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enigma2meagain · 1 year

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🚨🚨 URGENT! Congress trying to pass anti-LGBT bill under the guise of “child safety”!

UPDATE 09/05/2023:

Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of her bigotry

So Marsha Blackburn, in her infinite wisdom, decided to admit in an interview with the bigoted Family Policy Alliance that the Kids Online Safety Act is a GIANT anti-transgender bill (or at the least, it’s so poorly written that it makes targeting transgender people easier). Naturally, after this blunder, she and Blumenthal are trying to do damage control. But WE have the videos, and people’s responses to this open confession in the links below:

Alejandro Caraballo’s Tweet with the Video.

Erin Reed’s followup article

Attempts at damage control commented on by Ari Drennen

PinkNews’ article about it.

Beacon Broadside Article

Mashable Article

So with all that in mind, please make way to the Bad Internet Bills website to tell your Senators that you STRONGLY advise them to drop their support/refuse to support this awful bill in light of this, or that their re-election chances will drop considerably.

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UPDATE 02/14/2023: Richard Blumenthal is a lying snake who’s trying to get both KOSA and EARN IT Act back into law.

He persistently continues to ignore all of the backlash against these bills, the criticisms and highlighting the serious flaws of the bill by numerous human rights and LGBTQ organizations, and it’s telling that there seems to be no one who opposed the bill at the hearings today.

Fortunately, there are those are speaking up against it, such as Evan Greer from Fight For The Future.

Keep your eyes and ears open. We will be hearing more about these bills as time goes on.

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UPDATE 01/30/2023: Well, Chuck Schumer has chosen to backstab human rights and pro- LGBTQ communities, as well as the internet by trying to fast-track KOSA. The time table is as follows:

REINTRODUCTION OF THE BILL IN FEBRUARY

HOLDING MARKUPS IN MARCH

And holding a floor vote in JUNE

https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1620088145554579456

KEEP IN MIND, this was the man who blocked legitimately good anti-Big Tech bills like AICOA on the pretense they would be “too much”, but was perfectly fine with the travesty of KOSA.

This man is in Big Tech’s pockets, because only they can afford to pay the fines that such a restrictive pro-censorship bill would enforce. The only people this bill helps are the exact people it claims to stop, while LGBTQ people have to pay the price for the greed of the corrupt congressmen and women.

All of the relevant links are still below, but I will be updated this as we go.

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UPDATE 01/17/2023: Nothing has happened yet, but there have been rumblings of our “favorite” Senator Blumenthal talking about trying to push KOSA in again. I’ll mostly be keeping an eye on things for now, and you guys should too on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media and news outlets.

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UPDATE 12/20/2022: KOSA BILL HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN THE FINAL OMNIBUS BILL! WE DID IT!

https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1605261800479547392

That being said, this is very much a reprieve, since Blumenthal and Blackburn, and their cohorts have made it clear they intend to get this bill back into Congress next year. But WE DID IT. We managed to get this bill stopped from being added in the omnibus bill.

I want to thank all of you who helped to reblog this post, signed the various petitions and the open letter, and especially if you went and called your Senators. Without your effort, this might have turned out VERY differently!

Thank you all, and I hope the rest of this year is a pleasant one!

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So, this is a particularly long post, but it’s an absolutely IMPORTANT ONE. PLEASE REBLOG! LIKING IS USELESS!

UPDATE 12/14/2022: Two weeks ago, 90+ human rights, LGBT, and tech orgs signed onto an open letter telling Senators NOT to pass this bill. in response, over 230 orgs led by the American Psychological Association signed a letter urging senators to push this bill forward.

An updated version of the bill has been pushed forward by Senators Blumenthal and Blackburn, who claim to have changed the bill in response to feedback, but insight by the likes of Evan Greer and Ari Cohn have made it clear that the changes are superficial at best, and arguably fail to properly address the problems of the original bill.

https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1603139423071309825

We got blindsided by this, and we REALLY need your help!

Further explanation HERE: https://www.tumblr.com/fullhalalalchemist/703545300138262528/urgent

POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc. about your opposition to this! The more voices speaking out the better, and we can’t do this alone!

The Hashtags are:

#KOSA

#STOPKOSA

#KidsOnlineSafetyAct

“Kids Online Safety Act” (no hashtag and quotes, just the regular words)

And PLEASE call your Senators at (202-224-3121).

