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Bluegrass Politics @bluegrasspolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Andy Barr, who ran an angry GOP primary campaign for U.S. Senate ("give woke liberals something else to cry about," "it's not a sin to be white, not against the law to be male"), makes a pitch to Democrats in his new general election ad. ^JC www.youtube.com/watch?v=igIWgH_MiQs
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Kentucky First
YouTube video by Andy Barr for Senate
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US has withdrawn from GRECO, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, which it has been a member of since 2000, ABC reports. Russia and Belarus are the only other countries to have left the group.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s faded from the news but Hegseth is still working to strangle teaching and speech at the military academies. wapo.st/4hDFceJ
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Hegseth bars military academies from hiring civilians as tenured professors
The move marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to exert more control over faculty at service academies.
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michele39.bsky.social @michele39.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Captain @thoreau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is sabotage. pure and simple. will Congress speak up? or let him destroy our military from within? thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, a Pentago…
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viper13.bsky.social @viper13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US Marines injured when a ship they were escorting was struck by the Iranians in the Strait of Hormuz. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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U.S. Marines injured in recent Iranian attack
The previously unreported attack occurred Sept. 14 when Iran struck a ship U.S. forces were on in the Strait of Hormuz, sources say.
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you’re tired of hearing about Women’s Health, here’s a fun one: Medicine has just «rediscovered» a whole female organ: The Rete Ovarii It was literally erased from anatomy. Seemingly from all mammals. So it was also rediscovered in mice.
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Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii: a secreting auxiliary structure to the ovary
The rete ovarii (RO) is an appendage of the ovary that has been given little attention. Although the RO appears in drawings of the ovary in early versions of Gray’s Anatomy, it disappeared from recent...
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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These men felt that justice for gang rape would be served by an essay written by the rapists Michael I. Kotlikoff President Brian White Vice president/ general counsel Ryan T. Lombardi Vice President for Student and Campus Life Robert A. Harrington Provost for Medical Alfairs/ Dean of Medicine
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A 7 hour sexual assault
The young girl left school
Traumatized
These 4 grown ass men felt the punishment for the BOYS should be "writing a fucking essay"
Michael I. Kotlikoff
President
Brian White
Cornell University's vice president and general counsel
Ryan T. Lombardi
Vice President for Student and Campus Life
Robert A. Harrington
Provost for Medical Alfairs; Stephen and Suzanne Weiss
Dean of Weil Cornell Medicine
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These are the Cornell rapists:
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At least 6 babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026
rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.
We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms Trump’s advisers gathered once-classified documents that he could share on genuine foreign efforts to influence elections, set up a prime-time address where he again falsely suggested that the 2020 election was stolen
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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s never just “they lied when confronted,” it’s always “they lied and it’s worse”
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Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms
Hung Cao, acting US navy secretary, answered questions from US senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter
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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The courts won’t put anyone in jail, so it will keep going, getting worse and worse. 2.5 more years of this, what will be left.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 23/09/2026
LAPD cops working for ICE contractors off duty — while the department fights to keep its moonlighting records hidden. That is the accusation now being leveled directly at LAPD leadership after a judge ordered the records turned over.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Black Site Dockets’ are the latest source of confusion and alarm for advocates and immigrants attending hearings at 26 Federal Plaza. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/22/i...
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026
JD Vance is using AI to kick hundreds of thousands of people off health insurance. These are AI death panels.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Of the crop of elected Democrats at the Federal level, Chris Van Hollen is the only person who has led and taken any political risks. That's it.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
sending this image back to 2016 to give everyone an aneurysm
Bill Kristol reposting prisonculture
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Too bad Dems won't do daily press briefings from the Capitol on par with White House press briefings. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. About 7,000 reporters have House and Senate press gallery credentials.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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KinseyX @lacassetulsa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are in the ‘please say sike’ phase of things I see
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans. www.washingtonsun.com/energy/judge-…
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Judge Rules the EPA Illegally Terminated a $7 Billion Solar Program
The program was intended to make solar power accessible to lower-income Americans.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Another kidnapping by the Nazis
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Covered this and our battleground state polling on What’s the Plan today. It’s hard to overstate just how stupid this consultant advice is. It’s as if they want Dems to lose.
