Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · 4d

The panel I’m on is coming up soonish, and the game of Time Walk that’s going on right now is fantastic! Come watch and donate :) #wotcstaff

Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 7d

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

1 7

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · 4d

Our stream supporting Trans Lifeline just started! Right now, you can watch Senior Worldbuilding Designer Lauren Bond DM for a party of Magic Designers. More games later, plus panels where you can donate to get questions answered!

Tune in: twitch.tv/magic

Donate: tilt.fyi/Jr23vhNVE6

#wotcstaff

A full schedule of events for the Wizards of the Coast stream supporting Trans Lifeline today. Check it out at twitch.tv/magic from 10-6 Pacific Time.

10-1: D&D One-shot DMed by Senior Worldbuilding Designer Lauren Bond for a party of Magic Designers
1-2: Carmen Klomparens runs her "Fund Raisers" game show with designers from across the studio. The catch: they have no idea what they're playing!
2-3:30: Panel with Worldbuilding and Narrative designers Lauren Bond, Neale LePlante Johnson, Stephanie Cheung, and Jenn Dolari. Donate to get your questions about Magic creative answered!
3:30-4: Matt Tabak leads a group of designers through a game of Time Walk, testing their Magic history knowledge.
4-6: Panel with Magic Game Designers Jadine Klomparens, Ben Weitz, Eric Engelhard, and Eric Levine. Donate to get your questions about Magic design answered!

1 2 7

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · 5d

I’ll be on the panel from 4-6 PM Pacific time tomorrow! #wotcstaff

Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 7d

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

1 11

Reposted by Eric Levine

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

40 1K 3.1K

Reposted by Eric Levine

Arya (hogpog_98 elsewhere) @aryawrites.bsky.social · 6d

The schedule for the trans lifeline fundraiser is up, and we have a stacked lineup!
To get questions set up for our two amazing panels, I'm personally matching the first 1000 dollars donated before the stream (which Hasbro will then match), so use the link below to donate now! tilt.fyi/Jr23vhNVE6

2 32 60

Reposted by Eric Levine

Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 7d

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

70 1.8K 4.4K

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · 9d

This is a thing I was trained to do and taught was polite. It makes no sense.

1 1

Reposted by Eric Levine

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 22d

hi, cis folks!

trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.

we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi

info & script in the🧵⬇️

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

5 1.2K 1.3K

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · 12d

They don’t hit as well when I miss the release notes window.

1

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · 12d

I missed an opportunity for a hilarious Gatherer ruling on this one. Ah well. #WotCstaff

1 4

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · 14d

Have a great time!!! #wotcstaff

1

Reposted by Eric Levine

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15d

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

23 2.9K 11K

Reposted by Eric Levine

Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 28d

With so much talk on here about what should and should not be said in the wake of the shooting, I just keep thinking back to what he would say about me if me or some other trans woman had been executed today.

It would have been very ugly and received absolutely no pushback or condemnation.

1 9 39

Reposted by Eric Levine

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.

90 4.8K 14K

Reposted by Eric Levine

Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · Sep 3

I really don't know how to explain to cis people how much it hurts to see something like this every few days. Just so many random famous people who suddenly feel comfortable openly advocating for genocide against my community. And there's never much pushback, either.

bsky.app/profile/arch...

TTTK @archivedspork.bsky.social · Sep 3

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Scott Thompson tweets “I stand with Graham Linehan”

3 28 100

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · Sep 3

In case you for some reason still care what Malcolm Gladwell thinks, it’s not too late to stop putting stock in his bad opinions.

Them @them.us · Sep 3

Malcolm Gladwell Speaks Out Against Trans Athletes, Reversing Past Statements: "I'm Ashamed"

The author behind 'The Tipping Point' admonished his prior actions, saying he had felt “cowed” by the public.

www.them.us

2 1 3

Reposted by Eric Levine

Carmen Klomparens @carmparens.bsky.social · Sep 1

I would strongly encourage my cis friends to read these. I am not exaggerating when I say the last ~6 months or so has been an endless cycle of watching things become materially worse/more harmful every week or so and just having to go to work or whatever and go make small talk.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 28

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people.

These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

Screenshot of two tweets from Matt Walsh’s verified Twitter account (@MattWalshBlog).

First tweet (17 hours ago): “It’s time to have a national conversation about common sense restrictions on transgenders.” The tweet has 1.3K comments, 3.8K retweets, 42K likes, and 1M views.

Second tweet (18 hours ago): “It wasn’t all that long ago that anyone who identified as the opposite sex would be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. Does anyone at this point seriously think that our current approach is an improvement?” The tweet has 666 comments, 1.9K retweets, 21K likes, and 362K views.

First tweet is by Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles), reposted by Christopher F. Rufo. It reads: “For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this delusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” The tweet has 816 comments, 2.4K retweets, 17K likes, and 379K views.

Second tweet is by Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo), 20 hours ago: “The trans cult hatched such an enormous propaganda campaign, that, for a number of years, they were able to obscure an obvious truth: pumping kids full of synthetic hormones, while telling them they can change from boy to girl, will only end in tragedy or disaster.” The tweet has 878 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.2K likes, and 120K views.

Third tweet is also by Christopher F. Rufo, 20 hours ago: “We should now put to rest the libertarian delusion that transgenderism is a matter of ‘personal choice,’ or ‘live and let live.’ It’s an ideology that has done grave damage to millions of Americans, and has unleashed a nihilistic wave of violence on our society. Enough.” The tweet has 921 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.6K likes, and 293K views.

6 150 370

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · Aug 30

everybody be quiet, i'm doing something in this draft. #wotcstaff

a Magic Arena EOE draft deck with 2x Quantum Riddler, 2x Space-Time Anomaly, and a Starwinder, among other things

1 6

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · Aug 28

“We should just let them do fascism so people stop screaming at us.” - dem leadership, probably

2

Reposted by Eric Levine

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Aug 25

I sure do love that whenever a trans person says anything negative about Newsom that a horde of people who are locking in Newsom as the 2028 Dem nominee pop up to scold you. Very fun!

71 330 3.5K

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · Aug 20

I have a song stuck in my head and I blame @billcorbett.bsky.social.

1

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · Aug 16

I would have been so annoying about my love of K-pop Demon Hunters in my theater kid days. I still will be now too, but I would have been then.

1 8

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · Aug 14

Slightly diminish a band:

Pish

Matt Tabak @wotcmatt.bsky.social · Aug 14

Slightly diminish a band:

Deth

InfiniTokens Dry Erase Tokens @infinitokens.com · Aug 14

Slightly diminish a band:

Princess.

2

Reposted by Eric Levine

Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. I love the reveal that mamdani’s rent, one he should be ashamed to pay because of his vast fortunes, is 2,300 dollars

140 180 2.3K

Eric Levine @raginglevine.com · Aug 9

Perfect timing

1 2