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Nic Pereira

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Veteran of the Internet Flame Wars of the ‘90s🔥. Long-term AIDS survivor🏳️‍🌈, ACT-UP alumni✊🏼, Small Business owner💪🏼 Happily married Pug Dad👨‍❤️‍👨

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20/09/2026
day after day after day of this asshole it’s exhausting
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 04/09/2026
This year, the prizes honor research on designing the perfect splash-free urinal, studying composition rates of buried cotton underwear, and the aerodynamics of a healthy nose-blow, among other highlights.
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Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.
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Skwahder @skwahder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"No way you use to write a 5 page essay without AI"? Bro, we wrote them without even reading the book.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/07/2026
Seen in Philadelphia.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Judge Eddins: "The [Supreme] Court that now defines federal due process does not honor the work of 1954. It revives the work of 1857."
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/07/2026
One of the many women the media ignore while claiming that women are ignored...
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Nic Pereira @rivernic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
From Cleve Jones: “Memo to all the breathless commentators on a politician being harassed at the SF Trans March: Politicians are not welcome at the Trans March and never have been. If they show up they are booed. Like it or not, agree with it or not, that is the fact of the matter”
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026
There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.
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Nic Pereira @rivernic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We told you corporatizing Pride was a mistake 25 years ago but did you listen?
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Quebecoiswolf 🔜 Furpoc @quebecoiswolf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 22/05/2026
This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."
Missing in Action: Women Service Members "Delisted"
from Arlington National Cemetery Website
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When visiting Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day you won't find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps
(1998-2021) on it;s website, She was delisted.

When visiting Arlington National Cemetery Memorial this weekend you can easily locate male
servicemembers graves and history on it's website but not cisgender female, transgender, or
minority veterans.

You won't find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps (1998-2021) on it's
website despite being interred there and credited along with her team with saving 124,000 lives. She was delisted.
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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Controversially... I have made peace with the fact that I will never have a party in power that ideologically matches me. I am, believe it or not, a grown up: I expect to be constantly pushing for 'more' the rest of my life. But please. Something better than this.
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A hypothetical map that gives Democrats control over all 52 districts in California.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
this would fix the website
a dialog box reads:

Post reply?
You could probably just stay out of it.

The two buttons are:
- Mind my own business (default)
- Reply anyway
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
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Brandi Bennett @bbennettesq.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune #1)
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Genuinely, one of the best insights anyone has given me on the US is that the rest of the world does not understand it is actually two countries. The first is a Western advanced liberal democracy. The other a theocratic, impoverished, violent and corrupt third world country.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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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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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This was the NYT’s same dismissive criticism of ACT UP. 1989: “another reason to reject both the offensive protesters and their ideas.” But then a year later, 1990, they had to admit: “Rude, Rash, Effective, Act-Up Shifts AIDS Policy.”
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Folks sharing the Western Journal article about an interview with Andy Weir: WJ is a right-wing rag, and the quote being attributed to Weir about “wokeness” is taken from the person interviewing the author, not Weir (it’s right in the text). The title is rage-bait. Don’t fall for psy ops.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 27/03/2026
New itty-bitty blood cell watercolors in the ko-fi shop ko-fi.com/s/fb132bad4b #sciart
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Set of 2 Itty-bitty red blood cell paintings - Michele Banks's Ko-fi Shop
2 tiny original watercolor paintings in 5x5 inch mats This set features 2 different paintings of red blood cells on a pink background Signed and u...
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 23/03/2026
While it's gotten far too little attention, the trans healthcare ban imposed by the Catholic hierarchy late last year is the most extensive and draconian in the U.S. In many areas, its networks — which are rapidly expanding, taking over previously secular practices — are the only option...
But then, on Nov. 12, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops overwhelmingly passed a total ban on trans care throughout all of its healthcare network.

This was, and remains, the most extensive and draconian trans healthcare ban in the U.S., and one that has gotten far too little attention for how much damage it's done. The bishops' ban includes not just hospitals but many clinics and doctor's practices as well. It bans hormones and surgeries, for adults as well as trans youth. While individual Catholics have a wide range of beliefs, the church hierarchy itself is incredibly reactionary, abusive and a longtime enemy of trans people's very existence.

