This is what happened 5-10 years ago in the UK. Journalistic seriousness was stripped from trans journalists and columnists despite trans topics dominating headlines.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2h ago

I pitched both of my usual outlets about the Cunningham stuff, one said yes, one said not right now. In 2019 I would have had a dozen editors competing for my words on this.

The consequences were predictably disastrous for the trans community in terms of stripping us of a voice at a time when we were subject to a reality distorting foghorn of lies about us

The pervasiveness of the term “biological male” is proof that the style guides are determined by a certain type of staffer and it ain’t one that knows what my hormone panels look like

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 22h ago

Did we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?

I need more ppl to be scared. As I've been bitching, I just lost my job & being replaced w/Ai. That's not the scary part. My job incl handling sensitive, private, medical info plus all your personal info up to SSN. It's all being fed to Ai & Ai is not covered under HIPAA. It's really fucking scary.

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

erininthemorning.com

If you're trans and you have the means and opportunity to safely leave the US, you probably should. The best time to get out is likely yesterday.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2h ago

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

I don't say this lightly, but if you correctly recognize the anti-trans pogroms and propaganda as the attempted genocide they are, the appropriate response throughout all of history has been to leave before you no longer can.

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

This is diabolical. Imagine demanding funding to persecute anyone you think might not be a woman in a rape crisis centre rather than decry the abysmal lack of rape crisis funding. They keep talking about services they have no idea how they are run or what those running them want.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 11h ago

Absolute state of Falkner and Reindorf in the Times today

[CN: suicide mentions] The history of this stuff is not a secret, it's quite easy to find and it is fuck all to do with leftism or wokeness or whatever the fuck. The right is just apoplectically furious every time they're asked to care about other people. www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/caro...

Two years on from Caroline Flack's tragic death, #BeKind is trending again... but are we actually any kinder?

“Creating a kindness culture isn't easy.”

glamourmagazine.co.uk

Imagine having one of your primary enemies being the concept of being kind like some c-tier Care Bears villain.

There's something diminishing about living in a world where men's abuse is so ubiquitous and unimpeded, and still women are chided for not thinking enough of men's woes, men's harms, men's feelings. We're constantly asked why we don't tolerate our endless violation with more dignity.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h ago

It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.

Just one more oped about the mape loneliness crisis, one more oped will fix it.

Talia "Pre-Order CALL ME KIMBERLY" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 4h ago

There's something diminishing about living in a world where men's abuse is so ubiquitous and unimpeded, and still women are chided for not thinking enough of men's woes, men's harms, men's feelings. We're constantly asked why we don't tolerate our endless violation with more dignity.

Also seems to me you don’t spend $30m to defeat a candidate you think *can’t* win a general election.

The topline from Abdul El-Sayed’s win is that his platform for change still managed to win despite grotesque levels of outside campaign spending and a racist smear campaign to paint him as un-American. The grassroots desire to upset the status quo is that powerful.

Well look at that, it's every single "former Republican" who Democrats and centrists have been championing for "breaking with Trump", announcing they're recreating the American Nazi Party just like everyone with a brain knew they would

Talia gets it. Anyone who denies the existence and validity of women’s rage—or who suggests that rage is somehow “unfeminine”—is doing the work of patriarchy, and deserves to be humiliated as the quisling they are. This is one of the central themes of my sword-and-sorcery stories.

Talia "Pre-Order CALL ME KIMBERLY" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 4h ago

"This story is about Female Rage, where a woman gets angry over being horribly mistreated and abused, but eventually learns to forgive and move on and be a nurturing kind soul instead of vengeful, which would be masculine and unbecoming---" Shut up. Let women rip out their abuser's spines.

To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h ago

Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.

can you guys retire "the right wing / chuds don't know what to do with trans men and forget they exist and will be So Confused by them!!!!" already. they are fully aware trans men exist and the thing they do to trans men is violently abuse and murder them

Everyone is so fucking stupid about gender despite being intimately impacted by its everyday violences

👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 3h ago

"aha ... our trap card ... showing off this fully transitioned trans guy! checkmate conservatives" you people are so utterly useless it's no wonder that fascism is ascendant everywhere i'm sorry what else can i say

Any anxiety or stress you're having about climate change now demonstrably being on a societal collapse pathway should be sharing this. We all have to become protestors actively doing everything we can to transform the world and buy more time. Every war ended and pipeline shut down is less carbon

Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

They want a world built for rapists, a private game reserve full of hobbled and declawed victims.

Arguably there isn't really anything else going on in their minds. Just the thrill of libidinal violence.

We have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.

How the Code of Practice gets the law wrong | Good Law Project

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why

goodlaw.social

buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

i think it's incredibly sad if you "can't get through a work day without it". why did you ruin your brain on purpose?

I read the whole newsletter; the author invokes Wild West imagery later in this fatuous screed. Relevant that data colonialism includes proposed expansions of AI data centres onto Indigenous lands / sacred sites, bastardization of our knowledges, infringement on data sovereignty & ICE surveillance.

Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · 16h ago

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

british people legally can't talk about their culture of elite pedophilia because they don't have freedom of speech. that's not a right they have. and what speech her undying majesty does permit is subject to prior approval by jo terf.

Jose@jum.bsky.social · 21h ago

Americans really don’t get to be talking like this anymore