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Danielle Oster

@danielleoster86.bsky.social
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Freelance writer/editor.) Guitar/bass/vocals/keys. Amateur forager and naturalist🍄‍🟫🌿 Pickle enthusiast. (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️ Previously: Adweek, MediaPost Also published in: MobiHealthNews, MM+M

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Attorney Kathleen Martinez @attorneymartinez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: " Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday."
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Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence
Harris County DA Sean Teare told NBC News his office has collected multiple videos for its own investigation but isn’t getting cooperation from the federal government. ICE denied their agent intentio...
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Danielle Oster @danielleoster86.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“I’ve argued in front of every judge in the state, often as a lawyer.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
WTF. Even I am just seeing this now.
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Danielle Oster @danielleoster86.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Muppets Take United 93
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The only way to defeat Republicans extremism is to punch back hard. Not agree with them. It’s a loser strategy, politically and morally
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 08/10/2026
$1000 grants for trans people of color. deadline Oct 31st
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Call for Applications: Gender Reveal Grant - fundsforNGOs
The Gender Reveal Grant Program for 2026 is now open for applications, offering financial support for organizing and community projects led by trans people of color. This opportunity is provided by Ge...
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Magdaloween! 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 07/10/2026
almost every single trans creative i know is struggling. almost every trans creative i know can't find any goddamn work. almost every trans creative i know has watched opportunities evaporate.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
motherjones.com
Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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Sarah @sarahinprocess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
lawdork.com
Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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Danielle Oster @danielleoster86.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Naomi Yang of Galaxie 500 playing bass (a woman with black hair wearing a black dress and a polka dot jacket playing bass guitar).
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Danielle Oster @danielleoster86.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Naomi Yang of Galaxie 500 doesn’t get enough credit.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 23/09/2026
A proposed rule in Denver seeks to protect its LGBTQ+ population from hostile data collection. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you the story here!
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New Proposal Would Protect Trans People’s Info in Denver - Assigned Media
Denver's city council is planning to hear an ordinance proposal that would create a rule protecting trans people's self-identification data.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
motherjones.com
Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's Lanmaoa asiatica which "contains none of the psychoactive compounds known to science, including psilocybin" which means they're not illegal yet lol
phys.org
Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
People in communities thousands of miles apart have described the same strange experience after eating a mysterious mushroom: vivid visions of tiny humans moving through and interacting with the physi...
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🏳️‍⚧️ ⛧ Nɯvꝡɩɛl ⛧ 🏳️‍⚧️ @nuvy-iel.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
🦇 If you donated money to a Democrat who went mask off as a transphobic bigot, you can request your money back by sending them a letter with your reason for the request being "Breach of Trust"
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We endured decades of politicians insisting that “biology” means that same-sex couples should not have children. Now they invoke biology to claim that we should not recognise trans people in their gender. Anti-trans politics is recycled homophobia. It was bigoted trash then and it’s still trash now.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An epilogue: journalists and politicians who get their information about trans ppl on X are getting a highly distorted view that’s shaped by transphobic rage. This is a great (if terrible) example of it. Don’t get information about trans ppl on X
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Detrans.ai is a computer program, not a person. It can’t actually ‘understand’ anything. Its code is written specifically to erase and invalidate people like me, and the program is simply executing those instructions.” Another worrying example of an “AI” chatbot producing dangerous misinformation.
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This AI Chatbot Is Targeting Trans Users With Conversion Therapy
Detrans.ai says it helps users explore gender dysphoria in a balanced way, but it promotes anti-LGBTQ+ messages and relies on discredited science. Here is what this AI therapy chatbot actually told ou...
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The organisation said 50 activists had been detained, more than 10 taken after police raids on their homes. It said that authorities had blocked several websites and social media accounts linked to LGBTQ+ organisations.” Chilling to see Turkish authorities escalate their attacks against LGBT folk.
bbc.co.uk
Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“There is no reason to doubt the Full Court's construction of s 7D(1) and (2) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth).” Australia’s highest court has refused leave to anti-trans folks seeking to overturn the finding that “women” includes trans women for the purposes of sex discrimination law. 🏳️‍⚧️
GIGGLE FOR GIRLS PTY LTD (ACN 632 152 017) & ANOR
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1 The applicants seek special leave to appeal from the whole of the judgment of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia (Perry, Abraham and Kennett JJ), which dismissed the applicants' appeal against the whole of the judgment of the Federal Court (Bromwich J) and upheld the respondent's cross-appeal.

