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Climate migrant, raised on the Gulf of MEXICO. 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 27/09/2026
INDY Week reports on North Carolina judges choosing to flag defendants for ICE:
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Durham Judicial Officials Are Unnecessarily Putting People on ICE's Radar for Low-Level Crimes
Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 27/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social With Reps in battleground states running on trans issues, CNN poll finds once again that it runs dead last in voters' concerns after elections, crime, tariffs, etc. Good for them for finally positing a question other pollsters still ignore. [Live screen grab]
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 24/09/2026
‘Honor your oath’: Hundreds confront NYU Langone hospital over caving to Trump on trans healthcare www.advocate.com/hea... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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‘Honor your oath’: Hundreds confront NYU Langone hospital over caving to Trump on trans healthcare
Parents and advocates rallied outside the hospital after it agreed to pay $8.5 million and keep gender-affirming care closed to minors under a deal with the federal government.
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Infobae @infobae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Activistas trans se inyectan hormonas en la puerta de NYU Langone tras el pacto de USD 8,5 millones que frenó los tratamientos a menores
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Activistas trans se inyectan hormonas en la puerta de NYU Langone tras el pacto de USD 8,5 millones que frenó los tratamientos a menores
Cientos de personas se manifestaron el martes frente al hospital de Manhattan después de que la institución acordara con el Departamento de Justicia suspender la atención de afirmación de género para pacientes de menos de 19 años
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 24/09/2026
Protestors and trans youth gathered on Tuesday to picket NYU Langone for sacrificing their gender-affirming care to appease the DoJ. @valorievandieman.bsky.social brings you the story here!
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“I’ve Had to Accept This Cruelty as Just Like Normal” - Assigned Media
Protestors gather in New York City to picket NYU Langone, the latest hospital to settle with the Department of Justice and cut off gender-affirming care.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
juliaserano.medium.com
On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Target reported $1.88B in net income, pumped up by $1B in tariff refunds that WE paid for. Will customers see a dime back? No. Will workers get real raises? No. Target sure found $518M for cash dividends and still has $8.3B in authorized buybacks on the table though.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/08/2026
Anti-trans activists are in uproar in North Carolina. Why? Because an elementary school has hired a trans teacher. Anti-trans activists and Republican elected officials are demanding gendered dress codes for school employees, and for the teacher to be fired. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Anti-Trans Activists In Uproar Over Trans Music Teacher In North Carolina, Propose Gender Dress Code For School Employees
Far-right activists have flooded a local school board in North Carolina for hiring a transgender teacher.
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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you'd like and are able to support the worker-owned and democratic economy, there's a directory that helps make searching for products easier. workerowned.info Thank you to @iesai.bsky.social for building it.
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Market Place | Shop worker owned online stores for apparel, home goods, food and more
Browse worker owned online stores by category or search 3,500+ products from cooperatives and employee-owned companies.
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leosparkle.bsky.social @leosparkle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Make it make sense
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low." 1/
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 17/08/2026
🚨NEW: Hakeem Jeffries declared his opposition to Medicare For All 72 hours after a Yale study shows it would save 100,000 lives & $1 trillion. Context: Jeffries raked in $391k from health PACs in 2026 & faced no primary pressure to hold the line on Dem priorities because a primary was blocked.
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Hakeem Jeffries’ Betrayal Shows Why Democratic Voters Are So Enraged
House Dems’ leader declared his opposition to Medicare For All on the same day a new poll shows almost all Democratic voters support it.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Really just throwing shit at the wall now aren’t ya @thebulwark.com
“Is the DSA a Republican Psy-op” by the Bulwak, who are apparently out of ideas.

