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If you read nothing else this new year, let it be this piece. A former New York Times editor laid out how they're anti trans coverage was directed from the top by AG Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, and Carolyn Ryan. This was a purposeful effort to target trans people.
transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
'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...
transnews.network
January 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM
If you read nothing else this new year, let it be this piece. A former New York Times editor laid out how they're anti trans coverage was directed from the top by AG Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, and Carolyn Ryan. This was a purposeful effort to target trans people.
transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
Ended 2025 and entering 2026 focusing on what I’m most grateful for.
January 1, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Ended 2025 and entering 2026 focusing on what I’m most grateful for.
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
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Son, 3.5, got a camera for Christmas. I should’ve asked Santa for some personal space.
December 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Son, 3.5, got a camera for Christmas. I should’ve asked Santa for some personal space.
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Chicago resisted. Protests came with a price. Bruises from pepper balls and fits of sickness from the tear gas. But also the shattering of illusions and loss of faith that what they witnessed could not happen in America. It did and is happening in America www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Chicago resisted. Protests came with a price. Bruises from pepper balls and fits of sickness from the tear gas. But also the shattering of illusions and loss of faith that what they witnessed could not happen in America. It did and is happening in America www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
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#1 surest sign it's Christmastime in Chicago: cars with out of state plates unable to parallel park in huge gaping spots despite one of the passengers standing on the curb trying to direct them
December 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
#1 surest sign it's Christmastime in Chicago: cars with out of state plates unable to parallel park in huge gaping spots despite one of the passengers standing on the curb trying to direct them
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Say what you will, but the Jackass dudes were far better role models for young men than these repressed intellectual dark web losers.
December 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Say what you will, but the Jackass dudes were far better role models for young men than these repressed intellectual dark web losers.
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I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.
President Donald Trump gifted the world with nearly 200 Truth Social posts (and counting) on Christmas Day, where he amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.
Trump Posts Nearly 200 Times in Unhinged Christmas Day Spree
The president amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.
trib.al
December 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.
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Just a general reminder that your experience on any social media app depends a lot on what *you* make of it. It is easy to find some annoying people on any platform. But platforms like Bluesky also give *you* way more power to control your own experience and to fix whatever annoys you.
December 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Just a general reminder that your experience on any social media app depends a lot on what *you* make of it. It is easy to find some annoying people on any platform. But platforms like Bluesky also give *you* way more power to control your own experience and to fix whatever annoys you.
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low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.
we forget these things at our peril
we forget these things at our peril
December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.
we forget these things at our peril
we forget these things at our peril
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“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
We’ve felt old for a while now, thanks. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/o...
Opinion | This Is the Year Millennials Officially Got Old
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We’ve felt old for a while now, thanks. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/o...
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ICE whistles work.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ICE whistles work.
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I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
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Rob Reiter, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, said Border Patrol agents harassing a picket line was "the crossing of a line" for Chicago workers.
"You know what the difference is between the labor movement here in Chicago and Greg Bovino and his team? We're not cowards," he added.
"You know what the difference is between the labor movement here in Chicago and Greg Bovino and his team? We're not cowards," he added.
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Rob Reiter, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, said Border Patrol agents harassing a picket line was "the crossing of a line" for Chicago workers.
"You know what the difference is between the labor movement here in Chicago and Greg Bovino and his team? We're not cowards," he added.
"You know what the difference is between the labor movement here in Chicago and Greg Bovino and his team? We're not cowards," he added.
Fortune from my lunch today. Have definitely felt this, especially lately.
December 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Fortune from my lunch today. Have definitely felt this, especially lately.