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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 24m
Oh good grief. I read the @time.com article earlier, and that was bad enough, but check out the transcript of the whole interview. It's like a distracted, mendacious dementia patient with ADHD. Unbelievable that this man is in charge of our country. time.com/article/2026...
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 14m
Apocalypse intersection. Today’s cartoon by @zezvaz.bsky.social. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #ArtificialIntelligence #fascism #ClimateCrisis #apocalypse
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h
Trump on Dennis Rodman and Enes Kanter: "I'm giving them a full pardon that they can go into women's sports anytime they want."
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Taipei Times - Taiwan News @taipei-times.pbs.idv.tw.ap.brid.gy · 1h
Threat campaign using documentary distributor’s identity raises repression concerns 11:43 The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday said that threats made by one or more persons impersonating a Taiwanese documentary distributor who brought a film about alleged forced organ harvesting in […]
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
@crampell.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social react to Trump boasting that he has "the highest of IQs" while suggesting his own supposedly superior brain is the safeguard America needs against the risks of AI. "This is beyond parody."
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 12h
“This was a miscarriage of justice, and what happened to Mr. Hearn is an outrage that should shock every American. This administration chose to pursue an unjust prosecution against Mr. Hearn."
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Judge bars U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from charging ex-Olympian in Reflecting Pool case
The judge dismissed the case against David Hearn with prejudice, citing “exceptional circumstances” that included President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on Pirro’s office.
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 4h
Judge allows DNA class action lawsuit to go forward. "‘Unauthorized access to genetic profiles by law enforcement, against users’ expressed preferences, presents at the very least a substantial privacy invasion,’ [US District Judge James] Simmons... wrote." www.courthousenews.com/privacy-clas...
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Privacy class action over genetic data moves forward
A federal judge agreed with the plaintiffs that the disclosure of their DNA profiles to law enforcement against their wishes was a substantial invasion of their privacy.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h
Trump just amplified an article dismissing concerns over Black people found hanging as a “leftist race narrative” and accusing Democrats and civil rights activists of “race-baiting.”
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Trump Shares Article Calling Black Hanging Deaths a “Leftist Race Narrative”
President sends dismissive message regarding lynching investigations.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 5h
They literally think they're fighting a holy war, and this should terrify anyone with a functioning brain.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
"He's gonna fix it. Believe in him ... all the abortion, it's evil ... I want to see 2 people -- Trump & Jesus...we do not want Muslims taking over...I have horrible thoughts. I don't think they should be here. This isn't their country...they need to pack up & go back where they came from."
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 5h
Local official in DRC beaten to death by mob for defending govt’s anti-ebola efforts. "Officials have tried to fight the outbreak through a village-based approach, but some residents have resisted, dismissing Ebola as a hoax amid deep distrust of the government." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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Mourners bury DR Congo official killed after defending Ebola response
Marie-Celestin Karondwa died of his injuries after being beaten at his home in Butembo, an Ebola hotspot, on Sunday.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h
Got your Super Intelligence right here at the origins of the Iran War. AI also implicated in the signature war crime the US committed.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15h
As a man of faith, I find Pete Hegseth's twisting of Scripture abhorrent. Hegseth has been citing the Bible to justify Donald Trump's illegal war, but those very same scriptures say something quite different. Let's take a look. (link below)
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5h
Illinoisans have lost access to food assistance because the President wanted to make himself and his friends at Mar-a-Lago even richer. He made families choose between putting food on the table and paying their bills by driving up costs and cutting SNAP.
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Millions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"
More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
"He is not here to help. He’s distant, angry, a figure of nothing but venom & vengeance. He walks toward the viewer like a serial killer stalking his prey, his face a mask of contempt & barely-contained rage. His visage in this ad is glowering, almost a parody of a dictator trying to inspire terror"
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h
A federal judge has ruled that Roger Rogoff, the judicially appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle, has been illegally fired by the Trump admin and must be provisionally reinstated by the Justice Department.
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Trump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rules
The ruling is the latest in a string of decisions finding that the administration bent federal law to keep loyalists in key prosecutorial posts.
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Beng @bengtang.bsky.social · 3h
UK commentators discuss Xi's visit to Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOKa...
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Does Xi Jinping Have Trump In A Chokehold?
YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3h
Good times
Daniel Fried& @AmbDanFried
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Ah, KGB tactics I recall from my youth. The Finns, I suspect, will be apt to handle this well.