We at 50501 think this is a stupid article
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Fascism works not only by the passage of arbitrary, dehumanizing laws but also by the arbitrary, dehumanizing enforcement of the laws.” A deeply and sensitively reported piece by M. Gessen about how “soft fascism” is being operationalized against trans people—gift link:
nytimes.com
Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This devastating reported opinion piece from M. Gessen is absolutely required reading. What a disaster — morally, legally, practically — that reflects on how far this country has sunk. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"In sum, the documents show that local, state, and federal law enforcement are monitoring anti-Flock activists and are trying to tie together people who politically oppose mass surveillance with vigilantes who destroy Flock cameras."
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The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
Documents from law enforcement spy centers show the government is warning cops of "extensive and ongoing chatter on social media" about methods to "physically destroy Flock LPR cameras."
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wisewebwoman.bsky.social @wisewebwoman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Honestly, this is like a Monty Python skit. She's swaying to her own private head music, Brainworms is spouting insane nonsense as usual and yer man is snoring in the middle. This is the US government.
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you want to understand why socialists are winning, it's because this is what has been offered by the best strategic minds of the centrist wing of the Democratic Party.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is how you know we need a wealth tax
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leosparkle.bsky.social @leosparkle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
But it wouldn't make billionaires richer
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In New Orleans, everyone is being watched with facial recognition cameras and police drones—and your hometown might be next. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-powe...
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“AI-Powered” Surveillance Networks are Worse Than You Know
In New Orleans, everyone is being watched with facial recognition cameras and police drones—and your hometown might be next.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/08/2026
The two largest companies running for-profit ICE detention centers — GEO Group and CoreCivic — just reported a combined revenue of more than $1,400,000,000 in Q2 after signing more contracts with ICE. There should be no profit motive to put our community members in horrific detention conditions.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 07/08/2026
🚨THREAD: “For Your Eyes Only”: Israel’s Mole Inside the UN Hacked emails reviewed by Drop Site show a UN official repeatedly passed confidential documents & political intel. to Israeli diplomats, helping them anticipate scrutiny, influence UN comms, & lobby Washington over... Continues Below 🧵⤵️
@DropSiteNews
🚨THREAD: “For Your Eyes Only”: Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations

Hacked emails reviewed by Drop Site show a UN official repeatedly passed confidential documents and political intelligence to Israeli diplomats, helping them anticipate scrutiny, influence UN communications, and lobby Washington over Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank.

Continues Below 🧵⤵️
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leosparkle.bsky.social @leosparkle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
They must like losing
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's been two days since we reported Israel has imprisoned a 16-year-old American boy. It's barely made a blip. If you're a member of Congress, or work for one, and have anything to share about a foreign "ally" imprisoning an American teen — Signal premthakker.35 prem@zeteo.com
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"
The idea that we can assent to the taking away of anybody’s rights, and think that somehow the government won’t come for all of our rights, is itself the problem. And, look, I don’t need people to understand how they use their rights. I just need people to agree that the government shouldn’t be able to take any of our rights. I put my face on the ground thirty-four times a day, David. Most people don’t understand why I do it. I don’t need them to understand. I just want to have the right to do it. And when people decide that they want to take away my right to do that, I’ve got a problem.Now, I hope that everybody’s going to show up and say, No, no, no. You can’t stop that person or that community from reflecting and praying as they choose. Similarly, when it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s the right to be who you are. It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours, then they come for theirs. And at some point you live in a society where rights are negotiable, and that is not the America I was born in. It’s not the America I know and love. It’s not the America I’m going to allow somebody like Donald Trump to give us.
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Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 01/08/2026
💢 Pres. Trump clarifies that Secretary of State Rubio’s campaign to “bring the International Criminal Court to heel” is intended to protect Israeli PM Netanyahu and others facing ICC scrutiny. Speaking at Camp David, Rubio said: “The International Criminal Court has made themselves illegitimate...
💢 President Donald Trump clarifies that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s campaign to “bring the International Criminal Court to heel” is intended to protect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others facing ICC scrutiny.

Speaking at Camp David, Rubio said: “The International Criminal Court has made themselves illegitimate because they claim that even if you’re not a member of that court, we can come after you… They’re very arrogant. So we’ve now begun an effort to really try to bring them to heel.”

Trump interjected to make Rubio’s objective clear: “He’s trying to defend Bibi and various other people.”

