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Maddie

@syrene33.bsky.social
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I post about politics, gender, gaming, mental health. I'm she/her, trans, neurodivergent, forever an aspiring author regardless of what my resume says.

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Maddie @syrene33.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
So frustrated that there seems to be no coordinated effort to boycott Taylor Farms products and demand businesses pull their products. It's obvious they don't care at all about product safety. And they're MAGA donors. On a related note, did you know most salad products at Costco are Taylor Farms?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/07/2026
We watched Trump's dangerous and deranged speech so you don't have to. Here are the moments you need to know about:
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Maddie @syrene33.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
And on the last day of Pride Month, SCOTUS decides to deliver a "fuck you" to trans people everywhere. Thanks, dickbags.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/06/2026
Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
2 WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J.
THOMAS, J., concurring
judgment). Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable men-
tal state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does
not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of
which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny—
race, sex, or national origin. Instead, gender dysphoria re-
sembles other characteristics on the basis of which legisla-
tures may classify with a merely rational basis. See, e.g.,
Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 321 (1993) (mental illness);
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202, 220 (1982) (immigration sta-
tus). Legislatures have many obvious rational bases to
keep men who believe that they are women out of teams
and private spaces reserved for women.
Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “bio-
logical men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10,
27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or
girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immuta-
ble “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary;
and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that
correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne,
Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical
Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to ob-
scure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”—
is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens
“as equal[s].” J. Pieper, Abuse of Language—Abuse of
Power 17, 21 (1992).
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/04/2026
NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.
propublica.org
The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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Bob Collins @mylittlebloggie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It's absurd how many people still stand for the national anthem. "I still love my country even though I hate Trump," they say. Really? What in particular?
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Maddie @syrene33.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Saw Suffs last night, and I'm still offended by the terribly inaccurate Polish accent in the portrayal of Ruza Wenclawska. Why do people just assume Polish people sound like a Russian/German hybrid? It's not accurate at all! And nobody seems to notice!
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National Center for LGBTQ Rights @nclrights.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is not the outcome we sought. But here is what you need to know: today’s ruling is about how conversion therapy can be regulated. It does not mean it is safe or legal. It isn’t. Conversion therapy is still medical malpractice and consumer fraud.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 26/03/2026
The Olympic ban on trans athletes apparently justifies it by claiming trans women have the testosterone of cis men. Not only is this not true, but many have testosterone levels even lower than cis women. The Guardian printed this without even attempting to question or fact check it.
In a 10-page document outlining its new policy, the IOC makes it clear transgender women, who have transitioned from male to female, and athletes with a DSD, retain the advantages of going through male puberty.

“There is a 10-12% male performance advantage in most running and swimming events,” it says. “There is a 20+ per cent male performance advantage in most throwing and jumping events. And the male performance advantage can be greater than 100 per cent in events that involve explosive power, eg in collision, lifting and punching sports.”

“XY transgender athletes and athletes with XY-DSD typically have testes/testicles and testosterone levels in the male range,” it adds. “The clear majority are androgen-sensitive, meaning that their bodies are receptive to and make use of that testosterone during growth and development and throughout their athletic career.”

