Reposted by Lauren NaturaleRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Men Explain Rape to Me. 41779268
Reposted by Lauren Naturale🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026fucking reallythehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati… 662170719
Reposted by Lauren Naturaletekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Me and many of my brilliant, hardworking colleagues are facing layoffs at the end of this month. if you want to support our union and its members in this tough time, you can do so here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ad...gofundme.comDonate to Support Advocates for Trans Equality workers facing layoff, organized by Gabriel ArklesAdvocates for Trans Equality is on the brink of layoffs. Thos… Gabriel Arkles needs your support for Support Advocates for Trans Equality workers facing layoff 5165148
Lauren Naturale @lnaturale.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Reading the history of my family’s ancestral village in Italy and it’s increasingly clear that we fled some kind of southern Italian Widow’s Bay situation. 170
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleMaureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 02/09/2026It really is this simple. Don't watch. 017057
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleJennifer G @jennifuther.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Moulton's district office earlier today 191876338
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleAnil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026rest in piss Moulton, you fucking ghoul 216815
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleHelena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 31/08/2026oh nothing just thinking about how a few years ago around christmas I texted a friend some joke about "Cancel Culture: This Guy Has to Wear the Chain He Forged in Life" and now they've just like. made that movie. 09618
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleJosh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I hope y’all see that this will mean the imminent closure of a number of graduate programs. 411951
Reposted by Lauren Naturaleburnlittlelight (she/her) @burnlittlelight.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I’m seeing a lot of people talking about Milo’s racism and naked fascism, but not a lot yet about how he was one of the pioneers in strategic deployment of transmisogyny for fascist recruitment, coalition-splitting, and multi-issue messaging. 1749230
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The copy on this story is so good. I keep thinking about it.theonion.comDolly Parton Troubled To Find God IlliterateTHE HEAVENS—Her heart breaking when she discovered the Almighty fumbling over the most basic words on the page in front of Him, country music icon and noted humanitarian Dolly Parton was reportedly tr... 522180286
Reposted by Lauren Naturalederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress. 193354125285
Lauren Naturale @lnaturale.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"How will these tariffs impact Canadian indie comics publishers?" she texts her sister for the 200,000th time in the past 1.5 years 000
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE 343148143447
Lauren Naturale @lnaturale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026During an annual physical while home from undergrad, my primary care doctor asked if there were a lot of lesbians at Sarah Lawrence and “did any of them try to hurt you?” 040
Reposted by Lauren NaturalePatrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Sometimes I think about what Dorothea Brooke would have done with Legos 031
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: big plate of meatloaf, six hours of football, then everyone moves a little closer to the old Trinitron to listen to Ross Douthat talk about sex on "60 Minutes." But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away. 1656947
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/07/2026imo the ideal Odysseus would've been Gene Wilder, but we would never have deserved that movie. 901917113
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I wrote about the lost decade of millennial creativity www.garbageday.email/p/you-get-wh... 5482123
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross. 20563552587
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20/07/2026"I introduce myself as a Catholic nun, I tell them I went to Mass this morning for you, and I'm not a hearing officer, I have nothing to do with the whole process, I'm here to accompany you, to go in with you if that's OK," said Sister Kuhn. "Most days I go, there are unaccompanied minors.” 151186429
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026While we’re on the subject, I also think it’s weird freak behavior to be an adult who makes Hating Children For Merely Existing their entire personality. 1185742507
Lauren Naturale @lnaturale.bsky.social · 18/07/2026So keeping the six year old cooped up in our tiny apt while the air is poison outside is going just about as well as you’d expect. 0100
Lauren Naturale @lnaturale.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The person reading the weather forecast on the radio said “smoke tonight” the way you’d say “rain tonight,” as if it was normal, which I guess it is. 010
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is a trap to get us to admit the bad pulp we have read. 8582
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleJen A. Miller @byjenamiller.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I think a lot of us are being forced to remember similar experiences, myself included. And how no one really cares. It's awful. 52044
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”wired.comMeta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt OutAs part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. 21470432
Lauren Naturale @lnaturale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Look Democrats, I’m sorry you’re in such a bad place right now and I really do wish you the best, but I’m going to need to block you before you drunk-email me again. 0176
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleMichael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Barry Deutsch here is literally the only uninvolved person I've seen weighing in on the Cleves & Walden situation who has actually read both books: 1209
Lauren Naturale @lnaturale.bsky.social · 04/07/2026That part of the heat wave/late empire when you’re weighing whether a trip to the beach would cool everyone off or turn into Picnic at Hanging Rock. 010
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleJulia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 04/07/2026With the wh--ahahahahaahaha--hahaha--excuse me--with--ahem--with the WHAT 101297
Reposted by Lauren NaturalePrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will. 6730285
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleCathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026There's a couple things I want y'all to do when you see allegations on the internet provided from one perspective: 1) Were good faith opportunities taken advantage of before going public? 2) What is there to gain from going public? 016731
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleTorrey Peters @torreypeters.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Once, while on tour in Manchester, England, three trans women burst out crying as I spoke. Turns out, due to EHRC, they had just been kicked off their local soccer team, a club in which no one won anything except for new friends, and from which no one wanted them to leave. 2554125
Reposted by Lauren Naturalejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026one thing i find funny is that the founding generation would likely have been very enthusiastic about, say, muslim immigrants and intensely skeptical of all the catholics 817379989
Reposted by Lauren Naturalesarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I know we don’t talk about it a lot but I think we all need to remember that it’s because of you there’s a giant in our midst and my wife is dead 0134
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 26/06/2026Little known fact, the ?utm parameter in URLs stands for "under this manifesto", an explicit nod to Karl Marx 1281588
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The myth underlying this is that trans people (trans women specifically) were ever "invisible." We were objects of fascination, scorn, mockery, and fetishizing long before 2014 (for about the entire history of mass media really). What really broke a lot of brains was the idea we deserved dignity 222572647
Lauren Naturale @lnaturale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026NYC: The school year continues until the last week of June, but the final month consists entirely of field trips. 020
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleAnil Dash @anildash.com · 24/06/2026The city where strangers embrace in the street, where people line up to vote to feed and house and educate the most vulnerable in their midst, where more people choose to live than any other place in the country, the place enjoying the safest era in its history — this is the *real* America. 7818116
Lauren Naturale @lnaturale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026On this joyful night we once again remember the Brad Lander Activity & Coloring Book, distributed to my kid’s pre-kindergarten class to teach four-year-olds about audits. 161
Reposted by Lauren NaturalePhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026this is very belittling framing to Lander who won Brooklyn voters in prior elections and is crushing Goldman 2065748
Reposted by Lauren Naturalelaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026MY MAYOR MUSLIM MY CONGRESSMAN JEWISH 171513154
Reposted by Lauren NaturaleDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I'm not gonna say the Times had this story ready to go but 592406369
Reposted by Lauren Naturalebjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026This is an aside from the main point of this fine article, but it really grabbed me. 123056
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