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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Why would a physical search of Omar’s home in 2026 be relevant to or necessary for an investigation into whether her dad filled out a form incorrectly decades ago?

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

To paraphrase Plato, when you look at the cave wall and see establishment Democrats, they are but shadows of Gavin Newsom.

Headline: Gavin Newsom endorses People 42 to block billionaire tax.

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Me: I pledge my sword! Galadriel: ...I was going to say love me AND DESPAIR Me: oh I gotcha and I'm on board. Do you want this ring or...?

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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Heard about this from my pal @emcandon.bsky.social - a bunch of the MTG folks will be streaming events tomorrow to support @translifeline.org. Go check it out!

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you! That is very helpful!

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Does the trailer capture its tone well? I found the trailer viscerally unpleasant but one never knows how reliable that is.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alito has sees it as intimidation because his most fundamental assumption is that opposing views aren't valid.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Resolved: Professors teaching a 0:1:0 course load on a quarters system should not generalize from their experience to pontificate about teaching, higher education, or really anything but how lucky they are.

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I must admit I don't like it on any of the teams but only the Sounders seem eager to make my eyes bleed.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I make no apologies for making fun of the Sounders, but to the fan waving the massive "trans rights are human rights" flag: you rock.

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why do the Seattle Sounders kits look like a highlighter color glimpsed during a bad trip? #mls

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The real-life versions of the Christmas Adventures Club are just as evil and stupid as you'd think. talkingpointsmemo.com/minipost/a-f...

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A Far-Right Meltdown

A Far-Right Meltdown It usually doesnât take a lot, but Erick Erickson...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

lmao

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Dorian Maffei @dorianmaffei.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some big news dropped today: I'm so excited to announce that I've joined the incredible team at Looking Glass Literary & Media! 🎉

A Publishers Marketplace announcement that says, "Looking Glass Literary & Media: Dorian Maffei has joined as agent. She was previously at Kimberley Cameron & Associates."

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Feature, not bug. Ticket closed.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I can't believe I have to say this: don't tell a trans person "I have no problem with trans people but..."

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My #WorldCon schedule: Friday, 10:30 am: Choose Wisely: Setting is Our First Character Friday, 1:30 pm: Authors in Defiance: Writing as Resistance Saturday, 5 pm: signing at the Tachyon table

Schedule for signings at the Tachyon table on Saturday, August 29th.

Ellen Datlow, 11 am
Sheila Finch, 11
Howard Hendrix, 1 pm
Dave Smeds, 1
Carrie Vaughn, 2
Victor Ladis Schultz, 2
Samantha Mills, 3
Mary G. Thompson, 3
Tim Powers, 4
Fran Wilde, 4
Charlie Jane Anders, 5
Izzy Wasserstein, 5

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It wasn't too bad. But I took about 400 psychic damage.

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today, on the first day of class, my hair got caught in a pencil sharpener while I was teaching. I need to emphasize that a) this really happened and b) I was not sharpening a pencil. I'm gonna go walk into the sea.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes. Not so swyvinge evil.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We are less than one (1) Club Serpentine backer way from getting QUIET HOURS by Esther Alter added to the novella series! And that means we are SO CLOSE to opening for submissions of queer speculative novelettes.

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The problem with this analysis is that fascism relies on aesthetics and an assault on knowledge. When AI makes people throw up their hands and give up on trying to figure out what's real, fascism thrives.

A few years into the era of easy-to-generate AI images, videos, and text, the status quo is a mess, if not quite the crisis predicted by many AI firms and their critics. Generated images and videos have, as many worried, become a force in politics, but the assault on democracy has been mostly aesthetic rather than strategically deceptive, contributing to a general sense of uncertainty and unreality; likewise, across platforms where people congregate online, automated content has often behaved like rapidly advancing spam, glutting cultural spaces and marketplaces and exacerbating their worst tendencies. (When generative AI was new, the prevailing political fears were of high-stakes deepfakes and targeted disinformation. So far, what we’ve gotten is slopaganda.)

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I got tired of hot takes, so in my newsletter I wrote about what Nolan's The Odyssey can teach us about narrative structure. mailchi.mp/d7ebdfc48775...

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The Odyssey and Narrative: How the Trick is Done

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I can't tell you how much this made my mouth water.

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Me, learning about the Sex Purge movie: so, uh, I guess the straights still aren't okay?

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Dani Cervera @danicervera.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Holy cow, could it be? I think I've caught back up on Magic Story. Huzzah! Spirits of the Abzan by @izzyxen.bsky.social was great, both as a heartwarming glance into one of modern Tarkir's most important leaders and as insight into a very interesting and unexplored era of the plane's history.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We have made our initial goal! Onward to stretch goals! (Also if you are a sick freak that likes video content, please click through to our first update where @pegasusunder.bsky.social has a rad video answering some questions about THESE HOLLOW BODIES)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Another example of the lunacy of thinking discrimination against a marginalized group won't affect you if you're not part of that group bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

we require everyone's gay dollars please process them here (if you have straight dollars we will take them as well but the exchange rate is weird so you should give us twice as many)

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Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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