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chels smith

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/10/2026
I think we need to take misogyny more seriously
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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society
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Homocommunist @homocommunist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When West Germany annexed East Germany in 1990 it had no desire to update its regressive policies on gays (or trans people/abortion/etc.) and GDR politicians had to fight to ensure §175 (still being used in West Germany to prosecute gay men for having sex) wasn't used in former East German states.
Clipping from Lou Sullivan’s FTM Newsletter #12 (June 1990) with the headline "Will German Reunification Hurt Transsexual Rights?"
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
...we are *way* beyond sports – we now have Dem Senate nominees calling for BANNING TRANS PPL FROM PUBLIC RESTROOMS! if you're a cisgender Democrat, what are you going to do about it? are you willing to push back against this? or will you be an accomplice to this? bsky.app/profile/erin...
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it's trans rights or we all go to hell
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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Is anybody going to retroactively suggest that this was all too confrontational, that these people should moderate their language, or that none of this was ultimately effective in creating the political space for gay people to be seen as human?
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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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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
it would shock the average person how many anti-trans activists had a partner or child who came out as trans and, rather than being supportive, they obsessively worked to "purge" transness from their lives (as well as society)...
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In addition to the bad framing he also buys into salience by saying “that’s right” when the interviewer says it’s an important issue in Texas. Your opponents are picking on kids, in this case trans kids who are suffering and dying from discrimination. Lead with that or get a new career.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/08/2026
In Tabor, Iowa, a school board erupted for what would otherwise be a routine vote to hire a slate of new teachers. Why? Because a teacher was trans. The school board decided after hearing comments not to hire him, even though he already set up his classroom. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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After Anti-Trans Uproar At School Board Meeting, Iowa School District Rejects Trans Band Teacher
An Iowa school district chose to start the school year without the new band teacher instead of allowing a trans educator to take on the role he was offered, following protests from parents.
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
1 Year on T... Mario hangs up his hat on a hat rack. He catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror. He puts his hand up to it and says "it's-a me...  Mario." He weeps with joy.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
what a fucking asshole
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Just wild to me that the nazi tattoo didn’t do it to begin with It did it for me
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
From Dolores Huerta's statement this past March medium.com/@dolores_hue...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
continue to think that planter’s support with the lib/left male pundit class was not *in spite of* his various transgressions, but because of them, a frankly pathetic attempt to reassert dem masculinity through a man whose violent career they believed represented working class authenticity
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
They hate gender studies for the same reason they hate legitimate journalism: They don’t like people pointing out what they’re doing.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/06/2026
Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Defending Platner’s documented and alleged behavior as the natural cost of running regular, working class guys suggests that we should just assume any working class man will treat women poorly. It also suggests we should just consign working class women to lives of mistreatment and abuse.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Poor and working men are meant to have women of their class to abuse and dominate as compensation for the exploitations and humiliations of capital. When you point out that allowing this is a violation of class solidarity working class women, you’re accused of siding with management’s interests.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/06/2026
Here it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...
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Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Hey fyi way too many, even leftists who should know better, effusively praising the papacy is making it way, way more difficult to organize against this. This trans healthcare ban is literally going to cost trans people's lives but yeah, woke pope made a statement or whatever.
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vin; androgyne @hologramvin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
this is one of my favorite memes of all times. i cant quite pinpoint why. cracks me up. i got sour gummy worms today
how trans mascs look at you when you open the sour gummy worm bag (and i think its a promotional image of the cast of The Outsiders movie)
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love island of dr. moreau @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
there really is like a society wide, party neutral affliction of people not caring whether something is true or not and I can't say I care for it!!!!!!!!!
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Carson @neohazard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?" Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It will be extremely interesting to see what institutions like Fenway Health and NYU Langone do now. The ostensible reason for their ending of youth gender care is now gone - will they resume care for all the trans kids they abandoned?
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
If there was such a vast whisper network about Eric Swalwell's alleged misconduct, what are the odds that none of the Democrats who had endorsed him in the California governor's race were a part of it?
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/04/2026
BREAKING: three *more* women have come forward to @cnn.com and accuse Rep. Eric Swalwell of sexual misconduct, including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos: www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...
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Exclusive: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her | CNN
A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated, an allegation Swalwell strongly de...
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 10/04/2026
A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate for California governor, said she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent.
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Former staffer says Rep. Eric Swalwell, candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted her
“These allegations are false and come on the eve of an election against the frontrunner for governor,” Swalwell said in a statement.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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grace @omalliecatt.news · 12/03/2026
if transitioning didn’t change your sex they wouldn’t be trying to ban it
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
translation: my white straight middle-class unmarked perspective is universal, but marked perspectives (from ppl who are POC, LGBTQ, poor, etc.) do not count & must be rejected...
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 27/03/2026
the institutional regimes that sex the body and reinforce the sexing of the body & sex itself are inextricable from the act of violating the body.
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 27/03/2026
people simply take it for granted what the political control of sexing the body looks like. it looks like continually isolating trans women and trans girls to rape them easier and policing & sex-testing all women and all girls and all trans people to rape them efficiently.
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
i cannot imagine a future without trans people because without trans people there isn't a future
a black and white typography edit that reads "every future i dream of includes trans people". the text is inside a black circle. inside the circle is stars from the cygnus constellation. around the circle is an ornate border with floral flourishes and birds.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Delta is an LA28 founding partner and the official airline of the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
the future is for trans people
a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
God this shit is so ugly, just so, so ugly
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/03/2026
It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 05/03/2026
"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally" A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical. You know feminism /s 🙄 archive.is/2026.03.05-1...
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 03/03/2026
seems like the only way out is the temporary disenfranchisement of republican voters through strategic redistricting for the purpose of the abolition and liquidation of the republican party without compromise
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Requiring state employees to surveil and enforce gender conformity on behalf of patriarchs. 👍🏼
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