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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 23h
PROMOs 10 year plan is to create a pro-trans majority in Republican dominated Missouri. Is that even possible? How are they doing it? Our EIC @evanurquhart went to St. Louis to find out. Here's his story: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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The Only People Talking to Missouri Voters About Trans Kids are Conservatives… and these LGBTQ+ Canvassers - Assigned Media
For three years they've been working to humanize trans people one door at a time.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22h
If you live in the following states, TODAY is the last day to register to vote before the midterm elections: –Kansas –New Jersey –Oregon –West Virginia –Louisiana (online only) Go to IWillVote.com for more info
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20h
one reason you should ignore the polls and vote no matter what is not that they’re wrong—the averages usually aren’t, especially this close to election day. it’s that polls inherently cannot fully account for republican voter suppression.
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 12/10/2026
1000xRESIST is about time. 1000xRESIST is about rebellion. 1000xRESIST is about mothers and daughters and matricide. 1000xRESIST is about forgetting... 1000xRESIST is about remembering. 1000xRESIST is 40% off on Steam as part of LudoNarraCon.
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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They invented an "ethically justifiable Omelas" where instead of one child, it's trans women, and instead of utopia it's a society that's gradually getting worse for some reason even though they keep throwing trans women under the bus
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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beverlylove / Bev Johnson @bevsi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
happy lesbian day
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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anine is one of the people who worked to expose the research misconduct against trans people at Oslo University Hospital. Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care. This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/10/2026
We may cover this tomorrow, but I just wanted to signal boost this. After months of pushing the administration to make good on its promises for trans youth, NYC appears to be taking steps to do so. I do believe the city can be doing much more, but this is a wonderful start from Mayor Mamdani.
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NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 06/10/2026
“This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me” is such a powerful anti-posting mental device. Discourse I could jump in on? This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. Other posters beefing? This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. An internet personality exposed? Guess what
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fishu @ gateway fate 800 @goldfishu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
alphinaud
alphinaud ffxiv
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/10/2026
I checked again today. I have been purged in Alabama before. Everyone check!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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Anna Podedworna @akreon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Artists, show us how you draw black women!
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In 2024, I was diagnosed with HPV again and had to have LEEP surgery for an 8% chance of cervical cancer. I did general instead of localized anaesthesia and it cost me $1600+ with insurance, plus $40 per appointment with my OB-GYN. And the Gardasil vaccine has been approved for adults up to age 45!
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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s that time of year, folks! Annual reminder that we have a very safe and highly effective #vaccine to prevent HPV, the cause of genital warts and some forms of cancer (cervical, penile, anal, throat) and you can get more info here: www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con... #IDSky 🧪 #PublicHealth
A pile of orange pumpkins with warts in them.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 30/09/2026
This just got reposted again (thanks Robin!) and my god, if this isn’t the most beautiful representation of a trans/cis lesbian lifetime of happiness, I don’t know what is. It will stay with me FOREVER.
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026
Add colgate to your ever growing shit list
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 26/09/2026
Thinking about my favorite bad job interview moment, when I was (illegally) asked whether I have a family. I was so oblivious that I didn't understand the question and said "Yes, I have parents! And a brother 🙂" which forced them to admit what they actually wanted to know (If I had kids)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Em!! @emggily.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Alisaie! #ffxiv
A digital drawing of Alisaie holding her RDM weapon behind her. Stylized magic is flowing from it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
remembering when a certain pundit challenged my “the administration is ideologically opposed to clean energy for gender reasons” with “i think they just want cheap energy”
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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saw a really cool dog today
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wintertorta🍰 @wintertorta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a reminder 🪄 #illustration
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"
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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Apparently @equalityohio.bsky.social considers open transphobia and pledging to work with Republicans against trans rights only worthy of a B on their scorecard.
Scorecard of Marcy Kaptur running for CD09 Toldeo/Northwest Ohio from Equality Ohio. They give her a B.

* She has supported the Equality Act and, at one time, earned a 100% rating from the Human Rights Campaign. 

* The longest serving woman in the U.S. House of Representatives, she has focused on economic growth, Great Lakes protection, and advocating for working-class Ohioans.

* She voted for HR 2616,  a bill that is anti-trans equality.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible
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FreakInASheet @freakinasheet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Archbishop Thordan VII has been gifted a massive draconic orb and honestly not now massive draconic orb
Edit of the photo of Pope Leo XIV receiving a massive green orb, hastily photoshopped to replace him with Archbishop Thordan VII from Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, and the orb with an eye of Nidhogg
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is shocking to hear! Einstein kept a picture of Maxwell on his office wall and admired him more than any other scientist. Every fall I teach a whole course about his work. This is like hearing that Westminster Abbey might be purchased so a new car rental place can built on Newton’s grave.
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 17/09/2026
"Enjoy the camps" is a succinct summation of the current moment trans people find ourselves in. People who insist they're allies also loudly proclaim they won't lift a finger to help us, will say nothing when we're attacked and even tacitly agree with the attacks, and still claim moral superiority.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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DEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Others have said this, but "trans people" are not identical with "the left" and it's dishonest to argue as much. This is, literally, identity politics: A group of people are being targeted on the basis of their identities. Some are leftists. All of them have human rights that are being restricted.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very Smart People will see these and know that literally the world'a richest man is behind them and think "gee maybe trans activists did this to themselves"
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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bkomei @bkomei.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
They share a lot 😘 [Quick Comm - for Viri] #artcommission #Exocolonist
"Hey! Get your own!"
"No <3"
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I finally sat down and wrote an email to the Talarico campaign. Doing nothing felt untenable. I encourage other decent Texans to communicate their disappointment. If this can help you get started, feel free to use anything that works for you
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info@JamesTalarico.com

Disappointment

I hope I am just one of many communications you receive expressing extreme disappointment with the campaign's position regarding transgender children.

Just as it is unacceptable for the government to insert itself between women and their doctors, it is equally unacceptable for the government to insert itself between children and their doctors and parents. Supporting a bill to ban gender related surgery in children ignores the fact that this is not government's place.And coming out for exceptions to transgender children participating in sports is equally unforgivable. There are no safety issues with transgender children playing that aren't also there with cisgender children. Same with fairness issues. Accepting the premise that transgender children aren't just regular children is ceding ground to the fascists who wish to remove all trans 0 people from daily life. I am so deeply disappointed in Mr Talarico and the entire campaign for allowing this framing to stand unchallenged and for the stand he has taken against the transgender community.

You may still get my vote in November, but you will not get my labor in the very hard ground game that needs to be fought. I simply can't fight for a candidate that won't fight for all of us.

Sincerely,

Lisa Seger Waller, TX
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think a lot of liberals and democrats have such an alienated view of trans folks that they see us as “really” our assigned gender, and think that they’re humoring or being polite to disabled or mentally ill folks when they use our pronouns or our names. They see it as kindness, politeness.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
two years ago, i was allowed to use the women's room at the airport no problem. now, the texas state government can fine the airport thousands of dollars if i use the women's bathroom.
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Kat Tsai @chuwenjie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Before Times. 1000xRESIST.
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beverlylove / Bev Johnson @bevsi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
happy Isiro autumn 💌
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