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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 9h

D is a real one - give if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/hyw7j-help...

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 14h

An essential book.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Greg @woolybearg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finished up and highly recommend.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026

Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Vachenzo - The Maine Enby @vachenzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Adding on some projects I love to this thread: Queer History Boston (formerly The History Project) is a great community collection. University of Southern Maine hosts Maine's largest LGBTQ+ collection all donated by community members and has a ton of digitized resources.

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been waiting for this book for so long!

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 23/09/2026

They capitulated, they complied, and the result is that it just emboldens these people. The state representative immediately crowed and celebrated on social media. "We did it again!!… My X feed continues doing more oversight than all the rest of TxLege… combined!!" *ugh*

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the 1970s, the Canadian Gay Archives was approached by the Ontario Archives to take over some of the CGA's material. It was a moment of deep reflection. In the end, they chose to reject the offer out of fear that a homophobic government would decide to eliminate it, a la Nazi Germany.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The entire presidential television press pool — Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN — has agreed to suspend coverage in the wake of Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House

newrepublic.com

Major TV Networks Band Together in Boycott After Trump’s Ban on CNN

The five major TV networks are joining forces after Trump’s press ban.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump's ban on MSNOW, CNN, and Politico is not only part of the autocratic playbook, but the timing is no coincidence. Trump is well in the autocratic backfire process, thus, entire media outlets he sees as threats must be banished. This is a moment of reckoning for America.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"[My son] said that if he had not received gender-affirming care, he would be dead. ... Parents are very angry, and scared."

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...

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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh no I said the word "blame" too many times in a row and now it no longer feels like a word at all

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Teaser reel for my big investigation, out tomorrow!

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

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Bari’s ‘60’ Bust

Bari Weiss blew up “60 Minutes," ostensibly to create a better show. Instead, her revamped premiere just suffered its worst debut ratings of the 21st century—what one longtime TV executive told Status...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started

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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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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

RIP to the guy who convinced us all that Tina Turner was tall

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 05/05/2026

I believe last time me and Sybil and Casey all read together was 2014 in the gay center in Los Angeles after a road trip from San Francisco of such epic proportions I wrote a sonnet sequence about it This time we are all driving up from Ohio instead but it will be just like this again I am sure:

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California Encomia by Cat Fitzpatrick - The Poetry Project

Cat Fitzpatrick, Sophia Shalmiyev, Michelle Tea Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Tickets The Road, The Hills Finding the road is always hard. We’re wrong Then wrong again. I blame the GPS. We are a car of ...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's crazy to me that this is not leading the New York Times, NBC News, CNN, etc. If you're that numb, maybe think about a field other than journalism.

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New Behind the Bastards 🧪 This week Robert begins our exploration of Francis Galton, a groundbreaking explorer and statistician who also invented modern racism as we know it by creating Eugenics. @iwriteok.bsky.social @moviehooligan.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/behindthebas...

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When authors you love love your book that’s a great day ❤️

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ooph. Cassandra Wilson‘s “Harvest Moon” is THE definitive version. When I learned she was a Trump supporter it became too hard to listen to, and I always hoped she’d have a change of mind one day but now that chance is gone m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHbc...

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Harvest Moon

YouTube video by Cassandra Wilson - Topic

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The iconic weeping willow trees outside the Kennedy Center have been cut down by Trump.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/09/2026

who won?

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Every time outlets publish the chat logs of people who committed violence or suicide after talking to AI I am, like, so consumed with rage and disgust I feel physically sick. The people making these things should never get a good night's sleep again in their lives

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tomorrow, I go full time in my new position as a Lead Historian with the American LGBTQ+ Museum. I've decided to end my Patreon so that my subscribers can support folks who need it more! But I'm going to launch a newsletter via @buttondown.com instead. Sign up here: buttondown.com/hughryan

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Queer history, museums, books, and NYC

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/08/2026

While you were sleeping, Google Maps made the change… 🇺🇸 Users in the United States see Lake America 🇨🇦 Users in Canada continue to see Lake Ontario This was a choice, not a requirement. Google chose to follow the updated U.S. federal geographic database following Trump’s EO.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

i will delivering my final lecture, “our work is love,” on insta live (thrasherxy, same as here) on sunday, 30 august 7 pm - athens/palestine/kampala/joburg 5 pm - london noon - nyc 11 am - chicago 9 am - los angeles

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Critics of Mamdani's positions and statements are quoted roughly twice as often as his supporters... Almost entirely absent, however, are the voices of Palestinian New Yorkers. In the 19 stories reviewed by Hell Gate, Palestinian New Yorkers are quoted exactly twice" hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-crit...

hellgatenyc.com

Mamdani Is Critical of Israel, and the Times Is on It

Who does the Gray Lady quote on this important issue? Plus, more news for your weekend.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

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