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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026

People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm looking to speak to teachers and parents in Alberta for an upcoming story. The province has introduced restrictions on pronouns and Pride flags and passed a bill about 'removing politics and ideology' from classrooms. How has this affected you as you go back to school? DMs are open.

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bought myself a treat today My husband says Nuclear War: A Scenario made me "extremely normal" and this will surely make me "very happy" lmao

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 01/09/2026

Only on Assigned Media: Inspiring news from Finland where a movement is growing to oppose the country's restrictive, humiliating approach to transition care. Read about it from @evanurquhart.bsky.social here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Discontent With Finland’s Transpoli Erupts in Growing Protests - Assigned Media

Organizers encouraged by increased visibility and a growing appetite for action to oppose the repressive trans care system in Finland.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 27/08/2026

this week is unrelenting

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 27/08/2026

did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume

A young woman in a Garfield inspired outfit with a Garfield headdress

The young woman from the first photo is holding a lasagna that says “lasagna my love language”

missinteenusa Tonight, Indiana is going Garfield!
My state costume celebrates one of Indiana's most iconic creations-Garfield, created by fellow Hoosier Jim Davis.
Born in Marion and raised in Fairmount, Davis turned an orange cat with a big personality into a character recognized and loved around the world.
But this costume represents more than a famous Hoosier.
The hand-painted comic panels on my skirt share messages inspired by my initiative, Captivating Confidence:
"Our differences are what make us beautiful."
"If we don't have love, we have nothing."
"Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates."
To me, true confidence is found in embracing what makes each of us different and recognizing that our greatest beauty comes from within. I am so excited to bring a little Hoosier humor, creativity and confidence to the Miss Teen USA stage tonight!
This one-of-a-kind costume was inspired by my vision and brought to life by Indianapolis-based costume designer, Jess West. @jesswestcostumes

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Lucy Maloney @lucymaloney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

barbara findlay spent a lifetime advocating for human rights, particularly those involving 2SLGBTQ+ rights. My sincere condolences to those that love her and will miss her.

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Renowned queer lawyer, activist barbara findlay dead at 77 | CBC News

Lesbian lawyer and activist barbara findlay died this weekend at the age of 77. B.C.'s 2SLGBTQ+ community is mourning her loss.

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 14/08/2026

Transphobia is a brain poison that rots everything it touches. It’s not grounded in any reality, but rather a larger political project that sees trans people as a threat to those in power. xtramagazine.com/culture/wnba...

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Transphobia is rotting women’s sports media | Xtra Magazine

Sports media is perpetuating a problem that doesn’t actually exist

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My toxic sports trait is i will immediately fall in love with a team Anyway, Yozinha should be inducted into the Order of Canada regardless of whether Cabo Verde wins

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

At least after the Jays' showing today, I have the Tiger-Cats Would always be nicer to be beating the Argos, but hey youtu.be/jagrS5_cea8?...

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Jesus is From Steeltown

YouTube video by B.A. Johnston - Topic

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I think Fenway Park might be my favourite park

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Yesterday I met a friend for lunch, a mother grieving the suicide of her trans child. I thanked her for speaking to QueerAF about her son, for bravely sharing her darkest thoughts…the ‘silver lining’ of Zach’s death is that at least he’s not here to see how far things have fallen since he died.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Today, @thewalrus.ca has published an excerpt of my book with @amaramarasingam.bsky.social on the Canadian far-right, Blood and Soil. You can read it for free here: thewalrus.ca/what-three-e...

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What Three Extremist Attacks Tell Us about the State of Hate in Canada | The Walrus

The far right has evolved from lone actors to a mass movement

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 01/06/2026

My op-ed piece would be that the idea of a "perfect time" is misleading, especially for coming out. There's never a perfect time. That's not a real thing. You might fuck your life up a little or a lot. Waiting for a perfect time is wasted hours of incredibly meaningful, potentially ruinous beauty

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Definitely didn't cry over the For All Mankind finale. Not me. It's definitely not beating the "same universe as the Expanse" allegations, which I'm extremely here for

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A couple people have sent me mournings over Dylan Cease's moustache but all I feel is relief. My beloved husband had told me he shaved his head and I, despite knowing him, took him at his word. At least he's still got the pitchers mane