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/09/2026
HHS wants to relax regulations on human subject research (The Common Rule). For example, they want to redefine “undue influence” on vulnerable human research subjects (children, prisoners, disabled, culturally disadvantaged). 1/
From the federal register: The foundational framework for human subjects protection in the United States was established by the National Research Act of 1974 in response to widespread public concern over unethical biomedical and behavioral research practices. Following its passage, the then-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issued the first version of 45 CFR part 46. These regulations established institutional review boards (IRBs) as the key mechanism for oversight and ethical review of human subjects research. While these protections remain vital, the current regulatory framework no longer reflects the realities of modern research.
In 1991 the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, known as the Common Rule, was formally adopted by HHS and 15 other federal departments and agencies. Although the last major revision in 2017 introduced several changes to modernize human subject protections while reducing unnecessary regulatory burden, investigators and institutions have continued to report that the Common Rule imposes unnecessary burdens and unclear requirements, particularly for minimal-risk studies. For example, the Department has received feedback that applying the Common Rule remains cumbersome for research within Learning Healthcare Systems and for other research methods that are integrated into clinical care settings and are intended to improve the quality and safety of medical care.
Without additional changes intended to clarify ambiguities, expand flexibilities, and redirect protective measures toward high-risk activities, the rights and safety of research participants as well as scientific breakthroughs can be impeded. Examples of how this rulemaking will address these issues include expanding exemptions for certain additional types of low-risk research, incorporating flexibilities for de minimis protocol changes, and clarifying key terms such as the definition of undue influence. These reforms will reduce ambiguity and undue administr…
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Let's name names. It's the "CENTRISTS" who were loudest on this point. The Noah Opinions, Matt Yglesias, etc... are people still going to listen to these folks????? All of the people who talk about "the groups" - this should have actually been a red flag for people.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is insane. DOJ officials who by law are required to exercise independent judgment appear to have been ordered to overturn torture protections granted to a political opponent of a Trump ally, with a deportation flight fueled up and ready for their preordained decision made in less than 24 hours.
nytimes.com
U.S. Fast-Tracked Deportation of Ecuadorean Politician Despite Torture Fears
The removal of José Serrano, a critic of President Daniel Noboa who has been accused of criminal activity, underscores how the Trump administration has asserted control over U.S. immigration courts.
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Something terrible is happening to our kids, and we seem unwilling to act beyond a passing surface-level self-reflection. One has to sit for a moment with that awful truth.” This is a long, hard piece to read, but read it we should.
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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’ve written a lot of things over 20 years for a lot of fancy places, won a lot of fancy reporting awards. This is the most important thing I’ve ever written and it got no traction because of where we published. I would sincerely appreciate if you fixed that. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-church...
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The Church Bells Still Ring
A year after the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting, an examination of faith and fidelity to nothing.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo, reports @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Evening Forest News @forrestnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
MITCH MCCONNELL DEEMED FIT TO SERVE BY SENATE TAXIDERMIST
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Stock Trades by Presidents While in Office: Bill Clinton: ZERO George W. Bush: ZERO Barack Obama: ZERO Donald Trump (first term): 517 Joe Biden: ZERO Donald Trump (second term): 24,000+, averaging >60 trades per trading day. This is why the crook in the Oval Office manipulates the markets.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They’re not hiding it. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, 'I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.'"
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ICE Attacks Two U.S. Citizen Minors on Their Way to Enlist in Marines
The ICE agents reportedly said they didn’t care after being told the two teenagers were citizens.
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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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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Another measles death. 18 years old. Unvaccinated. See also: www.pa.gov/agencies/hea... H/T @melodyschreiber.com @tom.medsky.social
Letter from Coroner of Mifflin County confirming the death of an 18 year old from measles, ADEM.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The degree to which ICE has ramped up in North Jersey recently cannot be overstated. Yesterday, ICE kidnapped four people a block from an elementary school at dropoff time in Montclair. This is after mass raids in Passaic, Ironbound and Kearny.
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