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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026

Cis folks really don't understand what it's like to have who you are made into a political scape goat for 5 years straight with legislation targeting every aspect of your life. And then, the only political party that pretends to care is slowly being pushed to abandon you as a political albatross.

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Jennifer G @jennifuther.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Moulton's district office earlier today

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

immediately had to search for the video of Dolly and Patti singing Shortnin’ Bread while keeping the rhythm with their acrylic nails youtu.be/AOxsQNVOhro

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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails

YouTube video by Happy Mag

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We will always love you.

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Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As you are getting ready to go back to school, please don’t forget our friends in Gaza. They also are hoping to send their kids with clothes and supplies—and have nothing. Please support my friends if you can.

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Help Nael and his young family in north Gaza

My name is Jobina and I am appealing to you from Vancouver (Canada) to help my friend Nael, his wife and their two young daughters in north Gaza.I have known Nael for over two years, and he and his fa...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

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Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Is this not Tinker v. Des Moines School District????

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am always on the side of trans kids. Forever & ever & always, Amen.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026

COURT REFORM NOW

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Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Until we can get a new Constitution, we need to elect Democrats who are FIGHTERS and will (1) reform/pack the courts; and (2) pass as many statutes as possible explicitly protecting trans people.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

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Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hoping the Lander-Goldman result says something about the possibility for a primary-from-the-left in MA-4. Does anyone know anything about Auchincloss's primary opponent, Jason Poulos?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

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Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I am honestly disturbed by the swiftness with which "trans healthcare not available to anyone under 19" is going from being regarded, rightly, as collaboration with trans genocide and a fascist federal government to "the best we can expect" even among those who damn well know better...

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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026

Gaza emergency : Hammam is a volunteer nurse who treats the injured every day without pay. His family lost everything and is homeless. His brother is epileptic and needs urgent treatment. Every donation counts for food & vital care. Don't look away. Help them here: chuffed.org/project/1580...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/05/2026

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

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Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

So happy for this result and so delighted (as a former JCLC EIC) to see Justice Jackson's JCLC article all over this great opinion.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

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Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sure. Barney Frank was my rep growing up and as a queer kid in the 90s, that sure was cool. But the memory he blesses me with is the lesson that my liberation is bound up with yours--and his betrayal of the trans community on his deathbed will not be something I forget.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/05/2026

Rhode Island district judge Mary Mcelroy has quashed the subpoena from the DOJ seeking to access the medical records of trans youth. She enjoined DOJ as well. She calls DOJ "untrustworthy" and DOJ misrepresented and withheld information from the court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The image is a legal document titled "Memorandum and Order" from the **United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island**, presided over by Judge Mary S. McElroy.
The text focuses on a case involving an administrative subpoena to **Rhode Island Hospital** (C.A. No. 1:26-mc-0007-MSM-AEM). A significant portion of the second paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which states:
> "DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case. It has misrepresented and withheld information to both this Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the “Texas court”). It did so in an obvious effort to shield it’s recent investigative tactics—previously rejected by every other court to review them—from this Court’s review, in favor of a distant forum that DOJ deems friendly to its political positions."
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A footnote at the bottom of the page cites remarks from **Judge Reed O'Connor** regarding "forum shopping" by the Department of Justice.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/05/2026

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

A screenshot of a webpage notice from NYU Langone Health titled "Information for NYU Langone Health Patients." The full text of the notice reads:
"On May 7, 2026, NYU Langone Hospitals (“NYULH”) was one of several institutions that received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Texas. Among other requests, the subpoena directs NYULH to provide information pertaining to patients under the age of 18 who received gender affirming care at NYULH between 2020-2026, as well as the names of NYULH providers and others who were involved in offering such care at NYULH in that timeframe.
Pursuant to the New York State Shield Law, any entity in New York State that receives a request for information regarding legally protected health activity, such as the provision of reproductive health care or gender-affirming care, must make a reasonable attempt to notify the individuals to whom that request pertains at least 30 days before complying with or providing information in response to the request. More information about the Shield Law is available here.
We understand that these developments may be concerning to our patients, providers, and others. Please know that NYU Langone takes the privacy of your protected health information very seriously and we are evaluating our response to the subpoena. We will post updates at this website.
For any questions or concerns please email TYHPsubpoena@nyulangone.org."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament
Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
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Friday 08 May 2026 17:52 EDT

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

She was the first to speak out against Andrew Cuomo. Now some of his biggest donors are flooding Tuesday's special election with money to stop her. That tells you everything about who the progressive choice is: @lindseyboylan.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2026/04/27/c...

