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'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Imagine if the guy was there though.

leaving my boss's field of vision to see if he de-aggros

Reached for comment, the author of the letter said, “If you print that, I will deny I wrote it.” When he was reminded that it had been sent from the same personal e-mail account that he still uses, he said, “I don’t care. I’ll just say it never happened

actual lol

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joe lieberman doesn't get enough hate. his descendants should feel a prosocial compulsion to scrub the stain of his name off of themselves

Bruce Arthur: Bluesky may be our chance to build the type of online world that X has abandoned Bluesky offers tools to shape your experience online, instead of being forced to exist in the echo chamber that defines X.

Calling Bluesky an echo chamber misses the point, because what Bluesky offers is a chance to redefine how humans treat one another online, where so many of us live. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Lede from a NYT article by Jeremy W Peters: “To get on the wrong side of transgender activists is often to endure their unsparing criticism.”

Americans are losing the right to exercise state power to restrict the fundamental human rights of a tiny minority of marginalized people without being criticized for that online, and Jeremy Fucking Peters is on it.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing. Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

i think Drake’s only option at this point is try to appeal to Liz Cheney

Matthew Yglesias © @mattyglesias I'm increasingly inclined to spend time over on BlueSky because such a large share of the annoying leftists went over there and they are more fun to fight with than annoying rightists. 8:53 AM • 11/24/24

Mask off.

“Ending racism is an impossible goal so Black people must grow superhuman levels of resilience,” is not an uncommon take either

I think often about Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic saying a while back that they would have women and minorities do more features if they could but that there just aren't that many who can around.

If someone can quote Shakespeare to you, but hasn’t even SEEN an August Wilson play, you’re at a klan rally and don’t even know it. RUN!!!!!!!

The Right-Wingification of UT Texas targets liberal enemies within one of the top U.S. schools

“Intellectual diversity is essentially a fake problem that is used to create cover for ideologically committed, far-right faculty who are not intellectually honest.” Craig Campbell, UT anthropology professor.

www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...

the reason this guy runs the internet is basically nobody else is even capable of doing "your shoes were so fugly I called the FBI" and have it be a factual statement

growing up is realizing that Bob Gottlieb was right to reject Confederacy of Dunces.

Being Black is Magic. Everything has a price.

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

Well, now I know we made the right decisions

Love this, thank you!

4% millionaire's tax in Massachusetts just made every public school have free lunch

Taxing the rich more literally feeds starving children

Elon talking a whole bunch of shit and then finding a million reasons to chicken out of a fight with Zuckerberg is the quintessential online right wing tough guy moment

You can take the white man out of South Africa, but you can't take the South Africa out of the white man.

The Secret Hand Behind the Women Who Stood by Cuomo? His Sister. For nearly two years, Madeline Cuomo quietly worked with grass-roots activists to help smear her brother’s accusers. He was “seeing everything,” she told his defenders.

"For nearly two years, Madeline Cuomo quietly worked with grass-roots activists to help smear her brother’s accusers" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/nyregion/cuomo-women-sister-madeline.html