BBC, transmisia, negative
So, a couple weeks back, the BBC's LBGT+ support page quietly dropped three trans-specific helplines:
At the time, the reason was unknown even to the corporation's internal Pride Network.
Now, we hear the reason has been officially given - confirmation that they were 'dropped due to “audience complaints” relating to the “increasingly contested issues relating to trans issues and children”'.
Fuck that with a rusty chainsaw. Removal of those support lines gives clear support to those who *don't need those helplines*, and unambiguously aligned management against trans people. It's not coincidental that with the ramping up of TERFs in the press has come a sharp rise in harassment and violent attacks against trans people; either the BBC supports that, or they oppose it.
Their complaints page:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint
pol, the us president back on his bullshit
the concept of the american dream is inherently racist and classist. it's all about escaping the problems caused by capitalism (poverty, crime, etc.) and of course the spectre of "crime" that all these middle-class families are trying to escape is so racially coded you could write a book about it (and i'm sure several people have). the promise of upward mobility is only for white folks.this applies doubly to gated communities, which are just shitty fortresses for paranoid racists.
and our dear leader is promising to remove the troubling shadow of scaaaaaaaaaaaary low-income housing from these white-flight suburbs. it's two steps from declaring it straight-up illegal to be poor.
BIG CW: NYC TRANS WOMAN JUST KIDNAPPED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT BY NYPD (video in link)
these unmarked, plainclothes cis men grabbed, threw down, and disappeared a white trans woman into a late-model, Kia minivan, NYS plate JGB-1864m in front of her community on a city street in NYC in only the past hour:
https://twitter.com/unit01barbie/status/1288265932364709890
her name is Nikki and she is unaccounted for
@purple @witchfynder_finder when i use a little red watering can. that’s agile workflow
Portland, US, top score by protester
From birdsite: video of protester who caught a teargas canister mid air with a lacrosse stick and sent it back to the Fed's.
https://twitter.com/plsnotmike/status/1286951807168598018?s=09
video of the seal that says egg https://youtu.be/PL9iMPx9CpQ
for all wendy's wit and charm, under that snappy sarcastic exterior beats the heart of a capitalist
[BOOSTS WELCOMED AND URGED!]
https://twitter.com/RealClarabelleC/status/1273214750806204417
"I created this fundraiser on November 6 of LAST YEAR & the goal STILL hasn't been reached.
"I'm asking that you please share and donate the same way you do for white trans people. Black trans women deserve resources we need to live in safety and dignity."
@monorail [bolts upright in bed] roko's basilisk is just pascal's wager for atheists
leftpol vent, subtoot, prisons, crimes against humanity justification
holy shit they tried to justify gulags as "re-education prisons" (and of course there's a pinch of holodomor denial in there as well)
22, end of a european colonizer bloodline on stolen Wichita land.
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