ESPECIALLY CALL THESE THREE, SINCE THEY ARE THE MAJOR PEOPLE WHO COULD END UP PUTTING THE BILL INTO THE OMNIBUS/MUST PASS SPENDING BILL:

Maria Cantwell (202) 224-3441

Chuck Schumer (202) 224-6542

Nancy Pelosi (202) 225-4965

LINKTREE WITH ALL INFO HERE: https://linktr.ee/stopkosa

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ORIGINAL POST:

In a particularly scummy move, the Kids Online Safety Act is going to be put into the must pass end of year spending bill: www.axios.com/…

The two laws best positioned to get rolled into big year-end legislative packages, according to advocates and lawmakers, are:

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which would require platforms to guard kids from harmful content using new features and safeguards and to make privacy settings "on" by default for children. The law also mandates privacy audits and more transparency about privacy policies.

At first glance, the bill doesn’t sound bad, since it’s about helping “protect children” online. But like every “protect the children” type law, this would censor the internet of anything “harmful” to children aka any LGBT, NSFW, or whatever the Right doesn’t like, force everyone to upload their govt ID’s to even access anything online, and surveil everyone else. Gutting everyone’s privacy in an era where we see massive state violence and encroaching fascism globally. This is not only pushed by the same people (Senator Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn) who created the awful EARN IT Act, but also has many of the same flaws, such as pro-censorship, anti LGBT resources and content, and pro-mass surveillance.

But the biggest problem, as Mike Stabile has pointed out, is HOW the mechanism to which this works: The State Attorney General.

This addition would allow states like Texas and Florida to sue companies for having LGBTQ+ content, along with sex education resources, incentivizing these platforms to ban that content. To be more specific, the bill allows the state attorney general to sue if they believe that platforms do not protect minors from a list of harms that includes politicized terms like "grooming" which, as we've seen can include any sort of LGBTQ information, entertainment or literature.

RuPaul on TikTok?

A clip on transgender youth on Facebook?

A gay character in a Disney movie?

Suicide hotlines for gay youth?

Cue a suit from Texas or Florida targeting the entire web.

And the problem is that given the current political climate and the cruel behavior of a number of GOP aligned political groups in positions of power, this only ends up making things RIPE for abuse and mass censorship (since companies will probably end up choosing to acquiesce to their demands rather than risk being subject to liability) not to mention the damage this would cause to children who might need resources regarding LGBT or sex education.

Furthermore, the definition of “sexually exploitative material”, “grooming”, and “child porn” has been used in the past year to target transgender people, drag queens, and the wider LGBTQ+ community by likening their very existence as sexually violent. Yet another way this bill’s language will be used to target a community that is already facing violence. Every night, Fox News blasts a story on “sexualization of children '' to fear-monger around the LGBT community. One needs to not look any further than the right-wing ecosystem to see how KOSA would easily be weaponized.

This article by Mike Masnick on Techdirt also goes further into KOSA and its adjacent bills.

To make matters even worse, on top of the usual suspects of NCOSE ( They used to be called Morality in Media, and are a far right group disguised as an anti sex trafficking org infamous for being religious assholes who HATE anything to do with sex or LGBT) supporting this travesty of a bill, it’s been revealed that the Senate leader is claiming there’s no opposition.

This is literally giving the fascists a dangerous tool to abuse, all for the sake of political brownie points against ‘Big Tech’. A tool that far right groups like the Heritage Foundation have OPENLY stated will abuse to silence LGBTQ+ or sex-ed content for youth everywhere if it passes.

The ONLY way this works is by making sure who is and isn’t a minor is to have some form of age-verification scheme. And the only way to do that is through a third party like ID.me which has recently come under scrutiny for, you guessed it, data leaks. So everyone who accesses anything online will be forced to upload their govt IDs. How is this protecting anyone’s privacy?

With all that said, what can we do?

Well, the same thing we did for the EARN IT Act; we make a LOT of noise, and get the word out.

If you have read all of the above and want to fight this, sign this open letter against KOSA.

And PLEASE call your Senators at (202-224-3121).

ESPECIALLY CALL THESE THREE, SINCE THEY ARE THE MAJOR PEOPLE WHO COULD END UP PUTTING THE BILL INTO THE }OMNIBUS:

Maria Cantwell (202) 224-3441

Chuck Schumer (202) 224-6542

Nancy Pelosi (202) 225-4965

There is a call script with phone numbers here.