The U.S. President said Rubio’s campaign against the ICC has nothing to do with protecting him.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 01/08/2026
AIPAC and allied groups have spent nearly $30 million backing Haley Stevens, while her campaign has outspent Abdul El-Sayed 12 to 1. @dannypostel.bsky.social reports on the money, coalitions and stakes in Michigan’s Senate primary.
inthesetimes.com
Abdul El-Sayed Is In a Fight to Transform the Democratic Party
The Michigan Senate primary between El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is shaping up to be a proxy war in the struggle between the party’s progressive and centrist wings.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Liberals: giving the New York Times money doesn't do anything to trans people The New York Times in just the last 24 hours:
Cunningham backs 'courageous' ralliers supporting her transgender athlete comments
A few dozen gathered outside Portland's Moda Center in support of Cunningham on Friday, marking the second straight game that happened.

Storm owner suspended after interaction with fans supporting Sophie Cunningham
The Storm-Fever game was Indiana's first since Cunningham said it's "common sense" to bar transgender athletes from women's sports.
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Amy Acton is the 3rd most evil Democratic candidate to make it past their initial primary date this cycle, after Maureen Galindo & Graham Platner. Her comments on trans people make Gavin Newsom look like Bernie by comparison. She crossed a red line — we can’t let her infect the Democratic Party
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leosparkle.bsky.social @leosparkle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"HRT allows people to live their best lives. If you take this away yoi basically kill me."
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TJ @tjsls.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
On a related note, I have 3500 cases of nylon mesh condoms that I’ve been trying to ship to schools and planned parenthood but no one wants them. It must be a conspiracy. SURELY I’m not just a FUCKING IDIOT
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leosparkle.bsky.social @leosparkle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Local authorities must spy on their citizens or lose funding
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Reminder: the North Carolina state legislature is totally unrepresentative of the actual voters in North Carolina.
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leosparkle.bsky.social @leosparkle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
NC elected a Democratic governor and attorney general, and the gerrymandered legislature cant stand for it
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
They're coming for your children www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/jk-r...
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JK Rowling says to photograph women in toilets just in case they're transgender - LGBTQ Nation
Her advice will result in cisgender women getting harassed and bullied while they're trying to pee in peace.
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leosparkle.bsky.social @leosparkle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethic cleansing."
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Lou Plummer  @amerpie.lol · 28/07/2026
Gotta point there.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Petition organizer Giovanni Galante, a Trump donor, has described Mamdani as “’a Muslim that has thoughts to get rid of all Jewish people, and to agree with 9/11.’ At another point in the interview, Galante claimed Mamdani ‘believes 9/11 should have happened to us.’”
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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social So sad... :-{
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.currentaffairs.org/news/diarrhe...
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Diarrhea in Every Pot and a Gun in Every Mailbox
Our politicians refuse to provide basic services, but they’ll let us buy guns through the mail and violently shit our pants. These are the problems you get in a failed state.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
U.S. taxpayers spend about $2 billion every year on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees, subsidizing the companies that refuse to adequately pay hundreds of thousands of workers, or give them healthcare. /1
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Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees
American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Nothing says “we’re totally not scared of our cratering numbers in 🇺🇸” like a country hopping in Ms Rachel’s replies 🤔
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is one of six anti-LGBTQ+ riders in the new national security and state department appropriations bill for 2027. Notice how the frame of opposing pediatric GAC is used to shoehorn in opposition to trans people writ large. What a weirdly concise illustration of exactly how we got here.
(e) None of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act may be made available in contravention of Executive Order 14187, relating to Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation, or shall be used or transferred to another Federal agency, board, or commission to fund any domestic or international non-governmental organization or any other program, organization, or association coordinated or operated by such non-governmental organization that either offers counseling regarding sex change surgeries, promotes sex change surgeries for any reason as an option, conducts or subsidizes sex change surgeries, promotes the use of medications or other substances to halt the onset of puberty or sexual development of minors, or otherwise promotes transgenderism.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 26/07/2026
As Gov. Whitmer tries to stop Abdul El-Sayed, remember: Whitmer’s dad was Blue Cross’s CEO, she appointed a Blue Cross CEO co-chair of her transition & got more Blue Cross cash than any MI candidate — as Blue Cross denies 1 in 6 claims Story at LeverNews [dot] com
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leosparkle.bsky.social @leosparkle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Open-air Latino food hall in New Orleans suburbs, deserted now due to daily ICE activity around the city #neworleans #hielo
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