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Michael Lee, Ph.D he/him/his

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Author of WHEN THE BAND PLAYED ON, THE LIFE OF RANDY SHILTS, AMERICA’S TRAILBLAZING GAY JOURNALIST. 2025 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Minneapolis MN. www.AuthorMGLee.com 🏳️‍🌈

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 1h
“Things like banning transgender kids from playing sports in schools or from being able to access medical necessary healthcare – those things didn’t even exist in 2020,” Logan Casey, MAP’s director of policy research, told me.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 5h
Trump did not retreat on mass deportation. He refined it. There are outsourced arrests, rushed hearings, and hidden cruelty. In darkness is the new strategy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot
After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US
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Andys Theory 🦋⚡️💎 @andystheory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The last year of real wage growth was in 1974. That explains almost everything.
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DJ (he, him)🏳️‍🌈 @dmrh0720.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump Just Declared Social Workers, Nurses and Music Teachers Worthless As He Bans Student Loans For Regular People. deanblundell.substack.com/p/trump-just...
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Trump Just Declared Social Workers, Nurses and Music Teachers Worthless As He Bans Student Loans For Regular People.
Social workers, therapists and daycare teachers get cut off from accessing loans. Beauty mills get a free pass. Pastors get the premium loan tier as Trump goes full NAZI.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why would an aspiring autocrat want to support the cultivation of critical thinking?
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stephanie Cole (5 October 1941 – 18 September 2026) R.I.P
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible
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NPR @npr.org · 17/09/2026
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab. n.pr/4Ak7inF
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U.N.-backed experts cite possible U.S. war crimes in Iran, including a school attack
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
once you see this regime as the collective equivalent of an abuser then the whole of its rhetoric and actions makes perfect sense
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Six of the seven active federal judges in Minnesota spoke to The New York Times about the fallout from the Trump administration's surge there. One judge had to go into hiding. Another said it "created a grave threat to the rule of law.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Surgery is very rare for trans kids. But it is sometimes necessary, lifesaving care. I have a friend who runs the boys’ portion of a support group for trans families. He told me when CHLA shut down care that he thought there were two or three kids in his group who would not make it to adulthood.
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/09/2026
Registration is open, free, limited, & required. Great set of research presentations lined up on education, health, economy, mutual aid & more. Learn about the frontier evidence and connect with those working to generate it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
if AXIOS had any sense of shame they wouldn't treat this stunt in a serious way. Trump's presidency is a miserable failure - but we are going to need a separate accounting of how the access driven media egged it on.
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Cedrick Frazier @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Social workers see what our system gets right, and what our system gets wrong. They are often the first people to step in when our system fails, and I’m honored to have earned their trust and support as we strive to build a justice system that works for everyone.
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Cedrick Frazier @cedrickfrazier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m proud to have secured the endorsement of the National Association of Social Workers.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.
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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
 * Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
 * Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/09/2026
"No one has been arrested at a church." To be clear: DHS agents have, in fact, arrested people on church property. One of the incidents involved a pastor confronting DHS agents directly and filming them. In fact, DHS has *publicly acknowledged that this happens.* religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...
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'This is domestic terror': Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries
(RNS) — The fear of raids has pushed some congregations back to pandemic-era worship strategies.
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Michael Lee, Ph.D he/him/his @authormglee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Over the air Star Trek is showing The Trouble With Tribbles right now, which means I’m legally obliged to follow it with Trials and Tribblations.
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Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles
ALT: Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
I can’t wait to read the NYT op-ed from Renee Good’s wife about grief on the one year anniversary of her death. Surely the NYT will extend the same grace to Becca Good—whose partner died protesting against state power—as it has to Erica Kirk—whose partner died defending white supremacy
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 06/09/2026
The idea of a third Trump impeachment for "undoubtedly" impeachable acts in 2026 just confirms the GOP considers lawbreaking a routine presidential job hazard.
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Jamie Raskin says impeaching Trump again ‘not a taboo with u...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) tells Meet the Press that President Trump has “undoubtedly” committed impe...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/09/2026
You have this asymmetry where the White House can make video games on government websites about brutalizing immigrants but a random Democrat has a few old tweets and the latter carries the news cycle. It's all such incredibly performative bs.
A screenshot of an X (Twitter) post by Andrew Kaczynski (@KFILE) dated September 4, 2026.
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"NEW on CNN: “Fuck you..hurry up and die.” Will Lawrence, a Democrat running in one of swing seat that could decide control of Congress, deleted hundreds of old posts before launching his campaign. They show him backing a world without police and prisons, “forced nationalization” to end fossil fuels, abolishing the Senate, open borders, and bashing nuclear family homes."
​Below the text is a link preview to a cnn.com article titled "KFile: Swing-seat Democrat deleted posts envisioning ‘a wo...”, featuring an image of candidate Will Lawrence speaking at a campaign podium surrounded by supporters holding signs.
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Catherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The genocide no one talks about, that was enabled by apathy in 2024.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
“Someone who worked closely with Elon told me, ‘He’s the most miserable man I’ve ever met.’ So he’s inflicting his misery on everyone else.”
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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"To visit Springfield now is to travel to a city being invaded and psychologically tortured by a man who my adoptive home state of Ohio gladly returned to the White House so that he could conduct his sprees of ethnic cleansing and immiseration." -- @swin24.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Gary Andover @garyandover.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"The super-rich and their politicians built ICE, funded ICE, and sent it into communities where it killed people who have the same problems you do. Then they watch you fight your neighbors about it." www.theholler.co/p/trump-supp...
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Trump supporters: ICE will come for you, too.
ICE was never about crime.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨NEW from @propublica.org: over "the strongest possible" objection from the Minnesota federal prosecutor in charge of the case, senior Trump officials reportedly rejected civil rights charges against the ICE officer who shot a man and then lied about it. He'll be charged with false statements only.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota had been preparing to charge Castro with deprivation of rights under color of law for the shooting of Sosa-Celis, according to several people familiar with the case. Those charges are similar to the ones leveled against Minneapolis police officers accused in George Floyd’s killing and can carry hefty prison sentences. 