Fax them, email them. Tell them they MUST oppose this bill. CONTACT any major human rights, LGBT, and cybersecurity related organizations aligned and let them know about this bill, and the harm it can cause to LGBT rights and children! If you need more information on KOSA, we have a LINKTREE HERE.

EMPHASIZE THE HARM TO CHILDREN WHEN YOU CONTACT PEOPLE, SINCE THEY’RE TRYING TO CLAIM THAT THIS WILL HELP PROTECT CHILDREN’S PRIVACY, WHEN IT DOES THE EXACT OPPOSITE.

There’s also a Petition by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and from Fight For the Future.

#kosa #STOPKOSA #Stop Kids Online Safety Act #earnitact2.0 #lgbt #lgbtq #LGBT Rights #earnitact #lgbtq rights #Fuck you blumenthal #FUCK BLUMENTHAL #fuck blackburn

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quinn-of-aebradore · 7 months

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I am a puddle of emotions over Caleb casting the Tower for the whole of Blumenthal. Taking this place he built for his found family and holding it out to the town that raised him, to his people. Just. Crying about it.

#critical role #cr spoilers #echoes of the solstice #caleb widogast

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cavalierzee · 5 months

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Justifying Killing Palestinian Kids

After the Israeli Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion was pulled out of Gaza due to heavy casualties, including the loss of its commander, Lt. Col. Tomer Grinberg,

Lt. Omri Akshlama justified killing kids and destroying their families’ homes on the grounds that they:

“nurse anti-Semitism and terrorism with their mother’s milk.”

Max Blumenthal

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blackmosscupcakes · 7 months

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Mighty Nein: we saved the DAY! Village of Blumenthal, you are invited to our VICTORY PARTY!

Villagers: My... My whole family just died

Mighty Nein: The cats are cooking a feast!!!! :D

#critical role

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workersolidarity · 7 months

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 🚨 ACCORDING TO THE GRAYZONE'S Max Blumenthal, Israeli Occupation Forces are targeting the homes and families of doctors refusing to evacuate hospitals in the Gaza Strip, while also targeting journalists who counter Israeli propaganda.

"We're also seeing doctors, directors of hospitals, the director of the Indonesian Hospital which is on the verge of running out of fuel in the north of Gaza, his family was killed in a targeted strike because he refused to evacuate the hospital."

"In the south, in Raffah, Dr. Sohel Homs who I visited in the Kuwaiti hospital, Israel demanded that they evacuate, he refused. The day he refused that order, his family was bombed at home."

"So these are targeted assassinations of doctors [and] of journalists."

@TheGrayzone

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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clouseplayssims · 4 months

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Win small inheritance from dear departed relative - Add to funds: (d100) x 10

I decided to just give Nadzieja something towards her dowry instead since that makes more sense - neither of the girls would be first in line to inherit something from their Blumenthal family.

But Arndt giving her a fine horse as a bribe for her to hopefully marry one of the top nobles in the kingdom, therefore closing ranks even more? He'd so do that.

#kingdom of edirann

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astrid-beck · 5 months

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I remember during c2 a very popular theory was, that Trent actually was Bren's real father....

Hmm I've never heard this before but honestly I think it's more interesting if the point is that he doesn't need to be their biological father for the power structures and tropes and rhetorics of the nuclear family to be used to legitimize the volstrucker project and indoctrinate complete obedience that feels "natural" or even self-serving; The personal ego becomes intertwined with or replaced by the Family, and damage to the family is therefore damage to you. And by extension, disobedience to the family is hurting oneself, is disrespectful and ungrateful towards the gifts of the family, you owe it to the father to lead your life the way he wants you to because he GAVE you your life, etc. It's not that Caleb is special because he's biologically related to Trent, it's that all three of them are given the task of being siblings and being the Best Child to distract from the fact that what they're actually doing is working, for a boss, under an imperial structure.

But I do think Trent potentially being from Blumenthal is interesting. Would at the very least have some implications for why he favored Bren, as a blumenthal kid with the potential to be the better, streamlined version of himself. And then the begrudging shift to Astrid as his new son and heir, who is probably actually more like him—but not nearly as clean

#i think about this. all the time can you tell.#I'm drawing from. some sara ahmed that I read recently. which I realize is insane but i feel like i should cite my sources #asks #lena watches cr #cr2 #blumendrei

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kingdomofedirann · 1 year

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Basic Information

Name: Leni Blumstein

Age: Young Adult (Adult)

