Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We got hundreds of submissions and did find someone amazing. The show is filming now! 110
Reposted by Jen RichardsMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability. 908378029483
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026FYI in case anyone is seeing this thread late, the role was cast with a wonderful young trans woman and the show is currently filming!  0220
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026There should be a national network of middle aged, middle class white women who get trained and certified in basic legal advocacy, de-escalation tactics, and immigration law, that can quickly deploy anytime cops or ICE is harassing someone nearby. (And if this already exists, let me know!) 070
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I've been obsessed with how trans people moved through the world before we had language for such identity and this series will put it front and center, with all the love that only writers who know and cherish trans people can. Please share this with your UK networks and help us find our star. 🏳️⚧️🎭 1110
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Casting notice for UK trans women! I've been working on this passion project with my friends & mentors for years, and we are now looking to cast a young trans actor for one of the lead roles. This is an incredible part, one I hope to help make a future star. 58845
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025We should ask anyone defending Epstein or Trump, like Megyn Kelly today, WHY they think it's okay for adult men to want girls, but not for adult men and women to want each other. Bring this attitude into the light and challenge it. 030
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025It's not hypocritical to think a trans or gay kid is a deviant, and Trump is a great man, because in their worldview all men are naturally like Trump, and only trauma, sin, or perversion is at the root of happily adjusted trans & gay people in consenting relationships 140
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025The difference, or course, is agency and consent. But again, in their worldview men "naturally" want girls and vice versa. Which is why all cries of hypocrisy fall on deaf ears. 100
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025In their worldview, the only real & dangerous deviations are homosexuality and gender variance. Or engaging with pre-pubescent children. They see those as unnatural. And aligned. Hence the constant conflation with natural sexual and gender variance with dangerous deviancy. 100
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025AND it's assumed that young women naturally WANT the attention and protection of older men. The only difference between Leavitt's 32 year age gap marriage and what Epstein & Trump engage with is an arbitrary legal distinction, one they want to violate as proof of their power. 110
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Many believe it is "natural" for men to be sexually attracted to girls from puberty on, and that stigmatization, even of acting upon it, is an arbitrary social construct (eg variable "age of consent" laws). It's frowned upon, but understood, because it's "natural". 290
Reposted by Jen RichardsMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/10/2025I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."newrepublic.comTrump Is Waging War on an American CityThe real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president. 6670224
Reposted by Jen Richardssouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country. 28454831414
Reposted by Jen RichardsGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025And also with you, queen 015415
Reposted by Jen RichardsMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 06/10/2025In this case, ADF “cited several scholars to support its argument that conversion practices should once again be permitted. Two of those experts, however, told the Guardian that ADF had ‘profoundly’ misrepresented their research, which discussed the ‘psychological damage’ of conversion therapy.’” 3357149
Reposted by Jen RichardsAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/10/2025And there it is. The entire attack on Netflix is just a grift for far right influencers to promote a religious streaming site. 1122034551
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025We are very much inside the logic of the paradox of tolerance. The right has been openly stoking violence against minorities for years, and their incitements have gone largely unchallenged. More hand wringing about civility and norms will do nothing. We crossed the Rubicon long ago. 1161
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025I love seeing that I haven't liked an artist's most popular song on Spotify and then liking it only to realize I already liked five other versions.media.tenor.coma woman is making a funny face and saying `` i just wanna . ''ALT: a woman is making a funny face and saying `` i just wanna . '' 030
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Hey friends, I dusted off my brain and wrote an essay for the first time in many years. Here's a piece about my experience at the June 8th protests in LA, state violence, solidarity between communities, and bearing witness to the truth: www.them.us/story/lapd-i...them.us 16217
Reposted by Jen RichardsJacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 13/06/2025NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE. Inside one day on LI: theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...theintercept.comICE Agent Fled From Angry Residents Outside New York School — and Got in a Car CrashMasked and unidentified ICE agents lurking near schools sparked fear, confusion, and a car crash in Latino-heavy New York suburbs. 31498803905
Reposted by Jen RichardsAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/06/2025The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well. www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comChildren's Hospital Los Angeles halts transgender care under pressure from TrumpChildren's Hospital of Los Angeles will stop offering services related to transgender care, according to a message reviewed by The Times. 421779647
Reposted by Jen RichardsErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/06/2025We are getting reports of clinics shutting down that provide care to trans youth over the latest CMS letter threat. If your clinic has shut down or you work at one, or your child's clinic has shut down, please send us a DM - we are putting together a big story on this. 101328388
