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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Hurt people hurt people" is an explanation for harm, not an excuse for harm as we often use it as. Even if you are the victim of abuse, that does not excuse you doing abuse in return. Shit like that is what ideologies like Zionism are built on. We only break abuse cycles through accountability.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Allies, note the intersections.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eh I think it’s a pretty accurate mirror for how much of society thinks about violence and SA against women

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 02/10/2026

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is no place for the death penalty in a civilized world. It’s unfathomable to me.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026

They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Murder is also the #1 cause of death of pregnant and postpartum women. Related: Denying people access to abortion care forces them to remain trapped in abusive relationships they often would otherwise leave. (among other harms)

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This would have been such an easy yes. I don’t want to hear one fucking thing about this guy as a presidential candidate.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2026

It's not just gender affirming care, this act would have protected abortion providers as well. Newsom being anti trans is hurting abortion provision as well.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Many of us need to step away from screens and the perpetual frontlines —and seriously invest in our mental, spiritual, and relational well-being. Or we won't get through what's sure to come next.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify

Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

exclusive photo of these democratic advisers

Grima Wormtongue whispering to a ragged King Theoden

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026

Make not opposing genocide hurt more than Israel works to make opposing genocide hurt. Make it hurt politicians' odds. Make it hurt artists' sales. Make it hurt medias' reputation. Make it hate platforms' revenues. Make it career-endingly devastating to stand there and "both sides" mass murder.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Solidarity: the only way to win

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The guy who helped kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour was charged with soliciting prostitution, got those charges dropped with the help of Epstein’s lawyer, is a longtime friend of Trump, has taken NFL players on propaganda trips to Israel, and received a special $1 million award from Netanyahu.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trans people are trying to survive and when they correctly point out that there are Dems who are on the wrong side doing harm, you call them a cult. From the bottom of my cis white midwestern Dem heart; go fuck yourself neighbor. There’s no tent of any kind that fits slander like this.

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ever since @eleanor.lockhart.contact pointed out to me that a lot of online trans discourse has the dynamics of a high-control group, I can't stop seeing it. "you can only trust your brothers and sisters in the group" is a tried-and-true social control mechanism
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

It's always a good time to share this.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Literally every fucking election, except maybe 2 of my adult life

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

The thing liberals fundamentally don't understand is that trans people are losing rights they already had. We're not asking for more, we're asking not to lose what we already had for decades. Most sports leagues and the Olympics had inclusion criteria for decades without issue.

Screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) exchange discussing political pragmatism and the Overton window.
The initial post by onion person (@CantEverDie) reads:
> "doesn't matter, this is about what the right is able to push with the overton window. first its democrats needing to disavow trans women in sports to get elected, next it'll be agreeing to ban access to HRT to get elected. we've seen how this plays out"
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A reply from Nick Pappas (@NickAPappas) reads:
> "Are you insane? The Overton window didn’t even include this discussion until recently. The public has never been in favor of desegregating the sports by sex.
> Personally I’m glad Barack Obama ran against gay marriage in 2008. Not because that was the right position, or one he even actually held, but because he knew the public wasn’t with him on it. If he hadn’t won he wouldn’t have been able to appoint 2 of the justices who ultimately voted in the majority for Obergefell.
> Lincoln in 1860 didn’t even run on abolishing slavery! He just wanted to stop its expansion. And thankfully he did that and won because a more extreme and morally correct position would have lost. As a result he was able to win the Civil War and push through the 13 amendment.
> Political practicality is the entire history of progress in America. There’s no other way."
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trans people have fought and suffered and borne the brunt of the depravity of fascist excess (along with immigrants and Black people), and it looks like the most we can hope for is a decade or more fighting Democrats to restore rights we had in every state in the union as recently as 2020.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.

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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
* Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
* Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."

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

Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned

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Kocel @kocel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The thing I don't think dems who have lost Texas understand: ceding ground to Republican talking points doesn't win you voters. No one who thought you stood with The Trans Menace is going to vote for you even if you say you don't. They're fuckin' crazy. All you're doing is losing Progressive votes.

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lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New analysis from @propublica.org: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...

A chart showing the rate of deaths after an ectopic pregnancy, comparing states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 with those that did not. At the start of the chart, in 2014, the rate is higher in states with abortion bans, but the rates in the two groups of states are not far apart. The rate increases in both groups of states, but the climb is much steeper in states that banned abortion.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the ai industry; our product is going to take your job and crash the economy and kill everyone you know and love also the ai industry: why dont you like us 🥺

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026

it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me · 26/08/2026

When the criminal justice system callously and repeatedly shows a woman that there's absolutely no help coming - and then dehumanizes her and disproportionately punishes her for finally defending herself and her children - that's patriarchal, state-sponsored violence.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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