Just, wow.

@mmasnick has an important piece about the Trump administration's threat to pull funding from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) unless they remove all references to LGBTQ+ issues and start "deadnaming" trans kids.

"After years of screaming “save the children” while baselessly accusing others of exploiting kids, the Trump administration is now trying to destroy the actual infrastructure that saves children. This one crosses from standard MAGA hypocrisy into genuinely evil territory.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t think you can (or should) call most people inherently “bad,” but if you support what the Trump administration is doing here, you are a bad person.

According to multiple reports, including former NCMEC board member Don McGowan and independent journalist Maria Kabas (who has been breaking story after story lately), the Justice Department informed the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that it will pull their entire funding if it doesn’t remove all references to LGBTQ+ issues and starts “deadnaming” trans kids. According to the Verge, NCMEC has already started complying and has removed at least three documents..."

This fits every single example of illegal stuff this administration has done so far: Accuse others of what you intend to do all along.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/magas-sickening-hypocrisy-from-save-the-children-to-defund-the-org-that-actually-saves-children/

MAGA’s Sickening Hypocrisy: From ‘Save The Children’ To ‘Defund The Org That Actually Saves Children’

After years of screaming “save the children” while baselessly accusing others of exploiting kids, the Trump administration is now trying to destroy the actual infrastructure that saves …

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@briankrebs @mmasnick This has been their approach my entire life. They actively enjoy hurting queer kids. They _say so_, and yes, I have receipts.

In the 90s, half the homeless kids showing up in Seattle’s U. District were LGBT kids thrown out by fundamentalist parents at the urging of “faith leaders” like Beverly LaHaye, who told her followers to make their queer children destitue and without recourse of any kind.

They fought anti-bullying efforts in schools because they would stop LGBT children from being hurt. Their euphemism for this was “religious freedom” and that religious freedom was to hurt children.

This is who they are. This is who they have always been.

#fascism #uspol #uspolitics #politics

@briankrebs @mmasnick Here, I wrote up last year a _current_ podcast (2024) where a bunch of “conservative” influencers got together and rhapsodised about how much they liked beating down LGBT children and straight children of LGBT parents, and how much they looked forward to being able to do it again.

These are adults waxing nostalgic and talking openly about how much they want to hurt children.

Literally.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/01/13/fascism-watch-follow-up-yeah-they-said-it-themselves/

They are monsters who openly desire to hurt children.

This is who they are, and it is who they have ALWAYS BEEN.

#uspol #uspolitics #fascism #fundamentalism

Fascism Watch Follow-Up: Yeah, They Said It Themselves – Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected

@moira @briankrebs @mmasnick

I recently hosted a lovely trans girl whose mom had told her she would "never be as good as me" and pretty much turned her into a slave doing housework and chores. She got tired of the abuse at home and came to stay with us. We fixed up her car and helped her make a new start.

Not the first rescue we've done from a conservative family either. I'm so sick of their fake superiority and abuse of their very own children.

@darwinwoodka @moira @briankrebs @mmasnick This right here. It's unbelievable. Thank you to all who do this. Cause without people like you, they would literally and completely be utterly alone. Even if it's just one person that is helped, it will still be one less person without help, which is better than none at all.

@Marie_Sierra @moira @briankrebs @mmasnick

We built an impromptu "underground railroad" with several different hosts to help her get here. Friends, relatives, whoever we could find to help.

Never be afraid to ask, *lots* of people are willing to help. Nobody should be alone right now.

@briankrebs @mmasnick NCMEC is complying with them 😤
@briankrebs @mmasnick So much for protecting infant life.
@annehargreaves @briankrebs @mmasnick They were never interested in protecting infant life. They are interested in as many births as possible.

@briankrebs @mmasnick so what stops this administration from continuing to dismantle this country piece by piece? They own the courts so you can’t do anything through them. They seem to at best ignore protests, and at worst will deploy police and possibly military to quell any public dissent so that’s not really going to have an impact.

I think a lot of people don’t want to discuss the likely violence that will be required to right these wrongs.

@covercash @briankrebs @mmasnick at some point they piss off enough people it comes back to haunt them.
@briankrebs @mmasnick Some day, there will be Nuremberg trials for these people.
I hope we call them the Mar-a-lago trials.
@briankrebs @mmasnick sounds like a dog whistle to shut the service down to protect the exec pedos, such as itself.

@briankrebs @mmasnick

I am pissed at NCMEC for cowering to the pedophiles and child abusers.

I’m not couching my words.

NCMEC is cowering in fear to the pedophiles.

@briankrebs @mmasnick

Dead honest this is such a horrifying development since this sets the stage to discredit the organization.

They’ve compromised their mission by agreeing, through their actions, that not all missing kids are equally worthy of being found.

That compromise is a wedge of rot they won’t be able to easily excise.

@briankrebs @mmasnick Dirty, very dirty and very stupid...there is no end to Trump.
@briankrebs @mmasnick Someone correct me if I am citing a bad stat, but memory tells me that some 40% of unhoused youth/minors are LGBTQ+ and are often in that status BECAUSE of being LGBTQ+. This is a direct attack on them to compound the abuses and exploitation they are already subject to in that vulnerable state.
@briankrebs @mmasnick This was their goal all along. I keep warning people that about what happened to Soviet Era Romania under Decree 770. Don't think that this and the abortion bans aren't connected. It's a cover for trafficking and the LGBT+ community is the scapegoat. Fascists blame the other side of what they're guilty actually of as a diversion.
@briankrebs @mmasnick The Soviets got the inspiration from the Nazi Mother's Cross and Lebensborn.They're scapegoating the LGBT+ as a tool to toppel protections for children forced to be born under the bans. That's who they're really after.
@briankrebs @mmasnick I want to thank the #nonvoters and #jillstein Voters for this nightmare
@briankrebs I have historically encouraged my students to refrain from using “bad” to describe people. The day after election day 2024 a student called Trump bad. I didn’t intervene. Most things that seem bad are done by people who don’t realize they’re hurting others. But when someone knows an action causes harm and takes it anyway, it’s not wrong to call them bad.