Petri Mäkelä @ @pmakela1 •14h
Several Finnish members of the Parliament have had recent break-ins where their houses "have been rearranged" a bit.
This is a very classic KGB/FSB/SVR move
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Beng @bengtang.bsky.social · 3h
That's a bit rich coming from Dan Bongino, who helped Trump campaign on releasing the Epstein files only to help cover them up when he was made deputy director of the FBI.
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 3h
Man sues sheriff over AI- and warrantless surveillance-powered fake traffic stops. "[Alek] Schott’s own dashcam footage later confirmed he’d never drifted lanes as [Deputy Joel] Babb alleged, the suit explains. So... Schott filed a complaint..." reason.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Cops used AI surveillance to detain an innocent Texas driver. His lawsuit just got the program struck down.
Officers made up reasons to pull over and interrogate Alek Schott, and they faked a K-9 alert to justify a nonconsensual search.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h
Hispanics working in the USA 👏🏽
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h
Modern cars’ smart features could be used to spy on you, drivers warned
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Modern cars’ smart features could be used to spy on you, drivers warned
Hostile states could access cameras, microphones or GPS, says Dutch spy agency amid concerns over Chinese imports Drivers have been warned that the smart features built into modern cars such as microphones, cameras and GPS trackers could be used by hostile states to spy on them. The Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) called for “awareness of espionage risks around modern vehicles”, including microphones that can by switched on remotely to listen to conversations. Continue reading...
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h
Rep. Greg Casar said progressives’ effort to make a leading artificial intelligence super PAC “as toxic as AIPAC” is having an impact. www.commondreams.org/news/democra...
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'Stand With the People': Progressive Caucus Leader Calls on All Democrats to Reject AI Billionaire Cash | Common Dreams
Rep. Greg Casar said progressives' effort to make a leading artificial intelligence super PAC "as toxic as AIPAC" is having an impact.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 20h
1/ Hundreds of Russian soldiers near Lyman surrendered because they were starving and drinking their own urine, according to first-hand accounts from frontline soldiers. The officers are said to have taken the radios and ran away, while ordering the men not to retreat. ⬇️
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As Trump and his Republican minions revive the language of the "Red Scare" and "threat of communism" in the elections, Trump is actively supporting the world's largest communist dictatorship, including by offering to sell them American weapons. Insanity is too mild a word.
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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says
David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amind the hoopla over RFK Jr's MAHA movement and his and Hegseth's fixation on testosterone levels, the reality is that the 2nd most widely used pesticide in the USA has been proven to cause chemical castration and even sex change in various animals. Naturally, no research on people.
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Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
Atrazine, banned in 60 countries, polluting rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GOP really does stand for "Guardians of Pedophiles." Trump-backed Ken Paxton is defending himself against charges that he let a notorious convicted pedophile out of prison after only one day by pointing out that it was 60 days. Yep, rape multiple kids and that's what you get if you're MAGA.
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Ken Paxton Defends One-Day Plea Deal Offered to Child Sex Predator
The Texas attorney general (and Republican Senate candidate) apparently thought this was a good argument.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are currently 94 nuclear reactors operating at nuclear power plants in the United States. Just company wants to build 456 new reactors on a parcel of public land to power a single monster data center. That's a 450%+ percent increase in nukes for just a single data center. Let that sink in.
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A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 4h
Russia has a long history of launching false flag attacks to create pretexts for attacks. This tactic goes back to the Russo-Turkish and Finnish wars right up to Ukraine, Moldova, and other republics. Impossible for me to say if Putin is planning an attack or just wants to 'sabre rattle.'
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 4h
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2 of the US Constitution is perfectly clear: "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." No matter what lies Trump tells, asylum seekers are NOT "an invasion."
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 4h
President Donald Trump's ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, faces calls for her removal after reportedly pulling a lobbyist into meetings with foreign officials.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle 'unfit' to serve after her overseas antics were exposed: lawmakers
President Donald Trump's ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, faces calls for her removal after reportedly pulling a lobbyist into meetings with foreign officials.Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host who was once engaged to Donald Trump Jr., was confirmed to the post last year. The Wall Street Jou...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4h
Cornell campus police submitted a condensed six-page report from an hours-long interview with transcripts totaling 120 pages. They completely omitted the rape charges. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 4h
Macklemore concerts sell out. “....Macklemore said he is ‘blown away’ after tickets for [the first 3] shows [of] his... 'Free Palestine' tour ‘sold out immediately’. ....[Information] on artists & additional cities will be made soon – including dates in the US." www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
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Macklemore ‘blown away’ after Free Palestine tour sells out ‘immediately’
Rapper announced concerts in Dublin, London and Paris after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour over Gaza comments
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 4h
Judge to Pentagon: Show me boat strike memo. “A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Pentagon to show him a memo that supposedly justifies its... lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean & Pacific Ocean before he determines whether to make the document public." www.courthousenews.com/pentagon-ord...
