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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The BBC joins @theguardian.com in censoring pro-trans content.
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Jade Whirl @jadewhirl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is true, and always was. The therapist my parents sent me to in 1994 was talking to me about anal sex and kept trying to "arouse me." I was around eight years old; he was a full-fledged clinical therapist and started my conversion therapy.
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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 10/10/2026
The supposed rationale for throwing trans people under the bus is that you gain more voters, even if you lose the trans people, so if that's not true you're just doing it for the love of the game
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/10/2026
Following along @mzakharuk.bsky.social's reread of @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl". Barely any cis people understand the rampant rape culture inherent to the medical gatekeeping of trans healthcare. These "professionals" know the power they hold over trans people and often abuse it.
> In the 1970s, Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna came across several instances in which gatekeepers were rather blatant about this practice: “A clinician during a panel session on transsexualism at the 1974 meeting of the American Psychological Association said that he was more convinced of the femaleness of a male-to-female transsexual if she was particularly beautiful and was capable of evoking in him those feelings that beautiful women generally do. Another clinician told us that he uses his own sexual interest as a criterion for deciding whether a transsexual is really the gender she/he claims.”
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
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Mlle Defarge ♿ @hearing-girl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
lol, why on earth would fewer youth be willing to tell the administrators of government surveys that they're queer?? it's a mystery for the ages....
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The religious right is steadily expanding its definition of what is sexual — and restricting what it deems acceptable in public spaces. Tech companies, in want of less oversight, are taking the hint. The deplatforming that started with sex workers / kink / trans has come for gay bars.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A regular reminder that the biases in AI are really messed up: A friend of mine in Taiwan was planning to go with her husband & their 2 kids to Taipei Pride (the largest Pride in ⁠East Asia) & so she searched for family-friendly activities...and AI told her it was "not appropriate to bring kids"!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 04/10/2026
The thing about the AI race with China is that if the US “loses” all we’re left with is incredibly powerful open weights models from China that we can run privately on our own hardware www.theverge.com/tech/1003929...
theverge.com
Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
Nothing drums up support like fearmongering.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i've thought about this probably once a month for the past few years
atlantic cover

 
Your Child Says she's trans. she wants hormone and surgery. she's 13. by jesse singal 

buried in the top right corner is We're Not Prepared For The Next Pandemic. 

the issue is from 2019 we're not prepared for the next pandemic top right corner of the magazine cover, small print
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
It’s easy to conflate “unlikable” with “a problem who has to be taken care of,” when it comes to women who get on the wrong side of (charismatic) misogynists (of any gender identity).
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Of the crop of elected Democrats at the Federal level, Chris Van Hollen is the only person who has led and taken any political risks. That's it.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sometimes trans girls will be like, "yeah i mean i have male passing privilege, i've been perceived and treated as a man by society" and then casually reveal experiencing such a catastrophic severity of gendered abuse & sexual violence their whole lives that it will break your heart
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I genuinely think that a hugely underrated thing which poisons our politics is that a significant chunk of liberals just want to redeem their conservative relatives, and this has made them…incredibly naive.
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 15/09/2026
blues: we are going to move right on trans issues because we have judged the votes of trans voters to be worthless some trans ppl: because our votes are worthless, we will not vote blues: what the fuck? you better provide your worthless votes or we all get screwed
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
i am BEGGING for folks to please stop talking like there's on a 12 pm MSNOW panel between the Wayfair and Bluechew ads. just fix your hearts. please. PLEASE. you can not control politics by being a cold, amoral analyst of whether or not people deserve dignity and peace. THEY DO. FIX YOUR HEARTS!
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
All of a sudden we're not talking about the widely popular bipartisan opposition to massive data center buildouts. I wonder why 🤔
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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What's lost in the Talarico stuff is he's now getting asked about trans issues way more since he's moderated on his view, and they're hitting the ads harder than ever right now. The moment people smell blood they want more, the answer is always deflect to an opponents weakness. This is 2026 lol.
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/09/2026
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...
wired.com
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Your Friend Temporary Southerner @trt311.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Welp, this is the limits of social gospel Christianity and why you should be a liberation theologian if you’re gonna be a Christian in public life
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Getting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ‘AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ‘I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 03/09/2026
said it before on here but one of the bleakest moments of my 2020s was asking abled cishet white guys “when was the last time someone told you ‘no’ about something in a way you had to respect” & they all groused about masking, vaccines, or a flavor of what used to be called ‘political correctness.’
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Andie @itsandie.me · 31/08/2026
This is the real epistemic vandalism of Ray Blanchard on *all* women's sexuality IMO. Most women fit his definition of AGP. Reframing proper fem sexuality as being male-centric portrays women's arousal at our own sexual existence as creepy intrusive male-gaze stuff, leaving no story for queer women.
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 31/08/2026
I don’t like the meta of it all and I’m not a slasher head and the media commentary is funny albeit boring — but the two dialogues between Billie and Kris about sexual completion by way of voyeurism and fear touch on something profound about female sexuality I haven’t seen articulated before
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Atkinson @maddavenport.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yes YES
"The notion that God is mostly the errand runner for the empire ... has captured organized religion across the board in America," Meeks writes in Bridging the Rivers of Difference. "Until it wakes up and decides who is really going to be its master, the problem will continue."
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
these types of “pro-trans” people (they’d probably even say it like that) are also subject to the vicissitudes and changing priorities of the upper class, and will always naturally side with those oppressing us because it’s their jobs & we’re not the first minority to lose them.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
these types of people are policy staff who think bipartisan compromise is possible if you just abandon “trans women are women”. these people are journalists who write about discrimination and then give equal sourcing weight to anti-science think tanks with obscure financing.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
there’s a kind of dc beltway type who wants to help the trans community because they personally know some of us and believe it’s the right thing to do but the only way they know how to help is with stuff that says “well, actually” about whether we exist bc that’s their jobs.
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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“In places like California, the governors worked to get the National Guard out. But I need people to know that this is still our reality. Going to the movies, they’re there. Grocery store, they’re there. All parts of day-to-day life now feature armed supervision.”
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I tried my friend's GLASSES and I could not see AT ALL - yet BIG SPECTACLE makes millions of kids wear them!!
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Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today marks one year of the occupation of DC by federal forces, which has resulted in injury and trauma for DC residents, countless families separated by ICE, and the killing by federal law enforcement of Julian Bailey and Nolberto Meza, for which there has been no transparency or accountability...
Press release from Janeese Lewis George, page 1. Text: Today marks one year of the occupation of DC by federal forces, which has resulted in injury and trauma for DC residents, countless families separated by ICE, and the killing by federal law enforcement of Julian Bailey and Nolberto Meza, for which there has been no transparency or accountability. DC has the highest rate in the country of children separated from their parents. Federal agents are harassing our youth. 

