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 all love you, George. But it’s incredibly disappointing to a lot of us when you promote a politician who is not only incredibly transphobic, but violent towards the homeless population of California.

From now on anyone (I see you liberals) who pushes back on the idea that the Republicans and Democrats are out for trans genocide, I will point out that the third point of the definition fits what they are doing when it comes to trans kids (potentially the fifth point too)

i really want folks to understand that the point of all this stuff is to prevent trans people from living normal lives. it really is as simple as that.

Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.

We have DVDs, CDs, physical audiobooks, and some libraries even have video games! 😳 On top of that, there are digital media apps/sites like Libby and Hoopla for ebooks, audiobooks, TV, movies, and the latest music!!! For free with your library card!!!!!

Did yall forget the Retroarch guys helped drive the creator of bsnes to suicide for being non binary

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Good things ✨can✨ happen. Opponents & centrists will do everything they can to make Mamdani as ineffective as possible. We should remember that as we support the new mayor’s initiatives. Let’s not get apathetic the moment he hits state and federal roadblocks. Let’s do everything we can!

Armed and fully militarized raids using blackhawks to drop troops into neighborhoods around Chicago should probably be bigger news. Even in an unfolding fascist police state that should be registering with people of good conscience as something they cannot allow to continue.

So, democrats, is letting Trump commit genocide against trans people going to be the lesser evil? Do you expect me to vote for you while my loved ones die around me? Or will you say it is *my* fault for “letting it happen” as you throw me into an oven.

I think a lot more clarity is warranted. I can’t believe I’m handing it to CNN, but they were unambiguous in their statement. And you should be too.

The media reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk should be a wake up call to everyone. Cancel your subscription, quit reading the works of people who think Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way, or that he was a decent human being. He wasn’t either of those things

In a normal country we would be talking about the fact Charlie Kirk was a fascist stochastic terrorist engaged in coordinating attacks on educators, children and others opposed to his fascist views. Reminder the media is willingly lying about Kirk and tpusa. Kirks legacy is white power terror.

What we are seeing is class solidarity of the elites in the wake of one of their own being taken out. It is why Democrats and Republicans alike are acting like this was a massive attack on society Not just a shitty fascist living and ironically, dying by the sword.

I am sincerely hands and knees begging people to do this. The existential threat is getting pretty immense and it's not slowing down, not with the gov't *openly stating* that "consensual porn" is in the crosshairs. *Please* call. Please write physical letters. Please keep the pressure on.

In all my years of following and making adult games, I've never seen the issues we face *actually* break through to the mainstream gaming press, so I'm really glad it's finally gaining traction!

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

you can’t do shit about a police investigation or how big money will spin the news. but you know what you *can* do? help the actual people this will be/is being weaponized against. tap into the thread. make a few calls so people close to power know this *also* isn’t the time to bail on trans folks.

Gretchen Felker-Martin getting her comic cancelled for echoing this exact sentiment is *wildly* on-the-nose

Well didn't I tell ya? I told ya so I did, I warned ya. Sick and god damn tired of being the Cassandra in the coalmine, can't tell you how many times I tried to get it across that this was where the anti-trans moral panic was headed, only to dismissed again and again and oh look at where we are.

A Democrat who won't speak up for trans people or genocide victims won't speak up for anybody

Boss. I'm tired boss. We been doing these experiments and studies since the 60s and 70s and the outcome has been the same in them all. The pushback against these measures aren't because they don't work. It's because they DO work and they'll include peoples they wish to exclude from society.

Among other things: look at the timeline for election officials in your jurisdiction. Is there a Democrat on the ballot for it? No? Then ask: Can YOU be the Democrat on the ballot? And if not, do you know someone who can? Just run for the damned office.

Just a reminder that any time you read an article declaring “_____ is killing gaming”, no matter what, the real reason has and always will be the executive douches at the top making all the terrible decisions and giving themselves pay raises while killing all your favorite games.

Having empathy is truly radical in an increasingly fascist “rationalized” society. Do not let fear, anger and rage take away your empathy.

It's called autogenocide, the goal is to coerce a population into killing themselves and/ or die by design. When MAGA and Trump strip people of their healthcare or safety nets, they aren't thinking about saving money they're thinking about how many of us they can exterminate. #3E #EndAutogenocide

I'm sure the parents of trans kids will take great comfort knowing we can't say if a ban on their health care will kill their child--their child will merely wish they were dead

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One of the ways in which generative AI will kill people is that yesterday, when the wet bulb temperature was nearing 119F, the conversational agent built into the weather app said it was "not a bad day for a bike ride as long as there's some shade". No. No it's not.

Thinking about how the evolution of anarchist anti-journalist politics meant everyone spent all of their time attacking tiny anarchist journalists and random (shitty) livestreamers while allowing the NYT and the Washington Post to carry out an extermination campaign Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

against trans people with literally no consequences whatsoever. Fucking great job everyone are you fucking happy now? Like I frankly agree with yall about cameras at protests but it would have been nice of 1% of that fucking energy had been turn on the people trying Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

to wipe me and everyone else like me from the fucking earth. And now we're fucking here and I've earned the right to be exhausted and bitter, but hey we protect us right? Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Trans kids HAVE ALREADY been dying due to this. There are massive spikes in suicide rates of trans kids in states that ban their healthcare. The solution for communities is to provide kids access to their care regardless of what the government says, not to gaslight kids that they don't need it.

what will it take for you to even slightly inconvenience yourself long enough to actually take a stand to save my friends and i from absolute oblivion? we are closer to being trans in russia than you could ever realize. it is not too late yet. but it will be too late sooner than you think.

how many of you cis people actually care about the blond trans climate journalist you’ve been following for a decade? how many of you are actually bothered by this — or are you thinking “oof, glad it’s not me”? how many cis people does it take to screw in the lightbulb of morality?

yesterday’s supreme court ruling found that a state or federal agency can deny people like me medical care we need to survive if conversion therapy is provided. it is a recipe for a horrific future for our country that few of you seem to understand or appreciate. it’s genocidal, by many metrics.

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

Anyways, America was built as a colonial plantation by wealthy white men for wealthy white men who didn’t see women or minorities as full human and to actually stop American fascism we have to address that deep misogynistic white power mythology from those roots

The real question is how soon do you think some of the larger liberal voices are going to start saying we actually have to find common ground with ice and they don’t actually need to be disbanded they just need to be brought back under better control of the Democrats.

One of the reasons American fascism has been largely ignored up until now is because actually addressing it would mean addressing massive systemic issues that have their roots deep in America history and it’s proto fascist past and it would also mean deconstructing the core mythos of America

Stop praising Newsom for the small shit he does and jabs he makes. He is as bad as any of the GOP. Don't forget him throwing trans people under the bus. Queer folks would not be safe under his "leadership." If he's willing to abandon the most vulnerable for gain, who else is he willing to abandon?

great reminder to all of those Democrats and liberals saying that we need to abandon red states because they are gerrymandered into right wing autocracies where the vote isn’t in their favor instead of accepting that we are gonna have to fight for every American no matter where they are.

I understand why Democrats are being restrained about this but the right's effort to lie about what happened here is incredibly disrespectful to the victims and requires vociferous pushback. The shooter appears to have been an anti-abortion zealot and a Trump voter. Don't let them avoid this.

Creeping Civil War In the name of defending “real” America, Trump is waging a violent campaign against the majority of the people who live here; claiming to represent the “will of the people,” the regime is at war with American society as it actually exists. My new piece, for @zeit.de (in German):

Los Angeles is an occupied state. The fascists see blue cities and states as enemy territory to be occupied. This will not stop unless they are forced to stop.