the downside of picking on the 1% of the population that's the most vulnerable in society is that even though we might not have the strongest financial or political defenses, we have nothing to lose. and elites rarely win wars against people with nothing to lose.

bumping this video of ACT UP activists chanting "fuck the New York Times" in 2020 right before the pandemic.

@bencollins.bsky.social please stop letting Onion writers take side-gigs. The universe keeps hiring them to write the scripts

Please read the following statement about our recent article.

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...

Feels like for a lot of people, the president's biggest sin is just being to blunt too put a nice, jingoistic, propagandistic cover on what the what US is and does and always has been. Public figures squawking about democracy and liberation while he goes "BLOOD AND OIL" is darkly, darkly funny.

wow it's almost like trans people have been telling you all not to trust these outlets for years

hacking the US or leaking inside info may be scary, but you know what's even scarier? war do the right thing. use ur skills, use ur knowledge.

kinda crazy how all the same libs who spent the last few days haranguing the NYT for the propaganda from the top after our interview with Sweeney are now uncritically relying on the NYT for news from Venezuela, as if that won't be tainted by the same propaganda they never learn

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

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You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

I can't emphasize how much an obligation you have to do everything you possibly can to stop this war. if you were mad people in Israel for being complicit in the genocide, now is the time to speak out and do literally all you can to stop whatever is happening here.

oh boy it hasnt been 12 hours and white people are already trying to make the "just following orders" army troops the *real* victims of this colonialist invasion. literally just frag out I do not care‼️

Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.

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me standing around the rave looking at all these gay people wearing cool tails and ears knowing that I'm the only one who knows that we are invading another country and kidnapping their president

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

also yeah if you live here it's a "we," it doesn't matter your opinions or who you voted for, part of living in the imperial core is understanding we all benefit from this violence even if we abhor it, and taking responsibility is the bare minimum to actually be anti-imperialist from inside

we are stuck in the "my approval ratings are crashing due to the economy, so it's time to invade a country" america timeline and it sucks

sitting here at a furry rave trying to figure out why we are bombing another country when I open my phone? hello ?

One of the important take aways of this interview is its demonstration of how science journalism can deceive or misguide wrt to what scientific consensus is, and the concomitant malign poltical ends that misdirection can promote

pretty crazy for basically a couple of poor/marginalized trans women come together and produce a news outlet that is making national headlines and re-reported by multiple outlets within months of getting starte. And I promise you will see more huge news reported by us very soon!

Currently, TNN operates on a yearly budget of just over $40,000. For comparison, some major media outlets have budgets that extend into the billions--tens of thousands times our budget. Despite the gap, yesterday's NYT piece was the #2 performing news article on Bluesky for the day (BlueReport)

People need to realize "Grok" isn't an entity anymore than Santa Clause or the tiger from frosted flakes is. It's a corporate mascot for a product that has no ability to take actions or "apologize." It represents the will of its creators.

This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about

have you ever been so gay it's actually kind of overstimulating?

my favorite part about web analytics is seeing how many people are frantically clicking on links to our articles from Slack on a day they probably were supposed to have the day off work

Thanks so much to @davidforbes.bsky.social and the team at @transnews.network for giving me the opportunity to speak about my experiences at the nyt, whose work has had such a profoundly negative effect on the lives of all queer ppl.

if you haven't read jezebel's 2018 coverage of the listserv where 400+ "left-of-center" transphobic "journalists" methodically orchestrated the current moment, it's a good companion to the TNN interview: www.jezebel.com/private-mess...

*Witch cackles*

FKA Church, one of LA's last DIY underground punk scenes which is currently housing several trans musicians, is in danger of being evicted if they don't raise another ~5k in the next day or so. Please donate or share this fundraiser if you can't! www.gofundme.com/f/6r2je-help...

anteater conglomerate CEO explaining to other antieater conglomerate CEOs at the anteater conglomerate foundation about how my anteater conglomerate protects young ants by sticking our elongated snouts into their hills and wiggling our sticky tongues around magnanimously

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

We have done *a lot* this year. With trans communities under attack, good information and unrepentantly radical journalism fighting for our liberation is more important than ever. Here's a thread with some highlights of TNN'S coverage in 2025. You can find all of it at transnews.network

This is why I don’t trust the "Never Trump" Bulwark guys. They’re perfectly comfortable with real people being harmed, so long as the harm comes via a process they can label “liberal democracy.”

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

The Uncommitted Movement was a movement organized by Democrats, targeting the 2024 Dem primary. Its leaders, like Alawieh, publicly stated he would vote for Harris to "block Trump," distinguishing between endorsing a candidate and voting strategically to prevent harm. I'm tired of this narrative.

Looking back on this year, we're proud of our worker-run newsroom's role in halting the trans medicaid ban. Here's @madycast.com, @davidforbes.bsky.social and @thefreeradical.org talking about how with the inimitable @miawong.bsky.social Independent, hard-hitting trans journalism is powerful.

To recap: *The Trump administration illegally renamed the Kennedy Center. They broke the law. *Now they are suing a guy who refused to perform because of the name change for $1 million.

everything is hell. and the country is descending into fascism, but also at the end of 2025: - trans people can still access state funded HRT in most states through the ACA or Medicaid despite Republicans doing their best to defund it and Democrats doing the least to stop them

I don't think I'll ever fully be able to emotionally accept the significance of our role in this, even though intellectually I'm well aware of it but sometimes that's just how it goes, the people who do the most work rarely get the credit, nor do we really crave it

In June, Cincinnati Imam Ayman Soliman was arrested, held in a freezing cold jail cell for months. He had no criminal record and is beloved by countless patients he served at the local children's hospital. Yet, ICE tried to deport him to Egypt, an effective death sentence. Read more below. 👇

The bourgeoisie doesn't want you to know how soft your skin gets on estrogen Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The New York Times is and always has been a billionaire propaganda outlet. Every single one of their editorial decisions, anti-trans pivot, Zionism, and so forth is easily explained by the fact that they operate to effectuate the financial and political interests of a handful of billionaires.

Every time billionaires say they’re gonna leave if you raise their taxes, outlets like the Times credulously regurgitate the propaganda. Meanwhile they don’t move cause these guys WANT to live in California and Manhattan and not Podunk and Bumfuck where the taxes are nonexistent.

A little longer now and you'll get to go to the rave celebrating his death. Just a little bit longer

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