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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 8h

Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.

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Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands

The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing but respect for MY Digger

Publicity photo of William H. Macy as The Shoveler, a superhero from 1999 film
Mystery Men who actually doesn't have any superpowers, but he is very handy with a shovel. He is a clean shaven, middle-age white man wearing a yellow hard hat with a miner's lamp on it, a black protective vest with red trimming, a brown leather jacket, and thick black protective gloves.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 5h

You can immediately sniff out the worst people by asking them about Ukraine.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 8h

The left forced all these new rules onto society and normies just can't keep up! We're gosh darn trying our best but the moment we slip up on minor stuff like pronouns or child abuse or rape, suddenly we're canceled. This is why so many people take comfort in the right. It's all woke's fault.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 8h

Their reality is one of innocent boys who mean well but don't know all these complex new rules for dating, or are falsely accused by nasty women. Parents just honestly doing their best lose their children because of some therapy speak they don't understand. It's all just so hard for the centrists.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 11h

Trains are the most reliable form of transit that will outlive civilization. When your pathetic lumps of touch screens and highly processed petroleum products have their production chains break down, trains will be there for you. All they need is some coal, or better, a wire.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah they're in deep denial as part of their fantasy that they did nothing wrong. Even when the wrongs are spelled out they just don't really accept that it happened or if they do, if it was abnormal or a serious problem. I mean no parent is perfect right??

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 15h

Wait until you meet Dedra

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 19h

hakeem jeffries being shown this video and shaking his head like he smells something bad until the westworld code kicks in. "it doesn't look like anything to me"

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 15h

I've read multiple articles like these that presents it only from the parents view and what mystery it is and how their kid never explained why they cut contact but its probably that evil therapist they went to. They never interview the kids, ever, who I'm sure could tell you why.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 15h

It's like hundreds of people posting about how they have to stand and squat on top of their car seat when driving because their seat doesn't fit their butt. "I can't really reach the controls and have my weight carried by the seat, I just don't fit, so I squat on top of it"

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 17h

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

AI has completely changed the game on calendar invite spam. I wake up every day to fake legal notices and meetings from hacked strangers that take up my entire calendar which I then must manually delete. Nothing has ever made me more #efficient than the beautiful future created by #AI.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every accusation is always a confession. Their obsession for a generation with affirmative action and now DEI has been because they actually love it but want it to just be for mediocre white guys.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've known so many people who had racist and sexual harassment at work and after some "golly gosh it must just be differing communication styles and the person not understanding they were offending you" training, the perp just learns to use better dog whistles and continue.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is what drives me nuts about the way HR treats a lot of harassment and racism issues. They start from the principle that no one here in our lovely org could be racist, so it's all miscommunication and people just need training. No, some people are actually evil and need to be punished.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've see so many low-info leftist types essentially re-invent right-libertarianism from first principles. I see so much anti-tax stuff especially. Like our taxes are just used to fund genocides mannn so maybe we should just have private schools and charity hospitals.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wish it was possible for progressive and leftist orgs to just be normal about Israel and jews in general. Like absolutely have the country on blast for genocide and all that, but you don't need to insert them into the centre of every conspiracy and bad thing happening in the world.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That can't be right, if dems were in power why was J6 not taken remotely seriously and everyone handled with such kid gloves? Use some logic here!

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't get why he even plays then if it's an unpleasant chore. Like there's some deeper issuesin this guys life and his ability to communicate with his peers

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm a pragmatic centrist and I just want the basics: -Lower or even no tax on single family homes -Perfect smooth roads with fast flowing traffic -No traffic noise or pollution in my neighbourhood -No road work or construction -Everyone but me switching to bike/transit, but no bus or bike lanes.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The big problem was that republicans controlled all branches of government during J6. Imagine if the democrats were in power and were able to go full-force prosecuting the terrorists and the politicians who helped them.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And if people don't buy it, just get some grossly corrupt government contracts and bailouts.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A couple people in the neighbourhood have imported japanese Fits. They're slightly smaller and have a slightly smaller engine and I love them.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yeah what's up with this? It's an all-ages thing too. I routinely see boomers walking down the sidewalk holding their phone like a waiter bringing a plate out with the screen facing straight up as they scream into the bottom of the phone and the speakers blast the other person to the whole street.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every car-brained person I know is like this. They want the heaviest vehicle possible and then moan endlessly about road work. "Didn't they just repave this whole stretch 10 years ago? I hate road work!!!" but also "I can't believe how bad this street got, fucking city isn't maintaining anything!"

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah sprawl is one of those things that markets will solve if the true price can emerge. Urban containment boundaries and such are good too, but man just stop massively subsidizing sprawl and single family homes at the expense of huge fees and sin taxes on multi-family infill.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Ukraine test never fails.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

well he was MI5's number one man. Number two had to do this.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Almost like none of it was intended or planned...

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She seems like a genuinely bad person

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WE ARE BACK BABY I appreciate you being reasonable, Travis, despite our fundamental disagreements on fair use. But we will meet again. youtu.be/zjPRAM0WDgw

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I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why does that dude look like an Oblivion NPC?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Setting taxes by referendum seems like the quickest way for any gov to commit financial suicide. Great work California plunging the knife even deeper into yourself.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These people who assault and harass people so they can make money off the videos need their money cut off. Any website hosting them should get hit with massive penalties. Any payment processor funding them too.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And they forget that the entire soviet aviation industry post WWII was almost entirely run by captured german experts. The whole boom in soviet aviation after the war was designed and built by germans because russians didn't have the skills.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean we should totally cut russia off from the global economy, but not for made up plague reasons.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've seen so many posts like "I've been using AI in our weather research lab for over 25 years, it's an amazing tool and the luddites demonizing AI are uneducated idiots. Thus, anyone saying AI art isn't real art is holding humanity back"

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hate this about "AI", it's a meaningless marketing term that defines an incredibly broad swath of software, many of which has been around far far longer than the AI craze. But instead of being thrown under the bus with bad-AI, the people who like machine learning are now becoming generative AI stans

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Weird how so many of the same folks never post or complain or try to pass laws about cars running into people.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's fascinating to learn how many more kids die in ATV accidents every year than in e-bike accidents, then observing that there is a moral panic about kids riding e-bikes but not about kids riding ATVs.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry.

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