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Cuomo Allies Pour Money Into Race Against Lindsey Boylan

A super PAC has spent six figures on the race over the last week — more than all the candidates had raised as of last month, combined.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My take is basically that we have sex segregation in sports with high degrees of average sex difference in ability due to history and tradition, and that trans women competing in women's leagues is fine and people complaining are losers.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

NEW: @nathaliemarechal.net and I wrote for the @bostonglobe.com about the new push for "age verification" (aka mandatory online ID checks) in Massachusetts and how it will hurt kids and help Trump. Send this to people you know in MA and tell them to send it to their state senators & the governor!

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A flawed fix for social media’s harms - The Boston Globe

The state’s approach could create new risks for users while letting tech companies off the hook.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

bless Scaachi embedded.substack.com/p/my-interne...

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Brix Boston @brixboston100.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Here you go

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Okay bluesky I need your help I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home" Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

URGENT!
The Massachusetts House just passed a "social media ban" that would force YOU to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to post online.

CALL YOUR STATE SENATORS!
978-485-4694

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

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Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Sometimes I think about how Charles Kruathammer wrote an op-ed with a roadmap to the end of the Harriet Miers nomination and now here we are with Sam Alito.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I think this court's overall approach to medical outcomes as a matter of partisan opinion is really concerning, and something most people are missing because so many of the cases have to do with trans people.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong.

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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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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/03/2026

What you think of the quality of HP, whether you think it's bad or good or embarrassing or important, doesn't matter. What matters is its author is making money off it to funnel into stripping trans people of their rights. I'd give up literally anything if that was the consequence of loving it.

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Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I almost didn't watch this, because I'm used to St. Patrick's Day being made trite. Thank you @mayor.nyc.gov for making the most of it.

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

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Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

In these terrible times, I so deeply appreciate Alejandra's clear-eyed, coherent summary, pulling together so many threads, that explains what is happening to our trans beloveds in this country. Please read.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/03/2026

I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop. www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...

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Exit Condition

On Alderson Loops, Billionaire Cruelty, and Living Inside the Trap “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks[1] I. The Loop In computer science, there ...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

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Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My friend Essam and his wife have been blessed with twins!! Life in Gaza is hard; let’s help build joy where we can. Please help them (if you can) to raise their babies in safety and comfort. Right now they are looking for $200 for milk, diapers, and clothes. gofund.me/fc848a56

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Rereading Stone Butch Blues

as change. I didn't regret the decision to take hormones. I wouldn't have survived much longer without passing. And the surgery was a gift to myself, a coming home to my body. But I wanted more than to just barely exist, a stranger always trying not to get involved. I wanted to find out who I was, to define myself. Whoever I was, I wanted to deal with it, I wanted to live it again. I wanted to be able to explain my life, how the world looked from behind my eyes.

Yet I was so afraid to come out and face the world again. I wondered why I had to choose the opening years of the Reagan administration and the rise of the Moral Major-ity to demand the right to be myself. Would they arm villagers with torches and stakes and stalk me through the countryside? Would I stand alone, handcuffed in a precinct cell, with no one to turn to if I survived the nightmare? But then I acknowledged that no matter who had been in the White House, it had always been hard to be me. Between a rock and a hard place-something told me this lifetime wasn't going to get any easier. I'd already been through a lot though, and it didn't seem to me it could get much worse.

Once again I couldn't see the road ahead. I was still steering my own course through uncharted waters, relying on constellations that were not fixed. I wished there was some-one, somewhere I could ask: What should I do? But no such person existed in my world. I was the only expert on living my own life, the only person I could turn to for answers.

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