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DrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

25 years ago today, I convinced some of my “straight” friends – Nazzy, Kim, Chris, Rachel, etc., to go with me to the Folsom Street Fair, the annual leather/kink/SM street fair held in San Francisco.

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Meghan Flanigan @meghanflanigan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Flanigan Lab at MUSC is looking for a new laboratory manager! If you're interested in stress, social behaviors, and/or serotonin, want to work in a scientific team, and are looking for a long-term lab position, this is the opportunity for you!

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Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A lot of the work that went into this was done by my former colleague at the FPD, one of the smartest and most dedicated lawyers I ever knew, Paula Harms. She passed away last year unexpectedly and I really wish she could see this.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't think the right realizes how much of the internet is run by programmed and powered by queers. The brain drain in STEM alone is all but guaranteeing the end of US domination in those fields

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just putting this out there. If Democrats win the midterms, we need a full-court press to reverse the damage Russell Vought and RFK Jr. have caused. No half-measures will do. Put on your big boy pants and get to work. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

thenation.com

Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.

If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.

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The Brain Cutter 🔪🔪🔪🩸🩸🩸🩸 @briancutter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is institutionalized racism that targeted an entire family in order to keep them from attempting to live productive, fulfilling, and successful lives. THIS is the system trying to keep Black people down. If Crystal had been a white woman, this case would've been thrown out.

Because Mason was convicted of a criminal offense while on supervised release, she returned to federal prison for 10 months. During that period, she nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children. She has 10 grandchildren.

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you work with international personnel, you may want to comment on this proposed rule change that would put visa holders out of status immediately (instead of after a 60 day grace period) when their employment ends keepthe60days.com

keepthe60days.com

Keep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace period

DHS proposes ending the 60-day grace period after a layoff for H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 and TN visa holders. Comment on USCIS-2026-0364 before November 10, 2026.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The anti-abortion crowd gets why this book is a threat (and are writing badly about it). Would love to see the pro-abortion crowd take the evidence, arguments, and perspective of this book and use it in their work!

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Pregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End

A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss--how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality One of the most prevalent myths about human pre...

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've now gotten three reviews from right-wing media outlets of Pregnancy Interrupted while most center and left-wing outlets have avoided coverage of a book that contests the cultural norms we put around the science of pregnancy.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

vital work AND it's so annoying Dems still have to be explained such basics

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026

Bruh can you imagine

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The plan requires all NIH awards to be directly approved by Vought. No NIH award could be made without his approval.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Woke initiatives that went against Trump’s goals” by doing things like curing diseases and making people’s lives better. Definitely can’t allow that!

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.

And so for Democrats to say, They have a point on some of this, it is engendering a lot of hopelessness and a lot of fear in the trans community, because we have been just trying to hold on, hoping that this time would end and we would be able to get back to where we were five years, six years ago. And what Democrats are signaling is, like, No, we’re going to keep things as they are, and maybe even make them worse.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This abused trans child is being used by Fox News as an opportunity to expand abuse of trans children. Like so many abusive parents of trans kids, these parents are exploiting the Republican culture war to further their abuse. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”

“Arlene stated that if you solve this tomorrow everything will be okay and we will not get angry,” the detective wrote.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is eugenics

Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 17/09/2026

I will pet it

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I didn't hold back. These centers are a blight on higher education and we should say so. dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...

“Center for Intellectual Freedom is a really Orwellian name because they’re forcing mandatory classes on students who don’t want it,” Ray said. “Just as a matter of pure consistency, if closing African American Studies was just a financial decision, the center should be closed.” Ray said universities do a better job fostering free thought than any other institution — including churches, workplaces, and the military.

“You can say and do things at universities that you cannot do anywhere else,” he said. “So the notion that universities are a problem when it comes to free speech is just a lie.”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Trump regime is redefining the Endangered Species Act to consider only the intentional killing of endangered animals to be illegal, removing accountability for incidental harm caused by economic activities. Psychopaths.

nytimes.com

Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

C'mon now. Really?

