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Harper B. Keenan

@harperkeenan.bsky.social
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Asst Prof at UBC. USian in 🍁. studying childhood/imagining pedagogies/unscripting curriculum/trans-ing through life. www.harperkeenan.com

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ah, yes… when you look at what’s happening to American research in 2026 and think, “I’ll have what they’re having”
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”
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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So, self-regulation for the tech companies who say their product could likely annihilate humanity, but not for *checks notes* transgender people? Cool cool cool
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
An increasing number of Democratic officials are proving themselves to be bigoted fools who believe trans people’s rights and lives are less worthy than their own.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.
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Neal @nskorpen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seen in south Minneapolis
Photo of a public mailbox with the words “this machine kills fascists” printed on the front
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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please join us for a Pop-Up Museum of Queer Play at UBC on September 27! For more details and to register, go to www.queerplayworkshop.org
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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What does play look like through a queer lens? If you’re interested in that question and live in Vancouver, please come join us for a Queer Play Pop-Up Museum on September 27! More info at the website, and register there for the location and other details. www.queerplayworkshop.com
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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What does play look like through a queer lens? If you’re interested in that question and live in Vancouver, please come join us for a Queer Play Pop-Up Museum on September 27! More info at the website, and register there for the location and other details. www.queerplayworkshop.com
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Among Democrats nationally, Mamdani is “arguably the most popular modern-day politician who is currently in elected office”
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Julia Poe @juliapoe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
When I think about trans people in sports, I don’t think about lobbies or legislation. I think about my friends. Wrote about pick-up hoops, queer community and love:
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Column: When I think about transgender people in sports, I think about my friends
Despite the rabid fixation upon the concept of trans women in sports, those who beat the drum the loudest for exclusive policies rarely seem to care about trans people themselves.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
In April, we reported on the MSG surveillance machine–an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. You can now read it for free.
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
This month, we published another article revealing that MSG kept a database of VIP event attendees, labeling some of them as LGBTQIA and assigning a “risk score” to others. This is also now free to read:
wired.com
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
theatlantic.com
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“His most recent piece for the student paper, which was published last month, criticized what he described as discriminatory hiring practices in academia biased against white men” well knock me over with a feather
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 06/07/2026
Why should you support independent trans media? Perhaps because we take on the bias of major news organizations with facts and data. Here's the latest from @evanurquhart.bsky.social, who found NYT wrote 5 stories on the trans sports ban decision without quoting a single trans person. 🤯🤯🤯
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NYT Wrote Five Stories on the Trans Athlete Ban Decision. Not One Quoted A Transgender Person. - Assigned Media
The paper of record continues to diverge from other news organizations in its coverage of the transgender community.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
45 years ago.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's the master's POSSESSION of the tools that is central to oppression rather than the tools in and of themselves. Once you understand this, you stop focusing on tactics for social change and start interrogating actual oppression.
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
From the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Education, a concise summary of the devastation: the Institute of Education lost at least 84% of its employees. Research in progress or nearly complete is just *poof* gone, a complete waste of Congress's investment. oig.ed.gov/sites/defaul...
Figure titled Staffing Changes for IES Suboffices Impacted by the RIF, showing that of 191 employees only about 30 remained.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I never spoke on this publicly but we were also subject to an anonymous false report— we thought it was a political attack, but it turned out it was the deranged 44 yo racist who lives downstairs with his mom. Despite clear lies (padded room, wrong gender of child), CPS “had” to investigate 🧵
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
this is bad dark ugly malignancy www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...
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Pete Buttigieg Says He Was Separated From His Children After ‘Swatting’ Tip
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NYC Family Policy Project @familypolicynyc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
New York and Texas banned anonymous reporting because of the damage it inflicts on families - just as Buttigieg describes. More states should follow suit. imprintnews.org/child-welfar...
