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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

the anti-trans bathroom ban is very bad—it's also a sign uk democracy is failing my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

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The End of Trans Rights In the UK Is the Start Of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"The vast majority of people will never hear the other side of the story, the factually correct side of the story, the morally decent side of the story. The side of the story that was the overwhelming consensus among politicians and the public a mere 6-7 years previously."

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

You might think it's racist to melt down about the appearance of a black woman in a movie, but have you considered that progressives do a totally different thing?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The far right is being racist. Here's why it's the left's fault. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/05/2026

one of the reasons i am always on about elite persuasion is that i have seen elite persuasion operate in real time. as toby documents here, the radical anti-trans push in the uk didn't come from some "bottom-up backlash," but was orchestrated and organized primarily at the most elite levels

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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 22/05/2026

she was SIXTEEN fucking years old. i never have words to give shape to the anger. every time someone’s “just asking questions” about bathrooms or sports or prison or healthcare or whatever abstract they suddenly think is a problem, there are individual trans people who pay for it. she was a CHILD.

"This stress of feeling alienated in her life was exacerbated by Jane's exclusion from the girls' restroom at school," her mother continued in the court record. "The option of a single-user restroom did not resolve her distress. Rather, it caused her to feel ostracized from others - 'like I'm being treated as this other kind of thing - as she described in her supplemental declaration."

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Harsh @harsh-patell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

“should we condemn generations to fascist bloody rule” while defending a representative voting in favour of fascism is certainly one of the takes of all time

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This bill, literally called the “CHARLIE Act,” imports definitions from Trump's odious EOs on race (EO 14190) and sex (EO 14168) into the federal statute for K-12 funding. It's not savvy centrist politics, it will not get them more votes. They know; they're bad people who like these parts of MAGA.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/05/2026

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/05/2026

Satire is dead.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

After multiple winners of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize were accused of enlisting generative artificial intelligence to write for them, statements from the institutions involved just raised more questions, and the authors aren't talking. Are AI literary scandals the new plagiarism?

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Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal

Three of five regional winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of relying on chatbots. They're certainly not alone.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

CORRECTION: I just deleted a post & updated a story that incorrectly said not one anti-LGBTQ+ measure in Missouri became law. One anti-trans measure did pass, tucked into an appropriations law, barring incarcerated trans people from receiving gender-affirming care. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

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Missouri Republicans introduced 58 anti-LGBTQ+ bills. One anti-trans measure became law

The legislative defeat comes as the ACLU tracks 529 anti-LGBTQ+ bills nationwide this year, many aimed at transgender Americans.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Two people just shot up a mosque. Look at this three days ago:

Muslim Americans accuse Republicans of using congressional hearings to stoke fear
Complaints come after House Judiciary Subcommittee holds hearing titled 'Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam and Sharia Law are Incompatible with the US Constitution'
By KANISHKA SINGH
15 May 2026, 9:01 am

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This. I don’t know how to explain to people that in a moment like this you need the *best* people you can find, not the most tepid bowls of oatmeal who will do fundamentally nothing to turn the tide.

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SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Safety shouldn’t be flexible.

A black Jeep Grand Cherokee parked on top of a flexible delineator demarcating a bike lane’s buffer space.

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/05/2026

someone needs to do a deep dive on What Happened to Taylor Lorenz. totally off the deep end, willing to back so much of what’s wrong with the modern tech industry (outside a few longtime digital rights obsessions).

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Harsh @harsh-patell.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

presenting marx’s position on capitalism simply as just advocating for communism is a fucking *insane* thing to do lol. karl marx, famously presented absolutely zero critiques of capitalism. he just thought communism was neat is all

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Harsh @harsh-patell.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

“trans women are secretly duplicitous and awful men actually, no i’m not transphobic why do you ask?”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The democrats are sitting on a portfolio of policies that most Americans agree with. The Republicans want youth genital inspections and book bans. Talk about that!

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15/05/2026

If you thought the big problem in your party was voters thinking (in this case, wrongly!) that its leaders endorsed and ran on unpopular ideological positions, why would you spend millions of $ highlighting fringe pols and their positions? RNC doesn’t run ads highlighting fringe Republicans!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Just to give a heads up, our last hearing is in 3 days and the trial is in 11 days so I’m going to be posting our legal fees more. Very sorry if it’s annoying but we need your help to not only win but also survive past this unjust prosecution. Thank you for understanding. tinyurl.com/katandre

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Donate to Stand with Kat and Andre Against Unjust Prosecution, organized by Kat Abughazaleh

In October of 2025, I – along with my field director and friend An… Kat Abughazaleh needs your support for Stand with Kat and Andre Against Unjust Prosecution

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Miranda Miller (fastest Mario) @randymiller.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“Diversity of thought” seems primarily to be a quota for racist white men.

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Brendan @brendan17.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Having no backbone (when that is literally the job) is embarrassing in & of itself. But it's even worse when those that challenge are consistently winning.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Amazon AMD Axon Boeing Microsoft Nvidia Palantir Just a few of the major corporations and government contractors Trump has bought stock in lately. Many of his trades directly coincided with regulatory decisions his administration made that affected their profits. Insider trader-in-chief.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Hegseth is asking for a record $1.5 trillion defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.

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Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I would co-sponsor this.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 15/05/2026

Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social set the record straight on what AOC and MTG have actually said and done on Gaza, Biden, and Trump and why the leftist ‘MTG is better than AOC’ line being pushed online is nonsense. Subscribe to zeteo.com to see Mehdi bring more receipts. youtu.be/9Wqg5FRCUUU

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. Marjorie Taylor Greene? Time For a DEBUNKING

YouTube video by Zeteo

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 15/05/2026

“[Rape] is systemic... it's not just a bad apple case.” Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli talks with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about how the Israeli courts and police system ignore allegations of rape and torture against Palestinians. Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/israeli-la...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is exactly the phenomenon I was discussing in my thread yesterday (will attach below). Even if you can show a video is faked with AI, some people just don’t care - as long as it supports what they want to believe.

But Prof van der Linden warned that research also suggests many people do not seem to care if content is AI-generated or not.
"As long as it resonates with their identity and world-view they will often still endorse the content and share it with others because it signals agreement with a larger agenda," he said.
As one commenter on the "Great British People" Facebook page put it: "It's probably AI but the fact is that he is right about everything".

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/05/2026

And the tech companies wonder why people hate them so much.

Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/05/2026

Last week, the Trump administration explicitly stated its intention to "neutralize" - its word, not mine - US trans people. Since then I can count on one hand the number of cis people who have even mentioned it. A whole bunch of cis people have talked about trans people demanding too much though.

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AO-BOOOO @faqrules.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

And a Trans woman was fucking murdered last night on a college campus. Your Trans friends and neighbors are literally being targeted by maniacs via state propaganda. It is a fucking nightmare and ending it should be a requirement for any Dem fucking running in the midterms.

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