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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I assume from this that he is the bottom.

Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I hope folks are getting some sort of value/inspiration out of the Artemis mission, being a kid that was very interested in space and rocketry and watching challenger in class, and then watching the world low key give up on crewed space missions other than iss for 40 years kind of left me too jaded.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/04/2026

1. An incredible bill is moving fast in Maryland protecting transgender students. It would apply to ANY "program or activity," and would even include private schools. This would include sports, bathrooms, and more. It even has a private right of action. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Maryland Advances Bill That Would Protect Trans Students In "Any Program Or Activity"

The bill will confer significant protections in sports, overnight accommodations, and bathrooms if it passes.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Wild that it doesn't occur to them to reccomend we eat the now abundant soy we can't sell to China since Trump fucked the shit out of world trade by embargoing his own country with tariffs.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/02/2026

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up

A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

did I miss anything today? I'm on antihistamines because my entire body is covered in red because i took an antibiotic a week ago and so I've been asleep basically all day.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

We could send a forensics team to mar-a-largo and the island with a ground penetrating radar system, just pay for them to live there for years looking for bodies and evidence, and still not crack a significant digit of the ICE budget.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

They shot a woman named Good, and a man named Pretti, what's next a child named Justice? I don't believe in any sort of godly figure or higher intelligence making the universe just so for us, but I do think they are ignoring some pretty strong signals here.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Anyone looking for another reason why this brinksmanship over Greenland is a bad idea? ~70% of the insulin in America is made by Novo Nordisk, a Danish company. Lilly does make insulin as well but IMHO (as an type one diabetic) their formulations suck. Assuming they can even ramp up production?

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

HOLY SHIT THIS IS HORIFIC. I know THEY want a civil war, but can we seriously just keep letting this happen until the mid-terms? FB in an enclosed space is a deadly weapon, anyone with as much training as I have had (none, video games) would know that.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Hopefully an increasingly common SMB W.

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UAW @uaw.org · 14/01/2026

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I wish there was a way to not be super tired all the time.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I love how the photo is selling the, "I haven't even been to Geneva offishers." of it all.

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Murdoink @murdoink.com · 12/01/2026

sub-zero vs ice

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This is 100% on the nose analysis. I would throw in that if you look at when the hand started to go to the weapon, while the vehicle was reversing, you can pretty safely assume the decision to fire happened before the car even moved.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum. We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I've mostly been on the other place but between this and Oz saying they are going to pull Medicaid funding out of MN, I think y'all up there should be applying pressure on your 4 republican reps to put their state over their party and join the impeachment caucus.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

It can't even turn the lights on reliably.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

You’ve held your action for the right moment: Now is the time to act.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My kid came into contact with the Parry Gripp song about Salacious Crumb and has unfortunately contracted the Star Wars cantina and Jabba bits as her special interest. Thankful for Wookiepedia on this day, it has saved my life.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Copper was pretty good skiing despite the lack of new snow, the steep terrain I like got icy in the afternoon and I managed to slip out. self arrested instantly but managed to slam my downhill knee into my uphill ski edge. Probably just a cool bruise, leg seems to work fine.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

nothing makes me more enraged than chow mein that comes as slop with a side of fried wonton crackers. I'm sure this is the fault of white people somehow.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Somehow kiddo got a giant bug bite and is running a fever (unrelated?) so hopefully some mountain photos by Wednesday but spent all day with doctors trying to figure out wtf is going on with the kid.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The car is loaded, road coffee acquired, one stop planned for the middle of Nebraska then onward to the mountains.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

In case you think her stance on the Epstein Files or decision to bail out of the House meant she was maybe not a total nutbag, here you go. Very party of individual liberty of her.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/12/2025

1. For weeks, EITM has reported that Republicans would push a trans healthcare ban in their ACA negotiations. Now, the plan is released, and it includes heavy restrictions on ACA plans, a medicaid ban, an EHB ban, and more. Democrats must not capitulate.

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Democrats Must Reject The Premise Of Trans Healthcare Bans In Republican Healthcare Offer

Republicans new healthcare bill would bar transgender healthcare as an essential health benefit, bar trans medicaid coverage, and would bar HSAs from considering trans healthcare medically necessary.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/11/2025

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

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Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition

The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.

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Baby Gandolfini @babygandolfini.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

He's ended 47 wars and zero paragraphs

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 14/11/2025

NEVER LET THEM
FORCE YOU TO WEAR PANTS

girl with a big comfy sweater and no pants and an ak 47

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/11/2025

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 06/11/2025

lf Dems had any sense they'd treat this guy the way the right treated Kyle Rittenhouse. Put him on tour. Give him Morning Joe's spot or something.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/11/2025

Me when someone starts HRT.

Alt text: A smiling Zohran Mamdani stands outdoors in front of an urban backdrop with tan and brick buildings. He is wearing a dark coat and looking directly at the camera. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, “Welcome to the transition.”

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 05/11/2025

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Voted today for the first time in the new place (a leftist enclave in a red state), kind of anticlimactic, there were no completely wrong choices (it was only very local elections). Not even one M4L running for schoolboard to feel good about not voting for.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/11/2025

Ben Ryan wrote an article in the New York Sun about our reporting. Apparently, Wazzou's entire ability to accredit continuing medical education courses is under threat after our reporting revealed they accredited a hate group with pseudoscientific practices for CME classes. Wow.

Ms. Keesey, who is the associate director of continuing education at WSU’s medical school, said in the email of ACCME’s demands: “We need to provide a written response by Nov 16 detailing our process for accrediting the 7 modules, how we ensured the evidence is fair and balanced etc.” She expressed concern that if an investigation came down against the medical school, WSU could be put on probation by the ACCME or even lose its authority to accredit CMEs outright.

“I am very sorry about this situation—I’ve never seen anything like this from a national accrediting body,” Ms. Keesey wrote.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/11/2025

Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism. Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Been to 16, lived in 5 of them. I was a consultant that got on a plane every week to go to work for about 10 years though so, it is only due to avoiding Texas like my life depended on it that I didn't collect the whole set.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 24/10/2025

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I'm reminded of that time I turned up to a writing course at university with nothing written and peeled off some multi page manifesto explaining PJ Harvey lyrics before the deadline at the end of the class. Unfortunately 1997 was the worst, so no one identified this extremely eggy behavior.

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Updating my LEGO White House

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I’ve been thinking about how hard the founding fathers cooked with the Third Amendment. Imagine being forced to house ICE. I can’t imagine they wash their hands. They’ve never done laundry in their lives. They’d break your stuff if you didn’t cut the crusts off their sandwiches.

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