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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Democrats should stand up for trans people because it's the right thing to do, but where morals are absent, perhaps losing elections because their anti-trans stances threaten the existence of people who might vote for them is incentive enough to have a single, solitary principle?
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David @mcmax3000.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes to all of that but also, when I do need to use a machine for things, I never ever want to have to talk to it like it's a real boy to do so.
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merritt @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026
i dont know how to get this through to the true believers but i simply do not want to ask a machine to do my work for me. i dont want it to communicate with other people for me. i dont want it to plan my vacations or make my agendas or anything because all of that IS my life
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this is excellent
stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable. (You probably won’t even get the kudos of looking like a cool ally, because you’re still ultimately talking about Harry Potter. Sorry about that.)
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23/07/2026
An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop, sources have reported.
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Autistic man with special interest in Harry Potter gets over it, leaving you with no excuse
An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop,…
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 05/08/2026
Banger
In June I asked El-Sayed about Rs potentially using his whole name (or the fact that his brother is named Osama) against him. 

His answer:

“I hope that they will. Yeah, my name is Abdul. I’ll say the whole thing: Abdulrahman Muhammad El-Sayed, and I want you to have health care, because you know what? Chances are, you probably had a doctor you trust with a name like mine.”
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 31/07/2026
FOUR POLLS IN TWO DAYS Mitchell Research 🟦El-Sayed 52% 🟦Stevens 38% Emerson poll 🟢 Abdul El-Sayed 54% 🟠 Haley Stevens 39% Tavern Research Poll 🟦Abdul El-Sayed 48% 🟦Haley Stevens 37% SoCal poll 🟢 Abdul El-Sayed 56% 🟠 Haley Stevens 39%
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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The Enduring Cult of the Vietnam ‘Missing in Action’
How a propaganda goof by Richard Nixon’s administration midwifed an urban legend that scarred American foreign policy and domestic politics for a generation.
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 14/07/2026
The homie Nitish P. back in late June: "The practice of undisclosed monetary partnerships, as corporate sponsorships or political campaign ops, has been a scourge upon digital commons ever since the rise of the influencer" slate.com/technology/2...
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Social Media Has Been Secretly Flooded by a New Kind of Content. You Probably Haven’t Noticed—and That’s the Problem.
The most popular ads on social media look like anything but.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/07/2026
I don’t think that’s the takeaway at all, for the record. Most of the country did good things in 2020-21, and it was heartening to see. The problem is that it got like 30% of the population into doing bad things performatively, and they haven’t stopped. I worry that’s leeching into the groundwater.
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Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is astonishing, please send to all your hometown friends and parents and second cousins and academic administrators: lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I think there's actually a useful difference we can draw here. Namely: there is incrementalism that comes from pushing wherever possible (and with whatever levels possible) to make progress toward a maximalist demand, versus incrementalism that's positioned as an excuse for setting minor goals
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 23/06/2026
The most centered parents of autistic people do not blame "autism" for making their lives harder than they should be. They know that society has failed them and their autistic child. They want better understanding, accommodations, education, and supports.
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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Any time a Spanish speaking government does right by its poorest the New York Times summons the ghost of United Fruit
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/06/2026
I mean I don't hear a single one of them saying "we're going to appropriate your money and put you on trial for mass murder" so they're less "taking aim" and more "empty posturing"
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Elon Musk is set to become Earth’s first trillionaire. Democrats are taking aim.
Move over millionaires and billionaires. A new entry to the political lexicon is spreading on the campaign trail.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 02/06/2026
If this enrages you please find out what the orgs near you are doing to resist ice and join them. If you think there’s enough people doing it there aren’t. If you think there’s nothing you can contribute you’re wrong !
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 26/05/2026
I well recall the online debates where the majority of debaters opined that zero traffic deaths is an utopian goal and would require methods that would kill Helsinki, if not bring about totalitarian communism
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 21/05/2026
the trans agenda is literally just trans people asking to keep the rights trans people had without much issue until a few years ago, when Republicans started trying to take them away and a frightening amount of Democrats decided some of that was reasonable
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ceej @ceej.online · 27/03/2024
every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 15/05/2026
this is absolutely disgusting. i don't even have the words for how horrid this is
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Kathryn Salamander 🦎✨ @transsalamander.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The loser in charge of running this account has copy+pasted this exact post in reply to four different trans journalists. If this were a person, we'd call this a crashout. No idea what to call it when it's a formerly respected news organization trying to push obvious misinformation.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
no sorry we’re not doing this anymore. not for a volunteer army committing atrocities
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
the USA was doing violent regime change for the sake of rich people’s bottom line way before the President was implicated in a child sex trafficking ring and that doesn’t make the latter any less important but also let’s be fucking serious please
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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Iranian authorities and Red Crescent Society officials report that more than 100 people, most of them girls, were killed at a primary school during joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. Let’s be clear: Slaughtering children in a school is an atrocity and a war crime. www.ft.com/content/055d...
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Strike on Iranian primary school kills 108, authorities say
Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
you want to overthrow the government in Iran and establish a more US-friendly regime there? sounds great! I wonder, have we ever tried that before? oh we have, huh? how did that turn out? 🤔
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Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It's up to 60 now. Whether an error or a targeted terror attack 60 kids are dead. I wonder how well-disposed Iranians will be to a peace deal now?
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One thing people should remember is that these ICE agents are having fun hunting humans. They enjoy doing this. So when a Democrat tells you the solution is "better training", you should wonder why they want better trained versions of these freaks.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
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Ky @ky.fyi · 22/01/2026
bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
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Sam 👁️ @samthenightowl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
this man deserves the presidential medal of freedom imo
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It's Ryan! @construct.goblinmo.de · 03/01/2026
"What do you want the Dems to DO exactly?" is kicked dog behavior. Elected officials are not meant to do insider trading and occasionally give a 4/10 speech about civility. They are an expression of the values of those they represent, you're damn right I expect up to and including physical action.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We killed and rendered Venezuelan civilians homeless so Donald Trump could post a Fortunate Son-backed fancam and feel happy about it.
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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/01/2026
you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks” whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to” don’t give them cover on it
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Phyoog-ettaboutit @phyoog.northsky.social · 03/01/2026
Just NPR passive voice-ing the President unilaterally annexing a country.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
i feel like i see a lot of "mysterious new account makes big bet on insider information" news stories and not enough people-being-arrested-for-that news stories
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The Cool Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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