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Roman R

@romanr.bsky.social
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Performer, writer, trans health educator. Loves bicycling, public transit & cats. A better world is possible. (he/him)

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's really worth building up a nice physical media collection with your favourite movies and shows, because for the prices these streaming services are charging their selections are abysmal, and have such a dearth of classic media.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Two little ceramic pigs at a thrift store or similar. They are labeled as “Pigs with no specific duties.”
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NPR @npr.org · 15/09/2026
A new global democracy report finds the U.S. at its lowest level of democratic performance in the 50 years it has been measured. n.pr/4xW1mPX
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State of U.S. democracy reaches new low, report finds
A new global democracy report finds the U.S. at its lowest level of democratic performance in the 50 years it has been measured.
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Lora 🇨🇦 @lorablack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening 🌱
A red dahlia with purple asters
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SCOOP: A group of staffers from the right-wing think tank, America First Policy Initiative, have been detailed to the Census Bureau, where they have access to sensitive data +contributed to a public report that bolsters conspiracy theories undermining trust in elections www.wired.com/story/a-trum...
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The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
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Larrish 💙 @larrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This mural, located in Los Angeles, California, is by Los Angeles-based muralist Eric Strae. Photo credit goes to the artist himself. #art #mural #streetart #losangeles #LA #california
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Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 13/09/2026
Please join us in mourning Sophie, a Black trans woman who was murdered Friday night in Baltimore. The vigil is tonight, Sunday, at 7pm, at Calvert and 24th where she was killed. See the fundraiser for more details and please donate what you can. www.gofundme.com/f/i-was-some...
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Donate to I WAS SOMEBODY’S CHILD. I DESERVED TO LIVE, organized by Baltimore Safe Haven
Before you see transgender, see someone’s baby. My name was … Baltimore Safe Haven needs your support for I WAS SOMEBODY’S CHILD. I DESERVED TO LIVE
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But hey it's okay if we backslide a little, right? If we just shut up and take it?
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/09/2026
"These wars were not paid for through taxes like previous wars — they were paid for by borrowing."
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4.7 Million Dead, $8 Trillion: Counting the Devastating Human & Economic Costs of the Post‑9/11 Wars
As part of our weeklong coverage marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and the launch of the United States’ so-called war on terror, we take a look at the human, financial and envir...
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14/09/2026
If you're yelling at trans people over voting, you have completely lost the plot. It's fine to want to flip that Senate seat. But there is so much work cis people can be doing to carry that burden. Demanding that trans people make you feel good & righteous about it is the weakest, whiniest shit.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Imagtine being so brainless that you allow yourself to be radicalized into rank transphobia. I'll never forget Pete Buttigieg claiming to understand the concerns about trans girls in sports. Ain't no fucking concerns, ding dong. You're just too much of a bellend to see what's really going on.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
if democrats would get off of X, they might be able to stop having their brains cooked by anti-trans horseshit masquerading as concern for (some) women and girls. "protect women and girls from 9 trans women playing sports" was always going to lead to this shit.
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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 14/09/2026
Three of the eight Prairieland political prisoners are trans. There are only about 3 million trans adults in the entire US. You do the math.
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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 13/09/2026
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After 9/11, law enforcement conducted mass surveillance of Muslims based on little to no suspicion. The surveillance apparatus has only expanded since. Under Trump, it's now sweeping up anti-ICE protesters, data center critics, and left-leaning groups. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_FH...
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From mosques to data center protests: How the post-9/11 surveillance machine came for us all
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 13/09/2026
"I wish trans people weren't so political about everything" - people who gave us literally no choice
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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If even one Democrat could say, in so many words, that he or she opposes transgender genocide and will fight it down to the knives, that would cool the temperature on this discussion so much. Just admit you see the problem, too. Just admit you care if we die.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 14/09/2026
can we send the people who want to live in the 19th and early 20th centuries back in time so we can be left to unfuck our future
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Individual trans people NEVER have to shut up and accept disrespect. Never. The people who need to shut up and stop disrespecting trans people are the POWERFUL and these include fucking elected officials. GET IT STRAIGHT IN YOUR MINDS.
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Touch base with your friends overseas!! Super important they are paying attention to the dates.
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transsexual anarchy CEO 🔆🥦 @bella.meangirls.online · 14/09/2026
also, trans Americans literally can't leave the country without misgendering themselves on their passports because the current administration doesn't allow for you to even leave with dignity.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One woman I met outside Delaney Hall told me men inside the jail -- including her husband -- are denied medical care and have resorted to drinking their own urine to try to address infections. truthout.org/articles/thi...
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One reason trans folks feel adrift given Republican ads on trans people and Democrats going on defense is that unlike a lot of other “out groups,” they lack the political capital of other marginalized groups. There is not an advocacy group on the scale of the NAACP or the NOW for trans people
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Emily Andras @emandras.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you wanna last in Hollywood, you need a thick skin and a shorter memory. But there’s always one you don’t quite get over. 🫶🏼 @lillywachowski.bsky.social
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 12/09/2026
This narrative is a time capsule from another era, affording us a glimpse of what we lost when the proponents of the "War on Terror" managed to stifle the anti-capitalist movements of the turn of the century—and thereby offering us some perspective on our present. crimethinc.com/craziestwalk
A photograph, from some distance, of the Pentagon on fire after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 12/09/2026
On September 11, 2001, two young anarchist organizers who had traveled to DC to prepare for the mobilization against the International Monetary Fund found themselves standing before the flaming Pentagon, looking into the burning future that we now inhabit. Here is their story.
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The Craziest Walk Ever
An account from Washington, DC on September 11, 2001, when two anarchists preparing for the IMF demonstrations walked to see the Pentagon in flames.
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I fucking wish an american political party had half the spine the Alberta first nations has.
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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.
Zhang Shan holding a rifle.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
They have more money than they could spend in 100 lifetimes and they're still terrified of losing any of it. This is scared loser shit. It's pathetic. I just ordered takeout that will cost me more of my net worth than any tax would cost these fuckers. That makes me braver than all of them combined.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/06/2026
Musk fomenting violent race riots in Northern Ireland should have everyone to the left of Reagan fleeing the platform he owns and directly controls but they've already excused so much more, they've abdicated their capacity for moral indignation and disgust
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Once you have a lot of money it becomes easier to get more money by doing nothing, which disincentivizes work. This is why all our billionaires post insane bullshit all day. If they had to work they'd be too busy to act like this, doubly benefiting society
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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app explains how doomers and their "machine-god narrative" are feeding the hype machine and distracting us from the real harms of AI: www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The response to these questions about trans kids playing sports is very simple: “Stop bullying literal children, you freaks.”
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/09/2026
trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible
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Emoria - Aftertaste is a Horror Novel @emoria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Artists: never, ever restrain your vision for fear of being too over-the-top or exaggerated. Look at our actual, real world. Thousands of traumas more painful than you could ever write and thousands of joys more pure than most can imagine both happened today, to real people. Make bold art.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gender-affirming care saves lives, respects the rights of patients, and reflects that healthcare is supposed to be between providers and patients, not between providers and the Trump Administration. (1/3)
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Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors
Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I recently met with families of trans kids, some of whom moved to New York because of our legacy of inclusion, who now feel like refugees forced to look for a new home that will protect their kids’ well-being. (2/3)
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Shame on Mt. Sinai for capitulating with this settlement, which violates that legacy of inclusion, their own Hippocratic oath, and New York’s human rights laws. (3/3)
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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 06/09/2026
I needed to read this today. Maybe you do, too. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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Ezra Furman on Instagram: "A dispatch from Manchester England where we will play our third-to-last show of this big wild tour tonight. (Bristol on Tuesday, London on Wednesday.) Today is my four year...
4,944 likes, 133 comments - ezra.furman.visions on February 2, 2026: "A dispatch from Manchester England where we will play our third-to-last show of this big wild tour tonight. (Bristol on Tuesday, L...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR TEXAS VOTERS.
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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 SACRAMENTO, CA PUBLIC SAFETY ALERT FAR RIGHT EXTREMIST RALLY AUGUST 26TH | 11AM| STATE CAPITOL Here’s how you can help prepare against Sac Fash Fest:
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.” – Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird kithbooks.com
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the literary home of the trans, Crip, queer, & sick

