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Read daily coverage of anti-trans propaganda in US right wing media on assignedmedia.org

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I'd *still* rather be playing pinball

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This is super important work. And it looks like it's actually having an effect. Normal people learn about Project 2025 and are scared as shitless as they should be. The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Boston Review and others are doing the work that NYT and WaPo are neglecting.

We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

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One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.

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One of the most powerful quotes I've seen about how this happens to a country and how this pivotal historical moment in America feels.

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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And the fact that the piece didn't even mention that northern Idaho has been regarded as a haven for neo-Nazis and white supremacists since the Aryan Nations set up shop there in the 1970s is just a gobsmacking omission.

I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why

Huh

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Did you know that Trayvon Martin was interested in aviation & space? Working in the aviation industry? That he had his own flight suit from NASA? The Exhibit set to end/close in August, 2024 #AfroFuturism Go see it before it does

Trayvon Martin’s Flight Suit Will Be Displayed At This New Smithsonian Exhibit | Essencewww.essence.com

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AI is a largely useless technology that is literally destroying the environment and tech bros continue to go all in because they want the world to burn so they can finally get use out of their apocalypse bunkers

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ironically, US now with a king for the first time since then as well

no Conservative MP in Oxfordshire for the first time since 1777.

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These are hateful bills target and ostracize vulnerable kids. They also speak to the misogyny of their authors, who are certain that anyone assigned male at birth is inherently better at sport. Sport can be a fun part of normal childhood. It needn’t be a high stakes gambit for college admissions.

Facing legislation that could reshape their lives, transgender teenagers became advocates in N.H. - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com Bills heading to Governor Chris Sununu’s desk could block transgender teenagers from the sports teams, locker rooms, and bathrooms they identify with. So these teens spoke out.

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It’s important to understand that we’re subject to indoctrination & propaganda from our government. We receive an extensive training to hold America’s alleged values dear in our upbringing. Until you investigate them, much of what you think of America is what the government wants you to think.

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Last year I made you a trans masc feed for my birthday and now it has so many members and followers. Thanks for making this space fun. 🖤 Like and follow: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I made you something for my birthday, a trans masc Bluesky feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:56fa7nq34sp444dlr5a7tqmu/feed/aaacylrsrrkji Drop a reply to let me know you'd like to be added. 🖤

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“Sometimes I wonder if all this coverage is because the media know how to cover a normal problem like a sub-par candidate; they don’t know how to cover something as abnormal and unprecedented as the end of the Republic. So for the most part they don’t.”

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Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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Did you know we’ve reached 200 exonerations from Death Row? And that we know we’ve executed innocent individuals? And there are innocent individuals currently scheduled for execution (Robert Roberson, for example)? We have to do better.

Breaking News: U.S. Reaches 200th Exoneration from Death Rowwww.witnesstoinnocence.org WITNESS TO INNOCENCEFor Immediate ReleaseJuly 2, 2024Media Contacts: Dominic [email protected](781) 710-0014Brittany [email protected](508) 826-2817Death row survivors rea...

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“Almost the entire population”

Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military last week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ground operation, the latest UN figures show.

Almost entire population in Gaza now displaced amid fresh Israeli offensive | CNNwww.cnn.com Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military this week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ...

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I fully agree with this - there’s an almost revolutionary zeal behind their efforts to run him out of office, they can sense that it’s possible so they’ve stopped worrying about what comes next or whether it’s an especially good idea.

Part of what’s happening with the Biden political media freakout is about power to act. Journalists have felt feeble and useless during the Trump era. They write their usual articles about Trump and it has little effect on his approval. Not so with Biden.

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New TWIBS! Assigned Media's @alyssaur.bsky.social writes for about Keir Starmer and the UK elections. Says here the ascendent labor party and the defeat of the Tories in no ways spells relief for the battered and beleaguered transgender community of TERF Island. Dang it!

TWIBS: Labour Landslide Leaves Trans Folks Losing — Assignedwww.assignedmedia.org Keir Starmer and Labour have won in the UK’s first general election since 2020, hooray! The good guys are in power again! Oh wait… I’m being told Keir Starmer and Labour may not be the good guys, an...

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It’s pretty alarming how the reporters suddenly devoted to watchdogging Biden can’t tell the difference between real drastic glitches like in the debate and normal fumbling

TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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Especially given that Biden was an erratic speaker in his prime—the question is how far off his cognitive baseline Biden is now, and if you're gonna push out a news alert every time he misspeaks and immediately corrects himself, you're just making it harder for the public to figure it out!

It’s pretty alarming how the reporters suddenly devoted to watchdogging Biden can’t tell the difference between real drastic glitches like in the debate and normal fumbling

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Totally. The media is mean to Biden, and they are going to be mean to Harris. That's life. It sucks. Politics is dirty. But idk, part of campaigning is being able to help drive the news and get your message out to voters, not just be completely blindsided repeatedly by it.

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Holy shit, the Supreme Court actually wrote that Trump telling Pence to claim the wildly unconstitutional power to single-handedly reject certified Electoral College votes, thereby overthrowing Constitutional democracy, can't be illegal because POTUS and VP talking about it makes it an official act.

i keep re-reading this to make sure i didn't hallucinate

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@transsafety.bsky.social has an explosive exposé about the Royal College of Psychiatry International Congress systemically suppressing pertinent questions relating to trans health and ethical issues transsafety.network/posts/rcpsyc...

Royal College of Psychiatry International Congress: Questions about trans health suppressedtranssafety.network Following concerns raised about panels at the Royal College of Psychiatry (RCPsych) International Congress, Trans Safety Network has seen evidence that submitted questions about issues with the eviden...

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i got in under the wire, they aren't accepting new patients anymore. we're completely overwhelmed with trans patients from other states because "gender issues" are going so fucking badly in this country

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SHOTS FIRED

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So the Gilbert Baker Foundation is demanding money from small time queer creators because they correctly referenced a specific color scheme as "the Gilbert Baker flag" on their site?

So uh... anybody with a bigger megaphone than me want to help a butch out? The Gilbert Baker Foundation & CMG are asking a settlement from us for referring to the Gilbert Baker flag/original color scheme as the "Gilbert Baker flag" of twice what we've ever made from anything with those colors.

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yep. though again, I don't think will get nearly so much traction

They’re already setting up the next overblown freakout, this time to take down Harris. Nice work everyone

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Weird that the headlines a few weeks later were all EMAILS and not a steady drumbeat of stories expecting him to imminently drop out.

It's different because it was MUCH later in the campaign, but FWIW, 24 representatives, 15 senators, and 7 governors said they wouldn't vote for Trump or called on him to get out after the Access Hollywood tape in 2016. Obviously, he stayed in. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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i think Trump’s success in distancing himself from the policies of his own people is at least partially because there’s an authenticity to it: he really doesn’t give a shit about the right wing agenda, he’s just willing to trade it in exchange for power

even trump’s campaign staff (i assume he didn’t write this) knows that the reactionary, authoritarian agenda that’s project 2025 is going to be unpopular with the average voter.

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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yep. I do think that the NYT won't be able to summon up the same frenzied national dogpile but they will UNQUESTIONABLY try

i think of some y'all are being entirely too naive about the type of coverage harris would get