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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry but 'let's get Dan Brown in here' is better than any joke I could make about Weiss booking guests

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 5h

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call.

Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre.

On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5h

a lot of political “scandal” coverage is just the media making a decision about whether public opinion needs a corrective

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5h

this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 5h

Democrats would have to be idiots to nominate him, just based on numbers, anyways. He's deeply unpopular, even in his home state, not from a swing state, and drastically underperformed Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

I will never vote for Newsom even if he's the nominee.

Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 21h

gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 5h

Another reminder that I will never vote for Gavin Newsom. I don't care if the alternative is four more years of Trump - I'd rather y'all suffer with me than only me and the people I care about suffer.

Sobekhotep 🐊 @sobekhotep97.bsky.social · 11h

www.erininthemorning.com/p/gavin-news...

Gavin Newsom pressured behind the scenes to kill pro-LGBTQ+ bills, state lawmakers say

The bombshell revelation from Politico is part of a disturbing trend among some Democrats.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sobekhotep 🐊 @sobekhotep97.bsky.social · 11h

www.erininthemorning.com/p/gavin-news...

Gavin Newsom pressured behind the scenes to kill pro-LGBTQ+ bills, state lawmakers say

The bombshell revelation from Politico is part of a disturbing trend among some Democrats.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

This is appalling and if Xbox doesn’t do something about it then they’re on the line for this marketing too

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 11h

call them whatever you like, the reality is 'smart glasses' are surveillance devices designed by tech companies to violate consent and rewrite social norms. social shaming is still a more effective a deterrent than the law. @hypervisible.blacksky.app

www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...

“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible,” said Gilliard. “Their very existence is toxic to the social fabric."

It’s still up in the air whether Meta’s gamble on glasses will pay off. Beyond their horrifying privacy implications, wearable AI-powered devices like Bee and Friend so far have proven more obnoxious than useful, and it’s unclear whether people who buy them will even want to use them. But one thing many privacy experts agree on is that even if we can’t change the law, we can change peoples’ attitudes around consent.

“One way to think about it is protecting your community and the people you care about,” said Gilliard.
“When you’re wearing these glasses, when you use your video
doorbell, when you record everyone’s conversations, you’re not just surveilling yourself. And there’s no consistent and foolproof way to guarantee that information won’t be used against people you care about — to hurt trans and queer people, or hurt immigrant communities. I wish people would think about it in those terms instead of ‘did my package get delivered.’”

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 8h

When Leelah Alcorn committed suicide after her parents removed her from school and sent her to Christian conversion therapy after she came out as trans, it was a national story, was talked about by Obama, and spurred a ban on conversion therapy. Would it get that level of attention today?

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

it’s absolutely ridiculous that not a single national media outlet has picked this story up yet except for “lgbtq+ news” and fox! it’s been 12 hours!

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes

a day in an american life

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

I finally blew up about this paper in an online discussion post and the professor has asked me if we should remove it. If anybody has some actually good anthropology papers on gender in non-Western countries that I can recommend I feel like I can make some real change happen here.

Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 19d

I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists

Muxes identify with lo femenino or
what is feminine and many dress in traditional female attire, but they are not gen-
erally seeking to be transgender, or to be accepted as women.

The gay men I interviewed were even more emphatic and quick to differentiate
themselves from muxes. Mario, an articulate twenty-four-year-old gay man, for
example, said that
For me a muxe is a man who identifies as a woman and likes to dress like a woman. I
am not muxe. I am gay because I have never wanted to dress like a woman or to be one.
They work in female trades. I know I am a man.

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 9h

The meta-progression in Against the Storm is really annoying, yeah, lmao

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 9h

Nudity absolutely kills people when you hit higher difficulties and the much nastier hostility modifiers show up (there's ones for any given general category of need that kills villagers which have it unfulfilled)

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 9h

Trans issues is the obvious case here, where the only people who actually care are either trans people and their families (who Democrats risk alienating) or dyed-in-the-wool reactionaries who would die before voting for a Democrat, so obviously the most strategic stance is trans rights maximalism

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

I think a major thing in our culture that changed is a bunch of Dem elites also now believe false things too because they're cooking their brains on Twitter, a fascist controlled brainwashing machine, all day.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14h

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 9h

I like harpies mostly because their firekeeper bonus is god-tier and their needs are pretty easy to fulfill while fulfilling other species' needs

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 9h

If anything would revolutionize issue polling, it's actually asking respondents "...and how much do you care?" after their opinion on each issue

Because issue salience is not only not equal, it's not evenly distributed across different perspectives either! Weight the goddamn responses by salience!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.

www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself

Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...

www.thedissident.news

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 9h

I don't think anything is more reassuring of one's own moral righteousness than the scientific certainty that if one's opponents get their way, it won't just be bad - it will be the end of human civilization.

Reactionaries are not just people we disagree with - they are *enemies of the human race.*

Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 10h

There's a particular irony in pundits insisting Democrats should focus on "kitchen table issues" instead of climate change

As if there will still be anything to put on that kitchen table if climate change goes unchecked

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10h

This gets at the core problem the Democrats have right now: Consultants keep telling them to focus on ‘kitchen table issues’ but they don’t have an inspiring kitchen table agenda! ‘Expanding drug price negotiation’ is technocratic and taxing the wealthy is something they refuse to deliver on.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 10h

Okay, let's get into the text...

Here are their bullet point recommendations: Talk about the economy! Don't talk about immigrants or climate or "social issues!" Criticize the ultra-wealthy, but in a very-not-socialist sort of way!

This is... just popularism? Didn't we already do this?

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 10h

I suppose there's a grim sort of solace to be found in the fact that if these people get their way, it won't just be trans people who die - it'll be *everyone*

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 10h

There's a particular irony in pundits insisting Democrats should focus on "kitchen table issues" instead of climate change

As if there will still be anything to put on that kitchen table if climate change goes unchecked

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 10h

That said even if these numbers bear out you'd merely expect Zohran to win by less than the polls predicted, not actually lose

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 10h

If Zohran actually loses this there is no hope for this country lmao

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV

Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge

The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.

gothamist.com

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Robot Girl (Warranty Void) @queererthing.bsky.social · 17h

yea we need to have real talks about how the current strain of misogyny is actually a very different, much worse, strain than the 'baseline'. The incel/conspiracy elements turn women, as a bloc, into ~the enemy~ so much more than the 'classic' misogyny did turning us into property and shit.

[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 1d

No, this is real. A very common strain of thought in the 'new misogyny' is that women are hastening the Great White Replacement Theory through adopting liberal/left leaning politics, such as welcoming in refugees.

Désirée <- bottomphobic @desireemepls.bsky.social · 1d

New misogyny does mass shootings because women as a category have wronged you the white man. I think inceldom is repugnant even to misogynists. Sorry for rambling but I think that genuinely explains it

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