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@cathana.bsky.social
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Chicagoan; Engineering Professor; “Fix Your Hearts or Die”

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet: I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is a powerful story from a trans Texan (who's also quite a talented independent journalist). I've been arguing that trans people have the right to be upset with Talarico, and I think we do. This is the case for vote for him anyway, eloquently made, and by someone with the standing to make it.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartbreaking and horrific. Anyone with half a brain knew it - and worse - was coming, but I'm still sick to my stomach. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/11/t...
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Trump administration ends Medicaid, CHIP funding for gender-affirming care for children
Federal dollars in the two health insurance programs would not go toward gender-affirming care, but states could still cover the treatments.
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Chicago Alerts @chicagoalerts.com · 03/07/2026
🚨 Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Southeastern Cook County! Expect 60mph winds, quarter size hail, and potential damage to vehicles, roofs, and trees. Stay safe, Chicago! 🌩️
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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In light of the SCOTUS decision on trans girls ability to participate in sports, I am reposting this.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/06/2026
This is such a bummer.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is a helpful guide! If you haven’t made a comment yet, please do! Even—especially—if you’re not a scientist!
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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The news was confirmed by breaks my heart a little bit
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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So many LGBTQ Texans are moving to this city, it may declare an 'emergency'
Seattle is one of the many places that transgender Texans are resettling after fleeing their home state.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is fucking horrifying.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Mary S. McElroy, United States District Judge.
The United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") possesses immense
prosecutorial authority and discretion. As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors,
when wielding this awesome power against a state, a company, or certainly against
vulnerable children, will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the
judiciary.
DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case. It has misrepresented and withheld information to both this Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the "Texas court"). It did so in an obvious effort to shield it's recent investigative tactics-previously rejected by every
other court to review them-from this Court's review, in favor of a distant forum that
DOJ deems friendly to its political positions. 1 Its representatives have, under oath,misrepresented salient facts. It has misled the parties with whom it was negotiating in Rhode Island, who have now been placed in an untenable and unprecedented procedural position. And when its attorneys came to this Court to explain their conduct, the senior attorney-who was present at many of the events that took place
in this case sat silently by as his counterpart, a junior attorney who has been
practicing law for approximately six months and had no relevant information, was forced to answer questions about DOJ's blatant disregard for the proper course of
negotiations.
Now before the Court is the petitioner, the Child Advocate for the State of Rhode Island's (the "Child Advocate") Emergency Motion to Quash a subpoena duces tecum issued by DOJ as well as Rhode Island Hospital's ("RIH") Motion to Quash the same subpoena. (ECF Nos. 1, 28.) For the following reasons, the Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents
related to this now invalid subpoena.
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Jonathan Burdick @jonathanburdick.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Robert Ebert’s review of Downfall in 2004 was as absolutely masterful as the movie itself. #history #wwii #skystorians #extremism
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Captain Bonespurs stood in front of Christina Koch and boasted that he could have been an astronaut because “it’s easy”. Koch has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics, a Master’s in Electrical Engineering, 328 days in space, and 6 spacewalks. He’s not a genius. He’s a fucking moron.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/04/2026
Answer: the men who got them pregnant kill them. Not top five. Not top three. Top.
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Homicide leading cause of death for pregnant women in U.S. | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Women in the U.S. who are pregnant or who have recently given birth are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes—and these homicides are linked to a deadly mix of intimate partner ...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This was apparent a year ago and apparently not only to me
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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 20/04/2026
SCOOP: McGill University's on-campus doctors are now refusing to prescribe hormones to trans youth and adults under age 19... if they're U.S. citizens. They claim liability issues, but this isn't the first time U.S. EOs have interfered with Canadian doctors. My report: celeste.lgbt/en/2026/04/d...
