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Peter Holm

@nobodysholm.bsky.social
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Lawyer in tech. Here to geek out about history, law, and Star Trek. Not the Peter Holm who married Joan Collins in the 80s.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12h
To be frank, this is approaching Charles I's attempt to arrest the Five Members in 1642 and we ought to treat it with the same gravity. And perhaps remind those involved how things turned out for Charles I after 'all his birds had flown.' How about we not restage this particular episode?
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 12h
BC leaders debate thoughts: Eby looks wooden and unhappy about being asked to justify his snap election call Doerkson confirms Katy Merrifield is staying, claims she apologized for her Islamophobic post (she hasn't) and hand waves her post as trauma response (don't even get me started) #bcpoli
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Y'all denied her tenure
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
i simply want democrats to be the version of themselves that steven miller conjures in his nightmares
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 11/10/2026
You’ll notice this never happens with left wing parties It’s only ever conservatives There isn’t two sides to xenophobia in #Canada — this is entirely, and uniquely, a problem with conservatives #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. Conservative campaign director under fire for anti-Islam posts | CBC News
The campaign director for the B.C. Conservatives is facing criticism over anti-Islam posts she shared on social media earlier this year, just days after the party fired another candidate over his own ...
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
To the woman's credit: she defied the court and shared the footage anyway, which shows a state trooper blowing away two trained police dogs as they trotted to him, in response to an active break-in where the dogs were detaining the burglar Cops are great
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
I can tell red state Dems one thing: release a transphobic ad and you won’t see a dime from me
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Flydubai pilot was deep into manosphere content, routinely used derogatory sexual slurs about women, and wanted a tradwife Misogyny is a gateway drug www.ft.com/content/a92b...
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The online life of the Flydubai attacker
[FREE TO READ] Co-pilot of flight 1073 gravitated towards the ‘manosphere’ and expressed misogynistic views
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Orctober Law @orcishlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skrmetti fucked us again. The 9th Circuit just reversed the trial court's permanent injunction that would have allowed trans people to change their gender marker without going to court or getting an operation. Trial court used heightened scrutiny, but the panel says rational basis.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026
Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...
The pitch began with a prayer.
On an afternoon in late January, Mitch Sylvestre, the leader of Alberta's most prominent separatist organization, gathered with three of his lieutenants in a boardroom not far from the executive hangars at the Calgary International Airport, where private jets shuttle in and out of the city away from prying eyes.
It was a few hours before thousands of Albertans would gather near the city centre at a rally to launch the separatist campaign. But this meeting, convened behind closed doors a half-hour drive away, was invite only.
The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote - and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
"They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people," Mr. Sylvestre said. "We prayed before we started the meeting.""There is no secrecy'
One of the key figures behind the Michigan software company has expressed strong views on Alberta.
On July 1, Mr. Born wrote on social media: "On this Canada Day, I hope this is the last year Alberta is part of Canada." He has also called for U.S. annexation of the province.
A hunter, outdoorsman and commercial real estate agent in Grand Rapids, Mr. Born is the stepson of J.C. Huizenga, a wealthy Republican donor and founder of National Heritage Academies, a network of conservative charter schools in the U.S.
Mr. Wierda is the nephew of Erik Prince, who founded and ran the private military contractor Blackwater before it was sold to investors in 2010, and Betsy DeVos, the education secretary during Mr. Trump's first term.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elections have a way of clarifying who matters to political parties (car owners) and whose priorities can wait for another day (transit advocates). My dispatch from Day 1 on David Eby’s four day mid-election road trip. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | Eby puts needs of car owners ahead of transit advocates in ruling out Metro Vancouver vehicle levy | CBC News
For the last 18 months, a vehicle levy has been talked about by TransLink as a potential way to create a more sustainable funding model, as revenue from fuel taxes continues to decline. But all that w...
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Lily likes trains @trainswoman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BC Conservatives manufacturing outrage about *checks notes* a plan to prevent transit service being cut by more than 50% which the BCNDP immediately then folds on because they're allergic to actually helping people
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 02/10/2026
Since money doesn't grow on trees, funding for TransLink will ultimately come down to taxpayers one way or another. The government's choice is to either pick the least bad way, or to let transit collapse.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Once again, we should not have a death penalty. But so long as we do, firing squad is the actually humane way to do it. But we don't do that because it allows society to understand that the death penalty is fucking barbaric and that killing people is not an appropriate use of government power.
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know JD Vance has claimed a monopoly on being the “oracle” of Appalachia. But let me tell you, we have lots of actually-from-Appalachia students at U Cincinnati Law School. And the takeaway *they* got was “do the right thing” and “lift up the people behind you.” Not “don’t be an entitled loser.”
