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Elle Waterbury (they/them) @bardowelle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Has anyone written a lesbian retelling of The Great Gatsby? I feel like it has potential.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

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Elle Waterbury (they/them) @bardowelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This is the least mid duck I've ever seen. Look at this duck. Gaze upon her and weep.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

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The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’

Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits

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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Which members of Congress Used to Talk About Charlie Kirk in Official E-newsletters? And what that means about the contours of American politics dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/who-in-con...

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Who in Congress Used to Talk About Charlie Kirk in Official E-newsletters?

And what that means about the contours of American politics

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

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Elle Waterbury (they/them) @bardowelle.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

My girlfriend just started playing this game and it's so gosh darn cute! Very moss-core girlie bop🪲🍄🌱 The only way to improve this is to let us pet the big dog #art #Silksong

Drawing of the character Hornet from the game Hollow Knight: Silk Song. She is sitting on a mossy rock and looking at a firefly.

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New York Focus @nysfocus.com · 29/08/2025

NEW: More than a dozen, mostly Long Island-based business interests have joined National Grid in backing a controversial pipeline championed by President Donald Trump. Some letters have "template" in the filename, "[INSERT PARTY]" in the comments, and traces of National Grid's lobbying firm.

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New York Business Groups Rally Around Trump-Backed Pipeline

As a key deadline approaches, business interests have launched a concerted campaign to back National Grid’s demands for more gas.

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Sara Martín @saramartin.eurosky.social · 14/08/2025

Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue (1984) Beautiful SF about how to resist what we women most fear: being deprived of our hard-won citizens’ rights. The first in a trilogy of the same name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_... #BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

FYI, the New York State Museum is reconstructing a revolutionary era gunboat in public in one of the back galleries; it's fantastic.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 10/07/2025

Also, the answer is simple: read queer histories. There are tons of academics for whom researching the queer and trans people of the past is their life's work, and they'd love for you to, you know, actually pay attention to it. For example:

readingmedievalbooks.wordpress.com

A ‘Queer Medieval’ Reading List

Update: I’ve had some great suggestions about more texts to include, so am adding those. Obviously I’ve not taught all of these, but will have to do so now. Thanks all! I’m also p…

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

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Persecuted for being LGBTQ+ in Trump country, they now have a chance to start over someplace new

Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are fighting persecution by offering loans to those who need to flee,

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is slavery. What Trump is proposing is slavery.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/07/2025

there it is. you had to suspect one of the reasons the Trump admin didn't want to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home was they didn't want him telling people what they put him through and what it's like at CECOT reposting with alt text and linking to the filing storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

screenshot of the 120th and 121st paragraphs in

120. Upon arrival at CECOT, the detainees were greeted by a prison official who stated, “Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn’t leave.” Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body.

121. In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. The
detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation.

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Elle Waterbury (they/them) @bardowelle.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

"I regret to inform you that at 3 o'clock yesterday, my mind came to a stand, and has since then been stationary. Ere this intelligence reaches you, I shall probably be a snail." -- Emily Dickinson

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Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings. This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

History lesson: Before and during the Civil Rights Movement, folks actually made religious arguments against integration and interracial marriage. Indeed, in the decision that gave rise to Loving v VA, the VA trial court said that God put the races on different continents to prevent race mixing.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Part of the reason that universal injunctions became so prevalent seems to be because Presidents are increasingly making huge legal/policy changes via executive order. Maybe we can get back to Congress actually making the law and the executive merely enforcing it??

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Ben makes a solid point here. If there is no universal injunction power, blue states should start testing the limits. Pass a law that requires federal Medicaid funds to go to anyone wanting gender affirming care. Pass a law that says anyone with feet on the ground in America is a US citizen.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Since Mamdani won last night, NYC has FALLEN according to my friends there. It is utter chaos. They couldn't get in to their top 3 brunch places+their 4th choice only had spots at *noon* Sunday. The corner bagel place was out of everything. Bus was 5 minutes late and the bodega cat hissed at them.

