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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h

More like the can't win a war department. What a pathetic little man.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026

Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026

For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...

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The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth

The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Disheartening to see. The system is failing students *and* school personnel. Dedicated staff are doing their best with what they're given. And what they're given is a pittance and nowhere near what is needed to support students, both in resources and allocation.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

...Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

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Assumption #4: The elephant in the room that no one is talking about
There is a striking disconnect between Talarico, Turek, et al. — who have clearly made a political calculation that abandoning trans rights will help them more than it will hurt them in this election — and the many cisgender liberals I’ve encountered online who are absolutely freaking out over the possibility that trans people’s critiques and protests will ultimately tank said candidates.
Both of these things cannot simultaneously be true!
If you think your favorite candidate enacted the correct political strategy, then there is no reason to berate trans people for protesting it, as those protests should already be baked into your candidate’s calculations. So why are you berating trans people then? (Unless, of course, you enjoy berating trans people just for the sake of it.)
Alternatively, if you think trans people *are* capable of tanking your favorite candidate via our criticisms and protests, doesn’t that imply that your candidate (and their consultants and strategists) totally fucked up in their political calculations here? And if they did fuck up, shouldn’t you be reaching out and complaining to *them* (rather than berating trans people), in the hope that they might reverse their bad decision?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There are always groups that fascists target first. Shifts the overton window. Numbs people to the bigotry, discrimination, and violence. It's the Martin Niemöller poem for modern times.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”

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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Have some damn principles, people. Either you'll defend people's rights or you won't. Feeding a right-wing moral panic is just shameful with predictable results. "Don't give ground" seems like a clear moral principle when you're fighting a fascist movement. Yet, here we are...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I remain convinced that the most effective response to a politician or a pundit who's pushing transphobia is "I'm not sure why you're obsessed with other people's genitals but it's really creepy"

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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's not hard. It's called having principles Caving on what is ultimately a right-wing moral panic just concedes ground to people that are rabid in their transphobia. They are literally terrorizing *children* There are no "fair questions" or "good points." There is no common ground here

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"They"? What? What's fun about Republicans is that they get to smear an entire political group as responsible for one random person's actions, but they themselves will deny any responsibility for the actions of their own deranged president or the racist billionaire who has bought them all.

They killed Charlie Kirk—one year ago today.

Then they spiked the football, openly celebrating his assassination.

A year later, they’re planning parties to savor that horrible tragedy.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You can never lick the boot well enough to make them accept you.

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Ally Roth @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the thing i wish politicians like talarico would say, especially with this framing is, "trans people in sports are not a big concern for my constituents". because it isn't! stop accepting the framework of bigots it makes you weak!

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Darth Empath @jhatman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My man looks like he owns a Hooters-branded Discover Card

Secretaryof Homelandsecurity Markwayne Mullin

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy

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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Really is striking now many centrist pundits just cannot fathom that their beliefs about DEI and "woke" are solely based on vibes and the work of other reactionaries. It's the "repeat something enough and people will believe it." Glad Bouie took the opportunity to call this out

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Meredith Conroy @meredithconroy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I clipped this. It’s worth listening to in full. I’m thrilled Bouie brought up polls about maintained support for DEI from 2025. I’m looking at Pew polling about BLM from the same time frame and triple checked it because public support also hasnt declined to the degree some discourse would suggest

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

All of this tracks. Most white journalists cant conceive of white nationalism as anything but fringe, so they report the open white supremacy of the MAGA movement as something else (economic anxiety!) as they did with the tea party. Tough to admit that it's just the same old basic white nationalism.

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's still Lake Ontario. And the Gulf of Mexico. You're welcome.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I usually wonder why these losers aren't embarrassed that their families will see this shit, but I remembered that White was guilty of abusing his wife and son & ordered to have no contact for fifty years, so they'll probably never see this. Anyway, good luck dying alone and unloved, clown.

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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Data centers don't create jobs. Sure, maybe initial construction but day-to-day will be minimal. The data center *will* give more credence to your boss to fire you because they, too, fell for the AI pitch (that you're expendable and AI is cheaper)

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

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Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A lot of people who barely complained, if at all, when colleges engaged in purging people they deemed "DEI", are suddenly finding their "academic freedom" voices again now that biological racist Nathan Cofnas needs their support.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 21/08/2026

all the reactionary centrists are "race science curious" at best, and they believe critics - even well-credentialed, obviously knowledgeable critics - are simply rejecting scientific inquiry due to the power of woke.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In the american context communism is mostly unrelated to economics. Any progressive redistributive policy is communism, as is any egalitarianism of race, gender, or sexual orientation. Integration is communism, women in the workplace is communism, marriage equality is communism. It's deeply stupid.

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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Wolff, Haberman, and all the rest that claim to be journalists but don't act in the public good. They just hoard material for their next books

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

michael wolff’s hard drives should be seized by a guerrilla army of journalists who will actually write the fucking stories that need to be written instead of waiting for a personally advantageous moment to trickle them out

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 21/08/2026

It's like all of the Right Wing pundits standing in front of empty shelves in early 2020 and declaring, "This is what life would be like under socialism!" as they pointed to the way things were, at that moment, under capitalism.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's true that *at an individual level* you should be kind. Don't scream at your anti-vaxx neighbors or whatever. But when it comes to *public discourse* the most important message is that vaccines save lives and anti-vaxx beliefs kill children. If they feel attacked by that, it's not my problem.

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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Idea: teach kids about social class and labor. Let them understand who AI is being done *to* and who AI is being done *for*. Disciplining labor is the primary purpose of AI But lots of powerful people don't want to have that conversation...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"how dare you attack a professional woman" you appointed a secdef who doesn't think moms should serve and is blocking women officers from being promoted because they are women

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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I always have to remind people that the Bulwark folks are good on anti-Trump stuff but really shouldn't be directing anyone on the left seeing as they're all conservatives.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Conservatives like Matt Walsh are running the line that postpartum depression isn’t real and struggling new mothers are just selfish. They literally want women dead

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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

TERFs are just a right-wing project to launder regressive and harmful ideas by claiming to "protect women." They are all intimately aligned to other fascist groups

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 18/08/2026

<expert> The polio vaccine is safe and effective. In the United States, the polio vaccine has not contained any SV40 since the 1970s. RFK Jr is harmful to your health.

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