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Madeleine Croll

@madeleinecroll.bsky.social
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Trans Lesbian Latina activist living in the borderlands of South Texas's Rio Grande Valley. Academic. Political Scientist. Sociologist. Researcher. Future Law Student? (She/Her)

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Matthew Pfab @matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I am devastated to learn that my fellow Atmospheric Science classmate, Juniper Blessing, was killed this past weekend at UW. In the one class I had with Juniper, I knew her to be very kind and dedicated. May she rest in peace and never be forgotten. 🙏💔 www.king5.com/article/news...
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'Most amazing human being we have ever known': Family of UW student releases statement after fatal stabbing
Juniper Blessing was killed at off-campus student apartments on Sunday. The UW student's family says the loss "not only devastates us but diminishes the world."
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Y'all denied her tenure
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...
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The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Hey GUYS GUYS GUYS, WE'VE TAKEN THE BASTILLE" Followed by the roar of the crowd. (can't tell you how moving this is) via @LucAuffret
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Madeleine Croll @madeleinecroll.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New Report Reveals Walmart’s Patents for Price-Gouging Tech truthout.org/articles/new...
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New Report Reveals Walmart’s Patents for Price-Gouging Tech
Walmart’s US CEO said customers’ order value jumps 40 percent when they use the company’s AI shopping assistant.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Perfect Trump backers. Perfect!
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
more of Berlin was still standing in 1945
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
The Trump administration is rolling back federal fuel economy standards for new vehicles. The move reverses policies meant to increase fuel efficiency to encourage greater use of electric vehicles. to.pbs.org/3VEA8iB
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What Trump's rollback of fuel economy standards means for drivers
The Trump administration is rolling back federal fuel economy standards for new vehicles. The move reverses policies meant to increase fuel efficiency to encourage greater use of electric vehicles. Th...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
A man so desperate to use the bathroom at a Kroger supermarket in Texas intentionally crashed his 2006 Chevrolet HHR through the building’s front doors because the store was closed, the authorities said.
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A Driver Desperate to Use the Bathroom Plows Into a Kroger in Texas, the Police Say
The driver, James Mansell Lancaster Jr., was upset to find the supermarket in Rosenberg, Texas, closed early Sunday morning, the police said.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Marco Rubio: "Anything that had a chance of making money in Cuba was controlled by the Cuban military and the Cuban communist party to line the pockets of a handful of individuals at the expense of the entire country"
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
College journalists bay-beeeeeee!
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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Funding Palantir" NOT "arming the country." NOT "improving U.S. response and efficiency." No, it's FUNDING FUCKING PALANTIR
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The paper claimed that receiving gender-affirming care did not improve the mental health of Finnish adolescents. The claim was highly contested at the time bc of its lack of supporting evidence
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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.kjzz.org/business/202... When the tech pros are working this hard to put lipstick on the pig, we know that they are running scared. Keep pushing back hard. Say no to data centers.
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Data center leaders, ASU water expert say the facilities use less water than assumed
Tom Sullivan, COO of Air2O in Phoenix, says data centers have greatly reduced their water consumption, in some cases dropping from a million gallons a day to now just a few hundred.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Not one single person in that room was for the data center. And the city council just went ahead and approved it,” says Jazmin Villegas, who lives in Red Oak, Texas.
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ChloesImagination⭐️ @chloesimagination.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love the resident evil movie OCS so much,,
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Breaking: ICE shot and injured a man in Austin, Texas, earlier today. Trump has allowed ICE to flood our streets and put our communities in harms way again and again and Governor Abbott is complicit every time. I am demanding the body camera footage and full accountability.
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
Video appears to show an injured man — from being struck by an ICE agents’ car or from being beaten is unclear — and the ICE agents driving away with a flat tire (!) while the man is still laying in the street. Unreal.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 21/09/2026
There has been cell phone footage released of the Ice shooting in Austin. Looks like attempted murder to me.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yesterday marked a year since I got thrown to the pavement at Broadview. Next week will be a year since a car hit us, leading to the indictment of myself and five others. So little has changed. I will be at Broadview next Friday for the weekly protest and I hope you will too.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.
