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Struggling to find purpose, I grew legs to walk on land. But I now question ever leaving the sea in the first place.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It is impossibly hard to get an indictment for stalking when the stalker is an abusive ex. It makes my blood boil that the DOJ indicted Minnesotans for observing ICE as a form of stalking. These laws do not protect us. But they can be weaponized against us.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
SEN. WYDEN: “Trump has set the new high water mark for public corruption… everybody in 🇺🇸 is subject to IRS audit except the Trumps. I take it as an admission of his own guilt when it comes to tax cheating. Trumps have stuffed every dollar they can into their pockets.”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/06/2026
He posted this after voting to defund schools that have any policy whatsoever that "advances concepts" related to gender identity. That includes bathrooms, locker rooms, even possibly having a trans teacher state their pronouns. Shame.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/05/2026
The DOJ, in its investigation of gender affirming care providers, has been caught in a blatant lie in sworn documents to the court. Two published documents today shows DOJ attorneys misrepresenting material facts regarding patient record de-identification to the NDTX to obtain orders to compel.
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needmorename.bsky.social @needmorename.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I feel like the Nook ui is designed to prevent me from purchasing books.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
When Trump continues to show that he has no intention of leaving office despite the constraints of the Constitution, take this very seriously, especially given that the Supreme Court isn’t just enabling, but actively empowering Republicans (including Trump) to decimate our democracy.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Nature has retracted a paper that claimed AI had a positive impact on student learning. “The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis.” The researchers did not respond to questions about the issues www.404media.co/nature-retra...
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'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/04/2026
It is so depressing watching everything previous generations fought and died for be dismantled piece by piece. These basic protections and institutions, while imperfect, still pushed in the right direction. We are failing future generations and leaving a worse world behind for them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/04/2026
Packing the bench is the moderate position. I'd also support impeaching, prosecuting, and imprisoning justices for perjury and graft.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/04/2026
NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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Matthew Klugman (they/them) @raw-toast.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A prediction: Over the coming year the New York Times will also be amongst the publications that writes the *most* about neurodivergence in general, & autism + adhd in particular. It similarly will be amongst the *least* likely to quote humans diagnosed with autism &/or adhd. #epistemicinjustice
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/04/2026
Just putting these out for no particular reason:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one
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Judge in E. Jean Carroll Case: Yes, Donald Trump Is a Rapist
A judge rejected Trump’s semantic attempt to throw out the case.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Here's the initial block list of those who attended the WHCD tonight. Adding names as it becomes clear they were there.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/04/2026
California AG Bonta has released guidance to all California hospitals telling them that they should return to providing gender affirming care after winning a lawsuit against Trump. He is the only AG to sue a hospital to force it to stop complying with Trump. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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California’s AG Bonta Says Hospitals Should Return To Trans Youth Care
“Right now, providers in California can and should continue to provide the care their patients count on without fear of unjust retaliation.”
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026
There aren't a lot of things I agree with Mark Carney about, but there's one area where he and I are in *total* accord: the old, US-dominated, "rules-based international order" was total bullshit: www.weforum.org/stories/2026... 1/
A Soviet propaganda poster featuring Lenin pointing angrily into the distance. It has been altered. Lenin now has Trump's hair and his skin in orange. The hammer/sickle logo behind him has been replaced with a cross.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 24/04/2026
Several white supremacists were convicted of crimes related to Charlottesville, including Heather Heyer's murderer. A dozen were held civilly liable. To call this a "hoax" because an anti-hate watchdog had eyes on the organizers is delusional racist propaganda from the White House.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The president's son, who was never involved in this industry before his father became president, should not be getting contracts from the Pentagon. This is absurd corruption that Republicans in congress will say nothing about and do no oversight. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a year after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M. Do you see how this works?
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”
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Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It’s like being stuck in a terrible episode of Dallas
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
On Confederate Surrender Day, I give you the Liberator's take on Jefferson Davis: "We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history. He was a repudiator and slaveholder. He has been a secessionist, a traitor and rebel....He has sedulously endeavored to subvert our free institutions."
We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In my latest column for Muster, I talk abt the case of two women caught wearing men's clothes by Union troops & what we can learn from their experiences. CW: sexual violence & self harm
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“I Was Detected by My Laugh”: The Brief Military Career of Margaret Cathrine Murphy - The Journal of the Civil War Era
