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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@ianlekus.bsky.social
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Global LGBTQI+ human rights activist | Historian, Writer, Coach, Consultant | “Queer & Present Dangers,” forthcoming @ UNC Press | Star Trek, soccer, cats, bears, otters, puns, photography | Washington, DC

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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well, I’m going to take a closer look at Beshear, given the pathetic behavior of so many Dem candidates these days. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I had to laugh…
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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hell yeah fuck yeah. (Sousa is a vicious anti-trans activist)
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Silverbeard🛸 @silverbeard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Bye, Tim. And thanks for the memories ❤️
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Tim Curry: Uncorrupted Space
ALT: Tim Curry: Uncorrupted Space
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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If AI wrote your book, then you're not a writer, and it's not your book. Hope that clears this up! Support REAL writers!
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Will Burr @willburrboy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Remembering the 1 person killed and 29 injured in the attack on Berlin's CSD Pride celebration. When one in our community is attacked, we all are attacked.
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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
LGBTQI+ folks -- anywhere, but especially in the Global South / East / Majority -- please fill this out! Takes 2-5 minutes & helps my colleagues assess the lived experiences of LGBTQI+ folks in as many countries as possible.
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Charles Boehm ⚽️ @cboehm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"[Infantino's] attempts to portray himself as a champion of the global south look absurd in the wake of the Somalian referee Omar Artan being denied entry to the USA while around 80% of visa applications from African fans and journalists were rejected..."
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Rhonda Mawhood Lee @rhondamawhoodlee.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"...the Times stands out as the only news outlet to run more than [3] stories on the...decision without quoting a person identified...as transgender or...the representative of a transgender rights organization." Enraging; poor journalism. Thanks, @assignedmedia.org. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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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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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Can’t even trash talk a Belgian. “You Tintin. Go eat some chocolate”
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This never stopped the GOP before. 👇
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Watching the USMNT go out like this after the way Canada and Mexico fought for their lives really sucks.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/07/2026
The only game the Knicks lost was the one Trump was at. This man is a sports curse incarnate.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/07/2026
Trump gets involved with the world cup and corruptly gets a suspended player reinstated. Now, the US team is being humiliated by Belgium. Everything Trump touches turns to shit.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The second person that ICE "warned" about their protected speech has filed a First Amendment lawsuit. The complaint, linked in this story, does a nice job making ICE look both menacing and incompetent www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...
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Man sues DHS after agents tracked him down for sending a scathing email to ICE
Federal agents tried to track David Streever to his home and hotel, and left him a warning notice that a critical email he sent the former head of ICE may have been illegal. Now he's suing.
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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Plenty of USMNT jerseys around including this custom one IMPEACH kit for Donald Trump. Trump at center of a World Cup controversy, calling Infantino in hopes of overturning Flo Balogun’s red card suspension. FIFA insists he didn’t have any influence. Hasn’t stopped Trump from taking credit today.
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Silverbeard🛸 @silverbeard.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dirty move, Metsola. Bypassing EU Parliament scrutiny to bring mass surveillance of private messages while killing any chance of a targeted child-protection framework... as if child protection has ever been their goal here. Go here and fight this overreach: fightchatcontrol.eu
fightchatcontrol.eu
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“Don’t confuse bigotry with resistance to people who don’t look like me or to people with other religions/no religion.” Gurrrl, no.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Fauci needs to sue this man into bankruptcy, if only to dissuade the other inveterate liars of this administration.
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Silverbeard🛸 @silverbeard.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
All the love for my Macedonian and Bosnian friends. balkaninsight.com/2026/06/22/l...
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LGBT Pride Marches in Bosnia, North Macedonia Offer Messages of Hope
Hundreds joined marches in Sarajevo and Skopje, emphasising the ongoing struggles faced by LGBTQ+ communities despite steadily growing acceptance.
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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Perhaps if human rights defenders were asked to compromise for the hosts in Qatar, the visitors can compromise in Seattle? Oh, wait, authoritarians never compromise. (That applies to our domestic ones as well.)
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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
When the ultimate arbiter of laws decides that the rule of law is optional, we’re all fucked. Seriously, any Dem in 2028 who doesn’t back term limits and an expanded Court is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Despicable.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This Thomas concurrence would roll the clock back to 1936, when the Supreme Court issued a similar ruling in Carter v. Carter Coal Company -- one of the big decisions that led FDR to embrace court-packing.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Why "appears"? Spence didn't shake hands with Partey. Also, much more seriously,"pleaded not guilty to seven charges of rape" - no: "was charged and will be tried for seven charges of rape, which he denies", which is not the same thing at all. This is not balance, this is cowardice.