And the National Guard’s presence will cost federal taxpayers more than $1.4 billion dollars, which could be spent instead on housing, healthcare, education, and much more. This is on top of the millions DC is losing from the decrease in tourism and the firing of thousands of federal workers. Press release from Janeese Lewis George, page 1. Text: Amidst these attacks, the people of DC have been rising up, speaking out, and organizing to protect their neighbors and city. Thousands of us have marched the streets, and many of us organized school walking buses and mutual aid. We’ve been mounting legal battles and winning. 

As we continue the fight to win local autonomy and DC statehood, I will use every tool at my disposal as mayor to demand that these federal troops go home to serve their own communities and not be used for political theater and domestic military occupation.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I mean, there's really no hiding anymore that the purpose of The Atlantic is to ease centrists into gladly welcoming and accepting the rise of fascism.
The Atlantic - In Defense of Flock: Police cameras can help make the criminal-just system both fairer and less punitive - if we let them. By Charles Fain Lehman
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I honestly despair of encountering a man who treats feminism as an intellectual tradition with the same kind of historical progress and internal dissension as other traditions, rather than as a specter of his own fears and fantasies. Haven't seen one yet.
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Andie @itsandie.me · 08/08/2026
If I was walking down the street and saw this I'd assume 1. that's the name of the building and this is the leasing office, 2. they sell overpriced retro-styled digital timepieces powered by AI, or finally maybe 3. it's some sort of insurance
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hockey bear dot space @hockeybear.space · 08/08/2026
Do coffee places usually get Series B funding? Honest question
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WatchHouse Lands $14.8 Million Series B Round with Eyes on U.S.
Roast Magazine’s Daily Coffee News is proud to maintain advertising partnerships with many of the world’s leading coffee companies, yet maintains a focus on fair and objective editorial content, with ...
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404 Media @404media.co · 04/08/2026
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
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The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects...
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the Education Department has finalized a rule that will force schools to prove that the loans students are taking out are paying off. 

Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music, and cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest. For-profit programs will also be hit particularly hard.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 30/07/2026
I remain genuinely shocked that the American public saw what USA Gymnastics did for over a decade and then let a bunch of people persuade them that all school level sports k-12 should be under the same rules as the U.S. Olympic ecosystem because trans people asked to play on teams where they’d fit.
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ACLU of the District of Columbia @aclu-dc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
BREAKING: We filed a legal claim on behalf of retired Army captain Anna King, who was assaulted by National Guard troops outside her D.C. home. The filing is part of a coordinated effort by the ACLU and its affiliates to hold federal officials accountable for severe violations of people’s rights.
A red graphic with a screenshot of a legal claim filed by ACLU-D.C. on behalf of retired Army veteran Anna King who was assaulted by National Guard troops at her D.C. home. A red “filed” stamp is overlayed the screenshot. The ACLU-D.C. logo is in the bottom left corner. A red quote graphic from retired Army captain and ACLU-D.C. client Anna King with white text that reads: “The troops who attacked me need to be held accountable, and every one of the thousands of armed National Guard members who continue to patrol our streets, our grocery stores, our Metro stations need to leave immediately before they hurt anyone else.” 

 

The ACLU-D.C. logo is in the bottom left corner. A red quote graphic from ACLU-D.C. senior staff attorney Michael Perloff with white text that reads: “National Guard troops should be helping Americans during true emergencies, not violently attacking a decorated combat veteran at her home in the nation's capital. These troops should be held accountable for their blatant disregard for Ms. King’s rights.” 

 

The ACLU-D.C. logo is in the bottom left corner.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/07/2026
The Omni ICE trip has made a second removal stop, to Bangladesh. Passengers have been shackled for at least 29 hours.
An FR24 map showing N846AX landing in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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