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Bernadette Marie Oliver

@bernadetteoliver.bsky.social
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 15/10/2026
Really appreciate this study, because you'll find similar trends when it comes to other high-profile anti-trans narratives. These arguments are being pushed by a few influential figures on places like X for profit, and get outsized attention. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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New Report Says WNBA Trans Debate Is Being Pushed Online for Profit: 'The Point Is to Sow Division'
The trans athlete fight feels inescapable online. Data startup GUDEA says the data shows a different story
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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
I made a new friend over the weekend. Her name has yet to be decided upon, but isn't she gorgeous 🥰
My puppy! I've a puppy! Isn't she the best puppy!!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/10/2026
yeah. and it's not like his first term, when people were getting slanted contracts and whatnot, but like "Mobutu in the 1980s" type shit bsky.app/profile/mayh...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/10/2026
I think even the duller swing voters have a bleary sense that Trump and his goons are fuckin robbing us all blind
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026
The way this rhymes with anti-immigrant narratives isn't a coincidence; patriarchy is a social technology oriented around reproduction, both of hegemonic demographics and hegemonic values. Conservative calls to violence are always bolstered by a presumed threat against "their" "women".
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026
In the transphobic narrative gender-conservatives traffick in, the transfeminine spectre is a rapacious other while the transmasculine is a corrupted innocence. The dehumanization of both is distinct but linked; transmasculine people are regendered as a patriarchal resource to be protected.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026
In contrast, transmasculine people are infantilized to strip them of agency, positioning them as reproductive and gestational resources who are being seduced, appropriated, "stolen" and led astray by the sinister [implicitly-male, implicitly transfeminine, implicitly violating] "trans agenda".
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026
One of the reasons for this is that the rhetorical figure of the trans child is never transfeminine. The trans girl is not a figure in the conservative lexicon because the transfeminine is a grotesquerie positioned always as a sexual threat to "real girls", and thus always adultified.
It is the latest development in a story ignited by a comment made by Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham, who said she wanted to protect young girls "who shouldn't have to go against biological men" in sport.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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WNBA transgender athlete discourse exposed as manufactured outrage, according to report
In July, ESPN published a profile of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, and one quote altered the course of the 2026 WNBA season. “I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans,” Cunningham said. “And I’m like, ‘I never once said that.’ I think that I am here to extend love. But I…
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Andy Tulin (Subscribe to The Post Presence version) @andytulin.net · 15/10/2026
Many of us knew this from the start, yet you motherfuckers in the corporate media insisted on treating it as an existential crisis for the league bc it was doing numbers on the Nazi site that you still treat as the town square
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Le Figaro @lefigaro.fr · 15/10/2026
80% des Américains opposés à la retransmission en direct d’une exécution. →https://l.lefigaro.fr/EmP8
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Death and Gravity @bushidosquirrel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
YES ON 40! NO ON 41! NO ON 42! SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS
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Campaign for Southern Equality @southernequality.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Calling all volunteers! Looking for ways to get involved this election year? Reach out to voters in states where anti-trans measures are on the ballot! Sign up for a virtual phonebank or text bank with @transequality.bsky.social to call voters and advocate for trans youth. buff.ly/mhbmSwc
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is *exactly* how/why Hungary was finally motivated to throw out Orban. Let's go.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“This is where ICE grabbed Liam Conejo Ramos and sent that five-year-old little boy to a detention center in Texas. ICE has now snatched up 6,200 children.”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"Nearly half the people surveyed by Pew Research Center in 2025 said people behave more rudely in public now than before COVID." [count me among this group] archive.ph/zCzRG#select...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#SkyLibrarians might be interested in my new zine: The Class Mark and Communists in the Library. It's the 14th publication in my ongoing Archival Activations series. I use my one copy of this NYPL Communist newsletter/paper as the basis for the zine: issuu.com/projectnia/d...
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The Class Mark and Communists in the Library
The Class Mark was a Communist paper dedicated to organizing workers to fight for better working conditions in the New York Public Library. The paper was published from 1935 to 1939, at a time when th
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Charlotte Hawkins Brown's Palmer Memorial Institute is the only designated Black women’s history site in North Carolina. Thanks to an ambitious preservation and adaptive reuse plan, the campus will soon welcome learners again. Loved covering this project!
newsletter.mariannedhenin.com
Historic Black School at Heart of Development Plans in North Carolina Town
The Palmer Memorial Institute campus, once home to Charlotte Hawkins Brown, will continue to anchor Sedalia as the town grows.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“Most people in the West Bank today have never been to Gaza, according to the ISEP poll. Over 40 percent of respondents said they had never seen the sea, though from high points, in places like Ramallah, you can see it in the distance.” www.wired.com/story/how-is...
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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ohio’s Cincinnati Public Schools is the first district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go to at night and sleep in their cars, and has served more than 300 people since opening this past spring ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/14/c...
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Cincinnati Public Schools has served hundreds with first-in-the-nation sleep lot for families • Ohio Capital Journal
Cincinnati Public Schools is the first school district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go at night and sleep in their cars.
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Randolph Potts @rpotts-sawubona.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026
Jasmine Bernard, 17, speaks out on health impacts of data centers in Memphis. She and others addressed the Memphis City Council about air that smells like rotten eggs, worsening asthma & increasing hospital visits. She & others called for a moratorium on new data center development. The Mayor choked
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
damn that hp tv show must rly be looking like a flop
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/10/2026
Vouch
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Pedantry but Napster didn’t get shut down, it just went legit
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
15 years. He's appealing all 13 charges.