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 22/05/2026

It was pointed I should mention genre! So sorry! So let's try this again! This is literary contemporary coming-of-age story. I have enough editors to interview. Still on the hunt for trans and gender diverse cover designers. Must be Canadian. #Booksky

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Daaa Yankees lose... 50 per cent of the series and I'll take it at this point

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The near-nightly ritual of asking the Jays to please just do it normal. No extra innings. Just normal style for once

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A trans girl is not "socialized male" - she's brutalized into hiding herself. What someone is doing when they accuse trans women of "male socialization" is that they are denying us the closet, denying that it is a painful and traumatic experience where the life is choked from us by dysphoria.

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 08/05/2026

sorry Allen Ginsberg, sorry, i'm trying to delete it www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix!

Off panel: Wow! Sound pretty intense!
T-Rex: It super was!

Dromiceiomimus: But *I* saw the best minds of MY generation destroyed by pivoting to video, encircled reacting red-arrowed, dragging themselves through the ragebait production pipeline at dawn looking for some angry hits.
T-Rex: Frig!
T-Rex: THAT'S bad too!

Utahraptor: Oh yeah? Well check THIS out!

Utahraptor: *I* saw the best minds of MY generation destroyed by AI psychosis - sycophantic fawning obsequious - logging themselves on to the corporate models at dawn looking for an empty fix -
T-Rex: Okay I get it
Utahraptor: - emptyheaded victims burning tokens for the new and deluded conversation

Off panel: with the lying dynamo in machinery of theft, baring their brains to statistical word generators and receiving only atrophy in return, catatonia, calling them God, angels, radiant cool eyes hallucinating -
T-Rex: OKAY I'LL STOP MAKING AI RESPOND TO ALL THE EMAILS YOU SEND ME, GOD

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Richard Warnica @rwarnica.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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Richard Warnica: I went home to the heartland of Alberta independence. Even after covering Donald Trump for 10 years, I was still terrified by what I found

Independence movement eerily reminiscent of Trump's America.

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I wouldn't be who I am without many of the people Meabh has tagged. I don't know if I'd have found the courage to come out. But my life has been immeasurably better for it, even when it's hard, and I'll never stop being grateful.

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John Bowman @johnbowman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Rock-bonk won’t sound the same without him. Congrats.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Yesterday afternoon, an active shooter opened fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary school. The incident left nine dead, including students as young as 12. As details emerge, there's still a lot we don't know. But one thing is certain: we must not allow hate to grow from the roots of tragedy:

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

New from me: A basic primer on the Monroe Doctrine. (200 years of U.S. policy, 141 seconds.) On YouTube: youtu.be/JG9isLsvMvU?... On TikTok: vt.tiktok.com/ZSaehTutp/

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The Monroe Doctrine: Unpacking 200 years of U.S. policy in 141 seconds

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

New from me: The notwithstanding clause has been part of Canadian law since 1982. So why is it now so controversial that it’s heading to the Supreme Court? cbc.ca/9.7000838 (Also on TikTok: tiktok.com/@cbcnews/video/7579404011728637185 & YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/_4SdDxMPins) #cdnpoli

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The notwithstanding clause has been part of Canadian law since 1982. So why is it now so controversial that it’s heading to the Supreme Court? #Notwithstanding #Canada #Constitution #Moment #CBCNews

TikTok video by CBC News

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The Verge @theverge.com · 14/10/2025

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?" Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

"[A lawyer] said the Federal Court justice stopped their client’s removal from Canada in part because an immigration officer had failed to consider recent evidence about the conditions in the U.S. for trans and non-binary individuals when assessing the risk of being returned."

