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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 17/09/2026

CALIFORNIANS: this is your reminder to blast Gov Newsom with calls before he signs away the right to accessible internet for rural, native & low income communities tomorrow to appease Trump.

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Riley O'Brien @tanukiriley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

still not really Online or Plugged In atm because life continues to put me in a meat grinder, a new sort of experiment where they test of maybe the meat is actually better if the living subject is so stressed out it thinks it's dying another reason to celebrate labor day, go apply for a union gig

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Why won't the huge corporations represent more minorities?" cause they're evil and we live under fascism. I do not want more gay content from Disney, I want Disney to not exist. We are not the same.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/05/2026

False equivalence. This is a convo about ownership. Spend $10.99/mo on CDs and in a year you've got 12 CDs. Yours forever even if you go broke and can't buy more. Spend $10.99/mo on streaming and then have to cancel? You've spent the same $ and you have...nothing. These are not equivalent systems.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

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Riley O'Brien @tanukiriley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Still kicking around in places that arent social media for the most part, just wanted to pop in and note how you can tell opinions are turning because of how sweaty the pictures that they're choosing for the hero images on articles, also the amount of mid-sentence open mouths hoping today's the day🤞

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Everybody here

Lisa Simpson getting coffee and it says "Maybe it will happen today"

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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are mad as hell.

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Riley O'Brien @tanukiriley.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Havent been around much because turns out knowing exactly how the torment nexus is tormenting you can really mess you up (who knew?) My body may be breaking down and i am hurtling towards being unable to afford to live, but still i remain. have a day late and a dollar short fridge poem for TDOV

A refrigerator magnet poem that reads: "Breast less on this day
he him"

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Rough TDOV, y'all Between SCOTUS legalizing conversion therapy (an internationally recognized form of torture), Idaho's felony bathroom ban, & Trump's pedophilic ass trying to do away with mail-in voting, I'm beat. I hope one day these fascists all rot in the Hague and/or Hell. The fight goes on

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/04/2026

Part of the strategy the anti trans side had was normalizing bathroom bans in government buildings which are now in effect in over 20 states. They'll move to private businesses quickly in a legislative cycle and make it so opposition can't be mounted effectively.

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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Moulton thought he'd be successful taking right-wing positions. Now he sees the wind blowing the other way and wants to pretend he's a leftist 🙄 “Congressman Moulton is acutely aware of the trauma the transgender community is facing,” wrote a spokesperson for Moulton Yeah, he's part of the trauma!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/03/2026

The anti-trans "Gender Dysphoria Institute" is recruiting transgender youth for a new study. It's run by some of the worst anti-trans "scientists" out there. Now, our writer S. Baum has uncovered a massive dark money network from the far-right funding it. See our latest investigation.

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The Same Dark Money Behind Project 2025 Is Bankrolling A Northwestern Study Recruiting Trans Kids

Project 2025 outright calls on conservatives to fund and manufacture more “studies” on the “negative” effects of trans-affirming care.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/03/2026

It's been a month since NYU Langone ended care. Letitia James deadline came and went, NYU still has not restarted care. Mamdani refuses to answer questions from trans journos over the real steps he can take, like directing H+H to absorb patients or enforcing human rights law. Important thread.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 25/03/2026

it’s been kind of a fucking bummer watching people move on from this. mamdani isn’t greg abbott or brad little or the kansas legislature; his whole deal was listening to people and promising to enact equitable & achievable solutions. and when he doesn’t do that, YOU NEED TO CALL IT OUT.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Exactly. She has had a grotesque and proactive role.

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Kit @criticalkit.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"Trump was inevitable" not as a myth-making cop-out but as a call to action to identify the structural and societal affordances that made it so

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hey, if youre like me, i know that it's hard to keep track of everything you need to call your reps about right now this isnt exhaustive but here's a script with a check list of issues that demand attention right now. I'll likely be add more later CALL YOUR REPS www.congress.gov/members/find...

Hello, I'm a constituent from [PLACE] and im contacting [REPRESENTATIVE] because I would like to give my opinion on a number of bills and issues.

