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Jessica Walker @jessicawalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lmao, I somehow never saw this 2022 clip before of my Congressman laughing at Schumer. I truly feel represented now, thank you Pallone. 🙃

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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Jessica Walker @jessicawalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Joining in with The 9 Anime That Shaped Me. #My9Animes Starting way back with toddler me being obsessed with The Littl' Bits on Nick Jr and having no idea it was anime back then.

The 9 Anime That Shaped Who I Am: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Sailor Moon, The Littl' Bits, Serial Experiments Lain, Tenchi Muyo! In Love, Weiss Kreuz/Knight Hunters, Rurouni Kenshin, Cowboy Bebop, Oniisama e.../Dear Brother

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Jessica Walker @jessicawalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trust a politician by what they do, not what their team posts on social media. (Example number 39,274 for Newsom...)

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is not even a bit new, access to bathrooms especially has been a plank of every marginalized group’s fight for & civil liberties in the past 100+ years and if you’re a person falling for/a candidate messaging on “not in our spaces” right now, we know who you would’ve been in those fights, too.

The history of bathroom segregation and politicization can be traced back centuries. Along with the right to vote, the suffrage movement fought for women (well, cis women) to have access to their own public toilets. Bathrooms were also a core feature of Jim Crow bigotry, with facilities divided between men, women, and "colored" people. Here Black men and women were denied gender-specific facilities, simultaneously conflated and ungendered. While the comparison between cis-only bathrooms and whites-only bathrooms doesn't fully cohere, the struggles are certainly interconnected; there's a clear racialization to how sex is constructed in the public eye, as C. Riley Snorton has chronicled in Black on Both Sides, a history that dives into the degendering of Black women. Meanwhile, Black civil rights groups like the NAACP have fought in support of trans rights over the years.
During the 1970s, opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment used fears that it would mandate unisex toilets to aid their successful campaign to tank the law. Bathroom issues continued during the '80s and '90s during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when some wanted gay men to be banned from public facilities. Queers, like trans people, weren't considered family-friendly. They were seen as potential groomers or vectors of disease.
There were gains interspersed within these cycles of backlash. The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and the Disabilities Act of 1990 mandated that bathrooms be made accessible towards people with disabilities. And by 2016, there seemed to be enough of a consensus around bathroom access that standing up for trans people's right to pee was a mainstream position.
So how did we get to where we are now? Wedge issues, of course.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026

This is where the right thrives. They love situations where the other party cannot respond publicly. It's why they target schools and make wild accusations against teachers and administrators. Privacy laws prevent them from adequately responding or setting the record straight.

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Jessica Walker @jessicawalker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Attended the annual FilmOneFest film festival in Atlantic Highlands, NJ last night. Here's some of the ones that stood out for me:

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

incredible bit in the Elizabeth Holmes movie: Fielder asks her to explain the joke in "Who's on First?" and she cannot variety.com/2026/film/re...

She believes her version of reality. Fielder, who is not taken in by any of this (his questions remain rigorous in their skepticism), at one point gives vent to his impish side by showing Elizabeth and Billy the famous Abbott and Costello routine “Who’s on First?” When it ends, he tries to get Holmes to explain what the joke is (that “Who” is the first baseman’s name, but the name sounds like a question — hence the routine’s glorious verbal slapstick). And she can’t do it; she can’t grasp the joke. It’s not just that she lacks a sense of humor (though frankly, she kind of does). It’s that she’s got the malignant narcissist’s need to have words mean only what she decrees them to mean. She can’t hear any other meaning. Hence: her device did “work,” and still does (it can run any test!). That’s why she and Billy, years after her conviction, are still pitching Theranos to other investors (as if anyone would go near her). This is a highly rarefied level of delusional thinking.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The global economy is going to come to crashing halt as every disaffected urban millennial in the country takes off work to see the Nathan Fielder Elizabeth Holmes documentary.

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Jessica Walker @jessicawalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It still amazes me that the Mary/merry/marry distinction is unique to around Jersey. But but... they're *so* different from each other! lol

You talk most like someone from New Jersey — about 55% of your answers match a typical resident.

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Jessica Walker @jessicawalker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Whenever I see people wringing their hands over universal free school lunches as fiscally irresponsible and that it should only be through means testing, my first thought is, "You know kids with wealthy parents can be abused and starved and don't deserve that, right?"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Jessica Walker @jessicawalker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Besides making it easier for their own mediocre kids to get into college (less competition), one thing that gets forgotten -- many view college as a networking opportunity, not education. To them, letting in poorer kids with no "worthy" connections wastes their own kids' time and their money.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

NY Times was really good about pointing out Hunter Biden's corruption, but rarely frames what Trump is doing as corrupt. They are really fixated on his emotions. Or they present it without comment, presented as "Democrats say..." Hunter Biden story from 10/8/25. Trump story from 7/29/26

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/07/2026

Fascists always try to police the targets of their propaganda by utilizing myth creation around normal human responses such as anger at injustice and indignity. That way, they can not only affect a target populations material reality but also their reactions. It's the ultimate form of control.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

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GKIDS Films @gkids.com · 21/06/2026

Only together can they revolutionize the world. 💖 Feel the power of love when ADOLESCENCE OF UTENA hits theatres starting June 21! 🌠 brnw.ch/21x2DC5

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 06/06/2026

On Bluesky? All of us

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/06/2026

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I wrote about Elon Musk's attack on Lupita Nyong'o, and how it is important to put that in the context of the fact that Musk launched an actual ongoing genocide against non-white people which has already killed hundreds of thousands. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/musk-attac...

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Musk Attacks Nyong’o For The Same Reason Hitler Attacked Jewish Art

It is a tactic of genocide.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

New York Giants players, including linebacker Abdul Carter, (rightfully) seem pissed about Jaxson Dart palling around with the president. It’s the kind of thing a player should think about before backing an overtly white supremacist politician.

Carter saying “thought this sh!t was Al, what we doing man”

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 24/01/2025

An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO: “Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

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Rutgers cancels HBCU event to align with Trump DEI orders

The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President...

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