Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.
HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.
titsdemeanor
loving the implication here
I know we like to doom post on this site, but as a journalist on these beats, I can’t overstate how GOOD and powerful community activism is rn, especially at halting new and destructive projects like data centers and ICE concentration camps.
No one wants to live next to a hellmouth. There’s hope.
Oh, my bad, Brian Stelter and friends will eat expensive food* while children die in Trump’s concentration camps. Is that better?
One day, we’ll see this era how we see the Holocaust or Japanese internment — with shame at our collective cowardice.
I want to remember being brave. Don’t you?
Now, reporters will come together to joke around with a man found liable for SA. They will normalize his racism, his war, and his disdain for the press.
While @brianstelter.bsky.social and his friends drink expensive wine, children will be dying in Trump’s concentration camps.
Truly spineless.
This kind of event is only “useful” if you’re trying to curry favor with the powerful. WHCD has always been a way for the most privileged people in media & politicians to launder their reputations. Until 1962, only men were allowed to attend.
my pet theory is that every career transphobe has one trans woman they’re weirdly obsessed with
Transphobes are so uniquely and obsessively cruel. Truly hobbyless, joyless people. I’m sorry.
gender swapped Fight Club where Taylor Durden convinces the protagonist to sell soap on Etsy and teach self defense and firearms safety courses at the community center.
tfw the patriarchal bargaining doesn’t pay off
It's great that journalists have learned their lesson(s) and are no longer reporting on such things credulously
it is a rule that every orioles starter must “not have his best stuff and command” every single day. Looking forward to Bradish gutting out 4.2 innings giving up four runs and losing 6-2 (we score the two with one out in the ninth)
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
also literally this. people believe that, if even 1 scammer gets money (and they're often in poverty and have no other way to make cash), then no fundraisers should be shared.
its just a conservative mentality! thats all it is!
jfc that’s a crazy racist pull. truly 5d chess level racism
it’s literally just the palestine version of the racist “welfare queen” myth. the idea that some bad brown person is out there ready to steal your hard-earned money, so actually social services (in this case, mutual aid) are all bad and scams.
I think the widespread resurgence of eugenics among Republicans still remains an under-covered story
Maya Forstator (Founding member of anti-trans charity Sex Matters) responds (on Facebook)to Stonewall's announcement of new chairperson Kezia Dugdale with "congratulations Kezia Dougdale. I hope we can have discussions.
Says it all really.
Everyone needs to read about and understand this threat.
Reminder that most people who didn't vote in 2024 didn't do so out of a desire to "smash Democrats," so maybe it's really stupid to constantly attack people who didn't vote and constantly smear them. Just a thought! www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
This is some of my favorite reporting I’ve done. The concept of detransition is frequently used as a cudgel against trans people, but detrans people aren’t a monolith.
Often, their stories look a lot like ours.
It is important to keep in mind that a lot of the natalist panic in the West is in response to a successful feminist push to reduce the rates of child rape.
(Teenage girls are statistically most often knocked up by adult men. I think the average age is around 23.)
'Marijuana' is the only English word in which the 'j' is silent.
hmm…carabiner status?
Trans journo here who spends way too much time thinking about transphobic tactics. Feel free to DM and chat lol.
wow. this rant is unhinged, and it highlights the most fundamental problem with the two party system we are all stuck under.
the expectation that voters have to earn the respect of the politicians they vote for is a complete inversion of the concept of a democracy.
"It just felt like the floor had fallen out. Like all the support that I thought we had was gone. Maybe this is naive, but I didn't think that would happen in Massachusetts."
there is functionally a conspiracy to gaslight you into believing that, so it's understandable
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
