Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Doing my semiannual bluesky visit to yell about how known piece of shit Scott Yenor is outing the anti-trans movement as being fundamentally about rolling back women's rights, in addition to targeting trans people. (1/3) 1134
Reposted by Beth DaviessJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 13/05/2026This is lawful extremism. Unlike the Florida example @bdaviess.bsky.social and I wrote about in December 2024, there's no effort to hide what they're doing anymore. 59039
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Thank you @oyousef.bsky.social for bringing this idea to NPR. @jmberger.com and I will continue to shout into our respective voids, but sometimes someone listens! 152
Reposted by Beth DaviessRaphael Satter @raphae.li · 19/11/2025New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio... 17842701742
Reposted by Beth DaviessZane @zane.bsky.social · 20/11/2025A handful of Oregon towns have turned off a powerful surveillance tool that scans and catalogs license plate data over fears the data will be used to arrest immigrantsoregonlive.comSome Oregon cities, but not all, are turning off plate-scanning cameras over ICE fearsEugene, Woodburn and Springfield have paused their use of Flock automatic license plate readers. 0377
Reposted by Beth DaviessAlly Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I spoke w/ Politico about how Dobbs further disrupted and destabilized clinical research with people who are pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant. The lack of data makes it easier to spread misinformation and instill unwarranted fears.... 13725
Reposted by Beth DaviessC.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out 2833921103
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I do not have the optimism that this piece articulates, but it is still worth reading and highlights the importance of clear and defendable definitions of terrorism and extremism 082
Reposted by Beth DaviessFun @funkelly.bsky.social · 24/07/2025If you haven’t called or written your reps lately call and yell at them for this fucking thing. Like today. Right now. So much stuff gets reversed or overturned because people get really fucking annoying on the phone. 39039
Reposted by Beth DaviessAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/06/2025JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms. This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women. 18341151002
Reposted by Beth DaviessMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025The "misinformation" in question here is that gender-affirming care reduces suicides among youth. It merely reduces depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... 1204603881
Reposted by Beth DaviessAmy Cooter, Ph.D. @amycooter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I was privileged to work with and mentor @bdaviess.bsky.social while at CTEC and am even more privileged to see her excellent work continue to be recognized 1114
Reposted by Beth DaviessMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/06/2025It’s telling how the Christian right’s role in getting Skrmetti to SCOTUS is being erased—and by those seemingly desperate to blame trans people for asking for “too much.” So I spoke with legal historian @kredburn.bsky.social and ACLU attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social, who argued the case:newrepublic.comWhat Everyone Is Getting Wrong About SCOTUS’s Transgender RulingThe Skrmetti decision to uphold a state ban on gender-affirming care for minors was not as sweeping as it seems—nor is the trans rights movement to blame for it. 12783331
Reposted by Beth DaviessAccelerationism Research Consortium @arcglobal.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Want to know why beliefs that sunscreen is bad for you feed into larger conspiracies and misinformation? This article, featuring expert commentary from ARC Fellow @bdaviess.bsky.social, helps explain. beautymatter.com/articles/big...beautymatter.comFrom “Clean Beauty” to Extremism: Sunscreen Truthers and Their Conspiracy TheoriesThe rise of “sunscreen truthers” on social and extremist platforms is fueling dangerous conspiracy theories rooted in chemophobia, pseudoscience, and antisemitism. This deep dive unpacks how clean bea... 1259
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social · 24/06/2025@jannamandell.bsky.social did an incredible job unpacking the complexities of the current state of the anti-sunscreen movement and the conspiracy theories that underpin it. Glad to have contributed a small part to this piece. beautymatter.com/articles/big...beautymatter.comFrom “Clean Beauty” to Extremism: Sunscreen Truthers and Their Conspiracy TheoriesThe rise of “sunscreen truthers” on social and extremist platforms is fueling dangerous conspiracy theories rooted in chemophobia, pseudoscience, and antisemitism. This deep dive unpacks how clean bea... 010
Reposted by Beth Daviesskarl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 23/06/2025One out of every five articles from a magazine with “New York” in its name now is like “meet the young women with some surprising ideas — such as dropping out of college to have 15 babies, wearing low-cut sundresses, and insisting that sunscreen and vaccines are dangerous.” 261006157
Reposted by Beth DaviessRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Andrew Cuomo, serial sexual harasser and liar, a thread. From the state report on his abuse. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21... 425298
Reposted by Beth DaviessCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/06/2025I think Skirmetti is awful, and I think it will have horrible impacts. But I keep seeing people say shit like “well this is what the Dems get for pushing unpopular trans issues” or “give up on this” or shit like this, and I have a historical reminder for you. 9783107
Reposted by Beth DaviessMiriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity 5261751994
Reposted by Beth DaviessOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025it cannot simultaneously be true that media outlets like the Times and the Post are the Fourth Estate, playing a vital Democratic function, and also that what occurs on its pages is harmless intellectual inquiry 132028496
Reposted by Beth DaviessAsher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 18/06/2025The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters. 559081888
Reposted by Beth DaviessMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center. 5767311830
Reposted by Beth DaviessRep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead. 4847421850