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World Cup 2026: Djed Spence appears not to shake hands with Thomas Partey before England v Ghana
Footage circulating on social media appears to show England's Djed Spence not shaking hands with Ghana's Thomas Partey before their World Cup group match in Boston.
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Alp Beck @alpbeck.com · 23/06/2026
Surely #ChildMolesters, killers & crooks in #Texas haven't been hit this hard. Don't like dissent & protesters? Move to another country. #democracy. Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/06/2026
"People accuse me of being a political actor, contorting the menu until it tells me what I want to hear. But that shows a misunderstanding of my process in this booth. I’m merely an impartial vessel through which the original intent of the TGI Fridays menu can flow uninhibited."
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Clarence Thomas Offers an Originalist Reading of the TGI Fridays Menu
“People sometimes accuse me of being a political actor, contorting the menu until it tells me what I want to hear. But that shows a fundamental misunderstand...
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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 19/06/2026
The way this is spreading through our tailgate is wild.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Fascists are not welcome at this party. Get lost
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Jason Anderson @jasondcsoccer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Everyone at DHS would love to brutalize and deport Balogun and Dest in any other circumstance
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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Most dangerous drinking game ever: drink every time David Beckham appears on tv during the World Cup.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Donald Trump just surrendered to Iran. But my liberal neighbor won't shut about her organic CSA. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hearing reports that Trump's going to hold a second treaty signing at a courthouse in Appomattox County, Virginia?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
#GAsen
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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
phew thank god fifa insisted for hydration breaks at every game so this incredible japan - netherlands second half can be paused for a water break in an indoor stadium
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Yeah, this is my city.
The crowd outside the Kennedy Center, watching the scaffolding being put in place before Trump’s name is removed. A man with an American flag among the crowd outside the Kennedy Center, watching the scaffolding being put in place before Trump’s name is removed. The crowd outside the Kennedy Center, watching the scaffolding being put in place before Trump’s name is removed. Chris outside the Kennedy Center, as people watch the scaffolding be put in place before Trump’s name is removed.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I wonder if Richard Grenell is jealous that more people are willing to stare at the outside wall of the Kennedy Center, waiting to see Trump's name get stripped off, than would ever be willing to go inside to see one of the performances he cobbled together.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide
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Trump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rules
A federal judge ordered the ​Trump administration on ‌Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on ​topics like slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationw...
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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We all knew FIFA’s motivations for the hydration break was financial and not “player safety” but my god how was it over exploited this fast.
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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 11/06/2026
I've gone to sleep before the Knicks comeback and right before both of the crazy comebacks in the NHL Finals this past week. If you want a historically great game over the next couple of weeks, bribe my one-year-old to get up at 5 AM
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Uncle Runt 🔜 🏒 and 🛏️ @tradierunt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Fukuyama: We have reached the end of history. History: It's 2026, and an official branch of the Ukrainian armed forces is tweeting about how drone striking Andrew Tate while he's clout farming with the Russian military would be fun, but is sadly a war crime. Get bent old man.
Ukrainian USF tweet: "Ok, fellas, we see all your tags and we get it.

But.
Being a shitty person doesn't make someone a legitimate military target under international law. Climbing on a tank for internet clout isn't enough to become a combatant.

Do something that actually qualifies — then we can talk. Until then, we'll keep our drones for real military targets 😉"
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simonyyz @simonyyz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
So glad that @jeetheer.bsky.social has written this obituary for Marjane Satrapi. I can't think of anyone better to provide the thoughtful and informed appreciation that her work deserved. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
thenation.com
Marjane Satrapi’s Rebellious Art
The radical legacy of the cartoonist and filmmaker who created Persepolis.
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ZaZon 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🐶🍁☔️🏃‍♀️ @zazon9253.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Justin Horneker @hornekerjustin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
And who can argue with the results!
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Charlotte, FL. Portland, SW Washinegon. Sandy Uta…ho. Also, apparently, the East Coast has been obliterated by a meteor storm or the Canary Islands volcano even though I’m here in DC. Please add to the list. And I swear I will repost this if the original gets taken down.
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Ian Lekus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“Happy Pride Month from @patagonia.com” Seriously, this might be the most unforced error I’ve ever seen in how a corporation nukes decades of goodwill and corporate social responsibility. Drop the lawsuit. (And you should probably fire your comms team while you’re at it.)
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