I profiled every contributor at UnHerd who has engaged in anti-trans discourse. It’s like a Who’s Who. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

The Times, which felt severely aggrieved about its lack of access to Biden, now seems extremely validated by its sit-down with Trump, and is dishing the news out by the spoonful. Could we just have a transcript please? Who wants to listen to curated audio?

Bigots deploy the language and tactics of contempt.

Trans ppl constitute “a group obsessed with its own victimhood.” I came across this phrase recently when I examined the language of contempt regularly deployed by bigoted publications and how it became mainstream. Let’s take factual stock of this assertion🧵

But it strikes me that we have evidence, citations, and reason on our side. While these “takedowns”… are either blatantly inaccurate or entirely fact-free. I hope journalists can take a few moments to evaluate the difference.

Bigots deploy the language and tactics of contempt.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean. Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone." Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)

11/ We analyzed months of flight tracking data to determine just how many planes flew in or near areas at risk after each of SpaceX’s launch failures. This is what we found:

MuckRock and @transjournalists.org are continuing to document the impact of anti-trans federal activities. We’re requesting ICE documents on transgender detainees and more.

I appreciate the @glaad.bsky.social nomination for this story, which is part of my larger series on detransition

Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.) Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. @burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.

Keith Ellison: "They're simply trying to justify her killing. They're trying to convince the public through their rhetoric that it's okay that she's dead. And that is unacceptable and it's untrue. It's also cruel and completely unnecessary. This is a mother of three. This is someone's wife ... "

Frey: "I think the initial impetus to come to MN was to arrest & deport a bunch of Somali people. They got here & realized the Somali people that would be deported are all citizens. Then they turned their ire toward our Latino community & others. These are communities that make Mpls a better place."

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

This is an occupying force.

This is the heart of it. Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.

How does the language of contempt shape the public’s understanding of ppl and issues they, understandably, know little about? It starts w polemicists like this site and works its way into receptive minds at big media who are more interested in adopting political narratives than in covering the news

A politics of cruelty. The "assertion" this thread investigates is in reality an attack on your (yes you) dignity and humanity. To the cruel, the trans community is another cipher, a way to trick you into participating in their cruelty. A gateway to the darkside. Darkhearts know that's the goal.

Normalising the language of contempt was the precursor to legitimising assaults on Americans. Trans ppl were targeted first: Vitriol on X justified real-world attacks, a pattern that is repeating and is now threatening to consume the US. My story is below and my thoughts in this🧵

Have we really become so woke that we’re no longer comfortable with ICE shooting unarmed women and yelling “fuck you bitch” as they die?

I told @advocate.com that “this is perhaps going to be the most dangerous year for trans people so far.” Because desperation to make trans people an even bigger target will likely drive the Administration to extremes.

All the lies they're telling about Renee Good are in service of an even bigger lie: that individual human lives have no intrinsic worth and are therefore theirs to dispose of. publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...

Today, we will be starting off 2026 by attending what might be the first protest for trans rights of the year. GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon. Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.

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well said. politicizing morals sucked the humanity right out of so many people, it's heartbreaking. the existence of trans lives and contributions shouldn't be political, just a fact. :(

Freedom of movement AND VOTING. While I live in a vote by mail state, I well remember the 90s when being identified as trans caused volunteer poll workers who had little to no understanding of transness to block me from voting to prevent "fraud". New ID laws implement that voting barrier at scale.

The idea that journalists, politicians, groups or - you know, women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people - should "stay on the pitch" doesn't really hold up. Foreign Minister's account has 60k followers - 40 likes, 13k views? Blue ticks straight to the top of the queue with misogyny, bile.

Trans ppl constitute “a group obsessed with its own victimhood.” I came across this phrase recently when I examined the language of contempt regularly deployed by bigoted publications and how it became mainstream. Let’s take factual stock of this assertion🧵

once again we are all tapping the sign

Tina Smith: "I've worked closely with law enforcement in my roles at state and local government, and I have never seen anybody describe as protocol holding a cell phone and taking video while you are simultaneously shooting a gun that ends up killing somebody. It's kind of unbelievable."

At Status_ @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has learned that Bari Weiss, CBS News' Trump-approved minder, has held up another “60 Minutes” report: An Anderson Cooper investigation of Trump’s acceptance of white S. African refugees, which is “guaranteed to provoke Trump and inflame his MAGA base.”

Cold-souled murder. ICE Agent Shouted Vile Slur at Renee Good After Shooting, Video Shows www.thedailybeast.com/ice-agent-sh...

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

See. It's easily done. You don't have to put the lies in the headline. Yet so many seem unable to resist...

7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election: Durbin Hassan Kaine King Klobuchar Shaheen Welch

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

New Study finds a significant reduction in suicidality after trans people receive gender-affirming hormone therapy. “Hormone therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time…” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Transphobia: the engine that pulls the train of fascism.

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

Yep, The Times is going with 'The murder of Renee Nicole Good is the fault of immigrants'.

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Proudly, openly a liar.

“For years, the political right has been ratcheting up eliminationist rhetoric against transgender Americans and dismissing their identities as ideology. At the 2023 CPAC, conservative commentator Michael Knowles called to “eradicate” so-called “transgenderism” from public life.”

“For years, the political right has been ratcheting up eliminationist rhetoric against transgender Americans and dismissing their identities as ideology. At the 2023 CPAC, conservative commentator Michael Knowles called to “eradicate” so-called “transgenderism” from public life.”

Scratch a transphobe, find a racist.

So where is Bari Weiss, that great defender of free speech?