Its newsroom still does not hire or assign trans journalists to cover trans issues — a de facto ban that exemplifies prejudice — and it suppresses the expression of dissenting queer viewpoints internally.

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On at least five prior occasions dating to 2022 medical groups, experts, advocacy organizations and parents themselves have taken the extraordinary step of issuing public statements saying that The Times had distorted their positions. In every case we could find, the misrepresentation went in only one direction, twisting words to fit the outlet’s political agenda against gender affirming care and more broadly against trans people themselves.In one case, the parent of a trans child said she had been cruelly deceived and manipulated by a Times reporter.

The Times has preyed upon not only trans families, but on its own readers who understandably lack a detailed understanding of trans issues and rely upon honest brokers of fact.

Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People? assignedmedia.org

War is not logical, or righteous, and it has nothing to do with justice; war is just a horror that sweeps into people’s lives and upends them, and no matter what you do, right or wrong, good or bad, war leaves you shattered.

The Rat, Jude Doyle

Researchers set out piles of pebbles in the gardens, with a few small crystals incorporated into each. The chimpanzees immediately sorted the crystals out of the piles. Then they carried them in their mouths, turned them in the light and held them up to their eyes like old-timey prospectors.

Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals - The New York Times

Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident nytimes.com

What AI does in helping us code is take away the drudgery and let us do the part that’s creative and soulful. And what AI does in other creative disciplines (like writing, illiustation) is it takes away the soulful part and leaves you with the drudgery.

revolution.social - Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Moral Compass (with Anil Dash)

An important observation that helps explain how well-intentioned and astute and progressive-minded people can end up on different sides of this issue. (Super weird to find myself a sort of centrist, but here we are.)

Literary Hub » Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight

It is quite possible that there is no resolution to the present situation until one side is thoroughly destroyed as an ideological power and political entity.

I know how to make comics, and like most Minnesotans that I come across, we’re all just using our skill sets to help others right now. We’re all fighting in the ways that we know how.

“This Gives Us an Outlet”: Members of the Minneapolis Comic Community on What It’s Like to Create During a Crisis

Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.

Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients' Race Data and Being Racist With It

The Republic of Poetry has no borders. In this republic no human being is illegal. In this republic no one is thrown on the other side of the fence after building the fence. Every time the fence goes up, you must tear it down.

From Martín Espada’s Hampshire College Commencement Address, May 19. 2007.

I recommend the whole thing, it speaks to our present moment in striking and stirring terms, starting with this James Baldwin quote at the beginning: “The reality in which we live is a reality we have made, and it’s time, my children, to begin the act of creation all over again.”

This isn't over. It may not be over for a long while yet. But I am 100 percent convinced that we are going to win. (7/7)

— Dax (David J.) Schwartz ([@snurri.bsky.social](http://snurri.bsky.social)) February 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM