@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr
I interview historian/sage Susan Stryker for Assigned Media after publication of the third edition of her landmark book, "Transgender History: A Resource for Today's Struggle—and Tomorrow"
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Praising JK Rowling when asked a question on trans rights is akin to praising Anita Bryant when asked a question gay rights. No money to Stonewall. No Stonewall at Pride. They are already experiencing a funding crisis, and this chairwoman appointment should be their last. Traitors.
“His ideas and what he built are so ubiquitous now," a former Infowars employee explains. "It’s been in the White House for two terms. You have all these young people picking up the torch. It’s getting far worse. The damage is done.”
Silicon Valley tech fascists' drive to be done with politics animates everything they do today. Peter Thiel has been daydreaming for decades about an escape from politics. I wrote about it for BadFaithTimes.com.
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Republicans, for their part, have cast the push for a new map as a Democratic power grab. “Richmond liberals want to eliminate competitive elections in Virginia,” says an ad from Virginians for Fair Maps, the main Republican-aligned outside group in Virginia.
A more correct way to write this is: "Republicans, who famously love gerrymandering in every other case, are flooding Democratic and Black voters' phones and mailboxes with ratfucking mailers and texts falsely claiming that Obama, Spanberger, and the DNC are against the ballot measure."
What is "remarkable," @nytnickc.bsky.social, is that it didn't even occur to you to ask, hey, why are there these mid-decade redistrictings happening in the first place? What did Trump say the goal of them were?
Kinda weird isn't it? Kinda weirder than a "Dems are hypocrites!!?!" angle?
NEW: Three rulings in the past week show the scope and breadth of efforts to fight anti-trans attacks.
A Montana Supreme Court decision protecting birth certificates, a ruling on Trump's anti-trans prison policies, and final judgment vacating RFK Jr.'s anti-trans "declaration."
Law Dork:
Huh, bigots endorse bigotry 🤔
Huh, bigots endorse bigotry 🤔
Great article exposing Reform’s Orban funding and also Epstein’s influence 🤮 Fun fact for teachers though, written by Karam Bales who exposed the anti-school safety astroturf group Us For Them who were platformed more that unions and scientists during Covid bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/e...
Handy Guide:
✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course
❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in
This man is the son and namesake of Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., who was a rare racial liberal in 1960s Atlanta. If you've read WHITE FLIGHT, he was one of the leading voices against the Peyton Wall and one of the few legislators to back seating Julian Bond.
Now his son is building a monument to a racist
the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism
Publishing this kind of fascist manifesto will further energize the backlash against tech and AI.
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Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
Yenor’s views, per the Guardian:
“there is an association between homosexuality and pedophilia; that adultery, homosexuality, no-fault divorce, and abortion should be outlawed under a regime of “soft patriarchy”; and that elements of the Civil Rights Act should be wound back”
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This is not a normal organisation promoting a political perspective. It’s an extremist group funded by billionaires
This individual, who loudly promotes misogyny and homophobia, is the chairmen of Heritages’s “American Citizenship Initiative”
He’s the embodiment of extremism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I happen to be watching video of a Heritage event held immediately after Dobbs, and it's amazing their cynical invocation of "protecting women" and "racial justice." Read their words today and see if you find a whiff of either in their vision of a white Christian patriarchy
Speaking of the nyt's journalistic values (or lack thereof)... It's been three years since the nyt took on an in-depth investigation of the Heritage Foundation or deeply examined the group's extremist misogyny.
This document from Heritage is jaw-droppingly anti-women in every respect. 🧵
It's also a deeply racist and homophobic document. These misogynistic attacks land with exponential force on women of color
What has Sulzberger done in the face of this historic assault on women? He commissions a gauzy feature on "biblical patriarchy" that wants to strip women of voting rights
Heritage, a billionaire-funded, white Christian nationalist group, wants to control women's bodies, deny reproductive rights and health care, push us out of the workplace, deny us educational opportunities and strip protections from harassment.
www.heritage.org/marriage-and...
Green Party MP, Hannah Spencer, holding a sign which says: I signed the letter... Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community NION logo NotInOurName.org.uk
A big thank you to Hannah Spencer MP for signing our letter and standing in clear support of the trans+ community.
Like Hannah, many women from across the political spectrum have joined the 101,000+ UK women who have already signed our letter - Women in support of the trans+ community.
Since you’ve shown such interest in my thoughts @nytimespr.bsky.social
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It seems quite ready to do so again as women's rights face an extraordinary extremist assault.
Is the nyt an "independent" outlet as it claims, or is it an arm of the Heritage Foundation?
We know for fact that Trump will follow Heritage's misogynistic playbook to the letter. In his first year in office, Trump adopted every aspect of Heritage's Project 2025, to the grave detriment of Americans' health care and constitutional rights.
The nyt stood by and watched, or enabled
It's also a deeply racist and homophobic document. These misogynistic attacks land with exponential force on women of color
What has Sulzberger done in the face of this historic assault on women? He commissions a gauzy feature on "biblical patriarchy" that wants to strip women of voting rights
Heritage, a billionaire-funded, white Christian nationalist group, wants to control women's bodies, deny reproductive rights and health care, push us out of the workplace, deny us educational opportunities and strip protections from harassment.
www.heritage.org/marriage-and...
Speaking of the nyt's journalistic values (or lack thereof)... It's been three years since the nyt took on an in-depth investigation of the Heritage Foundation or deeply examined the group's extremist misogyny.
This document from Heritage is jaw-droppingly anti-women in every respect. 🧵
I'm pretty sure Kezia comes from a well-intentioned place. And I'm all for good faith engagement with people whose minds have been poisoned against trans people. But this is madness: JK Rowling is a toxic sewer of hate, aligned with fascists, and it's unforgivable for Stonewall to praise her.