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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026

Meet Krystal Polk: whose family has been pushed out of Southaven, Mississippi by Elon Musk's ultra-polluting fossil-fuelled data centres. Meanwhile: Anthropic, who rent space in that data centre, is banning people being mean to its chatbot

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

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Stup.Media @stup.media · 12/10/2026

🔴 Liberté d'informer menacée : À Montpellier, notre journaliste Valentin Levetti a été percuté par un policier à moto sans RIO alors qu’il filmait un blocus lycéen. Une plainte pour violences aggravées a été déposée. L'action policière doit être documentée. stup.media/blocus-lycee...

Miniature de l'article : le mot PRESS brisé

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Sidonie @isimvix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh ! Encore un coup de Mediapart ? Marine Le Pen 🔥 qui tracte en 2008 à Hénin-Beaumont avec qui ? ✔️ Avec l'idéologue #ANTISÉMITE Alain Soral et une équipe d'Egalite & Réconciliation. 😁 www.dailymotion.com/video/x37lprr

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Alain Soral tracte à Hénin-Beaumont avec Marine Le Pen - Vidéo Dailymotion

Alain Soral et une équipe d'égalité et Réconciliation tracte à Hénin-Beaumont avec Marine Le Pen, lors des élections municipales de 2008.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.

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That Mad Scientist @that-mad-scientist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Vraiment les TER sont les premières à se jeter toutes seules sous le bus du masculinisme fasciste sans raison, c'est à la fois impressionnant de bêtise et plutôt pathétique. Surtout qu'à ce stade ça relève d'une obsession permanente assez malsaine, quel est le putain de rapport?

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Sylvain GRANDSERRE @sylvaingrandserre.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Rappel en image de la réponse de Macron aux revendications des pompiers (15/10/2019).

Photo d'un CRS en train de gazer à la bombe lacrymogène un pompier qui manifeste en 2019 à Paris.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 26/07/2026

The Trump admin admits it used keyword searches to identify research grants for termination. Instead of evaluating the scientific value of each project, grants were arbitrarily flagged because they contained words the admin didn’t like. 🧵 Article: zurl.co/vWcbo

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

In 75% of US industries, fewer corporations control more of the business than 20 years ago. That's especially true in the food industry. Just four corporations control 54% of the fresh-cut salad industry, including Taylor Fresh Foods. We're seeing in real time the danger of monopolization.

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Taylor Farms Produce Is Sold Everywhere, Making Outbreak Difficult to Escape

Taylor Farms produce is everywhere, and comes from everywhere.

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Sleeping Giants FR @slpng-giants-fr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🧮 Parce qu'on aime bien étayer nos propos par des données indiscutables, on a repris toutes les décisions Arcom concernant #CNews, pour déterminer combien sanctionnaient des propos racistes. La suite ne va malheureusement pas vous étonner 😆 #LaDataNeMentPas 1/4

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Sleeping Giants FR @slpng-giants-fr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Saisine Arcom pour CNews (infos dans l'image) Niant les faits et contredisant l'invité, le présentateur prétend qu'aucune condamnation pour racisme n'a touché CNews et qu'aucun propos raciste n'y est tenu. 1/4

Saisine Arcom CNews 26/06/2026, La Matinale 6h00 séquence 8h33
Le présentateur : "Il n'y a aucune condamnation, aucune sortie raciste [...] Il n'y a aucun propos raciste tenu dur CNews"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/06/2026

This is just one guy's experience, but I have now seen several dozen posts angrily defending air conditioning and zero (0) posts from people who are against it. Where are all these anti-AC folks we're supposed to be mad at? Seriously asking.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

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#NousToutes @noustoutesorg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🚩 Le travail du sexe ne doit pas être un angle mort de la gauche de rupture. 💼 Avec le soutien du projet Jasmine (Médecins du Monde), nous avons soumis une contribution au programme de La France Insoumise pour 2027 : décriminaliser le travail du sexe et garantir les droits des TDS. 1/4

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Here is a watermelon confusing some otters. Enjoy!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/05/2026

When I say I will never vote for Gavin Newsom. When I say I’d take another Republican congress over Democrats that abandon trans people. This is why. When your largest left of center party goes the way of Labour in the UK, you’ve lost all hope. I will never do it.

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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"organisations that wish to breach human rights-" stop there. organisations that wish to do this need to immediately stop. no you cannot exclude a group of people because of who they are. you can't do this. it is FUNDAMENTAL and to have an MP giving guidance on how to do it is obscene

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Liberals for a kinder, more lawful apartheid

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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

No, the "devil" is Labour working to try to eliminate trans people from public life as much as possible, and you having the fucking cheek to pretend to support trans people while complaining the only problem is you haven’t eliminated their rights and dignity speedily enough.