with gasoline
nat raum

Multimorbid
Rebecca Wood

Jump Cut
Helen Gu

SWARM
NDR

Direct Address
Robin Arble

Another double text
K Angel

Grief Is Not Shelf Stable
Jamez Terry

Pulp Prophet
McCaela Prentice

How to Migrate Ghosts
Jaiden Geolingo

The Death of the Cult Classic
K. Blair

Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth
Nivik

The Holy Ghost Lives in Her
Darius Phelps

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’ll be heading back to Springfield soon but I also want to stress something: imagine what it must have been like for a Haitian family in Springfield for the past two years. To live under constant, growing threat like that from the most powerful person on the planet. Imagine what it’s been like for…
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is the natural result of a capitalist system where individuals are allowed to amass more wealth than entire countries will see in a lifetime, where every politician is for sale, and giant corporate monopolies control the food supply and access to everything in our society.
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 20/08/2026
"Support for trans people and the protection of those things necessary for their fundamental human flourishing shouldn't be a political matter at all, but a matter of basic human rights." www.ncronline.org/opinion/tran...
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Transgender lives are not a 'cultural issue'
"Those on the political left and moderates are openly debating the prospective short-term political benefits to abandoning the trans community, taking a cue from the conservative playbook," Daniel Hor...
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 21/08/2026
The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles no longer accepts a form allowing transgender Ohioans to change the gender listed on their driver's license or state ID. eu.cincinnati.com/st... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Ohio BMV scraps gender change form for transgender Ohioans
The Ohio BMV no longer accepts a form allowing transgender Ohioans to change the gender on their driver's license or state ID.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I know what’s the perfect thing to leaflet outside that new harry potter store on oxford street when it opens
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