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Good morning! It's Flytrap Tuesday and we have an amazing photoessay on rural feminists in Argentina--and their struggles with the current right-wing, libertarian government: the-flytrap.ghost.io/rural-femini...

In his first court appearance in months this Monday, Luigi Mangione had terrorism charges against him dismissed by a judge. As the Luigi fandom celebrates, here's an unpaywalled analysis of his fans by @nicolefroio.bsky.social: the-flytrap.ghost.io/deny-defend-...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Again. Trump *always* folds if you pushback. He talks a lot of shit, but if it wasn’t for white people’s need to capitulate with bigotry, he’d be nothing. He’s not some great mastermind, strategist or thinker. He’s just white.

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

“leftists have an infighting problem” buddy you should see what they’re doin to each other on the far right

Journalism is supposed to be “objective,” so why are Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim journalists being targeted in newsrooms? We know why. @prismreports.org gets to the heart of the bias as always:

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

Once again let me make it clear. The white leftists and white liberals are feeling scared cause racist white people are talking specifically about them like they talk about Black people. All the shit black people warned these Knuckleheads about is coming to pass & they're freaked out about it.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

“THIS IS WAR”: Some right-wing figures call for retribution following Kirk killing Limited information didn't stop Elon Musk, Laura Loomer, Nancy Mace, & others from baselessly blaming this tragedy on Democrats. w/ @annamerlan.bsky.social + @kieraevebutler.bsky.social for @motherjones.com

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

And we all know that’s true, because that’s all he did. Ultimately, that’s all he was, because he never bothered to be anything else. And now he’s gone, so let’s do him the honor of remembering him with accuracy.

The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.

It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

BREAKING: At least 2 students shot at Evergreen High School, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

Charlie Kirk in 2023: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment." He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.

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For @theflytrapmedia.com, I wrote about how, three years on fron its release, Knives Out: Glass Onion predicted the AI-addled tech broligarchy we're all struggling with today. This piece is our free post for the month, so if you like it, throw us a subscription the-flytrap.ghost.io/glass-onion-...

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Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.

I was recently told that I am essentially radioactive in “traditional” journalism spaces because I am proudly and openly leftist. But somehow, Bari Weiss, who is openly and proudly right-wing, is being handed the keys to CBS News. Make that make sense.

blogged for @thenation.com about bari weiss taking over at cbs news. it would be great not to live in a world where being the worst person imaginable doesn't get you fame fortune and power. alas. may cbs staffers revolt and may her tenure be short and failed! www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This piece from @freeblackgirl.bsky.social for @theflytrapmedia.com was such a pleasure to edit and it's SO GOOD. She explores 'The Biggest Loser' and its effects on how we think about fat people and culture...and where we go from here as fat liberationists fight for better.

HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAY!! This week, @freeblackgirl.bsky.social delves into Netflix's documentary about "The Biggest Loser", reflecting on the fatphobic show's history and its role in pop culture: the-flytrap.ghost.io/netflix-fit-...

I went long about Netflix’s Fit for TV docuseries, the fatphobic legacy of The Biggest Loser, and the complex rise of GLP-1s for my comrades @theflytrapmedia.com.

The idealization of rural communities (a small town where everyone loves everyone!) frequently overlooks the pernicious influences of racism — when it acknowledges that BIPOC live in rural communities in the first place.

NEW TODAY on the Flytrap: Kristi Noem’s appearance is designed for reality TV and her aesthetic reflects the brutality of the Trump administration. A must-read from @tinavasquez.bsky.social:

Mind you he comes from a family of crackheads

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It’s wild to think about how people feel that MeToo, Black Lives Matter, etc went too far as we watch the rights of women and the safety of Black people being further stripped away. It is just part of the same pattern as we’ve always seen: any inch towards equality is seen as an existential danger.

“If Black and queer people got access to academia and held the institution accountable for being oppressive and exclusionary, there would be blowback.” That’s how you sound. Who is editing these stories without challenging writers on the page?

HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAY!!! This week, co-founder @www.bugbeardispatch.com reflects on aging as a trans woman, and what her reflections say about liberation for aged and aging people. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/a-woman-of...

New York opens first-in-nation homeless shelter for transgender people https://gothamist.com/news/new-york-opens-first-in-nation-homeless-shelter-for-transgender-people

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The anti-hate organization used to fight for justice for all. Under Jonathan Greenblatt, it’s undertaken a war against anti-Zionism that has changed everything.

ICYMI: @freeblackgirl.bsky.social analyzed the Diddy trial outcome through a sex work decriminalization lens: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/if-we-valu...

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In this FREE post, @freeblackgirl.bsky.social points out that Diddy's defense was able to paint victims as "gold-diggers" and how decriminalizing sex work might have delivered a different outcome: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/if-we-valu...

The outcome of the Diddy trial has left hip hop fans with a palpable sense of disappointment. Co-founder @freeblackgirl.bsky.social writes about the possibility of sex work decriminalization and its intersections with high-profile sexual abuse cases. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/if-we-valu...