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Ian MacDonald

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
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Travis @captainofart.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We’re so fucked
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of? 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/08/2025
These are the bastards telling you they care about women's sports.
Instagram post by Donald Trump Jr. showing a digitally altered image of Donald Trump standing on the White House roof, looking down at a basketball court below. On the court, several women’s basketball players are in action, wearing dark uniforms with yellow trim. The basketball hoop, scoreboard, and court markings are visible, with the scoreboard showing “07” and “00:47” remaining. The image is watermarked with “@GRANDOLDMEMES” and “X/Albert.” Caption reads: “Posted without further comment.” followed by laughing emojis.
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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The trans panic is maddening, because trans people are expected to defend ourselves with logic science and any sign of emotion is a failure. And yet the anti-trans campaign is nothing but appeals to emotion unburdened by facts, precedent, or empathy.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 07/08/2025
The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/08/2025
We're watching the Trump administration systematically purge trans people from public life and the fucking media just hand waives it away as being about sports. This is why the Dem capitulation on this is so dangerous. It obscures and legitimizes what is being done to us.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/08/2025
The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban. The media is hiding what's happening here.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The United States, both Biden and Trump Administrations, are complicit in this genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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More than 60,000 people killed in Gaza war, local health officials say
The toll announced by the Gaza Health Ministry is likely to be an undercount as Israel pursues its war and starvation spreads.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Israel won’t allow journalists embedded with Jordanian airdrops to film what they’re seeing outside the plane windows, so the BBC’s Bowen describes what he’s seeing: “Communities in northern Gaza that I knew well…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
Assal Rad @AssalRad
BBC's Jeremy Bowen: Israelis don't want us to film outside the window at the devastation in Gaza...communities in the north of Gaza are flat, there's nothing left...Israel will not allow reporters, like myself, to enter Gaza to report the story and they don't want us to see it
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 29/07/2025
President Donald Trump continued his Profit-Off-The-Presidency World Tour this week with a stop in Scotland, where he opened a new private golf course. You, dear taxpayer, footed the bill for most of the trip. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/07/2025
The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving. We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share! www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
liberals are in this weird position of needing to believe that kamala lost because the left drew a red line at genocide, but also needing to believe that kamala didn't lose because she supported genocide, which explains why they are Being Like This
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
“Nearly a third of Gazans had not eaten for several days, the U.N.’s World Food Program said this week.”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/07/2025
what this is, above all else, is the biggest green light we’ve ever seen for Dem primary challenges the Dem base is deeply, deeply angry at the party for not doing more to oppose Trump and the door is wide open for anyone who is serious about doing more on that front
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
When South Park has more integrity than Columbia 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/06/2025
Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 28/06/2025
hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵
Rep. Dan Crenshaw tweets

GOOD NEWS: after the rogue parliamentarian struck my amendment to ban taxpayer funding for transgender treatments, Republican
Senators put it BACK in the bill anyway. This means they are daring the Democrats to
vote against it in a "point of order." It's a good bet to take. For one thing, nothing to lose so why not try? But second, I believe the Democrats won't want to pick this battle. This is a very very popular provision. I think the Democrats know they've lost the battle. The science isn't on their side and neither is the public.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Ok that’s it this is a concerted group effort there is no denying it. The Dem establishment got together in a back room and said “how are we gonna stop this man from making change in the party he is too dangerously progressive and popular.” And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This country is thoroughly screwed for at least a generation. People haven't taken stock of how much damage has already been done. 2026 and 2028 won't magically fix this. It's going to be a long walk.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Brett Meiselas: They’re just smearing the guy with all of these things, right? And, and, and let me just show you a photo of the Republican candidate… looks like a communist dictator
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Brett Meiselas: Criticizing that government, criticizing Netanyahu, criticizing what's happening in Gaza does not make you anti-Semitic… just like criticizing Donald Trump does not make you anti-American.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New Rule: Have every Mamdani critic, including Dems and Republicans, define socialist, communist, jihad, intifada, and Sharia whenever they appear in front of the press. Just try it out, corporate media. It'll be great for clips and headlines, I promise you.
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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A man that's been president for a total of more than 4.5 years still believes those claiming asylum are people being released from mental health facilities.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Imagine a Democrat calling for the deportation of a Jewish Republican. You can’t. It would never happen. Our political and media elites talk nonstop about antisemitism while totally normalizing and amplifying the worst and most vicious Islamophobia. Sickening:
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
If we hit our goal ($50k to go!) by Sunday night, we’ll make merch of me flipping off a transphobe. Do your part here: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...
Libs Of Chicago @Libs_OfChicago
This is @KatAbughazaleh flipping off one of her potential constituents for having a different point of view on men dressed as women reading to children at the library that taxpayers fund.

