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Something I think about a lot. No, we don’t have free will in the literal biological sense. But nihilism isn’t the logical next step from that. One person who is driven to not do harm because of their genetics and environment can help create an environment that leads fewer people to do harm.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20h

Canada’s most prominent TERF writing an article in the Daily Wire slut shaming the Cornell survivor is just such an incredible illustration of our current moment.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Men will literally pressure their female co-workers into “networking” sex parties instead of going to therapy to get over the crippling anxiety that is preventing them from checking out the swingers scene.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Osborn could theoretically barter committees out Dems with, “I’ll negotiate to potentially be your 51st vote when Fetterman is being a dumbass.” The thing he can’t do and get re-elected is be a reliable vote on procedure, because that’s how you get, “He votes with Dems 95% of the time,” ads.

rollcall.com

Who would this independent caucus with? ‘Everybody’

Three independent candidates made the trek to Capitol Hill this week to make a point about AI and data centers, calling on Congress to rein in a “real threat.” They also made a case for another realit...

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This entire discourse started because some dumbass TERF was like trans women can take hormones or have surgeries but the Taliban will never oppress you the way they oppress “real” women. Which is true in the sense that you can’t experience oppression under a regime that executes you first.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think this country is about to sleepwalk its way into an incredibly lopsided midterm with a large number of Trump voters just opting out of the process because they don’t trust anybody anymore. The question becomes how do you build on that so it lasts for more than one cycle. See below.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Marcy Kaptur voted for DOMA, and 30 years later she’s doing this. Sure, white working class district blah blah blah. I just can’t imagine spending your entire career consistently being in the wrong side of history to hold on to power.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There weren’t even middle schoolers at the high school keg parties I went to. What the absolute hell are they doing letting in 13-year-olds?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

newrepublic.com

MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The only other way out of this is two conservative SCOTUS justices having heart attacks at the exact right time, but even then it’s only a temporary fix.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The wild thing that you won't quite glean from this story unless you read the links is that Let's Go Washington's own legal analysis says that parents on trial for abusing their own kids will have access to their disciplinary records, unless the school gets a court order to prevent it. /1

seattletimes.com

Gov. Ferguson warns against ‘under the radar’ ballot initiative

Ferguson joined Democratic Party lawmakers and other allies Thursday in warning voters against an initiative that would modify parents’ and students’ rights in public schools.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Brian Heywood 🤝 Tim Eyman Terrible at writing single-subject initiatives

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I came out late 2021 just as a media obsession with a trans woman doing well at swimming was about to kick the anti-trans panic into high gear in the US. It’s now a much harsher world than the one I thought I was coming out to, but I wouldn’t do anything differently.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One thing that really pisses me off is that I genuinely think, “No, government needs to get the fuck out peoples’ health care decisions and let parents and doctors decide,” would actually win you more votes in Texas than capitulating on this. This is a different issue than sports.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People will be like, “The gays became successful when they dropped the ACT UP tactics for HRC and Will and Grace,” and like anybody with a cursory understanding of movement building knows you never get to the latter without the former.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He’s so fucking good at this. Never been more livid about the natural born citizen clause in the constitution.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I agree it’s real, but scolding people does not solve the problem. It’s the responsibility of candidates to earn peoples’ votes, not the other way around. Hillary could’ve, for example, added single-payer to her platform after the primary, saying, “Bernie showed this has broad support, let’s do it!”

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The social media staffer who told them to post this on Bluesky is definitely a closet anarchist who is laughing at the QTs.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Again, the thing Dems should learn from Trump is that the national DC press corps is not your friend. But rather than shouting, “You’re fake news,” you can instead calmly call them out on their bullshit.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In pleading with you all on this website that, “Go knock doors,” is the correct response to a bad election take.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Woman is a gender historically assigned to people who either have the capacity to give birth at some point in their lives or presumed to have. Any laws separating men and women have always been based on socially constructed gender. There are no changing rooms, sports, or prisons in nature.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is the point in the election season where I remind people that if you are posting on BlueSky about how you think a trans substacker is going to cost Josh Turek an election, you should buy a plane ticket to Iowa and knock doors.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One thing I like to remind TERFs is that trans women vote for the bodily autonomy of cis women at a much higher rate than cis women do.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You know how Trump is promising to give everybody $5000? That would’ve actually been a really good idea both economically and politically in 2009 when everybody was unemployed and broke and inflation wasn’t an issue. But the same centrists would’ve bitched about it “disincentivizing work”.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reading this Adam Jentleson article about how if Democrats just win 370 electoral votes and huge majorities, they’ll keep them through the midterms and like… In 2008 Dems won 365 electoral votes, 257 House Seats, and 59 Senate seats and lost it all 2 years later by not using it to actually deliver.

Jentleson writes, he or she will have to win not a bare majority of two hundred and seventy electoral votes but a supermajority of three hundred and seventy—an outcome that would require victories in states such as Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. Jentleson believes that this will "usher in majorities in bot houses of Congress" big enough to survive the midterms, and hold power long enough so that Democrats cannot only enact their agenda but also flip the balance of the Supreme Court. "Settling for smaller but ideologically purer majorities is a path to purgatory at best," he concludes, "and losing to fascism at worst."

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Basically the 1980s mentality on gay people. Like we’re not even in the 2000s, “Well they are lesser, but they help straight men develop good fashion sense and give good life advice to straight women, so how about a civil union, eh!”

