Katelyn Burns

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Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host. Formerly: Vox

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Last Notes

2026-06-01 11:26:26 UTC

Happy Pride!
Support a hardworking trans journalist (me) this year for Pride!
Here's a 40% off discount for the first 3 months on a new Burns Notice subscription (my newsletter)! [www.burnsnotice.com/40-off-for-p...](https://www.burnsnotice.com/40-off-for-pride )
[Burns Notice](https://www.burnsnotice.com/40-off-for-pride )

2026-05-29 13:12:51 UTC

maybe a long shot but does anyone know of a dc-area podcast/audio recording studio where we might be able to record an episode of cancel me daddy in person?

2026-05-21 17:15:53 UTC

You might have heard about the legal case involving the DOJ sending subpoenas to blue state hospitals for private medical records of trans children.
For my newsletter, I went long on the Texas judge enabling this fuckery. [www.burnsnotice.com/this-federal...](https://www.burnsnotice.com/this-federal-judge-is-more-powerful-than-the-president/ )
[This Federal Judge is More Pow...](https://www.burnsnotice.com/this-federal-judge-is-more-powerful-than-the-president/ )

2026-04-26 00:56:42 UTC

This is all true, Trump called me a fat tranny and threatened to drone strike the UMass campus in retaliation.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:afow67cx2iuniklp4b4psb2k/post/3mked3geubk23

2026-04-18 10:26:37 UTC

"It's just a vibesession" [www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...](https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-04-16/people-are-selling-their-plasma-across-massachusetts-to-deal-with-rising-prices )
[People are selling their plasm...](https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-04-16/people-are-selling-their-plasma-across-massachusetts-to-deal-with-rising-prices )

2026-04-12 19:57:08 UTC

Omg I'm so happy
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2026-04-03 16:27:42 UTC

this is the most common way the Times launders right wing views into its news coverage. this is a news desk problem, not an opinion page problem.
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2026-03-31 11:54:10 UTC

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.
If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.
Everyone give this a share after.

2026-03-09 16:03:41 UTC

For my newsletter, I wrote about the Iranian national myth that their country's culture civilizes its conquerors and how the US will never abandon its tradition of violence and blood. [www.burnsnotice.com/the-us-will-...](https://www.burnsnotice.com/the-us-will-never-civilize/ )
[The US Will Never Civilize](https://www.burnsnotice.com/the-us-will-never-civilize/ )

2026-02-25 15:16:15 UTC

Good news trans peeps, we didn't lose rights at the Supreme Court today.

2026-02-24 19:55:25 UTC

This is like if 2/3 of the people in Wyoming fled the state.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:akm4rtjqim4g26gvd4tbhrxx/post/3mfmsy4rwzs2x

2026-02-20 14:26:32 UTC

what do you mean i pay my health insurance company $600/mo but they won't pay for anything until i've paid an additional $3800 in a year? the fuck am i paying you for?
(i know how health insurance works, i'm being ironic in my questioning)

2026-02-16 11:07:44 UTC

The average rent in Wellesley, MA is $4200/mo
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2025-11-14 03:21:06 UTC

So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. [www.twitch.tv/ludwig](https://www.twitch.tv/ludwig )
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2025-11-13 14:36:08 UTC

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
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2025-11-10 23:14:42 UTC

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

2025-10-30 23:15:54 UTC

Damn that's crazy
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2025-10-28 00:08:28 UTC

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

2025-10-06 16:13:37 UTC

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again.
[burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...](https://burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live-like-this/ )
[We Can't Live Like This](https://burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live-like-this/ )

2025-09-26 18:03:06 UTC

So far there have been zero trans women reported as having visited epsteins pedo island. But lots of people who want you to think trans women are threats to children seemed to have gone there at some point.
Curious...
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#note1ky5…elwd

2025-09-19 13:21:11 UTC

Hi! For many reasons, I've decided to create a new newsletter on Ghost to supplement my Patreon blog. I needed another place besides Patreon to post my work, and I plan on using this as a place to gather and organize all of my work.
Sign up for a free sub! [burns-notice.ghost.io/welcome-to-h...](https://burns-notice.ghost.io/welcome-to-hell-lets-walk-through-it-together/ )
[Welcome to Hell! Let's Walk Th...](https://burns-notice.ghost.io/welcome-to-hell-lets-walk-through-it-together/ )

2025-09-17 20:24:49 UTC

Equality Caucus Rep. Mark Takano calls on Speaker Johnson and GOP House leadership to reign in their party's extreme rhetoric in trans people per this statement that just hit my inbox:
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2025-09-13 20:31:19 UTC

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
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2025-08-03 13:21:31 UTC

Oh huh just like trans people have been saying for a decade
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#note1v0v…xrgf

2025-07-16 22:08:56 UTC

if you're mad at a trans person for saying they won't vote for Gavin Newsom
too damn bad! this is our lives! it's not a purity test when it's our lives. of course we're a one issue voter, it's our lives
you could just not nominate Newsom! but everyone knows the risk of that now, you have no excuse

2025-06-26 17:39:30 UTC

ok now listening to SMB's interview with Ezra Klein and hoo boy i have issues with her framing of nearly everything.

