humongous TW for the video. its all escalating here. we keep saying this. dont take your eyes off mn

not to self plug but im linking bcz i genuinely need more people to talk about what's going on here. so many on social media get fixated on whatever the latest news cycle's on about. you can change the news cycle. don't forget what's happening here before its too late

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

The New York Times, ICE, Epstein and his TERF associates: all institutions and powerful people whom we have written about this year. All on a budget of less than $50,000. Trans journalism just hits harder. And the more you fund us, the more we can do. See how you can support TNN below:

Trans people tried to warn the world about Epstein, but no one listened. Maybe now they finally will, and turn away from anti-trans figures closely associated with one of the most horrific human traffickers in history. Read all this and more in the full article. Edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report. It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

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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.

trans people have also been speaking out about this! I'm glad we are finally seeing experts say what we all have understood to be true for quite a while now.

With anti-trans laws now in place in NC — where Dems did fairly well in the last election — it's worth reading @davidforbes.bsky.social's in-depth analysis from last year. Dem betrayals of queer and trans people have a long history there, including with the infamous HB2. Don't trust politicians.

As people mobilize around the country, beware of claims that a sanitized version of "nonviolence" — passive, compliant and non-disruptive — is the only option. As @thefreeradical.org detailed in-depth, these myths are based on bad history and social science. They're meant to serve the status quo.

Fascism is a hateful, suicidal ideology. Trans existence is an indomitable, inconsolable fact of the universe. We survived the AIDS genocides, the Holocaust, and erasure of Indigenous gender identities. And we will survive this genocide too. transnews.network/p/on-survivi...

Two trans women have faced torture, bigotry and horrific conditions since arrested as part of the infamous Prairieland crackdown on anti-ICE protest. They tell TNN about surviving behind bars, as @thefreeradical.org delves into the absurd attack on "antifa" that's just about criminalizing dissent:

So, let's elaborate a bit: transphobia is obviously not the exclusive domain of the gentry. This is a pervasively transphobic society and it shows up in all kinds of places. But the kind of escalated, concerted attacks that rise to the level of genocidal threat are very much pushed by the gentry...

A reality hard to convey to those outside communities on the front lines. So many of us wanted to just be ourselves, but the realities of poverty, oppression and injustice are vast and brutal. So trans people organize and fight. We have to. We're radical because we can't turn away from the truth.

TNN reporter Mira Lazine (@thefreeradical.org) found a community in Minneapolis. Now, that community is under attack by a fascist regime — and fighting back. Here’s her look of the realities on the ground, where exhaustion and terror exist alongside defiance and hope:

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yes, refusing to treat trans californians clearly violates california nondiscrimination laws. you don't need to have worked on california nondiscrimination laws to know that. you are not missing anything, there is no secret #1 ally 4D pro-trans legal meta. it is the exact collaboration it looks like

if you were wondering why it's fine for kaiser/stanford/etc to discriminate against trans people in california but not CHOC/Rady, that's why. he can go after CHOC/Rady without committing himself to the legal position that denying trans people healthcare violates CA nondiscrimination law.

theatrics. AG bonta is not enforcing CA nondiscrimination law, because if he did that he'd be committing to enforcing CA nondiscrimination law for trans people, which he refuses to do. he is accusing CHOC/Rady of... violating CA mergers and acquisitions law.

I had to pause for a bit the first time I edited this piece, because Mira's account of what it actually feels like to be on the ground in Minneapolis — as a journalist, a trans person in poverty and part of communities under siege — hit that hard. Essential reading, and a much-needed reality check.

This is a powerful, grounded account of community resistance in the face of still-ongoing brutality. We'd encourage folks to read it for a reality check about what's going on in Minneapolis. Article edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social

i talked to mira, a very good friend, a few days back about this unifying mindset in MPLS. she put it into necessarily rough yet overwhelmingly clear words here. great read from someone living the federal hell

Beautifully-written piece by a close friend. One of the most thorough, accurate representations of what my life feels like at this moment.

“Like many trans people in poverty, I’ve dealt with no shortage of oppression and violence in my life, but for the first time, it properly sinks in how myself and everyone I love, everyone I know, everyone I see and could have contact to, can die in an instant. Before I know it, I could be next...”