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
many books are terrible and formulaic and could be replicated by AI, but there is no genre that is *inherently* terrible and formulaic and could be replicated by AI. there is terrible and formulaic 'literary' fiction.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I do worry a TINY bit that this is how we got JK Rowling long before she went fully mask-off TERF, she was the darling of liberal Twitter for her sassy Trump dunks and that is 100% the reason she got so high on her own supply that she began sincerely believing she was a necessary voice in politics
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 30/09/2026
Yesterday, a 27 year old pedestrian was killed crossing Granville Street near 52nd St. Did you hear about it? www.youtube.com/shorts/vKXqZ...
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Another pedestrian hit in Vancouver. Did you know?
YouTube video by Vision Zero Vancouver
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Studio Vee, Minis and Madness @studiovee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man, the Ohio political commercials are really doubling down on the anti-trans nonsense. "Sherrod Brown supports trans surgeries for kids!" Even bringing in what looks like a detransitioner to spread their woes in the ads. Ohio has never supported trans surgeries for kids. It's no trans wonderland
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I hope all the middle-aged women whose lives have been vastly improved by an ADHD diagnosis understand that we’re on the list after trans and autistic people. RFK Jr thinks we should be sent to camps instead of taking a daily medication to bring our dopamine pathways up to a normal level.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026
Am I wary of anti-trans democrats? yes for sure, but i see no signs that the whole party is heading that way. Bright blue district Dems can't afford to abandon us after what Ed Markey did to Seth Moulton.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
neither the science or sporting results show some massive trans advantage & it's being used as part of a propaganda push to frame trans people as a danger to women
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
among other things, this is disqualifying for his inevitable potus run. if you won’t stand up to the billionaires and you can’t tell when they’re lying (which is always), you’re no better than what we have now.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case you needed another reason to dislike Gavin Newsom, a truly loathsome man, and/or back anybody else in the 2028 Dem primaries.........
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Your kid not wanting to talk with you because you're a giant piece of shit is not a political problem for the rest of us to solve. Look inward.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
it's all "what's in it for me": become a billionaire and/or invest in companies that get defense contracts; avoid prison and/or villagers with pitchforks. basic Pleasure Principle stuff, no different from a flatworm anyone who believes all other humans are NPCs has zero business influencing policy
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...
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The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth
The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts
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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's Monday morning, and I am reluctantly entering into the discussion about what The Democrats should do about The Trans, most of which translates to "believe in something, for once in your life, for fuck's sake." No paywall on this guy: jude-doyle.ghost.io/transformer-...
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Transformer: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)
A few thoughts on the queer post-apocalypse.
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Ben Kannenberg @benkannenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I hate this push so much. It's not enough to betray our Trans allies and sacrifice their civil rights, but we have to waste money and hurt our electoral prospects in the process. There is a rot in the democratic partys "consultant" network.
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Ben Kannenberg @benkannenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I think trans rights are an 80/20 issue I'm on the wrong side of, and am choosing to raise their salience, drive a wedge into my own coalition, and make myself look weak and inauthentic. I am very smart!"
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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Peter Holm @nobodysholm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
At least I'm used to the Steelers embarrassing themselves in Foxborough.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
70% of Americans say more Americans working in factories would be better for America 33% actually say they'd be better off working in a factory
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What’s most frustrating, and what we are working to try to get the Dem cmtes to understand, is that they don’t understand how or why trans attacks (and ones on immigrants) work. It’s all status threat. Besides the casual cruelty, ads like this make the problem worse. We can even measure it.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
I would simply like to live my quiet little life as a trans woman and buy fruit and sing and walk my dog and wave to my neighbors and watch movies and use restrooms without being the subject of a culture “war” where both political parties agree I’m a disgusting freak who doesn’t deserve civil rights
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Incredibly disappointing ad from Mary Peltola (D-AK) saying she neither supports "kids getting surgeries to change genders or men in girls bathrooms." Yes, flipping the Senate is essential and can stop bad laws and bad judges from happening, but she can do it without my support from the lower 48.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @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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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NEW: As Trump loses ground and lashes out, some remain willing to capitulate when it comes to anti-trans hate. More alarming settlements from medical providers in states that have laws aimed at stopping anti-trans discrimination. On Friday, it was NYU Langone and UPMC. Law Dork:
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As Trump loses ground and lashes out, some remain willing to capitulate when it comes to anti-trans hate
More alarming settlements from medical providers in states that have laws aimed at stopping anti-trans discrimination. On Friday, it was NYU Langone and UPMC.
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