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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir)

@agoadesq.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ advocate, herp fan, and cat parent. Militant introvert. Fan of Angel City FC, all NWSL, USWNT, LGBTQI athletes, and good defense. Ambivalent resident of unceded Tongva land. Views my own.

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Eli Deep @elideep.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No matter what WNBA team you root for, at least we can all bond over hating the refs and the Indiana Fever. #wnba
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026
For @us.theguardian.com, I spoke to Native WNBA fans about the loss of the Connecticut Sun. “For a tribe that fought long and hard to be granted tribal sovereignty, the [sale] decision being taken out of their hands can feel like a violation of that sovereignty.”
theguardian.com
‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss
The Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move echoes centuries of erasure and displacement
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The 📐🌃 domain is for sale, else i would accuse ESPN of participation in a phishing scam
Closeup of GFC-LA scorebug with plug for future game tickets including the URL "anglecity.com/tickets"
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trans Shift by Kenneth Noland, 1964 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Purchased with funds contributed by Elaine and Werner Dannheisser and The Dannheisser Foundation, 1981

Art © Estate of Kenneth Noland/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What a long strange trip it's been
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That’s so unkind to lizards. 🦎 Opinion | “Paxton has the morals of a lizard,” writes Bob Stallman, a former president of both American Farm Bureau and Texas Farm Bureau. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
houstonchronicle.com
Texas Farm Bureau endorsed Ken Paxton. Big mistake.
“Paxton has the morals of a lizard,” writes Bob Stallman, a former president of both American Farm Bureau and Texas Farm Bureau.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ben Shelton's shirt looks like a thermal paper receipt left on top of something warm
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@espn.com Those of us who follow Chelsea Women and/or the WSL in general... and click on your push notification about, say, a Lucy Bronze goal... should not have to scroll through pages of men's soccer content to get to what we care about.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's not about "fairness in women's sports" any more than it was about "ethics in gaming journalism."
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David @dmuma.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wow what a u-turn in my emotional state. If you are queer you need to remember that you have an invisible meter of queer interactions and when it gets low you take massive stat debuffs across the board. Don’t forget to be gay!!!
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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There are so many outrageous qualified immunity decisions out there - but this one, ruling officers who pinned a woman down on a hill of fire ants while handcuffed were entitled to qualified immunity because there was no other case in which officers were so depraved, is beyond the pale.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/09/2026
Jesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.
More recently in Craighead County — symbolically, at least, Ground Zero for the state’s attack on libraries, thanks to Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro) — the library announced several changes to circulation as it relates to minors. In a Facebook post, the library listed a number of changes to library policies, including:

