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Jane Migliara Brigham

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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 13h
Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
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Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
Much of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 13h
Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
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Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
Much of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.
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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 26/09/2026
yeah this guy is one of the top preventing-nuclear-war saints, followed closely behind by Renfrew Christie and co and a few handfuls of others, many we'll never learn about either due to secrecy or safety of their freedom
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2026
I also think social media plays such a huge role in this. On the whole, the existence of social media over the past decade has been a disaster for leftist organizing. Everything becomes performative and creates needless interpersonal conflicts within communities.
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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.
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A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe
Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.
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mistress von toasty @toasty.cx · 22/09/2026
“I’m trans in part because I believe in the hope of a better future. It’s why I do this. It’s why I do anything.” Yes YES, that's it that's the thing right there 🩵 Line one, locked in, very good 🫡
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I still can’t believe Abi thought it was okay to threaten me with the prospect of panel shows
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump Administration Proposes Forced Outing of all Transgender Americans on 2030 Census
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Trump Administration Proposes Forced Outing of all Transgender Americans on 2030 Census
By requiring trans people to identify themselves by their sex assigned at birth, and with a looming threat of prosecution for noncompliance, the Trump Administration is compelling every trans person t...
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
something that really came out of this discussion: labour's anti-trans lurch was so shocking & horrific that it's costing the *democrats* votes
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Cirice Gray @In Her Image out now! @ciricegray.itch.io · 06/09/2026
New study on transgender women hiring discrimination paints an incredibly bleak picture. If you can't stealth and don't pass your callbacks plummet 32% This is only at the resume stage, back when I was still trying I was getting callbacks all the time. I was ghosted or experienced death by panel
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The Cost of Being Seen: Identity, Non-Passing Appearance, and Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender Women
This paper examines whether hiring discrimination against transgender women arises from gender identity, non-cisnormative appearance, or their interaction. In a
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New York Joins Lawsuit Defending Trans Healthcare After Years of Protests
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New York Joins Lawsuit Defending Trans Healthcare After Years of Protests
Joining this lawsuit is the most concrete step towards protecting trans care that the New York Attorney General's Office has taken since Trump entered office last year.
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Roz @rozmilner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh no. Now how will plagiarists get their essays done
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 01/09/2026
1. Have you ever wanted to know the history behind trans people's rights? Well, I made a timeline for it! Introducing Transitics' Timeline of Gender Change Laws, the first ever definitive resource on the subject! Check it out and read the accompanying report here:
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Trans People’s Identities Have Been Legally Recognized for Over 70 Years. Why Has That History Been Forgotten?
Trans people’s right to legal gender recognition is much older than we realize—older than abortion rights, Alaska’s statehood, and the Civil Rights Act. That history just became common knowledge.
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Larry Fitzmaurice @larryfitzmaurice.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Latest newsletter is an extremely in-depth conversation with Lex Walton about her excellent Sub Pop debut, Castration Movie, the Strokes, her brief detransitioning experience, Hipster Runoff, Ariel Pink, millennial nihilism, and MUCH more last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/lex-walton-o...
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Lex Walton on Hipster Runoff, the Strokes, Castration Movie, and the Scourge of Millennial Nihilism
This is a free post from Larry Fitzmaurice's Last Donut of the Night newsletter. Paid subscribers get one or two email-only Baker's Dozens every week featuring music I've been listening to and some cr...
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Battle Against Proposed Estrogen Restrictions Was Fought By The Needle’s Readers
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The Battle Against Proposed Estrogen Restrictions Was Fought By The Needle’s Readers
Anti-trans politics aren’t popular, and they aren't supported by the will of the people.
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What does it do to someone to serve people who hate you?
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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As someone who had the misfortune of reading this McMaster review article during my comps (which focused on, among other things, top surgery & multi-level meta-analysis), here are responses from plastic surgeons discrediting the McMaster review article:
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What does it do to someone to serve people who hate you?
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What does it take to serve a country that has made it clear that it hates you?
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Inside the Mindset of a Trans Woman in the CIA
There aren't many new people like Julia Curlee entering public service, in no small part because we often aren't allowed to work there anymore.
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This show ruled
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Kansas' Investigations of Trans People in Bathrooms Personally Overseen by Democrat Appointee Adam Proffitt
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Kansas' Investigations of Trans People in Bathrooms Personally Overseen by Democrat Appointee Adam Proffitt
There is no statutory requirement that Secretary Proffitt personally investigate all claims, yet his department reserved the power to investigate trans people for him personally.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Finding I have more thoughts on this, which I guess are that the mindset of a person who sees joining the CIA as an act of honorable service to a country that will reward that service is a difficult one for a lot of us to fully comprehend.
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moby dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 18/08/2026
Honestly, I don't think this is the mainstream discovering. I think this is: the direction of the genocidal momentum has been established firmly enough that the media who established it can now afford to run pieces for false balance in order to make their hands appear clean of our blood.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
If your kids find out that all it would have taken for them to transition early was for you to have broken the rules, and they find out you didn't do that, they will never forgive you.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 17/08/2026
Hey hey Bluesky, announcing my next book, hitting shelves near you the next time someone crashes out on here and posts through it!
Robert A. Pape's "Bombing to Win" edited to be titled Posting to Win, written by me. Subtitled "Epic Posting on Apps for Sports" with the bombs dropping from the B52 crudely replaced by photoshopped Bluesky logos.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
today in cultural decline gambling eclipses arts and entertainment combined film box office $8.87B recorded music $11.5B live music $18.51B books $14.6B museums $16.4B add it up: $70B less than half of the $166B Americans wagered on sports fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
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Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Specifically male decline: there’s a reason 19c working class institutions organized against gambling and drinking
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Medicaid to Halt Coverage of Transgender Youth Healthcare
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Medicaid to Halt Coverage of Transgender Youth Healthcare
The rule changes are the latest steps in a campaign which the Trump administration has been waging since its first days back in office: ending trans healthcare, particularly for trans children.
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Psymposia @psymposia.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How an Anti-Trans Hate Group Funded and Controlled Research from McMaster University theneedlenews.com/2026/08/how-...
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How a Hate Group Funded and Controlled Research from McMaster University
We obtained internal communications between SEGM and McMaster University detailing what SEGM wanted out of anti-trans medical studies, and why it was willing to pay over CA$300,000 (US$215,300) to pro...
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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Either way, you can check out the data + methodology here (including the bash script I used to confirm this pattern): docs.google.com/spreadsheets... And be sure to read my full story for @assignedmedia.org here, which contains more important details and context: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Swarm of bots post astroturf campaign in support of ATF’s anti-trans gun rule - Assigned Media
An ATF proposal to curb trans gun rights got thousands of supportive comments. 96 percent of them appear fake.
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#SEGM
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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Must-read for those following this scandal!
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The Needle @theneedlenews.com · 05/08/2026
The color of a state doesn't determine if it's safe for trans people. Here is a thorough breakdown on the statistics around violence against trans people, and ways to navigate through this.
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Safe States Don’t Make People Safer
How legislative risk isn't lethal risk for trans women, and why the numbers we have are only a small part of the story.
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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We will not comply with the EHRC 'guidance', and neither should you. Take action for trans liberation.
Today, the EHRC ‘guidance’ comes into force. imposed by ministers without any democratic consent, the ‘guidance’ is a sham. ignore it.

