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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 1h

Federal appeals court rules in favor of motorist searched after fabricated traffic stop. “The officers... claimed Rosales had ‘failed to signal’ his turn. ....dashcam video showed... [the] Mustang’s left-turn signal was blinking as [he] waited at the intersection." reason.com/2026/09/28/t...

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The 5th Circuit rejects qualified immunity for cops who searched a driver after a bogus traffic stop

Dashcam footage contradicted the officers' claim that the driver failed to signal before they questioned him about drugs and searched him.

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 22h

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Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social · 7m

It was my first time trying salmon foam so I was so scared but it was so good and completely packed with protein.

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Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social · 1h

Perpetrators benefit when their victims use language that is too vague or cutesy. 🥺

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Alexandria W. Darling @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 2h

it's waning gibbous. hallelujah it's waning gibbous

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 6h

Well done to Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar for calling out a despicable fascist republican and exposing his propaganda and let it blow up all in his face on live TV. It was a beautiful humiliation.

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Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social · 5h

Being able to have practice shutting things down when they are first uncomfortable is good training. Your daughter knowing she can *actually* talk to you about things and you won't treat her like a suspect in a crime is vital. And for piss sakes, don't anyone push that evangelical "used gum" shit.

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Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social · 5h

I like the note about letting daughters question male authority at home, because it's often drilled into girl psyches that they ought to be deferential or polite and men take advantage of that to press topics or physically moving to less public areas, and that is *not to blame the girls*.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11h

While I have you here, let me also link to an article I wrote years ago about how to talk to your daughters about sexual violence—without blaming them, shaming them, or restricting their freedoms.

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What You Should Really Say to Your Daughter About Campus Sexual Assault

It’s not what you might imagine.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 5h

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 6h

Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.

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The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

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Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 6h

When the same people stalking you on Flock cameras also film you urinating. Police Officer's Phone Exposes Predator Ring Involving High Ranking Officials youtu.be/d_uAsoejDK0?...

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Police Officer's Phone Exposes Predator Ring Involving High Ranking Officials

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6h

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 6h

ok so in a less flippant explanation of whats happening: - last year the gvmt passed the GENIUS act. among other things it requires all US$ stablecoins be backed by any of a number of assets, most prominently short-term US treasury bonds - scott bessent is trying to lower long term bond yields

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Nathan Ramsden @nathanjramsden.bsky.social · 7h

Just posting this here for the purposes of documenting the scourge of transphobia in our party. The tiny gang of miserable bigots which calls itself 'LabourLGB' has sent a tirade of abuse to Yuan Yang on X because she spoke up for trans people at Labour Conference today.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 15h

Through 14 James Bond movies, Lois Maxwell portrayed Miss Moneypenny. In her life, she served with the Canadian Women's Army Corps, appeared with Wayne and Shuster, wrote for the Toronto Sun and starred in Adventures in Rainbow Country. This is her story. 📸 ITC 🧵 1/10

Lois Maxwell wearing a red top with white trim and a pearl necklace, set against a light blue background.

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Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 6h

Drives me crazy when I have a white nationalist reach out and immediately starts talking about how unhappy he is and that he knows he's on the wrong side, then immediately starts on about how how he doesn't get out because he is afraid of being shunned.

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Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, it's 256 times worse than when SCSI came out and Apple and Larry Boucher were trying to tell people to say it "sexy" instead of "scuzzy". Uhhh how about NO.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 7h

The idea that we are all supposed to stop calling AI “artificial intelligence” after these companies branded it as such for years and suddenly start calling it “SI” and “super intelligence” is cult-like levels of delusion

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Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social · 7h

Oh goodness, yeah, even after you learn their actual names. "Hey, you're Boojer, I'm Timber Wolf!" "Hi, Timber Wolf! Have you seen Grendel?" Some people make it more difficult than it is.

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Nathan Ramsden @nathanjramsden.bsky.social · 7h

If you have experienced transphobic harassment within the Labour Party or if you know someone who has, please get in touch with us by emailing labourfortransrights@gmail.com

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Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social · 7h

I know two cis gals from my young adult days who were given *extremely* preppy / "cute" names that did NOT match them and the both of them went with cool names that could have come right out of a fantasy book. Easy as pie to refer to them with their new names and NO MENTIONING the old names, bleh.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 11h

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 10h

I have written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to ask some important questions relating to her appearance and comments on The Daily T's Sunday Showdown, where she stated she was "a woman, defined by my biology", and that a women’s refuge should be for those of us who are “biologically women"

"... When asked whether you would have allowed a trans woman fleeing domestic abuse into the women’s refuge you once managed, you answered: “No.”

