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Brian Donovan

@swiftiesociologist.bsky.social
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Sociologist. Taylor Swift evangelist. Writing a book about swifties. www.swiftiesociologist.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7h
vile, disgusting, irredeemable people
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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THE WARRIORS is a real moviemaker's movie: it has in visual terms the kind of impact that "Rock Around the Clock" did behind the titles of BLACKBOARD JUNGLE. THE WARRIORS is like visual rock. (1979)
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And people continue to stay on X
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Justice for Derry Girls
The NYT reader's poll of the top 100 TV shows if the 21st century listed Derry Girls at 45 (it was shockingly not in the critic's list)
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026
The ACLU is suing a a Minnesota school district that has banned every sticker in an attempt to rid its campuses of rainbow ones. The school district is Detroit Lakes School District, and locals are up in arms at the sticker ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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ACLU Sues Minnesota School District That Banned All Stickers To Get Rid Of Rainbow Ones
“You created all of this disruption over a 2-by-3 inch sticker.”
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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jan Radway: I told all you hoes about this in the 1980s, you’re all just not reading my work on romance readers
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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(Don’t) Nuke Them From Orbit 💥🌎 @danfellars.com · 29/09/2026
Can we all just agree that we're reliving the 70s? Iran, oil crises, sex parties, mustaches... Am i missing anything?
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Without being overly political, the "Patient Zero" video is Taylor's most powerful political video. The portrait of coercive control is incredibly strong for its short runtime.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can tell, with all of the explicit ethnic cleansing making everything worse and more expensive, the GOP's next target is just to go all out on gender wars. Everyone on X or Rumble is complaining about nagging women 24/7, with brief respites for holocaust denial. Full 4chan incel GOP incoming.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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ʅαυɾα⸆⸉ ✮˙ᴴ🐞| cleveland! ❤️‍🔥 @fateofophel1ia.swifties.social · 25/09/2026
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Taylor Taylor Swift
Alt: Taylor Taylor Swift
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh. Wow. We're still doing this discourse? Feels very 2024. So boring. “We Don’t Need To See Taylor Swift”: NFL Called Out Over Frequent Shots of Travis Kelce’s Wife During Chiefs-Colts Game - Yahoo Sports share.google/7CHUtToTglJt...
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“We Don’t Need To See Taylor Swift”: NFL Called Out Over Frequent Shots of Travis Kelce’s Wife During Chiefs-Colts Game
Digital Editor at DenverSports James Merilatt’s frustration summed up what plenty were thinking. Sunday’s Chiefs-Colts broadcast kept cutting to Taylor Swift in the stands, and viewers weren’t shy abo...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
just coincidentally, the author of this racist screed is also the ex-husband of Pamela Paul, who ran the NY Times book review for almost a decade
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22/09/2026
I would pay to see Bret Stephens call Edwidge Danticat or Marlon James DEI writers to their faces, and listen to them respond.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 22/09/2026
The Strength of Weak Tie Fighters
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh, the @nytimes.com is writing about the class ceiling! Surely they will have cited and talked to Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison who wrote about this, oh, 8 ish years ago, and not an economist who rediscovered the now obvious but published it in Journal of Econowhatever! Oh, wait.
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
From the paper: "There is very little research on the role of class in career outcomes like hiring, pay, or promotion"
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Not gonna lie, this 1991 ad using Nagel-style art to hawk Bob Evans Restaurants is deeply unsettling yet oddly comforting
Patrick Nagel-style artwork of a very 80's-looking businesswoman checking her watch while holding a briefcase, next to an ad for Bob Evans' "Beat the Clock" deal
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 17/09/2026
Democratic candidates’ transphobia spells disaster for trans people xtramagazine.com/pow... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Democratic candidates’ transphobia spells disaster for trans people | Xtra Magazine
The Democratic party’s anti-trans heel turn could have drastic consequences beyond November’s midterms
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The Judy Room (Judy Garland the Voice of MGM) @thejudyroom.com · 16/09/2026
September 16, 1963: Judy, along with June Allyson and Carolyn Jones, created the Birmingham Children's Fund of Beverly Hills to raise money to help the victims of the recent horrific bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15th. #judygarland #thejudyroom
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Emmy Cumslutress @coyotegirl.online · 17/09/2026
of course these dystopian dipshits are reinventing black mirror's "nosedive" from first principles
a picture of bryce dallas howard with a towel and bathrobe on with her characters name (Lacie) and social media score (4.2 43) next to her and the title card "Black Mirror Nosedive" below her
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yall really do frequently treat trans rights as something reasonable people can disagree on, in a way you never would anyone else’s rights.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
Once you've granted the idea that it's dangerous to allow trans kids to play organized sports, you're already 99% of the way to agreeing to bathroom bans. You've stipulated to the transphobes' central argument.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
The thing liberals fundamentally don't understand is that trans people are losing rights they already had. We're not asking for more, we're asking not to lose what we already had for decades. Most sports leagues and the Olympics had inclusion criteria for decades without issue.
Screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) exchange discussing political pragmatism and the Overton window.
The initial post by onion person (@CantEverDie) reads:
> "doesn't matter, this is about what the right is able to push with the overton window. first its democrats needing to disavow trans women in sports to get elected, next it'll be agreeing to ban access to HRT to get elected. we've seen how this plays out"
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A reply from Nick Pappas (@NickAPappas) reads:
> "Are you insane? The Overton window didn’t even include this discussion until recently. The public has never been in favor of desegregating the sports by sex.
> Personally I’m glad Barack Obama ran against gay marriage in 2008. Not because that was the right position, or one he even actually held, but because he knew the public wasn’t with him on it. If he hadn’t won he wouldn’t have been able to appoint 2 of the justices who ultimately voted in the majority for Obergefell.
