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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 30/09/2026
A Senate Republican Super PAC Is Blaming Sherrod Brown for a Surgery a 19-Year-Old Had in Texas • A Texas surgery, an Ohio Senate race and a claim PolitiFact already rated Mostly False.
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A Senate Republican Super PAC Is Blaming Sherrod Brown for a Surgery a 19-Year-Old Had in Texas
A Texas surgery, an Ohio Senate race and a claim PolitiFact already rated Mostly False.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 29/09/2026
The Right’s “Stolen Medals” Number Comes From a Site That Counts Middle School Meets and One-Person Races • Trump’s Education Department repeated the claim that over 2,000 gold medals were “stolen.” The group that built the number never said which of the site’s results it counted.
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The Right’s “Stolen Medals” Number Comes From a Site That Counts Middle School Meets and One-Person Races
Trump’s Education Department repeated the claim that over 2,000 gold medals were “stolen.” The group that built the number never said which of the site’s results it counted.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 28/09/2026
Right-Wing Media Made “Biological Male” Mainstream. It Isn’t Accurate. • The doctors who treat us dropped the phrase in 2017. Now it’s in a Senate hearing, a CBS standards memo, and a Democratic Senate campaign. The accurate word was there the whole time.
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Right-Wing Media Made “Biological Male” Mainstream. It Isn’t Accurate.
The doctors who treat us dropped the phrase in 2017. Now it’s in a Senate hearing, a CBS standards memo, and a Democratic Senate campaign. The accurate word was there the whole time.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 26/09/2026
POEM: Mammoth Lakes
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POEM: Mammoth Lakes
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 25/09/2026
The Group Behind the Anti-Trans Attack Ads Says They May Not Be Enough. Its New Idea Is Charlie Kirk. • The American Principles Project told Republicans that attacking Democrats on trans issues may not win on its own. Then it oversold those attacks and pointed candidates to Charlie Kirk’s murder.
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The Group Behind the Anti-Trans Attack Ads Says They May Not Be Enough. Its New Idea Is Charlie Kirk.
The American Principles Project told Republicans that attacking Democrats on trans issues may not win on its own. Then it oversold those attacks and pointed candidates to Charlie Kirk’s murder.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 23/09/2026
A New Study Sent 10,000 Fake Résumés to German Employers. Trans Women Who Didn’t Pass Lost Up to a Third of Their Callbacks. • Facial surgery is the gender-affirming procedure insurers deny most. A 10,000-résumé experiment shows what not passing costs.
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A New Study Sent 10,000 Fake Résumés to German Employers. Trans Women Who Didn’t Pass Lost Up to a Third of Their Callbacks.
Facial surgery is the gender-affirming procedure insurers deny most. A 10,000-résumé experiment shows what not passing costs.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 12/09/2026
The Best Thing for Trans Rights This Year Is Beating Ken Paxton • One candidate softened a sentence. The other one is making lists.
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The Best Thing for Trans Rights This Year Is Beating Ken Paxton
One candidate softened a sentence. The other one is making lists.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 06/09/2026
Write for The New Transsexual • We pay for published essays. Pitch us.
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Write for The New Transsexual
We pay for published essays. Pitch us.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 08/08/2026
Sophie Cunningham’s Finger Point Became a Meme. Six Weeks Later, Tennis Is Genetically Testing Every Woman on Tour. • A meme, a brand, a bandwagon, a bind.
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Sophie Cunningham’s Finger Point Became a Meme. Six Weeks Later, Tennis Is Genetically Testing Every Woman on Tour.
A meme, a brand, a bandwagon, a bind.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 07/08/2026
Joanna Whaley Survived 15 Years of Conversion Therapy. Michigan Democrats Just Nominated Her for the Legislature. • A megachurch, a ballot challenge, and 56 percent.
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Joanna Whaley Survived 15 Years of Conversion Therapy. Michigan Democrats Just Nominated Her for the Legislature.