You said that alternative provision could be made, and that a women’s refuge should be for those of us who are “biologically women”.

That deserves considerably more scrutiny than another political soundbite.

You have chosen to justify your position by appealing to biology, so I would like you to explain what you mean by that claim in biological terms, rather than simply referring back to the law, the Supreme Court or the EHRC.

What, biologically, is a woman?

The scientific picture is considerably more complicated than the neat binary your statement suggests. Sex-related biology involves multiple characteristics, including chromosomes, gonads, reproductive anatomy, hormones and secondary sex characteristics. These characteristics do not always align in the stereotypical way, which is why medicine recognises differences of sex development. Contemporary scientific literature describes sex-related biology as involving multiple interacting characteristics rather than one single biological test that can infallibly sort every human being into one of two boxes.

You already know this. Biologists, doctors and other experts sent you an open letter specifically explaining these issues. They warned that reducing human sex biology to an immutable binary is an oversimplification and that policy built upon that oversimplification can cause real harm.

That does not mean biological sex is meaningless. It obviously is not. Female and male reproductive biology are real and medically important. But acknowledging that doesn't require pretending every human body is a perfectly standard biological specimen.

So let us get away from slogans.

You say that you are a woman “defined by my biology”. You say that I am not.

What, precisely, is the biological distinction you are making?"

"...And how would you establish it?

Would you take my blood? Sequence my chromosomes? Examine my gonads? Inspect my anatomy? Measure my hormones? Demand medical records?

Because the moment “biologically a woman” has to become a real-world test rather than a political phrase, the simplicity disappears.

And nowhere is that more obvious than in the refuge you once managed.

Imagine a woman arriving at the door after fleeing an abusive partner. She is terrified. She has no passport, no birth certificate and no medical records. She may have left everything behind to get herself and her children somewhere safe.

You have said the refuge should be for women who are “biologically women”.

So how does the refuge establish that?

Does she need to prove her chromosomes before being allowed through the door? Does somebody examine her body? Does she have to produce evidence of her reproductive anatomy? Or does a member of staff simply look at her and decide whether she appears sufficiently female?

Because the last option is not biology.

It is gender policing.

And then comes the question you cannot escape: how would you identify a trans woman without simply assuming that she is trans?

You cannot see somebody's chromosomes. You cannot see their gonads. You cannot see their hormone levels. You cannot see their developmental history.

If your answer is appearance, you have created a system in which women can be challenged because they are too masculine, too tall, too muscular, too deep-voiced, too gender-nonconforming or do not conform to somebody else's idea of what a woman is supposed to look like.

That is not a minor administrative problem. It is the policing of women's bodies, dressed up as biological certainty.

And feminism should recognise that for what it is...."

"...Sex and gender are related, but they're not interchangeable concepts. Sex encompasses biological characteristics and processes; gender also encompasses the social and personal dimensions through which human beings understand and live their gender. The scientific literature itself recognises that these concepts interact in complex ways rather than functioning as two completely separate boxes.
...You have experience running a women's refuge. You know what a woman arriving at that door needs. She does not need a politician's abstract definition of womanhood. She needs safety.

So I am asking you, as Minister for Women and Equalities, to answer some very straightforward questions.

What biological characteristics make you a woman and make me not one?

How would you establish that distinction in practice?

How does your definition account for women with differences of sex development?

What happens to women whose chromosomes do not fit the stereotypical XX model?

What happens to women who cannot produce eggs, who have no ovaries, who have undergone hysterectomy or who have otherwise experienced changes to their reproductive anatomy?

And most importantly:

How does a frightened woman fleeing domestic abuse prove that she is “biologically a woman” without being subjected to exactly the kind of bodily scrutiny and gender policing that feminists have spent generations challenging?

If your answer is that she does not have to prove it, then why should a trans woman?

If your answer is documentation, what happens to the woman who has none?

