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Viathan

@vermilviathan.bsky.social
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Progressive socialist. A "brainlet" -Tim Pool. "Internet sleuth" -Forbes. Enjoyer of anti-fascism. 28 | he/him

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Also it’s time for the news to stop treating this administration’s racist war against Somalis as “Trump being Trump.” They targeted Minneapolis because they hate an ethnic group here, and now they’re targeting the most prominent political figure in that group with thinly rationalized state violence.
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
unless everyone involved in this decision is charged and jailed then the American democracy project is throughly dead and not coming back
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i would say this is a new low but ice agents have already publicly executed 2 innocent citizens on the streets of minneapolis
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
it's the evangelical churches - literal CIA ops. Lula should have banned every one of those churches that have connections to the USA as they are an actual national security threat
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
a Gavin Newsom presidency is just giving total deference to corporations to do whatever they want like this. it’s no different than what we have now. will never be voting for him
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
now why would the department of the interior post this?
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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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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Weird, she ‘moderated’ on trans rights and yet her opponent is still calling her a deranged leftist SJW. If only there was some kind of precedent for this so it could have been predicted in advance.
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kid was asking some pointed questions about how babies are born which led to me drawing the best picture I’ve drawn in my life
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
chat, is this bad?
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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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
Every time one of these stories comes out, it's shown that the parents were actually abusive. There is an asymmetry where the parents are given a platform by Christian nationalist orgs and Fox News while the state cannot discuss any details due to privacy. So the narrative is set by the parents.
Screenshot of a Fox News post on X reporting on a Massachusetts family whose daughter was placed in state custody over gender transition disputes, with an embedded Fox News broadcast segment titled "Gender Treatment Lawsuit."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
people like to say we were more united than ever immediately post 9/11 but then you have shit like this happening so that was never really true
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years after the horrific terror attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember the New Yorkers we lost and honor the extraordinary heroism and selflessness that carried our city forward.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026
As someone who has been covering transgender rights for years, let me be clear about something: When you see capitulation over sports, know that it NEVER stops at sports. And in fact, Turek illustrated this just yesterday when he embraced a federal ban on funding for all trans care.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/09/2026
The Trump administration accused Jefferson County schools of having 61 "biological males" on girls teams. It turns out there were 0, and no trans girls either. They have to manufacture problems that don't exist.

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"In March, the administration announced that Jeffco had violated federal nondiscrimination laws by allowing students access to restrooms, locker rooms and sports teams based on their gender identity instead of biological sex. A key data point was that 61 boys were participating on girls' athletic teams. The figure startled even district officials, mostly because, they said, there were no transgender girls competing on girls' teams.
The district said the Trump administration had misinterpreted the information. Though the records show male participants on girls' teams, they were team managers and mascots, not athletes. District officials said the federal government also may have confused a cross-country roster in which the same coach oversees separate programs for boys and girls."
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Holy shit
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
an untold number of college students punished and expelled from their campus for protesting this btw
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Frosst 🏜️ @frosst.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Here is my recommendation to anybody who is voting by mail: DROP IT OFF AT A BALLOT DROPBOX. Not a USPS box, not a mailbox, find where you can drop off your ballot directly to where it needs to go. I’m presuming every state has that somewhere. I drove all the way to city hall to drop off my ballot.
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
democrats don’t have the stones to do what needs to be done to big tech and all of their CEOs unfortunately
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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@DHSgov
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/08/2026
This is factually true but you can't criticize JK Rowling in the UK without having ruinous lawfare threatened against you.
Screenshot of a post on X by Press Gazette (@pressgazette) reporting: "Metro has apologised for having 'wrongly stated that JK Rowling had been 'engaged in Holocaust denial'' in a story about the new Harry Potter TV series and removed the allegation."
​The post embeds a link preview from metro.co.uk showing portraits of Kit Harington, Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart, and Nicholas Hoult, overlaid with a "BREAKING NEWS" graphic reading "Nicholas Hoult backs out of Harry Potter after JK Rowling ba..."
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i'm convinced she was the closest thing to an angel on earth
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the world is increasingly moving on without the US which is a wise decision at this moment in time
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
nytimes.com
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026
The threat to women’s sports has been from loser men all along
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.
A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14/08/2026
“If we ban sports betting, the people at those companies will lose their jobs” good
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Stavros Halkias: I don't wanna do the both sides bullshit because it's not true. One side is worse than the other, objectively speaking. One side is disappearing people and one side wants children to have healthcare. A lot of stand up comics happened to have some of the dumbest opinions on Earth
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Viathan @vermilviathan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
tonight we are all Steve Kornacki with what’s going down in Wisconsin
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Staid @staidindoors.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every day I'm more vindicated than the last. They were sending me death threats for this.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 01/08/2026
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
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