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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
You and me both brother
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
250 years of a noble experiment is a wild ass way to describe U.S. history. Congratulations, the curse of your incurable empathy appears to have been lifted.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 05/06/2026
The Israeli army is targeting Gaza's remaining residential blocks that were left standing after the ceasefire, leaving even more Palestinians homeless. "Fear has become a permanent guest in our homes," one resident told Mondoweiss. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/desp...
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Despite the ceasefire, Israel resumes bombing entire residential blocks in Gaza, displacing dozens of families
The Israeli army is targeting Gaza’s remaining residential blocks that were left standing after the ceasefire, leaving even more Palestinians homeless. “Fear has become a permanent guest in our…
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
They miss the cold war so goddamn much
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"The situation in Gaza rarely reaches the mainstream media in the West anymore. It should, because the humanitarian crisis and ongoing Israeli aggression remains catastrophic." - Anthony Loewenstein #GazaGenocide antonyloewenstein.substack.com/p/on-not-for...
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On not forgetting Gaza
Israel's war of annihilation in Gaza hasn't stopped for even one day.
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Robert/Tony/c @robert111.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
BBC fails to name Israel in 50% of reporting on attacks in Gaza www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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BBC fails to name Israel in 50% of reporting on attacks in Gaza
Shockingly but unsurprisingly, the BBC has never reported on various genocidal statements made by Israeli officials either
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Those who are super into omelas
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.
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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/04/2026
Kosovo was the first time I realized that all the proclamations of “never again” were bullshit Even so, the continued destruction of Palestine feels like a unique shock because so many people who claim to care about human rights are actually supportive of it
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So if you want to talk about how we have to be tactical about this, please explain how continuing to be a mouth piece for lobbying groups filterd through consultants is bringing "working people" back into the fold.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The Republicans obviously have a higher percentage of genocidal maniacs, but no one except for the idiots that will lap up whatever slop the dems put out think they have any vision for a future. They are failing to capture this moment because they dont believe in anything either.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Not every rank and file democratic candidate down the line, but the leadership hates working people just as much as Republicans, they just have different consultants. Fucking disgusting pathetic excuse of an opposition.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The democratic leadership is still dead set on supporting genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon. On "affordability" theyre also unwilling to directly confront their corporate donors that are squeezing every dollar out of working people, cause they dont want to.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Europe really loves watching their allies kill children. They dont get to do it themselves as much anymore.
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Israeli crimes exposed in Lebanon. In Gaza no International journalists were allowed in. For 3 years heroic Palestinian journalists were slowly slaughtered as they tried to tell us. I will never move on from the horror Israel commits.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/04/2026
"Where are all the campus protestors?" ask the grinning ghouls who cheered on the brutal suppression of campus protests
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
To all the folks pearl clutching about Trump, we have been systematicaly attempting to starve the Iranian regime through sanctions we know dont work and only immiserate the people, like Iraq before and Cuba still. Trump isnt an abberation he's the logical conclusion of American coercion.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Its not anti American, its how we approached the indigenous populations or Korea or Vietnam. We're just back to saying outloud, Andrew Jackson style rather than hiding behind euphemism.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We gotta give these people back to the ocean
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 07/03/2026
It is still happening. No country is stepping in. Cuba has helped so many movements and people around the world and they are being abandoned to die
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
In Defense of Effeminate Boys
If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded.

By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I guess the United States isnt killing Iranian children fast enough so France is sending a carrier to support the effort.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
We're mobilising to Havana on 21 March. Join the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba, and support our efforts to secure critical aid for homes, hospitals, schools, and families in need.
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Nuestra América Convoy
We are mobilizing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 28/02/2026
this is horrifying. this is why they say death to america. because all we bring is death to their children and people
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Fucking bleak
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The way he points makes me hope someone bites his fingers off
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026
SO GOOD! "the idea that my political ideology is synonymous with hating technology is confusing. Every leftist I know has a hard-on for high speed rail or mRNA vaccines. But the “left is missing out” blog positions generative AI as the only technology that matters." -- @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
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The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Absolutely obsessed
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Earth Liberation Studio @earthliberationart.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Stand with the people of Cuba.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity? The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C/6332F have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians.” www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"Stand with the Cuban people now; stand against this siege, this economic assault, this unfolding humanitarian disaster." 🇨🇺 Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International.
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"Cuba stood for the world. Now, the world must rise for Cuba.”
Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Its clear that if globally a spirit of internationalism stronger than that of the 70s cannot be formed amongst the working peoples of the world, we are ecologically and politically doomed. Nationalism has got to go.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Heard a fuck head on NPR talking about how in the last 80 years America never relied on coercion but mutually beneficial deals. Big if true
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is why Clinton type law and order Democrats can get fucked especially. Idk if the Dems would be more effective now if they hadnt gone all in on cops but the fact that they did made change functionally impossible.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
by the way, all of this, dozens of goons, weapons brandished massive teargassing of public space, people beaten in the street, destroying two intersections on either side of my neighborhood, horror, all seems to have been to create a distraction to abduct crying two teenagers who were here legally
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Hahahahahaha, save us U.S. bankers youre our only hope
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The nerve of those who claim Trump achieve a ceasefire in Gaza. Israel has launched attacks on 86 of the 101 days since the ceasefire, according to Al Jazeera analysis of news reports.
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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Turns out the markets are pretty chill about imperialism
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We should be all extremely concerned that Gaza and the West Bank has fallen off the news agenda. Since the so called ceasefire Israel has killed 1000 Palestinians and banned over 30 well respected humanitarian orgs. Gaza is also grappling with flooding, high winds & extreme cold.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
@RickyHale_ It's not okay to be an adult and fall for the exact same war propaganda they used in Iraq. It's just not.
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