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Aaron S. Davis

@asdavis94.bsky.social
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(he/him) I do stuff with nonprofits All views are my own, etc.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 26/08/2026
Update: A federal judge has, once again, ruled Texas' so-called 'drag ban' unconstitutional. Here's our 2023 story on drag performers' lives under the ban, including an interview with key plaintiff Brigitte Bandit.
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'Drag is so Healing': Austin's Queens Won't Back Down
Performers remain committed to their art in the face of persecution. Digital Editor Kit O'Connell on how drag queens respond to the ban.
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Defector @defector.com · 07/04/2026
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
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I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector
There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
huge W
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
i really don't have the time or energy to learn Linux but these motherfuckers are going to force me, aren't they?
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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
the Menswear Guy is getting McMansion Hell-ed
“The midnight ride of Paul Revere” painting.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I am not a Social Security recipient but even if I was: Why am I getting an email from SSA celebrating this legislation? How is this an appropriate use of that ostensibly massive database?
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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
As I've said before, I don't think you can find it in the data that leftists were *responsible* for Kamala's loss (at least, I don't think we can demonstrate that convincingly) But if you spent last fall telling me there was no difference, I just don't really want to hear from you
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Quite apart from the economics, this secret police force and the prison network that will be built for it, is the most repugnant and frightening aspect of the bill; Medicaid can be funded again, food stamps can be funded again, clean energy can be funded, taxes can be increased progressively. But an immigrant prison network, overseen by Trump-loyal paramilitaries, with no resources for due process, will be very hard to dislodge, and could easily be turned against the citizenry. This is Stephen Miller’s wet dream and it will stain the whole country.
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Peter Wade @peterwade.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
• Mamdani is not in the country illegally • He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism • Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic • He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’ • He’s not a communist
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Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 30/06/2025
Over $80k raised in ONE WEEK for COYOTE. Some people say journalism is dead. Journalists keep proving them wrong. Indie media projects are raising thousands over and over again. It can be done. You can be the one to do it.
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
When Obergefell was decided a decade ago, the Christian right immediately declared it the new Roe, pledging to eventually overrule it, even if that meant, like with Roe, they would spend decades chipping away at LGBTQ equality in a multitude of ways. They got a chip with Mahmoud v Taylor today
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Lauren Kayes @midheavens.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/06/2025
1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵
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The Markup @themarkup.org · 12/06/2025
Millions of people in California could have had sensitive health data sent to LinkedIn without their knowledge or consent. What we found: themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2...
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How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn – The Markup
The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2025
the clear message of this administration is that if your city or state didn’t vote for Donald Trump you do not have the right to self-governance and that will be enforced by the United States military we know what they are
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Put this on a billboard.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
the whole reason Hegseth is at DoD is to produce propaganda footage. how about we not freak when he does that
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“Southern Baptists voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to call for the overturning of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, with strategists citing the successful effort that overturned the right to legal abortions as a possible blueprint for the new fight.”
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Southern Baptists Call to Overturn Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/06/2025
Terrible Gallup poll today. Lots of bad anti-trans sentiment, but this one really blew my mind and should be VERY eye opening to our LGB folks: America is about to cross back over into being gay or lesbian is something that is caused externally (and therefore "fixable" with conversion therapy)
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/06/2025
Ryan from The OC, anti-crypto crusader, is one of my favorite running subplots in Hollywood
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
DEVELOPING: There is chatter coming out of the White House that as early as next week Donald Trump may issue as many as 5 Executive Orders targeting US-based nonprofits and civil society organizations.
