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Max Osborn

@maxosb.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 | he/they | queer/feminist/critical criminologist | assistant prof at villanova | studies queer and trans victimization, resilience, resource access, and community-building

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...
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You Have to Call Bigots What They Are
Stop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’m crying. I asked him to send me a screenshot so I could use it in class and it literally says “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”
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Cocaine is one of the most widely abused illicit substances in the world, with an estimated 41 million adults reporting lifetime use in the United States alone (Gangu et al., 2022).
It has well-documented cardiovascular effects, including hypertension, tachycardia,
and vasoconstriction,
and these
have long been associated with acute ischemic events affecting the heart and brain. A less recognized capability is the drug's capacity to precipitate ischemia of the spinal cord, a resulting complication that is both debilitating and repeatedly underdiagnosed. Cocaine-induced acute spinal cord ischemia (ASCI) can result in immediate and permanent paralysis, complete loss of sensation below the level of injury, and autonomic dysfunction affecting bladder and bowel function. This kind of injury is devastating enough to leave patients dependent on lifelong rehabilitative care.


Cocaine is a bad, bad drug that a lot of people use. In the United States about 41 million adults have used cocaine at once. Cocaine is bad for your heart.
Can cause big problems. It can make your heart beat fast and your blood pressure go up. This can cause problems with your heart and brain.. Cocaine can also cause problems with your spinal cord. This can lead to bad injuries that can leave you paralyzed. You might not be able to feel anything below the injury. You might have problems with your bladder and bowel. This kind of injury is very serious. Can require a lot of care for the rest of your life.
A lot of doctors and people do not know about …
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My student told me he ran his paper through an AI checker to see if it would get flagged even though he wrote it, and it offered to “humanize” his paper by changing the sentence, “Illicit cocaine use is responsible for many potential adverse cardiovascular events” to “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One thing that fascinates me about House of the Dragon is that many of the characters seem to exist in entirely different worlds, but those worlds are all pretty fun ones?
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
ohhhh man, I just realized that since I am teaching a media & crime course this semester, I have a built-in excuse to introduce a new generation to one of my favorite videos on the whole wide internet: the Eric Adams "search your child's room for drugs and guns" PSA
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 07/08/2026
Nothing but respect for *my* Odyssey movie
The main trio from Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
completely real question i had to answer for the hospital im getting top surgery at
a surgery form. the question being asked is "what are your pronouns?" the only answers are yes or no.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools.
Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez
By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power. Those physicals, Maria explains, are usually perfunctory: “Like, Are you walking normally? Are you lightheaded? I have never had to take any clothes off. I’ve never felt uncomfortable or violated.” If IL26-638 were to pass and Maria were still in school, she says she would likely drop out of her team. (We’re withholding Maria’s real name to protect her privacy.) “I honestly don’t know if I would be able to do these tests,” she adds. “It would also make me question, If I do it, are all my teammates going to too? Or would I just play with the three or four girls who are willing to or have access to do it?”
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𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓵 & 𝕿𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙 🔪🎃 @wor-will.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Airplane (1980) #FilmSky #MovieSky #Movies
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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Okay, Abbott Elementary and Deli Boys crossover episode WHEN??? If they could do it with Always Sunny, they can do this one too, goddamn it.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 17/07/2026
After working to purge trans people from the military, Pete Hegseth now insists that our soldiers have low testosterone and the military should be providing them with hormones. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you the story in this week's TWIBS!
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TWIBS: Hormones for Me, but Not for Thee! - Assigned Media
After a year and a half of insisting medically transitioning troops can't serve in the military, the SecDef is offering cisgender troops HRT.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
reuters.com
Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
sitting next to an elderly couple on a bus and they are googling whether you can overdose on fentanyl by touching a piece of cash money smdh
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Note the date
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...
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Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act gets the legal rebuke it deserves
Victor Ray: Ron DeSantis' loss in court is a win for education
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
another day, another temporary ban from google scholar for typing too fast so they think I'm a bot 🤦
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💀 skeletori amos 💀 @rivalconga.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.
A photo of Tony Head with a fan, standing in a barn near a horse. Tumblr post from dracofidus: If you EVER think Anthony Head is anything less than an angel then you'd best remember that I have always been a huge fan of his and we've always had a little contact over the years and he heard I'd come out as Trans and was having a hard time and that I was kind of sad that the photos I had from conventions with him were of me with long hair and no binder and they were all signed to "Sarah" and so he invited me to spend the day with him at his farm and he picked me up from the station and we just hung out and had lunch and he insisted on paying and look loads of photos and had them printed on photo paper the same day so he could sign them to Jay, along with other photos of him as Giles and Utger and he literally spent five hours chatting with me and got all the pronoun stuff right every time and then he dropped me off at the station, gave me a massive hug. Waved me through the ticket barrier and insisted I message him when I got home so he knew I was back safe.
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
picked up with watching yellowjackets again, but I am a baby and have to watch on scaredy-cat mode (aka without my glasses on, so the particularly gross / upsetting parts are slightly out of focus)
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 13/05/2026
#OtD 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...
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What You Need to Know About the MOVE Bombing
And how Philadelphia became "the city that bombed itself."
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
#MorningReads Underlying beliefs about the major elite-driven frames of bathroom issue – including safety of women & children, discrimination against transgender people, & safety of transgender people – shape opinions.
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Policing gender in the bathroom: attitudes toward the transgender bathroom issue
“Bathroom bills” that require transgender individuals to use public restrooms that correspond to their sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity have become law in many states, some i...
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Art exhibit at Brooklyn Public Library asks visitors to imagine a world without prisons “The Warehouse,” a collaboration between artist Vic Liu & abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, builds an environment where visitors can see and feel through the possible answers prismreports.org/2026/04/13/w...
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Brooklyn Public Library art exhibit asks visitors to imagine world without prisons
“The Warehouse” is a collaboration between artist Vic Liu and abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba builds an environment for possible answers
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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The country’s largest organization representing doctors is being pressed by Republican attorneys general on health care for trans youth. As families and doctors navigate this care in an increasingly hostile landscape, keeping tabs on what medical groups say matters. Here's what's been said so far:
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Gender-affirming care is becoming a political test for top medical groups
The country’s largest organization representing doctors is being pressed by Republican attorneys general on health care for trans youth.
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie says " serious people "
Alt: Logan Roy from the tv show "Succession" (a white bearded guy in his 70s, played by Scottish actor Brian Cox) disdainfully says "You are not serious people"
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Relatedly, you don't have to have come up with a point-by-point plan for an alternative system in order to observe that the current version is bad/harmful/inefficient/not working.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
An excellent writeup of the existentially terrifying House Resolution 7661. reactormag.com/what-to-know...
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What to Know About the National Book Ban Bill - Reactor
House Resolution 7661 is a potentially significant piece of book ban legislation. Here's what you need to know about it.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,
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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.
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Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)
The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Help this is SUCH a funny throwback and remarkably restrained/subtle, considering youtu.be/T6s4N2h6Eec?...
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We're finding savings everywhere
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This stance assumes that media outlets and their leadership teams have a) no interest or stake in whether good or bad policies ultimately pass, and b) an obligation to platform misguided ideas simply for the sake of variety, as opposed to choosing ideas that are interesting or show merit. Nonsense.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 27/10/2025
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text:

