thread on the New York Times association with Jeffrey Epstein (allegedly etc etc) why does @Kenjennings.bsky.social support such a vicious rightwing publication?

Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️@trans.bsky.social · 8mo ago

David Brooks is now the third alleged Jeffery Epstein associate at the New York Times. This potentially includes A.G. Sulzberger, the current chairman of the NYT board. The NYT published this piece by David Brooks about Epstein less than a month ago. Why did their executive leadership allow this?

"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."

While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 12h ago

The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

This is good news. Among its many horrors the SCREEN Act is an incredibly anti-trans piece of legislation, so it's good to see it fail.

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 13h ago

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

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No cheating, post your lockscreen

team cockroach [hell0ntoast]@hell0ntoast.bsky.social · 2d ago

no cheating post your lockscreen

What can you do? CALL. WRITE. SCREAM. The bill is up for a vote THIS WEDNESDAY. Call your Senator. Dem. Republican. Whomever. Right now, it's a solid R bill, but they're looking for Dems to take it across the finish line. Let them know how badly it stinks. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/

Defend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!

The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5. ACT NOW to stop it!

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Just wrote the sappiest thing and had to delete but let me just say I love my little family and living with them brings me a lot of joy.

Also, I never will accept that wearing a mask was impeding anyone’s ’freedom’. I still mask, esp at work when I’m around hundreds of co-eds (who are always sick). I lecture for hours in a mask. I still live my damn life.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d ago

I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.

Kids on electric scooters shouldn’t be allowed unless they know how to use a fucking sidewalk, almost clotheslined a 10 year old zooming past me at like 20 goddamn mph

“I asked an LLM for advice.” GIRL it does not have a brain! It does not think! Why are you personifying it? It doesn’t give advice, it’s can’t have opinions, it’s not a person!!!

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When I got my first Covid vaccine my coworker drove both of us three hours up to Wilkes-Barre to get it, and listened to the entire Little Earthquakes album, and RATM. It was snowing. It was so surreal but it’s a nice memory. She was awesome too, hope she and her family are okay.

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It is not shocking that those who regarded the mere suggestion that they should stop spending money on the NYT and Potter as a deep personal affront also can't muster resistance to fascism.

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

If you believe this, and I hope you do, there is nothing stopping you from continuing to protect your vulnerable neighbors by wearing masks in crowded and indoor spaces, especially necessary spaces like healthcare facilities, grocery stores, and public transportation. Absolutely nothing.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

ken jennings

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To the cis people slurping up the non-apology from Ken Jennings: You are only revealing how much you are NOT a trans ally.

Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.

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Cancel your NYT subscriptions and put the money towards something that directly supports trans people. Here's one option, if you want to support trans journalists and hard-hitting coverage like the article above:

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 3d ago

i do personally think the very strong reaction to him posting NYT games was, like. clearly overkill. lashing out that hard over something that doesn’t really matter is… strategically iffy. but his response to it was deeply insulting and belittling and not okay

Reminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

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