Aviva Stahl
@stahlidarity.bsky.social
Award-winning investigative journalist covering health and power + RN. She/her. https://stahlidarity.com/
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Two and a half years after the NYT explicitly attempted to add trans reporters to the paper, the efforts never resulted in a hire.
"This leaves an open question: Why?" writes the former NYT editor tapped to recruit.
@assignedmedia.org www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
"This leaves an open question: Why?" writes the former NYT editor tapped to recruit.
@assignedmedia.org www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Bias at NYT: Trans Former Employee Speaks Out — Assigned
Billie Sweeney is a trans journalist who was an editor for the New York Times until last year. Here, she recalls her losing battle for the soul of the paper of record.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Two and a half years after the NYT explicitly attempted to add trans reporters to the paper, the efforts never resulted in a hire.
"This leaves an open question: Why?" writes the former NYT editor tapped to recruit.
@assignedmedia.org www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
"This leaves an open question: Why?" writes the former NYT editor tapped to recruit.
@assignedmedia.org www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
lol!
"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
lol!
Omg
These are screenshots from the ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE PAGE on the timeline of the East Wing. You may not believe what you re seeing. Go and check for yourself. This...I don't even know what to say about this.
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Omg
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They turned trolling into a leadership style. Their supporters think it's fine because they have no integrity either.
These are screenshots from the ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE PAGE on the timeline of the East Wing. You may not believe what you re seeing. Go and check for yourself. This...I don't even know what to say about this.
October 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
They turned trolling into a leadership style. Their supporters think it's fine because they have no integrity either.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Very sad to see NBC Out go down. I know journalists who have worked there and it was home to some of the best in depth reporting on LGBTQ+ issues out there from a legacy media outlet.
Legacy media continues to abandon us, and it seems only we can tell our own stories these days.
Legacy media continues to abandon us, and it seems only we can tell our own stories these days.
Breaking: NBC fires teams of journalists focused on marginalized communities, axing NBC Out & NBC BLK staff
NBC News has fired journalists who reported on Black, Latino, Asian and LGBTQ+ communities.
www.advocate.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Very sad to see NBC Out go down. I know journalists who have worked there and it was home to some of the best in depth reporting on LGBTQ+ issues out there from a legacy media outlet.
Legacy media continues to abandon us, and it seems only we can tell our own stories these days.
Legacy media continues to abandon us, and it seems only we can tell our own stories these days.
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NEW! After the initial introduction of intimacy coordinators to film & TV productions following #MeToo, the industry seems to have soured on the position. Do intimacy coordinators stifle creativity? Do they keep actors safe? Erica W Smith investigates:
Eight Years After #MeToo, the Intimacy Coordinator Backlash Has Arrived
Intimacy coordinators were supposed to make sets safer. Instead, they've become a flashpoint.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
October 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
NEW! After the initial introduction of intimacy coordinators to film & TV productions following #MeToo, the industry seems to have soured on the position. Do intimacy coordinators stifle creativity? Do they keep actors safe? Erica W Smith investigates:
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Every single piece of research demonstrates that this is dangerously medically wrong. We’ve never had any reason to believe otherwise, medicine has always known this.
In terms even the NHS can understand: people at highest risk of breast cancer all have one thing in common and it isn’t a uterus.
In terms even the NHS can understand: people at highest risk of breast cancer all have one thing in common and it isn’t a uterus.
Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.
My records have been altered, which is upsetting.
My records have been altered, which is upsetting.
October 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Every single piece of research demonstrates that this is dangerously medically wrong. We’ve never had any reason to believe otherwise, medicine has always known this.
In terms even the NHS can understand: people at highest risk of breast cancer all have one thing in common and it isn’t a uterus.
In terms even the NHS can understand: people at highest risk of breast cancer all have one thing in common and it isn’t a uterus.
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hey friends — if you haven't seen, The Verge is running a series on the future of being trans on the internet. it's got a bunch of very cool stories from talented writers! you should check it out www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
The future of being trans on the internet
The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
hey friends — if you haven't seen, The Verge is running a series on the future of being trans on the internet. it's got a bunch of very cool stories from talented writers! you should check it out www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
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My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
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Remember COINTELPRO? Or the FBI infiltration of AIM?
The ex-director of Richard Nixon's presidential library says that Trump's vows to investigate leftist organizations + a Republican-controlled Congress + a cabinet of loyalists make Trump more dangerous than Nixon
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The ex-director of Richard Nixon's presidential library says that Trump's vows to investigate leftist organizations + a Republican-controlled Congress + a cabinet of loyalists make Trump more dangerous than Nixon
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Remember COINTELPRO? Or the FBI infiltration of AIM?
The ex-director of Richard Nixon's presidential library says that Trump's vows to investigate leftist organizations + a Republican-controlled Congress + a cabinet of loyalists make Trump more dangerous than Nixon
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The ex-director of Richard Nixon's presidential library says that Trump's vows to investigate leftist organizations + a Republican-controlled Congress + a cabinet of loyalists make Trump more dangerous than Nixon
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.
Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.
Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.
17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner
A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.
www.thepinknews.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.
Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.
Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.
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Their reckless disregard for scientific expertise on topics like COVID 19's origins and trans healthcare was a key enabler that allowed this moment to happen.
October 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Their reckless disregard for scientific expertise on topics like COVID 19's origins and trans healthcare was a key enabler that allowed this moment to happen.
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Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.
Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip
Turns out the cop was also an abuser
jessica.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.
100% The way this story was reported was... irresponsible and reprehensible.
There's plenty of complexity to the story of Ian Roberts, the Black Iowa superintendent arrested by ICE.
But the way the @nytimes.com chose to frame this article is racist and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
But the way the @nytimes.com chose to frame this article is racist and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
100% The way this story was reported was... irresponsible and reprehensible.
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There's plenty of complexity to the story of Ian Roberts, the Black Iowa superintendent arrested by ICE.
But the way the @nytimes.com chose to frame this article is racist and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
But the way the @nytimes.com chose to frame this article is racist and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
There's plenty of complexity to the story of Ian Roberts, the Black Iowa superintendent arrested by ICE.
But the way the @nytimes.com chose to frame this article is racist and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
But the way the @nytimes.com chose to frame this article is racist and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
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Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.
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To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children.
That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.
slate.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children.
That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
lol
October 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
lol
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Christopher Caldwell wrote this. He’s affiliated with the far-right (and pro-Israel) Claremont Institute.
Hard to compete with this.
October 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The two most cynical people I've ever known are both in the news today. One of them, you've no doubt heard, is taking over CBS News. The other is this guy:
C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The two most cynical people I've ever known are both in the news today. One of them, you've no doubt heard, is taking over CBS News. The other is this guy:
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NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.
Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"
Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"
Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say
Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.
Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"
Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"
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Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:
"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law
“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”
www.teenvogue.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:
"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
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From the people who brought you a fake case in 303 Creative and still got the justices to bulldoze protections for queer people………
I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.
slate.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
From the people who brought you a fake case in 303 Creative and still got the justices to bulldoze protections for queer people………