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That wasn’t true of her, but genuinely when most of your state party members vote identically to the GOP, what is the point? You yourself said the goal is to defeat MAGA. So why are you so upset at us that we’re pointing out your members are not that far and not yelling at those members to be better

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 11h

You know you’re winning when all you can say is, “nuh-uh“. Like, there are legitimate complaints leftists (esp. trans leftists) make about him. This simply isn’t one of them. He has put his money where his mouth is and is supporting trans kids in need, and you’re upset he did it. Fix your heart.

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 11h

First, we shouldn’t complain when cajoling politicians gets us our way. Second, he never gave up on us. He was open about how his hands were temporarily tied and as soon as he got funds together he announced the actual details of a program he’d already been talking about trying to set up.

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 11h

It’s funny how you lot always go “but Biden didn‘t have a lot of power, he was only the president” when we point out that all of the anti-trans legislation in what is now most of the states passed when He was in office, but when it comes to a mayor it’s “why hasn’t he overturned federal policy?!“

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 12h

For reference my brother in law is a veteran who is now a steel worker in Columbia and he’s more progressive than you or your husband. It has nothing to do with working class, education, or red state identity & everything to do with your own prejudices.

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 12h

You should try meeting and talking with a real life trans person. U til you do well just be a hypothetical issue in your head. (Yes, this is me turning your statement around. You’re the one in the bubble denying basic reality. Go learn even a single thing and then we’ll talk)

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 12h

Good thing men don’t play on women’s sports, then isn’t it? Trans women aren’t men. Not even biologically. They’re women who deserve the same rights as all other women. News flash, your husband’s opinion on women’s rights is not the end-all, however “liberal” (or not, you know) he is.

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 12h

Then by that measure all they’re doing is harming a minority for fun, if it’s not to win since they know they’ll lose anyway. Sounds like a shitty situation for you to be stuck in, being forced to vote for willingly evil people. Sorry

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You might want to read about the history of women’s sports, too. If you’re getting into reading and all. (Hint, they weren’t fought for by feminists, but imposed on women when they beat men at their own game)

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You might want to read, well, *anything*. I was going to say, “anything about this topic,” but it seems like that’s too advanced for your reading comprehension level. Books banned from libraries are banned books by the definitions in the very article you’re talking about.

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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I gave Braid an A+ back in my press days. I spent 100s of hours working on The Witness at PlayStation, fighting for it, getting it into conferences, and being Jon's personal wrangler. I even coined "Metroidbrainia" after it. I will not be buying Order of the Sinking Star, and neither should you.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/10/2026

I broke down the current state of the mid terms, the incessant Texas anti-trans ads, and where I'm finding a little bit of hope in all this in my latest video: youtu.be/5AuxDNCVpo8

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You Can't Escape Football's Anti-Trans Ads. I Found Their Source

YouTube video by Katelyn Burns

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s easy not to run at all. If you can’t make protecting human rights sound like a positive part of your campaign you need to leave the Democratic Party. Sorry, that’s just the truth. Democratic voters care about human rights, yes even in South Carolina.

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Please show me where Biden or Harris campaigned enthusiastically for trans rights. You can’t, cuz they avoided the issue. The Democratic party largely stepped aside and let the GOP control the narrative. Which they noticed and ran with, knowing they wouldn’t get a response. Last 8 years? Please.

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s funny because I know you saw that 45 of the 47 Democrats in the state legislature where you claim to live voted for laws outlawing our existence. Yet you make this claim, that only one party is outlawing. Give me a break.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 08/10/2026

i really hate living in a world where the secret police stealing a bunch of human beings to put them in concentration camps isn't enough and it also has to be bad for ~families~

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You have proof of what you’re claiming right? You can show where flipping on it will make a difference come Election Day? Cuz at least then you’re just be deeply cynical, but results driven. Thing is, we all know you don’t have proof. It’s just a weak justification for your own lack of morals

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The point is that we are fighting against MAGA. You can’t do that while voting with MAGA. If that upsets you go yell at those 45 Democrats who vote like Republicans. They have the power, not us

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Other than an aside on the "white nationalism that has emerged out of the dark corners of the internet," (which she she pairs with the "excesses of work") Slade makes no mention of the role of race in the construction of the modern conservative movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | With Trump Flailing, Some Conservatives Are Having Second Thoughts About Trumpism

What is the future of the conservative movement?

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I must have missed Trump justification of DOGE as an effort to "protect individual liberty."

And while there are moments when he has claimed to be concerned with protecting individual liberty (by trying to reduce the size and scope of government through the Department of Government Efficiency, for example),

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The assertion that "powerful cultural institutions" and the Democratic Party "treated more tradition-minded Americans as evil or backward" has become such a cliche in the punditry that people who say this feel no need to offer examples (or a single example) and journalists rarely ask them to do so.

Slade: I’ll be honest with you: Broad swaths of the American electorate, including members of some demographics that were once solid Democratic constituencies, came to feel extraordinarily resentful that both the Democratic Party and a lot of powerful cultural institutions (higher education, the mainstream media) were going all in on a sort of militant identity politics that treated more tradition-minded Americans as evil or backward.

This created a real siege mentality, where people were inclined to throw their lot in with someone whom they perceived as on their side and who said he would fight the forces that were hostile to them.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026

All of them have connections with Epstein.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/10/2026

this is both the most profoundly ghoulish and the most hideously 2026 way to applaud the murder of hundreds of thousands of people that i think could ever be conceived of

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The ɅɅeech @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 06/10/2026

marcotte has a good line where she says "But you can’t, like, pull a gun on somebody and force them into a concentration camp in a joking way. And they tried. They really did try" and im gonna put that on the top shelf of Rapist Administration thoughts

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So, one of my best argument against the electoral college is that it actually provides perverse incentives to presidents to ignore states they’re not going to win. Of course, Trump takes “perverse” to unhinged extremes.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

Policies banning trans people from bathrooms would not have stopped this. What he did was blatantly illegal already. He was arrested and charged. But somehow, Rowling wants to blame the actions of a cis man on trans people.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026

hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

what an asshole

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whoa, one of the pedophiles responsible for the GOP's political power just died. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other wgntv.com/news/chicago...

wgntv.com

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84

Former U.S. House Speaker John Hastert has died at the age of 84 from natural causes.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like "forgiveness" as a concept has been twisted into meaning that I'm supposed to write off real harm that was done to me because justice is emotionally and socially inconvenient for others

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We’ve been hearing for 20 years plus how we should just sit down and have a meal with people who think black, Latino and LGBTQ people are subhumans who must be killed. No.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

You know. I don’t think that there is any more crucial component to contextualizing & meeting our current set of problems than understanding this.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026

Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The fun—err, “productive”—part is, the other side disagrees with me on the fact that people like me exist and they disagree with me on the value of keeping people like me around. I don’t need to have lunch with them to know that.

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