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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 06/10/2026
Another very 👀 tidbit from this week’s roundup:
A proposal that would have required FedEx to produce a report on how it manages the potential legal risks of shipping abortion pills in light of the Comstock Act failed at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. The proposal was introduced by a Catholic “values investing” firm called IWP Capital, and authored by none other than Christian nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, a leading proponent of the theory that Comstock bans mailing abortion pills, if not all medical devices used in abortion care.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
People are very resistant to the idea that patriarchy is about a relationship to power. Is every man abusive? No, plainly not. But patriarchy affords them the ability to misuse their power in a way that people of other genders cannot. So the more power they accumulate, the greater that temptation.
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 13/09/2026
My Wikipedia bio was regularly deleted for a decade before I finally was deemed “notable enough.” This is a common experience for women. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com
Notable enough? The questioning of women’s biographies on Wikipedia
This study focuses on biographies nominated for deletion in the German-language Wikipedia and the encyclopedia’s core principle of notability. Results are presented from quantitative content analys...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Big news this morning is a whistleblower files a complaint that USPS has been illegally preparing to implement Trump’s executive order against mail voting in defiance of court orders: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is an edit made by a #wnba fan (@loslynx on the clock app). I’m sharing this because the league could have done this but they chose to lean into antagonism as a motif when the camaraderie and sisterhood is what makes the W so unique.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 30/08/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Aug After forcing trans service menbers out, the Pentagon is now stiffing many for tens of thousands of dollars in severance pay they were promised, leaving many of them destitute and on the street. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Chloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
One time while he was on tour in Australia Sinatra called a woman journalist a whore and her union got all the others to sympathy strike so he couldn't stay in his hotel, travel anywhere or leave the country until he apologized, I can't remember why I thought of this
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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026
Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In the 1780s and 90s George Washington kept his Philadelphia-based household staff enslaved despite Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition laws by trafficking them out of the state and back into the state to reset the clock every 6 months despite the fact that he had publicly supported the laws.
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Rebecca Bridge @rebeccabridge.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Anyone who offers an olive branch to these people when he's out of office deserves to be ostracized from our society.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Here's a fun one! There's a facility in the UK that generates electricity by burning wood shipped across the ocean from the U.S. and Canada. They want to put a data center on-site, which would be powered by American forests Burning wood is way more polluting even than burning natural gas
bylinetimes.com
Keir Starmer's Government Allows UK's Biggest Polluter to Power AI by Burning Wood
Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs accuse Drax of ‘sleight of hand’ as it sidesteps £460 million government subsidy conditions in order to power AI
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)
Photo of the 1937 original of Picasso’s Guernica
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
conservatives are so obsessed with social conformity that them having all the power is not enough, as long as their victims are not totally suppressed from even voicing disagreement conservatives feel like they’re the victims
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is a related and expanded graphic which emphasizes an important point: Higher speeds reduce your visibility and reaction time, making it more likely you'll hit someone or something, and then when you *do* hit them, it's more likely to be fatal.
A graphic that says Why Speed Matters

Below that are two stats:

Drivers yield 75% of the time while traveling 20 mph
Drivers yield only 17% of the time when traveling 37 mph

The next line shows that drivers have a much wider field of vision at 15 mph as compared to 30 to 40 mph.

Finally, there are three stats:

