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clearlyclaire.bsky.social @clearlyclaire.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Setting aside that the emoluments clause, are companies not risking bribery charges themselves?

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Mitildide 🧌 @mitildide.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Building *slows* gentrification; and *not* building makes it much worse: "The findings suggest that not allowing more homes to be built—even for high-income residents—pushes up all rents, making it harder for low-income tenants to remain in their neighborhoods." -- www.pew.org/en/research-...

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New Housing Slows Rent Growth Most for Older, More Affordable Units

The nationwide housing shortage has driven rents up more in low-income neighborhoods than in the U.S. overall, but in areas that have recently added large amounts of housing, rents have fallen the mos...

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful. Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

There’s evidence that repeatedly hearing a lie (EVEN WHEN TOLD IT IS A LIE) makes you more likely to believe it, so reposting rightwing videos to dunk on them may actually aid them in propagandizing. The point of propaganda isn’t to persuade by being compelling—it’s to exhaust your reasoning.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 29/07/2025

“He won’t win!” “They won’t overturn Roe!” “ICE won’t arrest US citizens!” “They won’t cut Medicare and Medicaid!” “They aren’t mainstreaming fascism in pop culture!”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/07/2025

The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving. We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share! www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting

Article Abstract

How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.

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clearlyclaire.bsky.social @clearlyclaire.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This is such a fantastic essay that has put into words something I have felt strongly for many years.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

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👻Ghosts👻 by Emily K @posts.by.emilyk.art · 14/07/2025

Too many people - Jews included, myself included until fairly recently - don't realize the truth of what antisemitism is: It's not the belief that Jews are evil. It's the belief that anything evil is somehow, even if secretly, Jewish. That's why we can be Oligarchs and Marxists at the same time.

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P. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 14/07/2025

cw antisemitism I stared into the abyss last night; it was a big mistake. As I'm burning my last bridges with Twitter, I checked on some antisemitic networks I'd gotten a glimpse of... after that I could not sleep. Let me at least share a few insights. 1) the left/right distinction... 1/5

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/07/2025

my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

🚨Federal judge orders DHS to limit “roving patrols” in Los Angeles. The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.

What the federal government would have this Court believe—in the face of a mountain of evidence presented in this case—is that none of this is actually happening.
Most of the questions before this Court are fairly simple and non-controversial, and both
sides in this case agree on the answers.
• May the federal government conduct immigration enforcement— even large scale immigration enforcement-in Los Angeles? Yes, it may.
• Do all individuals regardless of immigration status— share in the rights guaranteed by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution? Yes, they do.
• Is it illegal to conduct roving patrols which identify people based upon race alone, aggressively question them, and then detain them without a warrant, without their consent, and without reasonable suspicion that they are without status? Yes, it is.
• Is it unlawful to prevent people from having access to lawyers who can help them in immigration court? Yes, it is.
There are really two questions in controversy that this Court must decide today.
First, are the individuals and organizations who brought this lawsuit likely to succeed in
proving that the federal government is indeed conducting roving patrols without reasonable suspicion and denying access to lawyers? This Court decides—based on all the evidence presented-that they are.
And second, what should be done about it? The individuals and organizations who have brought this lawsuit have made a fairly modest request: that this Court order the federal government to stop.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10/07/2025

Okay right I am in a cafe feeding both of us so let’s talk about this. It’s one of those things where it almost seems reasonable, at first: why *shouldn’t* breastfeeding be discreet? Let’s unpack that because it’s not actually reasonable.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

“Plaintiff Abrego Garcia repeatedly observed prisoners in nearby cells who he understood to be gang members violently harm each other with no intervention…Screams from nearby cells would similarly ring out throughout the night without any response from prison guards…”

Case 8:25-cv-00951-PX Document 211-3 Filed 07/02/25 Page 24 of 40
124. While at CECOT, prison officials repeatedly told Plaintiff Abrego Garcia that they
would transfer him to the cells containing gang members who, they assured him, would "tear" him
apart.
125. Indeed, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia repeatedly observed prisoners in nearby cells who
he understood to be gang members violently harm each other with no intervention from guards or
personnel. Screams from nearby cells would similarly ring out throughout the night without any
response from prison guards on personnel
126. During his first two weeks at CECOT, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia suffered a significant
deterioration in his physical condition and lost approximately 31 pounds (dropping from
approximately 215 pounds to 184 pounds).
127. On April 9, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and four others were transferred to a different
module in CECOT, where they were photographed with mattresses and better food photos that appeared to be staged to document improved conditions.
128. On or about April 10, 2025, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was transferred alone to the
Centro Industrial prison facility in Santa Ana, El Salvador.
129. While at Centro Industrial, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was frequently hidden from visitors, being told to remain in a separate room whenever outside visitors came to the facility.
130. During his entire time in detention in El Salvador, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied any communication with his family and access to counsel until Senator Van Hollen visited
him on April 17, 2025.
Statements Refusing Return of Abrego Garcia to the United States
131. Since the Supreme Court affirmed the District Court's order requiring that
Defendants facilitate Abrego Garcia's release and return from custody in El Salvador and ensure
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