Minors are prohibited from using the self-checkout kiosks;
Children under 13 years old may only check out materials from the designated children’s collection, while minors age 13-17 can only check out from the children or teen sections;
Minors may not check out DVDs at all; and  
Minors are prohibited from entering or purchasing anything from the Friends of the Library Bookstore.
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
youtu.be/AIFcQ88AxBg?...
youtu.be
Rubyfruit Jungle
YouTube video by Beth Elliott - Topic
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/09/2026
fun fact! Musk's fossil fuelled data centres almost certainly emit more climate pollution than is saved by all Tesla vehicles ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...
Grok's fossil-fuelled data centres wipe out either a large chunk or more than all of Tesla's global avoided emissions
Fossil fuelled chatbot emissions
Avoided emissions from Tesla products
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xAI data centres
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2024 (Tesla report)
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2023 (Tesla report)
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2023 (Independent estimate, high)
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2023 (Independent estimate, low)
...from its EVs, solar panels and batteries (depending on which year and calculation you use). All numbers in megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Lori Lindsey, i love ya, but i think up 4 in the 79th minute it *would* behoove this team to take some risks
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I talked to a man who got stuck in an elevator, a wheelchair user who had to go on his balcony and shout to ask for food, a woman who had to sleep in her chair because she couldn't use her COPD machine. The crisis in Gary is the product of structural neglect and racism, but also climate change.
prospect.org
Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“This case stands out as an example of the enormity of the tragedy pregnant women and families are facing because of the Trump administration,” Cho said, of Monterroso Lemus’s experience. “The bottom line is: No one deserves to be treated like this.” theintercept.com/2026/08/27/t...
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Trump Admin Said She Was Lying About Stillbirth in ICE Custody. New Evidence Points to Lack of Prenatal Care.
The Trump administration claimed Iris Dayana Monterroso Lemus received “FULL medical, prenatal care” in ICE custody.
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Angel City FC @angelcity.com · 24/08/2026
Brick wall. Angelina Anderson is #AngelCityFC's Player of the Match for #LAvGFC. Once Upon a Farm | Player of the Match
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Starting to sound like a matter for @badlawyerpod.bsky.social... Commentary: The LAX people mover wasn’t ready for the 2026 World Cup. Will it even be ready for the 2028 Olympics? www.latimes.com/business/sto...
latimes.com
Commentary: The LAX people mover wasn't ready for the 2026 World Cup. Will it even be ready for the 2028 Olympics?
Legal disputes and financial chaos have made the LAX people mover train a construction fiasco, raising doubts about when it will ever be finished.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
1) All the meds involved in a transition (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, GnRHs) are generic so not really moneymakers for anyone involved 2) If you're worried about the profit motive in health care distribution then I have an idea you'll just absolutely love
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AG Rob Bonta @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov · 15/08/2026
We fought back, and the court’s ruling means this care can — and in many states must — qualify for the ACA’s financial protections, ensuring transgender people have an equal opportunity to benefit from the ACA. Everyone deserves access to health coverage. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
oag.ca.gov
Attorney General Bonta Secures Major Court Victory Protecting Gender-Affirming Care Under the Affordable Care Act
OAKLAND — Co-leading a multistate coalition alongside the attorneys general of Massachusetts and New Jersey, California Attorney General Rob Bonta yesterday secured a major victory after the U.S. Dist...
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Eeeew
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/08/2026
that’s fucking right
Peggy Flanagan wearing a protect trans kids shirt
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Trump's Education Dept. has "indefinitely frozen" dozens of investigations into civil rights violations - including reports of racist abuse of Black students and sexual assault of female students - so the Office of Civil Rights can instead focus on banning transgender athletes
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anniempeterson.bsky.social @anniempeterson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I would rather have pronghorn antelope and bighorn sheep and elk and purple sage and four wing saltbrush than data centers and so far no one in tech has presented a compelling vision for how to have all of those things, they just seize more resources for the plagiarism engine.
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
TFW a large queer event in 2026 California offers only binary-gendered restrooms
Fortysomething white queer person in a gray linen suit making a skeptical face at the mirror of a public restroom with 3 yellow stall doors
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Correct Answer
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Cunningham needed the culture war to get on the map, needing it as much as it needed her. ... The result is a star, the latest participant in an old game no more complicated than checkers but far less interesting."
Sophie Cunningham has been in the league eight years. She’ll be 30 later this month, five and a half years older than Clark, and for the large majority of those years, she’s been a serviceable, unremarkable player who is a top-notch three-point shooter. She wasn’t even who the marketers picked to sell sex to the boys – the role of the glammed-up, blonde beauty baller belonged to 6ft 4in Cameron Brink. Cunningham needed the culture war to get on the map, needing it as much as it needed her, and all it took was a silly finger-point and being in opposition to someone Black. To the aggrieved whites, standing up to someone Black meant standing up for them. Add transphobia to her portfolio, and the result is a star, the latest participant in an old game no more complicated than checkers but far less interesting.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
i wanna know which extremely online lawyer made sure to require the post be pinned. genius.
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Worm-like creatures" is the new "racially tinged remarks"
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Abigail Spanberger announced she is restoring the voting rights of about 66,000 people with past felony convictions, reversing the course set by Glenn Youngkin. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...
boltsmag.org
Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🚨ICE trying to recruit social workers. 🚨 www.reddit.com/r/socialwork...
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From the socialworkjobs community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the socialworkjobs community
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Dan McFadden @danmcfadden.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
NEW: ACLU of Mass. files public records lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense for documents about the Trump administration’s apparent deployment of active-duty military personnel as temporary immigration judges. www.aclum.org/press-releas...
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Rachael @rachaelt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the #NWSL did something I really appreciate and think will make stadiums safer and since I constantly have my foot on their necks, it’s only fair I call out when they make me happy.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 24/07/2026
bruce springsteen is music for lesbians because there are few men on earth that love women as much as bruce springsteen loves women
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
These students sure did learn about how American government works. 🫠
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I want to note that being anti-IVF and anti-surrogacy (and yes, I am fully aware of potential concerns with surrogacy as a larger ethical issue when it comes to wealthy people using poorer bodies, etc) isn't just rooted in anti-abortion politics, but also in removing parenthood for LGBTQ couples
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Felicitaciones, Curaçao!
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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Americorps = unpopular with Rs b/c participants a) are often POC from working class backgrounds b) are often in roles that benefit POC from working class backgrounds c) sometimes notice in the course of their service that communities of color need and deserve way more support and even deep reform
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A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Watching my old friend Chase's press clips: always a good move. Clicking on this one while eating lunch: NOT a good move.
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Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN) @awnnetwork.org · 14/07/2026
AWN celebrates Disability Pride Month!
[image description:

Illustration and text against a background of the Disability Pride flag: horizontal bands in green, blue, white, yellow and red. 

At the top in black and pink text reads: 

“AWN celebrates

Disability Pride Month

Nothing About Us Without Us”

Across the image are digital illustrations of a diverse group of eight people representing an array of ages, heights, clothing color / style, hair color / style, medical equipment, and use of various mobility devices. 

In the lower right hand corner is the awn logo:
A large pink “a” with a pale green winged spoonie dragonfly. Below the “a” is our url: awnnetwork dot org. ]

#DisabilityPride #DisabilityPrideMonth2026 #Disability #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
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