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And these laws are not only harmful to the civil liberties of adults, they make minors less safe, condition them to hand their identity documents to anyone who asks for them, and give abusive parents a lever of control over the only third space kids have left. They're highly damaging!

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

back in the olden days DOJ would investigate a particular crime it believed had been committed, rather than just poking around to see if anything was wrong

The investigation is seeking information to see where it leads, the source said. For example, if records, representations related to age and immigration status contain false information, that would provide material for investigators to scrutinize further. They could also examine communications related to such matters.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

New Marist poll of Texas finds 61% say undocumented immigrants should stay in US if meet certain requirements. Only 35% say they should leave. A majority of noncollege white men (Trump base) says stay. Supports my case (see piece/thread below) that Trump opened way for new pro-immigrant consensus

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 14/10/2026

Oh, thank you so much Sean! ❤️ If anyone would like to test drive GREEK KEY, here are five free copies!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

girl please be so serious, how do you “vet” someone for the masked secret police murder and kidnapping squad designed to terrorize people of color that they want the job at all is disqualifying

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026

that’s right

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JamesV1971 @jamesv1971.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Proud to be the 1,106th 😎 on @BackerKit for Cypher—Advanced!. @montecookgames.com

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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

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Joy @joybella.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

YES. Most sexual assault is perpetrated by people known to the victim. There is no spooky ass boogeyman, just a regular man surrounded by clueless, complicit ones.

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Joy @joybella.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

Slavery

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

IF or WHEN the dems have the majority in both Houses We the People have to be up in their shit, on their asses, screaming at them like they owe us money Remember, Trump was a one term POTUS...and now we're back in the shit. Because nothing changed, nothing really got DONE. Accountability.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We really need to stop treating Chait as serious. He's a lagger on 50% of what he writes. He's nuts on the other 50%.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 03/10/2026

Two more data points: husband and I got flu and COVID shots Friday morning. He went to bed a little early with a sore arm and woke up perfectly fine. Just a sore arm for me. Things are spiking here in CA so I’m happy to re-up and enjoy all my autumnal plans

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unfortunately, that ciggie he always had was no prop. He was in deep. Dude put away multiple packs a day and got taken out WAY too young at 50. Don’t smoke, gang.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, the new multistate lawsuit against abortion providers was, shockingly, assigned to a Trump appointee, Judge James Cain.

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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...

In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of my big takeaways from #MeToo was that the primary problem was never that men in positions of power didn’t believe victims. It was that they thought sexual violence is something women deserve.

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Rose/T.A. Summers @rosepetals1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Going in tandem with Alex's post, I always post this video with Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop talking about the concept herself, especially since she wrote the book about it. She was talking about children and reading, SPECIFICALLY. youtu.be/_AAu58SNSyc?...

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Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors

YouTube video by Reading Rockets

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026

I have tried to be incredibly real with myself and everyone that even a blue wave of epic proportions doesn't mean much is better. My entire hopes for the next two years are to stop the worst bleeding and to put the fear of consequences in every fucking heart--including Dems who feel forgiving.

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's okay I'm sure Will Stancil has a chart that says he's actually doing fine.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The kid puts up with years of dysfunction from a shitty parent, and then, one day, finally understands they would never change/would never care. So, they cut their losses and save themselves. But "she cut contact over a haircut" makes the kid sound crazy, so that becomes the parent's story.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it fascinating that so many estranged parents view the estrangement as an incident, not as a process. So it's forums full of Boomers going "She stopped talking to me because I said her haircut was bad! She's so UNREASONABLE!", when, in reality, they've been shitting on their kid for decades.

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Golden Lasso Games @goldenlassogames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did you miss your chance to take to the stars? We're still accepting late pledges for Starscape, a sci-fi #ttrpg about journeying through space, bonding through adversity, and becoming a found-family. www.kickstarter.com/...

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JamesV1971 @jamesv1971.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Proud to be the 627th 😎 on @BackerKit for Doodling as a Hobby. @howardtayler.bsky.social

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Years ago. Years and years ago,ffs.

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JamesV1971 @jamesv1971.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Proud to be the 662nd 😎 on @BackerKit for Dark Conspiracy – A Horror RPG in the Modern Age. @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social

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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Meta's new AI agent wanted my passport info. Not to help me. To train on me. Actually, it wanted everything: bank accounts, email inboxes, ID info. No surprise coming from Meta. But always worth reminding readers that AI automations come with major privacy risks. www.wired.com/story/metas-...

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Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Briefly detained” = beat half to death

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/09/2026

People keep telling me "oh but they can see how this impacts them in their own backyard" and like I'm sorry but I live in rural Alabama, I can see how 8,000 GOP policy decisions impact all of us every day. But usually the white conservatives are selectively oblivious because (usually) racism.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Democracy depends on a fearless and free press. Without press freedom, we do not truly live in a free society. This is why I urge the news media to boycott the White House in response to Trump's ban on CNN, MS Now, and Politico. Giving in to tyranny only invites more of it.

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Golden Lasso Games @goldenlassogames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Decuma works with any #ttrpg system or setting and guides the entire table through the creation of character backstories, locations, NPCs, and more. Grab yours below! goldenlassogames.com...

An ad card for the Decuma deck from Golden Lasso Games.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I assume anyone who points out how small the trans population is doesn’t know any trans people & I guess that’s what it takes to care? Because if you know even ONE trans person, like a person in your life, how can you think about that person and conclude it’s okay if they get thrown under the bus?

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