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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 7h

Our No Kings rallies aren’t enough. Civil disobedience on a large scale is going to be necessary. The question is if we’re capable of that anymore.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never assume that just because people hate something that you love, they MUST be ignorant or not understand it.

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🎃Dr. Simmons’s Spooky Hallowe’en Name🎃 @darrensimmons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So, it’s been about 20 real-world years, four numbered entries in the Ace Combat franchise, and three generations of consoles since I’ve visited the strange real world of Strangereal. When last I was there, the skies were shattered. Now?

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🎃Dr. Simmons’s Spooky Hallowe’en Name🎃 @darrensimmons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another circuit around the sun completed. Forty-one now. I'm still waiting for when I'm supposed to feel like an adult.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would argue (and have, on here) that one of the best ways to keep leftist movements suppressed is to pay graduate students/PhDs and over-credentialed folks better it's easier to get involved in leftist organizing, to bring your training and skills and credentials to it, when you *need* it to live

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t even know what to say anymore. The only thing Covid conscious people are trying to do, truly, is not get sick. That we’ve become the country’s newest freak show is predictable given the pandemic, but truly despicable on a base human level.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is an excellent resource for anyone who supervises trans+ folks doing fieldwork but, also, many of these recommendations are applicable well beyond fieldwork, for anyone leading, supervising, mentoring, employing, or otherwise collaborating with trans+ colleagues I highly recommend it:

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think one reason, and a grim one, that energy-limiting diseases get so little attention (aside from Covid denialism) is that it’s hard to capitalize on those of us with them. We are mostly very poor because our working ability is limited, we have little buying power and thus,little lobbying power.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My absolute, rock-bottom standard for trans allies right now is that when they see a post from a trans person saying that they can't vote for some anti-trans Dem & they're sick about all this, you offer a shoulder to cry on instead of a lecture on electing Nazis. That's it. That's all you gotta do.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Queer communities are actually pretty much the only spaces that still give a fuck about the health of the disabled and chronically ill. They’re certainly the only place I’ve found continuing support (and I’m not even queer!). We should be celebrating and emulating that acceptance.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Never forget that *three days after the WGA & SAG/AFTRA joint strike ended* Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed striking union members to collect unemployment

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Tired Jamie Lynn @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Never Newsom.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That is if the average "we gotta sacrifice trans people for the greater good" is even a genuine person at all, which at this point I have my doubts. Elon Musk alone is spending hundreds of millions on anti-trans messaging, I'm sure there's more than a few bot farms targeting liberals.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You're not making pragmatic calculations, you're not bargaining or impeding fascism in any way, shape, or form, you are a gullible mark at best, or hate your fellow human beings so much you're engaging in willful collusion with fascism as long as it hurts them no matter how many others are harmed.

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Heritage Foundation now targeting women's sports after SCOTUS' anti-trans sports ruling - LGBTQ Nation

Project 2025's architects say that Title IX and women's sports harm men's sports and "feminine graces."

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Rights are not negotiating chips, because once you negotiate away a right, it is by definition no longer inalienable.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i'm traveling and can't sit down to write out the portland police's history of using town halls, press conferences, and leaks to campaign against elected officials but they are repeat offenders and we should call it what it is: election interference by a cartel of armed washington state residents

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A reader reminded me about this thread I wrote in May, and damn me if the conclusion (last 3 posts) isn't a banger and still timely today.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the cognitive dissonance required to pour myself into job applications while also wondering how much of society as we know it will still be around in a decade sure is something

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It is really not that hard to say “what I recommend is 2x yearly vaccinations to protect from severe disease, but since even mild Covid can do long term, accumulating damage, people should be trying to avoid any infections, and for that, respirator masking and air filtration are the best tools.”

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is genuinely disinformation. Vaccines are great are reducing severity, they do not greatly reduce your risk of getting sick, and even that effect wanes within a few months. Masking with n95s or kn95s and cleaning the air are the best protections against getting sick.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

why is it not enough that vulnerable people must give up their rights for the greater good? why must they also accept their own sacrifice quietly and graciously? ask yourself if you would be so forgiving if you were the one expected to suffer for the greater good

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.

