying over 30% of their income on rent, another quarter are paying over 50%!!!
People need homes they can afford!
I'm so sick of y'all in my mentions with this talking point, just stop.
PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD RENT. Half of renters are paying over 30% of their income on rent, another quarter are paying over 50%!!!
People need homes they can afford!
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Always love having this convo
Me: “It’s a housing problem, if we just gave everyone homes, nobody would be homeless.”
Them: “But Lexi, this is America. We don’t just give homes to deadbeat addicts who refuse to work.”
Me: “Ok then, it’s still like 90% a housing problem, even by your standards.”
Me: “It’s a housing problem, if we just gave everyone homes, nobody would be homeless.”
Them: “But Lexi, this is America. We don’t just give homes to deadbeat addicts who refuse to work.”
Me: “Ok then, it’s still like 90% a housing problem, even by your standards.”
This should be illegal for anyone under the age of 19 until systematic reviews show high quality evidence benefit and 50-year outcome studies show zero percent regret rates.
Exclusive | Meet the men getting breast reductions — which is now the most popular plastic surgery among guys in the US
“It looked very much like [I had] a pair of women’s breasts,” one gynecomastia patient told The Post.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This should be illegal for anyone under the age of 19 until systematic reviews show high quality evidence benefit and 50-year outcome studies show zero percent regret rates.
Oh cool, now we’re doing “trans social contagion” but for literally all of mental health.
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Oh cool, now we’re doing “trans social contagion” but for literally all of mental health.
Going out on a limb and saying that if you find accommodations helpful enough that it was worth the effort to get diagnosed, you very likely have a learning disability.
I think filling the top ranks of our education system with people who got there in part by abusing a system designed to help disabled people will select morally deficient people for leadership positions in our society and is worth taking steps to avoid bsky.app/profile/padr...
I mean if the only risk is some kids getting extra time on tests it seems like not such a big deal
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Going out on a limb and saying that if you find accommodations helpful enough that it was worth the effort to get diagnosed, you very likely have a learning disability.
There are far more concerning ways that people game the top ranks of the education system. Fraternities keep folders of previous years’ exams for popular classes. Saw far more of this in college than people getting extra time.
I think filling the top ranks of our education system with people who got there in part by abusing a system designed to help disabled people will select morally deficient people for leadership positions in our society and is worth taking steps to avoid bsky.app/profile/padr...
I mean if the only risk is some kids getting extra time on tests it seems like not such a big deal
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
There are far more concerning ways that people game the top ranks of the education system. Fraternities keep folders of previous years’ exams for popular classes. Saw far more of this in college than people getting extra time.
There were some incredibly based cis women allies in the 1970s.
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
There were some incredibly based cis women allies in the 1970s.
Since the Hatch Act isn't real anymore, the Dem nominee for President could do the funniest thing and send out an email saying, "Anyone who contributes $20 or more is entered into a drawing to do the honors of crow barring Trump's name off the Institute of Peace on day one of my administration."
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Since the Hatch Act isn't real anymore, the Dem nominee for President could do the funniest thing and send out an email saying, "Anyone who contributes $20 or more is entered into a drawing to do the honors of crow barring Trump's name off the Institute of Peace on day one of my administration."
This could’ve been an Onion headline like a year ago.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This could’ve been an Onion headline like a year ago.
Watching this and being reminded that while the US has a gazillion bad things about it, especially for trans people, we do have the First Amendment, and it’s objectively awesome. And also worth preserving before it becomes meaningless.
The answer, in terms of 'what the Average Joe do to combat the attempts to oust trans people from society' is to just start new clubs that are renamed the inclusive womens institute, and let their crusty old clubs die with their members.
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Watching this and being reminded that while the US has a gazillion bad things about it, especially for trans people, we do have the First Amendment, and it’s objectively awesome. And also worth preserving before it becomes meaningless.
Severing ties with your national org to remain inclusive, when you’ve never even had a trans woman want to join your chapter, is gold star allyship.
The answer, in terms of 'what the Average Joe do to combat the attempts to oust trans people from society' is to just start new clubs that are renamed the inclusive womens institute, and let their crusty old clubs die with their members.
December 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Severing ties with your national org to remain inclusive, when you’ve never even had a trans woman want to join your chapter, is gold star allyship.
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I look forward to the customary 50 day wait for Speaker Johnson to swear in new members
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I look forward to the customary 50 day wait for Speaker Johnson to swear in new members