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TruJek @trujek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Malon 🥛
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Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The last resort of a woman who wanted a strawberry margarita (it did not work)
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Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@omgsidewalks

Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This week for the first time an anti-trans amendment failed in Congress with Republican defections open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 17/07/2026
Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
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Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach
Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/07/2026
Way to fuck the kids over
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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This👇🏼
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しゃむ @peach1101.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Edelgard💐 #FireEmblem
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026
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Nolan’s "The Odyssey" Has a Colonialism Problem
Despite Morocco’s hopes that its film industry would reap rewards, the blockbuster’s success will be tainted by controversy surrounding filming in occupied Western Sahara.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
the skies and waters themselves rise against the vile king
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/06/2026
REAGAN WORE IT BETTER 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Kenya’s Katiba Institute has petitioned the High Court to block the government from making Kenya the place of quarantine for American citizens exposed to Ebola — and the petition starts like this: katibainstitute.org/katiba-insti...
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA IN NAIROBI
HCCHRPET/E/2026
KATIBA INSTITUTE ................................................................ PETITIONER
VERSUS
ATTORNEY-GENERAL ................................................... 1ST RESPONDENT
CABINET SECRETARY FOR
THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH ......................................... 2ND RESPONDENT
AND
KELIN KENYA ............................................................ INTERESTED PARTY
Certificate of Urgency
I, Joshua Malidzo Nyawa, Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, certify this
matter extremely urgent and ‘absolutely cannot wait’ because:

1. ‘We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families,
’ as written
by Philip Gourevitch, illustrates the consequences of failure by authorities
to act on credible and imminent threats to life. This concern directly
informs the urgency of this matter, given the imminent exposure of the
public to grave health risks.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Yesterday, charges were dismissed for myself and five others protesting ICE. Yes, it was a win. But it’s not justice. And it’s not over yet.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/05/2026
Rep. Eugene Vindman is doubling down on the forced outing of transgender students and though he says he "disagrees" with defunding schools that support trans people, he voted for it anyway because he really likes the forced outing portion.
HuffPost reached out to all eight Democrats who voted for the bill. Most did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
"As a dad to two public school kids, I believe parents must be included in their children's decisions in school," Vindman said in a statement.
"Whether it's what they put on their school forms, their academic performance, or athletics, parents need to be at the center because that is the key to every child's success," he said. "There are other policies in the bill I don't agree with and will work to change, but I voted today to make sure parents like me can continue to support their kids at school, and I believe to my core that is what our kids need."
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NPR @npr.org · 22/05/2026
The search giant is updating its famously minimalist homepage. But what looks like a tiny design change is a very big deal. n.pr/4tOCMxO
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Ask AI or just Google it? Google makes a big change to a little search box
The search giant is updating its famously minimalist homepage. But what looks like a tiny design change is a very big deal.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
see www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
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Britain’s Bathroom Ban
The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/05/2026
the fuck it will
A white man in a business suit pointing a handgun at an open laptop
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/05/2026
I'm sure after a few years we'll find out this "detransition" clinic treated fewer than a dozen patients. Just completely chickenshit stuff by the general counsel and admin at Texas Children's.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/05/2026
1. In a scathing ruling, a Trump-appointed federal judge found that Trump's Department of Justice misled courts to try and obtain private data on trans people from hospitals. She called the DOJ "at best, deceptive, if not intentionally and knowingly false." Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Federal Court Finds Trump Admin DOJ Misled Courts To Target Trans People's Private Data
The judge, a Trump appointee, blocked a subpoena to Rhode Island Hospital.
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Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
No no keep letting ChatGPT write articles this is ART
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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It’s pretty clear that the president and his inner circle are racist, but I don’t think we pay enough attention to the fact that they also think they’re the smartest people ever and everyone who isn’t them is stupid.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/04/2026
The gutting of the voting rights act will lead to "the largest-ever decline in the number of Black representatives on Capitol Hill [ever] — breaking a record set around the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era." It's a purge of Black representation. www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...
A line graph titled "A weakening of the Voting Rights Act may lead to a record drop in Black representation in Congress," showing the number of U.S. House districts represented by a Black member from 1869 to the present.
