Artemis @ The Needle

Artemis @ The Needle

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Artemis @ The Needle
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My Latest: Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years Much of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.

theneedlenews.comErin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For YearsMuch of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.

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transliberty.bsky.social
@transliberty.bsky.social

📣ATTENTION TRANS ALLIES! The government is about to defund ALL organizations that receive public funds unless they actively erase trans identities. We need you to leave a public comment and oppose this regulation before it's too late! Instructions to leave public comment 👉 vist.ly/5axus

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In coverage we did last month, we explained the risk of a regulatory proposal by the Trump administration via the OMB. If made regulation, this rule would effectively force most of US society to ignore that trans people exist, or lose the money needed to serve other populations' basic needs.

theneedlenews.comTrump Administration proposes barring federal agencies, federally funded organizations from acknowledging existence of trans peopleThis proposal is the most comprehensive such attempt to be floated.
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1. In our latest, I go over an in-depth analysis of Kansas AG Kobach's arguments for making trans Kansans undocumented because they are trans. Among other absurd arguments, Kris Kobach states that the US Constitution "is rooted in ancient biblical concepts." 🧵 theneedlenews.com/2026/07/insi...

theneedlenews.comInside Kansas's Defense of Invalidating Trans Owned Driver's LicensesIn Kansas Attorney General Kris W. Kobach’s arguments in support of revoking trans people’s IDs, he stretched jurisprudence to its breaking point.
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6. He also claimed that privacy, which is enshrined in the Kansas Constitution he has sworn to uphold, and wanting equal government action (including the right to a correct ID that reflects one's actual sex/gender, even if it's changed), are "positive rights" which are “very rare in constitutions”.

Artemis @ The Needle
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1. In our latest, I go over an in-depth analysis of Kansas AG Kobach's arguments for making trans Kansans undocumented because they are trans. Among other absurd arguments, Kris Kobach states that the US Constitution "is rooted in ancient biblical concepts." 🧵 theneedlenews.com/2026/07/insi...

theneedlenews.comInside Kansas's Defense of Invalidating Trans Owned Driver's LicensesIn Kansas Attorney General Kris W. Kobach’s arguments in support of revoking trans people’s IDs, he stretched jurisprudence to its breaking point.
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4. He also claimed that trans people wanting their documents to reflect their actual sex/gender, not a false and imposed one is trans people attempting to "compel speech" from the government. This "compelled speech" argument is familiar to TERF and GC arguments in academia, not legal contexts.

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5. Kobach went so far as to say the government could force people to eat a certain way. "It's conceivable the State might say, well, there's a health, safety, and welfare interest of the State exercising our traditional police powers as they're called to compel people to chew their food thoroughly"

Artemis @ The Needle
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1. In our latest, I go over an in-depth analysis of Kansas AG Kobach's arguments for making trans Kansans undocumented because they are trans. Among other absurd arguments, Kris Kobach states that the US Constitution "is rooted in ancient biblical concepts." 🧵 theneedlenews.com/2026/07/insi...

theneedlenews.comInside Kansas's Defense of Invalidating Trans Owned Driver's LicensesIn Kansas Attorney General Kris W. Kobach’s arguments in support of revoking trans people’s IDs, he stretched jurisprudence to its breaking point.
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2. He also makes arguments that are akin to the "separate but equal" doctrine of segregation and Jim Crow while framing such segregation as mere "inconvenience" According to Kobach, this "inconvenience does not create an injury much less irreparable injury."

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3. His "ancient biblical concepts" claim about the US Constitution was part of a broader argument where he legally argued that asking for the government to do things for the benefit of its population is a “bold right”.

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Aleksandra Vaca
@transiticsnews.com

I wrote an op-ed about the Graham Platner situation. If anything, I'm more upset at the fact that it took until now for people to condemn him when he's clearly been unfit for office for a long time. Look: he may be an ally, but he isn't a good person. And I'm sick of having bad people in charge.

transiticsnews.comYes, Graham Platner is a Trans Ally. Yes, He Says What You Want to Hear. That Doesn’t Make Him Any Less Unfit for Office.Despite his ostensibly progressive politics and vocal LGBTQ+ allyship, Graham Platner was unfit for office long before the latest allegations. Why did it take so long to finally draw the line?

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Aleksandra Vaca
@transiticsnews.com

It angers me to see corporate queer news publishing my Kansas story from last week as if it’s their own reporting only to link my story in like the final paragraph. But I’m not surprised. Corporate queer journalism has always been corporate waaaay before it’s been queer.

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My and Jane's latest covers the disastrous SCOTUS ruling this morning. In short, trans people no longer have equal protection because this court has decided that Constitutionally speaking people are only ever their coercively assigned sex at birth. theneedlenews.com/2026/06/supr...

theneedlenews.comSupreme Court rules trans people not entitled to equal protections under lawThe full consequences of this decision are wide, and will be hard to predict, but it is safe to say that every trans person has had their rights reduced.
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One helps people make connections, however fraught, with other people. The other cooks your cognitive and reasoning abilities. You don't have to guess which one many people currently in power want kids to avoid and which they think is great for kids.

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