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🎃Dr. Simmons’s Spooky Hallowe’en Name🎃 @darrensimmons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Getting beaten down by as bad a team as the Jaguars and showing absolutely zero chance of doing anything about it is both exactly what I expected for this forthcoming 0–17 year—wonderful to hear that Cleveland will get to be the first franchise to have multiple winless seasons—and somehow, despite…

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Grumpygirl 🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sotired.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Liberals are morally bankrupt because liberalism is a morally bankrupt ideology. I expect extremely little if any help to come from them in resisting fascism, and in fact expect many of them to continue enabling it as they have historically always done.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026

it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

1/x GOOD GOD YOU STUPID CIS FUCKS. You want trans ppl to vote for your favourite anti-trans dem? Let me help you convince us! First, don't say, "Oh, you want the MAGA candidate?" No. We don't. You already know that. It's not furthering the debate at all. So what should you say? A THREAD!

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CharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 12/09/2026

The trans rights position is very straightforward: Simply being trans should not exclude you from any part of society. If you can't get behind that, then maybe you really ARE a bigot.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Can we stop for JUST ONE FUCKING SECOND to acknowledge that even with how unhappy at Dems trans folks have been the last few years, we're still voting for them at 84%-86% rates, depending upon your preferred exit poll. Cis men < 45% cis women < 55% Are you sure you're yelling at the right demo?

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Free political advice, most people are fairly tuned out when it comes to trans rights yet find it deeply weird to be obsessed with trans people, transphobia is the remit of billionaire pedophiles, and if you're adopting anti-trans stances, that's who it looks like you're serving the interests of.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

It's about fairness in sports = it's about ethics in journalism.

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🎃Dr. Simmons’s Spooky Hallowe’en Name🎃 @darrensimmons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If one is willing to abandon any marginalized demographic in the name of political expediency, then there is no principled reason why it would have to stop with that one. It’s NEVER just one. Such obscene strategy cannot be permitted to succeed.

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🎃Dr. Simmons’s Spooky Hallowe’en Name🎃 @darrensimmons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Solidarity isn’t complicated. Or, at least, it SHOULDN’T BE.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

Team Blue No Matter Who is going to have their work cut out for them because I for one refuse to entertain voting for or even saying nice things about someone who wants to compromise on trans rights. Like get the fuck away from me.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So much this. You can't abandon trans folks to seek centrist votes and then yell we have to vote for dems. If y'all really needed trans folks in your coalition, then you'd protect trans folks - if for no other reason than you don't want our votes suppressed. If you don't need us, leave us alone.

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you think trans people should be willing to compromise on their human rights to win elections, I have one question: If you were alive in 1963, exactly which rights would you tell black people they should be able to compromise on? Specific. With examples, please.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I emitted an involuntary Godzilla screech while watching this

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

And boo fucking hoo about Milo, I am not ever crying over MILO ... but that's how fast people are being yeeted to various places, people without contacts, or visibility, being dumped in places like Sierra fucking Leone

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 25/08/2026

I know there's a lot going on right now but we should maybe be talking a bit more about the Godzilla El Niño currently building in the Pacific Ocean 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/08/we-s...

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We Should Be More Worried About El Niño

Transcript: You’re probably familiar with the weather phenomenon known as El Niño, which, of course, is Spanish for “The Niño.” But what you might not know is that this is an El Niño year, and expe…

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Amazon is expanding their shitty hustle culture nto the businesses they’re driving out of business. Someone is going door to door trying to sell this to local owned businesses in Beverly Grove.

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🎃Dr. Simmons’s Spooky Hallowe’en Name🎃 @darrensimmons.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I am very, very delighted to discover that “anime”, as a loanword, is first attested in the year I was born.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

So much right wing grievance exists to shield corporate interests, if you're angry at journalists and critics, if you're blaming them, you're not even identifying the problem. Corporations are very happy to have these low information/high anger parties protecting their interests from critics.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Part of the problem with pretending Covid is over (besides the massive ethical issues and the science) is it effectively destroys your ability to understand why anything is happening the way it’s happening now. You can only ram into that wall of cognitive dissonance so many times.

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🎃Dr. Simmons’s Spooky Hallowe’en Name🎃 @darrensimmons.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I mean, sure? The state as a political entity that claims control over a region of territory within which it claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of force ought not to exist at all, including but not limited to the U.S.

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