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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RFK Jr.’s insertion as secretary of HHS is a direct rebuke to her legacy. Heumann contracted polio in 1949 when she was one and a half years old. The intentional spread of mass disablement and death by discouraging vaccination and medical research would have absolutely horrified her."
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bills win their first home game in the new stadium. Well done.
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Only 2 games in but the Bills run defense has looked a ton better. Filling gaps better. Much better second effort too.
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Feels like the Bills super run heavy offenses from the last two years serving them well now. They can just shift into first gear and plow over defenses, something they couldn’t reliably do in Josh’s early years.
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This bills drive is like little Mac from punch out just whittling away at Super Macho Man’s energy bar jab after jab.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
nytimes.com
RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Like just run the ball Detroit. I don’t get it.
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Disbarment and sanctions for everyone involved.
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Quick reminder that a lot of people claiming to be staunch supporters of trans rights attacking trans people for criticizing democrats backtracking on trans rights might not actually be staunch supporters of trans rights. They also don’t possess genius level political persuasion skills.
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good on Markey
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Medicare for All is the guarantee of healthcare from cradle to grave—without premiums, copays, or deductibles. That’s it. Pass it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/08/2026
GUT-WRENCHING Grace and her 19-year-old daughter were victims of a serious car crash. Instead of being allowed to recover, they were detained by ICE at the hospital. They entered the U.S. legally. Grace was going through the asylum process and had work authorization.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I wrote this because most journalists facing this pressure can’t. The paper we count on to check authoritarianism spiked an investigation into the Democratic Party because the party’s lawyers threatened to sue. Holding authoritarians accountable starts with holding your own side accountable.
data4democracy.substack.com
With Fear and Favor
Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The only comment any Democrat should make on locker rooms is "Republicans want to examine your children's genitals because they are weirdos who do the bidding of a rapist" and nothing else.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It will take a hell of a lot for me to ever forgive the people who did this, as well as those who cheer them on.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The end of TPS was only finalized a few days ago and it is only now starting to break as they are losing their jobs and being detained and feeling the heft of this wholly fucking evitable human tragedy that some of the worst people on the planet have brought upon them
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You ever felt 50/50 on a two-pronged choice but after one is chosen by the result of a coin flip figured out you weren’t 50/50 but always wanted one more? What the hell is wrong with us?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026
This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/08/2026
JFC
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“The decision jeopardized the legal aid of about 26,000 children." "In multiple immigration courtrooms this summer, @prospect.org has witnessed children too young to understand the gravity of the proceedings, such as a toddler with pigtails, who had no guardian with her …”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“The hundreds of millions spent on Our Rescue and Burke Law Group comes after the Trump administration allowed a contract with @acaciajustice.org to expire after failing to pay the organization for more than half a year.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“ @acaciajustice.org subcontracts with nearly 100 legal aid organizations across the country to provide children with legal services. The ORR stopped paying Acacia in November, after lawyers refused to hand over confidential information about their underage clients.”
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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Got a couple things coming out this month as part of a new ongoing series. All shorter queer spec romance/erotica/horrorotica/monsterfucking. First one, Tender is her Touch, (with trans/disabled POV) is available now: www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/tende...
huldrahouse.com
Tender is her Touch — Huldra House
Ebook editions (PDF, EPUB, and MOBI) of Hulderotica #1: Tender is her Touch, by Kaya Skovdatter. Bryony, a blind trans escort, caters to those among Marrowmont’s magical elite who like to keep their ...
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Xine Fury 🏳️‍⚧️ @xinefury.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Geek Cutes is a collection of eight light-hearted love stories featuring cisgender and transgender lesbians. The tales span a range of geeky genres such as superhero, horror, and fantasy. books2read.com/ap/8N19Lr/Xi...
The book cover for Geek Cutes. It depicts a tabletop game board with two miniature female characters looking at each other. They are surrounded by dice in the colors of the lesbian and transgender flags.
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Bijhan Agha @bijhan.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
I'm a transfemme nonbinary Muslim, and I wrote a comic book about a trans Muslim superhero who fights monsters using tech and info from the future. It's available at this small retailer in Seattle, via an online store. store.pushpullseattle.com/products/Tim...
store.pushpullseattle.com
Time Wars, The Adventures of Kobra Olympus, #1 - Comic by Bijhan Agha and Swaptrap
From the creator: "Time Wars, The Adventures of Kobra Olympus is about a trans, lesbian, & Muslim superhero. The story starts with some romance, moves onto detective work, has a splash of action, and ...
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Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 27/08/2024
My debut novel, THE POTENT SOLUTION, is now available to pre-order on kindle! It's an urban fantasy set in 1830s London that follows an apprentice alchemist with ADHD, thrown into the jaws of a dangerous magical conspiracy! mybook.to/potentsolution
mybook.to
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
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Fae’rynn is Writing @faerynnistired.itch.io · 22/02/2024
hiiiii :) trans lesbian author here. my debut novel is out in a week :3c bsky.app/profile/faer...
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K. Vale Nagle @kvalenagle.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
Oh, hello, genderfluid author here. My GryphIns series is Wings of Fire—for adults!—with gryphons. If you love gryphons based on weird birds/mammals, fun animal facts, queer characters, and epic fantasy, Eyrie is free or discounted in most stores for the next month. books2read.com/rl/gryphonin...
