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the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
February 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone
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been a long time since I've seen such a merciless vivisection nymag.com/intelligence...
Goodbye, Pamela Paul
The contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.
nymag.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
been a long time since I've seen such a merciless vivisection nymag.com/intelligence...
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If only there were a succinct, well-known phrase to summarize this worldview in a way that would be instantly recognizable to billions of people
February 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If only there were a succinct, well-known phrase to summarize this worldview in a way that would be instantly recognizable to billions of people
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This Kara Swisher interview is both revisionist history and empty pablum. Shameful for Ezra Klein and his people to help her launder her reputation as if she wasn't enabling every single one of these guys and literally doing her book tour with them!
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
February 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This Kara Swisher interview is both revisionist history and empty pablum. Shameful for Ezra Klein and his people to help her launder her reputation as if she wasn't enabling every single one of these guys and literally doing her book tour with them!
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
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I don't really have words for this. I'm disappointed. I'm mad. This is cowardice and capitulation before we've even fucking started. I really got nothing.
Just, what the fuck.
Just, what the fuck.
This is such a dumb move on Sarah's part. She's condemning all trans people to horrible fates by not fighting back. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Congresswoman McBride Announces She Will Comply With Rules Declaring Her a Man
The decision comes after Mike Johnson declared that transgender people are not allowed in bathrooms of their gender identity under the provision that he "controls the facilities."
open.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:50 PM
I don't really have words for this. I'm disappointed. I'm mad. This is cowardice and capitulation before we've even fucking started. I really got nothing.
Just, what the fuck.
Just, what the fuck.
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Step 1: Elon takes over Twitter, unbans and amplifies the worst white nationalist posters, methodically turns it into a right wing echo chamber.
Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse.
Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”
Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse.
Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”
November 16, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Step 1: Elon takes over Twitter, unbans and amplifies the worst white nationalist posters, methodically turns it into a right wing echo chamber.
Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse.
Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”
Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse.
Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”
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You're hearing a lot these days that Democrats need to break with neoliberalism by adopting many of the stylistic flourishes and policy positions of Ronald Reagan
November 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM
You're hearing a lot these days that Democrats need to break with neoliberalism by adopting many of the stylistic flourishes and policy positions of Ronald Reagan
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Thomas, do you think the "i have a glock and liz cheney" campaign was somehow an example of a left-populist campaign as opposed to a centrist one?
November 16, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Thomas, do you think the "i have a glock and liz cheney" campaign was somehow an example of a left-populist campaign as opposed to a centrist one?
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everyone knows you’re supposed to make all of your most important announcements at 10pm on a Friday night
September 9, 2023 at 2:31 AM
everyone knows you’re supposed to make all of your most important announcements at 10pm on a Friday night
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I’ve been reading the same take for 30 years with the names changed. It is never written in reverse because it is a product of media dynamics rather than any actual or particular set of facts
August 31, 2023 at 1:05 AM
I’ve been reading the same take for 30 years with the names changed. It is never written in reverse because it is a product of media dynamics rather than any actual or particular set of facts
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BREAKING: Federal judge in Kansas ends 2019 consent judgment that allowed transgender Kansans to change their birth certificate to reflect their gender identity. Kansas AG Kris Kobach sought the change following the state's passage of a law defining "sex" as "biological sex ... at birth."
August 31, 2023 at 8:38 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge in Kansas ends 2019 consent judgment that allowed transgender Kansans to change their birth certificate to reflect their gender identity. Kansas AG Kris Kobach sought the change following the state's passage of a law defining "sex" as "biological sex ... at birth."
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Richard Hanania is still scheduled to speak at Stanford in October (and it seens like the talk info was recently updated) cli.stanford.edu/events/semin...
Guess who's scheduled to give a talk in October, hosted by the same folks who organized the ""academic freedom conference"" that was basically a clown car of academics who have been "canceled" (faced criticism for pseudoscientific claims, being racist to students, etc)
My latest: Hanania is a right-wing star. Fans include JD Vance, Thiel, Musk…HarperCollins to publish his book.
HuffPost found he used a pseudonym to write for white supremacist sites https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817
HuffPost found he used a pseudonym to write for white supremacist sites https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817
August 30, 2023 at 2:59 PM
Richard Hanania is still scheduled to speak at Stanford in October (and it seens like the talk info was recently updated) cli.stanford.edu/events/semin...
I don't even know what Bayesian priors are, but I feel like my gut sense of whom NJR is and what happened at his magazine are basically correct. This is a bizarre read, start to finish. yasminnair.com/march-what-r...
August 31, 2023 at 7:58 PM
I don't even know what Bayesian priors are, but I feel like my gut sense of whom NJR is and what happened at his magazine are basically correct. This is a bizarre read, start to finish. yasminnair.com/march-what-r...