Reposted by Jen RichardsSEIU California @seiuca.org · 06/06/2025Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...seiuca.orgSEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los AngelesWe are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement… 307132595013
Reposted by Jen RichardsGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I'm not a political scientist but if you're advice to the Democratic Party is pushing out unions, immigrants, and queers then I think there's already a party for that 373185696
Reposted by Jen RichardsGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February. He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear." 162181881
Reposted by Jen Richardscapitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it's all being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who has dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built his "political project". 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t... 37705423
Reposted by Jen RichardsMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions. 1639361114
Reposted by Jen Richardsvictoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 27/05/2025the audiobook edition of ONE OF THE BOYS is OUT NOW!!! i am beyond honored to have the lovely and incomparable Jen Richards (@smartassjen.bsky.social) read my little book😭 please pick it up if you, like me, love reading books with your ears!!! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...libro.fmOne of the Boys Audiobook on Libro.fmGrace Woodhouse has left a lot behind. She used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a right foot set to earn her a Division I football scholarship—before she came out as trans. As... 3484
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025And we already know that speaking out against slaughter of civilians is considered supportive of terrorism. They've laid the groundwork for trans people simply existing to be terrorism ("gender ideology"), or fighting for women's bodily autonomy, or resisting ICE, or collective organizing, or ... 043
Reposted by Jen RichardsGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Rahm/Newsom/Cuomo: Dems spend too much time talking about what bathroom people use or what sport team they play on The GOP: 612769722
Reposted by Jen RichardsWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 08/05/2025One thing that Trump will not tolerate is the heads of agencies saying publicly that their agency should exist. 211239282
Reposted by Jen RichardsJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 07/05/2025What Trump learned long ago as a private citizen is that you can easily ruin someone’s life with frivolous litigation even if you ultimately lose in court. And that was when he was spending his own money to harass and intimidate people. Now he’s spending yours. 192310641
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025The judges who looked at this case previously had to chastise the White House lawyers because the evidence they presented to prove that trans inclusion hurt military readiness showed the opposite. They hadn't even read their own evidence. It's ideology over evidence. Pure animus. 0163
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025The world is maddening, but I just sipped rain water from the nasturtium leaves in my garden and for a moment I felt whole and human again. 1131
Reposted by Jen RichardsDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/05/2025This is a clear, true, & important distinction that many people refuse to make. The same is true of "fancy city dwellers condescending to hard workin' ruralites." The same is true of "wokesters forcing you to use pronouns." These are RW bogie men. RW hysteria exceeds actual examples 1000/1. 291629348
Reposted by Jen RichardsRhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 05/05/2025The biggest mistake Dems in red states make is NOT CALLING THEIR REPUBLICAN reps. Calling your rep - ESPECIALLY if they're Republican, is *critical*. Otherwise they just hear from supporters and think they're doing a great job. americansofconscience.com/faq-calling-... 501187496
Reposted by Jen RichardsKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such 873558677
Reposted by Jen RichardsRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025North America in three quotes by heads of state. 452820973
Reposted by Jen RichardsNPR @npr.org · 02/05/2025It is not clear that the president has the authority to make such orders to CPB under the law. From @davidfolkenflik.bsky.socialnpr.orgTrump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can'tIn an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS. They say he can't. PBS chief Paula Kerger calls it "blatantly unlawful". 90960244
Reposted by Jen RichardsAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/05/2025I'll repeat this till I'm blue in the face, we're facing a full on resegregation movement. This is a neo post reconstruction political project to reassert white men at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy. 13621117
Reposted by Jen RichardsIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Notice how this works. A year ago, the subhead here would have said “which is expressly forbidden by the constitution.” But Trump floats a crazy assertion and then WaPo retreats to saying “which most legal scholars say..” Stop he said/she saiding truth. It is expressly forbidden. Period. 571355384
Reposted by Jen Richardslauriedraper.bsky.social @lauriedraper.bsky.social · 02/05/2025"Trump’s cognitive abilities and overall competence have always left a lot to be desired, but these interviews show a president who’s no longer capable of even the veneer of mental acuity. Meanwhile, his cabinet and even congressional Republicans behave like courtiers to a mad king." 23740164
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025When in doubt, and the Right's goal with these efforts is to sow doubt, ask who is more credible: trans kids, their families, their doctors, the medical community, and a century of data and experience, or a White House whose steady state is belligerent mendacity & cruelty? 072
Jen Richards @smartassjen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025The HHS releases its report on medical care for trans youth today. Make no mistake, it's simply another piece of propaganda designed to support the conclusions the administration and their right wing backers bought and paid for. Its ONLY intention is to eliminate trans people. 22612