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 11/07/2025

Internal emails throw light on the sources used by Government of Alberta staff to search for “inappropriate” materials in school libraries, including an index of America’s most banned books and a website linked to the rise in attempts to ban books in the U.S. #abpoli

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Alberta Used Lists of America’s Most Banned Books to Target ‘Inappropriate’ School Material | The Tyee

Internal emails show how education ministry staff compiled book titles subject to new content restrictions.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/03/2025

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review

The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 06/03/2025

i know some cis folks on here are at least kinda aware it’s bad right now for trans people in america, but sometimes it’s worth calling y’all back to 2016 when a single “transsexuals have to use the wrong bathrooms” bill cost north carolina the nba all-star game & $400 million. this is normal now.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/03/2025

Huge news, a preliminary injunction was just granted in the PFLAG v Trump case enjoining the administration from enforcing the executive order ban on gender affirming care for trans youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A legal document titled "MEMORANDUM OPINION" from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland in the case PFLAG, Inc., et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al. (Civil No. 25-337-BAH). The document discusses the court's ruling on the Plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction (ECF 69), outlining the legal standard required for such relief, including likelihood of success on the merits, irreparable harm, balance of equities, and public interest. It references the prior granting of a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on February 13, 2025, which enjoined the enforcement of specific Executive Orders prohibiting federal funding for gender-affirming medical care for transgender patients under 19. The document cites relevant case law and procedural background. The page header indicates it is Document 115, filed on March 4, 2025, and is page 1 of 66.

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 26/02/2025

There are plenty of ways to troll U.S. president Donald Trump and his right-hand man Elon Musk without resorting to casual homophobia, writes @melwoods.me

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We can do better than lazy Trump/Musk gay memes | Xtra Magazine

OPINION: There are plenty of ways to troll the president and his right-hand man without resorting to casual homophobia

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

People sometimes ask me “whatever happened to QAnon?” As my friend and co-host Julian explains for this recent piece for Jacobin, QAnon didn’t go away. It was just absorbed into the bloodstream of American political culture. jacobin.com/2025/02/qano...

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QAnon Hasn’t Disappeared. It’s in America’s Bloodstream.

The QAnon conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was fighting a satanic pedophile cabal may have faded from national discourse, but its ideology, networks, and practices have become integrated into Ameri...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/02/2025

To answer some quick questions about my latest story: - It does not apply to the Visa Waiver Program as far as I can see - It does not impact American citizens - The ban exclusively impacts transgender foreigners seeking visas in the United States - It is far more extensive than reported elsewhere

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/02/2025

One of the leaked cables in question directing implementation. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/02/2025

1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry. A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry

A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth."

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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 19/02/2025

According to legislative trackers online we’ve already had over 540 pieces of anti trans legislation filed in 2025. Seven of those bills have passed. What the federal government is doing is horrifying, but locally so much damage is being attempted too. translegislation.com

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2025 Anti-Trans Bills: Trans Legislation Tracker

2025 anti-trans bills tracker. Explore data on U.S. anti-trans legislation including passed bills and themes including sports, bathrooms, healthcare, pronouns, drag shows, and education.

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Jonathan Ore @jonore.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"They're too woke!" the CEO bellowed, as he sunk further and further into the quicksand pit of Funko Pops he had built himself.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12/02/2025

"More journalists were killed in 2024 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 124 journalists and media workers were killed last year, nearly two-thirds of them Palestinians killed by Israel."

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2024 is deadliest year for journalists in CPJ history; almost 70% killed by Israel - Committee to Protect Journalists

Introduction More journalists were killed in 2024 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 124 journalists and medi...

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Kit Kolbegger @kitk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

New from me: A lot of Canadians are talking about buying more domestic goods given Trump's tariff threats. Here's the difference between "Made in Canada" vs. "Product of Canada" labels. vm.tiktok.com/ZMkbJ3cx6/

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I've collected accounts from trans folks inside US prisons facing Trump's brutal crackdown: trans women rounded up + placed in solitary before transfer to men's prisons; canceled medical appointments + loss of vital healthcare; vicious taunting "You're going to be a man," one guard told trans women

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Trans people in US federal prisons face brutal crackdown under Trump order

Advocates report harassment and loss of gender-affirming care as trans women face transfers to men’s prisons

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Winnie YZ @winnie-writes.anticapitalistcatgirl.com · 25/01/2025

Cis folk: watch this to see what these orders will mean for us and to support queer journalism Trans folk: you probably already know what’s happening so, you know, you do you People that want to see me in a news story: Very specific but this is your lucky day, keep watching until the very end!

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