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There's something vile and insipid about slowly eroding the rights of a people and then going "you're still allowed to be nice to them as long as you do it within the law :)"

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/05/2026

Behold the labour party. They want to exclude trans people from society but to do so with "dignity and respect." It's pissing on trans people and calling it rain.

A screenshot of a two-part social media thread by Sarah Owen MP (@sarahowen.org.uk).
The first post reads: "Organisations which also want to remain trans-inclusive need to receive support on how to do so within the law. In a similar way, those that wish to exclude trans men and women from their spaces also need to know how to do so without breaching individual rights to privacy. (6/7)"
The second post reads: "All of us deserve to be able to live with dignity and be treated with respect. (7/7)" The timestamp is 12:02 PM · May 21, 2026.

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Dude idk im tired🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleybites.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Being from the Southern half of the US, the awful people I'm used to scream at you in the bathroom. They burn down houses with the wrong flags out front. They glare at you while grocery shopping, with that church lady judgement. This is all that same discrimination, just dressed up in politeness.

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ecta foole @ectafoole.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The Labour Party is a hollow corpse full of worms

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Sophky.. Spoophie? This isn't working. @sophies.games · 22/05/2026

The draft guidance is fairly explicit that there is no such thing as "trans-inclusive within the law". If I'm being very very charitable, maybe Owen is trying to bait someone from the government to say this out loud, but I think more likely she just hasn't read the thing she's opining on. (1/3)

13.130 If a service provider (or a person providing a service in the exercise of public functions) admits trans people to a service intended for the opposite sex, then it can no longer rely on the exceptions set out at paragraphs 13.99 to 13.111. This means that if a service is provided only to women and trans women or only to men and trans men, it is not a separate-sex or single-sex service under the Equality Act 2010.

13.131 A service like this is very likely to amount to unlawful sex discrimination against the people of the opposite sex who are not allowed to use it. A service which is provided to women and trans women could also be unlawful sex discrimination or lead to unlawful harassment against women who use the service. Similar considerations would apply to a service provided for men and trans men.

It is possible to offer a mixed-sex service alongside a single-sex service. A mixed-sex service must be open to all service users.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/05/2026

bank robber seeks praise for leaving a couple gold bars behind

I gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced Anti-Weaponization Fund to go forward. I could have settled my case, including the illegal release of my Tax Returns and the equally illegal BREAK IN of Mar-a-Lago, for an absolute fortune. Instead, I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration, receive, at long last, JUSTICE! President DJT

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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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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

3/3 That's why I've signed this letter, calling on the Government to take action to ensure the resilience of UK digital systems in the event of interference by a foreign government.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Retirement accounts could soon be gambling on prediction markets. Three firms have filed applications with the SEC to offer "event contracts" for retirement accounts, similar to prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi. Retirement savings could then be bet on future events.

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Prediction markets could soon be available in your retirement account

Bitwise, Roundhill and GraniteShares have filed applications with the SEC to offer event contracts as exchange-traded funds.

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Florence Dellerie @florencedellerie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🔴 S'il vous plaît, PARLEZ-EN, partagez, interpellez les médias en commentaires. Il faut que cette étude fasse du bruit. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ "La chambre d'écho de la douleur" www.frontiersin.org/journals/ani...

1/ Visuel sur fond bleu-rose montrant un dessin de cochon et disant : « L’ÉTUDE TERRIFIANTE DONT (quasiment) PERSONNE NE PARLE »

2/ Visuel sur fond bleu-rose disant : « Elle a été publiée le 24 mars 2026, et ses conclusions sont accablantes. Mais elle a, pour l’instant, reçue très peu d’attention médiatique. Pourtant, cette vaste étude* internationale a des implications considérables. Épouvantables.
*La « chambre d'écho » de la douleur : comment les environnements intensifs amplifient la douleur chez les animaux captifs.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/animal-science/articles/10.3389/fanim.2026.1736142/full
Mendl M, Nicol CJ and Lecorps B (2026) The pain echo chamber: how barren environments amplify pain in
captive animals. Front. Anim. Sci. 7:1736142. doi: 10.3389/fanim.2026.1736142 »

3/ Visuel sur fond bleu-rose et montrant un dessin de poule, disant : « En voici les points-clés : La perception de la douleur est fortement influencée par le contexte. Les interactions sociales, les mouvements, l’exploration, etc. permettent de sécréter des anti-douleurs. Pour une même pathologie ou blessure (par ex., une aile cassée) une poule en cage souffrira donc davantage qu’une poule vivant dans un refuge en plein air. »