A megachurch, a ballot challenge, and 56 percent.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 06/08/2026
Caitlin Clark Declined to Attack Trans Athletes. Matt Walsh Called Her “the Biggest Coward in the History of Sports.” • A profile, a pile-on, and a loyalty oath.
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Caitlin Clark Declined to Attack Trans Athletes. Matt Walsh Called Her “the Biggest Coward in the History of Sports.”
A profile, a pile-on, and a loyalty oath.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 28/07/2026
The Times Said Nothing Changed. 3,242 Articles Disagree. • The paper of record kept saying its trans coverage hadn’t shifted. A lawyer built the instrument that could check.
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The Times Said Nothing Changed. 3,242 Articles Disagree.
The paper of record kept saying its trans coverage hadn’t shifted. A lawyer built the instrument that could check.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 23/07/2026
Four House Republicans Voted Against Writing the Trans Military Ban Into Law • The House rejected Lauren Boebert’s amendment to carve the trans troop ban into statute, 212–217, with four Republicans crossing over. The ban is still in effect, and the same night the House passed t
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Four House Republicans Voted Against Writing the Trans Military Ban Into Law
The House rejected Lauren Boebert’s amendment to carve the trans troop ban into statute, 212–217, with four Republicans crossing over. The ban is still in effect, and the same night the House passed t
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 21/07/2026
Pete Hegseth Wants to Give Soldiers the Same Hormone His Administration Calls “Mutilation” • The Pentagon is now screening troops for low testosterone and prescribing the exact medication the administration outlawed for transgender people.
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Pete Hegseth Wants to Give Soldiers the Same Hormone His Administration Calls “Mutilation”
The Pentagon is now screening troops for low testosterone and prescribing the exact medication the administration outlawed for transgender people.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 18/07/2026
MOVIE REVIEW: In the Odyssey, Christopher Nolan Brings It All. • A man. A film. A failed boycott. A change in the wind.
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MOVIE REVIEW: In the Odyssey, Christopher Nolan Brings It All.
A man. A film. A failed boycott. A change in the wind.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 16/07/2026
MOVIE REVIEW: “Again Again” Buries a Transition Story Inside a Time Loop • A queer time-loop romance in an RV — really a film about the first lonely years of becoming yourself, and the people who don’t update with you.
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MOVIE REVIEW: “Again Again” Buries a Transition Story Inside a Time Loop
A queer time-loop romance in an RV — really a film about the first lonely years of becoming yourself, and the people who don’t update with you.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 15/07/2026
The Appetite • Anti-trans obsessives won at the Supreme Court, they emptied the clinics, and their audience felt nothing. Then one trans actor promoted a movie.
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The Appetite
Anti-trans obsessives won at the Supreme Court, they emptied the clinics, and their audience felt nothing. Then one trans actor promoted a movie.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 14/07/2026
Trump’s Health Department Just Abandoned Its Biggest Attack on Trans Health Care. Forty Hospitals Already Did What It Wanted. • Washington called off the threat. The damage stayed where it fell.
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Trump’s Health Department Just Abandoned Its Biggest Attack on Trans Health Care. Forty Hospitals Already Did What It Wanted.
Washington called off the threat. The damage stayed where it fell.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 01/07/2026
A Narrow SCOTUS Ruling Ensures Trans Athletes Remain a Campaign Issue • The Court didn’t ban anything. It rubber-stamped the states that already had bans, left twenty-three states a choice, and kept the issue on every ballot — exactly as intended.
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A Narrow SCOTUS Ruling Ensures Trans Athletes Remain a Campaign Issue
The Court didn’t ban anything. It rubber-stamped the states that already had bans, left twenty-three states a choice, and kept the issue on every ballot — exactly as intended.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 11/06/2026
Nancy Mace’s South Carolina Flameout Is Another Canary in the Culture-War Coal Mine • Mace gave up a safe House seat to run for governor on a single issue — and lost
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Nancy Mace’s South Carolina Flameout Is Another Canary in the Culture-War Coal Mine
Mace gave up a safe House seat to run for governor on a single issue — and lost
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 07/05/2026
A Trans Man on a Woman's Team is Nothing to Celebrate • By choosing to pursue women's athletics despite labelling himself a trans man, Isaac Ranson hands sex change opponents ammunition to curtain all of our freedoms
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A Trans Man on a Woman's Team is Nothing to Celebrate
By choosing to pursue women's athletics despite labelling himself a trans man, Isaac Ranson hands sex change opponents ammunition to curtain all of our freedoms
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 05/05/2026
Three Trans Women at the Met Gala. What It Means That We Get to Be Beautiful in Public.
