Beth Daviess
@bdaviess.bsky.social
Extremism, conspiracy theories, housing. Recovering housing attorney. Currently ARC @arcglobal.bsky.social and CNA
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Beth Daviess
@bdaviess.bsky.social
· Nov 11
“Secure a future for Christian families:” the Gender Ideology and Accelerationism of the Society for American Civic Renewal
www.middlebury.edu
hi folks! Sharing some of my work that is proving increasingly (unfortunately) relevant:
Check out this piece on the ideology driving the Christian nationalist, men's only Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), that has links to Vance and Project 2025: www.middlebury.edu/institute/ct...
Check out this piece on the ideology driving the Christian nationalist, men's only Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), that has links to Vance and Project 2025: www.middlebury.edu/institute/ct...
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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A handful of Oregon towns have turned off a powerful surveillance tool that scans and catalogs license plate data over fears the data will be used to arrest immigrants
Some Oregon cities, but not all, are turning off plate-scanning cameras over ICE fears
Eugene, Woodburn and Springfield have paused their use of Flock automatic license plate readers.
www.oregonlive.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
A handful of Oregon towns have turned off a powerful surveillance tool that scans and catalogs license plate data over fears the data will be used to arrest immigrants
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I spoke w/ Politico about how Dobbs further disrupted and destabilized clinical research with people who are pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant. The lack of data makes it easier to spread misinformation and instill unwarranted fears....
A decades-old problem (underrepresentation of all women, but especially pregnant women, in medical research) is getting worse.
Post-Dobbs, “fear of liability is a regularly cited obstacle” to enrolling pregnant women in medical studies, according to a 2024 @nationalacademies.org report.
Post-Dobbs, “fear of liability is a regularly cited obstacle” to enrolling pregnant women in medical studies, according to a 2024 @nationalacademies.org report.
RFK Jr.’s got advice for pregnant women. There’s limited data to support it.
Women of reproductive age have long been missing from clinical trials. It’s getting worse where abortion is banned.
www.politico.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I spoke w/ Politico about how Dobbs further disrupted and destabilized clinical research with people who are pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant. The lack of data makes it easier to spread misinformation and instill unwarranted fears....
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I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out
I do not have the optimism that this piece articulates, but it is still worth reading and highlights the importance of clear and defendable definitions of terrorism and extremism
While President Trump's recent executive order purporting to designate “Antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization likely will not survive legal challenges, Thomas E. Brzozowski writes that it could still have a far-reaching chilling effect. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-...
You Can’t Designate ‘Antifa.’ Banks and Platforms Will Act Like You Did Anyway.
The White House’s words will change behavior long before any court can.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I do not have the optimism that this piece articulates, but it is still worth reading and highlights the importance of clear and defendable definitions of terrorism and extremism
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If you haven’t called or written your reps lately call and yell at them for this fucking thing. Like today. Right now. So much stuff gets reversed or overturned because people get really fucking annoying on the phone.
President Trump wants to make it easier to forcibly hospitalize people experiencing homelessness for longer periods of time.
The executive order says shifting those with mental illness and addiction into long-term institutions will restore public order.
The executive order says shifting those with mental illness and addiction into long-term institutions will restore public order.
Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people
Trump executive order would increase hospitalization of homeless individuals with mental health and substance use disorders. The order said shifting homeless people into long-term institutional settin...
www.washingtonpost.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If you haven’t called or written your reps lately call and yell at them for this fucking thing. Like today. Right now. So much stuff gets reversed or overturned because people get really fucking annoying on the phone.
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JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms.
This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.
This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.
June 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms.
This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.
This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.
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The "misinformation" in question here is that gender-affirming care reduces suicides among youth. It merely reduces depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
June 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The "misinformation" in question here is that gender-affirming care reduces suicides among youth. It merely reduces depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I was privileged to work with and mentor @bdaviess.bsky.social while at CTEC and am even more privileged to see her excellent work continue to be recognized
Want to know why beliefs that sunscreen is bad for you feed into larger conspiracies and misinformation? This article, featuring expert commentary from ARC Fellow @bdaviess.bsky.social, helps explain.
beautymatter.com/articles/big...
beautymatter.com/articles/big...
From “Clean Beauty” to Extremism: Sunscreen Truthers and Their Conspiracy Theories
The rise of “sunscreen truthers” on social and extremist platforms is fueling dangerous conspiracy theories rooted in chemophobia, pseudoscience, and antisemitism. This deep dive unpacks how clean bea...
beautymatter.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I was privileged to work with and mentor @bdaviess.bsky.social while at CTEC and am even more privileged to see her excellent work continue to be recognized
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It’s telling how the Christian right’s role in getting Skrmetti to SCOTUS is being erased—and by those seemingly desperate to blame trans people for asking for “too much.” So I spoke with legal historian @kredburn.bsky.social and ACLU attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social, who argued the case:
What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About SCOTUS’s Transgender Ruling
The Skrmetti decision to uphold a state ban on gender-affirming care for minors was not as sweeping as it seems—nor is the trans rights movement to blame for it.
newrepublic.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It’s telling how the Christian right’s role in getting Skrmetti to SCOTUS is being erased—and by those seemingly desperate to blame trans people for asking for “too much.” So I spoke with legal historian @kredburn.bsky.social and ACLU attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social, who argued the case:
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Want to know why beliefs that sunscreen is bad for you feed into larger conspiracies and misinformation? This article, featuring expert commentary from ARC Fellow @bdaviess.bsky.social, helps explain.
beautymatter.com/articles/big...
beautymatter.com/articles/big...
