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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 06/10/2026
I hate it when the woke mob tries to cancel people just because they were “credibly accused of horrific gang rape.” so when someone says they’re going to wallop me with a Tex Avery inflatable hammer, I immediately try to get them fired
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
If you want to understand just how pathetic the clean energy is on politics, read this excellent piece in @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social. There are like a half-dozen quotes in here that make me want to jump off a fucking roof.
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Why Won’t the Clean Energy Industry Play Dirty?
After Republican attacks, why does the industry still spend so little on elections?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/09/2026
The Ohio Democratic Party is repeatedly deleting criticism of Marcy Kaptur, who has released an ad calling transgender people an “ideology” that should be banned in schools. Still think Dems can’t become Labour?
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Kurt @kaatokunart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
sharing this again in light of recent events
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Booberry Cereal @bonklechicken.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Chuds forcing themselves to pretend to like Ultimate Spider-Man 2012 when a fan made trans character uses the name of the genderbend Spider-Woman they googled and learned about yesterday
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Burger Bite Beamsweep
ALT: Burger Bite Beamsweep
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Sunbeam Virtuous @sunbeamvirtuous.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s a pseudo-scientific way to misgender us. The fascists came up with the term. They wanted to misgender us but that was crass, so they figured they’d use “biology” to do it. It’s not grounded in biology just bigotry. But once they made that argument and merged it into sports, hate went mainstream
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june @kittygakumei.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i really appreciate this post, because i think what so many fail to understand is how suddenly this has all happened. the first sports bans, the “moderate position” dems are now cementing as legitimate, were in 2020; they originally were struck down in the courts!
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Michelleraiser @michellestringer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Being prohibited from marriage is also an injustice with some material impacts as it pertains to shared health insurance, federal benefits, or legal agreements, but it is simply not the same as losing your health care, losing your career, losing equal access to public spaces, losing your passport, losing your driver's license, losing your housing, being threatened with prosecution, or being threatened with having your children removed from your custody. Combined with the fact that transgender people weren't doing well even before this wave of new restrictions - enduring higher rates of poverty, homelessness, physical violence, sexual violence, and illness while being overrepresented in our country's foster care system, juvenile detention, survival sex trade, and prisons - I'd ask you to forgive trans people for being "maximalist" in defense of our own lives.


When Obama said he supported civil unions in the run-up to the 2008 and 2012 elections, he was offering gay people a slower pace of progress. When Democrats today triangulate on transgender rights, they are offering us a slower pace of decline.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...
Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”
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Transgaziel 🏳️‍⚧️ @poom.tagaziel.net · 11/09/2026
Are you familiar with the concept of a pressure campaign? With politicos you never assume good faith and never assume they won't strip you of your rights.
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Bijou a wacky Hamster 🏳️‍⚧️☕️ @tomdanook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A lot want to blame trans people for the lose Yet there were zero trans people in Harris's campaign A women who i voted for but also knew. She didnt even get a full campaign run Not talking about Gaza was bad Bringing on Liz Chaney was not rising in poll numbers Yet trans peeps get the blame?
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Haley @northandeast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Three genocide warnings from Lemkin. NSPM-7 labeling anyone who supports trans Americans as terrorists. And the week after the President implied his party will end transgender people, the HRC is asking us to vote for democrats who's only clear opinion on us is that we should lose our healthcare.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026
The voter who won't back Turek or Talarico over trans sports was never going to back them. The ad just changes to a new anti-trans topic. The ads are designed to illicit disgust at trans people, and caving on sports doesn't blunt that disgust for those who these ads work on. Caving doesn't work.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026
And surprise surprise. Elon Musk drops $100 million targeting Dems with anti-trans ads. Looking at the ads, it appears he is ramping up the ads targeting Dems who already caved. This includes Turek and Talarico. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Elon Musk’s PAC Drops $100 Million On Anti-Trans Ads Targeting Dems Who Already Capitulated
Anti-trans capitulations didn’t stop Musk from spending big to attack these Democrats.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tell them here: advocacy@equalityohio.org and tell them you're not pleased with this intent and while we're not asking for an F, a B grade is a massive slap in the face to the immigrant LGBT+ community and the trans community.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/09/2026
Looks like Equality Ohio tends to give Amy Acton, Dem Governor candidate in Ohio, a "B" grade. The candidate has called trans girls boys, embraced a transgender sports ban, said it was a matter of safety, and refuses to meet with transgender activists int he region. Wow.
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VideoKid @videokid.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
JKR has a shit ton of internalized misogyny and that directly correlates to her transphobia. Also making Snape black is incredibly problematic considering a defining moment for his character was when he called Harry’s mom a slur in anger once and this ended their friendship.
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Scary Gay Worm 🏳️‍⚧️🪱 @lostbaggle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
zimmer unfortunately has a history of transphobia. Lauren Bousfield worked under him at one point and has given details Web archive source so hopefully it doesn't interact with twitter at all: web.archive.org/web/20221122...
