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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 6h

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep ErinReed Riley Gaines' lawsuit against NCAA under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act because she had to compete against a trans women struck down by fed judge who found "no evidence" that the NCAA ever received any federal funds.

erininthemorning.com

Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 8h

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep ErinReed Ky Gov. Andy Beshear, who vetoed a sports ban in in a state Trump carried by 30% and is likely presidential nominee, tells CNN's Jake Tapper he has one message for Dems: "We don't throw anybody under the bus." www.erininthemorning.com/p/ky-gov-bes...

erininthemorning.com

KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”

The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, I know it cheeses everyone off when I post non-trans news... just how my mind work. Many apologies...

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Wondering like many of us if AI is a cosmic market bubble that will drag the whole economy down down when it bursts like the DOT COM bubble did? An interesting analysis of what to look for if that's about to happen. [gift link]

wsj.com

How to Know When the AI Boom Is About to Go Bust

History shows that market manias end when the capital spigot turns off.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Talarico would do well to recall that "VA Rep nominee Winsome Earle-Sears blanketed airwaves with ads that characterized Dem Abigail Spanberger as 'being for they/them.' Spanberger called for 'getting politics out of our schools and trusting parents” and won by 15%'"

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social "62% say Trump promised $5k to win votes; only 13% think he intends to send it; 71% say it was inappropriate including 53% of Republicans. Only about a quarter believe the checks would actually go out even if Republicans did win." substack.com/inbox/post/2...

substack.com

Only 13% of voters buy Trump’s promise to send $5k checks if GOP wins midterms

This is why a midterm convention is a dumb idea, part one. Plus how Democrats should deal with low trust in government in 2027-28. Your weekly political data roundup for September 27, 2026.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Unfortunately, the "Dems Fighting Back" part of that CNN story looked much more like "Dems Backpedaling on Sports/Surgery" than any actual fight. I think their point was that Dems simply avoided it when Kamala ran.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social With Reps in battleground states running on trans issues, CNN poll finds once again that it runs dead last in voters' concerns after elections, crime, tariffs, etc. Good for them for finally positing a question other pollsters still ignore. [Live screen grab]

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"There is a straight line from Koch Brothers money, allied with segregationists and religious fundamentalists, that runs through the Federalist Society and the Roberts Supreme Court, through the MAGA-fied Republican Party, through the crypto-industry and the tech-broligarchy, that leads to Trump."

substack.com

It’s “Underwear on the Outside” Time

Trump’s continuing downward spiral into sundowning

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Russia’s enormous size once helped it defend against the invading armies of Hitler and Napoleon. Now it is a vulnerability, spreading its available air defenses thin across a landmass that is difficult to defend in its entirety."

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep Advocate After TX Dept of Criminal Justice's trans policy disappeared from its online policies, advocates feared it would suspend all care. DOCJ now says that trans prisoners already on them can keep their hormones but minors will be weaned off.

advocate.com

Texas says transgender prisoners can keep their hormones — unless they’re under 18

Doctors have warned that forced withdrawal can carry psychological and physical risks, even when medication is tapered.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

advocate.com

Texas says transgender prisoners can keep their hormones — unless they’re under 18

Doctors have warned that forced withdrawal can carry psychological and physical risks, even when medication is tapered.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep ErinReed TX Dem Senate candidate James Talarico walks back his apparent support for keeping trans girls out of sports saying he opposes TX statewide ban and believes it should be "decided on an athlete by athlete, sport by sport basis."

erininthemorning.com

Texas Dem. Senate Candidate Talarico Clarifies He Still Opposes Statewide Ban On Trans Athletes

The Democratic candidate has not, however, walked back his support for a trans surgery ban for youth.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Republicans including Trump's own PAC are investing hundreds of millions in advertising in close races like Texas trying to convince voters that Dems are communists while he swans around DC doing diplo-tainment with the biggest communist leader in the world.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Kinda shocked that with all the understandable anger around Dems throwing trans ppl under the bus, few folks here or on Assigned Media seem to have written Equality PAC to complain abt endorsement of "gender ideology" Marcy Kaptur of OH. Thanks to those of you who did .

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social "Democrats now have about a 70% chance of winning complete control of Congress this November." Yeah - but is there any way we get to 60 so we can finally impeach him? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-24...

gelliottmorris.com

Is this what a "blue wave" feels like?

Two weeks after the GOP’s first-of-its-kind midterm convention, Democrats have reached a new high in the race for the House and Senate. Are the polls wrong?