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also, part of this is getting people in there who will confirm our judges and not confirm theirs. It’s like how Susan Collins is “pro choice” while voting to confirm the justices who overturned Roe. Still, absolutely yell at them for crappy positions, fight to keep the Overton Window from moving.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Broadly speaking: I think you should express your anger at Dems caving on trans sports bans. I also do not think it's productive to let that anger turn into doomerism about the inevitability of becoming Labor when a lot of the Dems doing it are trying to win states Trump carried by double digits. /1

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Has culture progressed enough that there's no way that these people can end no-fault divorce, drive women out of the workplace, and repeal laws making spousal rape a crime? I'd like to think so. But make no mistake, the ghouls at the Heritage Foundation dream about this shit all the time.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's a Supreme Court case this term that is likely going to weaken Title IX, and these peoples' long-term vision is unequivocally a world where women can't get a passport without their husband's approval. We hopefully will never see that world, but it's absolutely their goal.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve thought about this a lot and my answer is that Gore gets about 6-12 months of a honeymoon, at which point Fox News starts showing a 24/7 chryon, “Day XXX that President Gore has failed to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.”

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The thing people need to know about the WA "parental rights" initiative is that it actually takes away parental rights to immediate notification if your child is sexually assaulted at school. This is what happens when the ADF gives you a carbon copy of a Louisiana law and says put it on the ballot.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The correct response to this was, “Happy to have Ken Paxton on my show as well. We can talk about all of the child molesters he went easy on.”

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Or for the love of god just do court packing so that you can outsource civil rights decisions to unelected officials.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 09/09/2026

Amid the news of the day, I have some news of my own. 😊

A Publishers Marketplace deal report that says: Journalist and Autonomy News cofounder Garnet Henderson’s LEAVE NO MEANS UNTRIED, an investigation into how anti-abortion disinformation has shaped our laws and culture, and how this playbook is being used to attack other freedoms, to Michelle Capone at Melville House, at auction, for publication in fall 2027, by Nicki Richesin at Dunow, Carlson, & Lerner (NA).

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

TL;DR, patriarchy is a hell of a drug that any of us can get suckered into consuming. For Queer and BIPOC women, this is less likely to manifest itself in supporting MAGA than cis-het white women because they literally call us slurs based on other parts of our identities.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A more productive way to understand what happened is a lot of parents (mainly moms) were pushed beyond tenable stress levels having a primary lever of state support now gone. And when society teaches women to never admit they can’t do it alone, that stress is easy to channel into blaming others. /1

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think Dr. Haenschen is right here about how to de-program MAHA folks. I just don’t think the next Presidential candidate needs to get that in the weeds on this. Childhood vaccines are incredibly popular (75-91%), and they should just say we’re going back to taking politics out of vaccines.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem had some crappy TERF views in the 70s and 80s and some crappy SWERF views up to her death. That said, she won't be remembered for these because she didn't get suckered into a weird cult that causes feminists to expend all of their energy on imaginary enemies rather than patriarchy.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I know I should be mad, but I can't help but laugh at this.

Matt Calkins Substack Headline:

Did Colin Kaepernick do more harm than good for the Black community?

He first knelt 10 years ago today. But was his reason for doing so based in fact?

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No Hate in WA State @nohateinwastate.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@vox.com breaks down why I-638 is more extreme than other measures like it in the country. All girls will be discouraged from playing sports under I-638 because they will be subjected to invasive, embarrassing genital exams. We must take a stand this November and Vote NO on I-638. #NoHateWAState

A screenshot of an article from Vox on a pale purple background. The article’s header image shows three girls in sports uniforms smiling and holding up a peace sign. The headline says: What happens when a blue state votes on trans sports? Four states have midterm ballot measures on the issue. Washington’s would go further than any law in the country. Below the headline, an excerpt from the article reads: “School sports is a place where kids can belong, a place of inclusion, where they can learn to work as a team and learn dedication,” Kelsey Gellner, a pediatric nurse based in Seattle, told me. “Tens of thousands of girls will be impacted by this to purposely exclude 10 children. That’s insane.” A dark purple footer with white text says “Vote NO on I-638”

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In response to questions about Washington’s trans sports ban initiative leading to invasive genital exams, a spokesperson for the sponsors literally told @vox.com that they should’ve written a better initiative.

while crafting the ballot language. "I agree with you that it should have been explicit to say, 'Here's all the ways in the universe that you could verify a child's sex'and we didn't do that, and that's where we are now," Herzberg told me.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The, "It all goes to consultants," narrative covers up the bigger and much more important truth. The means of mass communication are owned largely by our political adversaries, and we have to shell out billions of dollars to to them every two years to have a chance of winning elections.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When Markey was elected the vibe among a lot of younger aspiring mass politicians was like come on dude, we put Ted Kennedy in there when he was 30 so he could grow up to run the place if he doesn’t become President. Warren was 60, but also a rock star and contender for the latter.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The fact that Markey keeps drawing challengers demonstrates why Mills would’ve been a bad candidate. There are plenty of octogenarian Senators, but they chair powerful committees, so their existence is justified. Markey doesn’t because he was 67 when elected. Glad he beat Kennedy and Moulton tho.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Almost dropped my weights when I was reminded Ross included trans women among the groups of people who can’t get laid and that we could “re-distribute” sex to. Buddy, trans women face a lot of issues, but ease of getting laid is categorically not one of them.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Freshman year of college I got a B on a paper and went to the professor to ask how I could get an A next time. He said, you won’t in this class, you’re competing against juniors and seniors who have more practice writing, but you’ll get there. I owe my career partly to him teaching me that lesson.

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