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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am convinced that the way out of this isn't to make the humanities easier, endlessly flexible to meet the demands of people who might otherwise blow them off---it's to make them harder and more disciplined in effort

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And there are times when death is terribly heartbreaking. We will always love you, Dolly 😔

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Not the point and not going to sway anyone, but as someone who has a degree in (among other things) biological anthropology, I just want to point out that the argument that there is only a gender binary is complete and utter bunk, the sort of thing that gets demolished in a 101 course on this stuff.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In light of SCOTUS’s ruling this morning, I want to tell my trans siblings: I see you; I love you; Your worth and dignity cannot be deleted by 6 bigots in robes. Future generations will look upon these rulings with scorn and shame. Especially the rank bigotry of Thomas.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It’s maddening that nobody in the media has asked a sitting congressman what his problem with Dietrich Bonhoeffer is.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This is taking me deeper into despair the more I think about it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/06/2026

i really, truly, find this offensive

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If the democrats don’t run 24/7 ads for the next 3 months repeating “I love the inflation” over and over again I will flip all the tables.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm excited to announce that I have inked a contract with Cambridge UP to publish my monograph: "The Shaping of Early Christian Masculinity: Gender, Wealth, and Access to Power"!

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As Frank sees his final days, it’s important to reckon with the ways in which the gay rights movement threw our trans siblings to the wolves for political expediency. And doubly important to vow never to allow that again.

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Barney Frank groped me & threw trans people under the bus

I won't miss him.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The fact that writing is difficult is **part of what makes it fun**. Maybe it’s my gaymers instinct, but I’ve always that that challenge and difficulty are not always a negative. Offers by AI propagandists to “make writing easy” are as unappealing as “pay to win” mechanics.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The current administration is really living up to its promise of bringing back Spartan military ethos by talking loudly and losing more than winning.

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 12/02/2026

Good. Bring it all down. Drag all of these abusive monsters out into the daylight and destroy them. Like, come on. We're waiting.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This is NOT, in fact, “how men behave.” It’s how predators and scumbags behave. We should never allow them to say “oh gee golly, it’s just because I’m a dude.” If someone you’re recommending a student to asks for “aesthetic details,” tell him NO and immediately WARN the student. FFS.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It’s always been clear that removing a president from office is (and maybe should be) difficult. But it is truly terrifying to realize that the impeachment and removal clauses as well as the 25th amendment of the Constitution aren’t worth a single fucking damn whatsoever.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

ICE has shot a mother in the face, put a 16-year-old in a chokehold, and permanently blinded at least two protestors — and that’s just some of what we know. And now this. Despicable.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

It’s indicative of their level of cruelty that they released that cellphone footage and said, “HA! CHECKMATE!” Their minds are so poisoned with their own supply of power hungry caprice that they’re incapable of responding to things like normal human beings.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Renee Nicole Good’s murder is something many of us saw coming, but it’s still infuriating. We live in a county where people are murdered by state ALL THE TIME, but it feels like we’re on the verge of a massive Kent State like event. Accountability and prosecution NOW, before it’s too late.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 01/01/2026

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.

Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that.

"You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now."

Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT,

communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner.

She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus bu….

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

A screenshot of two tweets from the Politico reporter Joe Anuta.

The 1st: ".@NYCMayor elaborates on his comments yesterday that boys and girls should not use the same bathroom. He says he will review the policy of his own education department, which allows students to use restrooms “consistent with their gender identity” and potentially change it"

2nd: "He says students whose sex at birth differs should never be allowed to use the bathroom at the same time, regardless of gender identity"

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The media was eager to turn Kirk's murder into a story about left wing political violence but when that flopped they shifted seamlessly to the "what went wrong with this nice white boy?" angle they do every time a mass shooting or high profile killing occurs. Utterly shameless.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

So @wsj.com are you going to apologize for endangering transgender people with your false reporting? Now that “transgender ideology” turned out to be a meme from a video game that had nothing to do with trans people?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The memory holing of Charlie Kirk’s fascism and cruelty is astonishing. As I’ve seen many say, it’s indicative that the networks lionizing him for “debating” can’t actually play clips of him speaking. On top of that, the credulity of the media is 🤦🏻‍♂️. Shouldn’t we have a journalism of suspicion?

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2025

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Thinking at the moment about an actual play podcaster describing growing anxiety within his character as “coils of rope slowly tightening around his heart” and thinking that feels pretty real right now.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/08/2025

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

Alt text: A tweet from Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) dated August 27, 2025. The tweet calls for Health and Human Services to violate HIPAA laws and forward information about every transgender and transgender-questioning person to law enforcement for immediate detainment, claiming they are killing children in schools. It describes this as a matter of national security, says transgender people should be locked away and studied, calls for medical professionals who enable transitions to be expelled from the profession, and demands that the federal government treat transgender people as if they were terrorist organizations. The tweet shows it was last edited at 1:11 PM and has 5,049 views.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/08/2025

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

Screenshot of two tweets from Matt Walsh’s verified Twitter account (@MattWalshBlog).

First tweet (17 hours ago): “It’s time to have a national conversation about common sense restrictions on transgenders.” The tweet has 1.3K comments, 3.8K retweets, 42K likes, and 1M views.

Second tweet (18 hours ago): “It wasn’t all that long ago that anyone who identified as the opposite sex would be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. Does anyone at this point seriously think that our current approach is an improvement?” The tweet has 666 comments, 1.9K retweets, 21K likes, and 362K views.

First tweet is by Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles), reposted by Christopher F. Rufo. It reads: “For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this delusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” The tweet has 816 comments, 2.4K retweets, 17K likes, and 379K views.

Second tweet is by Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo), 20 hours ago: “The trans cult hatched such an enormous propaganda campaign, that, for a number of years, they were able to obscure an obvious truth: pumping kids full of synthetic hormones, while telling them they can change from boy to girl, will only end in tragedy or disaster.” The tweet has 878 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.2K likes, and 120K views.

Third tweet is also by Christopher F. Rufo, 20 hours ago: “We should now put to rest the libertarian delusion that transgenderism is a matter of ‘personal choice,’ or ‘live and let live.’ It’s an ideology that has done grave damage to millions of Americans, and has unleashed a nihilistic wave of violence on our society. Enough.” The tweet has 921 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.6K likes, and 293K views.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Few things are more unimportantly infuriating than a person smugly saying something ignorant as though it were common sense.

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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Besides beings full of shit and implicitly revealing racist ideas of “real, uncontrollable” DC residents… I’m not sure how Stephen Miller can call people old when he’s spent the last 400 years feeding on the blood of the innocent 🧛

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