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NY Governor Signs Law to End Anonymous Reporting
New York has joined Texas as the only two states to ban anonymous reporting of child maltreatment concerns
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
mamdani suit is clearly a form of drag, and a very enteratining one at that bsky.app/profile/spec...
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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is fucking disgusting, infuriating. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...
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Pete Buttigieg Says He Was Separated From His Children After ‘Swatting’ Tip
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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Now out in Child Dev: "If moms do it, it can't be that important: Children's reasoning about gender disparities in domestic work" academic.oup.com/chidev/advan... Kids' awareness that moms do most housework + their intrinsic explanations for this jointly predict their devaluing domestic work 🧵
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 03/06/2026
The Vision Zero action plan is up to council now. We won't live-thread the entire meeting but will provide updates in this thread 🧵 We've had some disagreements with city staff in the past but we have to say that here they've presented an excellent plan.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22/05/2026
the Trump admin has already bullied some hospitals into ending gender-affirming care for minors, even in states where there's no ban on the books. and they are not content to stop there: now they want patients' records and providers' files and are turning to one federal judge to get them. my story:
newrepublic.com
The Texas Court Trying to Intimidate a New York Hospital
NYU Langone used to offer gender-affirming care. Now a district court in Texas is subpoenaing it. What the hell?
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A family in Idaho has dropped their lawsuit challenging a state law barring transgender students from using the restroom after their 16-year-old trans daughter died by suicide. Idaho AG Raul Labrador praised the decision without mentioning the girl's death or why the case was dismissed.
newsfromthestates.com
High school group challenging Idaho’s trans bathroom ban drops lawsuit after student’s death
Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health issues, call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
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Steph Machado @stephmachado.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
BREAKING: Hours before the deadline for RI Hospital to hand records over, a RI judge has blocked the DOJ from getting the medical info and names of transgender children in Rhode Island Judge Mary McElroy said the subpoena was issued in "bad faith" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/13/m...
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R.I. judge blocks DOJ from obtaining medical records of transgender youth, calling the demand a ‘drastic overreach’ - The Boston Globe
Judge Mary S. McElroy said the subpoena for the records of transgender youth was issued in “bad faith."
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It's always so telling which politicians don't see themselves as stewards of the public good, but as its auctioneers.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.
Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and author, has been on the front lines of campus battles over free speech for more than a decade, warning that the American education system has poorly served a generation of young people by cocooning them from ideas they might find distressing.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 08/05/2026
ABC News: Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.com/Politics/jud...
ABC News: Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 11/05/2026
Data from University of Toronto suggests Canadians are avoiding US cities during the second Trump administration
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Researchers find 42% drop in Canadians visiting US metro areas amid Trump 2.0
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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
damn this canvas situation is really wild
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/05/2026
Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
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“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor
The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/05/2026
every trans person has been effectively drummed out of the mainstream media but you can be a pulitzer finalist if you look around the situation that your fucking newspaper helped create and go “wow so this is pretty interesting huh”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/04/2026
Thinking about this thread again, in light of the fact that Trump fired the entire National Science Board all at once, today, placing their replacement appointments entirely under the political whim of… This man. These fucking people. This is very very bad.
forbes.com
Trump Fired The Entire National Science Board. Here's Why That Matters
Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees NSF. The institutional design that built American science is at stake.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"We've built a rapid response network to stop ICE detention centers before they start. Receive immediate alerts if a facility is planned for your community and help lead the local fight to stop it..." gtfoice.org
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GTFO ICE — Get The Facilities Out
ICE is rapidly expanding its network of detention centers. We have a playbook to fight back. Sign up to get alerts if a facility is planned near you.
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Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A fantastic full-time salaried Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunity has just gone live from Tampere University on the history of nationalism and childhood. International applications are encouraged. Check it out! 🧒👧 tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (History of Everyday Nationalism, CoE NARS) / Tutkijatohtori
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The federal government is literally striking words from official record based on them being too “woke” and pundits are arguing if the wokeness is what went too far
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