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Donna Minkowitz

@donnaminkowitz.bsky.social
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Trickster, journalist, memoirist. Queer leftist. The Nation, Salon, the Village Voice, etc. donnaminkowitz.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026
This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is so sad, and morally craven.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rhiannon Giddens!
Photo of Rhiannon Giddens by Bruce Baker.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NYT: Mr. Trump may have been extending an invite to his audience to view the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
are you fucking kidding me
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What if OpenAl solves the Jewish problem
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes! It was a term coined by Nazis and the alt right. It comes from a category of racist porn where a white man is supposedly humiliated by seeing a Black man fuck "his" woman.
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh c'mon man don't say "cucked." I've had it with adoption of Nazi language by the left.
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Please don't say cucked
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ass kisser.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 07/10/2026
god there's going to be so much of this
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 07/10/2026
ayyyyyyy while fascist billionaires are speed-running the collapse of the TV/film industry, I hope artists and writers in Hollywood are thinking about what they want the industry that rises out of its ashes to look like bcuz this industry is going to need leaders that give a shit about making art
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
OMG
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
France halts use of stun grenades after boy's hand blown off in student protests
The step comes after several groups complained of police using disproportionate force towards teenagers.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22/09/2026
hey virginians did you know you get to vote to remove a BAN on same-sex marriage from the state constitution and protect people if the 6 robed freaks overturn obergefell? www.vpm.org/news/2026-08...
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VPM News
Voters will decide whether to enshrine marriage equality in Virginia
VPM | By Jahd Khalil and Adrienne Hoar McGibbon
Published August 24, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW from @accountabilityji.bsky.social and @assignedmedia.org: Reporter @billiejsweeney.bsky.social has an important story on the changing dynamics of the politics around transgender rights and issues. www.importantcontext.news/democrats-lo...
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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/10/2026
I don’t understand why people are so parsimonious in giving out their shits.
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Atlantic has been our class enemy for so fucking long.
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's because Jonathan Chait is not our friend.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@wnyc.org also has the Manhattan Institute on all the time as though they were legitimate and reputable sources and opinion-makers, not gutter racists. I'm talking to you, @brianlehrer.bsky.social among others. How can you platform people who regularly say that Blacks are stupid and violent?
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wouldn't you know it.
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Michael Bitzer @bowtiepolitics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No longer a "pause" "The top super PAC for Senate GOP is canceling all the remaining ads it had booked in NC as of Friday, shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state this fall." #ncpol www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
nytimes.com
Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim (Gift Article)
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@yale.edu is this the Christopher Rufo you approvingly cite in President McInnis's fawning Presidential Committee report on how Yale can lick Trump's boots?
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 01/10/2026
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
NEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I write to notify the panel of two legal developments material to the
panel’s resolution of this case.
First, today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—filed a
lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against nearly three dozen
individuals and entities responsible for remotely dispensing FDA-
approved mifepristone in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. See
Louisiana v. Nouhavandi, No. 2:26-cv-03836 (W.D. La.) (attached). As
the complaint in that case illustrates, none of those individuals and
entities could carry out their current operations without the 2023
REMS’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement.
Second, also today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—
filed a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint (attached), Louisiana v.
New York, in the United States Supreme Court against New York,
Massachusetts, and California. The bill of complaint challenges the
telehealth shield laws of those states on various legal grounds.
Both complaints explain how Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v.
FDA will eliminate the flood of FDA-approved mifepristone into the
State. Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. Nouhavandi will eliminate the
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ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send
any abortion drugs into the State. And Louisiana’s success in Louisiana
v. New York will strip all shield-law state residents—regardless of any
back-up drugs they may try to use—of the claimed authority to violate
Louisiana’s laws with impunity.
espectfully,
/s/J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
Solicitor General
Counsel for Louisiana
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes, of course. Still, all of the Socratic dialogues take it as a given that men are much more attractive than women (which, of course, could reflect Plato rather than Socrates). Still, Greek women's inability to consent to marriage makes it extremely suspect to declare that Socrates "had game."
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He was gay (despite being married to a woman). They all thought it was their civic duty to have babies with women. It was hard to be a woman in ancient Greece-- I dispute your claim that Socrates "had game"!
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵Democrats: 53% 🔴Republicans: 38% YouGov / Sept 28, 2026
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TMZ reports that Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, has been fired from his job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation
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Cornell Student Diego Sarabia Loses Wells Fargo Job Amid Alleged Sexual Assault Case
Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, is suddenly out of a job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation of the alleged 2024 incident ... TMZ has learned...
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Honestly, Barney Frank has always been a creep. Back in the day, he was saying Democrats were too nice to Black people.
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is important. The new Canon of Ethics from the Association of American Literary Agents basically allows agents to behave... unethically. It's bullshit. It's hard enough to be a writer without this, and kudos to Dystel, Goderich & Bourret for standing up to it.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My kids have measles, I can't afford gas, my country has been humiliated by Iran, and our senile rapist president is going to allow unregulated AI to destroy our civilization. But a lesbian bar in a town I've never heard of still has a mask mandate. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
paydayreport.com
X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming.
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He's so fucking ugly.
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Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳 @itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
uh, let me be clear, *most unclear and wishy-washy drivel conceivable*
C-SPAN
@cspan

Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 26/09/2026
NEW: The Mamdani administration is pulling out a longstanding program that would have funded shelter for homeless veterans in NYC because it included clauses prohibiting the promotion of “gender ideology” and “denial of the sex binary,” The City Reporter has learned.
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Federal Grant for NYC Veterans Prohibited Promotion of ‘Gender Ideology,’ Per Trump Order
The Mamdani administration declined funds for a Queens shelter over concerns the program would require discriminating against transgender people. City lawmakers are seeking answers about why.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In 1963, children of Birmingham volunteered to “fill the jails” — making it impossible for police to use arrest as a threat to silence the fight for equal access & voting rights. Join our 9/28 class to learn about history of HS student organizing. Register: www.zinnedproject.org/news/one-hun...
Historical 1963 Birmingham student-led civil rights protest with children holding signs confronting police to “fill the jails” to demand equal access and voting rights, and call to join  September 28 class on high school student organizing.
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also, lest there be people who follow me who saw the very weird Advocate attack on the Blade doing pool duty Monday, that was a bad story. The Blade is a part of the print pool — not the TV pool — and the print pool coverage has continued this week. Here's the Blade's response to The Advocate:
washingtonblade.com
Washington Blade responds to concerns over White House pool duties
Inaccurate media reports create confusion but we stand with our colleagues
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gavin Newsom just vetoed WHAT
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first architect of the White House ballroom resigned after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes, the Washington Post reports. “I am the code,” Trump said www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
By Sarah Blaskey and Jonathan O'Connell
In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions and corroborating documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
Trump brushed off McCrery's concerns, they said, and the president countered that no building codes apply to White House construction.
"I am the code," Trump said.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As we suspected:
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Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So, I'm going to be performing a one-person show, The Woman Who Farted in the Bible, at the Newburgh Fringe Festival Fri. Oct. 16! It's my own radical, queer versions of 4 traditional stories (2 from the Bible, 2 from the Greeks!) Be there. safeharborsofthehudson.thundertix.com/events/271223
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That's why I left Omelas to begin with
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