14. That isn't to say that something like this won’t ever happen, but claiming that it is indeed happening now is extremely dangerous. Not only does it cause unnecessary panic in an already vulnerable community, but it also distracts from the issues that trans Americans are actually experiencing.

1. Recent reporting has sparked fears that the Trump admin is beginning to revoke trans people's passports by declaring us 'national security risks.' But is it true? As per Transitics' investigation, no. There is no evidence to suggest that trans people’s passports are being revoked. Here's why.

Fact Check: Is The Trump Administration Revoking Trans People’s Passports By Declaring Them ‘National Security Risks’?

Although recent reporting has sparked fears that the Trump administration could be beginning to revoke trans people's passports, these claims appear largely unsubstantiated.

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Hey #MAPOLI, @assignedmedia.org's reporting on trans issues is super-relevant and Evan's newsletter is well worth the subscription.

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 2h ago

Reckon I'll write the newsletter this week on how the fight over trans rights between Senator Ed Markey and primary challenger Seth Moulton has come to symbolize the fight between Democratic politicians who stand on principle and those who will say anything to get elected.

Reckon I'll write the newsletter this week on how the fight over trans rights between Senator Ed Markey and primary challenger Seth Moulton has come to symbolize the fight between Democratic politicians who stand on principle and those who will say anything to get elected.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 5h ago

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Fascinating for WSJ to have this headline which implicitly suggests business leaders may have had too much influence in the past.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 15h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

If you become a member of Assigned Media you get a Thursday members-only essay written by me every single week. This week I'm writing about... um... well... kinda trying to figure that out still. Any suggestions?

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 5h ago

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REMEMBER The guidance coming into effect today doesn't dictate what you're allowed to do as an individual. It for service providers and business owners. Do not cower in fear, do not reduce yourself, do not isolate, that is one of the intended effects.

Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

www.thenational.scot/news/2641894... This is great and all, but the police already ignore it when Nazis turn up with Combat 18 flags and combat 18 has been banned since they went on a bombing spree in Muslim Jewish and Gay areas in London.

Petition launches to make Nazi salutes criminal offence in UK

A PETITION has been launched to make the performance of Nazi salutes a criminal offence in the UK ...

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dumb journalist question, how do you get comfortable just going up to people in person and talking to them for a story

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

July's Know Means Know session with Rebecca Kling, Principal and co-founder of Better World Collaborative, is going to be all about organizing for trans rights. Grab your spot here: buff.ly/YG4y8Zq

But when people clearly express that they both want higher quality goods with price certainty and decent conditions of production and will buy cheaper items individually: suddenly collective action problems don't exist! Solve problems with your individual consumption or STFU!

OMG. So good. Would watch. Even despite the inexplicable absence of scenes of sexual discovery. bsky.app/profile/evan...

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · last wk.

I appreciated a lot of Nolan's epic blockbuster retelling the Cass story from the perspective of Jolyon Maugham of the Good Law Project, and making Rowling a snake woman in the tradition of @midnightpals.bsky.social was a lot of fun, but I can't say I loved the credulous portrayal of Keira Bell.

(OOC: in 1798, Olaudah Equiano released his memoir to the British public. The depiction of slavery from the perspective of a freed slave appalled the public, and swelled the abolitionist cause. Cis folk won't tell the whole truth about us because they don't know it. Support trans journalists)

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · yesterday

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David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.

"This presents a problem for the right: If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them." defector.com/the-right-ha...

The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN p...

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I wrote an article that made this point. Jesse Signal got so mad, he created a bizarre fantasy version of me and declared me incompetent entirely based on his own imagination. All because I made the same point as Kevin Kruse.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.

If all the people who dragged me for subscribing to the NYT would go subscribe to Assigned Media, Evan would be all set

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · yesterday

I have to really hustle for memberships through the end of this year because I took a big risk in changing platforms away from Squarespace. The effort is chugging along so far, but we're not out of the woods. I made the change to assure Assigned's long term viability, but in the short term eeeeek!

"The Gaza protests demonstrated how resistant people are to seeing very obvious genocides when those genocides are politically inconvenient, target people that are seen as lacking moral stature, or are perpetrated by people with whom we identify." www.everythingishorrible.net/p/genocides-...

Genocides Are Not Uncommon

It is politically convenient to treat them as rare.

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Unspeakable atrocity. I regret every coin I shoved into those damned blue boxes. #IYKYK

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2d ago

A heinous act. Israel burns 1,200,000 square meters of olive groves in the mixed Shiite-Christian village of Yaroun. www.lorientlejour.com/article/1543...

I have to really hustle for memberships through the end of this year because I took a big risk in changing platforms away from Squarespace. The effort is chugging along so far, but we're not out of the woods. I made the change to assure Assigned's long term viability, but in the short term eeeeek!

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · yesterday

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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." Happy birthday, James Baldwin!

ICE has killed another person.

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

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I was around in the 70s and 80s, when we assumed legal gay marriage would NEVER happen. And we won. We won the culture on this, too. You can FIGHT BACK on fucking "wedge issues" and win for all of is that Tom would like to abandon.

In his debate last night with Ed Markey, Seth Moulton said, "To the trans community feeling the weight and the pain of the Trump administration policies, I deeply recognize your trauma, and I’m sorry if my comments hurt you." But he didn't actually apologize for his 2025 comments. 1/🧵

the best HS teams in the country have multiple guys who will be in the NBA in a couple of years. they aren't normal high schools, they're basketball factories. but this literally doesn't matter. the value of women's sports isn't contingent on their performance vis a vis men.

Bobson Dugnutt@shampeon.shampeons.com · 2d ago

Don't just drive past the premise, though, which is absurd. Any WNBA team is exclusively the top 0.01% athletes in the sport. Pretending that a high school team could hang with, much less beat, them is ridiculous.

It is extremely depressing to see how Iran's government has a shrewd understanding of America's interests and culture while the entirety of America's government thinks they are dealing with primitive sand people who will cower in fear from mean tweets and trade everything for shiny trinkets.

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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