Sexuality: Straight

Gender: Female

Mortality State: Human

Location: Edirann City

Position in Society

Title: Duchess

Class: Nobility

Heir: n/a

Personality

Primary Aspiration: Family

Secondary Aspiration: None

LTW: Become Shire Reeve

Zodiac: Sagittarius

Personality: Sloppy (2), Shy (3), Active (9), Playful (7), Grouchy (4)

Traits: Born Salesman, Family-oriented, Never Nude, Traveler, Socially Awkward

Preferences

Likes: Crime, Sports, Paranormal

Dislikes: Politics, Health, Weather, Fashion

Hobby: Sports (Fencing)

Addictions: None

Religion: None

Favorite Color: Grey

Favorite Material: Glass

Aesthetic: TBD

Favorite Clothing Style: TBD

Favorite Location: Forest

Genetics

Skintone: Medium Warm Brown

Eyes: Dark Blue

Hair Color: Black

Hair Texture: Wavy

Hair Thickness: Thin

Height: 5′8

Body Type: TBD

Body Hair: n/a

Other: Twin

Relationships

Father: Sascha Blumenthal

Mother: Meadow Blumenthal

Spouse: Gallagher Blumstein

Siblings: Arndt Blumenthal, Annegret Blumenthal (twin), Catrin McNaught

Children: Galavant Blumstein

Other Relatives: Anastazja Landau (cousin), Nadzieja Blumenthal (cousin), Ludwika Blumenthal (cousin), Aloisia Cayzer (cousin), Apolinary Blumenthal (cousin), Alozjy Blumenthal (cousin), Aleksy Blumenthal (cousin)

Allies: None

Rivals: None

Other: None

History

Birthplace: Edirann City

Place of Death: n/a

#leni blumenthal #class: nobility #family: blumstein #family: blumenthal #Age: Adult

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filet-o-feelings · 11 months

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Worthy Wednesday Fic Challenge

We see the same (admittedly excellent) stories recommended over and over and over. Let's expand our horizons! Recommend and briefly describe a fic or two or three (or more) that you've never (or rarely) seen mentioned. Extra points if you don't personally know the writer. Tag @trickiwooao3 or #Worthy Wednesday

Thanks for the tags @trickiwooao3 and @demora00!

you, emboldened you by AnnieMallistic is one of the most stunningly beautiful fics I've ever read. The author's summary:

A David introspection wherein someone else proposed to him in his youth

Trust me, I just reread it and it's as beautifully written as I remember.

nightmare creek by strangeluvz is so good, and I'm so bad at descriptions so here's the author's summary:

It's 1949, and Patrick Brewer is a telepath; or, at least, that’s what he’s led his audience to believe. He’s performing at a hotel lounge when he meets consulting psychologist David Blumenthal, who is intent on disproving his act. Yet, when the eccentric Rose family enlists Patrick’s help to put them in contact with their deceased son, he turns to David - the only person in New York City who appears to have any information about the late Mister Rose. Or: Patrick is a fake clairvoyant. David is a psychologist who is hiding his identity. They fall in love. Inspired by Nightmare Alley.

Don't be afraid to read it if you aren't familiar with Nightmare Alley. I'd honestly never even heard of it and I enjoyed the hell out of this fic.

I'm not sure who has done this yet but I'll tag @hippolotamus @lizzie-bennetdarcy @beaiola @treluna4 @statueinthestone @jamilas-pen and anyone else that hasn't been tagged and wants to play along 💛

#worthy wednesday #love this idea!#schitt's creek fic recs

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meret118 · 3 months

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Interesting article!

#Trump

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coffee-n-bagels-comic-universe · 1 month

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[Ghostbusters] Brainwaves: Mini Bios (1984) C.U.P.S Professors & Students

Tagging @ariel-seagull-wings @spook-central and @soulman133 Let me know if you want to be tagged/untagged from Brainwaves posts. These are just bullet point bios for the main groups of characters, as in the female professors, Ghostbusters and Ghostbuster staff, the C.U.P.S students, Nova's family (some of them are in C.U.P.S, but won't be in this post) and then the others™ (e.g. Dickless, Dana)

Following Characters:

Heather Nieto-Jorge

May Keaton

Allison Wada

Nova Teufel

Jacob Blumenthal

Cecilia Hedlund

Long post so it's under the cut

Doctor/Professor Heather Nieto-Jorge, PhD. 'Nieto':