From “Clean Beauty” to Extremism: Sunscreen Truthers and Their Conspiracy Theories
The rise of “sunscreen truthers” on social and extremist platforms is fueling dangerous conspiracy theories rooted in chemophobia, pseudoscience, and antisemitism. This deep dive unpacks how clean bea...
beautymatter.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Want to know why beliefs that sunscreen is bad for you feed into larger conspiracies and misinformation? This article, featuring expert commentary from ARC Fellow @bdaviess.bsky.social, helps explain.
beautymatter.com/articles/big...
beautymatter.com/articles/big...
@jannamandell.bsky.social did an incredible job unpacking the complexities of the current state of the anti-sunscreen movement and the conspiracy theories that underpin it.
Glad to have contributed a small part to this piece.
beautymatter.com/articles/big...
Glad to have contributed a small part to this piece.
beautymatter.com/articles/big...
From “Clean Beauty” to Extremism: Sunscreen Truthers and Their Conspiracy Theories
The rise of “sunscreen truthers” on social and extremist platforms is fueling dangerous conspiracy theories rooted in chemophobia, pseudoscience, and antisemitism. This deep dive unpacks how clean bea...
beautymatter.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
@jannamandell.bsky.social did an incredible job unpacking the complexities of the current state of the anti-sunscreen movement and the conspiracy theories that underpin it.
Glad to have contributed a small part to this piece.
beautymatter.com/articles/big...
Glad to have contributed a small part to this piece.
beautymatter.com/articles/big...
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One out of every five articles from a magazine with “New York” in its name now is like “meet the young women with some surprising ideas — such as dropping out of college to have 15 babies, wearing low-cut sundresses, and insisting that sunscreen and vaccines are dangerous.”
Most attendees of a MAGA summit for women in Dallas had come not so much for advice on how to lead, but how to live. They got clear marching orders. “Less Prozac, more protein,” said Alex Clark, a wellness influencer who headlined the weekend.
In Dallas, a MAGA Summit for Young Women Pushes for ‘Less Burnout, More Babies’
The wellness influencer universe is resonating with people who might not otherwise be drawn to politics.
trib.al
June 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One out of every five articles from a magazine with “New York” in its name now is like “meet the young women with some surprising ideas — such as dropping out of college to have 15 babies, wearing low-cut sundresses, and insisting that sunscreen and vaccines are dangerous.”
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Andrew Cuomo, serial sexual harasser and liar, a thread. From the state report on his abuse. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21...
June 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Andrew Cuomo, serial sexual harasser and liar, a thread. From the state report on his abuse. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21...
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I think Skirmetti is awful, and I think it will have horrible impacts.
But I keep seeing people say shit like “well this is what the Dems get for pushing unpopular trans issues” or “give up on this” or shit like this, and I have a historical reminder for you.
But I keep seeing people say shit like “well this is what the Dems get for pushing unpopular trans issues” or “give up on this” or shit like this, and I have a historical reminder for you.
June 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I think Skirmetti is awful, and I think it will have horrible impacts.
But I keep seeing people say shit like “well this is what the Dems get for pushing unpopular trans issues” or “give up on this” or shit like this, and I have a historical reminder for you.
But I keep seeing people say shit like “well this is what the Dems get for pushing unpopular trans issues” or “give up on this” or shit like this, and I have a historical reminder for you.
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The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
June 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
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it cannot simultaneously be true that media outlets like the Times and the Post are the Fourth Estate, playing a vital Democratic function, and also that what occurs on its pages is harmless intellectual inquiry
The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
June 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
it cannot simultaneously be true that media outlets like the Times and the Post are the Fourth Estate, playing a vital Democratic function, and also that what occurs on its pages is harmless intellectual inquiry
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The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...
June 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
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It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...
June 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
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Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people.
These bastards want us all dead.
These bastards want us all dead.
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people.
These bastards want us all dead.
These bastards want us all dead.
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One bad Trump thing is not a distraction from another bad Trump thing. The cacophony of multiple bad Trump things at once is one single thing. It is not possible to get everyone to focus on one part of that chaos, since all the bad parts are bad enough to merit attention, and the chaos is the thing.
January 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One bad Trump thing is not a distraction from another bad Trump thing. The cacophony of multiple bad Trump things at once is one single thing. It is not possible to get everyone to focus on one part of that chaos, since all the bad parts are bad enough to merit attention, and the chaos is the thing.
Make no mistake. This movement does not care about the so-called "ongoing debate among medical experts" regarding treatment of gender dysphoria. It seeks to remove trans people from public life through multiple mechanisms, and SCOTUS just gave it permission.
June 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Make no mistake. This movement does not care about the so-called "ongoing debate among medical experts" regarding treatment of gender dysphoria. It seeks to remove trans people from public life through multiple mechanisms, and SCOTUS just gave it permission.
@jmberger.com and I wrote about the anti-trans movement operating in state governments and how it weaponized fear to inscribe its views in state law. www.middlebury.edu/institute/ac...
Lawful Extremism: Florida's Anti-Trans Laws
www.middlebury.edu
June 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@jmberger.com and I wrote about the anti-trans movement operating in state governments and how it weaponized fear to inscribe its views in state law. www.middlebury.edu/institute/ac...