Trump signing executive order
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Experts fear that this system wouldn't only put the privacy of undocumented immigrants at risk, but the privacy of authorized immigrants and natural-born citizens. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
New from @makenakelly.bsky.social + me: DOGE is building a database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants. They are cross-referencing immigration data with data from SSA, IRS, and voting records from at least Pennsylvania and Florida @wired.com www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
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DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/03/2025
1. Greg Abbott will direct the state of Texas to consider whether teachers who affirm transgender kids are actually engaging in "child abuse." He's already attempted to go after parents of trans kids with charges of child abuse before. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Abbot Directs Texas To Consider Investigating Teachers Who Support Trans Kids For Child Abuse
Texas lawmakers want educators who allegedly used a child’s name and pronouns to be investigated by law enforcement.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025
1. Andrew Cuomo, a frontrunner for NY Mayor, has tapped an ex-employee of "the Coalition to Protect Kids," an anti-trans org, to serve as his treasurer. His campaign would not commit to EITM that it would protect gender affirming care. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Official for Cuomo’s New York Mayoral Campaign Worked for Ferociously Anti-Trans Group
“The company you keep says a lot about you.”
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/03/2025
I hate this man. God I fucking hate this man
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2025
1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin
After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/02/2025
See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...
Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Wish they'd tried harder. (They didn't try. This didn't happen. And remember: every accusation is an admission. Also, fuck this guy.) www.joemygod.com/2025/02/trum...
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Trump: USAID "Probably Tried" To Rig 2024 Election - Joe.My.God.
REPORTER: “President Trump, first of all, congratulations for a fantastic 24 days of your presidency and the historic and unprecedented decisions that you’ve made.” TRUMP: “I like her!” [The reporter....
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Aaron S. Davis @asdavis94.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My father might finally get his wish of me moving closer to him (he lives on the Iowa/Illinois border)
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025
Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 03/02/2025
Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter’s crusade to save books from Amazon
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Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter amps up his crusade against Amazon
The bookselling platform’s next frontier in the fight against Amazon: ebooks.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
ICYMI: Federal judge imposes temporary restraining order on OMB spending freeze and, importantly, prevents Trump admin from restating policy by other means, siding with nonprofits represented by Democracy Forward. Hearing was earlier today.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“Now, as fears emerge Trump’s administration is ‘dangerously’ undermining the U.S. dollar, Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—including Musk’s pet project dogecoin.” www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
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‘This Needs To Stop Now’—Elon Musk Confirms Radical Doge U.S. Treasury Plan
Elon Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies...
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is holding a Twitter spaces on DOGE now — yea after midnight — talking about how USAID is “beyond repair.”
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Musk tonight on USAID: "I went over it with him in detail and he agreed we should shut it down"
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/02/2025
NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
9. I understand from our Office Manager, however, that as of Sunday,
February 2, no funds have been deposited to our bank account. We have checked our accounts multiple times a day since January 29, but no funds have been transmitted. We have received no information or explanation from the Administration for Community Living about the interruption in funds.
10. In short: we have received no federal funds since the OMB Freeze Memo was issued. Our Center had enough money to meet payroll on Friday, January 31, and to cover outstanding bills. But we did not have enough money on hand to cover another two-week pay period at full staffing.
11. Thus, on Friday, January 31, the Board of Directors voted to lay off three of our five employees and drastically reduce services to our customers. This presented a dire situation for our customers, who have immediate needs.
12. For example, on Monday, February 3, we are scheduled to take an
86-year-old woman to dialysis treatments (which we do for her every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). Our agency is her only way to get to these life-sustaining appointments.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
So we’ve moved to the next stage. Either an incompetent Black person is to blame, or a white person who was made incompetent by the stress of working with a Black person.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Trump just ordered 2 dams opened up in California in an unprecedented move that risks depleting the reservoirs ahead of the dry summer months. And the kicker? The water from the dams doesn't even flow to Los Angeles.
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Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
There was a genuine moment when the Army Corps almost released enough water to potentially breach levees and cause a new flood, but apparently the adults in the room managed to stop it. What the fuck.
It was no game on Thursday when area water managers were given about an hour’s notice that the Army Corps planned to release water up to “channel capacity,” the top amount rivers can handle, immediately. 

The Army Corps later agreed to more measured releases, alleviating a mad scramble to alert first responders and have crews on standby in case river banks were breached and levees overtopped, as happened during the 2023 floods.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 23/01/2025
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️
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Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 23/01/2025
6/ We’ve compiled a list of all the 19NN members on Bluesky. We urge you to follow them and consider this ever-growing list a trusted resource of newsrooms you can count on — just like we do. bsky.app/profile/19th...
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