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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.

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Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"in these terrible times, being part of movements really can be the most nourishing way to keep going and refuse despair. I think it’s worth it to do this work, together, for the long haul." truthout.org/articles/a-l...

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A Lifelong Organizer Shares Lessons on Sustaining Activism for the Long Haul

Organizer Chris Dixon discusses how we can sustain our collective efforts over years of social and political struggle.

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Virginia @va.coach · 07/10/2026

I like to fantasize that at some point there will be a Gamestop moment for all of this.

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Count Guckula @gucky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let's add one more layer: the collapse of AI --> collapse of Oracle --> collapse of Oracle stock --> collapse of the value that Ellison borrowed against to do the Skydance deal (beyond the foreign money that's also overleveraged in AI). He's just morally bankrupt for now, but it's sooo tenuous.

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Oracle's massive AI bet hides a huge warning investors can't ignore

Oracle’s AI growth is surging, but its financing costs tell another story.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]

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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis

Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 03/10/2026

this is so often ignored by cis people debating amongst themselves about if trans people are a little *too* touchy. Most of you don't know what it's like to have your entire existence politicized and weaponized or what toll it takes on us.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 02/10/2026

Joji Florence, a former math teacher, began dreaming up Miss Major Middle a decade ago. Named for Black trans author and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the school will be a haven for LGBTQ kids.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've raised $9424 since I started on my goal to raise $40,000 for REBUILD. Thank you. It's my birthday month. Please support and share if you can. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause

REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

Furious is over, but I'm not done with it yet. wrote about Nora Washington, the trope of the bitter black woman, and how the show perfectly subverts it. cateyoung.beehiiv.com/p/furious-le...

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Furious Makes Black Women's Bitterness A Badge Of Honor

In Hulu's Furious, the "bitter Black woman" is a sign of virtue rather than shame. Nora Washington isn't likable, but she's devastatingly human.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026

Oh bsky.app/profile/ecmc...

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of people said a lot of things about the ineffectiveness of production limitations for generating greenhouse gas reductions and speeding up renewable adoption for the past decade which were clearly false. May "keynesianism means we have to keep building oil and gas infrastructure" finally die

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Virginia @va.coach · 24/09/2026

Gosh I love this.

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Mannie T'Chawi … (the “T” is silent) @mannietchawi.com · 23/09/2026

This story is a great example of when @prisonculture.bsky.social speaks on picking something to focus on, organize around it, and keep at it! You don’t have to do it all, but what you do, could make all the difference.

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Megalulu ♡︎ @megalu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s so easy for anyone to say I protect the medical freedom of every person I will represent…..

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I say this over and over again. It’s trans rights. It’s immigrant rights. It’s Palestinian lives. It’s always been Black and indigenous lives. No one is free until everyone is free is a warning, not a mantra!

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 20/09/2026

I’ve been trying to read more local news from not-for-profit newsrooms (also LGBTQIA+ and black-owned newsrooms) so I’ve been vibing away at a site that aggregates them. Just sharing it out idly in case folks want anything like this. givemesomegood.news

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Give Me Some Good News

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/09/2026

This has been my consistent ask and no one is interested in it

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Virginia @va.coach · 19/09/2026

At this point I’m ready to go back and review Marbury v Madison.

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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 19/09/2026

Do people realize how insane this is? The DOJ can just stop a hospital from providing medical care just through threats? You know what's next after they're done with gender affirming care? "First they came for trans people and we did nothing oops lol"

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It is free and easy to show up for trans kids. Not just here, but in real life.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.

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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Move over fertilizer companies. Cindy Hyde-Smith has a new special interest: AI companies and data centers. A $2 million AI super PAC is spending to keep her in the Senate while Mississippi families are left to foot the bill for higher costs.

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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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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/09/2026

You can pretend that you're pro-choice and have a principled stand against the state invading clinics and hospitals to dictate what doctors and patients can and cannot do. But somehow it doesn't extend to trans youth because.... trans are icky? That's principled?

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/09/2026

But many of you donated, well before this place existed, when I was crowdfunding top surgery for someone Talarico would vote to kill. That's what it means when you use the power of the state to deny someone lifesaving medical care, you're killing them. You can pretend this is just about sports

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/09/2026

If folks on here want to pretend that the only thing Talarico said was about sports, that's fine—it's also not true. He would ban gender affirming care for 17 year olds. And I'm sure many of you haven't tried to figure out how to keep a trans kid from killing themselves, so you don't get it

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026

it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some of you on here simply never know who you should ACTUALLY be mad at and instead spend your time punching down. You should ALWAYS punch up but some of you seem afraid to do so.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wrote about the necessity of persuasion (and its pitfalls), a disappointing statement from a national figure, and how we might disrupt traditional popular exclusionary and bigoted stories of Them, by challenging them with open and expansive stories of Us. www.the-reframe.com/us-and-them/

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Us and Them

Exclusion isn't good for the team. Telling disruptive stories in a fascist locker room.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

brb going to michigan to canvas

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John Breen @breen.tech · 12/09/2026

There’s a problem with people saying politicians have to abandon certain groups in order to win (aside from it being wrong). If they do win, they generally don’t become massive advocates for the people they abandoned. If they can’t stand on principles to win, they won’t govern on those principles

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I keep saying this, but as more and more Democrats throw transgender athletes under the bus, I gotta keep repeating it. Show some moral courage or get out of the way.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you cannot be trusted to stand up for transgender Americans when they’re facing what some experts call a genocide, I don’t trust you to stand up for anything.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trans people have fought and suffered and borne the brunt of the depravity of fascist excess (along with immigrants and Black people), and it looks like the most we can hope for is a decade or more fighting Democrats to restore rights we had in every state in the union as recently as 2020.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

thank you lesbian tractor witch

image with swirling green background of the lesbian tractor witch it says: congratulations if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the lesbian tractor witch, she has removed all curses have a wonderful day

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here

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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Cis people broadly consider your body to be property of the state, and making modifications to it they don't approve of to be vandalism of public property.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I really believe this. Trans people have taken some of the worst hits the administration could deal out, and unlike many elites and august institutions we haven't shrunk away or compromised ourselves. We're standing strong. At a time like this, that matters.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026

it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show

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John Breen @breen.tech · 31/08/2026

These are death camps

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.

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