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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 4h

Just because

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

My man looks like Stanley Kubrick dressed up as Velma for Halloween

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 14h

Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 7h

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 10h

many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 16h

I wrote what in my opinion is the best and only essay one needs re: JKR’s addiction to anti-trans bullying ... which the BBC has been complicit with. I hope folks will read (and share with your oblivious cis relatives/colleagues/neighbors) etc. lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

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Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person

During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 10h

Way to tell me you’re paying zero attention, I dunno

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 12h

My interview with Yogendra Yadav: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 11h

JIM CRAMER? JIM CRAMER figured it out??

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Today, a vast array of online platforms—misogynistic porn, crypto, sports-betting and prediction markets, masculinity influencers, and right-wing and racist propaganda—gnaws through minds, hearts, and souls on its way to wallets."

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Rebecca Solnit’s (Mis)Adventures in the Manosphere

The writer, historian, and activist explores an America where the right has turned hatred of women into an ever-expanding, multi-platform Internet grift.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 10h

Blows my trans mind, people *starting* substacks, in 2026 …

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 11h

Fascinating tidbit in this interview with former Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont), he says that Texas Republicans anti-transgender ads aren't "resonating." "What Republicans are talking about is just not what the swing voter is really interested in." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

DP: We’re still running transgender ads. It’s just not resonating. $100 million in ads, $125 million in ads, and nothing’s moved the needle here in Texas in a month in the Senate race. Let’s be honest. The 8 to 10 percent of voters in the middle who are going to decide this election, when they hear stuff about boys in girls’ sports, they don’t even know what you’re talking about. This never happened in their communities, and they’ve been hearing about it for so many years, and so many other people have been accused of it. What Republicans are talking about is just not what the swing voter is really interested in.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.

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Trump’s New Press Secretary Supports the Death Penalty for Abortion Patients

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

NEW: The women were victims of domestic abuse. That’s what they told police officers, attorneys and anyone who would listen. It didn’t matter. They were all taken to an immigration detention center.

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These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.

It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump admi...

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

So they ran to TERFs and Nazis to get smoke blown up their asses. Because in addition to not being interesting, they are bereft of morals too.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

They got their feelings hurt because they intruded into black spaces and queer spaces thinking that it was time for them to see a show or give a lecture. That we were here for their entertainment or to make them feel superior. And the first time they got roasted they thought they were dying.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The elites lost their minds because they were faced with the reality that we see them as nothing more than useless, petulant toddlers. That not only weren't they the smartest in the room, but that everyone would prefer they weren't in the room at all. So we could get **** done or have a good time.

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Sarah Gen @sarahgen.bsky.social · 14h

Great thread by Sandy Allen

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 14h

A 🧵 re: the BBC’s continued bullshit coverage of the trans community, which as a journalist I loudly object to …

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Disastrous. "More than 2 newspapers are lost for every startup created. Virtually all new news sources are urban, while rural America is increasingly arid news territory. Virtually all philanthropic support for local news is in metro regions..." localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/sta...

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The State of Local News 2026

The latest insights and trends on the local news landscape across the country. Through data and graphics, explore the state of local news outlets and learn about news deserts, network sites and pathwa...

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13/10/2026

PROMOs 10 year plan is to create a pro-trans majority in Republican dominated Missouri. Is that even possible? How are they doing it? Our EIC @evanurquhart went to St. Louis to find out. Here's his story: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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The Only People Talking to Missouri Voters About Trans Kids are Conservatives… and these LGBTQ+ Canvassers - Assigned Media

For three years they've been working to humanize trans people one door at a time.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

Well yeah, they’re literally trying to kill me, so, same

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

Lastly: if you want my attention, assume I won’t see whatever you say on here (in a timely fashion, at least). Best to email me: www.sandyernestallen.com/contact

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Contact — Sandy Ernest Allen

Contact author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen for consulting, speaking, etc.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