2 There is no reason to doubt the Full Court's construction of s 7D(1) and (2) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth). Any appeal dependent on the demonstration of error in the Full Court's construction of those provisions
has insufficient prospects of success to warrant a grant of special leave to appeal.

3 Special leave to appeal is refused with costs.

Gageler CJ
Gordon J
Edelman J
Gleeson J
Jagot J
Beech-Jones J

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Danielle Oster @danielleoster86.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Taco Boat The Passion”
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When reactionaries advance some bullshit, the FIRST thing to do is identify the framing and reject it They're selling this as "trans rights vs. women's sports" when they hate both those things and want to ruin them both Accept the frame and you've lost Reject the frame and call bullshit
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A new SLU/YouGov poll shows Missourians shifting support away from Amendment 3, which tries to bundle transphobia with a repeal of reproductive rights that voters enacted just two years ago
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
«Most trans people aren’t trans, they are seriously mentally ill, and so are you» This is what my primary care doctor told me when I first came out, citing his wife, a PhD student at the national gender clinic. Now, having been found guilty of misconduct, all her work is being retracted ⬇️
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The survey which underpins this "report" is built entirely on a solution in search of manipulated & manufactured evidence. They were always going to conclude, in their words: "gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant [and] predicts support for coercive and violent political action.”
Survey question from the anti-trans HHS report:
Revolutionary Attitudes
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How fascist, if at all, is the United States government?i.Not at all fascistii.Slightly fascistiii.Moderately fascistiv.Mostly fascistv.Completely fascist
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Danielle Oster @danielleoster86.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s never been this bad.
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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Danielle Oster @danielleoster86.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don’t think that’s a fair assumption. There may have been a similar drop, but it was from a higher baseline (a peak for this chart, even). We were already at a point of higher exploitation of workers before things fell off a cliff.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 01/09/2026
Only on Assigned Media: Inspiring news from Finland where a movement is growing to oppose the country's restrictive, humiliating approach to transition care. Read about it from @evanurquhart.bsky.social here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Discontent With Finland’s Transpoli Erupts in Growing Protests - Assigned Media
Organizers encouraged by increased visibility and a growing appetite for action to oppose the repressive trans care system in Finland.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings:
A (messy) Excel spreadsheet tracking all of the Trump administration's emergency applications, when they were filed, when they were decided, what kind of ruling they produced, and how each justice voted.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I have been writing about this batshit theory for almost two decades now, yet somehow this may be the stupidest claim about "autogynephilia" I have ever seen...
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Danielle Oster @danielleoster86.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Listening to @coolzonemedia.bsky.social’s recent “It Could Happen Here” ep on Sophie Cunningham and I’m struck by how XX-XY is even worse than described. XX-XY pays people to promote anti-trans hate to market its stupid sportswear. A former marketing exec started XX-XY to make money on transphobia.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 25/08/2026
see you're going to read the headline and you're going to think "hmm, but how bad can it be" and then you're going to click on the link and go OH, OH QUITE BAD YEAH
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Danielle Oster @danielleoster86.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sarah Records
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
According to the right, if you teach that racism is an actual problem that needs to be studied and addressed, that is a bad thing. But if you teach that racism is an actual *solution* that needs to be taught and encouraged, well, that is a good thing, a very good thing indeed.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
notus.org
Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Danielle Oster @danielleoster86.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yeah, she seems to be outlining a reactionary position which harkens back to an earlier era when practitioners viewed transition as a “last resort” for trans people they viewed as “mentally ill.” Which she seems to somehow think is evidence that she’s “not anti-trans” and is “misunderstood.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The fact this story has been mostly ignored by national politics is disgusting www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 09/08/2026
If you’re a trans ally in the UK, here’s some urgently important things you can do to support the community and help protect and restore trans rights: 1. Support @GoodLawProject.org’s legal challenge against the UK government’s transphobic “guidance”: goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
goodlawproject.org
Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is not just about Max Miller. Mike Johnson has just given cover to every abuser. He has undermined belief in every survivor’s story. He has set an assumption that accusations are made with malice towards the accused — the ultimate victim blaming. It’s hard to overstate the harm of this.
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