120. Upon arrival at CECOT, the detainees were greeted by a prison official who stated,
"Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn't leave." Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then
forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in
the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head
was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons
along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body.
121. In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel
from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.
During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself The
detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no
windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation.
122. After approximately one week at CECOT, prison director Osiris Luna and other
officials separated the 21 Salvadorans who had arrived together. Twelve individuals with visible gang-related tattoos were moved to another cell, while Plaintiff Abrego Garcia remained with eight
others who, like him, upon information and belief had no gang affiliations or tattoos.
123. As reflected by his segregation, the Salvadoran authorities recognized that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was not affiliated with any gang and, at around this time, prison officials explicitly acknowledged that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia's tattoos were not gang-related, telling him "your

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”

Case 8:25-cv-00951-PX
Document 211
Filed 07/02/25 Page 2 of 5
3. The proposed Amended Complaint details the Government's defiance of court
orders after this Court granted preliminary injunctive relief. The Amended Complaint includes
allegations that the Government made decisions to defy judicial mandates. These allegations are
new to the Complaint, but have been cited in various filings in this Court as the case has developed.
They are directly relevant to Plaintiffs' constitutional claims and outstanding requests for
declaratory and prospective injunctive relief.
4. Plaintiffs also seek to incorporate evidence that emerged in a June 2025
whistleblower disclosure from former DOJ official Erez Reuveni, who was previously counsel for
the Government in this case. The new allegations include government officials internally
acknowledging that Abrego Garcia's removal was an "administrative error" while simultaneously
working to prevent his return and to make post-hoc justifications. These revelations provide
evidence of deliberate misconduct that was unavailable when the original Complaint was filed and
directly support Plaintiffs' claims.
5. The proposed Amended Complaint also Includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand
account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT, as well as developments regarding his return to the United States and the Government's stated plan to remove him again. These allegations identify
the severe harm actually suffered and the threat of repeated unlawful removal that supports
Plaintiffs' request for prospective injunctive relief. The inclusion of these facts, which could not
have been pleaded at the time of the original filing, is essential to present a complete picture of the
violations and ensure adequate relief.
6. Plaintiffs also propose to clarify that the relief sought includes restoring the status
quo ante, which requires (among other things) the Government to return Abrego Garcia to
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clearlyclaire.bsky.social @clearlyclaire.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I wanna know if people were like “we can always tell” with Jews.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/06/2025

Hmm. Where have I seen that in the New York Times before...

A clipping from the new York times in 1934 with text stating: "By hating Hitler and trying to fight back, Jews are only increasing the severity of his policies against them. If Jews throughout the world try to instill into the minds of Hitler and his supporters recognition of the ideals for which the race stands, and if Jews appeal to the German sense of justice and the German national conscience, I am sure the problem will be solved more effectively and earlier than otherwise."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/06/2025

1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government. It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering." He was warned of arrest. They marched anyway. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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200,000 March In Budapest Pride, Refusing To Capitulate To Anti-LGBTQ+ Law

The march can teach the world the power of organized solidarity in the wake of a global, anti-LGBTQ+ reactionary movement.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

PROVOKE AND PUBLICISE Tomorrow in the Houses of Parliament the transphobes will attempt a “Provoke & Publicise” action. Provoke and Publicise was originally developed as a tactic by racist segregationists in US states like Alabama & Oklahoma to try and stop the civil rights movement there… 1/7

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a cartoon drawing of a transgender flag against a yellow background

Alt: a cartoon drawing of a transgender flag against a yellow background

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clearlyclaire.bsky.social @clearlyclaire.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social Do you happen to know anything about the groups funding stuff like this? Like where’s the money coming from to run these ads?

YouTube ad promoting a petition to get rid of bike lanes in Toronto streets Yonge, University, and Bloor West.

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clearlyclaire.bsky.social @clearlyclaire.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Can’t wait for NY Times to publish an article in full support of conversion therapy.