Late on Tuesday, Matthew Evans, the assistant U.S. attorney in Minnesota in charge of the case, told lawyers for Sosa-Celis and other victims to prepare for Castro to be charged “only with False Statements,” according to an email that was reviewed by ProPublica. 

That charge would likely carry a far less severe punishment if he were convicted.

“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” Evans wrote in a remarkably candid account of internal deliberations. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.”
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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
helllllllll yeah. solidarity with them!
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m going to need Markwayne Mullin to explain why you would need to serve a warrant at a polling place
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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ballerina X @ballerinax.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"When Trump can count on the Court to forestall legal review as long as possible—and to override unfavorable determinations when they do occur—he has every incentive to just keep breaking the law."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/09/2026
Apple maps has now changed Lake Ontario to "Lake America." Another company run by spineless cowards bending the knee to a demented rapist.
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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When the story of Metro Surge is told in media, don't for a moment, through the outpouring of solidarity and community building, despite the heroism, forget that it sucked ass every single day and some days it was like the sun had been blocked from the world
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A 76-year-old man holding permanent US residency and grappling with stage four prostate cancer is reportedly being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Tacoma, Washington. What the fuck are we doing here? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE holds man with stage 4 cancer in detention despite permanent US residency
ICE spokesperson says Loreto Javar failed to disclose criminal conviction in Philippines when he applied for visa
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/08/2026
Wait. Do republicans think doctors work for free under universal healthcare? Does she think doctors who see Medicare patients don’t get paid?
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easettanni.bsky.social @easettanni.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We need to pay attention, it's ass there right in front of us.
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John Breen @breen.tech · 31/08/2026
These are death camps
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I hope y’all see that this will mean the imminent closure of a number of graduate programs.
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Boycott Google, as it shamelessly panders to that idiotic vulgar slob.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It must be embarrassing being as rich and successful as Google and still having to get on your knees for an 80 year old felon who falls asleep at work all day. It’s Lake Ontario, you clowns.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 30/08/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Aug After forcing trans service menbers out, the Pentagon is now stiffing many for tens of thousands of dollars in severance pay they were promised, leaving many of them destitute and on the street. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Chloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments.
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