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Duncan @dqtbower.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

New hobby: Unsubscribing from every email list I've ever been added to

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PERIL @perilresearch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🎉 IT'S GIVING TUESDAY! 🎉 Today, we come together for prevention of targeted violence that makes an impact in our communities. Every dollar funds our work that makes an impact in preventing hate. Help us be a part of this into the next year! DONATE HERE:

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It’s pub day! Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social for this amazing animated announcement 🔥

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Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This immediately sprang to mind when I heard the news (for obvious reasons given my recent book). I think Gamergate will be studied by historians (assuming we have any of those left in the future) as not just an inflection point, but a flashing red warning sign that people didn't want to see.

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VOX-Pol @vox-pol.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Per tradition, our Blog’s on hols for August, so we’re counting down the most read posts of 2024-25. At No.4, @joshuabowes.bsky.social & @jjwest.bsky.social’s ‘The Trump Manosphere’ on reactionary male supremacy, misogyny, & accelerationist violence. ➡️ Read it at: voxpol.eu/the-trump-ma...

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The Trump Manosphere: Reactionary Male Supremacy, Misogyny and Accelerationist Violence in the Post-Election Era - VOX - Pol

By Joshua Bowes and Jennifer West Introduction In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, social media was replete with reactionary misogynistic hate and v...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/06/2025

Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Laura Loomer is the weirdest person in politics right now. She isn't even a stopped clock anymore, she's a clock that's flashing random numbers and about half of them are right and the other half are unbelievably racist and all of them are insane

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 07/05/2025

if i understand my LGBTQ history, i believe queer people love having their bars raided on flimsy pretexts

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Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com · 27/04/2025

If only there was a book about this 🤔

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?

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Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was murdered by a migrant without legal status in 2023, criticized her senator, Chris Van Hollen, for flying to El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an unrelated immigration case. https://abcnews.link/vxXfL69

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Put up or shut up time for the Supreme Court

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JJ West @jjwest.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

We don’t need a left-wing Joe Rogan, but we do need a Jimmy Buffett of the winter time

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 16/04/2025

yeah there's a direct through line between this ruling and anyone who bought that hogwart's game that trans people got screamed at for suggesting we boycott

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.” Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S. MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

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JJ West @jjwest.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

My Dutch-American family and their greenhouses:

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The massacre of 15 emergency and paramedics in Rafah is one of the worst incidents I can remember and I have yet to see any serious response. "Those responsible must be held accountable" said Foreign Secretary David Lammy. What are you doing for this to happen? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says

Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Pikachu said ACAB

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos

The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Seems like plainclothed agents who obscure their faces, roaming the streets, and kidnapping a student who is there on a valid visa without a warrant, in broad daylight, is a sign of how things are escalating in the US.

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sina @rejectionking.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

wouldn’t an ever expanding interior of a house be a net gain? i don’t get what the navidsons are losing their minds about

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Duncan @dqtbower.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

now it is free on my floor gee makin me real distressed tho tryin to clean but i'm like woah spilled that old espresso

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JJ West @jjwest.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Teen Vogue rocks, has rocked, and will continue to rock

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Goad (Legal Expert) @goad.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I agree. Also referring to Trump as a felon is bad messaging because people convicted of felonies deserve rights and our respect.

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 17/03/2025

Sharing information is more critical than ever and helping to defend our immigrant communities and neighbors is one clear action that we can all take right now.

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How to Defend Immigrants Against the Most Common ICE Tactics

These “know your rights” videos have crucial, easy-to-understand information.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Folks are gonna dunk on the Trump voter and I get that but don’t sleep on the more disturbing part of the story:

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Printable 2x4 labels (& more) in this thread. Full sheets at bit.ly/4kOXREP: load your labels, print, stick 'em up wherever. (Don't be a jerk.) Will this magically solve things? No. But it helps like-minded people to take their own actions, by letting them know they're not alone. ❤️👊

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a research tool that publicizes the status of freedoms and threats to civil liberties worldwide.” time.com/7266334/us-h...

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U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist

The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties.

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Stephonee @stephonee.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

Figure skater Madge Syers, doing a one-foot glide

Zhang Shan, Olympic gold medalist in skeet shooting, pictured wearing goggles and with several, uh, shotgun casings? in the air in front of her. Look, I know figure skating words for the most part but not skeet shooting ones.

I could have picked one of the pictures of her with her gun but the ones without Getty copyright on them were all potato-quality, and also I probably would have used the wrong gun word there too.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/03/2025

if you are a democrat who is retreating on and abandoning trans people, you are evil and throwing all trans people under the bus won’t stop them for coming after you next

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JJ West @jjwest.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

If what you’re saying can’t be said without using misogynistic/transphobic language maybe it has absolutely no value at all

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JJ West @jjwest.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Going to bed hours later than planned because I found a dog on petfinder and the dog in the background of the photo looks exactly like my dog, Tofu. I would do anything to find this dog

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Higher Ed needs to stand together against this and all federal overreach (cuts to research funding, etc) targeting our industry. Institutions with large endowments should lead the way.

All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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