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It’s one of the original sins of this country to make people think that only the individual can pull themselves up by sometimes nonexistent bootstraps to become a success when 90 to 98% of the people don’t. But the dream of it is what animates everybody to vote and think like an idiot.
January 2, 2026 at 2:14 AM
It’s one of the original sins of this country to make people think that only the individual can pull themselves up by sometimes nonexistent bootstraps to become a success when 90 to 98% of the people don’t. But the dream of it is what animates everybody to vote and think like an idiot.
This is what happens when Shadow Generations got THAT fucked up
January 2, 2026 at 12:53 AM
This is what happens when Shadow Generations got THAT fucked up
It's okay, it takes a while to figure yourself out. Don't be upset just because it's not happening sooner
January 1, 2026 at 11:37 PM
It's okay, it takes a while to figure yourself out. Don't be upset just because it's not happening sooner
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Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
![You've talked about the paper's treatment of the pretty infamous Cass report, especially from your spot at the international desk. What happened in that case?
It wasn't on my radar as much as it ought to have been. I was starting to wind down my time. I left the Times at the end of May of that year. There was an awareness that [Hilary] Cass was coming out with a report. The day before it officially came out, there was a lot of coverage in the BBC and UK media. Cass was already talking about it before its official release.
The day editor's counterparts are in Seoul and London. My counterpart in London — who was actually filling in that day, but did so on a regular basis — assigned a UK reporter to do a story.
That was standard practice, to be clear.
[Chuckling] There’s so many examples of how standard it was. She assigned it to a UK correspondent, who wrote it in the context of UK politics, talked about it being very contentious, talked about the criticisms of its findings. Cass was talking about them herself, this isn't jumping to any conclusions at that point. It really put it in the context of being this very contentious, very political sort of document.
When I saw it, because we're a few hours behind, there were 600, 700 words written. I had a pretty good sense of how the story was going to turn out. But within a few hours the story was to the top New York editors, and I don't know who exactly it was who did that. I assume it was Carolyn or her intermediary. They said ‘oh no, we want the science desk to do that,’ specifically that was Azeen [Ghorayshi], who had been a key reporter in a lot of the other anti-trans coverage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gm2gj4v7isgrlsww3ya7hpy2/bafkreiauimpnoaneahu2xoujps44cnvpgrbuuweyq764hwvswkize3jr7a@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
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Censorship is the weapon of authoritarians
No censorship is OK
not if it's "Woke", not if it's anime boobs, none of it's OK. One leads right to the other
It hurts us all but i'm noticing that it hurts ppl who are already down the worst
No censorship is OK
not if it's "Woke", not if it's anime boobs, none of it's OK. One leads right to the other
It hurts us all but i'm noticing that it hurts ppl who are already down the worst
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Censorship is the weapon of authoritarians
No censorship is OK
not if it's "Woke", not if it's anime boobs, none of it's OK. One leads right to the other
It hurts us all but i'm noticing that it hurts ppl who are already down the worst
No censorship is OK
not if it's "Woke", not if it's anime boobs, none of it's OK. One leads right to the other
It hurts us all but i'm noticing that it hurts ppl who are already down the worst
Is it just me or do I just not understand why this is really a problem? They're Mochtroids, the last real-deal Metroid WAS still in captivity. This doesn't really fuck up anything in the timeline, like am I missing something here?
December 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Is it just me or do I just not understand why this is really a problem? They're Mochtroids, the last real-deal Metroid WAS still in captivity. This doesn't really fuck up anything in the timeline, like am I missing something here?
Sata andagi
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Sata andagi