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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026

They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AI is being used to plan mass shootings and nudify our children and help me understand how saying no to the whole damn thing isn’t the immediate reaction.

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For those who don't understand this, the way AI companies acquire their precious precious data from across the internet is via mass automated requests. They often conceal the source of these queries via VPNs and distributed networks. In other words, it's nearly identical to botnet DDOS attacks.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2026

Phenomenal essay on the way the current moment is affecting prominent trans folks. It's a pressure cooker that is systematically breaking us down to take us out of the fight.

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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's almost like the Democrats don't *need* to attack trans people.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2026

I created a live anti trans ad tracker that tracks all anti trans ad spending on meta and Google. It runs and updates nightly. You can see ad campaigns in real time. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com

adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com

2026 anti-trans ad tracker

Anti-trans political ads in the 2026 US midterms on Meta and Google, flagged nightly by a classifier.

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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Democrats' refusal to hold Amy Acton accountable for her recent anti-trans pivot enabled this. You cannot ask trans people to just ignore or look past stuff like this, you need to stand with us now. This gutter bigotry is unacceptable and disqualifying. Candidates like this *are* the greater evil

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026

The Labour Party did this. That's why trans people are pushing back on Dems capitulating on trans issues. We have seen what happens when the liberal party abandons trans people after saying you must vote for them or it without be worse under a conservative government.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is beyond disgusting

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 03/09/2026

I think the most frustrating part of the pro-AI argument is the sentiment of “well it’s here to stay, so you have to learn it or get left behind”. Outside of video players which were determined by porn, most prevailing tech wins out by the consumer demand. AI is trying to work the other way around.

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Valk @einherjarvalk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

but do remind me how it’s a good thing he ended VOA and USAID

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Paratroopers in 1944: “look out Hitler, here we come” Paratroopers in 2026: “girls have cooties”

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My name is Captain Dylan Blaha. Last year, I made several videos reminding US service members to disobey unlawful orders. The military suspended my security clearance and launched a full investigation. Nearly a year later, I now know the outcome.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The next president should rename all Google building addresses and the CEO's home to something very unflattering.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Trump regime's HHS and Office of Population Affairs have released another anti-trans report claiming that trans people are violent, authoritarian, anti-democratic, and extremist. This is a massive escalation in state propaganda and nothing but a pretense for horrors to come.

New Research on Gender Ideology and Left-Wing Authoritarianism
Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? is a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services examining the psychology behind strong support for radical gender ideology and left-wing authoritarianism.

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James Boxall 🇨🇦🍁 @jamesgis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thank you @mapquest.com for the meme generator "rename Lake Ontario"...it's like a new toy for #geographers

Map from map quest meme generator. "Lake you voted for this so good luck."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Placed knee on neck" makes it sound like some careful massage procedure. GROWN MEN KNELT ON OTHER PEOPLE'S NECKS. Imagine 200 pounds of smelly moron kneeling on your carotid artery or windpipe, and then stop carrying water for your oppressors by euphemizing violence with words like "placed".

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Five major publications, in less than a week, featuring four trans people who posit that fascism is good as long as it's polite and trans people brought this on themselves anyway. Don't pretend this isn't coordinated.

Imperial propagandist on Andor, edited: the only story that matters is transgender aggression.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

dawg fascism is so fucking WEIRD STOP BEING WEIRDOS!!!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The kids these days will hardly believe this, but a mere decade ago, we had a presidential election in which effectively the only issue on the table was the security of communications at the highest level of government.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is like moving from 1930s Italy to 1930s Germany because Mussolini said some things you didn't like.

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Bex @bexg93.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

⚠️ Anti-rights organisations identified in the report

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Landon🌻☭ @iamlandon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Cities are making it illegal to sleep in your car

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There could not be a more blatant violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits any executive branch employee from "Using his or her official title while participating in political activity." Unlikely to be prosecuted, however. Will any news org even mention this? www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/7...

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 Animate! Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Normalize telling convention staff each and every time we find a vendor selling AI anything. Make it clear it bothers you and that it’s considered art theft. Either more cons will learn to cut the rot out & foster a better creative space for our communities, or we learn which cons can’t be trusted.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is how these tests are being marketed - for "protection" of the "biological female" - including on the USA Track & Field site with their regular merch. Buy a hoodie and while you're here grab a handy test for subhumans too (you might have one in your own home!)

OVERVIEW
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In alignment with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other International Federations, Eagle Dx has optimized the testing process to help athletes and governing bodies comply with the latest policies regarding the protection of the female category. Whether you require individual, at-home testing or a comprehensive organizational program, our streamlined sample collection and secure result delivery provide the analytical rigor necessary for elite sport.

SRY test for athletes
Using the gb GENETIC SRY detection kit, we detect human male DNA present in the sample. The determination is based on quantitative real-time PCR using a fluorescently labelled probe. This test is required by the World Athletics organization and is intended for athletes in the female category in all world ranking competitions.

All athletes that want to compete in the female category in World Rankings Competition must have a negative SRY (Sex-determining Region Y) test result. The absence of the SRY gene will identify the athlete as biologically female.

The SRY gene is located on the short arm of the Y chromosome at position 11.3. It encodes a transcription factor that binds to a specific region of a protein. This protein, called the “sex-determining region Y,” is the testis-determining factor, which initiates male sex determination.

For a price quote, please contact us at the e-mail address info@generi-biotech.com.

USA Track & Field genetic testing. $175.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/08/2026

Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...

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Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation

A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

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Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law

People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 30/07/2026

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Which rights are you personally willing to put on the chopping block for the possibility of returns in a century

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The Dietz Foundation @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We will have a new professional wargame available to pre-reserve copies of on the Foundation website starting next Monday!! It's not just expending ammo...how are you going to get fuel/men halfway across the world in time to make a difference?

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

ruin a book by adding a word: Ender's MMORPG Game

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sail @saildraws.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

im so chuffed

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