9 out of 10 pedestrians survive when hit by a car traveling 20 mph
5 out of 10 survive at 30
1 out of 10 surive at 40
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How much $ does the City of Portland pay Sports Oregon to turn around a create astroturfed groups to lobby the city on Moda? www.sportoregon.org/partner-with...
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 09/08/2026
Jerry and Tally's last skate at the Lloyd Center ❤️ 🥹 ❤️ Photos by @bethnakamura.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/retail/2026/...
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
As a reporter I cannot accept swag from any organization I might cover worth more than about $50: “a bottle of wine may be OK. A case is not.” And I don’t have regulatory power over them.
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K. Wroten 🍏 @jukeboxcomix.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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The real impasta @therealimpasta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS
The effort to repeal the income tax in Missouri losing 80-20
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/08/2026
Blindingly obvious that this is targeted at “degrees we think women get.”
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There’s no contradiction between this kind of pornographic misogyny and puritanical misogyny of the old Christian right. Both use sexuality to enact men’s domination over women. That one sect forces sex and the other prohibits it is largely a matter of taste.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
there's various pretenses that patriarchy sometimes upholds in order to make the degraded role look more appealing or "honored"--e.g. the madonna archetype--but like. it's a wink-nudge smokescreen for what they actually believe, which is that you are subhuman sexual property and so are your children
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
yes they think you should have no right to say no, no right to control your own body, AND that you should be mocked and degraded and treated like a subhuman for *being* the kind of natural inferior who doesn't have control over their own body
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
the point is that women and other people with uteruses are objects for sex and reproduction AND that it's men's right to humiliate and ridicule them for occupying that required role. it is, to them, an inherently degraded & degrading role. also they don't see children as people but as property.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/08/2026
Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by American gunmen in U.S. military uniforms aboard a U.S.-flagged patrol ship.
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“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passeng...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
two panel animated meme with left panel showing a character dialing on a phone (meme edit has added "Gender Studies" to the above the number pad) and right panel showing a stone faced animated character with their phone to their ear
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I still can't believe that it isn't more widely known that the rancorous split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks that significantly defined the Russian Revolution started over whether to expel a domestic abuser. Organizing has literally always been like this! This isn't something new!
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
There’s an even more sinister angle to Johnny Depp’s ongoing “comeback” tour as the new Scrooge—it’s a Paramount production and part of a slate of Ellison-backed conservative cultural takeover attempts. It’s angled around MeToo rejection and the manosphere. spitfirenews.com/p/johnny-dep...
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Johnny Depp's 'comeback' is billionaire manosphere marketing
Plus, why smart glasses can't escape the 'pervert' label.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fun fact (not) : after the 2018 Toronto attack, where a lookist (incel) militant killed 11 and injured 15, Ross Douthat penned an opinion piece where he leaned into incel propaganda and advocated for a 'fairer' distribution of women's bodies among men.
Opinion
The Redistribution of Sex
Ross Douthat
By Ross Douthat
Opinion Columnist

May 2, 2018
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 26/07/2026
I just love how the Smithsonian states the facts very plainly and it’s clear as goddamned day, too. There’s a real reason they’re attacking SI: reality has a well known liberal bias.
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Handcuffs manufactured by Hiatt and Company | National Museum of African American History and Culture
Produced by one of the oldest, most prolific producers of iron restraints, Hiatt and Company, these contemporary cuffs materialize a deep connection between racial slavery, the carceral state, and mil...
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
40% of disabled cancer patients die during the wait period to enroll in medicare — and the rate is rising
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
As I've learned more about Riittakerttu Kaltiala I've come to form a sense of her overall approach to psychiatry. She views her patients primarily through their deficits. She treats them harshly and expects her word to be law for them. She is not as much anti-trans as broadly anti-autonomy.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Important work that gets at how the healthcare hierarchy is a barrier to advocacy for reproductive healthcare access 👇
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Hanoumatoi @hanoumatoi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The people in power will never let those who challenge the prison industrial system threaten it. And that comes from both parties. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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He won office in Louisiana after a murder exoneration. Maga wouldn’t let the election stand
Calvin Duncan studied law in prison to free himself and won his court clerk race in a landslide. Three hours in, the role was abolished in an act of ‘white supremacy’
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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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PLAYING POLITICS WITH CITY WORKERS
Voted against an amendment to save over 50 jobs
Threatened police accountability funding
MAYOR "CEO" WILSON
ZIMMERMAN
CLARK
SMITH
NOVICK
PIRTLE-GUINEY
RYAN

LABOR REMEMBERS!
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act were pretty clear as it was been written. The law balanced tax cuts with safety net cuts, which came via new administrative burdens like error rates and work requirements donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-re...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/07/2026
I found this quote from Riley Gaines to be really striking. Straight-up conceding that the purpose of trans sports bans is to normalize transphobia, and to give "ordinary" people "more cover" expressing it in public. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/anti-trans...
In the paragraph that follows, I am going to briefly subject you to something that, if I were not writing a newsletter, I would not ask my worst enemy to read: insights from the mind of Riley Gaines, whose ability to parlay a fifth-place finish at a college swim meet into a career as an anti-trans podcaster is a tribute to what late-stage capitalism can accomplish.

“I think we’re going to continue to see movement and allow the people’s voice to be heard, especially in some of those purple states,” Gaines told Politico last month, after the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. B.P.J. upheld state lawmakers’ power to bar trans girls from playing women’s sports. “Each major decision gives your ordinary person more cover to say something that…was the standard, like the default position to take, really not that long ago.”

In other words, B.P.J. is not (only) about keeping girls like 16-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson from playing on the same team as her friends. It is about empowering people to feel more comfortable expressing rank bigotry in public.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Absolutely textbook illustration of extreme wealth being used to (attempt to) subvert the democratic system. Thing is: whatever you read in the news, voters aren't fools. Certainly not for something like this.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
another facet of these forced adoptions is that the organizations executing them think they’re the hand of God
"All of a sudden when we had these younger kids to place, everyone was really excited about that," said Sarah Zuidema, a former Bethany supervisor who grew up within the denomination. "They just felt that if these kids could know Jesus,
everything would be OK
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