Sandy Ernest Allen
@sandyernestallen.bsky.social
author & journalist, mostly cover mental health. trans guy.
📝: Believer, Eater, Esquire, The Cut, Cosmo, This American Life
📖: akomp.info (Scribner)
https://whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/
https://www.sandyernestallen.com
https://linktr.ee/hellosandyallen
📝: Believer, Eater, Esquire, The Cut, Cosmo, This American Life
📖: akomp.info (Scribner)
https://whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/
https://www.sandyernestallen.com
https://linktr.ee/hellosandyallen
Pinned
cis folks, i'm curious for you to share answers, if you want:
what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.
what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.
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my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"
Human Rights Campaign Rejects Weapons Company Sponsorships After Pressure Around Israel Genocide
LGBTQ+ group Human Rights Campaign ended sponsorships from arms firms Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, who profit off of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
theintercept.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"
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We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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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...
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
www.assignedmedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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...
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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this sh*t is insane
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)
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
this sh*t is insane
Tig and Fortune calling each other "girl" on Handsome is absolutely killing me
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Tig and Fortune calling each other "girl" on Handsome is absolutely killing me
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No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
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From the outside it might look like ICE officers wear masks to avoid accountability, but in reality they are a way to avoid accountability.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
From the outside it might look like ICE officers wear masks to avoid accountability, but in reality they are a way to avoid accountability.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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things take time to percolate but truly the weirdest shit keeps percolating and resonating. I interviewed a super normie at no kings last time and he had a sign joking about being antifa and the number one thing he was mad about off the top of his head was venezuelan boat strikes
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
things take time to percolate but truly the weirdest shit keeps percolating and resonating. I interviewed a super normie at no kings last time and he had a sign joking about being antifa and the number one thing he was mad about off the top of his head was venezuelan boat strikes
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I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery
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I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events
same
kind of fascinated by this woman who calls megachurches pretending to have a starving baby and asking them for baby formula www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Woman goes viral for shaming Lakewood Church after asking for baby formula
"He didn't get a mega mansion & multiple high end sports cars by doing the Lord's work!"
www.chron.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
same
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If you are in politics, you should help people even if you get NO CREDIT FOR IT. OK? Stop being fucking ghoulish.
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you are in politics, you should help people even if you get NO CREDIT FOR IT. OK? Stop being fucking ghoulish.
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I will also be masking at the conference I'm going to. But it bewilders me why more people would risk their work/vacation plans being interrupted.
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I will also be masking at the conference I'm going to. But it bewilders me why more people would risk their work/vacation plans being interrupted.
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I'm in a minority of maskers at the airport right now. And I'm glad I'm wearing one because getting Covid would interrupt my plans.
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I'm in a minority of maskers at the airport right now. And I'm glad I'm wearing one because getting Covid would interrupt my plans.
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Decades ago, in a deep recession, library hours here were slashed to four days a week. My cohort still remembers the miserable fallout, which lasted a couple of years. Free, public libraries are one of the most vital parts of democracy, which still functions pretty damn well in libraries!
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Decades ago, in a deep recession, library hours here were slashed to four days a week. My cohort still remembers the miserable fallout, which lasted a couple of years. Free, public libraries are one of the most vital parts of democracy, which still functions pretty damn well in libraries!
deepest of yawns. who could have ever predicted ...
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
deepest of yawns. who could have ever predicted ...
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"I faced adversity growing up and that is how I became a vapid ladder-climber"
I don’t think any of us are fully prepared for the level of self-pity and absolution that’s going to be in Olivia Nuzzi’s (hilariously titled) “American Canto”
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"I faced adversity growing up and that is how I became a vapid ladder-climber"
Love to hear this! And yes, libraries are important, as is local support of them ...
Local voters here just passed a new library levy ❤️ because libraries will get you through times with no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Love to hear this! And yes, libraries are important, as is local support of them ...
I'm often contemplating a full Twin Peaks rewatch yet again versus all other options, figure ...
I'm a Twin Peaks guy ... But I did watch Northern Exposure way back when ...
Northern Exposure
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'm often contemplating a full Twin Peaks rewatch yet again versus all other options, figure ...
The show I'm like many very addicted to and just may rewatch all the way through is Severance, speaking of ...
Yup, there's a show version on AppleTV. About a robot in a corporate dystopia that becomes sentient and just wants to watch soap operas (... and maybe ends up finding some anti-corporate friends along the way). Pos queer rep. Quick episodes. Bingeable.
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The show I'm like many very addicted to and just may rewatch all the way through is Severance, speaking of ...
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I got to talk to @akilahhughes.com alongside amazing people like @profgabriele.com and Heather Weaver of the ACLU about Christian authoritarianism and the plot to force it on this country. Check it out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
The Plot to Force Evangelical Christianity on Everyone
Podcast Episode · How Is This Better? · 11/07/2025 · 30m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I got to talk to @akilahhughes.com alongside amazing people like @profgabriele.com and Heather Weaver of the ACLU about Christian authoritarianism and the plot to force it on this country. Check it out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...