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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

M. Gessen on the hell that Kansas is inflicting on trans people is really hard to read, but so necessary. It also shows why the hysteria over trans athletes is so dangerous. Because it creates buy-in from liberals and centrists to demonize trans people, www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thinking about Yiddish curses and remembering what they used to say about the Austrian: "The day you die will be a Jewish holiday." "Which Jewish holiday?" "Whatever day you die will be a Jewish holiday."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Any man who goes online today is apt to come across content telling him that he will never find a partner who will earn him the respect of other men if he lacks money and connections, if he is not bodybuilder-fit with a full head of hair, if he is not more than six feet tall. Online influencers who push this narrative have products to sell. They want you to buy their workout apps, their advice sessions, their investment plans. That’s just how a lot of advertising works: It makes you insecure so you’ll pay for a product in hopes of temporarily silencing your gnawing sense of inadequacy.

Just as the manosphere and its galaxy of hucksters want you to fork over your cash so you can feel better about yourself as a man, Republicans want to make you feel insecure about your masculinity so that you vote Republican. Masculinity, in this sense, is a lifestyle product: one that comes with a set of political beliefs predicated on the subjugation of women, minority groups, and anyone else who men are told are their inferiors.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

'An industrial society can afford to be free, and it should demand to be so even at the cost of economic efficiency." Polanyi absolutely fishing with dynamite

opportunities
for discrimination. Wherever public opinion was solid in upholding
civic liberties, tribunals or courts have always been found capable
of vindicating personal freedom. It should be upheld at ail cost— even
that of efficiency in production, economy in consumption or rationality
in administration. An industrial society can afford to be free.

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hey how’s this turning out

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/07/2026

You stupid motherfuckers

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

he celebrated a lot of death, he'd get it

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 12/07/2026

It is literally my job to speak ill of the dead May his life be a lesson

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

i am just saying twenty minutes on the phone with a coworker sounds excruciating lol

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auntie ames @amesie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

painting rape-denialism in politics as a RURAL thing instead of, idk, a PATRIARCHY thing, is a helluva take signed, a woman who grew up in the goddamn sticks

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 09/07/2026

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What's a girl to do? Give a guy a break? Or not give him a break? Anyone who pretends Platner's candidacy represented an easy moral and philosophical calculation is wrong. Figuring out how to maintain moral clarity is awfully hard in a world where half the potential political candidates start with a gender disadvantage and the other half are raised in a world that accustoms them to power over female bodies.
In our political system, women are too often forced to depend on men. And those men often catastrophically fail us. Which brings us to whatever happens next: We are in an emergency. Caused by Graham Platner. And, honestly, by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who was criminally negligent in clearing the field for Mills, a candidate who was wrong for the moment, rather than one who could have offered a legitimate alternative to Platner.
It seems quite possible that the candidate chosen to replace Platner will be a woman. A woman who will be asked, as Kamala Harris was two years ago, to mount a terribly difficult campaign in a terribly short amount of time - knowing that no story about her will ever be told just about her but rather about her in relation to the men who got us into this mess in the first place.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

These white men aren't defending another white man. They are defending themselves.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

i can all but guarantee you there are other women out there who have been sick to their stomachs for 24 straight hours praying that this will be enough. hoping like hell they won't have to rustle up their own traumas for an angry, hateful audience

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/07/2026

This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ed Perkins, poppies

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Every baby is precious. Every life is precious. That’s why we need to ban abortion. But also this doesn’t apply to low wage foreigners. Or anyone else I don’t like. Basically when i say all life is precious I mean mine

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 01/07/2026

The real problem with the Democratic Party is that the Republican Party is openly running government at every level on a campaign of “purge the undesirables and enslave the survivors” and the only message Dems have is: “We promise not to do anything that makes GOP voters unhappy”

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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is a pretty clear cut principle:

Cher: So, OK, like right now, for example, the Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, "What about the strain on our resources?"

But it's like when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right? I said RSVP because it was a sit-down dinner. But people came that, like, did not RSVP. So I was, like, totally buggin'. I had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, squish in extra place settings. But, by the end of the day it was, like, the more the merrier!

And so, if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians.

And in conclusion, may I please remind you that it does not say "RSVP" on the Statue of Liberty.

Thank you very much.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.

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auntie ames @amesie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the law follows culture. always. it isn’t holy edict or an inescapable force of nature like gravity. the law is a socially-constructed mirror that bends and morphs under power and pressure. beware of those who use the law for their own moral & social absolution.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

expand the court. no more half measures. this is intolerable.

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auntie ames @amesie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the core of white evangelical american ideology is: my [goodness] is predicated on your [badness]. swap good/badness for: - legitimacy/illegitimacy - worth/unworth - salvation/damnation - comfort/unsafety it’s an ethos of exclusivity built & maintained on degradation of the Other

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

supreme court: here is some gruel while we grind your genitals into dust democrats: despite all the pressure against them the supreme court has once again reaffirmed the right to meals

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/06/2026

Here's why you should care about the trans athletes case today: Because if discrimination on the basis of gender identity doesn't violate equal protection, trans people can be segregated, outed, denied medical care, denied housing, denied jobs, and excluded by the government.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...

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auntie ames @amesie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am once again begging people to watch “the lady and the dale” (hbo) legacy media transvestigations laid the cultural groundwork for SCOTUS’ denial of equal protection for trans people www.imdb.com/title/tt1283...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026

Yeah. The Birthright Citizenship win *is* a win, but the fact that it wasn't 9-0 should worry you and the fact that it was a split decision should TERRIFY AND MOTIVATE YOU.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 30/06/2026

“what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 05/06/2026

Thinking, once again, for no reason, how leftist spaces in the past were almost always undone by misogyny and creepy (or worse) behavior towards women

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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Ky @ky.fyi · 02/06/2026

i just want some fuckin trains, man

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

'u forgot the two squirts of elmers glue in that flat white dave'

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around?

Headline from March, 'The March is Going Better Than You Think.'

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 26/05/2026

If you’re looking for the one area law enforcement has been defunded lol

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auntie ames @amesie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

leadership includes knowing when to pass the goddamn torch

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