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A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 13h

“The bartender came out from behind the bar to tape up a handwritten sign right in front of me that said, ‘Ladies Only,’” Marina Hanley, the lead singer of Rougaroux, said in a video. “…‘We’re very strict about this. This isn’t an all-gender situation. This washroom is for ladies only.’”

lgbtqnation.com

Bartender blocks trans woman from using restroom to tape up "Ladies Only" sign - LGBTQ Nation

“I don't ever want to feel this shame that I have felt about who I am and about the journey that I have been on.”

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13h

Sunday night anxiety: I feel like this entire election is going to hinge on turnout efforts and Democratic house-to-house ground game and I wish we were hearing more about that and less about polls.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16h

A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13h

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 13h

Like we don’t have political disagreements, we have disagreements on the nature of reality

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 13h

An opinion I’ve held for years that I don’t think I’ll ever change my mind on is that Americans have got to be one of the most propagandized populations in the world

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 16h

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

chron.com

How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 15h

It’s legit one of the weirdest things to happen on this Plane of Weirdest Things that of all the Weirdest Things, fucking Harry Potter and the Methods of goddamned Rationality might ultimately end the bloody world.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 03/10/2026

Quite the ad featuring Ken Paxton's estranged wife, Angela. "Let's talk about the elephant in the room. In a general election, it's not as much about the individual players on the team. It's about getting the whole team across the finish line. ... That's why I'm voting for the Republican ticket."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 03/10/2026

Because my brain is so cosmically broken, I had to look at this spherically cursed website and oh Jesus hopfrog Christ. And because I'm me, I had to subject @drlizpowell.bsky.social to it so hey, you get to hear our descent into madness in a couple weeks on @doaswesaypod.bsky.social...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Please read my comments to this. The NERVE to call those of us with peer reviewed empirical work as conspiracy theorists and not those doing seances for the AGI god (e.g. Hinton's students). But I have more things to say in the comments.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

What’s up everyone, why are you on this one this week

Butterfly meme.
Top: folks on social media
Butterfly: Black woman
Bottom: is this my punching bag?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Epstein emails show he literally advised *all* these freaks, over decades, up til his death, on how to use transphobia as a wedge to make their expected victims more vulnerable Dems could have just not accepted Epstein's framing of trans rights as an essential part of being viewed as electable

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It would NOT have any reboots but it would be shows in the same vein and vibe as Farscape, Charmed, Buffy, Killjoys, Lexx, Defiance, Wynnona Earp, Stargate, 90s Trek, Teen Wolf, Vampire Diaries, Roswell, Lost Girl, Falling Skies, Once Upon a Time, Dollhouse, Firefly, Eureka, and Warehouse 13 ETC

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I finished my Eureka rewatch and now I’m rewatching Warehouse 13 and if I became a billionaire I would fund a streaming service that produces scifi/fantasy shows that are 16 to 23 eps of silly fun, none of which are blockbuster high budget dramas and all of which have a guaranteed 4 season minimum.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Notes from the Sex Worker Left" by @drheatherberg.bsky.social highlights the unruly thinkers who are at the vanguard of radical theorizing on family, work, the state, and community care, drawing on interviews with sex workers and their writings. Check out the intro for free: buff.ly/fKIQIDz

Cover of Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory by Heather Berg. The cover features a watercolor painting of three individuals holding their faces close together with eyes closed. The central figure’s mouth is open showing teeth and bright red lips. The painting uses a navy blue for linework and shading. The title is written in the same blue in an all caps serif font in the bottom right. The subtitle is below in a fleshy pink. the author’s name is to the left in black.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey sorry wait what do you mean Drake had a 20-woman speed dating contest on Alt-Right Twitch and is now dating the winner, who is a 24-year-old former OF model and streamer Good god Kendrick really murdered that man

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By nature of being enrolled at a university, student rapists dont fit the caricature of a rapist—ie a "dangerous" stranger in an alley, a false narrative meant to frame rape exclusively as a street-based crime justifying ever-more police funding. So they face no consequences:

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Plus: "So long as there’s room for the *possibility* that the accused student *might have thought* there was consent, the university won’t take action against them, several Title IX administrators told Bedera":

jezebel.com

Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can't recommend @nbedera.bsky.social's book 'On the Wrong Side' enough. I interviewed her in 2024, this part really stuck with me. Rapists often don't just not face consequences but reap benefits bc the school is so sorry for even investigating them/afraid of seeming 'biased':

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

jezebel.com

Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Amy READ PINNED (cute) [weird] 🔞 @amyuncut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

cis women can also be monsterfuckers who play MTG

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 28/09/2026

and some day my loves we will talk about all the ADHD authors trying to live on the internet with RSD and not understanding why dodging reviews like it is your WHOLE JOB is vital to emotional stability lololcry what a weird career we all picked

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KEI Sakana 👻 @keisakana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We used to have the Trans Appreciation Friday thread. You'd meet and interact with a lot of cool people. Sometimes it even felt like bsky belonged to the Dolls or something...

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you take the DayQuil with coffee you can see time as it arrives

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Amy Vants to Suck Your Blood 🩸 @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i like my men the way i like my hand sanitizer: strong smelling, wet, and residue free

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/09/2026

regret going to read this but am now infuriated by this particular paragraph - sure, doing these things also helped me, a non-medicated person with ADHD, but do you know what else fucking helped? me also being a columnist, a job with a huge amount of personal freedom, unlike nearly all other jobs!

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Exactly, by choice, especially after the brief BLM diversity push a few years ago. Country quite intentionally avoids non-white listeners and a music writer knows this.

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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last year, one of the classes I work with earned a movie day, and they picked an animated film where all the kids had personal robots that looked pretty much like this mascot.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Way Too Online Person @smoothedjaguar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is there a funnier outcome for the Iran War than the Iranian regime surviving but the Saudi state collapsing?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My man looks like a Care Bear whose stomach symbol is a swastika

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just got accused of destroying the planet with ChatGPT because I wrote an analysis of a metaphor—which included using em dashes, as I always have. Beloved, I don't need ChatGPT to write my thoughts for me. Analyzing and interpreting and critiquing texts is fun to me. I'm a nerd like that. 🤓

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My first choice is "zero billionaires," but if I can't have that I'll take "billionaires with night terrors of guillotines trying to buy off the public."

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like, we've always had robber-barons, but they used to be sufficiently scared for their posterity that they balmed all of the graft, corruption, and dead workers by splashing money on public goods.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At least the Rockefellers endowed museums.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

Rod Blagojevich accidentally said one true thing: "[A United States Senate] seat is a fucking valuable thing—you don't just give it away for nothing." and honestly I feel like that's what voters in this state have been forced to do over and over again.

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