My latest with Trans News Network -- I wrote about my experiences here in Minneapolis and what it's like. I hope this gives some insight as to what it's like to live through this, the trauma, and the hope. Shit's rough but we're surviving. (Also thanks to @storster.bsky.social for the pic <3)

TNN reporter Mira Lazine (@thefreeradical.org) found a community in Minneapolis. Now, that community is under attack by a fascist regime — and fighting back. Here’s her look of the realities on the ground, where exhaustion and terror exist alongside defiance and hope:

Trans people are an overwhelmingly working class demographic. Our communities, organizing and resistance poses a threat to the hierarchies the gentry (even the "progressive" ones, even the handful of gatekeeping trans gentry) rely on. The oppression of trans people is also a front in the class war.

This includes, in different ways, everyone from the gop gentry failson attacking a pride party to the "radical" trustfund clique that ensconces itself in the local non-profit complex and periodically tries to ruin the life of any trans woman who points out how abusive and transmisogynist they are.

Also worth remembering that the gentry extends well beyond the ultra-gentry with national/worldwide influence. The gentry is functionally the upper-middle class and above. Lo and behold, many of those driving the worst otg attacks on trans folks in local spots come from their ranks too.

The current trans genocide push is planned, coordinated and carried out by megachurch pastors, nepobaby media barons, billionaire bigots, influential academics, tech magnates, literal aristocrats. That's been clear for awhile, but we're seeing more proof every day. The salt of the earth this ain't.

3. st peter is over an hour's drive from minneapolis. it isnt even an exurb. its just a random small town. its very close to mankato, which itself is a very small city and hardly can be called related to the tc. keep these in mind. dont fall for soothing narratives when reading stories like this.

interesting story, but some notes: 1. there may be individual "good eggs" among cops. the majority are bad. the vast majority of minnesota cops work with ICE. good cops eventually quit. 2. cops here are still universally working with ICE. this is jsut a fact. (1/2)

Trans genocide is a gentry conspiracy.

Avoiding arrest is a worthwhile strategy for small activist groups, especially POC/trans people. But as the size of protests grows, there's a tipping point where enough people ignoring the threat of arrests makes it impossible for them to arrest everyone. (White and cis people to the frontlines!)

It's relevant that the congressional Dems who voted to fund ICE include one of the most avowedly anti-trans reps (Suozzi) and the four who voted to support Marjorie Taylor Greene's draconian ban on lifesaving care for trans youth (Cuellar, Davis, Gluesenkamp Perez, Gonzalez).

Reminder that christian supremacy — which in practice means deference to the most violently reactionary factions and churches — is a massive goddamn problem. It's a major reason we're here and there's no real way out without confronting it.

"In fascism, the State is far less totalitarian than it is suicidal. There is in fascism a realized nihilism... Fascism is constructed on an intense line of flight, which it transforms into a line of pure destruction and abolition."

we can start full celebrations if we enter a world where no one's imprisoned and no one has the power to weaponize a state to kill other people. until then, we keep going.

like, i am not trying to raise fear here, it's just a fact that they're going to deploy more agents across the country. they're already doing this in maine, in LA, in springfield oh, etc. listen to minnesotans and organize. don't get cocky, and don't quit after tiny victories. *keep going.*

and, as i predicted days ago, things have only escalated here. again, listen to people in minnesota about this. it was all non-minnesotans who celebrated bovino, and meanwhile nothing's changed on the ground here. please dear god just listen instead of rushing to speak. theyre coming for you next.

if you want an answer for what to do if youre not minnesotan -- take a look at this. organize. if you need resources, you can reach out to me. i can send them. but you have to organize. voting isnt enough. it just isnt. no politician can fix this.

As there's yet another push to blame trans people for the obvious results of Dem party higher-ups' incompetence and complicity with fascism, here's @madycast.com's sharp analysis of how badly abandoning trans rights will work out for them.

As there's yet another push to blame trans people for the obvious results of Dem party higher-ups' incompetence and complicity with fascism, here's @madycast.com's sharp analysis of how badly abandoning trans rights will work out for them.

I write about history. I could cite examples from Germany or Italy or Wilmington (Jim Crow fascism laid the groundwork for the post-WWI variety, even down to its tactics). But there's no need. This is from less than a day ago. Fight this instead of yelling at us for making you uncomfortable.

Other than when it was imposed by outside military force, there's not a single case of fascists taking power without the collaboration/complicity of centrists and liberals. Including now. If radicals pointing out this reality upsets you, go do something about it rather than yelling at trans women.

Not in 2021, 2022 or early 2023, in 2024--after her stance opposing Biden's genocide was clear. And Biden hated Palestinians and Muslims as much as Trump could ever hope to.

if MN Dems had a spine they'd impeach him for saying this lol