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Dan Lawson

@noswald.bsky.social
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Community college math instructor. He/him

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Devin𓅃 @devin-eleven.bsky.social · 5h
She saved someone from a concentration camp? We used to call those folks heroes.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 6h
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 16h
Reading this I feel compelled to remind everyone that back in the 1970s, respected scientists became convinced telekinesis was real after they met with "psychic" Uri Geller and even published an article in Nature about it. It took a stage magician to debunk them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
something i learned about journalism during the iraq war: all the outlets who had "access" to key figures - people like bush, cheney, rice, senior dems, etc - these are all the people who got the story wrong. it was the reporters working outside the system, usually far from dc, who got it right.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 16/09/2026
solidarity is a beautiful thing to witness. ten years ago if you told a Palestinian that multiple artists would drop out of a career-changing tour in solidarity with their people against genocide, they would not believe you. never give up hope in any struggle for liberation, never stop fighting.
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The super friends knew way back then the internet & AI were bad for humans
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
macklemore and dave matthews will be our pete seeger and woody guthrie won’t they. 70 years from now they'll be remembered as principled songwriters whose music is ideologically admired but rarely listened to. it won’t be any of the earnest folk revival types it’ll be macklemore and dave matthews
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
attacking trans people hurts dem politicians and that take is missing from this whole news cycle. dems attacking trans people makes it more likely you will lose, defending trans people makes it more likely they win I want democrats to win so they need to defend trans people
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Chris @asmarcd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm a white Arab American. Most ppl would never know that's my background by looking at me. The day after 9/11, family friends, who did not know, where at the house and openly talking about how all Arabs and Muslims in the US should be rounded up into camps. I was 12 years old. We were never united.
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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy Labor Day
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
I feel like white people would flip the fuck out if the rest of us went around saying things to them like you can’t possibly be an expert on whiteness
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The pressure, the shouts, the chorus of WTFs, all of it is working. And no surprise that Clyburn is taking the lead.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Legend
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Dolly Parton turned down presidential medal of freedom twice from Trump
Singer says she’s not sure she’ll accept it from Biden either because it might seem political to do so
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Didn't know this until today but Dolly Parton had a transsexual man named Jason Pirro work as her Hollywood chauffeur in the 1980s, per an interview he gave to The Sun in 1990. "Dolly has been good to me...Dolly knows all about me."
SEXY SECRETS OF DOILY PARTON'S 
UMO DRIVER-HE USED TO BE A SHE 
DOLLY PARTON is being chauffeured around 
Hollywood by a 300-lb. transsexual who 
has had an operation to change from a 
woman into a ian. The country queen 
shares 44-year-old Jason Pirro's secret" 
and has promised to help the obese, 
tuxedo-outfitted driver attain his goal 
to become a movie director. 
"Dolly has been good to me," Jason told 
STAR. "I'm not real coafortable talking 
about ayself. Dolly knows all about me 
and is a very nice lady. "Whenever Dolly 
coaes into Hollywood for a aeeting, or 
for business, or for filaing, or just 
staying here, she calls ae and I drive 
her around." 
Court papers obtained by STAR show Pirro 
legally changed his naae froa Susan Ann 
to Jason in 198B because of "sex-
reassignaent.* Jason underwent a sex-
change operation in 1982. 
Jason, who has a beard and wears his 
thinning reddish-brown hair in a 
ponytaiI, caae to Hollywood 10 years ago. 
At the time, he was taking hormone 
tablets and dressing as a «an. He got a 
job as a lino driver. 
Dolly has said that there's nothing wrong 
with transsexuals. "If I were a nan I'd 
be a drag queen," she admits. "1 enjoy 
being a trashy dresser and 1 love gaudy 
things. I love to play with hair and 
makeup." 
Jason studied theater as a coed at 
Syracuse University, but after eight 
years at college. left without 
graduating. Despite chat, Jason has a 
genius-level I.Q. of 144. 
A fasily friend says Susan was in her aid -
30's when she decided to have doctors 
transfora her into a ian. "Jason has 
tried to sake the family feel comfortable 
with the situation. Even by the time he 
started to grow facial hair and his voice 
was getting deeper, if we'd slip and call 
him Susie, he'd just hug us and say, 
'That's OK." 
"He's a loving warm, caring human being. 
He teaches transcendental meditation. He 
has never had an enemy. People just take 
a liking to him. He has that …
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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
OK everybody remember, this "debate me on racism" thing has been tried before and people actually did debate the racists and all it ended up doing was elevating racist messaging. Also, that message was sown on Twitter to be bait for journalists in 2016 so maybe don't fall for it this time around 🥰
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
No amnesty. No mercy. No fucking plea deals. Nothing but relentless pursuit and vigorous prosecution for every last one of these fucking monsters
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I wonder if any stuck-in-the-90s dems will dimly perceive how one obviously deliberate but casually presented line in a speech forced the media to start reporting a two year old story www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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Natalie Harp, Trump’s Most Devoted Aide, Is Always by His Side. What Exactly Does She Do? (Gift Article)
President Trump’s White House aide Natalie Harp is always by his side. What, exactly, does she do?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
These stories don’t happen without Ossoff lighting the spark. This is what I have been arguing for almost 20 years.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Last thing I'm gonna say about this. Trump is old and when he goes, the shield is gone. People will be eager to tell their stories. If you're a journo who spiked a story to cover for the Kiddie Raper Gestapo, that's gonna come out too. Because Trump's lackeys are gonna rat you out to save themselves
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Dan Lawson @noswald.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If anyone ever writes an encyclopedic retrospective of @scottmccloud.bsky.social’s superhero comic, then a nice palindrome title for it would be “Zot: A to Z”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Remembering how during the Claudine Gay scandal, one of its biggest promoters of the story was Bill Ackman. Then someone uncovered that Ackman's own wife was a professor alleged to have committed much more serious academic misconduct than Gay and then nothing happened to her.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
John Fetterman's appearance on WaPo's Make It Make Sense podcast—in which he spends a good portion of it trashing Abdul El-Sayed—has generated only 3,600 views in two days, despite getting a lot of play on Fox. Also, he'll apparently wear a suit for a podcast nobody watches -- but not for his job.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/08/2026
For my newsletter, I spelled out once simple trick for the WNBA to shut down that transphobic publicity stunt by two former NBA players: www.burnsnotice.com/heres-how-th...
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Here's How the WNBA Can Win the Anti-Trans Controversy
The league has a golden opportunity to make a definitive and educational point about trans athletes–if it has the courage to do it
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Healthcare workers belong in hospitals, not detention centers. Over 100 nurses rallied outside Maine Medical Center in Portland on Aug 5, forcing ICE to release Debora Kapisha on Aug 6. Organize, speak out, and demand permanent protection for essential workers. 🎥NowThisImpact
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
any serious plan to defund the right wing ecosystem should go after car dealerships imo. they're basically feudal states
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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.
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Dan Lawson @noswald.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Katamari Damacy
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/07/2026
only donald trump could deliver the eulogy graham deserves
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ArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Mitch McConnell isn't dead, but he is dying, and the best possible situation for Democrats is the one we have now, where he's too sick to leave the hospital but too stubborn to resign, and you should be extremely suspicious of people demanding Democrats rescue the GOP from this situation.
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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 26/07/2026
Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
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The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Here's a thought experiment: How much further out there would Trump have to go for the attendees at the White House Stenographers' Association dinner to object? Is there *anything* more he could plausibly do or say that would cross a line for them? I can't think of anything.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
Susan Collins standing with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 23/07/2026
"No contact with the outside world" he tweeted.
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