Reposted by Beth DaviessNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025One bad Trump thing is not a distraction from another bad Trump thing. The cacophony of multiple bad Trump things at once is one single thing. It is not possible to get everyone to focus on one part of that chaos, since all the bad parts are bad enough to merit attention, and the chaos is the thing. 1228969
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social · 18/06/2025It is easy to miss crucial moments like this in what feels like an overwhelmingly chaotic week/month/year. But this decision cedes authority to state legislatures controlled by anti-trans extremist movements that seek to harm trans people, trans kids, and will not stop at eliminating healthcare. 1115
Reposted by Beth DaviessMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health. 25278344315
Reposted by Beth DaviessMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... 831156459
Reposted by Beth DaviessJacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 17/06/2025"The day before a violent political attack in Minnesota, the last top officials at a program that aims to spot so-called 'lone actor' violent domestic extremists were reassigned to other roles." A damning report by @willcarless.bsky.social in @usatoday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...usatoday.comAs ‘lone actor’ attacks rise, Trump cuts program aimed at spotting themA DHS program that funds efforts to spot and report potential domestic terrorists is being shuttered by the Trump Administration, as attacks spike. 14129
Reposted by Beth DaviessSean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social · 16/06/2025For so long, people thought that requiring logic, accountability, and proof were so inevitable, they needed "disruption." Now, we're going to relearn how fragile architectures for realizing any intention bigger than (or averse to) short-term capital and political power grabs really are. 13012
Reposted by Beth DaviessRead the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The airlines also sold our data to ICE. Jesus. 261000499
Reposted by Beth DaviessJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 30/05/2025@bdaviess.bsky.social and I cited this as part of our paper on Chinese immigration exclusion. Anti-Chinese politicians said extremist laws targeting Chinese people were the only way to prevent unlawful extremist violence targeting Chinese people. www.middlebury.edu/institute/ac...middlebury.eduLawful Extremism: The Chinese Exclusion ActThe first paper in the “Lawful Extremism” series considered whether the 1856 Dred Scott decision that denied Black people citizenship and constitutional rights functioned as an extremist ideological t... 13019
Reposted by Beth DaviessJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/05/2025"When we are “thinking of the children,” we are supposed to imagine our child as cisgender, not as one of the trans and cis kids who would benefit from gender-affirming healthcare... we are certainly not ever, ever supposed to imagine those kids as real." www.liberalcurrents.com/showing-thei...liberalcurrents.comShowing Their Buts: the False Compassion of the Concerned“Compassion is important, but,” a beautiful turn of phrase that calls to mind the immortal words of the great leader Eddard Stark. Everything before the word "but" is horseshit. 0115
Reposted by Beth DaviessKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/05/2025For @msnbc.com, I wrote about the trans military ban and how trans people are riding an eternal transphobia carousel where our rights are determined by whether the blue or red team guy wins the White House. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...msnbc.comOpinion | The military understood a key truth about trans Americans. But not anymore.The military ban of trans troops tells a much broader story of the current state of legal rights for trans people in the U.S. 433995
Reposted by Beth DaviessHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/05/2025Exactly this. www.theverge.com/policy/66568... 151087472
Reposted by Beth DaviessEdward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 13/05/2025“What all of these stories have in common is that someone oversold an automated system, people used it based on what they were told it could do, and then they or others got hurt.” 0189
Reposted by Beth DaviessJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 06/05/2025I'll do you one better! @bdaviess.bsky.social www.middlebury.edu/institute/ac...middlebury.eduLawful Extremism: Florida's Anti-Trans Laws 2106
Reposted by Beth DaviessJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 02/05/2025The most depressing of all reasons to re-up our research on the Chinese Exclusion Act. This paper focuses on the characteristics of an extremist movement as it pivots to become lawful. @bdaviess.bsky.social www.middlebury.edu/institute/ac...middlebury.eduLawful Extremism: The Chinese Exclusion ActThe first paper in the “Lawful Extremism” series considered whether the 1856 Dred Scott decision that denied Black people citizenship and constitutional rights functioned as an extremist ideological t... 097
Reposted by Beth DaviessJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/04/20251. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 companypopular.infoFortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant familyOn March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family. 1193188859141
Reposted by Beth Daviessændra. @aendra.com · 22/04/2025I am begging anyone with the ability to commission articles in my industry: let trans people write about what is happening to us right now. 2845381297
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The policing of all gender boundaries was always the inevitable result (and purpose) of the war on trans people 192
Reposted by Beth DaviessDr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article 7826848622358
Reposted by Beth DaviessMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025RFK Jr is such a piece of shit www.hhs.gov/press-room/m... 3583399
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social · 15/04/2025It cannot be emphasized enough how complicit these anti-trans "centrist" pundits are in the current administration's wildly successful campaign to harm trans people in any way they can. 547249
Reposted by Beth DaviessRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 12/04/2025“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” - Frederick Douglass - Required reading by @sifill.bsky.social 0135
Reposted by Beth DaviessEvelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Can't be emphasized enough that the image of the US deporting people for things they said is so much more damaging to its foreign policy interests than anything a student might have said on the quad 141252357
Reposted by Beth DaviessAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025[Narrator: they would not know or do either of those things] 411512