Face Claim / Actress: Jennifer Beals

Full Name: Heather Bárbara Yasmin Nieto-Jorge

Doctor / Professor / Miss. AKA: Barbie, Hettie, Nieto

32 in 1984. Born November 7th 1952 in Panama. Lives in NY, NY

Panamanian, Female, Bisexual, Catholic, Scorpio, Smoker

Speaks Spanish, English & Portuguese

5'8" and 152 lbs, Brown eyes, Black Hair with a Bleached streak

Matching rose tattoos on her hips, pierced ear lobes

Teaches Agriology, Anthropobiology & Demonology at Columbia

Doctor/Professor May Keaton, PhD. 'Keaty':

Face Claim / Actress: Tracy Chapman

Full Name: May Olive Keaton

Doctor / Professor / Miss. AKA: Livi, Keaty

33 in 1984. Born May 1st 1951 in Indiana. Lives in NY, NY

African-American, Female, Straight, Christian, Taurus

Speaks 15 languages to varying degrees, including English & Greek

5'4" and 145 lbs, Brown eyes, Black hair, no tattoos, pierced ears

Teaches Folkloristics, Genetics & Hepatology

Undiagnosed but possibly Autistic, ADHD/ADD

Doctor/Professor Allison Wada, PhD. 'Allie':

Face Claim / Actress: Cherie Chung

Full Name: Allison Saki Wada

Doctor / Professor / Miss. AKA: Ali / Allie / Ally

34 in 1984. Born April 9th 1950 in Saskatchewan. Lives in NY, NY

Japanese, Female, Straight, Non-Religious, Aries, Rarely Smokes

Speaks Japanese, English and Spanish

5'5" and 150 lbs, Brown eyes, Black hair, 1 tattoo, pierced ears

Tattoo of a Chinese dragon up her spine

Teaches Biophysics, Biochemistry and Haematology

Doctor/Professor Nova Teufel, PhD. 'Novocaine':

Face Claim / Actress: Meg Ryan

Full Name: Nova Eris Teufel. The Teufel Family are supposed Psychics

Doctor / Professor / Miss. AKA: Professor Goth, Novocaine

31 in 1981. Born January 2nd 1953 in Brooklyn. Lives in NY, NY

German, Female, Demisexual, Biromantic, Wiccan, Capricorn, Smoker

Speaks English, German, French, Spanish and Latin

5'8" (5'11" in her boots) and 152 lbs, Blue eyes, Blonde hair, Dyes her hair often

10 tattoos making up a 1/2 sleeve on her left arm, Ear Lobe & Helix piercings

Teaches Criminology, Mortuary Science & Eschatology

Misdiagnosed and given Anti-Psychotics, Undiagnosed but Autistic and Anxious

Grew up in Psych wards, now lives with her older brother Mars

Jacob Blumenthal. 'Jake':

Face Claim / Actor: John Belushi

Full Name: Jacob Jasper Cassidy Blumenthal

AKA Blue, Blue Man, Cas, Cassie, Coby, Jack, Jake, J.J

30 in 1984. Born January 24th 1954 in Chicago, Lives in NY, NY

White, Male, Straight, Christian, Aquarius, Smoker

Speaks English, Spanish, French and Japanese

5'8" and 222 lbs, Brown eyes, Black hair, stubble & lots of body hair

Has a smiley face tattooed on his left butt-cheek, no piercings

Has been in every classroom at least once, takes Nova's classes because he likes annoying her for attention

Cecilia Hedlund. 'Celia':

Face Claim / Actress: Gilda Radner

Full Name: Cecilia Juni Hedlund (Soon to be Solberg)

AKA Cece, Celia, Cilla, C.J

30 in 1984, Born June 28th 1954 in Sweden, Lives in NY, NY

Swedish, Female, Straight, Lutheran, Cancer

Speaks Swedish, English, Norwegian, French, Spanish and German

5'6" and 145 lbs, Brown eyes and hair, ears pierced, no tattoos

Engaged to an American

Part of the exchange programme & C.U.P.S

#ghostbusters #brainwaves #ghostbusters oc #ghostbusters 1984 #heather nieto-jorge #may keaton #allison wada #nova teufel #jacob blumenthal #cecilia hedlund

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readingsquotes · 2 months

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" ..But many of the signatories—specifically those from the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Associated Press, and the New York Times—have a lot of gall signing such a letter, given their personal and institutional silence as so many journalists have been killed over five months, their role in manufacturing the consent which facilitated the genocide in the first place, and/or the way they have punished their own employees for signing similar letters.

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Then, there’s probably the most galling signatures of all, A.G. Sulzberger’s, the publisher of the New York Times.