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Trump's trans healthcare ban is affecting Americans in Canada • Celeste Trianon
U.S. international students studying at McGill now need to contend with the fact that if they are transgender, they can't get trans-specific healthcare on campus until they turn 19.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "On this Trans Day of Visibility, I just want to say to all the trans folks out there watching that we see you, we support you, and we have your back, and you absolutely do not deserve all the despicable cruelty being thrown your way."
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...
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J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/03/2026
How many times is the NYT going to run this exact essay. "Dems must abandon trans people and get on board with the political project trying to eradicate them from society."
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You can’t talent your way to writing. It’s built. It’s a built thing. It’s a made thing. So the real thing you got to do is you got to come back to that bad writing and you’ve got to revise.” Like James Baldwin said, “I’m not a writer. I’m a re-writer.”
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 20/03/2026
Calling the station to request a song, waiting by the radio, hitting record at just the right moment, hoping the DJ doesn’t talk over the intro, adding it to your mixtape. Good times.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10/03/2026
As many as 140 servicemembers injured. 7 killed. Thousands of Americans stranded in the region with a target on their backs and no escape. All for a war that a draft dodger cannot even articulate a coherent and consistent justification for. How. Is. This. America. First.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Michael Beschloss: John Lewis and other marchers are beaten, Selma, Alabama, today 1965:
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Willow 💧 @willowmlp.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Repost if your account is a safe space for the trans community. 🏳️‍⚧️
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🧵🧵🧵
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Worth a re-up 11 days later. And I honestly wish it wasn't.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2026
The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People
The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
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How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders
SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Very good point. You can donate to the ACLU transgender rights project right here: www.aclu.org/issues/lgbtq...
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Transgender Rights | American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this co...
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Jenny Hayes @jennyhayes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is a great suggestion for today. I found and donated to www.transprogram.org in Mississippi!
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The T.R.A.N.S. Program
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org
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Trans Continental Pipeline
Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
FFS LET TRANS PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES IN PEACE
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/02/2026
Mt Sinai has followed NYU Langone in blatantly violating NY state and NYC law by stopping provision of gender affirming care to trans youth. Seriously, what are @mayor.nyc.gov, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social, and @governor.ny.gov going to do about this? www.advocate.com/health/trans...
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Families say Mount Sinai ended teen trans health program
It is the latest medical center to stop caring for transgender young people after the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funds.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/02/2026
Hey @jerusalem.bsky.social and @mattyglesias.bsky.social, can you tell me what the polling is on public support for banning trans people's underwear? Because that's where we're at right now.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Watching the rest of the world's leaders face consequences
a turtle looking out the window with the caption: watching the rest of the world's leaders face consequences
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The Golden Age.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 12/02/2026
When @padilla.senate.gov and I visited the California City Detention Center, we met with people who were held without basic medical treatment or, in many cases, no medical attention at all. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Department of Homeland Security must provide 'constitutionally adequate healthcare' at ICE detention center, judge rules
A federal judge also required an external monitor be appointed to ensure compliance, including through review of medical records and on-site inspection and interviews with patients and staff at the Ca...
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dbkinlala 🏳️‍🌈✡️🌊 @dbkinlala.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
#humor
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Mitch Goldich @mitchgoldich.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Good job, Liz Lemley
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 09/02/2026
Hey y'all. I'm hiring. Are you interested in building instruments for astrophysics? wd5.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
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Research Scientist/Engineer 2 (E S UAW Research)
Job Description The University of Washington (UW) Astronomy Department has an outstanding opportunity for a researcher who will have responsibilities in the design, development, construction, and test...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Put it on your calendar today. Tell your family and friends. The next No Kings protest is Saturday, March 28. We were 7 million strong in October. We can be even stronger in March.
March 28: No thrones, no crowns, no kings
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
“If you read or share only one article today, make it this: HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000 … Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of power of the office for self-enrichment.” @leahmcelrath.bsky.social No paywall: archive.is/ZmfJC
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Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion (Gift Article)
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
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Alexander Hamizdat 🇵🇷 @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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