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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
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“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
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Alex the Unenthusastic @afterdarkalexi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Nation wide strike. it’s the only thing that the bourgeoisie fear
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is of course very bad. And I feel like not enough of you know that having a disability has been grounds for denying visa processing since the late 19th century due to supposed risk of needing public assistance.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/01/2026
1. A few days ago, we reported that New Jersey Democrats were running out of time to pass their trans shield/sanctuary bill. Sadly, it would appear New Jersey Dems failed to do so, making them one of the only blue states without such protections. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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New Jersey Remains Among Last Blue States Without Trans Shield Law As Democrats Punt To Next Session
There’s a new governor, a new legislature, and a new call to action. Will New Jersey lawmakers finally protect trans kids’ care?
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/01/2026
The moral panic over the existence of trans people isn't just aimed at Republicans, though. Basic legal protections for trans people are now less popular *among Democrats* than they were three years ago. An unconsionable failure of Democratic leadership. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
This steady drumbeat of transphobic agitprop was maybe even more successful than its proponents had hoped. Today, fundamental legal protections for trans people—the same protections the conservative-controlled Court extended in Bostock—are less popular than they were three years ago, according to Pew Research Center data from February 2024. This is true not only among Republican voters, but also among Democrats looking to apportion blame for Harris’s loss. In the aftermath of the 2024 election, some Democratic politicians publicly argued that the party’s support for trans rights contributed to its losses at the ballot box. One Democratic member of Congress went so far as to parrot vile anti-trans talking points to The New York Times, explaining that he did not “want to discriminate against anybody,” but did not believe “biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.”

Back in 2018, YouGov found that 29 percent of Americans thought society had gone “too far in accepting people who are transgender.” Today, that number has increased to 36 percent. Support for explicitly anti-trans policies like bathroom bans, sports bans, and bans on gender-affirming care for young people is stronger than it was as recently as two years ago. Sports bans like those at issue in Hecox and BPJ are especially popular, supported by two-thirds of voters, including 45 percent of Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is a pretty severe escalation from CBS, just straight up lying like this.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/12/2025
When we all get imprisoned for posting I’m definitely gonna be going around the yard asking what y’all said that got you locked up & it better be a banger because that’s how we’ll be establishing our hierarchy
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Alli Shaw @allidrawscomics.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF
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Alex the Unenthusastic @afterdarkalexi.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Your fingerprints, rental scan and DNA will now be part of Palentir in order to visit our dog shit country. Welcome to your TechnoFeudal Hellscape fam
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J.L. Comes // Joey (they/he) @jlcomes.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I hate that we continuously have to keep doing this when we’ve had honestly wayyyy too much straight media at this point and they should just make queer media from here on out to balance it imo
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J.L. Comes // Joey (they/he) @jlcomes.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I hate that we continuously have to keep doing this when we’ve had honestly wayyyy too much straight media at this point and they should just make queer media from here on out to balance it imo
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 12/11/2025
🇵🇸 Settler Terror in the West Bank Dozens of masked Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian villages of Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf, torching dairy trucks, tents, and farmland before clashing with locals. Soldiers arrived only after the fires spread — then settlers attacked them too. UN data shows...
🇵🇸 Settler Terror in the West Bank

Dozens of masked Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian villages of Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf, torching dairy trucks, tents, and farmland before clashing with locals. Soldiers arrived only after the fires spread — then settlers attacked them too.

UN data shows 260+ settler attacks in October, the highest since records began in 2006. Most targeted olive harvesters. Rights groups say police and soldiers routinely shield settlers or join in. Only four arrests were made Tuesday.