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Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Yesterday marked the biggest public sector strike since 2009. Our representatives were on the ground all over the country, visiting pickets and speaking to as many striking workers as possible. Here's what some of them had to say about why they're striking, and what they want from negotiations.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been jailed for FIFTEEN YEARS for 18 counts of sex abuse. Donaldson was leader of the hardline unionist DUP for three years & was a key player in the endless Brexit negotiations. A spectacular downfall for someone who dared to lecture others on morals.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for CSA www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Jeffrey Donaldson: Former DUP leader sentenced to 15 years in prison for child sex abuse
In statements read out in court by the judge, one of his victims says she grew up feeling ashamed, while the other says: "Every day I pray God will let me die".
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 15/10/2026
The two women who were sexually abused as children by former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson have said nothing can change the impact of what happened to them. Donaldson was sentenced to 15 years in prison today after being convicted in June of 18 offences. jrnl.ie/7194340
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'My childhood was stolen': Jeffrey Donaldson's victims say nothing can undo the damage he's done
Both women said that what happened has taken away their ability to trust people.
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Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sexual offences. Donaldson was found guilty in June of 18 counts of sexual abuse including one rape between 1985 and 2008. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sexual offences
Donaldson was found guilty in June of 18 counts of sexual abuse including one rape between 1985 and 2008
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Aedh MacTire @tine119.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Gach a mach Jeffrey!! www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...
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Donaldson jailed for 15 years for rape and sexual assault
Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been jailed for 15 years for the rape and sexual assault of a schoolgirl and the sexual assault of a second young girl.
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Unofficial BBC News NI @unofficialnewsni.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Dawn arrest to 'descent into disgrace': How victims exposed Jeffrey Donaldson's lies From BBC News NI #NorthernIreland
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Dawn arrest to 'descent into disgrace': How victims exposed Jeffrey Donaldson's lies
The sentencing of former MP Jeffrey Donaldson brings an end to a chapter begun more than two years ago when two women walked into a police station.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I was very inconvenienced by the strikes today which has annoyed me, and so I just want to say very clearly, up the workers, I fully support the strikes, beep! beep!
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Extraordinary
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Faber to no longer publish Sally Rooney in UK due to Palestine Action legislation
Faber, the publisher of Sally Rooney, has said it will "no longer supply her works in the UK in any format" following legislation on the Palestine Action group from the UK government.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The UK is increasingly lost
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
[redacted]
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 15/10/2026
The racist and Islamophobic attacks on Somali Americans and the unhinged attacks on refugees and asylum seekers must end. They are antithetical to Jewish American values, the so-called "Judeo-Christian" tradition, and the very words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. #IStandWithIlhan #JewsForIlhan
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 14/10/2026
The ADL's ETF, TOV, holds over $1.4M in SpaceX stock. SpaceX owns xAI, which owns X (formerly Twitter). The ADL is now directly profiting from the mass-proliferation of hate, including virulent antisemitism. How many other Jewish institutions with endowments or investment funds are doing the same?
screencap of spacex holdings on the tov etf website
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Judge Matthew Sharbaugh of the DC District Court edition.cnn.com/2026/10/14/p...
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John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.” Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/14/l...
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ICE never identified themselves during NYC shooting of Oscar Belgal, who still has bullet in neck: lawyers
The Legal Aid Society, which now represents the 28-year-old father, filed a habeas corpus petition in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday, seeking his “immediate release on reasonable conditions.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
the people responding to this defensively are nuts. i’m talking about a critical mass of democrats to make it clear that they’ll put themselves on the line to protect congresswoman omar. im glad there have been some strongly worded statements but there needs to be action.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
her colleagues are really gonna show their asses in the coming days.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Ilhan Omar stuff is grotesque and feels worthy of impeachment by itself
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Nonetheless. A bully has only two moves- escalation and capitulation. Escalation is out of the government’s hands. They have discovered they can’t continue as things are. So I think what’s left is capitulation. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Chambers says €1.2bn is 'starting point' for pay talks
Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers has said the €1.2 billion for public sector pay talks announced in the Budget is the "starting point" for discussions, and the only way to develop that is...
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
At the same time it has tossed cash at non-labour expenses. (Insert here the Catechism of The Blessed Bike Shed and the Tale of the Tractor Lads) It simply cannot abide the thought of people who earn a salary, as opposed to dividends or rent or share options, getting paid more this year than last.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The State has, everywhere it purchases labour, sought to simply cut its own costs and expected to continue to receive the same services. This is, as those of us who have, for example, bought a weekly shop recently can testify, not how this works.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Civil Legal Aid (largely Family Law) has seen a collapse in solicitors willing to work for the money now offered. The scheme has lost 60% of its solicitors in the last decade.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Minister for Justice is in a stand off with criminal defence solicitors, who have withdrawn their labour rather than accept the money he offers for their services. But less discussed is that this is the second example of the Minister’s weakness at pricing his needs.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Whether it is Jack Chambers announcing his policy of official ugliness to save money (www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the... ) or The Taoiseach giving a speech praising AI to its oligarchic titans on the day of the strike, they simply cannot get the tone right.
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The Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers announces his new policy to fill Ireland with ugly things. This is the Gist.
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