CW: sexual violence and self-harm On May 17, 1863, Margaret Cathrine Murphy found herself in an unlikely situation: being interrogated as a spy while imprisoned in Annapolis. As she explained, she was suspected of being a rebel spy, not for harming the Union cause, but for dressing as a man and enlisting in the Union … Read More Read More
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/04/2026
Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!
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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Workers at the U.S.'s largest investigative newsroom are on the first work stoppage in the country over guardrails around generative AI today. They're also calling for greater wage parity across teams and regions and due process protections.
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ProPublica union workers launch one-day strike
Union workers at the U.S.'s largest investigative newsroom are striking over AI guardrails, wage parity, and standards around layoffs.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 07/04/2026
For your citing purposes, U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against genocide: 18 U.S.C § 1091; U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against wantonly destroying infrastructure 18 U.S.C § 2441 which incorporates by reference Geneva Convention IV art. 147.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/04/2026
News from today confirms NYU Langone has still not started care. Mayor Mamdani has yet to push for enforcement of NYC Human rights law against the hospital, which is in his power. He has yet to direct H+H to absorb trans youth patients. He has maintained radio silence.
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NYU Langone still silent on NY Attorney General’s call to resume transgender care - Washington Square News
NYU Langone Health remains silent three weeks after the New York attorney general’s deadline for the medical center to restore gender-affirming care for minors. Attorney General Letitia James has not ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.
The marches had no shortage of skeptics.
In Oxford, Miss,, Cass Rutledge, a first-year law student at the University of Mississippi, walked through the No Kings protest and around the town square on Saturday and questioned why people thought Mr. Trump was acting like a king.
"He is, you know, a duly elected president who won the popular vote and the electoral college in a landslide," Mr. Rutledge said.
"And so I'm a little bit confused on how he's acting differently than any other president."
He pointed to the stalemate in Congress over the SAVE America Act, the Republican-driven bill to tighten voter identification and registration rules, which Democrats have called an attempt to suppress turnout based on false claims of voting fraud. Mr. Rutledge said that Mr.
Trump was "going through the process" to try to get the legislation passed.olemiss.collegerepublicans • Follow The University of Mississippi - Ole Miss
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olemiss.collegerepublicans EXEC SPOTLIGHT: Meet Cass Rutledge, Chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans. He is a senior Public Policy... more
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/03/2026
Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX
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Ben Taylor @vox-dei.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It's not a him and they were trying to stop the malware defacing their site and identify the person behind what is in effect a DoS attack in violation of the ToS. You might think that's going too far, but if AI bots are allowed to crap all over Wikipedia, that will make the site unusable. DoS. 2/2
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Stop Worrying About the Scholarship: Anne Marimow names precisely *one* scholar who's published scholarship in support of (part of) the Trump Citizenship Order. The academy hasn't given any serious credence to that scholar's argument nor has even the SG made it. [1] www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...
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Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order at Supreme Court Splits Conservative Scholars
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/03/2026
CW: extreme police violence. A trans masc attorney in Oklahoma was arrested while in court for "contempt of court." The police kicked him and put him in a chokehold while he screamed that he couldn't breathe.
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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...
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Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965.
Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.
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Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I hope no one needs an MRI this year. The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half. No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:
NYT on Feb. 13, 2026:

The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises.

Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.NYT on March 16, 2026:

On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said.

Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 13/03/2026
Our January article on the conditions faced by two of the defendants — Meagan Morris and Autumn Hill — also emphasized they are part of a history of resistance to injustice both behind bars and outside them. That struggle, for Morris, Hill and all political prisoners, continues.
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Two U.S. Trans Political Prisoners Recount Torture, Misgendering, Human Rights Violations After Texas ICE Protest Crackdown
Two trans women arrested in an absurd “antifa” crackdown face political prosecution for their beliefs. Experts warn it’s a sign of growing authoritarianism in the U.S.
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Trump *is* doing debt cancellation. It's just not your student or medical debts. In his second term alone, Trump has already canceled $1.5 billion of criminal debt — payments fraudsters owe the federal government and victims. They don't mind debt cancellation—for themselves.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/03/2026
A DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools. @evystadium.bsky.social reports. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The choice is either A) the Democratic Party should defend transgender people vigorously or B) they should arm themselves. "Turn in your ID" is literal Nazi shit.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/02/2026
Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.
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