Thank you @oyousef.bsky.social for bringing this idea to NPR. @jmberger.com and I will continue to shout into our respective voids, but sometimes someone listens!
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Thank you @oyousef.bsky.social for bringing this idea to NPR. @jmberger.com and I will continue to shout into our respective voids, but sometimes someone listens!
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
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A handful of Oregon towns have turned off a powerful surveillance tool that scans and catalogs license plate data over fears the data will be used to arrest immigrants
I spoke w/ Politico about how Dobbs further disrupted and destabilized clinical research with people who are pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant. The lack of data makes it easier to spread misinformation and instill unwarranted fears....
I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out
I do not have the optimism that this piece articulates, but it is still worth reading and highlights the importance of clear and defendable definitions of terrorism and extremism
If you haven’t called or written your reps lately call and yell at them for this fucking thing. Like today. Right now. So much stuff gets reversed or overturned because people get really fucking annoying on the phone.
Screenshot of a tweet by J.K. Rowling replying to Mark Adam Harold. Mark's tweet asks, "How are you planning to police public toilets?" J.K. Rowling responds: "Quite easily, really. Decent men will stay out, as they always have, so we can assume all who don't are a threat, given their disregard for women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. Photographing, reporting and disseminating such men's images online will be a piece of cake." The tweet was posted at 10:51 PM on June 21, 2025, and has 216.9K views, 298 comments, 1.2K retweets, 10K likes, and 152 bookmarks.
JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms.
This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.
The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine How the left ended up disbelieving the science By Helen Lewis
“We often ask parents, ‘Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?’” Johanna Olson-Kennedy of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles once explained to ABC News. Variations on the phrase crop up in innumerable media articles and public statements by influencers, activists, and LGBTQ groups. The same idea—that the choice is transition or death—appeared in the arguments made by Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s solicitor general, before the Supreme Court last year. Tennessee’s law prohibiting the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat minors with gender dysphoria would, she said, “increase the risk of suicide.” But there is a huge problem with this emotive formulation: It isn’t true. When Justice Samuel Alito challenged the ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio on such claims during oral arguments, Strangio made a startling admission. He conceded that there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates.
The "misinformation" in question here is that gender-affirming care reduces suicides among youth. It merely reduces depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation.
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I was privileged to work with and mentor @bdaviess.bsky.social while at CTEC and am even more privileged to see her excellent work continue to be recognized
It’s telling how the Christian right’s role in getting Skrmetti to SCOTUS is being erased—and by those seemingly desperate to blame trans people for asking for “too much.” So I spoke with legal historian @kredburn.bsky.social and ACLU attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social, who argued the case:
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Want to know why beliefs that sunscreen is bad for you feed into larger conspiracies and misinformation? This article, featuring expert commentary from ARC Fellow @bdaviess.bsky.social, helps explain.
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@jannamandell.bsky.social did an incredible job unpacking the complexities of the current state of the anti-sunscreen movement and the conspiracy theories that underpin it.
Glad to have contributed a small part to this piece.
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One out of every five articles from a magazine with “New York” in its name now is like “meet the young women with some surprising ideas — such as dropping out of college to have 15 babies, wearing low-cut sundresses, and insisting that sunscreen and vaccines are dangerous.”
We, the investigators appointed to conduct an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, conclude that the Governor engaged in conduct constituting sexual harassment under federal and New York State law. Specifically, we find that the Governor sexually harassed a number of current and former New York State employees by, among other things, engaging in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching, as well as making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women. Our investigation revealed that the Governor’s sexually harassing behavior was not limited to members of his own staff, but extended to other State employees, including a State Trooper on his protective detail and members of the public. We also conclude that the Executive Chamber’s culture—one filled with fear and intimidation, while at the same time normalizing the Governor’s frequent flirtations and gender-based comments—contributed to the conditions that allowed the sexual harassment to occur and persist. That culture also influenced the improper and inadequate ways in which the Executive Chamber has responded to allegations of harassment.1
Andrew Cuomo, serial sexual harasser and liar, a thread. From the state report on his abuse. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21...
I think Skirmetti is awful, and I think it will have horrible impacts.
But I keep seeing people say shit like “well this is what the Dems get for pushing unpopular trans issues” or “give up on this” or shit like this, and I have a historical reminder for you.
The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
it cannot simultaneously be true that media outlets like the Times and the Post are the Fourth Estate, playing a vital Democratic function, and also that what occurs on its pages is harmless intellectual inquiry
The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people.
These bastards want us all dead.
One bad Trump thing is not a distraction from another bad Trump thing. The cacophony of multiple bad Trump things at once is one single thing. It is not possible to get everyone to focus on one part of that chaos, since all the bad parts are bad enough to merit attention, and the chaos is the thing.
Make no mistake. This movement does not care about the so-called "ongoing debate among medical experts" regarding treatment of gender dysphoria. It seeks to remove trans people from public life through multiple mechanisms, and SCOTUS just gave it permission.
@jmberger.com and I wrote about the anti-trans movement operating in state governments and how it weaponized fear to inscribe its views in state law. www.middlebury.edu/institute/ac...
It is easy to miss crucial moments like this in what feels like an overwhelmingly chaotic week/month/year.
But this decision cedes authority to state legislatures controlled by anti-trans extremist movements that seek to harm trans people, trans kids, and will not stop at eliminating healthcare.
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
"The day before a violent political attack in Minnesota, the last top officials at a program that aims to spot so-called 'lone actor' violent domestic extremists were reassigned to other roles."
A damning report by @willcarless.bsky.social in @usatoday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...