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.

bingo: the scientific fact is that trans women are *disadvantaged* in womens' sports this necessarily either proves that we're a *more* marginalized kind of woman, OR that the "biological advantage" of maleness is false neither is acceptable to patriarchy, so they just ban us from playing entirely

👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 2d ago

3) whenever trans women play with cis women they are often average, and even the trans women who are #1 in a thing are very close to the records of their cis women peers. if you believe that "sex differences" are why sports are sex segregated then this can either mean:

they don't want trans women to play women's sports bc 1) prohibiting trans women from women's sports (de jure) and men's sports (de facto) is a great way to otherize them as something not part of humanity 2) policing trans women and trans girl athletes is a socially-beloved Sexual Assault Machine

The Prisoner is on the criterion channel ⚪

In other words, NYT is increasingly becoming a gaming and recipe company, with revenue from that business helping subsidize the higher costs of their journalism (which has been weaponized in favor of trans genocide). They depend on liberals not caring enough to boycott them.

It's amazing how when 150,000 racists marched through the streets with Tommy Robinson, all the outlets had breathless live coverage, helicopters out covering the march and reporters on the street. 150,000 trans people and allies march and barely a peep

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

TBH a rule of thumb is that if a protest doesn't cause enough disruption to get noticed it's not a protest so much as a parade. We don't have friendly journalists on retainer at the telegraph so we probably ought to give them something to clutch pearls at.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

The nyt’s demonization of trans ppl has destroyed the lives of countless individuals, most of them young and vulnerable. Let’s see some accountability for that Arthur. The nyt is a dishonest broker.

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Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.

lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2w ago

zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money

isn't Scrooge's origin story... already... one third of A Christmas Carol...?!?!

Every time a trans woman jokes about having her period a new cis person learns that trans women on E do in fact have periods

Melos 🌟🦋@runlikemelos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Me on Tuesday: I am a failure and nothing I try to accomplish is ever going to work out Me yesterday: Oh I was just on my period

I have decades of somatic muscle memory from hitting ALT+0151 on the numpad, and I will surrender the em dash to the chatbots *never*.

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

John Carl Baker@johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.

Always sobering when I'm reminded that people genuinely believe trans women are less impacted by misogyny

Bizarre

When antifeminists are called "women's groups" and the defense of women's rights is replaced with frenzied, libidinal hatred of trans people, who will work to liberate women from patriarchal violence, abuse, and control? Nobody, of course, and that's the point of the "gender critical" movement.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

"Crisis of conscience: how Amnesty International lost its way "By blacklisting women’s groups, the charity has abandoned its founding principles, writes Nicole Lampert" [Telegraph]

“Obama was opposed to gay marriage, give it time, don’t seek perfection on trans issues from Dems.” Yeah, but gay marriage was a new right LGBT people were seeking. Sports, bathrooms, and IDs are something trans people have had for decades. Going BACKWARDS Is the opposite of the Obama comparison.

(and the cherry on top from the new york times yesterday)

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3w ago

hmmmm

matthew always brings the receipts

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 2w ago

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

I said long ago that ICE specifically looks for guys with a history of domestic violence/violence against kids to hire because the administration knows they're asking them to ignore all the laws in the name of hurting and torturing people and that requires a piece of trash to have the stomach for it

Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

Every day this guy does something like this and every day the same people who dress him up as a terrifying commie destroyer of civilization do a dozen things to sabotage the public good, to murder and destroy and hate and kill, and I can't anymore handle those who won't see the clear difference.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

incredible that the UK social media ban specifically carves out chatbot usage for children from the ban, despite its occasional propensity to encourage children to shoot up schools. you can talk to a delusion-inducing chatbot, but not your online friends! shows just how cynically corrupt this is

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waking up like... well, it was horrific out yesterday, but maybe the air today will be at least a little bit better! the air today:

I am nonbinary trans and disabled and I am once again *begging* abled trans people to not regard the attack on trans rights as unique; attacks on disabled people and migrants are in every way part of the same project and all of us need to recognise that and act accordingly in solidarity.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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