Billie Jean Sweeney
@billiejsweeney.bsky.social
Journalist, advocate, trans woman. Proud ex-Committee to Protect Journalists, Associated Press, Hartford Courant. Oh proud state school grad too (Go UConn!) Hmm did I work somewhere else 🤔. She/her. billiesweeney.com
The nyt role in promoting racism deserves more attention. They led the torch and pitchfork mob against Claudine Gay. They partnered with a eugenicist for a vacuous Mamdani hit piece… and continue to wage a vendetta against him. They’ve promoted neo-segregation and asked “Did D.E.I. Go Too Far?”
Jeffrey Peters is preparing a story on how Musk’s Nazi salutes are “not so simple” to figure out.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 8h agoAbsolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
Lmao, the propagandist Jesse Singal talking about “breaking” propaganda
If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story."
Republicans are openly cheating across the country in this election cycle because they believe if they win, they won't face any consequences for the cheating and also know from experience that if they lose they also won't face any consequences for the cheating.
I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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Jeffrey Peters is preparing a story on how Musk’s Nazi salutes are “not so simple” to figure out.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 8h agoAbsolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
wrote about Ossoff and El-Sayed calling the Nazis out as Nazis, and how this is a major change from the D party tradition of catering to white identity. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/democrats-...
Democrats Suddenly Are Willing to Call Nazis By Name
Consensus white supremacy is looking wobbly.
everythingishorrible.net
Again: Great reporting. & one more reason to make a trip to MPLS -- the city that fights back.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago"What Metro Surge showed the world is that people do not want to watch their neighbors be brutalized, shot, and torn from their homes, and no amount of Trump posting on Truth Social is ever going to change that"
Hmmmm, wonder why Katie Miller deleted this tweet?
A delusional wannabe autocrat who believes he is an autocrat.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoQ: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.
I saw an early screening of the 4-hour Elon Musk documentary, and he's calling it a "hit piece" because it's a damning compendium of some of his most egregious manipulation and cruelty. My question is whether the Ellisons will spike it before it ever gets to HBO. spitfirenews.com/p/elon-musk-...
What the 4-hour Elon Musk documentary reveals
Plus, a post-screening Q&A with Ashley St. Clair.
spitfirenews.com
“Trump is a coward who is weaponizing his DOJ to fuel hate and intimidate his opponents with baseless attacks like these, just like he’s doing with Rep. McIver, Lisa Cook, and Tish James,” said Pressley, who is also Black. “We stand with you, Congresswoman Omar.”
Congresswoman On Ilhan Omar Home Raid: Trump Is A ‘Coward’ Who Targets Black Women
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BREAKING: Federal judge orders Trump administration to stop DHS's pro-Trump propaganda ads immediately, including ordering the canceling of ads set to run as soon as this evening. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-does-n...
We still don't talk about the way medically transitioning trans boys and transmasc nonbinary kids are the primary focus of the moral panic over trans kids.
The raid on Ilhan Omar's home is not an attempt to sway Minnesotan voters. It's a pretext for her arrest (and deportation) and an attempt to simultaneously exacerbate anti-Somali hatred and allow the Trump regime to refuse seating all Democratic victors.
Does the right of self defense come with an asterisk for trans women? @valorievandieman.bsky.social finds that a concerning implication of a decision in Tennessee to allow a man convicted of murder a new trial because he wasn't allowed to use his victim's gender identity as a defense. More here:
Tennessee Court Allows Trans Panic Defense, Undermining Trans Safety - Assigned Media
Appellate court overturns ruling in the murder of a trans woman, opening the doors for the trans panic defense and further attacks on the safety of trans people.
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I’ve been mulling over this everlasting gobstopper of foolishness for several minutes now like it’s a MAGA koan. It’s just such a perfect example of the self-seriously lunacy of the contemporary right. This guy is a much admired intellectual amongst the activist class of the OR GOP.
“Dehumanizing language is how permission for violence takes hold. When people in power treat a group as not equal, it can send the signal that abusing or even killing members of that group is acceptable. For transgender Americans, this historic precedent is already a reality”
Imara Jones@imarajones.bsky.social · yesterdayIn my latest @ms.now piece,I write about what concerns me as we approach Election Day.”As a Black transgender woman who has spent years investigating America’s anti-trans movement,I am alarmed. Because escalating rhetoric is almost always followed by real world action.” www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
“Dehumanizing language is how permission for violence takes hold. When people in power treat a group as not equal, it can send the signal that abusing or even killing members of that group is acceptable. For transgender Americans, this historic precedent is already a reality”
Imara Jones@imarajones.bsky.social · yesterdayIn my latest @ms.now piece,I write about what concerns me as we approach Election Day.”As a Black transgender woman who has spent years investigating America’s anti-trans movement,I am alarmed. Because escalating rhetoric is almost always followed by real world action.” www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Would there be time to significantly change the rules of the 2030 census following the 2028 presidential election? “No. The time is now,” says danah boyd, an author and expert on the census.
Trump's Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
In our new Q&A, an expert explains how census data shapes politics, and how Trump is trying to skew the count.
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I myself was also a child immigrant, if you imagine I have ever even seen my immigration paperwork you couldnt be more wrong.
Billie Jean Sweeney@billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 13h agoYou can’t get more Gestapo than this…. “a criminal probe into her immigration paperwork, which her late father filled out after the family emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia when she was a child”
Does Polymarket want to set odds on whether Homan will raid Musk’s home?
And apropos of events, this white South African racist skated around immigration law when he began working in the US
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 14h agoElon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.
And apropos of events, this white South African racist skated around immigration law when he began working in the US
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 14h agoElon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.
the muslim hate in this country has become policy, but you don’t get 7,000 think pieces about how that makes american muslims feel.