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini
Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!
Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?
Open your gdrive (web OR app)
Settings > Manage Apps
Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)
Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
For the Interept, I reported from Uganda about the effects of USAID cuts on LGBTQ people, HIV prevention activists and sex workers—and tried to tell the story from the POV of these important but criminalized communities. Please read and share. theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...
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By Slashing Foreign Aid, Trump Is Fueling the Spread of HIV in Uganda
Reporting from Uganda, The Intercept saw how Trump’s effort to slash foreign aid is encouraging the transmission of HIV.
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Thinking about Katie Tastrom's book "A People's Guide to Abolition & Disability Justice" in which she talks about "carceral epidemiology," the way the state "uses communicable disease as part of the informal punishment of incarceration."
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
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ariel @aritalks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
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Congressman Shri Thanedar @thanedar.house.gov · 09/01/2026
The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/01/2026
The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.
motherjones.com
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I got to dive into a lot of this literature when I wrote about immediate media coverage of the shooting of Tamir Rice, who was only 14 at the time of his death. It was eye-opening to apply the frameworks from prior research and see it unfold exactly as predicted journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Fox is signaling to their viewers that this woman was from the enemy tribe, so their viewers should not be upset or be concerned about how she was executed in the middle of the road for no reason. "He was no angel" for 2026.
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Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
thinking about chandan reddy's argument about the state laying claim to "legitimate violence" (which also necessitates codifying the "legitimate" *targets* of such violence vs those ostensibly being protected, and designating other types of violence as illegitimate by comparison)
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
they are already turning this into a "debate" and an excuse to scold the left www.thefp.com/p/the-right-...
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