Vivian McCall

News Editor @thestranger. Rarely here, reach out on Bl*esky. Music as Pansy (link below). Past @knkxfm @wbez @Natgeo @chicagotribune @ccchronicle

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

Hey, trying to be here less. I'm the same @vivmccall on b/l/u/e/s/k/y

aka: [at] vivmccall [dot] bluesky [dot] social

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

the funniest part of this is quincy jones telling MJ not to dance in the studio

he'd been in studios since he was 8??

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for the Michael Jackson biopic has been released.

In theaters on April 24, 2026.

[Cascade PBS Union @CascadePBSUnion]

📢 BREAKING: Our unit has officially delivered a strike pledge to @CascadePBSNews leadership in response to their most recent unfair proposal.

After 8 months of stalled bargaining, they’re still refusing fair wages and benefits. We’re not backing down.

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

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[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

A federal judge in Seattle blocked Trump's EO to withhold all federal funding for gender-affirming care for people under age 19, after the feds lawyer made a pretty unpersuasive case. The awkward pauses and laughter were not what I expected today. Story:

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

https://t.co/D3RGn0ZukP

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

ICYMI: AG Nick Brown filed a multi-state lawsuit against the Trump admin over his order to ban federal support for trans health care for people 19 and under. Story:

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

While the hospital did not publicly announce any policy change, or respond to our requests for comment, it did scrub all mentions of gender-affirming surgery from its website.

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

Last night, a family learned their son's gender-affirming top surgery scheduled for this morning at Seattle Children's was postponed indefinitely -- allegedly to comply with one of Donald Trump's executive orders. Story below:

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

https://t.co/SGgNXEy4HX

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

BREAKING - U.S. District Judge George O'Toole has temporarily blocked a transgender inmate from being forcibly detransitioned and transferred into a men's prison under President Trump's new executive order, per Reuters.

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

Most of the replies to this are "this is the opposite of what the Bible says lol." He knows. It's manipulation.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

JD VANCE: There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world

A lot of the far left has completely inverted that

[Brandon Wolf @bjoewolf]

I know there’s a lot right now. But understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

My document guide: https://t.co/P9dTdvYNb0

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

After Ari's experience, I asked Social Security's press office multiple times what trans people should do if employees ask them to leave in violation of its new policy. They ignored this question every time.

Ari's advice is good. Stay in line, stand firm and show them the policy

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

1/ Bureaucracy is never fun, but for trans people, it can be downright hostile. With just days until Trump takes power, the Biden administration quietly added a major hurdle to updating Social Security documents. 🧵

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

@beckyvevea Chicago coyotes love the fridge https://t.co/mNjgdC9zgj

[gwen howerton @kissphoria]

New bill (SB 753) from Mayes Middleton (R-Friendswood) would update the Texas Health and Safety Code and make it a third degree felony to refer a minor out of state to recieve gender affirming healthcare #TxLege

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

Where does this lead in Canada? In Panama? In Greenland? Do you to accept this is probably a lie and move on, or speak up against the kind of craven imperial ambition that has marched human beings to death and suffering again and again and again?

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

"Annexing Canada would change American politics" is a wild, wild understatement. Canada is a sovereign foreign power. Trump is not "trolling" he is making expansionist threats. How true they are is irrelevant. This is not a fucking game.

[POLITICO @politico]

Annexing Canada would change American politics.

Trump keeps trolling Canada about becoming the 51st state, so we took him literally (not seriously) and this is how it could play out 👉 https://t.co/ppVpp9Z0QJ

[Vivian McCall @vivmccall]

When Trump says an "artificial line" divides us and Canada, or that Canada would not exist without US subsidies, he is denying the national identity of a neighboring country. He is suggesting that annexing Canada is an economic inevitability. That is extraordinarily dangerous.