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DrNotta

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#ActuallyAutistic. White cishet femme (she/her) but doing my best to center more marginalized perspectives. Disabled is not a dirty word. Use #AltText or ask others to write it for you. Avatar: photo of a wet bumblebee clinging to a goldenrod leaf

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 29/09/2026
Commentary: Whether it's the gas pump or the AC bill, Ohioans can't catch a break. And that's not bad luck. It's a choice Republican elected officials keep making. Let's call it what it is: a government-induced energy crisis ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Commentary: Ohio families are paying the price for the government-induced energy crisis • Ohio Capital Journal
Whether it's the gas pump or the AC bill, Ohioans can't catch a break. And that's not bad luck. It's a choice Republican elected officials keep making. Let's call it what it is: a government-induced…
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/09/2026
This part, this part that has been the issue for so many minoritized folks for such a long fucking time is what just destroys me constantly: "I wish that 55% of my brain was not devoted to strategizing about the survival of me and of my friends." We just want to do our goofy little stuff.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 28/09/2026
Damn it’s that easy???
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/09/2026
The UN has updated its list of companies found to be intimately involved in the sustaining and expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine, universally recognized as illegal. The list has 214 companies and firms, almost all Israeli, but at least 10 from France, Germany, China, & the US.
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UN Human Rights updates list of companies involved in Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory
GENEVA – The UN Human Rights Office today issued an
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/
A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🫣Eek.
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 27/09/2026
we're now on a multi-week cycle of talking about a.i. going rogue in environments with lowered guardrails and given the specific task of engaging in violations of federal law and are no longer talking about data centers nor examining why these corporations are not being prosecuted for hacking
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have been thinking about, posting about, and commenting on Georgia politics for the better part of a decade and a half. The best, singular metric of outcome is Black voter turnout. Our politics are so racially polarized (though less so now than in 2011), that alone can be ballgame.
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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Transformative work of the day, regulatory edition
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DrNotta @drnotta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was having this conversation with someone last week and they blocked me over it. Since the Democratic Party embraced Republican economic policy in the 1990s, white people started voting R and Black people just stopped voting. www.wosu.org/politics-gov...
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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
people punch holes into the earlobes of baby girls purely for decoration, and NOBODY believes chronically ill or disabled people when they say they are in pain. Excellent work, Science Magazine. Excellent.
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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Science" Magazine over here trying to bait you into pseudo philosophical debate about ChatGPT's hurty feefees in a world where women are routinely denied pain relief for IUD insertions and cervical biopsies, doctors still routinely believe that black skin is more pain resistant than white skin,
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 26/09/2026
Rep. Troy Balderson has been a reliable vote for the AIPAC agenda: endless wars, blank checks for a foreign dictator, and censoring free speech critical of Israel. #OH12 deserves better. Vote for @jerradchristian.bsky.social to return this seat to the people!
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
750,000 Texas Voters Disenfranchised Up to 750,000 Texans registered through the DPS online portal are missing from County Voting Rolls. Talarico “the government failed to do its job.” Registration deadline: Oct. 5. 🧵 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Texas election workers scramble after registration snafu leaves thousands of voters off rolls
“I don’t know if they feel confident. Some counties are more confident than others,” Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Elections Officials, said. “Right now what we’r...
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins just voted to confirm another Trump anti-abortion judge. The third time in September. Days after claiming she’s “always been pro-choice.” Senator Collins, you are a liar. A crook. Maine is done with you.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When disabled people oppose Assisted Dying, it’s almost never from a religious point of view. It’s not because we’re anti-choice or that we want to force people to suffer. We oppose it because society devalues disabled lives and uses these programs in an unethical manner. They become eugenics. 🧵
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
a bill which provided a strong footing for civil liability and punitive damages that attaches to Flock itself as well as the civil jurisdiction in question would do wonders for reining this kind of thing in.
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Anarchists Without Borders @anarchswoborders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Everybody thinks they're the ones who think for themselves, but in fact, almost nobody does. You almost have to be pathologically antisocial to really do it; but also able to take your subjective experience out of the equation too. Helpful to live for what you might want to look back at in the end.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/09/2026
I’m here, what’s the room number. I can skip the “broadcast” y’all accidentally scheduled. I think American public needs an insight.
The following FEED will be available at the DOS AVOC switch today, September 23, 2026
9:00 A.M. - FEED
Update CANCELLED - Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York City, New York.
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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Revolution in the Heart is one day old! The people at Titan did a fabulous job on this book. The authors knocked it out of the park. The Guardian called it 'probably the best original anthology of the year'. You gotta try it!
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Revolution in the Heart by Charlie Jane Anders, Ai Jiang, Karen Joy Fowler, Ann Leckie, Kelly Link, Chana Porter, Aliya Whiteley, Premee Mohamed, Darcie Little Badger: 9781835412749 | PenguinRandomHou...