The following legislation I believe should be OPPOSED should it come to a vote before [REPRESENTATIVE]
The SAVE ACT/SAVE AMERICA ACT
The KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT
The KIDS ACT
The SCREEN ACT
The APP STORE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT
HR 7661
The TRUMP AMERICA AI ACT

Additionally, I want to voice my opinion on the following issues:
I want to see opposition to any attempt to reform/repeal SECTION 230
I want to see opposition to ONLINE ID/ ONLINE AGE VERIFICATION LAWS, as well as repealing any existing laws
I want to see ICE ABOLISHED
I want to see OPPOSITION TO THE WAR IN IRAN as well as its aggression towards VENEZUELA, GREENLAND AND MORE

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19/03/2026

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

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Riley O'Brien @tanukiriley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

but i think most writers rooms would say you were being a bit cartoonish and spelling it out for the audience in making those parallels and the joke or storyline would get cut

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Riley O'Brien @tanukiriley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

chuck norris dying is sorta antithetical to the mythos created by internet humor in the early 2000's sorta a real life metaphor for the death of the early internet and the full rise of web fascism and the surveillance state, if you think about it

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Ness 🟡⚪🟣⚫ @nesstheenby.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Greta Thunberg went "we need to save the climate" then thought about it for a few years and went "climate change is caused by capitalism, and to fight climate change effectively you need to dismantle capitalism" and some people need to make the same mental journey she did

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Riley O'Brien @tanukiriley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

that even as games come out and arent. arent gen 3 good we'll say hah, they can still coast on the maxed out momentum that they got from this generation

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Riley O'Brien @tanukiriley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

and it feels like Game Freak has been chasing and trying to build on that high ever since, and the community falls into that pattern and chase as well, even as a lot of people keep falling off. with gen 3 they established themselves firmly as titans in the game space and built up so much good will-

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Riley O'Brien @tanukiriley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

hard agree!!! it presented a complete vision, heightened existing mechanics, started exploring new mechanics, and created the blueprint for the culture we see around pokemon today. It would not exist at the scale and enthusiasm it does if gen 3 werent some of the best games ever made

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

If you’re thinking about how sexual violence, social movements, and accountability today, read this brilliant Sara Ahmed essay on the difference between consequences and punishment. I recommend this essay to people grappling with accountability proceedings more than any other.

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The Complainer as Carceral Feminist

I am often asked how my arguments about complaint activism relate to the projects of transformative and restorative justice as well as abolitionist feminism. In an answer to one such question, I sp…

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

You need to call your reps and demand that they OPPOSE: -the KIDS Act -KOSA -the Screen Act -Sammy's Law -the App Store Accountability Act And additionally, oppose: -reforming/sunsetting Section 230 -online age verification/ID laws www.congress.gov/members/find...

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 05/03/2025

My latest @kqedarts.bsky.social story about sold-out masks-required shows sums up many of my thoughts on the ongoing pandemic's fifth anniversary. Many of us are living in the actual new normal. It's never too late to start protecting your loved ones & self again! www.kqed.org/arts/1397262...

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Why Masks-Required Concerts Still Sell Out in the Bay Area | KQED

COVID-conscious musicians and fans have created a tight-knit, DIY scene that’s all about accessibility.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We need better Democrats. Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

83 years of continual undeclared war in direct violation of its own constitution. The only people who remember when the US Congress had to declare war in order to go to war, are all over 83 years old.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress. The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/02/2026

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

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BlackJew 🏳️‍⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If I told you the legislature rolled back important climate change legislation written by pro-gas energy companies and their lobbyist rewarded the leaders with donations, you would be like what Republican state did this. But that's our #mapoli legislature.

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BlackJew 🏳️‍⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

State Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven had an amendment that would have simply required Eversource, which has made record profits as a state-created monopoly (PROFITS), to at least give a rationale for raising our rates. She couldn't get enough Dems to rise for a roll call. #mapoli

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

House Republicans have introduced a bill to effectively grant the federal government decision making power over what books make it to the library.

Misleadingly called the "stop the sexualization of children act" HR 7661 is a national level book banning bill that would ban any book that, according to the bill's language "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism"

This means any book about a trans peson or the trans experience would be banned from every public school in the US

The bill has been referred to the House Committee on education and workforce. If you're represented by one of the members of this committee listed below they need to hear from you:

Kevin Kiley, CA
Mary E Miller, IL
Glenn Thompson, PA
Burgess Owerns, UT
Michael Rulli, OH
James Moylan, Guam
Ryan Mackenzie< PA
Mark Harris, NC
Mark Messmer, IN
Suzanne Bonamici, OR
Jahana Hayes, CT
Summer Lee, PA
John Mannion, NY
Federica Wilson, FL
Alma Adams, NC
Adelita Grijalva, AZ

CALL YOUR REPS

THem they must oppose this bill at every turn.
It's egregiously unconsiutional, targets based on ideological disapproval, and misleads parents and the public about the content of children's books.
It does nothing to protect kids and will badly harm education.
It will tie school material funding into knots and hurt anyone who is alibrary materials vendor regardless of content
If you're a publishing pro, tell them your livelihood depends on the next generation of readers.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

NOW is the time to make calls to your reps about KOSA, SCREEN act, section 230 and more Call your legislators. Speak to office aides. Leave messages. Do so every day. Be loud and annoying. Get family and friends to join in. www.congress.gov/members/find...

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