Content Warning: This post will have light discussion of trans-related suicide, please take care of yourself. Here is a recap of my last two weeks! Apologies again for not getting out a recap last week. Every time there is an election, the week after election day is my busiest of
The trans girl murder victim's mom has turned her death into an unrelated political crusade against teenage phone use. Note: I want to be clear upfront that I have no issue with Esther Ghey, mother of murdered UK trans girl Brianna Ghey. Brianna Ghey's brutal murder
Democrats asked voters to weather short term pain from the shutdown to get long term gains in extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. Then they threw it all away. So, what was the point of all that? This morning we find ourselves on the cusp of the end to the
I asked my BlueSky followers to send me the funniest election night posts and boy howdy did they deliver. Enjoy! The Post having a normal one — Kate Burns (@katerqburns.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T03:50:04.633Z "The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."
While SNAP benefits are slashed, a recession looms, and farmers watch their crops fail, Trump hosted an obscene display of wealth. Over the weekend, images of an obscenely wealthy Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago hit social media. Half naked dancers dressed in plumes of feathers and sparkles gyrated and wriggled
Hello all! First of all, I'd like to apologize for not getting this out on Friday. I was on deadline for a Teen Vogue piece you'll see next week and had absolutely no time to get this out and yesterday I was too exhausted. This week&
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems. There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democratic party consultants saying the party needs to moderate. This was their advice when Al Gore and John
In medieval times, lords would pay tribute to the ruling monarch in order to collect money from local merchants and the peasantry. Under Trump, it's corporations gladly paying that bill. If you were a merchant in the middle ages and you wanted to conduct business on the Mongolian
The New York Times this week ran a magazine feature about a group of cis women who take testosterone for to get a more active libido. It got me thinking about the double standards we have for trans people who seek gender affirming care. Sick Burns - 10/24/2025
"I am not accusing Platner of being a Nazi or a white supremacist. I am accusing Platner of being unfit for the US Senate. He is not irredeemable, he just isn't suited for one of the most powerful jobs on the planet." This piece was supposed
Before this weekend, I couldn’t stop thinking about fleeing the country. No King’s made up my mind. Readers of this newsletter know that, for the last year or so, I've been weighing whether or not I should flee the country for my own safety. As a
It's been a busy week over here at Burns Notice HQ. Here's a recap of everything you missed, what I've been thinking about lately, and what caught my eye this week What I've Been Watching: I spent last night watching the New