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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

People don't often think of White as a political writer, but all that sex writing was, among other things, political to its core. He went directly at the one thing about gay identity that is at the very heart of discomfort and hatred--and he did it over and over, to provoke but also to explore. >

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

UPDATE: in honor of the passing of the inimitable Edmund White, we’re definitely celebrating gay lust this month

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I’m so saddened by the death of Edmund White, a great writer and dear friend. His wit and kindness were such a joy.

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I reckon this is true of any space she ever enters

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025

i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

So many great affordable courses on offer from Theatre 503 - inc. this one taught by me! Short plays are a great way to start writing & 503 is a truly supportive home for new playwrights. And it’s ONLINE so you can join from anywhere. Sign up now! ✍️

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 03/04/2025

You don’t say ….

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Incredulous, honestly, at the number of Sensible Centrists who are trying to justify the Met forcing their way into a religious space to arrest people who had not actually committed a crime at the time of arrest

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

There's simply no universe where what these two guys are saying should be controversial

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Fernanda Torres' perfs in their respective films will live forever

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

watching the oscars

The Hulk & The Thing shaking hands.

Hulk is labeled “TRANS PEOPLE”

Thing is labeled “Transphobes”

Their handshake labeled “HATING EMILIA PÉREZ”

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Naomi Ekperigin @naomiekperigin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Pasadena’s fire captain should be hosting a show, I consider what we just watched a self-tape. #oscars

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

There must be a political solution, and the foreign policy of this country is blocking that path. There is no other way.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I just realized that Isabella Rossellini is wearing blue velvet in honor of David Lynch & immediately started to cry.

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Starting off with a classic song medley! Pairing intergenerational presenters! Feels like the 80s/90s — this is a very old school approach to an Oscar broadcast, and the old ways really WORK.

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

There are 3 musicals nominated for Best Picture (wow!). And one of them is EMILIA PÉREZ (whoa). Just in time for Oscar weekend, I pulled together an 11 o’clock number about queerness, musicals & the performance of authenticity. Sing out, Louise!! open.substack.com/pub/brianmul...

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Emilia, Elphaba, Bob & Me

Songs of the Self in this year's Oscar-nominated musicals

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The sexiest, most honest, most heart-wrenching & exhilarating depiction of queer solidarity and collective action I’ve ever seen

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Hey MCR! On Sat. 2:30PM we’ve got an #LGBTHistoryMonth workshop exploring the 1984 raids on GAYS THE WORD bookshop. With chilling relevance to now, Customs officers seized 100s of so-called ‘obscene’ queer books, but the shop - and its readers - fought back! Register: eventbrite.com/e/1220962474629

Graphic collage featuring vintage photos and book covers. The workshop title Queer History on Tour - Gay’s the Word: the Power of LGBTQ+ books, Queer Lit, Manchester 15th Feb

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Trump never hides his intentions: Ceasefire becomes the first step toward “permanent displacement”

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Mitch McConnell voting against Hegseth is like Hannibal Lecter becoming a vegetarian on his deathbed

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Antóin Beag @antoinbeag.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If “as per my previous email” was a person. #traitors #traitorsuk #thetraitors

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Kyle Buchanan @kylebuchanan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

NO OTHER LAND in best documentary, let's fuckin go

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Kyle Buchanan @kylebuchanan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hey, Monica Barbaro in for supporting actress! She beat a tough field of contenders that included Jamie Lee Curtis, Danielle Deadwyler, Margaret Qualley and Selena Gomez

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

David Lynch 💔

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

After seeing BABYGIRL, I’ve decreed that screenplays should be permitted EITHER a husband directing a production of Hedda Gabler OR a daughter (named Nora) who’s learning to dance the tarantella. But not both.

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Naomi Ekperigin @naomiekperigin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Where’s the “skip intro” option on 2025??????? Please and THANK YOU

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

That feeling when you close the ‘Online Character Counter’ tab that’s been open on your browser for a month during which you wrote & submitted THREE grant applications… …but then immediately open a new tab for Quickbooks because your Self-Employed taxes are due 31 Jan.

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Bedwellj101 @alyx.whatthetrans.com · 01/01/2025

Been quite a good year for photography for me last year. Here are my favourite picks for photos I took for @whatthetrans.com this year. Starting off with the scramble for the flag with trans kids deserve better. In what I'd consider the shots I'm proudest about.

Activist grin on top right hanging on a ledge handing down a flag to a person on the bottom left of the frame.

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

2024 was an exhausting year, not because so much happened but because so much change got stifled. I tried to sum this up, alongside hope for a way forward (and a mini-review of Conclave!). My last essay of the year, over at Substack: open.substack.com/pub/brianmul...

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What We Do Next

End-of-year thoughts on politics, popes & the transfer of power.

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

They will gather on the Sherwood Forest set of the nation’s highest-priced panto to protest paying their fair share of taxes to keep vital public services sustainable. ALW is & always has been a Sherriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood clothing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/12/2024

it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

There may come a time when I regret spending the last 76 minutes of my evening watching a Joan Crawford picture, but tonight was not it! ❤️ (Possessed, 1931)

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Iconic timing at the Nan Goldin opening in Berlin last night: museum director Klaus Biesenbach passionately reaffirming the institution’s commitment to freedom of expression - just as its security staff quietly removed a protest banner right behind him.

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Bird (he/him) @birdobserver.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following:

"I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two --
And see what worms are eating
At the rind."

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We should be disgusted by House Republicans and their attacks on Rep McBride. We must not stand back and allow these attacks on the trans community.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/11/2024

once again we have people lying about the campaign we all witnessed

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12/11/2024

An update from one of the directors of NO OTHER LAND. Maddening to see the German government’s continuous banalisation and weaponisation of anti-Semitism to attack and oppress artists and filmmakers, many of them Jewish.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/11/2024

as a voter i’d actually love some common sense on transgender issues actually. nationalized healthcare, leaving us alone otherwise, things of this nature.

pamela paul column headline: “on transgender issues, voters want common sense”

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Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The question isn’t whether I liked #ItsASin (I didn’t) but whether we can move beyond moralism in telling the story of AIDS. As someone living with #HIV, I found its sympathy for people with AIDS was mixed with dangerous homophobic pathologising. #LGBTHM open.substack.com/pub/brianmul...

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How'd You Get It? / Such a Shame

Telling the Story of AIDS in Three Flashbacks

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