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Molly Bangles @mollybangles.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The other side, shout out to my guy Nemik

A rectangular cardboard sign that reads, in black and bronze permanent marker, “Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction.”

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clearlyclaire.bsky.social @clearlyclaire.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It’s so unacceptable to report a comment literally calling for the killing of gay people on TikTok and the moderation system to declare it has no violation.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

You must always be more disciplined than the forces brought against you. They're allowed to make mistakes. They make the rules. Your mistakes will be used as justification for your own repression.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"By militarizing ... in L.A., Trump is goading Americans more generally to take him on in the streets of their own cities, thus enabling his attacks on their constitutional freedoms. As I’ve listened to him and his advisers over the past several days, they seem almost eager for public violence."

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I know everyone's been breathlessly waiting for what I was going to write about LA. here you go - gifted www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Trump Means to Provoke, Not Pacify

Don’t give him the pretext he wants.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Francis was the best Pope of my lifetime. He occupied the top of a powerful hierarchy while still challenging it. He provided a moral reminder of the values of decency, humility and empathy towards the vulnerable in a role, and at a time, where it easy to lose sight of those values.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Lucy V @lucyvilchis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Judge Reyes is asking if the DoD cited a Beyonce album in their anti-trans policy, would the attorney demand she ignore common sense and just listen to the album. DoJ attorney has no idea how to respond.

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clearlyclaire.bsky.social @clearlyclaire.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thank you @keating.house.gov for standing up for a member of my community, Representative Sarah McBride. This is not an easy time for us, and our allies feel frighteningly few. Watching that clip made me tear up.

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Queer Momentum @queermomentum.ca · 03/03/2025

With over a million queer Canadians - and millions more friends, family, and allies - when we come together, we can be an unstoppable force for progress. Help make it happen: join the movement at RainbowEquality.ca

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Canada is home to over a million queer and trans people - and millions more who love and support us. Together, we can Vote for Rainbow Equality - and elect politicians who will uphold freedom, equality and human rights for 2SLGBTQIA+ people.

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Vote Rainbow Equality Call to Action:
Uphold and advance freedom, equality and human rights for 2SLGBTQIA+ people

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We’re calling on all Canadian political parties and candidates in the 2025 federal election to:
- Pledge their unreserved support for the freedom, equality and human rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ people, and oppose any attempt to restrict or roll-back Canada’s progress on queer and trans inclusion.
- Commit to tangible measures to advance freedom, equality and human rights for 2SLGBTQIA+ people, through support for local 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations, public education and anti-discrimination efforts.

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Queer Momentum @queermomentum.ca · 03/03/2025

Vote Rainbow Equality is a campaign to unite queer, trans and allied people across Canada in a massive movement to push back against the hate and uphold freedom, equality, and human rights for all, in the upcoming federal election and beyond.

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Today, we face existential threats to the human rights and equality of queer people and families. Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ groups are targeting transgender and queer people to stoke fear, normalize hate and gain power. That’s why we’re speaking up for human rights and Rainbow Equality.

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We deserve politicians who will uphold human rights, equality and freedom – for everyone. Politicians who bring Canadians together to tackle the big issues - affordability, healthcare and housing - instead of dividing us with misleading slogans and dangerous rhetoric.

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We can build a better Canada – where we uphold human rights, respect our neighbours and lift each other up. Where we have a prosperous economy, affordable housing and safe communities – for everyone. That’s the future we deserve - for ourselves, our families and our friends.

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Queer Momentum @queermomentum.ca · 03/03/2025

✨ ARE YOU READY TO ORGANIZE FOR QUEER RIGHTS? ✨ Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ hate is on the rise in Canada and around the world. We have a choice: to sit back and let others decide our fate, or to come together and decide for ourselves. We choose to organize. Today, we're launching RainbowEquality.ca

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"We're voting Rainbow Equality. Join thousands of Canadians who believe in freedom, equality, and human rights as we make our voices heard in the 2025 federal election. Join the movement: RainbowEquality.ca"

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I know this sounds dumb but I did genuinely think we had made more progress against misogyny than we have, and the last few years have made that very unpleasantly clear

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clearlyclaire.bsky.social @clearlyclaire.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I miss when the internet was for bullied people and not the bullies.

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Paul Collins @paulcollins.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I once had a professor ask “Why is there a Business section in the newspaper but not a Labor section?” My classmates and I probably rolled our eyes, but damned if I haven’t remembered that question every few days for 30 years now.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

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