I love the assumption here that the person who most strongly opposes Donald Trump is the person who (per documented evidence) maneuvered him as best she could into being the republican nominee

ngl it would be so funny to hear the weird-ass speech eric adams would give at this moment

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5 may seem nice, but it wouldn’t prevent harassment; it’d further marginalize minority voices. Powerful people operate publicly with impunity all the time. When Libs of TT was unmasked, she didn’t stop because our systems reward her efforts. She still doxxes and harasses queer people online.

There are many reasons to protect anonymity online, but one of them is so that survivors of sexual violence and abuse can post about their experiences without being sued into oblivion.

IKYMI: Last week, I wrote for @assignedmedia.org about the difficulties — and beauty — of life as a fat trans person. I’ve been really pleasantly surprised since then by how many folks came out of the woodworks to share their stories in the QRTs, some of which are very raw and vulnerable.

The performative disgust people show around any food that brings people pleasure is obnoxious. These are the same people who act like fruit is too sugary. Life is too short. Eat the fucking cookie, or Cheeto, or whatever they’re trying to make you feel bad about tomorrow.

lol

HEARTBREAKING: Person with a huge backlog of dozens and dozens of games decides to play their comfort game once more.

Newsom spent the last year working to prove he's an across-the-aisle guy who can work with — and befriend — even fascists. This is what it got him. This is why you don't associate with them in any capacity whatsoever.

So sick of seeing commentary that describes incredibly blatant transphobia as homophobia instead. Nearly all these attacks on Talarico (including those listed in this piece!) target transness. It’s a super odd and misleading framing choice to try to make it about “gay-bashing.”

I love nonprofit journalism bc once a day you get an email begging for money that’s like: RE: How we save this country LIVES ARE ON THE LINE. PLEASE HELP OUR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM MEET OUR $50,000 GOAL. IF WE DON’T, WE’LL HAVE TO EXECUTE BELOVED STAFF REPORTER, CAROL. THE BALL’S IN YOUR COURT.

My problem with the White House thunderdome isn’t that it’s “vulgar,” or “tacky,” qualities I often enjoy & terms which are often crudely classist when used pejoratively. My problem, as always, is the fascism. Don’t get distracted by taste, which is deeply subjective; it’s the fascism.

@thefrankiedlc.news interviewed the textile artist and denim tailor Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka "Cheeks", about his mobile work on the "104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine" named Jessica, for Vogue: www.vogue.com/article/the-...

I avoid posting about Rowling, but this one’s a useful example of how transphobia always collapses to gender essentialism and misogyny: Men: Pants Women: Skirts Gender nonconformity: T-slur TERFism is about policing gender performance. Harry became a wizard cop; Rowling became a gender cop.

Here's how the nyt has allgned itself with the anti-LGBT group, SEGM www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check...

Hi, we saw you from across the bar, and we'd like to give you health care.

One of the things about the Lauren Southern story is that her reactions after being raped by Andrew Tate aren’t unusual. A lot of people think, maybe subconsciously, that they’ll never be raped. A lot of people, maybe subconsciously, blame victims. Unlearning this is key to combatting rape culture.

Between this and ceding ground on trans healthcare, it’s been a disappointing week from Mamdani. I’ve been genuinely rooting for him, allowing for the idea there’s strategy here, but at some point, the politician is their policy. And the policy seems to be leaving the most vulnerable folks behind.

Most of the people we observed being taken away at BWI Thursday evening were in gray jumpsuits, implying they'd been detained for more than a day. But a few, including at least one man and several woman, were in plainclothes, implying they'd just been captured. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

Men will literally blame any victim. No one’s off limits. These women have already done so much. They’ve endured abuse, torture, and threats. It’s been years, and they still don’t have the justice they deserve. There are so many blameworthy people in this story, and this guy still chose survivors.

When a politician walks back a promise in an attempt to appease the right, constituents can count on two things: 1. More concessions are coming. 2. Any pushback is met with a deluge of people explaining how no one should have expected them to do something as unrealistic as exactly what they said.

Daniel Biss, who is the Dem nominee for IL-09 congressional district, dated his department's top student when he was a math professor at the University of Chicago, which she herself says ruined her relationship with academic math. It's a Dem-safe district -- and the story barely made the news.

Today for @assignedmedia.org, fat trans folks talk self-love, gender-affirming surgery, and why everyone’s always all up in their business. Because I don’t want to live in a world where trans people have to be small to feel worthy.

Today on Assigned Media, @madisyn-writes.bsky.social is centering the experiences of people who are both fat and trans in a piece that lifts up trans voices, and also seeks answers to medical concerns about surgeries for trans people of size. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.

1. In a move that is likely to be seen as capitulation to Trump, EITM can confirm that Mamdani's first ever trans direct care clinic will deny care to those under 19 years of age, the age from Trump's anti-trans EOs. It is a far cry from his pledge to "use every tool" to fight capitulation.

If it happened today the Super Metroid "Samus is a girl" reveal would have literal Congressmen rageposting

1. Polymarket, the prediction market that promotes itself as a "truth machine," is sponsoring posts from far-right influencers on X that push election conspiracy theories.

Well done, @kylec.bsky.social

a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

You know what some of the people pushing the LA election fraud conspiracies have in common? They built, grew, and energized their audience around smearing Blake Lively. If you can believe anti-MeToo conspiracies, you can believe that elections are stolen and votes are fraudulent.

I genuinely didn’t want to write about Platner, but the takes I’ve seen today are so irresponsible, especially from other journalists who should know better. So if you’re an editor, podcaster, etc, looking for someone who centers survivors and has done reporting on subjects like this, hit me up.

It sure *sounds* like we’re supposed to live in a world where working class men can be toxic and awful and we should embrace that’s as authentic, and working class women presumably simply get abused. And that’s supposed to be ok.

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

Stop texting my wife!

As a former full-time freelancer, one aspect that is aggravating about the Long Covid/Wired feature is how hard it is to get longform features accepted at publications. Like, this likely passed an editor's meeting, not just one person accepting a pitch.

Important to stress that: a) Pelley isn't some resistance hero, he's a reactionary centrist; b) Even this wasn't enough for Bari

once again tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, reader funded newsrooms how and where you are able to

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

I see a lot of people approvingly sharing that “being a dad is the best thing you can do” NYT oped piece and I just want to note that it’s still pronatalism even if it’s packaged as encouraging men to shed aggressiveness and competition in favor of caretaking

And this is the killer part, this industry wide instinct is exactly what paved the way for the Bari’s of the world.

I genuinely didn’t want to write about Platner, but the takes I’ve seen today are so irresponsible, especially from other journalists who should know better. So if you’re an editor, podcaster, etc, looking for someone who centers survivors and has done reporting on subjects like this, hit me up.

assaulting a woman is a minor vice, scolding a man is unforgivable

Because it is a day ending in “y,” I am once again begging people to stop anthropomorphizing the software. Not just because it’s incorrect, but because it foists responsibility onto the tech instead of the real humans making decisions, so it’s harder to hold those people accountable.

platner complains his past is 'being described'

Hospitals across the country, including in blue cities and states, have been capitulating, complying in advance, folding under fascist pressure to end trans (youth) healthcare … Sinai here is hardly the first—it’s just another prominent example.

all i know is that if my tight little ass was around during jesus times he would’ve risen a lot faster

I don't really talk about this, because I'm actually quite private about my personal life, but many many years ago Tony Head took me under his wing and showed me the kind of person I could be. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the person I am today because of the kindness he showed me.