So when trans strangers just vent at me because of cis media’s failures, I have little patience. I also do understand why the anger: It’s just misdirected at me. Ditto cis people wasting your time in my replies expressing whatever performative dismay: Please just talk the others, the cis people.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

Nobody on here like *knows* the story but I’ve suffered a horrible loss this year and am deep in grief, basically nonfunctional, day to day … I keep going in part because I see how greatly the trans community needs professionals actually covering us well, and what’s happening. It’s all exhausting.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

It’s heartbreaking, for me. All of it.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

Many white cis people of a certain age who lead these organizations tend to be: Fools, in certain respects, because of their privileges. And this shows from their relentless failure to actually reckon with their own rightward drifts, their own complicity with actual evil …

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

The failure of cis-led media to include us trans professionals as they nevertheless pursue in covering us is: Coverage about us without us. It’s fundamentally unethical and I object, as someone who works in this industry and is trans, myself.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

Anyway, on a few deadlines rn, contemplating some deeply depressing questions (as a trans journalist), so, gonna log out of here but …

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 15h

Broadcasting the documentary is deeply disrepectful to their memories and the bereaved families. Please reconsider. Yours sincerely Sophie Molly She/Her

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 15h

Alice Litman. Jason Pulman, Leia Samson-Grimbly and Charlie Millers are 4 young UK trans people who have died by suicide, where the coroner identified lack of trans healthcare as a contributing factor to their deaths.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 15h

The following is one such example: "Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids."

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 15h

Dear BBC Scotland, As a trans woman i'm deeply disturbed by your recent annoucement to broadcast a two part documentary about the career of JK Rowling. The author frequently publishes transphobic commentary via her enormous social media X (twitter) account.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 16h

Anyway: It’s always gonna be the same assholes who are racists, transphobes, sexists etc., because it’s all about abuse of power.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

The BBC, the NYT, the WSJ, the Free Press, these right-wing establishment media outlets: These are the problem. I’m a broken and broke trans journalist; I *promise* I’m not who you need to yell at.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

Trans people who get angry at “journalists” at me, please just keep in mind I’m an exhausted person who doesn’t want to be on the receiving end of your anger. Write a letter to the NYT or something, I’m not your problem. I’m outspokenly allied in favor of: Mainstream media *needs* to reckon w/ this.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

I am stuck trying to sell my work to cis media, alas, because there is no other way to make a living … It’s an impossible position to be in. I am outspoken about these dynamics not because it’s helpful to me or my career but because … I dunno, I’m out of my mind. The silence is actually the problem.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

Anybody who just complains about “journalists” in my replies, I’ll try to fire a warning shot perhaps but in general: I am a journalist, so, I’m not your audience. I truly get it, in terms of the cis media establishment has failed the public. It’s a constant refrain of my yadda yadda nowadays, alas.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

Lots of people (ones I know, even) still just get their paychecks from transphobic billionaires who are trying to kill me and I for one have noticed …

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

So, did he plan it all? Was this his MO, spilling drinks on women and watching them get humiliated? Sure seemed like it, in retrospect. But who knows, what causes such a person to behave in such a way, and never ever … stop. Apologize. Deal. Grow up.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

I wasn’t far from home so I’ll never forget the short walk back and like, crying in my shower. I’ll never forget what dress I was wearing, which I’m unsure I ever wore-wore again, not at least without remembering all that …

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

How does someone spill ‘two beers’ on someone else, a good question … Small table, two top, unstable, and suddenly two full beers were all over my dress. Rather than seem apologetic, he seemed to ignore me after and go talk with the bartender (a friend?), which I found maddening, so then I left …

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 15h

Anybody who pretends like there’s some ‘serious journalism’ needs doing about whether JKR is a bigot sure … is a bigot, and deluded I’m guessing. Lying to themselves. Everybody working for the BBC, like everybody working for the NYT and the Atlantic etc is: Complicit with this bullshit, in my view.

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