While the church had never been friendly to trans healthcare, the ban eliminated grey areas that more pro-trans Catholics and others working in their networks had previously used to provide healthcare anyway.

This also didn't just impact a few charity hospitals. The church's network is massive, and in recent decades has grown constantly, including by taking over existing, previously secular practices. This means that even trans people who currently get their care elsewhere may fall under the ban as the church's healthcare holdings continue to aggressively expand.

In some states, a third to nearly half of all healthcare beds are run by it, even in places like Oregon and Washington that — on paper — have protections for trans healthcare access.

It includes not just hospitals but also a multitude of clinics and doctors' practices, including plenty that aren't obviously religious.When she went back for her first appointment in January, after the ban, suddenly everything had changed.

“They were very careful to avoid stating the exact reason. The way they phrased it was 'I thought we could, now it turns out we couldn't,'” she said. “They'd had trans patients before. I got the feeling they were willing to help.”

The practice wasn't advertised as a Catholic Church-run one. During her initial appointment, she saw no signs of it, and “the staff clearly knew how to interact with a trans person.” But even if she'd wanted to find another clinic, for a working class trans person in her area that's nearly impossible, because “where I live, there's exactly one network that's not Catholic and that one network is not covered by a lot of insurances because they're more expensive.”

This is a problem around the country. A 2025 article from healthcare access advocacy org Community Catalyst on the “growing crisis” of the Catholic Church's healthcare networks notes their record of “acquiring more and more independent hospitals.”

“Despite their non-profit status and because of their Catholic directives, they're leaving devastating impacts on access, affordability and basic rights in their wake,” the piece noted. 

As of that year, Community Catalyst found, Catholic systems comprised four in ten of the largest health networks in the entire country. Their “directives limit access to critical health care, often going against evidence-based medical standards and clinical guidelines,” especially when it comes to reproductive health and gender-affirming care.
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 23/03/2026
Crossing state borders for HRT. Insurance denials. Missed surgeries. U.S. Catholic bishops imposed a ban on all trans healthcare throughout the church's massive networks. That's left working class trans people struggling even more. Our latest, by @davidforbes.bsky.social are some of their stories:
transnews.network
‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban
Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawling networks. The impact on trans people's lives is devastat...
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/02/2026
Still blows my mind that my medication, Emgality, is like $1,000 with insurance but if I print out a special cheat code from the manufacturer's website its $35. And they don't automatically give this cheat code to people so that elderly and sick people end up accidentally paying full price.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 19/02/2026
[Axios voice] BE SMART: PolyMarket is funded by right-wing billionaire freak Peter Thiel, and competes with Kalshi, which is funded by right-wing billionaire freak Marc Andreessen. ZOOM OUT: Known for monetizing Nazis, Substack is simply the only way to send newsletters. There's no alternative.
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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/02/2026
Good morning! This man is a fucking liar.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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Brent J. Arnold @cyberlawyeryyz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
For everyone who thought @caseynewton.bsky.social was overreacting when he left the platform, I give you: Substack Nazis. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
theguardian.com
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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Scoutprime @scoutprime.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
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Richard Lawler @rjcc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
no disrespect, but I'm not subscribing to your Substack for reasons that should be obvious if you google words like "substack" and "nazis"
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Folds on the Kennedy Center 3 weeks ago: I was sick to my stomach when I quit because I knew they were going to run it into the ground. No one that they were appointing had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. The point was to take that, run over it, and move on.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/02/2026
Reminder that of all the people complicit in Epstein's crimes, the only person actually held accountable and sentenced was a woman. No men involved have yet to face consequences.
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Nic Pereira @rivernic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is was a domestic abuser sounds like
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Please spread the word: If you’re an attorney representing LGBTQ+ people being deported to a dangerous country by federal immigration agents, I want to talk to you. Please reach out here, on Signal (my ID is in my bio), or by email! christopher dot wiggins at equalpride dot com
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Please share. 💔
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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kenny mellman @kennymellman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
if you are surprised that politicians aren't joining or at least supporting the people protesting ICE, let me tell you about the AIDS crisis years.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
popular.info
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
BLOCK them.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/01/2026
Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.
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