The x-axis displays Congressional sessions from the 41st to the 119th, and the y-axis tracks the number of seats from 0 to over 60. The solid gold line, representing actual districts, shows a small initial peak before dropping to near zero; this drop is accompanied by an annotation marking "1877: Reconstruction ends."
Representation remains relatively flat at near zero until another annotation marks "1965: Voting Rights Act enacted," where the line begins a sharp, steady climb. It reaches its highest point at an annotation reading "119th Congress (2025-2027): 63 seats." From this peak, a dashed gold line projects a steep downward trend, annotated with "Future Congresses: at least 15 seats at risk."
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orangejuliusesq.bsky.social @orangejuliusesq.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/04/2026
Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on
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Implosive Flame @stubzssb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Considering UT is not so far off on these politics right now, I wonder if the library will even publish my dissertation once the embargo ends in a few years.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/04/2026
1. In a draconian new policy, Texas Tech is banning writing about LGBTQ+ topics. The ban is the first don't say gay or trans policy to apply to students themselves. It applies to any thesis/dissertation moving forward. They are using AI to scan everything. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics
The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.
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Harper Jean Tobin @harperjean.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So there’s that. www.fcc.gov/document/med...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Bluesky. Bluesky is Gollum. Isolated to an unhealthy degree, veers wildly between moods. Frequently nude.
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gollum from the lord of the rings is smiling and looking at the camera while sitting on a rock .
Alt: gollum from the lord of the rings is smiling and looking at the camera while sitting on a rock .
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Sam @very-simple.com · 08/04/2026
I know this isn’t the main point, but what the fuck kind of New England boarding school WASP name is Elbridge Colby?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/04/2026
THANK. YOU.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/04/2026
Now the Iranians have US fighter pilots they can ransom. This is going swell /s www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Iran War Live Updates: American Fighter Jet Downed Over Iran, U.S. Officials Say
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 27/03/2026
I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/03/2026
The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...
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Transgender women banned from Olympics by new IOC policy
The new policy limits eligibility in women’s events to biological females based on genetic screening beginning at the 2028 Games.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
hey look its the same "journalist" who authored the attempted hit piece on Mamdani's college application.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
BREAKING The Speaker of Iran’s Parliament — who some claim has been negotiating with the U.S. — says no negotiations have taken place and that President Trump is claiming otherwise to manipulate markets.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/03/2026
It's so incredibly disappointing that Daniel Biss, who had an affair with a student while he was a professor, has beat young and vibrant Kat Aboughazaleh instead of withdrawing from the race He should not accept the nomination
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/03/2026
Missouri Republicans tacked on a gender affirming care ban to their abortion ban referendum to get voters to support the abortion ban. It's the same fight, the government overriding personal medical decisions to impose its ideological beliefs. missouriindependent.com/2026/03/17/m...
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Missouri poll finds ban on transgender care boosts support for outlawing abortion • Missouri Independent
A new poll shows a ban on gender-affirming care for minors is the strongest selling point in a Missouri ballot measure to outlaw abortions.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
JFC. Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.
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The Trump administration will receive a $10 billion fee for brokering the deal that kept TikTok alive in the U.S.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/03/2026
The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.
"A data table summarizing the results of a literature review on various hormone therapy interventions for binary and non-binary groups. It lists ten intervention categories, detailing the number of full texts assessed, studies included, and studies excluded for each. The bottom row shows a total of 547 texts assessed, 17 studies included, and 530 studies excluded."
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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
If Democrats say “these are atrocities,” that would undermine their ability to sell future imperialist wars. They would literally rather die.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.
Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com
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The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
So excited for this new book by Kathi Weeks!!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/03/2026
Babe, wake up. The Atlantic is doing the "they're transing the gays" conspiracy theory.
A screenshot of an article header from The Atlantic's "Ideas" section. The title reads "IN DEFENSE OF EFFEMINATE GAY BOYS" in large, serif capital letters. Below it, a subheader in a smaller font says, "If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded." The byline at the bottom identifies the author as Ben Appel.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
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