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The right wants to cast itself as "the party of parents." I dug into how conservative policies poll with parents. It's abysmal lmao: momleft.substack.com/p/theyre-not...
They're Not With Us
The right wants to cast itself as the "party of parents." Its vision of parenthood is objectively unpopular.
momleft.substack.com
August 27, 2023 at 11:53 PM
The right wants to cast itself as "the party of parents." I dug into how conservative policies poll with parents. It's abysmal lmao: momleft.substack.com/p/theyre-not...
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A response to Yglesias, Singal, Powell, and Drum, specifically, but, more broadly, a reflection on a scary moment for trans people and the way we should — and should not — respond. Tonight, at Law Dork:
Confronting a pair of dangerous arguments as trans people remain under attack
On protecting transgender people's lives and dignity in the face of this week; Yglesias's "compromise"; and Singal, Powell, & Drum's anti-advocacy cry.
www.lawdork.com
August 26, 2023 at 12:43 AM
A response to Yglesias, Singal, Powell, and Drum, specifically, but, more broadly, a reflection on a scary moment for trans people and the way we should — and should not — respond. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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There’s a special place in hell for people who practice journalism to hurt the vulnerable.
This is important. Please check it out. www.lawdork.com/p/dangerous-...
Confronting a pair of dangerous arguments as trans people remain under attack
On protecting transgender people's lives and dignity in the face of this week; Yglesias's "compromise"; and Singal, Powell, & Drum's anti-advocacy cry.
www.lawdork.com
August 26, 2023 at 12:50 AM
There’s a special place in hell for people who practice journalism to hurt the vulnerable.
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Let’s take ‘em back to 1997.
Rudy Giuliani Was A Creation of The New York Media
This is for every New Yorker who in the 1990s watched our local press launder a racist authoritarian mayor into someone who'd save the city from… the people who live here. He always was who he is no...
foreverwars.ghost.io
August 25, 2023 at 12:03 AM
Let’s take ‘em back to 1997.
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it’s up: www.lawdork.com/p/dangerous-...
ok. i wrote about yglesias, singal, powell, drum, the attack on trans people's existence, "compromise," and bad-faith arguments. subscribe now. it's a doozy: www.lawdork.com
August 25, 2023 at 9:17 PM
it’s up: www.lawdork.com/p/dangerous-...
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this man is dressed like a Semaphore
August 25, 2023 at 9:17 PM
this man is dressed like a Semaphore
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This was after Jan 6 but same idea:
Who are the hypothetical refs of discourse we are offering up our fealty to fairness to in this situation? What good-will redemption credits are we banking right now that will be honored at a later date and by whom?
www.welcometohellworld.com/you-do-not-u...
Who are the hypothetical refs of discourse we are offering up our fealty to fairness to in this situation? What good-will redemption credits are we banking right now that will be honored at a later date and by whom?
www.welcometohellworld.com/you-do-not-u...
August 25, 2023 at 9:35 PM
This was after Jan 6 but same idea:
Who are the hypothetical refs of discourse we are offering up our fealty to fairness to in this situation? What good-will redemption credits are we banking right now that will be honored at a later date and by whom?
www.welcometohellworld.com/you-do-not-u...
Who are the hypothetical refs of discourse we are offering up our fealty to fairness to in this situation? What good-will redemption credits are we banking right now that will be honored at a later date and by whom?
www.welcometohellworld.com/you-do-not-u...
Listening to Ariana Madix's interview with Scheana Shay for the 2nd time today. Because I have a healthy relationship with the television.
August 26, 2023 at 12:35 AM
Listening to Ariana Madix's interview with Scheana Shay for the 2nd time today. Because I have a healthy relationship with the television.
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Essential reading
On protecting transgender people's lives and dignity in the face of this week; Matt Yglesias's "compromise"; and Jesse Singal, Michael Powell, and Kevin Drum's anti-advocacy cry.
Confronting a pair of dangerous arguments as trans people remain under attack
On protecting transgender people's lives and dignity in the face of this week; Yglesias's "compromise"; and Singal, Powell, & Drum's anti-advocacy cry.
www.lawdork.com
August 26, 2023 at 12:17 AM
Essential reading
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All of political media is a dorm-room debate, in fact. Trans issues for sure, but really all issues.
This piece is this bad as everyone says, but Matt is not even the worst offender.
The entire journalism industry has insisted on casting trans rights as some kind of late-night dorm room debate rather than a bog-standard civil rights issue with very clear empirics.
The entire journalism industry has insisted on casting trans rights as some kind of late-night dorm room debate rather than a bog-standard civil rights issue with very clear empirics.
The two kinds of progressives
Moralists vs. pragmatists
www.slowboring.com
August 22, 2023 at 3:32 PM
All of political media is a dorm-room debate, in fact. Trans issues for sure, but really all issues.
loving this moment of the dialectic
August 23, 2023 at 12:55 AM
loving this moment of the dialectic