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Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) @ossdcomm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“How does perimenopause change your brain”, a recent TEDx talk, was delivered by Dr. Marija Kundakovic and selected as an Editor’s pick, an honor given to <1% of TEDx talks. Congratulations Dr. Kundakovic! Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX3Y... Follow @kundakoviclab.bsky.social for more!

youtube.com

How does perimenopause change your brain? | Marija Kundakovic | TEDxFordham University

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Twenty years of writing fashion commentary has taught me that this is the single most-cited fashion reference by the general public. People who don't know a thing about fashion or costume design remember this dress. It's safe to call it one of the most remembered dresses of the last hundred years.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey the reason us straight cis allies are LIVID about Talairico and Acton and others throwing trans folks under the bus is that gay marriage is next alongside women's rights and if you can't fight for our trans brothers, sisters, and thisters/throthers, you don't deserve to fight for anyone

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

This. You don't have to like trans criticism of anti-trans Dems. But telling us we have to shut up and pretend to love them is dehumanizing bullshit. We have consciousness, emotions, agency. We get to decide our own votes. Don't like it? Fuck off.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One of the definitions of the "surveillance state" that I operate under is when a government turns *all* methods of data and information collection---no matter what purpose it was supposed to serve, into surveillance intended for punishment.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Working as designed by the Supreme Court, the EHRC, and the Labour Party. @commonswec.parliament.uk

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let's talk about an excuse I'm seeing, that politicians are just using transphobic rhetoric to temporarily win conservatives and will revert to more pro-trans positions in office. So we should vote for them anyway. I've investigated governments for over 20 years. That ain't ever how it works.🧵...

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm coming back to this. One of the reasons I said watch this man carefully last year was because last summer when Democrats in the Texas legislature left the state and all of that, he was ghost, working on his campaign while the women in the caucus did the heavy lifting and faced GOP violence.

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026

Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wrote this story for Slate 3 years ago. It's an as-told-to perspective from the mom of a trans boy who accessed top surgery in Texas at 14 years old. This is the kind of Texas family who Talarico wants to ban from seeking healthcare. slate.com/technology/2...

slate.com

We’ve Been in Texas for Generations. Our Trans Kid Is Being Treated Here. It’s Getting Dark.

His doctors agree that this care is right for him.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10/09/2026

so much for "God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary. Trans children are God’s children, made in God’s own image."

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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Texas dems really pulling on the jackboots on to kick trans people under the bus today

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The agreement was signed out of the public view a month ago by Pentagon official Robert Kadlec and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, echoing my reporting. It establishes a 10-year framework that officially runs through September 30, 2036.

nature.com

Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

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Justice Department Secures Agreement with Mount Sinai to End Pediatric "Gender-Affirming Care"
Another result of the Department's nationwide investigation into hospitals performing sex-rejecting procedures on minors

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Everybody needs direct anger towards their reps. A "partnership" is the most insane spin on "we are gonna take the funds appropriated for medical research so we can blow some things up."

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DrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The first author is grad student at Rutgers. His mentor is a quite the transphobe. I have a had a few run-ins with him.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026

four out of five of the HHS “study” authors are affiliated with the Network Contagion Research Institute. what else are these guys up to? well: newrepublic.com/article/2150...

It is not surprising, given these authors, that the report recalls earlier Network Contagion Research Institute work; as respectably as it may be packaged, it delivers content ready to drive right-wing news cycles. One 2024 NCRI report warned that diversity, equity, and inclusion programs "may implicitly or explicitly characterize members of so-called 'dominant' groups-or those who disagree with 'anti-oppressive, 'anti-racist,' or contemporary 'anti-fascist' frameworks—as oppressive, racist, or fascist." (Four of the five authors of the HHS report worked on that one.) Another NCRI report on "militant anarcho-socialist networks" from 2020, which shares two co-authors with the HHS report, included subheads like, "ACAB-LINKED MEMES APPEAR WITH CLEAR CALLS FOR VIOLENCE VIRTUALLY AND ARE USED TO SYMBOLICALLY OUST STATE AUTHORITY AND MARK TERRITORY IN THE REAL WORLD." (ACAB, of course, is international shorthand for "All Cops Are Bastards.") Lately, NCRI has accused the Democratic Socialists of America of being a "foreign agent" —dovetailing nicely with Secretary of State Marco Rubio's own attempts to drag DSA into his vintage midcentury anti-Communist crusade.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026

where we are at: Genspect has the ear of the HHS Assistant Secretary for Health newrepublic.com/article/2150...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026

I wrote about the garbage “study” HHS just released, attempting to link support for trans people and left-wing political violence, a kind of remixed Stephen Miller screed with some additional citations:

newrepublic.com

Trump’s Vile Campaign to Link Trans People and Political Violence

A bogus new HHS report argues that support for transgender rights pushes people toward political violence. It’s just the latest chilling installment in a larger project of bigoted propaganda.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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