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Ironically one of the things that seems to have really hurt Trump/Reps was his marquee bribe at Trumpapalooza to give every American a 5k bribe if Reps won the midterms. Even Rep voters recognized it for what it was. He/Reps dropped 2-3% rt after -- a huge move this close

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Trump/MAGA are now historically unpopular with few precedents as voters con't moving decisively away. I can't help but hope that a full repudiation of him/MAGA will completely disabused the Dem party of the lie that throwing us under the bus is the prices of winning.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep The NYT, one of the nation's leading non-MAGA cheerleaders for ending GAC for youth, summarizes the status of the six major hospital systems which have stopped supplying care in settlements with the Trump admin. [gift] www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

nytimes.com

Hospitals Shut Youth Gender Clinics in Deal with Trump Administration

At least six hospitals have struck agreements with the Trump administration to pay fines and stop providing gender-transition treatments to minors.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep ErinReed Less than a week after Rep Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) released ad saying: “I voted with Reps to keep trans ideology out of our schools..." Equality PAC -- the “political arm of the Congressional Equality Caucus” -- sends an email endorsing her for re-election.

erininthemorning.com

Equality PAC, Political Arm Of Congressional LGBTQ Caucus, Endorses Marcy Kaptur Days After Her Anti-Trans Ad

“Do we need to endorse people in order to support them? Do we need to support them in order to have power in Congress?”

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Impossible to make up-- among Trump reason to ban the big three from the White House was their use of anonymous sources when the article in question was on a call WITH the White House where they were TOLD not to quote anyone by name.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social We really are betting the economy on this technology.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social "Tariffs are responsible for about .5% of the current 3.4% inflation rate --"

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social MAHA Institute at DC anti-vax conf last wk: "'[T]he millions of lives saved by vaccines were a lie. The eradication of polio was really the result of the elimination of DDT, an insecticide.' That earned him a standing ovation."

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social ****BREAKING NEWS**** Extending his crusade to rename DC's John F. Kennedy Center the Performing Arts, Pres. Donald Trump today ordered Secy of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to remove "Kennedy" from his last name and replace it with "Trump" instead.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Don't want to get overly optimistic but it would be nice to think this is the start of the tide starting to turn against the universal orgy of trans-bashing that TERF Island Tories and Labour have been engaging in since the Cass Review.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep Guardian UK Liberal Dems reject guidance from equalities watchdog EHRC on how implementing Supreme Court ruling that trans people be treated by their SAAB as “discriminatory and unworkable." Greens also rejected it but LDs are 1st big three parties to do so.

theguardian.com

Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people

Motion passed at party conference calls for new approach to implementing ruling that legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

love this... "C-SPAN said it would not show Trump's White House helipad ribbon-cutting "because it relies on the TV pool and had no feed."

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Orrery Golden, Professional Storyteller @orrerygolden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kindest reminder: there's a boycott of the New York Times called by @transnews.network

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social This WILL be interesting. Trump is like those bright plants you see in the ocean but when you pull them up they're all dull lifeless and brown. He only comes to life in the glare of TV cameras - its like oxygen for us. Curious how he gets out of this one.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Mea culpa. I predicted the White House press pool would do its Business As Usual routine. Print, online, and radio in the wider press pool still are /But this may be a turning point for the TV networks. More than glad to eat some crow on this one. Pass the ketchup, please.

nytimes.com

Trump Live Updates: White House TV Pool Suspends Trump Coverage After CNN Ban

CNN, MS NOW and Politico said they would sue to regain access to the White House. They argued in a joint statement that President Trump’s decision to block them violates the First Amendment.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep NYT ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC -- the remaining unbanned TV outlets which make up the White House Press Pool over daily news coverage-- suspend operations in a show of solidairy with banned CNN ,MS NOW and Politico. Wait, what? Fox? F--ing FOX?!?

nytimes.com

Trump Live Updates: White House TV Pool Suspends Trump Coverage After CNN Ban

CNN, MS NOW and Politico said they would sue to regain access to the White House. They argued in a joint statement that President Trump’s decision to block them violates the First Amendment.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep ND Supreme Court unanimously finds state’s ban on gender-affirming care, which makes it a crime to prescribe puberty blockers and other treatments to adolescents, is legal, upholding a lower court’s ruling from last year. northdakotamonitor.com/2026/09/17/n...

northdakotamonitor.com

North Dakota Supreme Court upholds ban on transgender healthcare for minors • North Dakota Monitor

The North Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously found the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors constitutional, upholding a lower court’s ruling from last year.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [Twins -- con't.] Important to note that among identical twins where one of them is trans, by a large majority both are still NOT trans. So as with nearly everything else, both nature AND nurture at play. theconversation.com/critics-clai...

theconversation.com

Critics claim trans people ‘defy biology’. New research suggests otherwise

A new study in twins shows the likelihood of being trans is influenced by your genes.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep New twin study finds that if one identical twin is trans, odds of other being trans is 21%, vs. just 8% for non-identical twins That'snearly three times higher. Yes folx: for some of us, genetics is a big part of it. theconversation.com/critics-clai...

theconversation.com

Critics claim trans people ‘defy biology’. New research suggests otherwise

A new study in twins shows the likelihood of being trans is influenced by your genes.

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [Brown cont] "[Republican] Jon Husted, why’d you vote to increase the cost of groceries? To do nothing about the cost of gas. You kicked 490k off their health care..let utility companies jack up our electric bills. Jon Husted, why don’t you start working for us?” 2/2

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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 NYT Sherrod Brown in tight OH Senate race tries new strategy: “Here they go again, those same attacks. With everything going on, that’s what they’re talking about. In Ohio, it’s against the law to perform transgender surgeries on kids. That’s right, it’s illegal. 1/2

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