> Lincoln in 1860 didn’t even run on abolishing slavery! He just wanted to stop its expansion. And thankfully he did that and won because a more extreme and morally correct position would have lost. As a result he was able to win the Civil War and push through the 13 amendment.
> Political practicality is the entire history of progress in America. There’s no other way."
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
⭐️ T O N I G H T ⭐️
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Truly evil. "'Can you not handcuff me in front of my daughter?' one of the women, who’d been arrested for missing her court date for a bill over a C-section, remembers asking police in 2011. She’d been at home with her 2-year-old and was also 8 months pregnant." www.jezebel.com/roger-marsha...
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Roger Marshall Says Abortion’s ‘Barbaric,’ but Apparently Had No Issue Suing Women Who Couldn’t Afford Repro Care
It turns out the OBGYN-turned GOP senator made a killing from suing more than 700 patients who couldn’t afford to pay their bills.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/09/2026
The Pentagon is purging all trans people in the military. They're going after those who didn't even transition by searching through medical records to find any evidence someone had gender dysphoria. They're purging those who detransitioned to save their jobs. federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main...
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Pentagon searching medical records to identify transgender troops | Federal News Network
Military officials are using medical and personnel data to uncover troops with current or past gender dysphoria as the Pentagon moves ahead with separations.
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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is going to become not uncommon.
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I was thinking this morning about how Robin Morgan's poem "The Arraignment" mirrors other problematic aspects of her feminism. Weaponizing a tragedy (Path's death) for clicks, individualizing ("Ted Hughes bad") a structural problem (mid century patriarchy), and carceral vibes.
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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 06/09/2026
Legitimately enraging to see someone like Robin Morgan get a hagiographic obit in the AP without so much as a single mention of the harm and harassment she incited.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
furthermore, Morgan popularized attacking trans ppl as potential predators within feminist & lesbian movements in the early 1970s, setting the groundwork for ppl like Raymond later
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I just got the bill from my first rabies vaccine. Rabies vaccines are carried in all kinds of places in Minnesota, but you are required to get the first one at the ER. $18,000 before insurance. My co-pay is “only” $600, but that’s still absurdly high for a shot.
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Critics have always struggled to appreciate that kind of poetry. They make exceptions for Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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monika⸆⸉ 🪩 @mokosversion.swifties.social · 26/08/2026
“For the tightropes she walked so that young girls like me could grow up dreaming of joining the circus too. Dolly, I'll think of you each step of the way.” i’m fineee 😭😭😭
TAYLOR SWIFT'S STATEMENT ON DOLLY PARTON
A world without Dolly doesn't feel possible, real, or right. But because of the eternally generous way she spent her time on this earth and the countless lives she changed for the better, her legacy will be an everlasting one.
She was truly the gift that kept on giving. Dolly gave us someone to look up to while encouraging us to be who we are as individuals. Somehow she was able to give us her lessons about the world gently and honestly, simultaneously, and oftentimes hilariously. She managed to give the world the ultimate mystery and fantasy in some corners of her life, but to give full transparency in the ways that counted. Somehow she was true grace and true grit, all in one dazzling person. She possessed the softest heart when it came to the struggles of others, and a backbone of steel to defend her own self worth as an artist.
Along with her other fans, am so grateful for all of it. For the melodies and lyrics she wrote that thawed even the coldest hearts. For the millions of books she provided children all over the world so that they might fall in love with stories the way she did. For the tightropes she walked so that young girls like me could grow up dreaming of joining the circus too.
Dolly, I'll think of you each step of the way.
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A NYT overdue obit on Patricia Douglas ("Girl 27") #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/o...
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Overlooked No More: Patricia Douglas, Who Challenged Hollywood’s Culture of Abuse (Gift Article)
Eight decades before the #MeToo groundswell, she took MGM to court after alleging she was attacked at a studio party in 1937.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New from me: The Trump Regime keeps coming for SPLC. Their latest indictment is chock-full of salacious details designed to isolate Heidi Beirich from Civil Society. But since they couldn't even get her job title correct, I don't buy it. www.altrightdelete.news/p/revenge-of...
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Revenge of the White Supremacists
In solidarity with Heidi Beirich
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Not just an op ed, but a fantastic piece of reporting on the canary/coalmine of anti-trans lawfare in Kansas. #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Read the whole thing -- gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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Brian Donovan @swiftiesociologist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"Pop music in America is an extension of whiteness and works just like it — it has no defined borders; it expands and contracts to maintain its dominion; it tells us that nothing too ethnic can have universal appeal." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/o...
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Opinion | BTS’s Grammys Boycott Highlights the Perils of Pop Music (Gift Article)
The genre was shaped by exclusion, not expansion.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
so excited for this!
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I do think, fundamentally, the anti-trans movement is best understood as an elite version of the satanic panic.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
He used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed
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Noel Keith @noelkeith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Originally it was an audiobook 😆
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
BRAND NEW VIDEO: not only my most thorough take-down of these anti-trans talking points, but it explains why women & minority groups are often stereotyped as "contagious" & "excessively sexual." it compiles a decade of my work, so please watch & "like" & share so others see it! youtu.be/rJq9ran4Sdc
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Transgender "Social Contagion," "Grooming," & the Stigma-Contamination Mindset
YouTube video by Julia Serano
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 16/07/2026
After Pushing Anti-Trans Laws to ‘Protect Women’s Sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation Now Wants Women’s Sports Gone to ‘Assist Fertility’ www.transiticsnews.c... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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After Pushing Anti-Trans Laws to ‘Protect Women’s Sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation Now Wants Women’s Sports Gone to ‘Assist Fertility’
Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.
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