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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 17h

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Times

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Since the mid-1950s, we have changed the thing that "AI" refers to every 5-10 years. The current thing we're calling "AI" is about a decade old, and all this label-switching leads to a lack of clarity as to what (this) "AI" is.

The First Bank of Chicago, a Grecian temple to money. It is surrounded by flames. A skeleton in academic robes and mortarboards has been lynched from its roof. In the foreground are banded packages of US $100 bills.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 4h

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

NEW: Amid public health concerns over online sports betting, major operators like DraftKings say their in-app safeguards can prevent users from spiraling out of control. Our reporter decided to find out for himself whether that was true.

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Our Reporter Spent 10 Weeks Gambling on DraftKings. Here Are 5 Things He Learned.

ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson immersed himself in the world of online sports betting on DraftKings to test the limits of the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. Here are five things he learn...

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 14h

this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 7h

Watching Fringe again and just got to the episode where Walter just straight up murders a Nazi and y'know, shows age well sometimes.

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 7h

I hate that I can't mute the word "ai" because the letters "ai" are in so many words it would fuck up everything.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 6h

Tuesday

Jessica Fletcher sleepily sat in front of a big old school desktop computer, likely a word processor, with her eyes closed and her head resting on her hand as her other hand reaches for a mug of coffee.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h

"joking," loosely, because the president would very much decide how the federal government responds to a possible, imminent, or actual nuclear strike on a county of some 10 million people. for the record i have never made a joke like that about some nowhere town no one's ever heard of

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h

very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 12h

If we had a federal government that wasn't firmly up the ass of Big AI, they'd make it a crime for an AI to put people in mortal danger by sending them into wilderness areas with fictional instructions. If a human kept doing this, they'd probably go to jail, even under existing laws.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 14h

remember when it would have been news that the president published a slur against a tiny minority

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Giada Zavarise ➡️ AdvX @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 17h

The funniest/saddest reaction to this amazing article has been people going "wait, Stellaris has WRITERS?" Yes folks, if a game has words... someone probably got paid to write them... even if that game isn't an RPG or a visual novel...

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 9h

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10h

Jim Bakker, who, along with his then-wife Tammy Faye, built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful TV show “The PTL Club,” only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died.

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Jim Bakker, who built ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire, has died at 86

Jim Bakker, who along with his then-wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

all the "RESPECT THE TROOPS HONOR THE TROOPS STAND FOR THEM AND SUPPORT THE TROOPS" stuff the media pushed since 9/11 was a joke. A laugh to them. Every time it collided with whatever it was that Republicans want to do, the troops lose. Trump goes to soldiers' graves and laughs at them!

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 12h

I promise you, there are Democrats in congress right now who still believe it is possible to go back to before Trump. It is not. Republicans are spending Trump’s term as Vought intended. They are intentionally breaking government in as many places as they can to make going back impossible.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 12h

This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

lord archer doesn’t count as the third because britain

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 11h

if youre wondering how i spent my evening it was sculpting 20 new creatures so they could sing over the garden wall

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 22h

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11h

Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes. Start with prosecuting the crimes first and work your way backward if that makes you more comfortable. But we cannot live in a country with this level of elite impunity.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11h

These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 10h

Dennis Hastert and Jim Bakker in the same day. It’s not the main event, but it’s not nothing.

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Aaron The Sane Whitaker Bourque @afbourque.bsky.social · 10h

And Lisa Gilroy takes time off of roasting Sam Reich to voice Tyris.

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Aaron The Sane Whitaker Bourque @afbourque.bsky.social · 10h

Also HOLY SHIT, THAT'S MATTHEW RHYS AS GILIUS???

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Aaron The Sane Whitaker Bourque @afbourque.bsky.social · 10h

Better videogame-related project for Liam McIntyre.

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Aaron The Sane Whitaker Bourque @afbourque.bsky.social · 10h

Okay. Thirty seconds-- hang on... Thirty TWO seconds in, and Golden Axe made me laugh. I guess I know how I'm spending the rest of the night.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12h

You had to be there when all the televangelists all got busted and tried to steal each other’s thrones in the mid 1980s. Extremely satisfying stuff

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Status @status.news · 12h

CNN staffers breathed a sigh of relief when Mark Thompson agreed to stay on under Skydance. But we have learned that he hasn’t yet finalized a new contract—and he’s not the only top CNN executive whose deal expires in 2027. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...

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Ellison Leaves His Mark

CNN staffers breathed a sigh of relief when Mark Thompson agreed to stay on under Skydance. But Status has learned that he hasn’t yet finalized a new contract—and he’s not the only top CNN executive w...

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 16h

polanski wasn't even present for the vote but as usual it goes to show that israel's status as a safe haven for global jewry is entirely conditional on one's support for whichever israeli government happens to be in power at the time

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 18h

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Aaron The Sane Whitaker Bourque @afbourque.bsky.social · 12h

All that money he swindled is meaningless to him, now.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 12h

Fuck this man for swindling my mother out of a significant amount of our family finances at a time we couldn't afford it, using her faith against her. Fuck him forever, and I'm glad he's dead.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 14h

Here is Megyn Kelly, telling the world that Jane Doe was lucky she got to be raped by seven men and she should be grateful.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 13h

Public library apps, though. Those are always welcome.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 13h

Comixology becoming Kindle really curbed my digital comics reading.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 16h

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Update On Your Marvel Unlimited Membership
The Marvel Unlimited app will be sunset as of 12/7, and a new Marvel Comics app Powered By WEBTOON will be launching on 11/16. To learn more about how this impacts your membership and digital comic library please visit our FAQ.

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Cass'ika of Mandalore @themusicofmysoul.bsky.social · 13h

e chuta......

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Valentinexyz @valentinexyz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A tweet saying “Matcha pilates in bali before a labubu rave” being quoted by someone who posted a picture of Jabba the Hutt.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 13h

These are the basic contours of every major religious schism

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 14h

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

“we can fantasize about raping people on livestream but if anyone thinks anything bad should happen to us as a result we will try to get them fired” sums up the state of right wing “intellectualism” pretty well

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