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

scientificamerican.com

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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Elle Waterbury (they/them) @bardowelle.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Last night after the polls closed, I said that I wanted Cuomo to lose and cry and leave politics forever. So far I've gotten 2/3 of what I wanted out of this primary, here's hoping for that last 1/3 🤞

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

congrats NYC, good for you guys. have another bagel for me

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Eligible New Yorkers enrolled in New York State of Health’s Essential Plan can apply to get a free air conditioner through the Essential Cooling Program. It only takes ten minutes to apply, and applications are open through August 31, 2025: info.nystateofhealth.ny.gov/CoolingProgram

info.nystateofhealth.ny.gov

Essential Plan Cooling Program | NY State of Health

Now Available: Cooling Program Fact Sheet ContentsProgram OverviewWho Can Get an Air ConditionerHow the Program WorksApproved VendorsHelp with Utility & Energy CostsManaging Your Health

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Rep. Paul Tonko @reppaultonko.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

President Trump committed an illegal, unauthorized act of war against Iran. The American people don’t want another war in the Middle East. Congress must reconvene immediately to pass the Iran War Powers Act resolution to contain the fallout and prevent further dangerous escalation.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 19/06/2025

this is actually something I wrote about last year abortion bans and gender-affirming care bans both invoke states' established power to regulate health as a way to prohibit healthcare that saves lives, promotes equality, & threatens traditional gender ideology ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

ballsandstrikes.org

Conservatives Are Using Their Anti-Choice Playbook to Attack Trans People, Too

Republican lawmakers attacking trans kids are hiding the sex discrimination at the heart of the law, again.

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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

These state laws banning gender-affirming care for youth are a product of religious-right and anti-LGBTQ activist organizing, starting in the years after Obergefell. We know this, because we have the receipts. Here's my 2023 investigation. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

Inside the secret working group that helped push anti-trans laws across the country

Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender health care bans.

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CapitalWomen @capitalwomenny.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Our hearts go out to the children who have had their life-saving care stripped from them, to the families forced to watch their children hurting and not have the parental rights to help them, and to everyone else who will undoubtedly feel the shockwaves from the un-American Skrmetti decision.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 18/06/2025

"Strangio pointed out, among other things, the U.S.’s history of bans on cross-dressing." Yet today Barrett claimed that trans people are not a "suspect class," meaning they have not historically faced discrimination as a group.

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Analysis: Gender-Affirming Care and the Dignity of Risk

SCOTUS is preoccupied with trans kids possibly regretting gender-affirming care. But is it good policy to "protect" against risk?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/06/2025

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice we're willing to make." They acknowledge the harms of trans youth being left untreated and then greenlight banning treatment. It's psychotic wanton cruelty.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/06/2025

The federal government imposing a stop work order on Trevor project for the national 988 suicide hotline on the same day that the Supreme Court greenlit a ban on care despite the risk of suicide sends a clear message: The United States government officially wants trans youth to kill themselves.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 18/06/2025

This is coming from a woman who admitted during oral argument that she didn't know about bans on cross dressing. And Barrett still put it in her concurrence!!

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 18/06/2025

My god this is so vile

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

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Indivisible ADK/Saratoga @indivisible-adk.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The statute Trump used to unlawfully federalize the National Guard last night was 10 U.S.C. § 12406, which requires that there be an invasion by a foreign country, a rebellion, or an inability for the President to execute law, it also requires the President act through the governors of the states.

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Indivisible ADK/Saratoga @indivisible-adk.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

🚨 YURIY UPDATE: Transferred to Batavia, Legal Help Needed! Glens Falls' Yuriy Zinovyev is now at Buffalo Detention Centre in Batavia. We're trying to hire an attorney, but resources are scarce. His fight continues. Our efforts won't stop. #JusticeForYuriy #FreeYuriy #IndivisibleADKSaratoga

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 03/06/2025

I just love how birding introduces me to phrases I never expected, nor wanted, to read

Also associated with pair formation is Ceremonial Gaping

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Elle Waterbury (they/them) @bardowelle.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Christian nationalism is a mental disease that rots all human empathy out of those affected. There is no other explanation for this.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

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