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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 21h

It’s sickening to me that we put people through this, including my journalist colleagues who have witnessed multiple executions, who have to try to make sense of what they’ve seen. Grateful to @iamstevenhale.bsky.social and everyone else for bearing witness to this barbarism masquerading as justice.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 21h

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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Dawn Bense @dawnbense.bsky.social · 12h

I read an article a couple days ago where Pike said she was ready to accept death. She said her only fear was a botched execution.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

The evidence of being repeatedly raped and abused by multiple men as a child was deemed inadmisseable at her trial.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

I talked with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about how our communities can defend the voting process this November. Some folks reached out and asked me if I could make an episode about this subject because they were tired of simply being told to vote harder and wanted to know what more we could do. ❤️

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Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November

“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 10h

It’s past time to end state-sanctioned murder. No matter the circumstances. No matter what the person did. No matter whether it’s a state execution or a police-perpetrated killing or a drone strike in another part of the world. NO MORE.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/09/2026

A dystopian infringement on our access to information isn’t just some looming threat — we’re actively living through it.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is coming up soon, register now!

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Healing to Action @healingtoaction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Big news—Healing to Action is publishing a book! Survivor Genius: A New Vision for Ending Gender-Based Violence comes out on 12/15 from @thenewpress.bsky.social. If you preorder your copy directly from The New Press, you can get 20% off with discount code HTA20, and TNP will also donate 10% to HTA.

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Survivor Genius: A New Vision For Ending Gender-Based Violence

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” - Goethe

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Victoria Elena Valenzuela @vevalenz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The California City Detention Facility has banned loved ones from hugging those who are facing possible deportation. People go months without being able to hug their loved ones while they fight their cases and face possible deportation. truthout.org/articles/fam...

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Families Are Fighting Draconian No-Contact-Visit Policy at California ICE Jail

The California City Detention Facility has banned loved ones from hugging those who are facing possible deportation.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In one of the most important convos I’ve had this year, I talked with Sherry Turkle about how our interactions with AI platforms, simulated companions, and artificial personalities can reshape us, diminish our capacities, and alter our very conceptions of ourselves and what it means to be a person.

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Artificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are

“We start to judge our human interactions by what the chatbot can deliver,” says author Sherry Turkle.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI "news" isn't just a specter haunting the future. In journalism, we're already seeing AI upend our ecosystem. @neginowl.bsky.social, @ziggywest.bsky.social and I wrote about witnessing the impact of Google's AI-based search changes on media, & how folks can take action truthout.org/articles/wer...

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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future

AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.

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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future

AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.

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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One woman I met outside Delaney Hall told me men inside the jail -- including her husband -- are denied medical care and have resorted to drinking their own urine to try to address infections. truthout.org/articles/thi...

truthout.org

This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents

More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In our latest, we’re joined by Da’Shaun L. Harrison to discuss how we became an object of right wing ridicule over the last week and how the media dogpile from Joe Rogan to Ben Shapiro to Fox News proved our point www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...

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The Death Panel vs Fox News w/ Da’Shaun L. Harrison (09/14/26) | The Death Panel

Beatrice, Artie and Da’Shaun L. Harrison discuss how we became an object of right wing ridicule over the last week, and how the media dogpil

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 14/09/2026

From Ypsilanti to New York City, protests over AI data centers, political spending and surveillance are putting pressure on elected officials. Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas describe more than 40 actions held nationwide in August.

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Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI

Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz also confirmed in a statement on September 1 that Israeli troops would remain inside the Gaza Strip even after Hamas is disarmed and Gaza is demilitarized. ... Katz [later] described a plan to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries[.]"

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose

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This Is Not A Love Song

Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Got to work with some incredibly talented filmmakers to turn End Times Fascism into a ten minute video essay. Check it out below. There’s nothing like hearing the derangement directly from the doom profiteers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...

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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

YouTube video by Naomi Klein

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Overwhelmed? We organized our IC resources into handy dandy curricula on criminalization, abolition journalism, transformative justice, and labor & abolition, complete with assignments for each semester, just in time for back to school season! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

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Interrupting Criminalization Curriculum — Interrupting Criminalization

As we mobilize to stop ongoing genocides in Gaza, the West Bank, the Sudan and beyond, as well as corporate and state-sponsored violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and navigate increasingly ...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11/09/2026

I got to ask some repro health and law experts to help make sense of what's going on with legal challenges to mifepristone—and what's next (non-spoiler: more attempts to expand abortions bans across the country)

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The Accelerating Project to Extend Abortion Bans to All 50 States

In a legal challenge to abortion access at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice and Louisiana are on opposite sides. But they want the same thing.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Something that PIC abolitionists are attentive to is that you should not build things that you will have to dismantle a few years later because of the harms they cause.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"If we believe a world beyond the war on terror is possible, then we have to act as though it is by refusing its normalization, confronting the institutions & narratives that have allowed it to continue, and building towards collective liberation..." -Maha Hilal truthout.org/articles/25-...

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25 Years Later, We Still Live in the World the War on Terror Made

The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Find out which of your local businesses are working with ICE. (New database from @theappeal.org) The Appeal’s investigation reveals a widespread web of public and private entities enabling Trump’s deportation machine. theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...

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Deportation Dollars: ICE Contracts With More Than 1,000 Businesses Across the U.S.

