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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 9h

self-made

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This IS what this country is. It's not the only thing that it is but it is absolutely violent and barbaric. The US. is one of 55 countries that still maintain capital punishment. 140 countries have abolished it. This IS what this country is. Might as well televise the killings.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

how capitalism works

Uhhh, no, you can’t have
any of my money... Try
getting a real job, like
inheriting
a big bag
of money.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

american healthcare

whoa, whoa! can you die in a way that casts the government less money?!?!

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

fourth (!) paragraph "Mr. Hastert admitted at his sentencing that he sexually abused teenage wrestlers as young as 14 whom he coached at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Ill., where he worked from 1965 to 1981. The federal judge who sentenced Mr. Hastert called him 'a serial child molester.'"

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know it's cherry-picked but this is really satisfying to watch

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If the Trump administration successfully removes race and tribal affiliation from the census it would have a profound impact on Indian Country. Many federal programs rely on accurate data of where Native people live to disperse resources.

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

The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you want to talk to somebody about it, you should absolutely chase that feeling, and talk to other dudes. But the women in your lives already know this is fucked up. I promise you. We know. Don’t make us nod politely while you process this out at your big age. We’ve got enough to worry about.

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

thank you, aces. we are finally free.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026

The Cornell story is horrific, but I’d like to shine a light on what happened at LSU with a current football player on the team:

In July, the school found Shanklin responsible for "forcible rape" and issued a one-year suspension, which is a full ban from campus and activities, according to documents reviewed by ESPN. After Shanklin appealed, an administrative law judge who handles appeals per LSU policy upheld the finding that the athlete was responsible for "forcible rape," but reduced the punishment to four semesters of probation with no restrictions, which allows Shanklin to remain enrolled and on campus and to participate in activities as long as he stays out of trouble.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 01/10/2026

We live in a society that punishes people who are assaulted. We question them, we shame them, we disbelieve them. Many survivors instinctively do that societal work for us. Survivors question themselves, they shame themselves, they don't believe their own version of events. We've trained them!

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/09/2026

Gendered violence is a systemic cultural and societal problem. And when one of these cases boils to the top, you can see that in how many survivors come forward to explain how similar their experiences are, in ways both big and small.

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Eugene Rupiński @golazodelgringo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have yet to see evidence of why European woso is seen as having a superior quality to American (North or South) woso beyond the reputation the men’s teams carry.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not all Fever fans, but always a Fever fan.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the last one I’ll mention is for mothers to set boundaries in their own relationships with their sons. The way he treats you is a model for how he treats all other women. If you succumb to the social pressure to make every sacrifice for him, he will expect the same of other women too.

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the most important thing men can do, and they must be doing it immediately. People create culture. People can change it. If you can't remember the last time you created some social awkwardness by telling another man to stop with that shit, you probably aren't pulling your weight.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

monday morning

Here we are again, kids. Step on up
into the liminal libertarian space
between home and school. You can
go crazy as long as you’re quiet, but
there are no seat belts. No rules,
no protection.

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Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Said it to the @xowngoals.com boys, but Sam Staab has played like the only brunch waitress assigned to the patio. Her hands are full. Her tables are needy, and yet she’s still managing to get those bottomless mimosas delivered on time.

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Abigail Segel @abigailsegel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Touting parity rings hollow when the same clubs wither each year. Million dollar salaries are bittersweet when the players who earn them have teammates who won’t make that amount in 15 years. The NWSL may have raised its ceiling, but its floor is still in hell: defector.com/the-nwsls-st...

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The NWSL's Struggling Teams Are Falling Behind | Defector

The 2026 NWSL season has provided some astonishingly fun soccer, and many off-field successes too: The league has boasted some record attendances, salaries, and goal-scoring this year, not to mention ...

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the best part

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just gonna light this bag of dogshit on fire and walk away from the doorstep, but the people in media I hear saying AI has made them "more productive" appear to be producing less than ever, and worse things than ever. I wonder if they can even tell.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As states fight over the dwindling Colorado River, tribes are getting left out. 30 federally recognized tribes have legal claims to the Colorado River–many that predate western states. But none have a seat at the table. Last winter, the Fort Mojave Tribe's pump couldn't pull water for four months.

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if chicago's cheap, stubborn ass owners listen to vlatko this will be the best hire they could have made to turn the club around in the surest possible way. if they don't he'll be in atlanta in 2028.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

i can't let this go: Obama navigating gay marriage wasn't about taking rights away from people. Like, maybe that's a hair not worth splitting, but LGBTQ folks were trying to gain the right to marry. they weren't having the right to health care and the right to use the fucking bathroom taken away.

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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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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran isn’t just staying silent about Palestine. He’s participating in the effort to silence + punish the ppl who speak up. 1/2

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hey, you know what might help? Not LEAPING into bed with gambling outfits and advertising gambling at every possible opportunity. When you tell people gambling is the reason to watch, they will act like this. It’s wrong, but it’s a perfectly foreseeable risk that you’re subjecting players to.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A 'tidal wave' of forever chemicals are being pumped out to satisfy the AI industry, according to The Guardian. Nearly all of the 10 biggest manufacturers of Pfas are planning to increase production for use in semi-conductors and data center cooling systems.

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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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

Cis lib: no, no, no. You don't get it. You have to vote for the transphobic Democrat because otherwise bad policies would affect ME and not just you.

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Brent/Barb 🏳️‍⚧️ @vibrent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Whenever someone mentions Obama was against gay marriage to defend a Dem politician caving to anti-trans rhetoric I would like them to consider that he was also wrong and when they say he eventually changed his mind I would like them consider how that happened.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

it's games like this and stars like banda and chawinga that make me look at the nwsl front office sideways. you can't promote this? you need a podcaster? you need ted lasso? you sure?

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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 11/09/2026

I think that if we're going to Never Forget 9/11, we also should Never Forget all the racism that came after, which includes the creation of ICE

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are in the fucking process of curing cancer and half of America is like nuh uh.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

Democrats are voting with Republicans on bills that could harm trans kids. We have to make that unacceptable. We can't give the trans panic instigators an inch particularly because it's all manufactured outrage. They needed a wedge issue after they killed Roe and this is what they've decided on.

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Eight Dems voted with GOP on bill that could out trans students

Eight Democrats voted with Republicans to help pass a bill that could force teachers to out transgender students to their parents.

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

A lot of people doing the "it's fine for a politician to say they don't support gender surgery for minors", who don't seem to know that the anti transgender movement is fighting hard to redefine "minor" SPECIFICALLY for trans people as 25 or 30 because "brains don't mature until then" nonsense

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

they act like its a given that supporting trans kids and protecting other kids from genital inspections is a losing issue and theyre too chicken shit to challenge that notion. just zero evidence this is The One Issue that they all assume it is

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

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

The gay marriage analogy fails b/c it would be as if it were already legal nationwide and Dems were campaigning to end it. This is how thoroughly the right has captured the narrative. Liberals can't even see the biggest rollback of civil rights for a minority group in modern history for what it is.

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