Palestinian official Muayyad Shaaban, head of the government’s Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, called the rampage part of an organized campaign to “drive Palestinians from their land,” accusing Israel of granting attackers “protection and immunity.”
Quds News Network
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Breaking | Israeli settlers set fire to more Palestinian Bedouin homes and vehicles near the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Shout out to everyone completely demoralized about the state of the world who still manages to get out of bed each morning. And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Emma Thompson on AI and writing
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 27/10/2025
My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
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Jorge Caldera @jorcald.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Make out, make love, make a mess
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Caroline Renard @carolinerenard.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
They’re using AI to make videos of Black women yelling about their EBT cards on Tik Tok. I knew this would be the first way they would use AI to come after us. Please stop using it! Stop feeding the machine!
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Rachel Esselle @rachelsl.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Sometimes the nights engulf me. Sometimes they bring me peace. Tonight I’m caught in between. But I'm looking to brighter days. It won't always be this hard. It won't always hurt this much. There's joy on the other side. But there's also joy NOW. I just have to grab hold of it. And not let go. ♥️
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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
please remember your sick and disabled comrades in your calls for community. we’re here and belong to this world too.
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Aaron H. Aceves @aaronhaceves.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
LA Peeps! Come hang out with me and some other really cool people this Sunday!
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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Yup. It matters A LOT. I give A TON of credit to Bad Bunny for the way he's been able to manage/weaponize his global popularity.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025
I regret to inform you that the new Supreme Court term is opening with a bang next week Tuesday's oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar will feature right-wing activists claiming the First Amendment gives state-licensed therapists a right to traumatize queer kids ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/conve...
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Right-Wing Activists Are Pushing For a Constitutional Right to Harm LGBTQ Kids
The Alliance Defending Freedom wants the Republican justices to hold that the First Amendment protects homophobes’ legal right to ignore state laws that protect kids.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE. Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Video below: “I am American. I am American.” A man pleads, “Ayúdame, ayúdame. Help me!” Meanwhile, an ICE officer pulls a gun on innocent bystanders — in Hyattsville, MD. This is happening in America. Right now. What are we doing about this? It MUST stop. @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 19/09/2025
BREAKING: A pro-Palestinian student group at the University of Missouri in Columbia can participate in the school’s Homecoming parade next weekend, after a federal judge ruled the university cannot exclude the group because of its viewpoints.
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University of Missouri violated free speech rights of pro-Palestine student group, judge rules
A federal judge ruled Friday that University of Missouri System President Mun Choi violated students' freedom of speech when he barred the group Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine from taking part in the Homecoming parade. The judge ruled Choi excluded the group because of its views on Israel and Palestine.
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J.L. Comes // Joey (they/he) @jlcomes.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Oh… Oh?? Ohhhh! Yeah she fucking nailed that. Start showing this to your parents or friends or whomever is in need of a wake up call bcuz this is as succinct as it can get.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
In an abusive relationship, the perpetrator makes the biggest power grabs when he feels his control over the victim is slipping. I’m keeping that in mind whenever we see massive escalations from Trump. It’s all still very dangerous. But these moments are a sign of weakness, not strength.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Happening now: Protest to bring back Jimmy Kimmel outside ABC Disney Studios in New York City
Protester holds sign that says “where dreams come true”An inflatable of a large ratProtester holds sign that says “the mouse is a rat”Protesters walk outside the studio
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Unanimous consent. Meaning if one Democrat or Independent from Vermont or Maine objected this measure would not pass. Because no one objected the country is honoring someone famous for exclaiming their bigoted ideology.
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thatsugarguy (he/him/his) @thatsugarguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
How I’m currently dealing with stress ☕️🎃:
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Gabriella Buba - Preorder Daughters of Flood and Fury @gabriellabuba.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
It's Bi visibility week, so you can't not perceive this bi author & her bi heroine in a bi-panic love triangle Saints is a coming of rage abt a woman hiding in a nunnery from her Goddess of Storms who sings of drowning colonizers & the Inquisition who'd burn her at the stake
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Slayerfest 98: A Queer Podcast @slayerfestx98.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Seriously loving Alien: Earth
Wendy from Alien:Earth saying “I don’t want to be people anymore if this is what people are”
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 19/09/2025
Hey y’all @britneyslewis.bsky.social Blood Moon novel is currently outselling Twilight and made number 1 on NYTBS. Can we be louder about it on here. For fans of Twilight/The Vampire Diaries #blackbooksky
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 19/09/2025
virtually attending a workshop tonight and instructor mentioned using chatGPT to search for something if google isn't helping and i do not care that i am insufferable anymore i have simply accepted i am the insufferable guy everyone knows when it comes to this shit
me sending a message in a zoom chat:

Obligatory mention that chatGPT isn’t a search engine—it assembles what it thinks are the most likely words to go together based on information scraped from the internet, so it may give you false information (and definitely will eventually, if you use it often enough) so make sure to verify everything it tells you!
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
my new horror novel FABULOUS BODIES is out next summer. PREORDER NOW to give your future self a little treat AND support art you enjoy. preorders are SO important and all it takes is a few clicks. EXCITED FOR OUR NIGHT OF CARNAGE IN PALM SPRINGS. LETS TROT BUCKAROOS us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
blank nightfire image for FABULOUS BODIES that says 'cover to be revealed' and has nightfire publishing colophon. it is set against pool waterpool water background with book summary that reads: 

From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice.

Fashion influencer by day and grave-robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaels—a flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer icon—unexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddie’s body from the medical examiner’s office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up.

Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.
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J.L. Comes // Joey (they/he) @jlcomes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
You / Your favorite Pokémon
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Chris Shehan_Comic Art @chrisshehanart.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it. It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.
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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
a friend of mine co-owns this bookstore!! give some love to Loyalty via bookshop.org i will give you fantasy book recommendations if you want them
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Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
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Sonido Reyes @sonidoreyes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
HAPPY RELEASE DAY CESAR!!! Woke up late but had to do a little photo shoot to celebrate release day! The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar is finally out in the world and I couldn’t be more proud 🥰
A selfie of me posing with my book The Gilden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar. The book covers part of my face and I’m smilingA selfie of me posing with my book The Gilden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar. The book covers part of my face and I’m smilingA selfie of me posing with my book The Gilden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar. The book covers part of my face and I’m smiling with my eyes closedA selfie of me posing with my book The Gilden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar. The book covers the lower part of my face with only my eyes visible. They are open wide but smiling
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This. More of this. Politicians who actually give a damn and do the work
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Terrance @stickysweett.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
fighting for this country is crazy
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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Just saw that it’s Bisexual Awareness Week…and know…I see you, I believe you, and I’d like to make out with a bi man 👨🏻
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Nick Daly @nickdaly.eurosky.social · 16/09/2025
I hope the European Research Council is paying attention
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Eurovision: Spain becomes third country to confirm it will withdraw if Israel stays in contest
The EBU says contest organisers are now assessing the “potential impacts and consequences of either decision”.
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