It’s pretty remarkable how much discourse has centered around the Clinton vs Trump election being the big turning point of recent history, while Clinton has spent most of the last year praising him.
it's the same war guy
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I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years.
In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing.
www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
One byproduct—just one, there are others—of Bruen is reducing police powers re: the racist war on guns, especially re: simple gun possession and how it manifests across the country.
In Baltimore: www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm...
In New Orleans: veritenews.org/2026/04/14/m...
Gun control advocates, if they are going to be taken seriously right now need to reckon with the fact that violence is down nationwide (at historic levels) even as gun rights have expanded since Bruen. For most part, explanations are a grab bag of extremely limited claims (ex: less ghost guns etc.).
There is also the inconvenient truth that gun control is enforced by unaccountable, violent police and gun war tactics by local police (jump-outs) are reflected in ICE/DHS terror. Bruen has put everybody's assumptions on gun rights up against the wall. Me in 2019: www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/o...