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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6h
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 18h
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: AMERICAN SAMOA ARIZONA ARKANSAS FLORIDA GEORGIA INDIANA KENTUCKY LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online) MISSISSIPPI MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person) OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA — mail TENNESSEE TEXAS npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 05/10/2026
Republican House members Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson have called for all transgender people to be rounded up and forcibly institutionalized. trib.al/J4bzitr
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The Fascists Want Trans People to Leave. I Left. But Should We All?
I moved north. Polls show many trans Americans would leave if they could. Should Canada make us an offer we can’t refuse?
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes. Oh god, so dark.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
I have no illusions that NYT would ever offer me a job, nor do I want one. But they may want to consider that their unwritten policy of not crediting previous reporting (the way everyone else in journalism does!) may be costing them the hiring of great journalists they actually do want.
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And I'm really, really grateful for those people. And for the student whisper network that lets you know who those faculty members are.
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I know what you're saying, and maybe you're right, but I also think its possible the elitism is an aggravating factor
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I mean these faculty members were just showing up, in no official capacity, not because they had to, but because in order for students to learn, there was this underlying level of anti-violence work they had to put in
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I also found there were some incredible faculty members who really fought the administration stood up for student victims.
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I had some really difficult experiences there with harassment. And the university is designed to deflect culpability and to protect its own interests. That's what the university does. And at the same time,
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ppl keep texting me about the Cornell case because I went to school there & taught there. I started to write something longer, but maybe all I really want to say is this:
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/10/2026
the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you want to preorder my book right now, S&S is having a 20% off sale w the code SPOOKY @atriabooks.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Anythi...
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Anything of Value
A memoir and call to action from renowned sex worker, activist, and legal scholar Lorelei Lee exploring the historical and current criminalization ...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/10/2026
“There were at least two direct hits on a school packed with children … and a couple of hours after those initial hits, as first responders came, as parents came, the U.S. launches more strikes.”
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“The School That Became a Grave”: Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab, Killing 120+ Iranian Kids
Drop Site News released a major investigation this week into the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh children’s school in the Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli ...
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have turned in my book! Send me flowers and champagne (and books) here: throne.com/missloreleilee
Lorelei sits on a pink couch, wearing a blue and white polka-dot top, in front of bookshelf full of books. They are a white nonbinary femme with bleached blonde hair, lipstick, and a smile.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a big f’ing deal. Story at the newsletter right now, and full explainer coming soon (so make sure you’re subscribed to AED) Three anti-abortion states are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to extradite abortion providers from pro-choice states.
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you are interested in the conference as well, all of the panels are still available to view if you scroll down on this page: hackinghustling.org/informal-cri...
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Informal, Criminalized, Precarious: Sex Workers Organizing Against Barriers - Hacking//Hustling
This webinar series will bring sex workers into conversation with designers, academics, policy-makers, regulators, media, and tech companies to draw attention to issues plaguing sex workers online, in...
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Five years ago, a group of sex worker and feminist organizers threw a conference on Organizing Against Barriers. In the aftermath, Rachel Kuo and I released this Dis/Organizing Toolkit, of which I'm still incredibly proud. Feels very relevant to this moment: hackinghustling.org/research-2/d...
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Dis/Organizing Toolkit: How We Build Collectives Beyond Institutions - Hacking//Hustling
This toolkit offers key organizing lessons and political directions from migrant worker and sex worker-led political collectives, formations, and organizations who face multiple and overlapping barrie...
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So, we are putting the equivalent of Flock cameras on Postal Trucks to create “valuable data”? Valuable to whom? Will it be sold?
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026
it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I cannot wait for this book!!!!!
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mr. McKinsey was a transgender man and accused his wife, Candice Jang, and his in-laws of abusing him because of his identity, according to his filing for a restraining order in December 2025. He said his mother-in-law called him and one of his sons a “pervert.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This makes me sick to my stomach. Imagine believing the social importance and cultural value of your job is directly tied to its market potential. Social workers and artists are crucial and urgently needed.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just spent half an hour reading every post in this thread and every post attached to this thread, and I am so thoroughly horrified. This is worth taking the time to read all of.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
South Dakota GOP politicians doing the Missouri thing and trying to screw over their state's residents. We need to understand this is a thing the GOP does because they Do Not represent the interests of the people in the states they control. They subvert and manipulate the will of the people.
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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Come say hey :-)
Table set up with tons of books, zines, stickers, and totes. Text: “Repping Working Girls Press & Fairy Slipper Press at MayDay Space for the Anarchist Book Fair till 6:30 today
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The argument that "all sex work is rape" is making the rounds again. I wrote about the (white supremacist) history of that argument: llee13.substack.com/p/know-the-h...
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know the history of your arguments
wading into the “all sex work is rape” discourse
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Federal law enforcement agents injured and briefly detained an Evanston man, a U.S. citizen, after they mistook him for another man for whom they said they had an arrest warrant, according to the Evanston Police Department." www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/21/m...
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Man beaten by ICE agents in Evanston in possible case of mistaken identity, per police
The victim, an Evanston resident and U.S. citizen, reported ICE agents injured his head, neck and teeth. He was taken to hospital.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/09/2026
The DOJ is no longer bothering to enforce racial desegregation of schools.. trib.al/t4KTWft
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Trump’s Justice Department Gives Up on Desegregation
The DOJ is no longer bothering to enforce racial desegregation of schools..
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ironically, it takes a lot of education to be smart enough to know just how much you don’t know
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Your regular reminder that this is a public website and things that you say can and will be used against you.
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wheelchairs, walkers, canes, scooters, et al confer mobility and independence. It’s only when you look with ableist eyes that you see a restriction.
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No one is "bound" to a wheelchair. A wheelchair is a device that INCREASES mobility. Wheelchairs are freeing, not binding. I cannot stand this man. But this language is not it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Note that in two articles today, WaPo describes a "sale" of bombs to Israel. This is extremely misleading. The reported $2.bn package is 100% funded by US taxpayers via the Foreign Military Financing grants for Israel to buy US weapons.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I learned this week that the New York Times was founded 175 years ago. There is a useful set of pieces floating around on this for journalism history buffs. But what struck me is that means the Times was founded 25 years *after* the black press which will celebrate its 200th birthday in a few months
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 18/09/2026
Last year, nearly 20,000 VPN users mobilized with us to demand safe and private browsing but the threat against VPNs is escalating with the global rise of social media bans & “age verification” bills. Either we win against online censorship bills & VPN bans, or we lose our right to anonymity online.
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Working Girls Press @workinggirlspress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Though sex worker writing has become more common in recent years, it's still rare to see sex worker fiction! That's why we're so excited to bring Liquid Silver into the world, to explore the sex work imaginary in sci-fi and speculative fiction settings. 🪐 www.kickstarter.com/projects/wor...
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media. @josephcox.bsky.social reports. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPu...
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And we can't have reproductive freedom or trans rights without sex workers' rights. The connection should be obvious.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Right?!
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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So excited to support the latest anthology from @workinggirlspress.bsky.social! A collection of speculative fiction by sex workers from around the world! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wor...
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Liquid Silver
an anthology of speculative fiction by sex workers, edited by Mia Walsch
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Trinity @playwithtrinity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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