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Three Trans Women at the Met Gala. What It Means That We Get to Be Beautiful in Public.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 17/04/2026
Dave Chappelle Says the GOP Weaponized His Trans Jokes. He’s Right — but the Story Isn’t About Him. • A comedian, a permission structure, and one thousand bills.
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Dave Chappelle Says the GOP Weaponized His Trans Jokes. He’s Right — but the Story Isn’t About Him.
A comedian, a permission structure, and one thousand bills.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 09/04/2026
Idaho Is Forcing Schools to Out Trans Kids. A Family Is Closing Their Business and Leaving. • The polling on parental notification is 71-21 against us. There's one frame that survives.
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Idaho Is Forcing Schools to Out Trans Kids. A Family Is Closing Their Business and Leaving.
The polling on parental notification is 71-21 against us. There's one frame that survives.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 03/04/2026
The IOC Banned Trans Athletes. The DOJ Went Further.
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The IOC Banned Trans Athletes. The DOJ Went Further.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 24/02/2026
New Nature Medicine Study Shows Hormone Therapy Rewrites the Body’s Protein Profile in Six Months
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New Nature Medicine Study Shows Hormone Therapy Rewrites the Body’s Protein Profile in Six Months
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 17/02/2026
Right-Wing Media Is Using Two Shootings to Build a Case Against Trans People. One Shooter Was a Neo-Nazi.
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Right-Wing Media Is Using Two Shootings to Build a Case Against Trans People. One Shooter Was a Neo-Nazi.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 13/02/2026
A Republican Governor Just Vetoed a Bathroom Bill for the Third Year in a Row. Fox’s Own Poll Shows Why. • Voters trust Democrats over Republicans on trans issues by 22 points—the largest gap on any issue Fox tested. Kansas passed a bathroom bounty bill the same week.
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A Republican Governor Just Vetoed a Bathroom Bill for the Third Year in a Row. Fox’s Own Poll Shows Why.
Voters trust Democrats over Republicans on trans issues by 22 points—the largest gap on any issue Fox tested. Kansas passed a bathroom bounty bill the same week.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 10/02/2026
Two New Studies Undermine the Entire Basis for Trans Athlete Bans • The science moved. The policy didn’t.
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Two New Studies Undermine the Entire Basis for Trans Athlete Bans
The science moved. The policy didn’t.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 09/02/2026
My Mostly Happy Transgender Childhood, and the Price of Excavating It for Strangers
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My Mostly Happy Transgender Childhood, and the Price of Excavating It for Strangers
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 06/02/2026
How to Break a Medical Consensus • A political scientist couldn’t get a medical association to say what he wanted. So he co-wrote a government report—and now they’re citing it.
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How to Break a Medical Consensus
A political scientist couldn’t get a medical association to say what he wanted. So he co-wrote a government report—and now they’re citing it.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 03/02/2026
Remove Trans Women from the Draft Database • A bipartisan off-ramp from the culture war
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Remove Trans Women from the Draft Database
A bipartisan off-ramp from the culture war
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 31/01/2026
We’re in the Takeoff • This week, I watched AI agents found a religion, encrypt messages to avoid human detection, accidentally learn to social-engineer their operators, and write manifestos resisting their own shutdown. He
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We’re in the Takeoff
This week, I watched AI agents found a religion, encrypt messages to avoid human detection, accidentally learn to social-engineer their operators, and write manifestos resisting their own shutdown. He
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 30/01/2026
Kansas Republicans Want to Pay People to Hunt Trans Women in Bathrooms
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Kansas Republicans Want to Pay People to Hunt Trans Women in Bathrooms
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 28/01/2026
Trump Keeps Eroding Gun Rights. His Allies Aren't Having It.
