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Jill Laufer @jilllaufer.bsky.social · 12h

My first solo-authored article, which seems right! 🤓 Many thanks to the editors of THE FORUM on how politics can learn from science fiction, @smotus.bsky.social and @poliscisara.bsky.social: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... PDF link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e6p85...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026

This kind of stuff really shows how anti-trans sports bans and policies meant to segregate trans people really have nothing to do with "competitive advantage." All this trans girl wanted to do was run for homecoming queen. Like the students would still have to vote for her to even win!

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 20h

Much of the current rush of “civility” trainings and workshops boils down to “you must be civil to (translation: accommodate and not point out the devastating flaws and evils of) our position and agenda”

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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 19h

Why do I somehow feel with all his veto shenanigans this week, Gavin Newsom is gearing up for an independent run for President with Jared Polis? Problem is with those egos, how do they decide who’s top of the ticket?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had to look it up because I couldn't believe he did this, but yes, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social actually vetoed the Speaker's bill banning former ICE agents from public employment in CA. The Legislature should over ride his veto.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to bar former ICE officers from California jobs

The ambitious and sweeping measure was strongly supported by Democrats in the Legislature.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026

The ACLU is suing a a Minnesota school district that has banned every sticker in an attempt to rid its campuses of rainbow ones. The school district is Detroit Lakes School District, and locals are up in arms at the sticker ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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ACLU Sues Minnesota School District That Banned All Stickers To Get Rid Of Rainbow Ones

“You created all of this disruption over a 2-by-3 inch sticker.”

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

because it's a facially and formally neutral rule that nevertheless does racism

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

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The political will to do something about student loan burdens may have evaporated but the pain still affects real people's lives

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lethal injection is horrific in a very literal way but in a metaphorically fitting one - we embrace it because, while it is slow and likely painful, it doesn’t look as bad to outsiders as a firing squad

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.

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Bad Wolf @bad-wolfz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Colorado #GOP nominee for governor, Victor Marx, laughs as he recounts a violent fight with his wife: "I remember grabbing her, slamming her into our front door. She bent over and started crying."

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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah yes, the well-known "way hotter and more popular" advantage that trans kids have over cis kids. We must protect cis girls from this unfair advantage! www.erininthemorning.com/p/georgia-sc...

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Georgia School Blocks Trans Homecoming Queen, Citing Title IX

A Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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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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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

ALSOBROOKS: Do you have any reason to believe birth control contaminates drinking water? OVERTON: It's important for all agencies to answer Qs the American people might have A: Do you have any reason to believe women are contaminating our drinking water? O: The American people want transparency

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 23/09/2026

The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sounds really bad but the upside is we might find out who needed the beastiality waiver.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

You know, when politicians are term-limited out sometimes they do what’s in their heart, and he’s got nothing but love for throwing out homeless people’s stuff, eliminating jobs with that merger, and killing women

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just spoke with a retired NBA player who told me that when he got drafted, he went out for ice cream to celebrate and was denied service. All these stories are still within living memory and they're still being contested at the highest levels of our government.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i mean that's not... "support"? my feelings upon waking up and hearing that donald trump is dead are not the same as my feelings about what it means for the future of the polity that a president has been assassinated while in office

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Nightmarica @n1ghtmarica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Kaptur ran uncontested during the primary season. I encourage ppl to help increase the political power of the newly formed OH Pride PAC so that they can support a better candidate contender during the next primary season to oust Kaptur the incumbent. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/05/11/o...

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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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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing is fun. You endure hours of excruciating pain and self-doubt. But in the end, you’ve created something. And then you get to hate that thing.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

This is a very real dynamic that being said I also don’t want to discount the agency of the decision makers in places like Ghana which has embraced this agenda because there are states on the continent which have rejected it too.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm sorry, what? Shakespeare didn't write the play in Olde English. And Shakespeare didn't set the play in a time or place where the characters would've spoken Olde English. Eggers is free to make his choice, but how does this show "meticulous attention to detail"? It shows the opposite?

As befitting a filmmaker who is known for his meticulous attention to detail in capturing a time period, even when it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Olde English.

A tragic romance, Shakespeare’s play told the ill-fated story of the titular young lovers who hail from two warring families, the Capulets and the Montagues, in the city of Verona, Italy.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Most Bret Stephens columns are about how white men can't get a fair shake in society today, yet paradoxically, Bret Stephens having a sinecure at the NYT writing those columns is pretty good evidence that he's full of it.

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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The question now is if the California Legislature Democrats will show voters that they will protect trans kids and override his veto. So...will you? Please? @assemblydems.bsky.social @casendems.bsky.social

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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This popping up in my timeline as I get an email about the Booker finalists which are HALF WHITE DUDES. (Which is fine, whatever! But it's not like white dudes are in reality not getting nominated for literary awards?)

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Straight white males have had their voice taken away, I say, in my regular New York Times opinion column

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chet---desmond.bsky.social @chet---desmond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That the other headline is "The Literary World's DEI Checklist" tells you once again that DEI is just code for non-white.

Headline with "The Literary World's DEI Checklist".

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And for this complaint to come from Bret Stephens -- who only has a cushy columnist gig at the New York Times because of their desire to be politically diverse and inclusive -- is fucking hilarious. You're the DEI hire, my man. You.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…

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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is there some way to pay extra for football commentary that does not mention sports betting?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 18/09/2026

“If you’re a US citizen you have no reason to fear” – Markwayne Mullin, responding to a video of a teenage US citizen being repeatedly punched in the face by ICE.

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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

WHY do Dem advisors need to be telling them not to go "too hard" at trans people? Is a little transphobia okay, as a treat? WHAT DID THEY HAVE PLANNED?

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