“Trans widow’s voices”…jfc

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

I don't think I've ever seen a group so litigious as gender criticals in the UK. They want to censor any and all criticism of them. Every time I criticize JK Rowling on here, there's like ten TERF accounts snitch tagging Rowling on X asking her to sue me. Thankfully, we have a First Amendment here.

This is an excellent reply to the bafflingly biased and jaw-droppingly reckless letter attacking the humanities.

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

Two years after Darializa Avila Chevalier took part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, she is now set to represent the district in which the university is located in Congress.

Why is this WP exclusive written in this bizarre amateur first person form? It's a bombshell report and yet it doesn't read like it's reported from a real newspaper. Maybe because its not? www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

This is a pro rape policy. They want to facilitate the rape and abuse of trans women. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

I'm dying

This year, UChicago launched a crackdown on teaching at a sub-unit where there is no faculty governance, the Lab School, asserting its prerogative to regulate expression of teachers, justified by the Kalven Report. At every step it has insisted this is only germane to Lab.

Excellent op-ed from our own Mark Levin on UChicago's deal with Anthropic:

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

Indeed. And shame on those Labour politicians who used to say all the right things but now lack the courage to.

Shocking testimony of how Israel's treatment of its prisoners changed after October 7th

Get rekt Kathleen Stock

The midterm gerrymandering war and the Iran war alike show Trump's inability to imagine that the people he's picking fights with have any agency, any ability to respond. He loves his "you don't have the cards" metaphor but he's amazingly terrible at actually thinking about whether they do.

We've officially launched Project 2052, a website or revolutionary fiction and art in the world of Everything for Everyone. Here's our introduction, stay tuned this week for our first five stories! Pitch us an idea or help us pay writers by donating! www.commonnotions.org/project-2052...

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Pam Bondi is Disney villain levels of evil. From the Palm Beach Post

Democratic Party Leadership continues to be spineless and complicit.

UT-Dallas may suspend a student journalist for two years because they fact-checked a letter to the editor that argued Israel is not committing genocide (FIRE being FIRE, they do not emphasize that this is another example of the Palestine exception to campus speech protections)

Last week Yoram Hazony, far-right Israeli theorist & leader of National Conservatism, sat down with NYT columnist Ross Douthat to explain why he was surprised there's now an antisemitism crisis in the MAGA movement. Nobody else was surprised. My latest: bit.ly/HazonyAntisemitism

Baristas are locking arms in front of lines of trucks. This distribution center is Starbucks’ largest on the East Coast, which is why we’re showing up to send a message. We're ready to continue escalating our ULP strike until Starbucks does the right thing. #NoContractNoCoffee

The HHS report on gender affirming care released it's updated report showing they stacked its authors with anti-trans hate-group affiliated members, several of whom aren't even doctors with any sort of clinical experience. They selected their own ideologically friendly peer reviewers. It's a joke.

@leaypi.bsky.social delivering the Dewey Lecture yesterday! It was a banger about freedom, capitalism and impersonal domination.

Everybody opposed to authoritarianism and oligarchy should needs to stand in solidarity with the Starbucks workers who are likely going on strike starting November 13 This is a winnable fight — but it'll take all of our support to help workers get past the finish line

I grew up in NYC. As a child of a single mom who worked tirelessly to support me, whose career fell apart later in life and was on workfare when I went to college, hard not to feel like the city chewed me up and spat me out. But I guess I can call myself a new yorker again.

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

Awkward realization that my fashion sense is dominated by the question (aside from the unpleasant fedora issue): would Indiana Jones wear this?

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Watch the videos of our people celebrating and fuel up on joy for the next phase of the fight for a Free Palestine. We will never stop until our people have the dignity of full lives on our land: self determination, freedom of movement, the right to return. In our lifetime.

Claus Offe, the great German Marxist sociologist died yesterday. His essays collection Disorganized Capitalism is so good! I'm obsessed with "2 Logics of Collective Action", a rejoinder to Mancur Olson's neo-classical treatment of unions. "The Political Economy of the Labor Market" is also a banger!

The Ezra Klein conversation with Ta -Nahisi Coates is like listening to an evolved human (Coates) trying to reason, with great moral clarity and nuance, with a hollow shell of a person.

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! On this day one man prevented the apocalypse.

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

sorry i know we already did this, but just remembered that the sorta-tacit-sorta-explicit thing in that amicus brief is 'we are goldbugs for gender' and had to stare at the wall for five minutes

It gives me no pleasure to report that he does indeed have that shit on

A new Chotiner dropped

Unions in Italy have launched a one-day strike to protest Israel's war on Gaza. Thousands of workers are demonstrating in the general strike that's brought schools, transit and ports to a halt.

So so sad to learn about the death of Jonathan Lear. His work on Aristotle and Freud was formative for me. He was a model of philosophical intelligence and curiosity. More importantly he was a human human, with rare integrity and sharp judgment. It's hard to imagine the world without him in it.

All of us at the university budget town hall heard the same thing when the president said that donors liked the “sharpening” we’ve done and will reward future “sharpening,” right?

We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch. The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.

Seems like ending H1-B visas may result in offshoring some high skilled jobs. Not in higher ed obvs but in tech

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.