4/ Visuel sur fond bleu-rose et montrant un dessin de lapereau, disant : « Les environnements intensifs désactivent systématiquement les systèmes biologiques qui permettent aux animaux de réduire la douleur, tout en activant simultanément de multiples voies qui amplifient la perception de la douleur et retardent la guérison. Dans les élevages intensifs (ces « chambres d'écho de la douleur »), la douleur n'est pas seulement non soulagée ; elle est amplifiée et prolongée au-delà de ce qu’auraient initialement provoqué les blessures ou les pathologies. »

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Tristan K. @tristankamin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

L'occasion de parler un peu de sûreté. Lorsqu'on doute, qu'on ne sait pas, qu'on manque de certaines infos... On invente. Pardon : « on fait des hypothèses ». Et ces hypothèses, on doit tout le temps justifier qu'elles sont pessimistes.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/04/2026

6. More darkly, if psychiatric visits increased, part of the cause may have been the clinic itself. Former patients describe Kaltiala’s clinic as degrading and abusive—exactly the kind of experience that could generate the very distress later counted as harm. The accounts of patients are harrowing.

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Abusive Practices And Conversion Therapy Ties: The Right Latches Onto Finnish Doctor Kaltiala

Finish Doctor Riittakerttu Kaltiala published an article in Bari Weiss' The Free Press, stating she helped "pioneer" trans care. The reality is more akin to a horror story for patients at her clinic.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/04/2026

5. There's another fatal flaw in the Finnish study: it does not measure “before and after treatment.” It measures before and after first clinic appointment, then counts years of pre-treatment psychiatric surveillance as if it were caused by hormones. That is classic immortal time bias.

Immortal Time Bias: The “Before And After” Is Not “Before And After Treatment”
Another major flaw is the study’s choice of “index date”—the point in time around which the entire before-and-after comparison is built. The study sets this date at a patient’s first appointment at the gender identity clinic. This is not when treatment began. In Finland’s highly restrictive system, the assessment process and psychiatric care can and does stretch over multiple years. Patient accounts from Kaltiala’s own clinic describe years-long diagnostic processes before any treatment decision is made.

The study’s own methods section reveals that the authors had the tools to fix this. It states that hormonal treatment was identified through the Social Insurance Institution’s records of prescription medication purchases. If the authors used these records to determine who received hormones—which is how they defined their treated and untreated groups—they necessarily had access to when those prescriptions were first filled. They could have anchored the before-and-after comparison to the actual start of treatment rather than the clinic door. They chose not to.

This would be a serious problem on its own. But it becomes far worse when combined with a well-known statistical error called immortal time bias. In simple terms, immortal time bias occurs when a study classifies someone as “treated” for a period of time during which they had not yet received treatment. The study categorizes patients as GR+ or GR- based on whether they ever received gender-affirming care during the follow-up period—but it does not account for when that care actually started. A patient whose first clinic appointment was in 2012 but who did not begin hormones until 2016 is coded as GR+ for the entire period, including the four years before any treatment occurred.

During those four years, this patient is navigating Finland’s lengthy assessment, undergoing required psychotherapy, and being monitored—all of which can ea…

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/04/2026

Dr. Kaltiala has now responded to our criticisms of her study through Gender Clinic News, an anti-trans blog whose author describes transgender healthcare as "gender ideology." Her response is notable less for what it addresses than for what it avoids entirely. My counter-response:

To the one substantive rebuttal she does make: she claims that Finland’s specialist psychiatric services are reserved for those with “severe disorders” and that patients would not reach specialist-level care without genuine need. But this misses the point of the surveillance bias critique entirely. The study claims to exclude appointments with the gender identity assessment team itself—but it cannot exclude what those appointments produce. The Finnish Medical Journal documented that hormone therapy patients were monitored every 3-6 months “in close cooperation with the adolescent psychiatry unit.” At each of these regular check-ins, clinicians are actively screening for psychiatric concerns. If anything is flagged, and notably this team had a hair trigger for flagging concerns, the patient is referred to separate specialist psychiatric services for evaluation. If a referral is made during assessment for any problem at all, the patient may continue to require visits long after, even for conditions entirely unrelated to gender dysphoria, such as ADHD or unrelated trauma. Those downstream referrals are not excluded from the study’s outcome variable. Damningly, even if that psychiatrist determined there are no issues and cleared the patient, it still would be registered as a negative impact of trans care, as the visit would be logged.

This is textbook surveillance bias: when you screen a population every three months for psychiatric issues, you will find and refer more people than in a population that is never screened. The general population controls in this study had no equivalent system watching them. The “dramatic increase” is not evidence of deterioration—it is what happens when you take a group selected for having almost no prior psychiatric contact and place them inside a system that screens them every three months and refers them onward routinely.

Dr. Kaltiala’s own study concedes the point that defeats her rebuttal. Her study states: “A limitation of this stu…

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