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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/01/2026

I think this is more likely than people realise and may be one of the few chuckles we get

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

white house: the president will deliver an economic address msm stenographers: trump to make economic speech trump: women are weak and pathetic and that's why we need to genocide the trans

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Thinking idly about how there was a time in the past where the Grok CSAM scandal would lead to a huge exodus off X to Bluesky and elsewhere but how now everyone who cared about such things has already left

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/12/2025

It's almost the end of the year and it looks like I won't hit my subscriber goal for the year, but from now until the ball drop, you can get 40% off your first month/year off a monthly or annual membership to my Patreon by using code WB2026 at checkout. patreon.com/katelynburns

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🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Bring back the idea that there's stuff it's rude to ask people about and none of your business (why are you masking, why aren't you drinking, etc.)

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five commas a pound, can't say fairer @commamonger.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Sniggering at people with fragile health. Pathetic. If you roll your eyes when you see someone masking, share a little joke with your buddies, please just stop a DAMN SECOND and wonder what it's like to be health-compromised in year 7 of an airborne pandemic. Then keep your take to your damn self.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

2025 was relentless for many, including transgender people and our families. I wrote a year-end reflection on what it might take to be optimistic about 2026 and beyond

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The Year of the Common Movement

2025 brought increasing threats to transgender people's health care, freedom, and safety--so what needs to change?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/12/2025

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 24/12/2025

Officially, seven people have died in ICE detention this month. Thinking about the way the Trump admin vanishes both people and data, I suspect the real number is higher.

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December Was Deadliest Month in Deadliest Year in ICE Custody Deaths

There has been an alarming spike in immigrants dying while in ICE detention during the Trump administration.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 24/12/2025

the uncs were all chopped by the chimney with care

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

A page in Reader’s Digest reading “Elf Mayhem is Taking Over”

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

IT FINALLY HAPPENED I AM ON A PLANE WITH A BABY WHO SAYS “HI” TO EVERYONE AS HE GOES DOWN THE AISLE

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autumn @autumnyte.myatproto.social · 24/12/2025

Nah. I've been no contact with my father for 30 years and it remains one of the best decisions of my life. (Also, of course it's a fucking TERF.)

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the jamie (ia) @taywool.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

ive been getting word that some people are giving their hearts away to someone on christmas, only for that person to give it away the very next day. stay safe out there, guys 🙏

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 23/12/2025

The repeal of Section 230 would lead to the kind of regime-controlled internet in which reposting the CECOT torture prison video inside the United States would be impossible www.patreon.com/posts/146475...

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Leak: 60 Minutes CECOT Piece | Matthew Cortland

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 22/12/2025

Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise. It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?

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The Neglected Front in RFK Jr.’s War on Science — Assigned

As trans healthcare is decimated no one is standing up for the integrity of the scientific process for these patients.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Have read all of these, and it's an honor to be part of such a great shortlist. They are all worth your time!!

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21/12/2025

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/12/2025

the vice president is a klansman

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/12/2025

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/12/2025

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/12/2025

Sorry if this is a bit personal but does this shit make anyone else feel completely fucking insane

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Support your local bookstore. They're still selling queer books while big stores are quietly removing us from the shelves.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 19/12/2025

Looking for 97 paid subscribers before the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve. Could you be one of them and support my work in 2026?

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office. And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I somehow missed that Dan Savage was on Bluesky now. If you missed the memo, consider this your reminder that Dan Savage is a racist transphobe who has allied himself with Jesse Singal (!) and written racist screeds attacking Black people while dismissing the racism of white gays.

I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color.

want to say, "I challenge anyone to listen to this interview @jessesingal did with youth-gender clinician Dr. Erica Anderson and tell me he's transphobic," but I know people will continue to insist he's transphobic. But he isn't.

https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/bonus8
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I suppose it's sadly fitting that a week full of Rob Reiner remembrances would end with the most "none more black" moment in the history of US politics

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It's so embarassing to see so-called progressives like @amyklobuchar.com and @senpeterwelch.govpeeps.us on this list. Blowing up Section 230 would be devastating for abortion access www.wired.com/story/sectio... It would harm LGBTQ communities www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...

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Section 230 Is a Last Line of Defense for Abortion Speech Online

Dobbs should be a wake-up call for anyone seeking to undercut the immunity protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 18/12/2025

The best part of this amazing short film is when the snow plow shows up and you're like AWW YEAH HERE COMES OUR HERO, and then it just glides into failure

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/12/2025

I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words. Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/12/2025

Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

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Liz (now with extra tired) 🏳️‍⚧️ @tiredliz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands. If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!

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Chris A Field, Otherverse Games @otherverseg.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.

Ariel photograph of the AIDS Memorial Quilt stretched out on park in front of the US Capitol. Late 1980s.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B

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🌑 @fell.energy · 16/12/2025

you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 15/12/2025

Ok last Patreon push of the year. On January 1 this year, I set a goal of getting to 1000 paid Patreon supporters by the end of the year. Right now between my newsletter and Patreon, I'm at 883. Will you help me hit my year end goal? I'm only 117 away. patreon.com/katelynburns

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

just too much things.

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Namdor @smrodman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.

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