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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 10h

Fascists cynically deploy liberal values to fascists ends wherever doing so is convenient (and then drop those values when they no longer serve a purpose). We've seen this with "free speech," "meritocracy," "freedom of religion," "free markets," etc. etc.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 14h

There do seem to be strong parallels between the US economy today and Japan in the late 80s, right before the lost decade began.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Adulthood is just finding out each random "personality quirk" I have is probably just another symptom of undiagnosed ADHD.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The reason for different impacts of anti-trans and anti-ai activism is simple. The anti-trans movement was specifically curated for politicians and influencers to adopt and generate news coverage and media attention. The anti-ai movement is grassroots, messier, less coordinated and easier to ignore.

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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Haha, this fucking sucks.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's almost like they don't actually have any of the values or beliefs they claim to have. If Republicans didn't have bad faith, they'd have no faith at all.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He should do a series of BBQs where you get in one line if you support Collins and a different one if you support Jackson. One line has road salt, the other has actual food.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was just going to ask ChatGPT how to vote. Is that wrong?

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JDG @cottonmather.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A huge chunk of elite poli-tastemaking is writing essays from the unstated perspective “Let’s just act as if this obvious liar is being genuine,” like people’s lives are just the score in a debate competition.

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 04/10/2026

Our ancient wisdom traditions have good reason for asking us to cultivate more compassion for present suffering, not less. If your ethical theory rejects this, then it's not worth the tokens it cost you.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is idiotic. For any of this to work, both sides have to be willing to engage in good faith. When one side happily transitions from free speech absolutism to firing librarians in the space of a single year, it becomes clear that they aren't having discussions in good faith.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And one more time, prescient JP Stevens dissent: “Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law”

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 02/10/2026

When military police found Adrian Martinez's body, his bags had already been packed for his trip home to Houston. The army says he took his own life, but their investigation seemed to ignore one key fact: He was a sexual assault whistleblower.

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A Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower Protections

Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Conservatives made this same argument in the 1960s. This is cribbed directly from Phyllis Schlafly.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone with even a tangential connection to conservative legal groups, I.e. the Federalist Society, etc should be investigated by a House Un-American Activities Committee and disbarred/impeached. Engaging with such an organization is evidence of lack of judgement and an inability to be impartial.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Attends daily mass and doesn't have a single shred of "Christian charity" in their body.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A posted video and an ad are not the same thing. This is referring to paid interstitials that run in the middle of other videos.

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Brianinja @brianinja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People want to talk about trains but are missing out on the transformative power of a well-organized bus network. Colorado's Bustang has knocked intercity bus service out of the park and added 18 new routes since launching Bustang in 2015. Illinois should directly copy Colorado's success.

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Bustang - Wikipedia

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The NYT is basically "Völkischer Beobachter" + Wordle.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Note how there is no (0) person, whether politician or activist, quoted in this piece who‘s in favour of more liberal asylum policies, and as for quoting any actual refugees, their function is to be the silent object of other people’s violent imaginings, not to have a voice or personhood

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Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026

A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't think NPR is actually terrified of being tagged as left-wing. There's a whole cohort of "left-wing" media whose entire purpose is laundering conservative talking points and acting as the "thin entering wedge" of right-wing propaganda. They need the facade of leftism to make that work.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bookshelfie has officially teamed up with Good to Know, our new site for discovering, sharing and supporting the work of independent authors, creators and businesses. Together, we’ve been developing Postscript: a free-to-use, no-AI alternative to Canva and Figma. Try it out here! www.post-script.app

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

IDK, he strikes me as the kind of guy who gets his butthole bleached...

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If the only way to "maintain the integrity" of a game is to deny the basic humanity of trans women, then fuck the game. At this point, we should just outright ban organized sports. K-12, college, professional. All of it. Kids want to play a pickup basketball game at the park, fine. But that's it.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm guessing you were supposed to be so overcome by her complimenting your mother that you volunteered to single-handedly shepherd her book through the publication process, duh. And you were supposed to be grateful for the opportunity?

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was reading a short thread where people were discussing how increased fuel charges are making everything super expensive in Alaska and it took all my willpower not to drop into the thread with screenshots of the Alaskan presidential vote in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pinker's whole schtick is jumping on an interesting and sometimes true facet of human experience and then 1) pretending like he discovered it, and 2) it explains everything. It's not a new con, people have been doing this forever.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Seriously. The thing that got us here is centrists saying "just let us bend on this one issue, for *electability*" over and over again, to the point no one trusts Democrats to stand up for anything. Triangulation kind of worked for Clinton back in the 90s. That's it. Now it just doesn't work at all.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Look, I'm sorry you're worried about being marched off to the camps, but it's a small price to pay to maintain my access to corporate PAC money. And please don't read my willingness to completely flip on a core moral issue as a sign you can't trust me on any of my other claimed values."

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not just Europe. A substantial portion of the Republican Party is funded by Russia, to say nothing of its proxies like the NRA, Heritage, Fox News, etc.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Vizzini: Unflinching Support! Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now is when I point out once again that Texas is the only US state to fight in two separate civil wars specifically so they could keep owning slaves. Fortunately, they lost the second one, even if they keep trying to re-litigate it over and over.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Of course, I also don't just reply "paywall." To posts. I either move on, or see if the story has been picked up from sources I do trust.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The problem is I've cancelled all my subs due to malpractice and journalistic ethics. The NYT, WaPo, LA Times, the Atlantic, the Economist, and my local paper regularly publish outright lies. I'd have to analyze every byline to know if I can trust an article. This also ignores editorial censorship.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Great Man" political narrative are typically overly simplistic to the point of being incorrect, but in this case a "Worst Man" explanation actually gets a lot correct.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It'll be a race to see what kills us all first: climate change, Skynet, or an army of syringe-bearing cockroaches.

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Honestly, it's not the worst thing humanity has decided to put its efforts into lately. I'd give it maybe a B- as far as bad ideas go.

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Kylie Sertic @kyliesertic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The whole conceit of why it’s supposedly bad for trans kids to play sports is based on the idea that boys are so superior to girls that any boy, any boy at all, could trounce girls at any and every athletic feat. Which everyone has seen with their own eyes is not true!

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Patrick Rogers @patrickrogers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The whole overlapping normal distributions is basic intro statistics, which with common core is typically taught in High School now. Of course some people are more athletically gifted than others, which is why we have tryouts and why we do things like have varsity and junior varsity teams, etc.

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