“In light of the scientific consensus that males have a performance advantage in all sports and events that rely on strength, power and/or endurance irrespective of subsequent testosterone suppression or gender-affirming hormone treatment, the Olympic movement has a compelling interest in having a sex-based female category, because this is necessary to ensure fairness, safety and integrity in elite competition,” the document states.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/03/2026
This policy is much more problematic for intersex athletes. They were assigned female at birth, socialized as women, and have female genitalia but will be classified as male. They're entire sports careers will be ruined for this cruel eugenicist project of sex purity.
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the kiracken🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 26/03/2026
oh and one of the main studies that proved trans women have no advantage in sports? one of the most in depth and comprehensive studies? the goddammed motherfucking ioc did it. they know we don't have an advantage *they* proved it themselves. and they're caving to bigots anyway.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 26/03/2026
"I believe so utterly in male supremacy that I think a woman can't ever beat a man at anything, and the mere presence of a Y chromosome is an overwhelming advantage at sportsball. Therefore, we must eradicate trannies from ever participating in society. Buy more wizkidlit." -- This website of late
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Even NBC News is using the "biological females" eugenicist language now.
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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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 26/03/2026
Sporting bodies reviewing the evidence showing no advantage of trans women, be like...
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a man wearing glasses and a blue shirt is talking to a woman and saying `` done '' .
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a blue shirt is talking to a woman and saying `` done '' .
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may @maysuser.name · 24/03/2026
even if trans women had a biological advantage at sports we let people with biological advantages participate in sports all the time—at a professional level they're basically required—and no one cares because those advantages don't trigger a reflexive discomfort in cis people
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/03/2026
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit. An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans. It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans
They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.
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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Oh so when the Bluesky ceo is transitioning it’s fine but when WE do it
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
oh no! they're replacing the ceo who sucks with another ceo who sucks
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NEW at SCOTUS: the court votes 6-3 to block a California law preventing public schools from outing gender-questioning students to their parents.
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Every SpongeBob Frame In Order @esfio.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Season 2 Episode 35 - Frame 2398 out of 2739
Season 2 Episode 35 - Frame 2398 out of 2739
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/02/2026
BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.
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gk 🖕🧊‼️ @gingerkiller.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This administration continues to be absolutely fucking disgusting. Leave trans people alone and let them live their lives. And shame on Scouting America for agreeing to this bullshit.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2026
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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FEB 25, 2026
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Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian
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Trouble “Chosen One” Man @problemfellow.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
• Check for updates
Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/02/2026
Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/02/2026
The Kansas legislature has overridden the veto and passed a bathroom ban with a bounty provision. This bill also directs the Kansas DMV to revoke the driver's licenses of trans people, the first state to pass such a law. www.ksnt.com/capitol-bure...
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Did you know that strawberries are not berries, and are actually mammals?
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Sroka 🪺 Magpie Treasure Hunter @srokavtube.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I'm not sure I can adequately describe how much I want to strangle the people who use the term "biological male". Fuck everyone who mainstreamed this awful awful term
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/02/2026
The president of the ASPS is a huge Trump supporter if you're wondering why they shifted positions now to align with the Trump Administration. He's donated substantially to Trump and Ted Cruz. This was a political decision. www.fec.gov/data/receipt...
“Screenshot of a table listing political contributions. Columns read ‘Contributor name,’ ‘Recipient,’ ‘State,’ and ‘Employer.’ Multiple rows show contributions from ‘Basu, Bob’ (and ‘Basu, C. Bob Dr. MD, MBA’) to recipients including American Society of Plastic Surgeons PlastyPAC, Trump National Committee JFC, Inc., and Ted Cruz for Senate. The state is TX, and the employer is listed as Basu Aesthetics + Plastic Surgery.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/02/2026
ASPS members are regularly doing boob jobs, nose jobs, and other cosmetic surgery on teens under 19. This is their own report! But they aren't discouraging that because it's a cash cow for their members.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/02/2026
The American society of plastic surgeons has no issue with the tend of thousands of minors getting nose jobs and other cosmetic surgery but they decided that they want to support bans on trans youth care and align with Trump's EO rather actual medical science www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
washingtonpost.com
First major medical group opposes gender transition surgeries for youth
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons said doctors should delay gender-related surgeries until age 19, citing “insufficient evidence” that benefits outweigh risks.
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🍇🍓🍎🥩 @sepulturegirl.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
you, jk rowling, invited jeffrey epstein to a harry potter premiere after he was outed for being a pedophile, AND you think lolita was a tragic love story? huh. interesting. …actually ms rowling, just one more thing
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Bethany~ @picklebee.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
justice.gov
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
😂😂😂😂
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
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Valerie Gonzalez @valontheborder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NEW: Dozens of detained immigrant families braved the cold outside the Dilley, TX facility to protest conditions and long detentions, sparked by the recent arrest of 5 y.o. Liam Conejo Ramos. A detainee said the boy & his dad briefly participated. apnews.com/article/texa...
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Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
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Jessie Sholl @jessie-sholl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Honestly nothing feels different here today at all. There are still ICE raids all over, they're still letting people out at Whipple into the cold with nothing, and like you said, people still need food and rent money.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
1. Wasn’t at a protest 2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down 3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"The armed suspect reacted violently." An outright, barefaced and monstrous lie, conclusively disproven by irrefutable video evidence.
Still image showing Alex Pretti holding a phone and trying to protect himself from ICE officers.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
TMZ is now more reliable than the US govt and writes more truthful headlines than most so-called “serious” outlets www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...
from TMZ 

MINNEAPOLIS KILLING NEW VIDEO SHOWS
TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION
CREATED FALSE STORY ... Pretti Posed No Threat
01/24/2026 5:33 PM PST
A new video of the killing of Alex Pretti shows the interaction between him and a swarm of
DHS officers from start to finish ... and, it batters the credibility of Trump officials who came out of the gates swinging, calling Pretti a domestic terrorist
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Thank you to everyone who worked hard to preserve this video. It shows ICE murdered Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse. Watch, save, and share. 💔
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him. The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
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