From trans rights to speaking against war, the Times is among the most vicious in forbidding its journalists—even its magazine staff who write in the first person about their lived experiences—to express opinions. Sulzberger, the sixth member of his family to run the paper, has enormous sway over arguably the most influential English-language publication in the world. In his position of editorial power, he gets to publicly declare that “Attacks on journalists are also attacks on truth” and to declare a commitment “to championing the safety of journalists in Gaza, which is fundamental for the protection of press freedom everywhere.” Good!

....As the writer Hussein Omar, who is part of the group Writers Against the War on Gaza and who has published in the New York Times himself, put it, “A.G. Sulzberger signs a letter in support of reporters in Gaza with one hand, while he green lights genocidal propaganda in his rag with the other.”

On March 6, Max Blumenthal published a fascinating account of how Israeli lobbyists are urging “US officials to justify war on Gaza with ‘Hamas rape’ claims,” complete with leaked slides from a presentation. Rationalizing Israel’s increasingly unpopular genocide is reliant upon a campaign to whip up fear of allegedly rapacious Arab men—and nothing has been more central to that claim than the Times December 28 story “‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7.”

The problem is that “Screams Without Words” has collapsed, thoroughly and repeatedly debunked by Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Zei Squirrel, the Intercept and us. But now, as Times employees are blowing the whistle that they do not stand behind the story of systematic mass rape—especially at their flagship podcast, The Daily—the internal fights over this incredibly high stakes story are spilling into more mainstream publications like Vanity Fair and NPR.

And what is the management of the Times—a publication which, like most breaking news publications, relies upon truth-seeking whistleblowers for many of its most important storie—doing? As people inside and outside the Grey Lady register an understandable alarm about its poor sourcing and relying upon a journalism neophyte and Israeli military veteran to write “Screams Without Words”?

Times management is not bringing back the role of the public editor, nor are they engaging in any transparent, good faith accounting of self-reflection.

Rather, they are trying to hunt out who among their staff is leaking, so that they can punish them.

And they appear to be using racial profiling to do so.

#palestine #free palestine #isreal #gaza #colonization #apartheid #genocide #american imperialism #media coverage #new york times

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bighermie · 2 years

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clouseplayssims · 5 months

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Ursula makes an effort to meet with Cynra Flenley though she would not be her first choice of bride for Anxo. For starters, she has Kenton blood and that will always raise Arndt Blumenthal's suspicion, no matter that his own wife was the daughter of Kenton princess. Still, she's a polite enough girl, respectful, with a deep loyalty to her family. Anxo could do worse (like the dreaded Castelow girl.)

#kingdom of edirann #ursula drago #cynra flenley

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uwmspeccoll · 2 years

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

FRITZ EICHENBERG

German-American illustrator and wood engraver Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) arrived in America from Nazi Germany in 1933, settling with his family in New York City. By 1937 he was commissioned by Limited Editions Club (LEC) founder George Macy to illustrate Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, which would become the first American illustrated edition of Dostoevsky’s great classic when it was published in 1938. This would begin a working relationship with LEC that lasted until the end of Eichenberg’s life. He worked on many LEC projects. but that first commission established him as a kind of visual interpreter of Russian literature, and he would go on to illustrate many works by Russian authors for LEC, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and other titles by Dostoevsky.

Shown here are Eichenberg’s wood-engraved illustrations for the 1971 LEC production of Leo Tolstoy’s early semi-autobiographical work Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Press of A. Colish in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. in an edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Of his work on this edition, Eichenberg writes:

It is a difficult task for the illustrator, demanding action and exciting dramatis personae. The book almost calls for documentary treatment, but unfortunately . . . authentic source material of the early 1830′s is scarce. So imagination must take over and flesh out visually the highlights. . . of that period. . . . soon the characters emerge, taking their places on my little stage, a small piece of boxwood. . . . At the end the young man dreams of the future in a spring meadow: he sees the floating image of a girl, nothing quite sharply focused, so the graver must take over to give those mellow scenes incisiveness and depth. And, as usual, the boxwood obligingly cooperates. -- The Wood and the Graver, The Work of Fritz Eichenberg (Imprint Society, 1977).

View more posts on the work of Fritz Eichenberg.

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#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #Fritz Eichenberg #Limited Editions Club #Leo Tolstoy #Childhood Boyhood Youth #Joseph Blumenthal #Press of A. Colish #George Macy #fine press books #illustrated books

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