Counting down the days until the white house conditions access on how trans people are referred to or how democrats are referred to. This fight isn't really about the name of a coastal sea. - ThreadSky

katelynburns.com • 3 days ago

Counting down the days until the white house conditions access on how trans people are referred to or how democrats are referred to.

This fight isn't really about the name of a coastal sea.

Reposted from Brian Stelter

Trump is blacklisting a news outlet for using a name he doesn't like.

It's that simple.

So why aren't more reporters and media outlets speaking out more vehemently to help The AP? In part, I'm told, it's because the WH Correspondents' Association is trying to work out a solution behind the scenes.

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steveaggy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh. They are going to write a press release condemning this action. Then go back to work.

ellie.thecancellations.com•3 days ago

fuck how did that not click for me until now

gumshoeless.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, changing of the name of The Gulf of Mexico is just code-speak for racial intolerance and mass deportation of non-white (brown) people.

hotgirlchristmas.bsky.social•3 days ago

He's aligned with christian fascists. Of course they came up with a shibboleth.

gwenners.bsky.social•3 days ago

When it was pointed out that the fight is only on the surface about the name of a gulf, but much deeper on the AP Stylebook, it all made instant sense to me. Why rename a gulf, when you can get the AP to do far more?

brianstelter.bsky.social•3 days ago

agreed. i've been saying that on air and in my stories.

man-w-no-name.bsky.social•2 days ago

And when CNN and the rest of the mainstream press doesn't draw a line in the sand on that either will you continue to rationalize for them? Explain how they're working out a deal behind the scenes for increased access?

bylinegraph.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/trump-ap-gulf-america-mexico

Trans style issues are in fact at least part of this, per Axios scoop

katelynburns.com•3 days ago

I'm counting down the days until one of my MSNBC trans opinion columns goes viral on the right and the white house demands they drop me as a freelancer tbh

rachelernst.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's so frustrating that people are treating this like a joke and not like a test case.

zoeyknowsstuff.bsky.social•3 days ago

This administration has been dipping its toes into a bunch of puddles... just seeing what they can get away with. I am hearing a little more challenges sprouting up, but I still fear things will get worse and the response will be "we thought he wouldn't actually do it."

etrigan.bsky.social•3 days ago

And the WHCA will wag their finger and say "Well, it doesn't make any sense to boycott the White House to try to get more access!"

ds00n.bsky.social•3 days ago

this them being lazy, cost-adverse, arrogant?

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