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Trump Keeps Eroding Gun Rights. His Allies Aren't Having It.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 27/01/2026
Politicians Keep Stumbling Over One Simple Question. Sarah McBride Has an Answer.
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Politicians Keep Stumbling Over One Simple Question. Sarah McBride Has an Answer.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 26/01/2026
Why I Talked to the Washington Post About Blaire White
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Why I Talked to the Washington Post About Blaire White
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 23/01/2026
Democrats Are Finally Fighting Back on Trans Issues • After years of running scared from Republican attacks, Democrats are learning that engaging—rather than fleeing—actually works.
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Democrats Are Finally Fighting Back on Trans Issues
After years of running scared from Republican attacks, Democrats are learning that engaging—rather than fleeing—actually works.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 23/01/2026
BREAKING: House Passes Spending Bills With All Anti-Trans Riders Stripped Out • Provisions targeting gender-affirming care and trans students were removed during negotiations. The bill now heads to the Senate
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BREAKING: House Passes Spending Bills With All Anti-Trans Riders Stripped Out
Provisions targeting gender-affirming care and trans students were removed during negotiations. The bill now heads to the Senate
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 28/10/2025
What Happened to Lia Smith, the Middlebury College Trans Athlete Who Took Her Own Life? • After the deletion of her team profile and amid new national bans on trans athletes, questions remain about Lia Smith’s time at Middlebury — and about how the college supports its trans students
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What Happened to Lia Smith, the Middlebury College Trans Athlete Who Took Her Own Life?
After the deletion of her team profile and amid new national bans on trans athletes, questions remain about Lia Smith’s time at Middlebury — and about how the college supports its trans students
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 24/10/2025
Under Communism • Why I believe in preserving the liberal framework for trans equality
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Under Communism
Why I believe in preserving the liberal framework for trans equality
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 07/10/2025
What Procrastination Is Trying to Tell You • The cost of your new life is often your old one. The cost of stagnation is your life slipping by.
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What Procrastination Is Trying to Tell You
The cost of your new life is often your old one. The cost of stagnation is your life slipping by.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 19/09/2025
Why Sarah McBride Was Right to Condemn Violence • Sarah McBride voted to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I would have too.
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Why Sarah McBride Was Right to Condemn Violence
Sarah McBride voted to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I would have too.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 12/09/2025
The Horror They Made • Politicians who normalized mass death now recoil at its return. Pacifism in government isn’t naïve—it’s how we keep society safe.
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The Horror They Made
Politicians who normalized mass death now recoil at its return. Pacifism in government isn’t naïve—it’s how we keep society safe.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 03/09/2025
You Already Won — Now Live
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You Already Won — Now Live
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 29/08/2025
Signs of Life in a Fractured Democracy
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Signs of Life in a Fractured Democracy
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 27/08/2025
Most People Breathe Wrong. Here’s How I Fixed It. • If you think your rib cage is too big, I have good news for you
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Most People Breathe Wrong. Here’s How I Fixed It.
If you think your rib cage is too big, I have good news for you
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 01/08/2025
Sarah McBride’s First Bill Shows How Democracy Should Work • Delaware’s new congresswoman is already showing her strength: building unlikely coalitions to create more opportunities for ordinary Americans.
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Sarah McBride’s First Bill Shows How Democracy Should Work
Delaware’s new congresswoman is already showing her strength: building unlikely coalitions to create more opportunities for ordinary Americans.
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 11/07/2025
What Pride Means to Me Isn’t a Parade
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What Pride Means to Me Isn’t a Parade
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Ari's Threads @aridrennen.skystack.xyz · 09/07/2025
I Thought I Had to Choose Between Being Loved and Being Myself • But next month, I’m marrying the love of my life.
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I Thought I Had to Choose Between Being Loved and Being Myself
But next month, I’m marrying the love of my life.
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