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“@nadiaudio I worked for him. I did good work that he praised, but after I transitioned he quickly had me fired. He had cue notes named "tr*nny fight" etc etc... It's a pattern of abuse that will inevitably come out over time, and I'm glad that the industry is changing slowly.”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/09/2026
AND ITS CALLED IN THE FIRST FEW MINUTES! Ed Markey, incumbent, beats the anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton in the primary race for Massachusetts Senate. Congressman Moulton had made targeting trans people part of his repertoire in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election. He goes down.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/09/2026
To anyone paying any attention at all, it was always clear they would move from targeting youth trans care to adult trans care. Now, Wales' gender clinic has shut down surgeries for transgender adults, because too many trans people were getting care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Wales Gender Clinic In The UK Pauses Surgeries Over Accusations That They Help Too Many Trans Patients
UK doctors are notorious for delaying trans people’s care. One clinic didn’t—now, they’re being targeted.
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🌭 Sid Oozeley 🌭 @oozeley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
They did a 9/11 on us every day during peak COVID because these spoiled chumps couldn't go two weeks without their Applebee's
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reminder that the lies of white women have cost innocent Black and brown people everything. They are not bystanders in white supremacy, but active participants.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Core question in this case is whether the administration acted with animus towards trans people when they implemented a Trump order claiming trans people are inherently lacking "integrity," not helped every time Hegseth calls us "trannies" to make himself giggle
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/08/2026
In Tabor, Iowa, a school board erupted for what would otherwise be a routine vote to hire a slate of new teachers. Why? Because a teacher was trans. The school board decided after hearing comments not to hire him, even though he already set up his classroom. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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After Anti-Trans Uproar At School Board Meeting, Iowa School District Rejects Trans Band Teacher
An Iowa school district chose to start the school year without the new band teacher instead of allowing a trans educator to take on the role he was offered, following protests from parents.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/08/2026
ordinary people have no idea the system is such a kafkaesque nightmare
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
donald trump is busy humiliating the US in 10 different ways simultaneously and the democrats are spending their time condemning a twitch streamer. i know they're increasingly unpopular but that there's anyone who still thinks they're a real opposition party boggles the mind. boggles
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
something pleasantly jarring about a polite guy on the train platform asking sincere questions about my life as a trans woman. and I know he saw me as a woman because he didn't believe me and boarded anyway when I said the Q would not take him to Queens.
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Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In a world full of Trumps, Musks, Jenricks and “Tommy Robinson”, choose to be a Hannah Arendt.
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I HATE it when people say “the culture wars” or “the discourse” are ruining the WNBA. BE PRECISE. Right-wing fascists are introducing misogyny and bigotry through their narratives and demands, in an effort to delegitimize an organization full of popular black women who vocally champion inclusivity.
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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Center actually improving an actual person's life. If your action doesn't actually help at least one person, it's not worth doing
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/08/2026
Objective Journalism, folks
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/08/2026
Bluesky does have a fairly obnoxious culture but at least half the userbase isn't clearly huffing rubber cement
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/08/2026
Michigan might elect its first trans woman ever to the state legislature this year! Joanna Whaley beat her primary opponent by 20 points and she sits in a solidly Democratic district. The list of trans people in office is likely to grow yet again! Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Michigan Might Elect A Trans Woman To The State Legislature For The First Time Ever
After nearly two decades at a megachurch and surviving conversion therapy, Joanna Whaley said she’s ready to take on the Christian nationalism of the Republican Party.
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Rabies the Wonder Cat @onerabidcat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If that fucker wants to go on hormones and live his life as a trans woman then he should absolutely go for it. Maybe learn a little about the reality trans folks face.
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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If Enes wants to officially transition s/he's welcome to do so, and I assume s/he'll be agreeable to doing two years of hormone replacement therapy as is already required for NCAA athletes who transition before officially joining the WNBA. Unless Enes just wants to do a 2026 version of Juwanna Mann
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
from "The Fear That Feminism Will Free Men First" by Deirdre English
It begins to seem clearer that the anti-feminist woman, like other women, is grappling with the terms of her survival. She is responding to social cir- cumstances—a worsening economy, a lack of support and commitment from men-that feminists did not create and from which feminists also suffer the consequences. The conditions she faces face all women.
The differences lie in our strategies for dealing with all this. The anti-feminist woman's strategy is defensive: reactionary in the sense of reacting to change, with the desire to return to the supposedly simple solutions of the past. Like other patriotic or fundamentalist solutions, like going to war or being "born again," the longed-for return to the old feminine style seems to promise an end to complexity, compromise, and ambivalence. For many of the advocates of the anti-choice movement, the ideal is ready-made and well polished. It is the American family of the 1950s: dad in the den with his pipe, mom in her sunny kitchen with cafe curtains, the girls dressed in pink and the boys in blue. It could be called nostalgic utopianism-the glorification of a lost past rather than an undiscovered future. What has not been accepted is that the road to that ideal is as impossible to find-and to many people, as little desired-as the road back to childhood.
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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The science of ”cognitive surrender” is real and extremely worrying.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/08/2026
A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
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Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police
An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Good framing.
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Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure
Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...
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David Berg 🗳️ @ibdb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Note - this only applies to girls sports. There is no similar requirement before participating in boys sports.
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
See, this is the part where an opposition party would be flooding media with ads that tie pedophile Trump to a Republican ballot initiative that is trying to force genital inspections of teenage girls.
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Ana Galináceo Autômato Ecologicamente Sustentável @azaftazarden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
their end goal is to subjugate women completely and the genocide of trans people is a necessary first step for that to happen. eradicating women's sports is just a consequence of their patriarchal project
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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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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
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