[picture of me showing my middle finger to a lady who was calling the crowd predators and pedophiles outside of a Drag Queen Story Hour event]
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
never forget that mamdani’s campaign started to surge after calling tom homan a bitch to his face
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome
Fox News screen showing Mamdani’s platform, next to a photo of him
HOUSING
AFFORDABILITY
• FREEZE THE RENT
• BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING
CREATING CITY-OWNED GROCERY STORES
• FARE FREE BUSES
LGBTQIA + PROTECTIONS
LABOR
• EXPANDING AND PROTECTING
GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE CITYWIDE
• MAKING NYC AN LGBTGIA+
SANCTUARY CITY
RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $30 BY 2030
TRUMP-PROOFING NYC
END ICE
COOPERATION
ZOHRAN FOR NEW YORK CITY
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Dems talk a lot about MAGA voting against their own interests but just as much damage if not more has been done by Dems voting FOR their own interests; maintaining privilege and the status quo.
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
What message does it send, especially to women, that the democrats will pull out all the stops to rally around a disgraced fucking rapist rather than let a socialist win a single mayoral election? I’m so tired of this shit dude
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2025
The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us. They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025
The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/05/2025
Remigration is a term coined by far right neo nazi parties in Europe. This is literally a neo nazi term.
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I am in awe over just how fucking stupid this is. It pleases nobody. Trans women have any victories invalidated. Cis competitors who actually care about the sport don't want a consolation prize and ones that are bigots will whine just as hard about how they should have won the real thing anyways.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"Denouncing Biden’s run now ⁠that he’s a political nonentity⁠—out of office and perhaps very near death⁠—isn’t taking a brave stand against the internal culture of the Democratic Party. It’s a reflection of it"
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The Democrats Are Having a False Reckoning Over Joe Biden
Party elites are considerably more responsible for their woeful state of affairs than the former president.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This man is no one's hero except for those who are committed to spreading hate and division. And, it's important to note he has nothing to do with the overwhelming majority of diverse people who want a ceasefire and an end to occupation. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Affidavit: Suspect in D.C. Jewish museum shooting confessed to killings
Investigators are trying to authenticate an online document posted by an X account linked to the accused gunman, according to two law enforcement officials.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
You're seeing America kamikaze itself into a brick wall. It didn't have to be this way. But greed and racism, our two sins, will be our downfall. Too many people still with their hands in the sand.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Its a white supremacist regime promoting white supremacist conspiracies. Call it for what it is. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump confronts South Africa's president in Oval Office, pushes false claims of white genocide
Trump hosted South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House amid tensions between the two nations over the U.S. resettlement of white South Africans.
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Good morning, some King for you as we talk graduations and speeches and decorum in a time of ceaseless genocidal war.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. , LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL (1963)
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is so far over the line it’s disorienting.
Microsoft has disabled the ICC prosecutor’s email account.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Now HERE’S a commencement address you’ll want to watch this weekend. 🔥 @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social www.macalester.edu/news/2025/04...
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Music icon Bob Mould to deliver keynote address for 2025 Commencement
Mould, who formed the punk rock band Hüsker Dü with two friends during his first year at Macalester in 1978, will also receive an honorary degree.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2025
Oh hell no. Seems like Harvard is putting a trial balloon out there of cutting a deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Philanthropy = "the private allocation of the stolen social wage," Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I am thrilled to announce that today we are launching our High School Public Service Grant program! Our campaign wants to use our resources -- our money, platform, and volunteers -- to help young people develop and execute a project that benefits their community. Ninth District teens, apply today!
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Jonathan Keller @jkeller5.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
We’re all Zach Thomas
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