15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others. Ursula...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fake capitalists hate Universal Basic Income (ubi) for very simple reason - it would force them to actually compete for workforce without using the threat of starvation. And that is much harder than just saying "put up with my bullshit or die".
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: Israel is paying for a new website to seemingly influence AI chatbots to spout out pro-Israel answers, per foreign agent documents. It's barely been a month and the site has already churned out 110+ articles.
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SCOOP: Israel Is Funding AI Chatbot Propaganda
Yet another website appears precision-engineered to propel favorable AI narratives. Plus: Justin Baragona on the Democratic AGs who caved to the pro-Trump Ellisons and greenlit their takeover of CNN.
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DrNotta @drnotta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's what's wrong with that "vote for the bus that gets you closest to your destination" meme. Sometimes, the bus stop closest to your destination, is on the opposite side of a river and a freeway, and if you choose that stop, your journey is exponentially longer.
A screenshot of a transit map, with a destination circled in green. There's a bus stop close to the destination, but there's a river and a freeway between them. The stop that would mean the shortest distance of *travel* to the destination, is nearly twice as far as the crow flies.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seven days after Susan Collins’ super PAC cashed the check from Martin Kao’s shell company, one of PAC head Scott Reed’s subordinates emailed a Navatek lobbyist asking for Kao’s phone number: “Senator Collins would like to call Martin to thank him.”
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Peter Thiel has the wheel: “US Deputy Secty of Defense Stephen Feinberg has drafted a memo directing Defense Department subordinates to purchase up to $243.9 M in services from…[Thiel’s] Palantir…without a competitive bidding process…The memo’s subject line is called ‘Funding Palantir’.” 8/11/26…1/
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Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo
Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Any democrat who fits this description will never have my support.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
you could say this verbatim about silicon valley. and honestly, if you are a democratic politician reading this, you should!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Like truly if you are considering a history of the American press or U.S. media and one framework isn’t about how often power aligned to try to undermine the media of radical abolitionists (and later anti-lynching crusaders and on and on through time) are you even doing history?
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I really believe that any history of journalism that doesn’t consider that so many mainstream and now “legacy” organizations worked to undermine or moderate the already vibrant discourse of black media on issues like freedom and democracy is obscuring a huge part of the national story
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A case that I make in my latest book is we need to recenter Black media as foundational institutions if we are going to understand where we’ve been and where we can go.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If I could sum up why I’m not a Republican in one quote…
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 05/10/2025
If you post important / significant / valuable images without alt text, I'm going to steal your post.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
If you're on here telling trans people to shut up and vote, you should be angry that Republicans have manipulated you to such a degree. Why aren't you angry about it
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
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Sharia Twain @peoplearebad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Exactly. No assisted dying without assisted living.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you want the right to an Assisted Death, help figure out a way to ensure the disabled have a right to life. Help us fix the broken systems that would rather euthanize us than help us. Help us survive.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don’t support the killing of disabled and marginalized people deemed “too expensive” or “too useless” to care for. I don’t support a system that weaponizes Assisted Death against the most vulnerable. I’ve never wanted to take the choice from anyone, but it must be a choice.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The worst part of the Assisted Dying debate is people assuming it’s black and white. They think if you oppose the policy, you oppose giving people the choice. I support the right to die. What I don’t support is offering it to disabled people instead of medical treatment.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NEW: As Trump loses ground and lashes out, some remain willing to capitulate when it comes to anti-trans hate. More alarming settlements from medical providers in states that have laws aimed at stopping anti-trans discrimination. On Friday, it was NYU Langone and UPMC. Law Dork:
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As Trump loses ground and lashes out, some remain willing to capitulate when it comes to anti-trans hate
More alarming settlements from medical providers in states that have laws aimed at stopping anti-trans discrimination. On Friday, it was NYU Langone and UPMC.
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DrNotta @drnotta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Halfway through and loving it!
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's not a distraction from anything for Trump to say "I'm not letting these news outlets in here anymore". It's not a gambit. He's just plainly saying "these fuckers annoy me and say things I don't like and I'm the king and I don't have to put up with it and you can't make me."
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also listen these assholes don't really try to distract from people noticing their fuck-ups because they don't fear consequences. They've been given increased latitude to behave as badly as they want rather than effectively constrained.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As someone who is legitimately extremely easily distracted, I strongly resent every claim that something horrible the White House is doing is to distract from something the claimant believes is more horrible. Playing "my thing matters more; you're all being tricked" is actually what this WH wants.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The whole point of their strategy is to move quickly, break things faster than anyone can stop them and keep everyone who cares too fractured and focused solely on their own things to say "yes, your thing matters, too; let's work together on our things."
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