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many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14h

this detransitioner, btw, is from Texas

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 13/10/2026

Colorado & Michigan have become the latest blue states to end Medicaid coverage for trans youth. Solidly blue Colorado will also be IMMEDIATELY shutting off care for all trans kids receiving puberty blockers—despite Trump's rule allowing a 6 month ‘tapering’ period. This is a complete betrayal.

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Colorado and Michigan Become the Latest Blue States to Quietly End Medicaid Support for Trans Youth as 12 Others Pledge Continued Coverage

In a complete betrayal, solidly Democratic Colorado will also be immediately shutting off care for trans kids currently receiving puberty blockers—despite Trump allowing a 6 month ‘tapering’ period.

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bluexy @bluexy.cryptoanarchy.network · 13/10/2026

Imagine being a 16 or 17-yo trans kid on puberty blockers having Medicaid end your care and being forced into a late puberty, all because of Democrats. This is life-ruining torture of children, coing from the "good guys."

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 13/10/2026

Protect the dolls t-shirt? No, not appropriate for the BBC. Giving the richest TERF hours of airtime she doesn't need to promote genocide? Allllll goods with the BBC.

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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

deeply sick society

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/10/2026

Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage. WTF.

Ironically, the first known violation of that law is now coming from the state itself. On September 18th, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) informed providers that “certain Physician-Administered Drug (PAD) services for the purposes of gender-affirming care will no longer be covered benefits for members under 18 years of age.” Two weeks later, HCPF released its full policy surrounding its updated coverage, and it somehow manages to be worse than the policies enacted by Arizona and Virginia. As Transitics reported last week, the federal rule allows for a 6-month ‘tapering’ period for youth currently receiving gender-affirming care where federal funds can still be used. And although HCPF does mention that stipulation in its policy, it also introduced a strange exception:

“Effective October 13, 2026, claims payment for GnRH/LHRH agents prescribed for gender-affirming care therapy for members under the age of 18 will not be allowed… Prior authorization for testosterone, estrogen, progesterone or medroxyprogesterone therapy for members under the age of 18,” the policy reads, “who are receiving and stabilized on therapy for gender-affirming care prior to October 13, 2026, may receive approval to allow for tapering and discontinuation of therapy.”

The exclusion of puberty blockers in the tapering policy isn’t accidental. The state’s prior authorization guidance that was updated the same day mirrors the policy and once again does not allow for a tapering period for trans kids receiving puberty blockers. And like Arizona and Virginia, Colorado has provided no indication that it has notified patients and their families. In doing so, Colorado is going far beyond what even the Trump administration intended—immediately cutting many trans kids’ care and leaving them scrambling for options.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If and when Dems are able to take back power, I cannot tell you how much any question about the debt or deficit needs to be met with loud mockery and extreme derision. Just an aggressive, ‘Oh NOW you care about the debt? GTFOH.’ Over and over and over again.

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Kara BOOOOOchanan 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @magicariot.com · 12/10/2026

meanwhile every queer creative is at risk of having their entire lives crushed by deplatforming and debanking if any of these corporations get a whiff of them making anything horny

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13/10/2026

More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d

on.wsj.com

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 12/10/2026

this is deeply thoughtful and well worth the extensive length it was given. truly find the time in your schedule to read it all.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I have seen enough. This is the “I Looked At His Ass Rally” now.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"And when they died there they didn’t just die for me, but they died for you because your freedom is shackled in chains to mine. And until I am free, you are not free either." Fannie Lou Hamer, 1971

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/10/2026

Just a reminder that when Dems turn against trans people for power, it's also a reminder that they'll do other things for power that you might not like too, such as supporting billionaires.

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Annalise Maxine Shaw Keating, Openly Black Attorney at Law @moniquely-uniq.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

Cops' "I feared for my life" 🤝 bigots' "trans panic defense" I fucking hate it here.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 12/10/2026

Oh does it raise serious questions, dude? Is that what it does? Are the questions both serious AND raised? Wow he really got out the baseball bat for this one

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/10/2026

This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant?

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

BTW, the reason these guys get so offended when Trump etc is accurately called a racist/rapist/criminal is because they knew all of this and voted for him anyway. They know where the party they spent their lives defending is now and they’re afraid of how it reflects on them. That’s the whole thing.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Executing a search warrant while early voting is underway in Minnesota, on an old, moldy "crime" is all you need to know about the motivation here. Absolutely no reason not to wait until the second week of November. It's abundantly clear that this is about politics, not a legitimate prosecution.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A new statement from @maketheroadny.bsky.social says that Oscar Belgal, the man immigration agents shot in NYC last week, hasn't eaten since Thursday and still has the bullet in his neck. He urgently needs surgery, but instead, the government has him locked up in solitary.

New York, NY –– The Legal Aid Society and Make the Road New York, counsel for Oscar Belgal, issued the following joint statement in response to the deplorable conditions Mr. Belgal has endured while detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, including solitary confinement, lack of access to food, and inadequate medical care despite a bullet remaining lodged in his neck and his urgent need for surgery:

“Since Mr. Belgal was shot in the neck by ICE agents on Thursday, with his five-year-old child in the car, he has endured horrific conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a facility federal judges have described as ‘barbaric’ and ‘inhumane,’ where officers have been characterized as ‘contemptuous of human life and dignity. All the while, a bullet remains lodged in his neck.

