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Martin Padgett

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“A Night at The Sweet Gum Head,” “The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick,” and "The Queer Revolution Was Televised" (coming 2027). Generation X.

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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Is there any way there are ten R votes to impeach anyone?
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/10/2026
#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I’ve already mentioned it twice and I’m teaching composition.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Nonfiction Is Struggling. Publishers Are Making It Worse | The Walrus
The industry faults readers for declining sales, but its own decisions are to blame
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We urgently need a federal privacy law to protect our privacy from big tech companies who spy on us on our phones and social media, to protect us from Flock cameras that are being improperly accessed by folks who are using that information to target innocent people.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He’s treating our capital like some shitty AirBnB that he won’t have to clean up.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i’m telling you all, we’re going to start hearing more calls to repeal obergefell and loving.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The penumbra is what I say it is
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Incitatus
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
Breaking News: A sheriff in California was ordered by the state Supreme Court to return about 650,000 ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for an investigation into voter fraud that state officials said had no basis in fact. nyti.ms/4hejTBu
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco walking between SUVs parked in the street. A headline reads: "Republican Sheriff Illegally Seized California Ballots, Court Rules." Photo by Noah Berger/Associated Press
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incentives were the only way this would have worked in the U.S. It's seed or cede.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Horrifying title for anyone who remembers the 1980s.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 20/09/2026
From banning partisan gerrymandering to giving citizens a chance to sue for voting rights to expanding the U.S. House of Representatives, here are eight solutions to protect every eligible U.S. citizen’s right to vote in free and fair elections. bit.ly/4j4uGiG
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Eight Solutions to Protect Voting Rights and Improve Representation
Congress must make voting fairer and more accessible for U.S. citizens and mitigate damage done by states, the executive branch, and the Supreme Court.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I thought homoeroticism would never creep me out, but here we are
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maybe they just took ratfucking to its logical conclusion.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just....put it all out there girl
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
found a new naming convention for my writing drafts
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trying reinvent myself a third time, looking at models for it.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 08/09/2026
“Shame is one of the ways that groups of people mediate their norms without state intervention,” Jay Caspian Kang writes. “This, of course, is not always a good thing. But any community without shame must have moral consensus.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oOtftg
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The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oh, and that week, temps in Detroit fell to -50 and I called home on a satellite phone from the jungle, where it was 85 degrees.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I flew down a day early to Belize City and was warned not to leave the hotel by myself. Then I saw the TV news from the U.S. about the Northridge earthquake and found out half the attendees would be a day late when they figured out how to get them out of LA. Fun times.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This was the trip where I hung from the "door" in the back of an RAF chopper tilted sideways so I could shoot overhead photos of a Mayan ruin. Right leg wedged between the two seats in front, no belt, just a left foot on the runner to brace me.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm getting a lot of airplay on the CD site this month!
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The editorial Internet is ceasing to exist.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Uber quiet, but for dental hygienists
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Indexing, the big tell that your Gen X mind is distinctively warped.
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Shocking story in here of Byron White and his clerks shredding his papers… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Byron White "redacted" much of his taxpayer-compensated work, too.
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hey that’s my byline, not Frank
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Those were wigs?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026
Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
A black-and-white portrait of Dolly Parton with big blonde hair, sitting in a chair and smiling. A headline reads: "1946-2026: Dolly Parton." Photo by Jack Manning/The New York Times
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Go out how you want, leave a comet trail of good behind.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fantastic. Also her version of the Banks of the Ohio on…Little Sparrow? We saw her on that tour and I never needed to go far for an example of virtuosity or virtue after that.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well I failed
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wes Siler is an independent journalist who has spent the last 24 years writing about the intersection of public lands, conservation, and politics. He tells the story of the brief battle that forced Native American displacement from most of modern-day Ohio. #WeAreAmerica250
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Most transphobia, or so it seems to me, is about wanting culturally contingent hierarchies and identity scripts to be Inscribed in Nature in some deep way that obviates the need for reflective examination, and getting very anxious and angry about anything that makes it clear that’s a fantasy.
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CNN @cnn.com · 17/08/2026
A new study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, found a 15% increase in traffic fatalities on the days major new albums are released, compared with the days immediately before and after. cnn.it/4g2Sl1d
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Time to train on avoiding gunfire in classrooms.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My tailor!
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Such a shame. He also did a remix of Erasure’s cover of Supernature, the opening sixty seconds of which are among the most exciting in electronic music. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
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William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69
Musician’s projects included Madonna’s Ray of Light, Blur’s 13 and All Saints’ chart-topping singles Pure Shores and Black Coffee
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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The Bears Are on Ozempic
An annual celebration of bears — gay men on the bigger and hairier side — feels different in the age of GLP-1s.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
That's TBD: www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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The Supreme Court Just Lit a Fuse Under Flock's License Plate Camera Empire
Lee Schmidt and Crystal Arrington just wanted to drive around Norfolk, Virginia, without a government contractor logging every trip. Instead, they became the named plaintiffs in one of the most conseq...
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
this j-hole thinks Fourth Amendment violations are parking tickets.
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Herpes: "I want to be in every body."
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-queer-re...
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The Queer Revolution Was Televised
The 1980s were the decade in which the gay rights movement came to understand the narrative power of television, and how it could be deployed as a tool for political organization as well as one that e...
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Martin Padgett @martinpadgett.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Seems private and secure
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