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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...
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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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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
...Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
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Assumption #4: The elephant in the room that no one is talking about
There is a striking disconnect between Talarico, Turek, et al. — who have clearly made a political calculation that abandoning trans rights will help them more than it will hurt them in this election — and the many cisgender liberals I’ve encountered online who are absolutely freaking out over the possibility that trans people’s critiques and protests will ultimately tank said candidates.
Both of these things cannot simultaneously be true!
If you think your favorite candidate enacted the correct political strategy, then there is no reason to berate trans people for protesting it, as those protests should already be baked into your candidate’s calculations. So why are you berating trans people then? (Unless, of course, you enjoy berating trans people just for the sake of it.)
Alternatively, if you think trans people *are* capable of tanking your favorite candidate via our criticisms and protests, doesn’t that imply that your candidate (and their consultants and strategists) totally fucked up in their political calculations here? And if they did fuck up, shouldn’t you be reaching out and complaining to *them* (rather than berating trans people), in the hope that they might reverse their bad decision?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The GOP has collapsed so far into far right authoritarianism that it has lost <checks notes> Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, George Will, & Bill Kristol, & yet somehow our National Conversation™️ remains focused disproportionately on whether Democrats are veering too far left into socialism 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Punto / Toby - Looking for Work @punto.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"I am obscene to you, but to myself I simply am." #transrights #smallbusiness #lgbtqart #queerart
Digital illustration of two pigeons, two rats, a snail, a slug, some isopods and a moth in a cuddle pile. The text reads "I am obscene to you but to myself I simply am."
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Madeleine Croll @madeleinecroll.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/09/2026
As I was saying.
A screenshot of a thread of three posts by Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) discussing Democratic Party politics and transgender rights.
First post (2/4):
"The push to abandon trans people within the Democratic party has not been organic. It's been funded from the very top by the wealthy donors and consultants. Base voters on the other hand have punished candidates for attempting to abandon trans people. But the money won't be deterred."
Second post (3/4):
"They're constantly putting money into think tanks, media publications, and friendly substack grifters like Matthew Yglesias to get the Dem professional class to agree to abandon trans people. They've been banging that drum for 2 years now nonstop saying it's trans people's fault."
Third post (4/4):
"That's what this is about. It's them following the lead of Labour andopening the door to force the Dem platform to officially abandon trans rights for at least a generation.
You don't hate the donors and the consultant class enough."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026
Comforting.
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The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
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Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Repost to make it die faster
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Galmesh Rosewood @galmeshrosewood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yippee ki-yay! Genderswapped McClane from Die Hard won the character of the month. By far the hardest challenge that was picked in the polls.
A genderswapped McClane holding a gun and smoking while saying Yippee ki yay.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
...any Dem politician who throws trans ppl under the bus, when they have the opportunity to instead MAKE THESE ANTI-TRANS ADS ABOUT ELON MUSK, is an outright coward: bsky.app/profile/bmig...
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hate that I have to re-up this today. as I detail in this piece, abandoning trans rights is not only immoral, but it's also BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base without winning over a single new voter: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.
Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is a powerful story from a trans Texan (who's also quite a talented independent journalist). I've been arguing that trans people have the right to be upset with Talarico, and I think we do. This is the case for vote for him anyway, eloquently made, and by someone with the standing to make it.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 09/09/2026
He’s a pre-fab villain, an outright mass murderer, perfectly set up to be exploited by the Democratic Party, except they just don’t seem interested in actually doing it. He is super-rich, after all.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Musk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Run on this, you cowards
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shoutout to @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, one of the few voices who wasn't like "welcome back, Elon ❤️😘" when he was beefing online with Trump for like a day www.thebulwark.com/p/dear-democ...
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Dear Dems, Don’t Welcome Elon Back
Embracing Musk’s attacks on Trump’s agenda is an enemy-of-my-enemy temptation Democrats should resist.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They hate him. They really hate him.
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Pete Hegseth’s Ruthless Pentagon Nickname
They hate him.
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