Doing my semiannual bluesky visit to yell about how known piece of shit Scott Yenor is outing the anti-trans movement as being fundamentally about rolling back women's rights, in addition to targeting trans people. (1/3)

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3w ago

After targeting trans sports under Title IX for the past 4 years, the Heritage Foundation is now turning to destroying it for all women. It wants to replace women's varsity sports with yoga and "protect women's fertility" by ending many athletic opportunities. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This is lawful extremism. Unlike the Florida example @bdaviess.bsky.social and I wrote about in December 2024, there's no effort to hide what they're doing anymore.

🌒💀 evelynn 💀🌘@ladyartaud.bsky.social · 3mo ago

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

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!

J.M. Berger@jmberger.com · 6mo ago

Lawful extremism breaks containment w/ @oyousef.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/02/16/n...

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. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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

Some Oregon cities, but not all, are turning off plate-scanning cameras over ICE fears

Eugene, Woodburn and Springfield have paused their use of Flock automatic license plate readers.

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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....

Alice Miranda Ollstein@alicemiranda.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A decades-old problem (underrepresentation of all women, but especially pregnant women, in medical research) is getting worse. Post-Dobbs, “fear of liability is a regularly cited obstacle” to enrolling pregnant women in medical studies, according to a 2024 @nationalacademies.org report.

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

The Daily Show@thedailyshow.com · 10mo ago

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 10mo ago

While President Trump's recent executive order purporting to designate “Antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization likely will not survive legal challenges, Thomas E. Brzozowski writes that it could still have a far-reaching chilling effect. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-...

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.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

President Trump wants to make it easier to forcibly hospitalize people experiencing homelessness for longer periods of time. The executive order says shifting those with mental illness and addiction into long-term institutions will restore public order.

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 "misinformation" in question here is that gender-affirming care reduces suicides among youth. It merely reduces depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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

Accelerationism Research Consortium@arcglobal.bsky.social · last yr.

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. beautymatter.com/articles/big...

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:

What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About SCOTUS’s Transgender Ruling

The Skrmetti decision to uphold a state ban on gender-affirming care for minors was not as sweeping as it seems—nor is the trans rights movement to blame for it.

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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. beautymatter.com/articles/big...

From “Clean Beauty” to Extremism: Sunscreen Truthers and Their Conspiracy Theories

The rise of “sunscreen truthers” on social and extremist platforms is fueling dangerous conspiracy theories rooted in chemophobia, pseudoscience, and antisemitism. This deep dive unpacks how clean bea...

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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. beautymatter.com/articles/big...

From “Clean Beauty” to Extremism: Sunscreen Truthers and Their Conspiracy Theories

The rise of “sunscreen truthers” on social and extremist platforms is fueling dangerous conspiracy theories rooted in chemophobia, pseudoscience, and antisemitism. This deep dive unpacks how clean bea...

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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.”

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Most attendees of a MAGA summit for women in Dallas had come not so much for advice on how to lead, but how to live. They got clear marching orders. “Less Prozac, more protein,” said Alex Clark, a wellness influencer who headlined the weekend.

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

Miriam IRL@miriam.blacksky.app · last yr.

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

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.

Jacob Oller@jacoboller.bsky.social · last yr.

Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...

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.

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

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.

Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨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...

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...

As ‘lone actor’ attacks rise, Trump cuts program aimed at spotting them

A DHS program that funds efforts to spot and report potential domestic terrorists is being shuttered by the Trump Administration, as attacks spike.

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For so long, people thought that requiring logic, accountability, and proof were so inevitable, they needed "disruption." Now, we're going to relearn how fragile architectures for realizing any intention bigger than (or averse to) short-term capital and political power grabs really are.

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · last yr.

The US government’s interest in collaboration to advance AI safety is over, writes Serena Oduro. Years of research aimed at addressing well-documented AI harms are being cast to the wayside as innovation is being framed as the only concept that matters.