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I dunno. He / Him.

It would be a mistake to call the Guardian a left- leaning paper, they are a left-pretending paper... And as a result they (knowingly) do more harm than all the red-tops combined.

A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’

It’s in this context that we’re being asked to believe the press has hounded yet another minor public figure to death for fun, for a laugh, but also in the public interest, and reminded we should be mindful of the vital role they play in our society. I would ask: *for whom* do they play that role?

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It's open season in the press again and that's fine, I guess. But press freedom remains a vital thing and it needs to be defended.

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.

There’s been a lot of traffic to this post about Toby Young that I published almost 6 years ago. It’s almost like there’s a large audience of people who want to read about exactly why he is such a dickhedd. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/ladies-and...

Ladies and gentlemen, he’s floating in disgrace: The secret of Toby Young’s decades long grift

... I’m sure his Free Speech Union won’t complain about this.

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Do you understand what a dereliction of journalistic duty it is, in an article ostensibly about Sophie Cunningham, to get a quote *from the fucking founder of XX-XY Athletics* but not a single quote from a transgender person or organization bsky.app/profile/itsm...

Meghan L. Hall@itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · 2d ago

EXCLUSIVE: "People are like, 'You have a platform. Use it,' and then once you use it, it's like, 'Go back to playing basketball.'” "We can be a great example of how to do both." Sophie Cunningham talks the ongoing WNBA discourse around trans athletes:

On racism in England:there are people who don't get the severity of the problem because they don't *want* to get it. Your explanations will keep colliding with their refusal to have their illusions shattered. Worse, you become their racial safety valve: you are dealing with it so they don't have to.