More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.

I was acting as a union member and concerned employee when I questioned Stan Duncan, well within my legal rights. I don't love pointing to my identity, but the company saying that I was behaving "aggressively" when I was calmly asking questions feels like a clear transphobic dog whistle.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Four union media workers were fired, in violation of their rights at work—that is a canary for all of us in this business. If we lose power at work, trust me it’s not any easier to hold anyone with political power to account.

I don’t think this is fair to all these journalists. Compared to Teen Vogue, Wired invested in adversarial politics reporting relatively recently (and are great at it!). When Wintour was telling TV they don’t want to hear about politics, in 2021? That was the canary.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Ellis: "It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."

Ellis: The use of force during the Trump administration's Operation Midway Blitz "shocks the conscience."

Ellis also finds that the feds' use of force in Chicago "shocks the conscience."

After going through several incidents since the start of Operation Midway Blitz — like the ones above — Judge Ellis says, "those are the factual findings that I'm making to support this preliminary injunction."

these particular cases + use of "generational wins" just reminds me of this nightmarish document pafamily.org/wp-content/u...

I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries

Ellis: Federal agents described a number of protestors as "professional agitators" based on their use of whistles, in part. "Describing neighborhood moms and rapid response groups as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are and how incredible their statements are."

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

one last thing then some of us (me) still have jobs to do.... if your headlines could be cited as supporting evidence of a hostile work environment in a sex discrimination claim......

A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW // LITTLE, BROWN // etc etc

also what people call liberal feminism is often conservative feminism but another story for another day

I don't know, if we really need a time machine, try the radio cladriteradio.com/about/

and these great legal minds are concerned with due process for one class only

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"

I've raved about Hush in the past, but I think this is the most interesting episode so far: it's about how people get their information and how they evaluate it in today's messed up information ecosystem. Those of you who know what I study will know why this one is so relevant to my own work.

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

Tyler and I are out here at the rally where the crowd has about doubled since this first post. Easily 400+ people. Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”

the last few months have brought new heights of “cops lie all the time” and yet this case has still managed to elevate the form

KLUTEniks of NY:

the big debs ebooks are each two bucks right now too

one bovino after another

One of the great joys of Zohran's victory is that NYC finally has a mayor who doesn't give a shit about what the New York Times thinks of him

[going through security for federal court] “Where you going, for the sandwich?” “Yup.” “Sandwich heard around the damn world.”

“'Some complaints are just rants with almost no evidence or detail,' noted Darryl Li, a professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of the report. 'Government civil rights enforcement is now being driven by the equivalent of a YouTube comment section.'”

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

“We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.”

"Police Are Our Government"

I know it's not even noon, but I hope a Mamdani administration makes the press card process more normal and of the 21st century

good morning is this going to be one of those extra wild Brian Lehrers

“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message

ERROLL LOUIS SAID TURN IT UP

that disgusting Cuomo speech only sounds more desperate after this one

“whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community…” it is not difficult to just say

“hope over big money and small ideas”

Eugene Debs, a Midwestern socialist? The coastal divide is being united

proud ally Brad Lander (complimentary!)

Eugene V Debbbbbsss we are going all the way in

yessssss

hell gate call it

whew, per the Board of Elections, we've hit 2M votes in New York City

the place to be

important call just in

Cuomo, after voting today: "The president believes Zohran Mamdani is a communist, he believes he's an existential threat. I believe he's a socialist and an existential threat."

was feeling almost relaxed on this election day, maybe because I'm working on something else, maybe because it's the first one in a long time that I haven't been watching a cortisol-spiking amount of far right feeds on hootsuite