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Pentagon ordered to show legal justification for boat strikes
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected most of the government’s arguments that the document is privileged, but will review it himself before making them public.
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Beng @bengtang.bsky.social · 4h
Good Vs. Evil
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 16h
No one wants Hegseth’s extremist holy war. VOTE
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
The Trump administration posture: issue crude threats against US allies Canada, France and Germany, while praising and expressing support for Russia—when all are taking the exact same protective measures on diesel stocks—is revealing of who Trump thinks his friends are. reut.rs/3U3eCng
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EXCLUSIVE: US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban, sources say
The Trump administration has told Germany and ‌France to draw down emergency diesel inventories to help to ease global fuel prices or face a potential US diesel export ban, said three people close to ...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
Most of the rhetorical devises that Streicher honed in the Stürmer against Jews, Poles, Gypsies and gays are now routinely used by the MAGA GOP against their targets: Hispanics, Blacks, Asian-Americans and trans people. bsky.app/profile/dart...
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 16h
MeidasTouch: Buckle up, folks…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
The Antarctic Ice Sheet is committed to twenty-first-century mass loss, even under aggressive emissions-reduction scenarios. Higher emissions drive greater Antarctic mass loss by 2100 (≥0.89 probability), directly elevating near-term coastal risks. Major governments are oblivious to all of this.
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Committed Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss by the end of the twenty-first century - Nature Geoscience
The Antarctic Ice Sheet is committed to mass loss by 2100, with higher greenhouse gas emissions increasing its contribution to sea-level rise according to observation-constrained projections. Emission...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 16h
New ICE Facility to Hold Unaccompanied Immigrant Children at Airport “The facility will be managed by the LaSalle Family Foundation, the nonprofit arm of LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company” that operates other facilities where detainees have died. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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New Facility at Louisiana Airport to Hold Immigrant Children and Families (Gift Article)
The site in Alexandria, La., a major expansion of the Trump administration’s busiest deportation hub, will streamline and accelerate removals.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
In which Politico asks the obvious question: is Bridge Colby actually a Russian stooge? www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 16h
Defenders Day, the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks, and Pokrova: today Ukraine honors those who shield it, then and now. "I thank everyone who wears a patch on their shoulder, and on whose shoulders rests our independence."—Zelenskyy
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4h
More than 1.5 million kids were missed in the last U.S. census. The undercount was 2.1% for children <18, and 5.4% for those <5, the highest rate of any age group. Now the Census Bureau is proposing major changes to 2030 Census rules that could make some children even harder to count.
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Children Are Already Undercounted in the Census. Proposed Changes Could Make It Worse. - Population Reference Bureau
Newly proposed rules for who is counted and where could make millions of children harder to count in the 2030 Census.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
4. ICYMI: A wonky policy change by the Trump administration may spell the end of a wide swath of data from the Census Bureau, including key statistics used for redistricting, policymaking and research www.npr.org/2026/06/12/n...
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A Trump push to cut 'statistical noise' could mean less data from the Census Bureau
New public data for redistricting and other uses may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can protect people's privacy when it releases statistics.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NEW: Multiple webpages on the Census Bureau's website are unavailable to the public more than a week after the Trump administration issued a ban on "noise infusion," one of the bureau's main ways of protecting people's privacy when it releases statistics
Screen grab of a page on the Census Bureau's website saying: "404: Page Not Found ... Sorry, the page you requested has either been moved or is no longer available."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h
Drop Site: LAT is running a paid Israeli government tourism campaign featuring a map that completely erases the occupied Palestinian Territories. The sponsored content, labeled "Paid Program" and produced by the paper's branded content arm, LA Times Studios, is titled "Israel: Land of Creation,"
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h
So many of the same “intellectuals” who are obsessed with undermining the existence of trans people are also obsessed with undermining the Cornell rape victim’s testimony. It’s almost like they don’t believe people have a right to bodily autonomy
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