2025-06-16 16:07:43 UTC

Perhaps this is because we as a society dismissed sending bomb threats to children's hospitals who offer care for trans youth as normal and we excused decades of anti-abortion violence as just the cost of doing business as usual in American politics.
[www.startribune.com/suspect-show...](https://www.startribune.com/suspect-showed-few-signs-of-political-rage-before-lawmaker-shootings/601373498 )
[Suspect showed few signs of po...](https://www.startribune.com/suspect-showed-few-signs-of-political-rage-before-lawmaker-shootings/601373498 )

2025-05-30 14:21:50 UTC

This image from HRC goes so hard
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2025-05-30 01:15:15 UTC

Cis people have no idea just how stupid gender is about to get
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#note193q…clay

2025-05-08 17:53:01 UTC

Papal Chicago Bulls

2025-04-28 12:23:38 UTC

there's this thing in journalism that really gets me mad. the ben smiths of the world will look at you like you're crazy for simply stating what is actually happening all the way up to the moment they report on it themselves with wide eyed wonder, and then its their story that goes megaviral.

2025-04-21 14:54:30 UTC

For my Patreon post this week, I wrote about why TERFs are still complaining about not having friends. [www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...](https://www.patreon.com/posts/you-have-no-127130965?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link )
[You have no friends because yo...](https://www.patreon.com/posts/you-have-no-127130965?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link )

2025-04-19 02:15:30 UTC

A late one here but for MSNBC, I wrote about JK Rowling, the UK Supreme Court judgement on trans rights, and the current state of trans freedom in the English speaking world. [www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jk-rowling-uk-trans-women-ruling-rcna201947 )
[Opinion | The U.K. Supreme Cou...](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jk-rowling-uk-trans-women-ruling-rcna201947 )

2025-04-15 12:43:33 UTC

this administration had no problems fishing andrew tate out of a romanian prison
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#note10jp…faye

2025-02-10 04:03:50 UTC

Love your life in such a way that your ex doesn't end up dancing on stage while your rival raps about you being a pedo at halftime of the biggest sporting event of the year.

2025-01-31 19:06:21 UTC

This has been, by far, the worst week of news in my 9 years of covering trans issues.

2025-01-07 00:31:39 UTC

I wrote about Speaker Mike Johnson's first priority fore this congress: banning about 20 total trans athletes from sports. [www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-congress-trans-women-sports-bill-rcna186195 )
[Opinion | The oppressive goal ...](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-congress-trans-women-sports-bill-rcna186195 )

2024-12-06 17:11:13 UTC

Whenever I explain that almost 95% of the disinformation that gets laundered through mainstream media comes from 10 people who are all in the same group chat together, people look at me like I'm a conspiracy theorist.
But it's true.
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2024-12-04 18:59:12 UTC

first, Ryan is an anti-trans activist, not a reporter in any sense of the word. secondly, he doesn't mention how long ago this father's kid started transitioning, i could have been years ago, yet Ryan writes as if it happened yesterday and the guy has a thousand yard stare now.
it's farcical.
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#note1l8q…0k5p

2024-12-01 00:04:41 UTC

There is no possible amount of shoplifting that justifies this
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#note138j…f3du

2024-11-19 23:01:06 UTC

I find the whole Capitol bathroom thing just really tiring. I knew it was inevitable but christ...

2024-11-19 14:09:59 UTC

A good litmus tear for how informed you are about trans athletes is whether or not you previously knew that no sports governing body has ever produced a study of actual trans bodies to justify banning trans women from sports.

2024-10-19 15:17:50 UTC

So if it wasn't completely obvious back then, the Olympic boxing scandal was basically a kremlin op.
[www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/17/russia-paris-olympics-boxing-gender/ )
[The Putin-backed strongman who...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/17/russia-paris-olympics-boxing-gender/ )

2024-10-13 20:19:53 UTC

Yeah you guys are right, she's running a perfect campaign with no flaws and if she loses we can sleep safely at night knowing there were no other paths to follow while their consultants save their careers by blaming trans issues for the loss.