The covers of the first eight Gryphon Insurrection novels by K. Vale Nagle, cover art by Jeff Brown. Eyrie shows a Cooper's hawk gryphon leaping over a kakapo ground parrot in a redwood forest. Ashen Weald shows a snowy owl snow leopard gryphon leading a wingtorn shrike gryphon out of a burning forest and into the snowy mountains. Starling shows a Peruvian diving petrel opinicus or more-avian gryphon in a bog surrounded by silver-eyed, rabid starlings. Reevesbane shows a poisonous hooded pitohui stalking an ashen forest full of giant monitor lizards. The Ruins of Crestfall shows a hoopoe bird sand cat gryphon in an abandoned redrock canyon settlement. Crackling Sea shows a great blue heron flying past stormy cliffs. Opinicus shows an armored white-tailed kite overlooking a golden city at dawn. Pridelord shows a green starling cougar gryphon in a jungle with skies full of a murmuration of other starling gryphons. "Interesting gryphons in interesting locations" could be the tagline.
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Thank you for doing this! I'm a queer, autistic, nonbinary author who writes queer paranormal fantasy books set in the 1890s
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Patri Catalán @patriqueer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I have written a map on non-binary identities where I write about gender euphoria and gender dysphoria, transitions, pronouns ... Although it is in Spanish www.editorialegales.com/libros/ident...
editorialegales.com
Identidades no binarias Patri Catalán
Lo que tienes entre tus manos es un mapa. En concreto, un mapa no binario. ...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Trump is signing an executive order today recommending that the MMR vaccine be separated into separate vaccines. There is no scientific basis for this recommendation. Separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are generally not available in the U.S. Vaccines do not cause autism.
apnews.com
Trump to sign executive order calling for spacing out childhood shots
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three dif...
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 30/07/2026
This is Fenrir. He has not yet been successful in cuddling with the cat. But thinks if he goes slow enough she might not notice. 13/10 (IG: fenrirfanclub)
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Matt @handsoffthesub.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Biggest divorced dad energy I’ve seen in a while. @edsbs.bsky.social
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
minnesota state rep jess hanson rides elon musk for filth for trying to defend his pervy app: "when the richest man in the world hangs out with the epstein class... we cannot act surprised when he's trying to protect the number one tool used to make child sexual abuse material"
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The 1997 Flores settlement says children can only be in immigration detention for 20 days. A new legal filing shows that kids at CoreCivic's detention facility in Dilley, TX have been there as long as 323 days, & includes firsthand accounts of the abuse guards are inflicting on children.
prospect.org
Trump Administration Routinely Violating Immigrant Children’s Rights - The American Prospect
The 1997 Flores ruling requires immigrant children be released from detention after 20 days. Trump is keeping some for as long as 323 days, new filings in a lawsuit state.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In one instance, a male cleaning staff member repeatedly entered a women’s bathroom when he knew teenage girls were inside, naked and showering. In that instance, the girls’ mother submitted a grievance. But it was the girls who were the ones who paid for that complaint, as an official forced them to undergo a physical and mental examination.

A CoreCivic spokesperson failed to respond to an email seeking comment.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
this video from the bbc about texas bbq is frying me
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
One vote away from basically everyone’s citizenship being able to be stripped away. If you have to be “natural born”, what’s to stop fascists from going back until you don’t have a “natural born” citizen parent? Hope you kept track of birth certificates all the way back to 1789.
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Maybe the most annoying, “Well actually,” libs are the ones who tell you substantially increasing taxes on the wealthy won’t pay for everything you want. Who cares guys. It will pay for some what we want and gets money out of the hands of shitheads who want to kill democracy with no downside.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2026
Babies are dying because parents, confused by an HHS that deliberately sows distrust, won't give their newborns a vitamin K shot that used to be standard www.propublica.org/article/more...
propublica.org
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This, by @smgrimes.bsky.social, is brilliant & so needed: a refutal of Jonathan Haidt's & Jean Twenge's moral panic by academics with evidence. It is brief, clear, accessible, and devastating. I, too, quoted those scholars in The Web We Weave. kidsplaytech.com/wp-content/u...
kidsplaytech.com
Panic First, Evidence Later — What Leading Experts Think About The Anxious Generation
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Fighting my wrongful termination by the Washington Post. After Charlie Kirk was killed, I was accused of gross misconduct simply for stating the truth about America’s racial double standards when it comes to political violence. We head to arbitration tomorrow. Let’s go.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This has been something I've been meaning to write for quite some time and the Homer contretemps gave it the opportunity. The thing I most wanted to draw out is that it isn't one fool on Twitter with a helmet, but a radicalization pipeline designed to lead antiquity-curious young men into fascism.
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It’s estimated that 762,000 people have already died due to the closure of USAID, and ultimately 14 million people will die altogether This will always be Elon Musk’s true legacy
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“.. Elon Musk gleefully boasted about feeding the United States Agency for International Development into a ‘wood chipper.’ “.. An Ebola outbreak in the region in 2018 took nearly two years to contain. .. This time around, we have far less capacity to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Garlic can be terrifying
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This plastic soup sealing container might as well be Fort Knox. However, it does make me believe my soup will be safe to eat.
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I don’t think there’s been enough national discussion on how bonkers that Tage goal was to tie up game.
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czarthomas.bsky.social @czarthomas.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
That is a goal for the Sabres.
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