Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.

I asked my therapist - an African American women in her forties - if she felt the same backsliding I feel with the rights of the LGBTQA+ community and she said no, America has always been like this under the surface. Don’t know if shes right, but it all seems dark as hell.

Random question - every year Bake Off is full of gay men. My pottery studio is full of gay men. What do ... straight men … you know … do?

Huh. Trump basically pardoned a child sex trafficker.By accident, maybe, but the end result is the same.

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

Short version: Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet. Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care Trump: No Schumer: Okay

BREAKING: Scorpion Bites Frog Immediately and Repeatedly

Name them.

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

If you're looking around thinking "if Trump & the Republicans cause enough suffering, there will be backlash & accountability," I would direct your attention to the UK. Hard to think of any country in history so clearly, demonstrably, theatrically fucked by a single party ... and yet.

Seems to be a pattern here for both core institutions and left wing political parties.

The existence of trans people is not an "ideology", BBC. It is a reality and one which Parliament has recognized. (Entirely typical of the BBC that, confronted by a populist right attack, they will show willing by dumping on trans people. Weak with the strong, strong with the weak, as always.)

The BBC has no pro-trans bias. The BBC is appalling on trans issues, just like the rest of the media.

One important thing those in and around the BBC *must* remember as they shape reforms is that many (not all) of its detractors will say they want "unbiased" news, just as Trump/Republicans claimed, but what they really want is control.

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

All you need to know. Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.

Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator

NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community. From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

Seattle peeps! Public Service Announcement

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

It will never not be funny to me that an important writer like Joyce Carol Oates who writes captial S Serious Literature is also really good at posting. It's like if Stravinsky had lived long enough to be really good at Animal Crossing too.

Most days at the moment I think the appropriate New York Times front page headline should just be, “JESUS FUCK, WHAT NOW?”

Doing what I always do when the world gets too much, go and watch #doctorwho. Reminded yet again how good the most recent season was (at least until the finalé) and how much I love Ncuti Gatwa.

Former House speaker / Trump adviser newt Gingrich, saying on the record what we’d heard so much on background from those others: “Look at the rage on the left. It doesn’t sound like a victory party to me. All you have to do is look at the reaction on the left to figure out who won this shutdown…”

I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.

It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.

Oh that sounds fun. I’m always looking for *more opportunities to talk to insurance providers.

“As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I haven't been on twitter in over a year but it seems like Musk has transformed it into a powerful platform devoted to proving he's the most embarrassing person who's ever lived.

can't wait to see this inspiring messaging incorporated into the DSCC fundraising appeals

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Not going to lie - this is a huge relief, which in itself sort of points to how far we’ve fallen in the last few years. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Making problems for future me by setting my up a whole bunch of emails and texts to go out tomorrow morning via Apple’s “Send Later”.

It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare

Sure we put you through a month of hell, but on the other hand we got nothing for it.

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

It shows Schumer no longer has the caucus.

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

Still a classic. And it gets more true every day. theonion.com/happy-monday...

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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

@mattwalshjourno.bsky.social can I ask you a serious question here - the documentary clearly contained a significant editorial misjudgment. It also did not misrepresent that Trump was inciting violence - the congressional review referred him to the DOJ for prosecution for that.

I think in this case, this response is over the top. I also think it should give everyone in Britain enormous pride and faith that we still have media that is accountable to the public if it misleads people. No such thing exists in America.

Not enormously sad to see Tim Davis go. Still fairly alarmed about what happens next at the BBC