today, many trans people will feel scared and isolated. that is what the state wants. they want us to hide, to sit passively, waiting to be saved. but there is nobody coming to save us. we will save ourselves.

that means trans people need to take action. see our action guide for advice, security info and vital info on how to bash back.

they want us to be afraid of them.

we must make them afraid of us.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/07/2026
“If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
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The American Transgender Refugee Crisis
If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.
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ohjamayno @yahyamay.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Imagine your home country stripping you of your passport with no notice because it doesn’t like your politics
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Haley @northandeast.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How long will that passport waiting for you in your go-bag still be valid?
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This story is the result of weeks of work.
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Lots of great stuff in here (and philosophers being cited!) I particularly enjoyed the distinction between liberation and representation
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Amnesty International UK Apologizes for Reporting on Anti-Trans Groups After Rowling Threatens Lawsuit
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Amnesty International UK Apologizes for Reporting on Anti-Trans Groups After Rowling Threatens Lawsuit
Amnesty's Chief Executive told the decades-long campaigner against human rights that "it would be good for us to meet... in the spirit of a commitment to human rights.”
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Amnesty International UK Apologizes for Reporting on Anti-Trans Groups After Rowling Threatens Lawsuit
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Amnesty International UK Apologizes for Reporting on Anti-Trans Groups After Rowling Threatens Lawsuit
Amnesty's Chief Executive told the decades-long campaigner against human rights that "it would be good for us to meet... in the spirit of a commitment to human rights.”
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My Latest: WPATH’s Fight Against the Trump Administration to Practice Medicine, and What it Means For Your Hormones | theneedle.news/bfl_Ny6or
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WPATH’s Fight Against the Trump Administration to Practice Medicine, and What it Means For Your Hormones
If the FTC lawsuit is successful, many trans people could lose access to their hormones. The only large exception would be in states where such care is legally protected.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just going to put this here to clarify
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's bad enough when online randos do this kind of 'teehee gender affirming care I am very intelligent and so helpful and blocks to everyone who dare tell me otherwise,' but a sitting member of the Senate supposedly on the side of protecting trans people saying this is just disgusting.
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My Latest: Amnesty International Apologizes for Reporting on Rise in UK Anti-Queer Groups | theneedle.news/lzg_N0lSC
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Amnesty International Apologizes for Reporting on Rise in UK Anti-Queer Groups
J.K. Rowling is offering to personally fund lawsuits against Amnesty on behalf of the organizations listed as an “Anti-rights group” in the report.
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My Latest: Amnesty International Apologizes for Reporting on Rise in UK Anti-Queer Groups | theneedle.news/lzg_N0lSC
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Amnesty International Apologizes for Reporting on Rise in UK Anti-Queer Groups
J.K. Rowling is offering to personally fund lawsuits against Amnesty on behalf of the organizations listed as an “Anti-rights group” in the report.
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