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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Calls to abolish our carceral state are dangerous and unrealistic? OK, let’s talk about our carceral state. ICE has a quota of 2,000 arrests a day. Over a year, that maths out to 0.2% of the entire U.S. population. www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too...

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Soon You Too Will Be A Commie

Accepting a bully's framing won't save you a beating. Why solidarity is the best way out.

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Jews For Just Being Jews Again" has been a fixture in my brain for more than 25 years now

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've earwormed myself with "this cowboy's gone to heaven", Pixies-style, and am afraid this will persist

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

You can also just use ice cream--a half-gallon to a 12-ounce can of juice concentrate (though it does have to be kept in the freezer)

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 27/01/2026

CTA Defend Trans Kids: If you're a clinician, a parent, a trans adult, or just someone who cares, I wrote a guide on how to submit effective comments opposing the federal ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Deadline 2/17/26 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149210... 🔗

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Would that be an autoimmune disease?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

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Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down

Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project. www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

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The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

aha, we've found the Austin crew! (and expanding out a bit, the central Texas version of Llano is...something

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Yeah, I'm backing this--I saw the tour twice and I laughed so much I was sore the next day

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I've never been so glad I checked the comments in my LIFE; I had no idea there was a new one!!!

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

With Substack's latest launch, writers are actually ceding control of the billing relationship to Apple, which now owns and controls the subscription.
These transactions, subscriptions, and customers will no longer be accessible in their Stripe account.

Most importantly, that means that if writers choose to leave Substack, they won't be able to port their paid subscriptions over to another platform like they could previously. This predatory platform lock-in is incredibly dangerous for writers. It strips away data and control, while locking them into the platform.

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I saw them almost 20 years ago now (at the very cool Sunken Garden Theater in San Antonio) and it was maybe the best show I ever saw; absolutely electrifying

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The one I grew up with in the DFW area, KERA, was the first station in the United States to show Monty Python!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The reason Substack pushed a Nazi blog onto people's phones is because—as founder Hamish McKenzie said in his response to Substackers Against Nazis 2 yrs ago—he believes it is valuable and important to platform Nazi voices. This sort of thing is not a one-off. www.the-reframe.com/questions-fo...

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Questions for Substack

Follow-up questions about Nazi "ideas" for Substack's founders, and contemplating the future of The Reframe.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Today is a particularly good day to support trans mutual aid as a concrete way to fight back against the fuckers trying to take their healthcare and other rights away. 🧵 of a few groups, campaigns, and individuals you can donate to:

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The battle has already moved on and my body is buried on this hill, but it's FIFTH WHEEL. A third wheel would be useful!

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I didn't know until I was almost full grown that "tump"--meaning to tip over and, in my family, used exclusively to describe what happened when we swung too hard on our non-secured swingset--was not a "real" word (& then thought it was just a family thing until a TX Monthly article a few years ago)

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Their production of Midsummer Night's Dream, with the Titania/Oberon role flip, is so good it makes me unhinged

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Late to the party but I forgot I had this handsome corvid on my roll

Large black raven perched on the vertical post of a barbed wire fence, head turned to the right

Large black raven perched on a metal fence post, facing the viewer

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Here’s what RFK Jr. has done since a measles outbreak began which has killed 3 people so far: 1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination 2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids 3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally 4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data

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McKenzie Funk @mckenziefunk.com · 01/04/2025

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I got to see him in the touring company of Spamalot (! he was like 79) and he was a DELIGHT

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I wrote about leaders who don't (or won't) lead, the death of a political order unsuited for these dark times, what the new one should look like, and the importance of playing to win. New visions for a new and better America: Solidarity, leadership, reframing. www.the-reframe.com/the-beached-...

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The Beached Whale

Messaging for leaders who actually want to lead. Playing to Win - part of a series about directional alignment.

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Pat @pizzasuplex.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Elon Musk is perfect for America because he has the power to enact dumb guy solutions to dumb guy problems. This week he will order the chip factories to stop putting so much air in the bags and when the chips get all smashed up in shipping he’ll be like “success! Big chips were too hard to eat”

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Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest · 06/02/2025

Slightly buried the lede but: if you're a queer couple and you want to get married ASAP in a state with strong protections before Obergefell inevitably gets overturned by fascists I will do an officiate for you for free (if you drop by the shop when I'm here just call/email ahead to make sure I am).

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The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨FUNDRAISER TIME!!!🚨 Donate to any of the trans support organizations in the attached note and YOU can win one of four gift certificates to the Criterion website. Details in the note below, which I will pin to my profile

TRANS ORGANIZATIONS FUNDRAISER
Hi, everyone! Here are the rules: Below is a list of organizations that provide assistance to transgender folks in need. Donate a minimum of $10 to one of the organizations and send me a screenshot of the receipt. If you feel less comfortable posting online, you can email me at aklingusbsky@gmail.com with the screenshot.
You will then be entered into the raffle. Please note that you will not get extra credit for more donations, but those are certainly welcome.
The deadline for donations is 11:59 PM on February 16, 2025. I will conduct a drawing on February 17, 2025, and post the video of the results on Bluesky. The first winner will get a $200 Criterion gift certificate, the second winner a $100 Criterion gift certificate, and the third and fourth winners a $50 Criterion gift certificate. Good luck!
ps: love to all my trans friends
pps: to whoever wins - may I humbly suggest Dazed and Confused
Organizations To Donate:
Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/donate/.
Transgender Law Center: https://transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project: https://srlp.org/srlp/2page=CiviCRM&g=civicrm/contribute/.
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Black & Pink: https://www.blackandpink.org/DONATE/.
Trans Justice Funding Project: https://www.transjusticefundingproject.org/support-us/.
Trans Defense Fund LA: https://transdefensefundla.org/pages/donate
Lambda Legal: https://lambdalegal.org/ways-to-give/.
Advocates for Trans Equality: https://donate.ncteactionfund.org/g/a4te

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Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

"If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don't want it." MLK, Jr, 1956. The Rev. Dr. King died fighting for justice and equality for the working poor. As you remember his birth don’t misremember his life.

Martin Luther King, Jr. marching during the movement.

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Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

I wrote for Newsweek about my experience miscarrying in Texas after Dobbs. Democratic erosion and authoritarianism aren’t abstractions happening elsewhere—my story & that of countless other women are reminders that they happen every day in Texas & in other states. Polisky Gendersky Academicsky

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I miscarried in Texas. My doctors put abortion law first

The pain is so blinding that I think I'm hallucinating. After Dobbs, lawyers, not women's lives, are now the overriding concern.

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Em @mirwebb.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Just finished Chants of Sennaar this weekend--short, but so cool!

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