“Mr. Belgal is living through an unimaginable nightmare. While he is currently in solitary confinement, a bullet remains lodged in his neck, the left side of his face is numb, and he can barely hear out of his left ear. Doctors have told him he urgently needs surgery, but that the procedure was too dangerous to perform Thursday evening without a specialized surgeon present. Although he was instructed to return to the hospital this week, he has been left in the dark about whether that surgery will even happen. He is also suffering from a shoulder wound caused by shattered glass during the incident.

“Rather than receiving the urgent medical attention, care, and compassion he desperately needs, Mr. Belgal reports being confined to a solitary cell, where he is forced to relive the terrifying moments of being shot. He says he has not eaten a single meal since Thursday and has been told that the only water available to him comes from a bathroom sink.

“The deliberate indifference Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed toward Mr. Belgal when he was shot on Thursday, and the treatment he has endured in detention since, are further examples of the cruelty and disregard for basic human dignity that have long defined this agency. We will continue to fight for Mr. Belgal’s immediate release from detention and to ensure that he receives the medical care, due process, and basic human dignity to which he is entitled under the law.”

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

An irony of this era is that Trump’s opponents and Trump share the same exact opinions about Trump supporters bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/10/2026

A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.

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Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules

The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026

Worse---his self-defence plea was initially rejected, but it has been successfully argued that the jury should have known the woman he killed was trans and not cis. Because apparently, the woman he killed being trans makes the killing more justifiable.

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Rose Salazar King @rosesalazarking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“The State conceded that if the proof showed the victim’s assigned sex was the reason for the altercation between Defendant and the victim, it would be relevant to the adequate provocation element of voluntary manslaughter”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you're a reporter asking a candidate to denounce a foreign terrorist group simply because he shares the same religion, you are a gutter bigot of the worst fucking kind. Do they ask Mike Rogers to denounce Christian terrorists like Tim McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph and Robert Lewis Dear? No? Huh

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

almost a hundred years later and still S-tier style

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

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”

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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Democrats will never learn.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If that had happened to me, I would have assumed I was being carjacked.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

...all the animosity hurled towards trans ppl the last few days is completely misplaced. this is a *cisgender problem*: cis ppl need to decide whether you want us to be part of the anti-MAGA coalition or not. if you do, then call out the Dems pushing us out... juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

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Trans people are people. And politics works the exact same way on us as it does for everyone else. If you’re a politician or a political party, then you’re going to strive to build yourself a winning coalition. You will do this by saying what you are for and what you are against. Depending upon the principles and policies you forward, some voters will be drawn to you and others not so much. You can’t please everybody. But you are the ultimate “decider” of said policies and principles! And if you decide to ignore, discard, or demonize a particular constituency, it is inevitable that *some* of them will become disenchanted and may turn elsewhere when it comes to election day.
For the love of God, stop blaming trans people for all of this! Blame the cisgender politicians and consultants who are ignoring, discarding, and demonizing us. Call them divisive, as they are the ones who are attempting to divide our current anti-MAGA coalition in the name of (misguided) political expediency.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

...Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

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Assumption #4: The elephant in the room that no one is talking about
There is a striking disconnect between Talarico, Turek, et al. — who have clearly made a political calculation that abandoning trans rights will help them more than it will hurt them in this election — and the many cisgender liberals I’ve encountered online who are absolutely freaking out over the possibility that trans people’s critiques and protests will ultimately tank said candidates.
Both of these things cannot simultaneously be true!
If you think your favorite candidate enacted the correct political strategy, then there is no reason to berate trans people for protesting it, as those protests should already be baked into your candidate’s calculations. So why are you berating trans people then? (Unless, of course, you enjoy berating trans people just for the sake of it.)
Alternatively, if you think trans people *are* capable of tanking your favorite candidate via our criticisms and protests, doesn’t that imply that your candidate (and their consultants and strategists) totally fucked up in their political calculations here? And if they did fuck up, shouldn’t you be reaching out and complaining to *them* (rather than berating trans people), in the hope that they might reverse their bad decision?

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is something I've been saying for ages re: how centrists treat the left. If left-wing positions aren't popular enough to win elections, then left-wing voters can't lose an election for you. If left-wing voters can tip an election for you, their positions need to be accommodated.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There is a direct line from Newsom and Buttigieg running around the country a year ago saying "we have some concerns about trans people" to Democrats openly using anti-trans slurs in campaign ads today. It's why we pushed back so hard then. We knew where it would lead. And we know where this goes.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes this is stupid but it’s also a corrupt transfer of taxpayer money to a political ally www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/fbi...

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FBI Is Angling to Hand the UFC a No-Bid Contract to Train Agents

The contract would expand an existing partnership between the Trump administration and the UFC.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Shocked this country famous for lynchings, strangling Black men on the street, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders & arming genocides everywhere is doing a public execution by gunfire. This is NOT the American way.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s like Skydance is aiming to form the Avengers of shittiness rich men imaginable.

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