The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/08/2026

30-year-old youth minister Elijah Gantt has spent two years behind bars awaiting trial for attending a protest to mark the 10 year anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing. The state’s case included 12 charges and a sentencing request of 66 years until he accepted a plea deal. Now they are seeking 19.

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Protesters Marking 10 Years After Michael Brown’s Killing Face Arrest and Prison

“To say, why were we out there, why were we even protesting … is to gaslight an entire community,” said one supporter.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 30/06/2026

NEW: An unprecedented assault on American nonprofits is underway, and it all started when the Trump admin convened a slate of anti-trans activists for a workshop on gender-affirming care. Important investigation by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social for Assigned and @accountabilityji.bsky.social.

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MAGA Attacks Nonprofits. It Took Lessons From Authoritarians. - Assigned Media

The right wing has gone all in on assaulting nonprofits, following the playbooks of authoritarian regimes the world over.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/06/2026

Gabriela Soto: My husband, Martin Soto, was abducted by ICE this February when he left our home at night to buy diapers for our 11-month-old son. Martin — who is a loving father, husband, son, church member, worker, and neighbor — was then jailed for 4 months at Delaney Hall.

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ICE Kidnapped My Husband on His Way to Buy Diapers for Our Infant Son

My husband, Martin Soto, took part in the hunger strike at Delaney Hall. I led a rally. The retaliation was immediate.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/06/2026

Quick read of the trans sports decision.. *Categorical exclusion of trans athletes from sex-separated school sports is lawful under Title IX and equal protection *A biological-sex law is not a transgender classification *No as-applied challenges under intermediate scrutiny or rational basis

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Truthout @truthout.org · 25/06/2026

@ilhanmn.bsky.social: Trump's gutting of Medicaid will strip coverage from millions of people, push hospitals into closure, and make an already broken health care system even worse. Only Medicare for All would ensure that people can get the care they need.

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Ilhan Omar: Our Health Care System Is Broken Beyond Repair. We Need Medicare for All.

Repealing Medicare cuts and restoring ACA subsidies are the first step. But ultimately, we need universal health care.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Why are some of you consistently telling people who live in NY that their candidates can't win in Iowa? LOL. The candidates are FROM NY and running in NY. Take up your criticisms with the media not New Yorkers.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Congratulations to the young multi-racial coalition of New Yorkers who are demanding better.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

2028 is going to be a fucking extinction-level electoral event for so many of these incumbent Dems who have coasted for years without any serious challenges. This cycle is the clarion call for ten times as many primary challengers to take on suddenly-very-beatable-looking incumbents.

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Ziggy West @ziggywest.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Whether Facebook and Google are capitulating to Trump due to fear of economic retribution, shared politics, or a desire to increase their stock prices or keep up with technology, the impact is devastating for journalism and democracy."

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Ziggy West @ziggywest.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

In our recent Truthout op-ed about Google's increasing use of AI summaries in search and the destructive impact it will have on journalism, @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @neginowl.bsky.social and I questioned big tech's motivations and wrote about the indisputable outcome:

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Panamerican Dispatch @padispatch.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Google is downgrading links & promoting AI. That means users will see a summary generated by an AI bot developed by a corporate behemoth w/ close ties to Trump. Important reporting @neginowl.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social @truthout.org @therealnews.com therealnews.com/googles-new-...

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Google’s new AI-fueled search bar threatens to further upend journalism industry

Independent journalism needs a lifeline to survive as Google urges readers toward AI summaries instead of article links.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 10/06/2026

1/ A doctor denied care to 28-year-old Harmonie Perrone for her ectopic pregnancy because she believed there was a “1 percent chance” she could have a healthy pregnancy. Now, she’s suing an Illinois hospital and the OBGYN.

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Illinois’ law protects abortion. She says she still couldn’t get treatment for her ectopic pregnancy.

A lawsuit filed in Illinois raises questions about who can get life-saving reproductive health care, even in states with legal protections.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 10/06/2026

McClatchy's AI tool repackages existing articles to run as new ones. McClatchy reporters don't want their bylines on those articles, and are unionizing in response. www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/the-...

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The Centre Daily Times unionizes after backlash to McClatchy’s AI tool

The local Pennsylvania outlet is the first newsroom under The NewsGuild-CWA to unionize in response to AI adoption.

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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The worst people in the world are coming together to determine how we access journalism. Nobody wants this. Research shows people don't want to get news from chatbots and that they can fuel misinformation. @ziggywest.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and I wrote about the need to fight back.

truthout.org

Google’s New AI-Fueled Search Bar Threatens to Further Upend Journalism Industry

Independent journalism needs a lifeline to survive as Google urges readers toward AI summaries instead of article links.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Some children were placed in seclusion rooms from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for consecutive days because of a single behavioral outburst. We already know the destructive effects of solitary confinement on adults—why should children be any different?" inquest.org/serving-time...

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Serving Time in Public Schools - Charles Bell - Inquest

Every year, thousands of children are placed in solitary confinement by U.S. public schools as punishment for having a disability.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/06/2026

Mamdani being a huge coward when it comes to trans youth is genuinely enraging. They will tell us with a straight face how hard it is. Do you know how hard it is for a trans youth who has had to move states and had 3 providers drop them and now has no options? Try that.

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