Eager to talk to anyone interested in dedicated coverage on the LGBTQ community or the conservative movement.

I am heartbroken to announce that I am no longer at Media Matters for America due to the hostile litigation campaign against the organization. I dedicated nearly four years to improving LGBTQ coverage in mainstream media & challenging right-wing propaganda. It wasn't easy, but I am proud of it. 🧵

Editing Vesper’s work—often picked up by national media—was a huge privilege, and I’m sad to see them leave. I hope for everyone’s sake that Vesper can continue covering the right’s assault on the LGBTQ community I’d strongly encourage anyone looking to expand their civil rights desks to hire them

I am heartbroken to announce that I am no longer at Media Matters for America due to the hostile litigation campaign against the organization. I dedicated nearly four years to improving LGBTQ coverage in mainstream media & challenging right-wing propaganda. It wasn't easy, but I am proud of it. 🧵

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Checking up on The Daily Wire: They actually posted an article about someone crying about "missing their friends" because they turned into a chud during lockdowns and now hate all the trans and gay people they knew ... but still expects their friendship I actually LOLed

Sydney is legitimately the best trans femme reporter you could possibly find to report on trans athletes. Idk how much motion I still have with editors but please have her write for you. DMe and I will intro you to her.

Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

I would like to make my position extremely clear: Woke 1? Wasn’t real. Never happened. Didn’t take place. Woke 2, however? Extremely real. Never been more real. Targeting your grandmother.

They're calling Ravenous "incredibly worth subscribing to" and "full of fun and informative food writing"

it was almost $30 for a half tank of gas in my civic this weekend btw

Possible there is an upper bound on the number of years one can spend in a fight-or-flight response to the imminent collapse of The American Way of Life

did ben shapiro make that tweet yesterday. the same unfunny one he makes twice a year every year instead of hanging with his family

A federal judge has denied an Ohio teacher anonymity in a court case over an innocuous "Hate Has No Home Here" sign in his classroom. In his order, the judge claimed there was insufficient evidence of his risk of harassment, adding "The risk of embarrassment alone is not enough." However... 🧵

just me, my undiagnosed anxiety disorder, my morning coffee, and an Astronomical Singularity Of Events happening to me within the next two weeks

sick the new york times is just citing statistics from the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine now

Wow, the NYT really campaigned hard to get Azeen Ghorayshi a Pullitzer for her transphobic reporting and podcast. She didn't get it but was a finalist for it despite several trans subjects of her reporting and their families speaking out about they felt betrayed by her coverage and framing.

This is a point I make over and over again when talking about these bans. The overwhelming number of athletes don’t want them. They’re political decisions made from (mostly men) who don’t even play the sports.

one of my favorite parts of the onion infowars saga is how Alex Jones lost his fucking mind when they first bought it,,,,, partly because he didn't know or understand what the onion was

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them. The graves of multiple children have been defaced. One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Fun fact of the day: the 18-in-1 soap is woke

A new study trumpeted by Fox News promotes a brand-new definition of "tradwife" that sounds like the worst of all worlds: women having to work and handle all domestic responsibilities without any help at all.

I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

I can tell being back in Georgia is doing something because Clavicular has become "Clavickalar" when I talk

Years and years of "what is a woman" discourse only to settle on a definition that includes 15-year-olds.

i'm extremely emotional about the artemis II mission and simultaneously angered that chudslop "news" sites get to call it American "exceptionalism" and our embarrassment in chief gets some illusion of credit for it while threatening to wipe a civilization off the map

the unironic, affirmative stance of our ruling political party is 1984's "war is peace"

Liam’s parents said “they can see changes in their child’s behavior, such as hypervigilance and not wanting to be around people.” His mom, Erika, said “her son still lives in fear when he sees law enforcement.” “He sees police officers, and he says, 'It's ICE, Mommy,’” she said. #AbuseofPowerWatch

Had a nice chat with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social yesterday about the long history of conservative media activism and how journalistic norms contribute to the idea of "liberal media" bias. Check it out! substack.com/home/post/p-...

The country’s largest organization representing doctors is being pressed by Republican attorneys general on health care for trans youth. As families and doctors navigate this care in an increasingly hostile landscape, keeping tabs on what medical groups say matters. Here's what's been said so far:

the way people have absolutely zero principles genuinely disturbs me. they believe nothing and will say anything that brings them their next paycheck. this is no way to live. it’s disgusting. i do not understand how this isn’t a bot and an actual real human being

I don’t cede concept of “free speech” to fascist champions of 2+2=5. Conversion therapy isn’t speech. That therapist has the right to believe and say what she wants in her free time. But it’s not speech to apply practices proven harmful under cover of a state medical license.

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

Exactly.

can we check in on the "i just want cheaper gas and groceries" people real quick?

this is literally who you’re asking to do misinformation and extremism research

A column in The Washington Post today cequates lifesaving gender-affirming care to lobotomies. This extreme comparison is not new, and in fact has been pushed by conservative media and politicians for years. 🧵

A column in The Washington Post today cequates lifesaving gender-affirming care to lobotomies. This extreme comparison is not new, and in fact has been pushed by conservative media and politicians for years. 🧵

the chuds always have to use iTunes Charts for any false sense of superiority because its upheld by boomers anyway. (iTunes and Apple Music charts are different)

what do you mean discord is going to start requiring age verification for everybody?? i can't have shit in this house

The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

Apropos of everything, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports 2,774 breast augmentations and 1,169 breast lifts on patients 19 & under in 2024 alone. That's a combined 3,943 procedures in *one year* compared to the 3,678 gender procedures performed on patients 18 & under over *four years*

what's cracking me up about the coverage of this detransitioner lawsuit is that for as much as right-wing media claims to support detransitioners not a single one of them have a picture of the actual person in the lawsuit and they just slap Chloe Cole's picture up there (it is not her suit)

the answer is that jennings performance of smug dishonesty reliably generates viral clips, so they continue to have him on even though he is a shameless liar

I feel like tiramisu is becoming The New Trendy Flavor and as a longtime fan I am truly here for it

I tried those Taco Bell dipping burritos last weekend and thought they were yummy actually and when I went back today they were GONE. Sick and twisted.