If your answer is appearance, whose idea of female appearance are you using?

And if there is no practical biological test, then perhaps “biology” is not quite the straightforward answer you have presented it as.

Women fleeing violence need refuge workers asking whether they are safe, not whether they can pass an ideological biology exam....."

"...You have chosen to draw a line between yourself and me by saying that you are a woman defined by biology and that women like me are not. I am therefore asking you to explain where that line actually is.

Not in a court judgment.

Not in an EHRC document.

Not in a political slogan.

In biology.

Because if you cannot define the biological test, and cannot explain how it could be applied fairly to women standing at the door of a refuge, then “biologically a woman” is not the clear, objective safeguard you claim it is.

It is simply a phrase being used to decide which women are allowed through the door.

And when the woman on the other side of that door is fleeing an abuser, that is not an abstract debate.

That is somebody's life.

Yours sincerely,

A woman who apparently needs a biology exam to prove it,'

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 12h

Fresh update to our Habeas case tracker: More than 83,000 immigrants have filed cases challenging the legality of their detention so far since Jan. 2025. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

A screenshot of the ProPublica Habeas tracker showing a big 83,328 — the number of cases filed since Jan. 2025.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14h

I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...

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Dressmaker on Steam

Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10h

Ice Cream is absolutely lunch, it gives the body essential carrageenans and guar gums

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10h

Creepy Nazi Mike Johnson says fascist republicans will do “exactly what we have been doing” if they retain their disastrous control of the House. Meaning they’ll continue their destruction of the United States. Mike isn’t a Speaker, he’s a terrorist and he can fuck all the way off to a jail cell.

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 10h

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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 10h

Former Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn, a Republican, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in federal prison after trying to solicit a girl he believed was 17. According to MPR News, the “girl” was an undercover officer, and Eichorn had asked for n*de photos.

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Mercedes Allen @mercedesallen.bsky.social · 10h

"… other sports included where trans people are supposedly dominating are bowling, disc golf, Irish dance, and competitive oyster shucking. This is all separate from their non-athletic section, which includes prom queens, best actress nominations, and Jeopardy! performances…"

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Jadey Character @lampjaded.bsky.social · 10h

'Abdul El-Sayed noted to be treating the accident victim's broken leg and not an onlooker's sneeze and this is a bad thing somehow.'

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h

TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 11h

On Tuesday, the full D.C. Circuit will hear arguments in a case that began on a Saturday evening in March 2025, when a federal judge ordered two planeloads of Venezuelan men returned to the United States and the administration, hours later, transported them to a prison in El Salvador instead.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 14h

💔🕯️No Justice No peace.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible to see Third Way!!!! warning that throwing trans folks under the bus is bad politics for Democrats. About damn time.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16h

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Outrage erupted this weekend after a lawsuit was filed by a young woman against Cornell University & several defendants alleging she was gang raped at a fraternity. I explain the law, provide the facts, & discuss why it’s important the local DA now reopens the case: youtu.be/ZzKWgFvqEEo?...

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DISTURBING Cornell ASSAULT Investigation REOPENED After BOMBSHELL New LAWSUIT!!

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 11h

For those following the Bates case in Oregon, she has agreed to a settlement opening up the process for her to be an adoptive parent despite stating that she would not affirm an LGBTQ+ child. This ADF quote says a lot about the aim of the larger project. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/god-...

"A family that hunts need not give up meat eating because some children are vegans," her lawsuit, filed by the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), stated, even though no one was asking Bates to become queer or trans herself. "And Jews need not accommodate foreign gods because some children desire a home with a Hindu shrine. In the end, the only group excluded from the process up front are those with religious beliefs like Jessica's. Conservative Christians need not apply."

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10h

Just let me turn off ads entirely, I'd rather just get rid of them, I've already got ads set to the minimum as is.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 10h

A video falsely claiming to show a long queue of Muslim women waiting to sign up for free childcare has been liked thousands of times on social media. But the clip actually shows the women waiting in line for a modest clothing sale in Amsterdam.

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Video shows Muslim women queuing for a clothing sale, not free childcare – Full Fact

The video has been widely shared on social media alongside the false claim that it shows women in headscarves lining up to enroll their children into free public daycare.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11h

Former special counsel Jack Smith: “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation.”

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